“We are working with the sheriff’s department to investigate how the suspect accessed the patient’s room and interacted with the family,” hospital CEO Jennifer Cruikshank said last week.
A 30-year-old probationer who tried to abduct a young boy from a Lake Elsinore park will be sent to a state mental hospital for an indeterminate period rather than prison after a Riverside jury found he was mentally incompetent and not aware of what he was doing. Following two days of deliberations, jurors in the […]
A Good Samaritan will enjoy free breakfast for a year after rescuing an 8-year-old girl from a potential kidnapper. Cody Byrd, a North Carolina A&T University graduate student studying computer science, is being praised as a hero after he stepped in when a man, Timothy Fry, allegedly tried to grab the girl at the Biscuitville […]
A child told authorities that a man tried to lure the youngster into his car near a Cathedral City elementary school this morning, prompting school officials to issue a warning to parents. The Palm Springs Unified School District contacted the parents of Rio Vista Elementary School students via an auto-dialer message to inform them of […]
Police in Riverside asked for the public’s help this morning in locating a man suspected of the attempted kidnapping of a teenage girl in the city’s Arlanza neighborhood. Police responded to the 6200 block of Rutland Avenue, south of Arlington Avenue, about 8:30 a.m. Tuesday and learned the teenage girl was walking on the sidewalk […]
A convicted felon accused of trying to abduct a girl walking on a San Jacinto street was charged Friday with attempted kidnapping. Billie Drayvon Fenter, 40, of San Jacinto was arrested Wednesday following a Riverside County sheriff’s investigation that began a day earlier. Along with the attempted abduction count, Fenter is charged with committing a […]
A woman suspected of attempting to kidnap a 4-year-old child at a McDonald’s has been arrested, Los Angeles police said. Maralyn Ramos, 33, was arrested Wednesday night in downtown Los Angeles and booked on suspicion of attempted kidnapping, police said. Bail was set at $100,000. Ramos has lived in Arizona. It’s unclear how long she […]
