“Nobody could imagine this crime happening to our family, especially one day after Thanksgiving,” Michelle Blandin told reporters while reading a statement at the Riverside Police Department’s Magnolia Station.
Following Riverside’s triple homicide connected to an online predator, we spoke with law enforcement about how to detect and prevent a stranger from catfishing someone you know, or even you.
An investigation was continuing Monday to determine what prompted the slaying of three people found inside a burning Riverside home, allegedly at the hands of a former Virginia law enforcement official who may have been “catfishing” a teen daughter of one of the victims and was later killed by San Bernardino County sheriff’s deputies.
The Board of Supervisors Tuesday will consider Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco’s request to increase overtime extra duty rates charged in the next fiscal year for services at events that require the use of deputies and other personnel.
Regional law enforcement officials and others throughout the nation have observed a rise in unauthorized access of electronic benefits transfer cards, with thieves draining EBT accounts, leaving recipients with no way to pay for store goods.
