A Riverside County sheriff’s station serving the southern rim of the Riverside metropolitan area is now in operation, providing enhanced patrol services throughout a 158-square-mile space.
Nearly two dozen motorists were arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs in the Riverside metropolitan area and the Coachella Valley over the New Year’s holiday, the California Highway Patrol said Thursday. The CHP’s 30-hour “maximum enforcement period,” during which all available officers deployed to catch lawbreakers, concluded just after […]
A report of a poisonous snake slithering across the lawn of a Woodcrest home turned out to be no cause for alarm, but it did add a little comic relief to a Riverside County animal control officer’s routine, officials said Monday. According to Department of Animal Services spokesman John Welsh, the agency received a call […]
Deputies arrested nearly four dozen people, mostly for drug crimes, during a weekend “saturation” patrol in the unincorporated community of Woodcrest outside Riverside, the sheriff’s department reported Monday. The patrol was conducted in response to “numerous requests” by members of the community, according to the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department. “The proactive enforcement focused on subjects […]
