Alleged pimp freed after prosecutors drop torture, rape charges
RANCHO CUCAMONGA -- An alleged pimp accused of raping and torturing two women was released from jail Saturday after prosecutors dropped criminal charges against him. The prosecution of Tremaine Ulysses...
View ArticleFormer detective charged in rape pleads insanity
RANCHO CUCAMONGA -- A former police detective has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to charges that he kidnapped a woman at gunpoint last year at Ontario Mills and sexually assaulted her for...
View ArticleMan charged with animal cruelty for allegedly killing 20 rabbits
ONTARIO -- Prosecutors have charged a Victorville man with five counts of animal cruelty for allegedly killing an estimated 20 rabbits. Shea Johnson, 22, allegedly killed the rabbits by hitting them...
View ArticleChino woman sentenced in embezzlement
SANTA ANA -- A 54-year-old Chino woman was sentenced to four years in state prison today for embezzling more than $82,000 from her Santa Ana employer, according to court records. Rebecca Labelle...
View ArticleChino police: Woman shot to death by husband
CHINO -- A woman was shot and killed Sunday by her husband, who later shot himself when confronted by sheriff's deputies, according to a news release. Bobby Joe Winters, 74, allegedly shot his wife...
View ArticleMan charged with killing wife remains hospitalized
CHINO -- A man accused of shooting his wife to death Sunday was unable to appear in court Tuesday because he remains hospitalized, according to a staff member in Chino Superior Court. Bobby Joe...
View ArticleMan sentenced in fatal street racing crash
POMONA -- A Montclair man has been sentenced for participating in a 2002 street race in which his opponent crashed, resulting in three deaths. Roque Torres, 28, was sentenced to five years in and four...
View ArticleArrest warrant issued after DUI suspect misses court date
RANCHO CUCAMONGA -- A judge issued a $50,000 arrest warrant Wednesday for a suspected drunken driver who failed to show for a hearing in West Valley Superior Court. Leone Tautuiaki Ahoia, 19, is...
View ArticleMan pleads not guilty to murdering wife
CHINO -- A Rancho Cucamonga man pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to charges that he murdered his wife, who was fatally shot Sunday and dumped on a residential street in Ontario. Bobby Joe Winters, 74,...
View ArticleMan accused of killing rabbits pleads not guilty
RANCHO CUCAMONGA -- A Victorville man accused of killing as many as 20 wild rabbits in Ontario pleaded not guilty today to five counts of animal cruelty. A judge also turned down a prosecutor's request...
View ArticleDriver left jail day before fatal Pomona crash
Pictured (at left): Miguel Herrera and Erica Flores. Pictured (below) is the memorial at the crash site. POMONA -- A woman accused of killing a man and his pregnant girlfriend Monday in a car collision...
View ArticleAfter two mistrials, man accepts plea agreement in fatal shooting
POMONA -- A man accused of participating in a fatal car-to-car shooting two years ago was sentenced to 13 years in state prison this week after pleading no contest to voluntary manslaughter. Ramiro...
View ArticlePriest convicted of molestation set to be sentenced
The former pastor of an Ontario church is scheduled to be sentenced Wednesday on charges that he molested a 12-year-old boy. Alejandro Castillo, 58, pleaded guilty in April to one count of committing a...
View ArticleProsecutors drop case against Ontario man whose conviction was overturned
ONTARIO -- Prosecutors have dropped criminal charges against a man whose attempted murder conviction was overturned on appeal after he spent nine years in state prison. Ontario resident Rafael Madrigal...
View ArticleMan charged in brother's shooting death
RANCHO CUCAMONGA -- Prosecutors have charged a 20-year-old man with involuntary manslaughter in connection with the fatal shooting of his brother. Travon Lamar Brooks is accused of shooting 21-year-old...
View ArticleSentencing postponed for priest in molestation
RANCHO CUCAMONGA -- A sentencing hearing was delayed today for a priest convicted of molesting a 12-year-old boy. Alejandro Castillo, the 58-year-old former pastor of Our Lady of Guadalupe Church in...
View ArticleLocal men sentenced in immigration corruption case
LOS ANGELES -- An Upland man and his son, an Ontario resident, were sentenced to federal prison today after being convicted of public corruption charges. Prosecutors accused Fernando Jacobs, a former...
View ArticleMental-health worker accused of sex crimes against patient
CHINO -- An employee at a mental-health facility in the city has been charged with two felonies for allegedly having illegal sexual contact with a patient. Ralph Alvin Medina, 28, of Montclair is...
View ArticleTrial opens for daycare owner charged with abuse
CORONA -- A trial opened today for a Norco daycare operator charged with abusing seven children in her care, including a girl who was left in a vegetative state three years ago after she was allegedly...
View ArticleMen charged with trying to transport 154 pounds of cocaine
RIVERSIDE -- A Pomona man was one of two people charged by federal prosecutors today for allegedly trying to arrange transport of 154 pounds of cocaine from Bloomington to North Carolina. Jose Carlos...
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