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UPDATE ON 2018 DUI‐RELATED CRASH CASE AND CONVICTION RIVERSIDE – Our office has received numerous inquiries from the public about a 2018 driving under the influence case involving defendant Nelson Clark Sims. What follows is an update on this case based on publicly available information. As jury selection was underway for his trial in February 2020, Sims, DOB: 9-6-58, pled guilty to all counts…
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40,000 PILLS CONTAINING FENTANYL AND FIVE KILOS OF FENTANYL SEIZED BY THE RIVERSIDE COUNTY GANG IMPACT TEAM RIVERSIDE – Over the past two weeks, the Riverside County Gang Impact Team (GIT) has seized thousands of pills containing fentanyl as well as several kilograms of the potentially deadly drug in powder form. The fentanyl seizures happened during three separate investigations conducted by GIT…
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TWO PERRIS RESIDENTS CHARGED IN WHAT IS BELIEVED TO BE THE LARGEST SEIZURE OF CARFENTANIL IN RIVERSIDE COUNTY RIVERSIDE – In what is believed to likely be the largest seizure of carfentanil in Riverside County, a Perris man and woman have been charged by the DA’s Office with four drug-related felonies after a lengthy investigation by the Riverside Police Department. The investigation led to the…
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CHARGES FILED IN THE CASE OF TWO PEOPLE SHOT INSIDE A CORONA MOVIE THEATER RIVERSIDE – Today, July 30, 2021, DA Mike Hestrin announced the filing of charges against a man accused of shooting two people in a Corona movie theater earlier this week, killing one of the victims. Joseph Jimenez, DOB: 12-6-2000, of the unincorporated area of Corona, has been charged with one count of murder with a…
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HUMAN REMAINS FOUND IN THERMAL 31 YEARS AGO HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED AS BALDWIN PARK WOMAN RIVERSIDE – Through the use of forensic genealogy, the Riverside County Regional Cold Case Homicide Team – which is led by the DA’s Bureau of Investigation – announced today, Aug. 23, 2022, that they have identified a woman whose remains were found in Thermal more than 31 years ago. On Jan. 22, 1991, human…
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COLD CASE TEAM SEEKS PUBLIC’S HELP IN IDENTIFYING WOMAN WHOSE BODY WAS FOUND 26 YEARS AGO IN BEAUMONT AREA RIVERSIDE – It was 26 years ago today, Jan. 27, 1996, that the body of a woman was found near some trash in a hilly area near Gillman Springs Road and Highway 60 in the Beaumont area. She has still not been identified. The Riverside County Regional Cold Case Homicide Team is asking for the…
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CONVICTED SERIAL KILLER, WHO MURDERED 10‐YEAR‐OLD ANTHONY MARTINEZ OF BEAUMONT 24 YEARS AGO, DIES IN IDAHO WHILE AWAITING EXECUTION RIVERSIDE – A convicted serial killer who admitted murdering 10-year-old Anthony Martinez of Beaumont nearly 24 years ago died today, March 28, 2021, at a hospital outside federal death row in Terra Haute, Indiana. Joseph Edward Duncan, DOB: 2-25-63, had been…
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CORONA MAN FOUND GUILTY OF THREE 2015 MURDERS Former Major League Baseball prospect faces the death penalty RIVERSIDE – A Riverside County jury has convicted a Corona man of the 2015 murders of three people at the family home. On Nov. 4, 2020, Brandon Willie Martin, DOB: 8-24-93, was found guilty of the murders of his disabled father, Michael Martin, 64; his uncle, Ricky Andersen, 58; and Barry…
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CORONA MAN ARRESTED IN CHILD PORNOGRAPHY INVESTIGATION RIVERSIDE – A Corona man was arrested last week when members of a task force served a search warrant as part of an online child exploitation investigation. James Thomas Lane, DOB: 1-24-51, was arrested on Oct. 25, 2019, when the Riverside County Sexual Assault Felony Enforcement/Internet Crimes Against Children (SAFE/ICAC) task force served…
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COUPLE PLEADS GUILTY TO MURDER OF ‘BABY JANE’ WHOSE BODY WAS FOUND IN A CARDBOARD BOX UNDER INTERSTATE 15 IN CORONA RIVERSIDE – A Corona couple pled guilty today, Aug. 20, 2019, to the murder of their newborn baby, known as “Baby Jane”, whose body was found last year in a cardboard box near a drain tunnel running under Interstate 15 in Corona. Joshua Tyler Benson, DOB: 12-29-2000; and Shawna…