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San Bernardino

Teen transient linked to 14 burglaries

REDLANDS — A teenage transient, suspected in more than a dozen burglaries since early January, was arrested and charged this week. Dylan Michael Meier, 18, who is identified as a

Los Angeles

FBI aids in arrest of bank robber

LONG BEACH — Police in Long Beach and Redlands, along with the FBI, used technology to track down a bank robbery suspect that escaped on foot with thousands of dollars

San Bernardino

Banning, Redlands police set for new quarters

RANCHO CUCAMONGA — New jail and police department facilities are set to open in a pair of Southern California communities, both connected by Interstate 10. Redlands police, forced to evacuate

San Bernardino

Robbery suspect nabbed after fake story

REDLANDS – A 30-year-old manager of a Jack-In-The-Box restaurant was arrested by police for falsely reporting a carjacking and kidnapping, and having robbed the cash deposits. Monica Cazares of San

San Bernardino

Teen gets 50-to-life for killing teen

FONTANA — Cordell Rabon was sentenced to a 50-year-to-life prison term for murdering 17-year-old Darius Simmons in January 2009. The sentence was announced by Judge Dwight W. Moore after a jury

San Bernardino

Air support, neighbors aid arrests

REDLANDS — A rash of burglaries may have been solved after a pair of arrests took place, both coming with assistance from an Air 10 unit and tips from neighbors.

Orange

Witnesses run down suspected armed robbers

VICTORVILLE — Three armed robbery suspects, chased by good Samaritans after a woman was robbed at gunpoint, were arrested by an off-duty sheriff’s service specialist who joined the chase. The

San Bernardino

Police discover more from indicted arson suspect

SAN BERNARDINO — Rickie Lee Fowler, whose arrest this past summer for his part in the 2003 Old Fire that took the lives of five people, keeps adding more and

San Bernardino

Suspect arrested in 15-year cold case

REDLANDS — Police are making headway on a 15-year-old missing persons case. Seferina Marquez Ponce, 52, was arrested for murder in connection to the disappearance of Sara Hernandez Reyes, who

San Bernardino

Police use downtown surveillance to bust drug users

REDLANDS — Four people were arrested on a variety of drug charges this past weekend after first being spotted by surveillance cameras aimed at strategic locations in the downtown area.