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How many meals can you eke out of a frozen quarter-chicken from the food bank? How many tacos from its shredded meat? How many bowls of soup from its bones?
How many days can you go without having to hit the coin-op laundry? How long can you avoid spending $4 for a load if you hand-wash your underwear and T-shirts and hang them to dry in the bathroom?
How many months will the exhaustion linger after surviving COVID-19? Will walking to the mailbox ever again not feel like a trek up a steep mountain?
These are the daily worries of a woman I talked to this week as the National Guard descended on Washington and America reeled from an attack on our Capitol while all over our country thousands of households face bread-and-butter security crises that also are grave, with people out of work and sick and unable to pay their rents and hungry and desperately in need of help from a federal government long otherwise occupied.
Hemet man, 25, pleads not guilty to Apple Valley carjacking
Victorville Daily Press
A 25-year-old Hemet man pleaded not guilty Tuesday to carjacking, stalking and other felony charges after he allegedly pointed a gun at a 50-year-old woman and took her vehicle in Apple Valley last week.
In Victorville Superior Court, Robert Garcia also denied several enhancements and also pleaded not guilty to making criminal threats, being a felon in possession of a firearm and preventing or dissuading a victim from reporting, court records show.
Deputies from the Apple Valley Sheriff s Station responded at approximately 7:20 p.m. Friday to the 12000 block of Standing Bear Road to the carjacking report, the sheriff s department said Tuesday.
Texas fugitive arrested in Apple Valley on attempted murder charge
Victorville Daily Press
Authorities announced Tuesday that deputies in Apple Valley arrested 19-year-old Cody Dupnik, a fugitive in Texas, on suspicion of the attempted murder of a 23-year-old man.
Officials with the Apple Valley Sheriff’s Station reported that at approximately 6:56 p.m. Saturday, deputies were dispatched to the 20000 block of Wisconsin Street regarding a stabbing.
Deputies at the scene found that the suspect, later identified as Dupnik, of Spring Branch, Texas, had stabbed an unidentified 23-year old man twice in the neck during an argument, the report said.
Dupnik and the victim are acquaintances and were at a residence near Deep Creek and Rock Spring roads when the attack took place, officials said. The victim was taken to a local hospital for treatment.
Victorville Daily Press
Authorities on Monday, said deputies recently arrested a Hesperia resident in Victorville on suspicion of injuring a female and for firearm violations.
The Victorville Sheriff’s Station reported that at 11:13 p.m. Sunday, deputies responded to the report of an assault at the Travelodge Inn in the 12100 block of Mariposa Road.
At the scene, deputies discovered that the suspect, later identified as Chad Evan Young, 24, allegedly struck a 25-year-old female victim several times in the face and head with a firearm and his fist.
The unidentified victim, who knew the suspect, suffered multiple lacerations and a broken tooth. She was taken to a local hospital for treatment, the sheriff’s report said.
Victorville man remembered as genuine, honest and funny after Wednesday murder
Victorville Daily Press
Janelle Ruby said her boyfriend, Chris Brim, was a “genuine, honest and funny” man who could make friends with anyone.
The couple had two young daughters, and Ruby said there were plans to get married and try for a son.
But earlier this week, Brim never made it home.
The 31-year-old was shot and killed Wednesday afternoon in front of the Green Tree Market on Hesperia Road in what Ruby said appeared to be a random act of violence.
Two suspects from Hesperia were arrested, the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department said: Antonio Mota, 21, the reported shooter; and Alicia Rivas, 22, the alleged accomplice.