CVUSD’s security director arrested in anti-human trafficking operation
The security director of the Coachella Valley Unified School District has been placed on administrative leave after being arrested for alleged solicitation of prostitution.
“These are our kids our babies, who go to school there and for them to have someone like that in power especially in the district in schools around kids we don’t know if thats happening to our children, said Bianca Calderon, CVUSD parent.
Adam Sambrano, 39, was among 66 people arrested as part of a four day multi-agency anti-human trafficking operation that took place in Lake Elsinore, La Quinta, Murrieta, Riverside, Palm Desert and Temecula. 18 of the people arrested were from the Coachella Valley.
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Travis Walker has been hired as the new police chief of Santa Paula
SANTA PAULA, Calif. Travis Walker, Santa Paula s new police chief, began his new career in Ventura County on Monday.
Walker takes over for a city that has been without a permanent chief for a prolonged period of time.
“We went through an extensive recruitment process,” said Daniel Singer, who is the Santa Paula City Manager. “We ended up with 19 qualified applicants which is a pretty good showing for us.”
Santa Barbara, Port Hueneme, and San Gabriel police chief serve on the panel to help narrow the decision down to three finalists.
Ex-ballplayer sentenced to life for murder of father, uncle, bystander
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Brandon Willie Martin, 27. (Credit: Riverside County District Attorney s Office)
RIVERSIDE, Calif. - An ex-minor league baseball player who killed his father, uncle and a bystander with a bat in Corona was sentenced Friday to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
A Riverside jury in November convicted 27-year-old Brandon Willie Martin of three counts of first-degree murder and found true a special- circumstance allegation of taking multiple lives in the same crime, and convicted him of one count each of auto theft, evading arrest, obstructing a peace officer and injuring a police canine.
Superior Court Judge Samuel Diaz scheduled her sentencing hearing for March 12 at the Riverside Hall of Justice. She s being held without bail at the Smith Correctional Facility in Banning.
Diaz found there was sufficient evidence to warrant a trial for Bush, the alleged triggerman, and Grandison on charges of first-degree murder and three counts of armed robbery. The judge additionally held Bush alone to answer to a special circumstance allegation of killing in the course of a robbery.
Diaz scheduled a post-preliminary hearing arraignment for Feb. 9 at the downtown Riverside courthouse.
Bush and Grandison are both being held at the Byrd Detention Center in Murrieta Bush without bail, and his co-defendant in lieu of $1 million bail.