San Jacinto News

It took three times on the ballot for Steve Di Memmo to get elected to the San Jacinto City Council, and now, after almost a year in the post, some are calling him the last man standing.

Arrested were Robert Chavez, 24 of Hemet and Jose Espejo, 26 of Perris. Two men were arrested after Hemet police, who were looking for someone displaying a gun, stopped the vehicle they were riding in and allegedly found drugs, said Sgt.

Since 2005, state and federal environmental officials have known the source of dangerous levels of the carcinogen dioxin originating in the San Jacinto River and contaminating seafood harvested from northern Galveston Bay.

The 2006 Republican primary for the Inland area's 65th Assembly District was one of several legislative campaigns that spring, seemingly just one more expensive intra-party brawl of candidates and special-interest spending.

Inland state Sen. John J. Benoit, a soon-to-be Riverside County supervisor, received $3,600 from a bookkeeping company that was later reimbursed by a central figure in the San Jacinto corruption probe, according to a witness in the case.

Riverside County suspended San Jacinto Councilman Jim Ayres from his position as a project manager in the county's Economic Development Agency, officials said Tuesday.

A 75-year-old San Jacinto resident accused of sexually assaulting a preschooler in San Jacinto must stand trial on felony rape and molestation charges, a judge ruled today.

A 20-year-old San Jacinto woman is behind bars tonight after she led police on a chase from Murrieta to San Jacinto, Murrieta police said in a news release.

Riverside County public safety officials are meeting this week with teachers, parents and children to educate them about street gangs and the potential consequences faced by youths who join gangs.

In a lot of ways, San Jacinto is much like any other town in the San Gabriel Valley.

Karen Gregory was pleased when she heard that San Jacinto's mayor and three other City Council members had been charged Thursday with conspiracy and bribery.

Riverside County officials say it's one of the biggest cases of campaign money laundering in the state.

Thursday's news that four members of the San Jacinto City Council were indicted for allegedly laundering developers' contributions to political campaigns was alarming.

A tightly knit group of San Jacinto city leaders and developers engaged in bribery, money laundering, conspiracy and tax evasion involving political campaign donations and the sale of two houses favoring a city councilman in return for beneficial votes, according to court documents.

San Jacinto's mayor and three city council members are charged with corruption. San Jacinto is in turmoil after its mayor and three city council members are charged with corruption.

A new report on the San Jacinto Fault, which runs through the Coachella Valley, shows that a rupture here might not produce the big one scientists believe will strike in the next 30 years.

It's corruption time again. The Riverside County District Attorney's office Thursday announced the indictment of nine people - including nearly all of San Jacinto's City Council - as part of a "major money laundering conspiracy" officials say they uncovered.

Four San Jacinto City Councilmen and five others have been indicted in an investigation into suspected laundering of campaign funds into campaign committees nearly five years ago.

Two suspects who carjacked a man's Buick in Temecula and drove him to Hemet before releasing him unharmed were at large Wednesday, a sheriff's sergeant said.

A 90-year-old Hemet man died last night after a collision in San Jacinto between his sedan and a mini SUV, according to Riverside County coroner's officials.