Riverside County deputies fatally shot a man who allegedly pointed a gun at them after setting fire to a home in Moreno Valley on Sunday morning.

On November 20, 2025, the Lake Mathews Station Special Enforcement Team assumed the investigation and identified Sergio Fernandez, a 34-year-old resident of Perris, as a suspect in the theft.

A proposal to increase oversight of the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department stalled on Tuesday, July 29. The Board of Supervisors failed to move forward a proposal from Supervisor Jose Medina to appoint an ad hoc committee to consider establishing a ...

The two-decade investigation began on March 21, 2004, when 18-year-old Hemet man Reynaldo Burts was found dead in the hills near Idyllwild.

Update 12/8/25 Two additional suspects were arrested in connection with the shooting. Both suspects are 18-year-olds who were taken into custody on Sunday, according to the Riverside County Sheriff's Office.

Investigative reporter Chris Damien alleges the sheriff's department broke state law when it refused to turn over coroner's reports on jail deaths.

A Riverside County man has been arrested in connection with his father's murder over the weekend, according to authorities. Deputies were called to a home in the 20000 block of Clark Street in an unincorporated part of Perris called Mead Valley at around 4:15 a.m. on Sunday, according to a news release from the Riverside County Sheriff's Office.