iePolitics: San Bernardino County to major U.S. Corporation (Google): Go away!

The news of this unbelievable episode was presented to me a couple weeks ago and I wasn’t able to gather more details until this weekend.
It looks like a major U.S. corporation recently embarked on a mission to San Bernardino County.
That mission? Establish a campus in the Victor Valley region of the [...]

The California Fair Political Practices Commission Opens Probe of DA Mike Ramos

The California Fair Political Practices Commission has opened an investigation into San Bernardino County District Attorney Mike Ramos relating to his failure to properly report income provided to his wife, the Sentinel has learned.
The matter under investigation, according to sources who were instrumental in bringing the relevant information to [...]

Sheriff’s Academy Languishing

For the first time in nearly a decade, the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department is not fielding a class at its academy in Devore.
The San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Basic Training Academy for more than 30 years has schooled its own recruits [...]

Grants to Fund County Drug Courts

San Bernardino County Superior Court will utilize two grants totaling $1,099,830 to fund its drug court operations.
Court officials, under the direction of presiding judge James M. McGuire, will use one grant from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration and another Bureau of Justice Assistance Grant [...]

Sheriff Hopefuls Offer Differing Law Enforcement Philosophieschallenger,

SAN BERNARDINO— The two declared candidates for sheriff in next year’s election faced off October 7 in a forum sponsored by the Safety Employees Benefit Association, the union representing the sheriff’s department’s deputies.
Sheriff Rod Hoops, the incumbent, like his challenger, deputy Mark Averbeck, has [...]

County Extends Contract with Corruption Figure’s Firm

The county has extended by one year the contract it has with its Sacramento lobbyist, Platinum Advisors, despite a scandal involving the company and its simultaneous representation of the county and a company from whom the county purchased the Adelanto jail for $31.2 million in 2005.
After whispers of the double [...]

Anti-corruption Group Discusses Strategy

The new organization dedicated to rooting out political corruption in San Bernardino County held its first public meeting on October 6 in Redlands. The meeting was relocated at the last minute when the San Bernardino Public Employees Association (SBPEA) reneged on its agreement to allow the group to use its [...]

Intrigue, Mystery Attend Former Sheriff’s Sergeant’s Case

Intrigue and mystery surround a case involving a former San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department sergeant who was placed on administrative leave earlier this year in the aftermath of allegations that he had sexual relations with an underage girl.
The sergeant has now resigned and the department has handed the case [...]

Public Defender Seeking Volunteers

San Bernardino County Public Defender Doreen Boxer this week moved to facilitate efforts of the public inclined to volunteer time to assist with the legal defense of those unable to pay for it.
The public defender’s office is that portion of county government which is chartered to provide legal [...]

iePolitics: Turmoil in SB County Public Defender operation

Apparently, there is rising discontent among veteran attorneys in the Office of the San Bernardino County Public Defender.
Sources inside the department tell iePolitics that one of the highly talented attorneys in the office who recently won an acquittal on a murder case is now on administrative leave. The sources also say [...]

***DANGER***: Bill aims to update, grow Troops to Teachers

Just search this site for anything military, and see if you want this scum infiltrating the educational system to propagandize, indoctrinate and poison your child’s mind.  Here are some examples:

Military Accepting Neo-Nazis, White Supremacists, Probe Finds
The rise of low-IQ in the US military
The US military and its cult of cruelty
America’s Child Soldiers: [...]

Suspect whose beating by San Bernardino police was caught on videotape is released from custody

SAN BERNARDINO – The barbershop owner who was the subject of a videotaped beating by San Bernardino Police Department officers was released from custody Friday, according to the lawyer who is representing his longtime girlfriend. Darren Johnson, 43, who was struck repeatedly with a baton while being arrested at a [...]

The Decline and Fall of the Inland Empire Skinheads

In April of this year, eight boneheads, members of the “Inland Empire Skinheads”, got arrest on Unkle Adolf’s birthday (April 20). The Inland Empire Boneheads are named after an area of California: “Made up of an area stretching from western Riverside County to the southwest corner of San Bernardino County, [...]

2 Army enlistees accused of killing female soldier

BARSTOW, CALIF. — Two men who served in the Army are accused of killing a fellow servicewoman in San Bernardino County.
Sheriff’s Sgt. Frank Bell says 23-year-old Melvin Satcher of Barstow and 22-year-old Phillip Franke of Las Vegas were arrested Monday.
Both are accused of killing 29-year-old Sandi Duncan, whose body was found [...]

Deputy declares intention to run for San Bernardino County Sheriff

A 24-year San Bernardino County sheriff’s deputy has announced his candidacy for sheriff in the June 2010 election.
Mark Averbeck, 47, of Redlands, will appear at a question-and-answer session sponsored by the Safety Employees Benefit Association, the union representing county law enforcement employees, at 6 p.m. Oct. 7 at the San Bernardino [...]

CREW’s Most Corrupt: Rep. Jerry Lewis

Representative Jerry Lewis (R-CA) is a sixteen-term member of Congress, representing the 41st district of California. Currently the ranking member of the Appropriations Committee, his ethics issues stem primarily from the misuse of his position as chairman of the committee to steer hundreds of millions of dollars in earmarks [...]

San Bernardino council votes to send ultimatum to church after receiving sex offender memo

SAN BERNARDINO – The San Bernardino City Council voted late Monday night to send an ultimatum to a local church that hosts an Operation Phoenix youth center after council members received a leaked memo reporting that a registered sex offender had performed work on the premises.The council voted 5-0, following [...]

Time to end the war on drugs

Vancouver in British Columbia, Ciudad Juárez in northern Mexico and Helmand Province in southern Afghanistan are unlikely cousins. But together these three places and their ilk have wrought a remarkable change in one of the world’s most important debates over the past two years.
For decades, the idea of legalizing narcotics was [...]

Lt. Cmdr. Paul Chabot Announces Candidacy for 63rd Assembly District

[ Don't let this twit screw us all up .  Follow him at the IEPolitics Blog and learn about his position on prohibition.  We've already got enough problems with the corrupt predators of the military- and prison-industrial complexes running the government.  Chabot, at the age of 12, entered rehab for alcohol and [...]

Xavier Alvarez found guilty

POMONA – Xavier Alvarez on Friday entered Pomona Superior Court as a free man. He left in handcuffs.The Three Valleys Municipal Water District board director was found guilty of felony charges of insurance fraud, misappropriation of public funds and grand theft.
He faces up to five years in prison. Sentencing is scheduled [...]

Operation Phoenix and ACORN, sitting in a tree

Earlier this week, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) was caught on video trying to help set up a brothel for underage immigrant girls (thirteen 13-15 year olds) in San Bernardino where the profits would go to support the political career of an aspiring politician. In [...]

Return of Stout a good thing?

[ As Mike Ramos cleans the house that this man helped to build, we suspect that his expressed interest in running again is little more than an advance defense against an investigation of him.  Follow Stout at the iePolitics blog.  The military- and prison-industrial complexes of this [...]

Freedom From Religion Foundation files lawsuit

RANCHO CUCAMONGA – It will soon be up to a judge to decide if the city interfered and contributed to the removal of a billboard at Archibald Avenue and Foothill Boulevard that displayed the message “Imagine No Religion.”
The lawsuit will go to court on Nov. 16.
Freedom From Religion Foundation filed a [...]

Closing arguments resume Thursday in deputy’s extortion trial

Closing arguments are scheduled to resume Thursday afternoon in the re-trial for a former Sheriff’s deputy accused of attempting to extort a San Manuel tribal member.
Deputy District Attorney William Lee already delivered his arguments to the jury Tuesday the trial for 31-year-old John Laurent in San Bernardino Superior Court. However, [...]

Arraignment set for ex-SB County DA investigator facing 15 felony counts

A former investigator for the San Bernardino County District Attorney’s Office, suspected of illegally using a law enforcement database to access criminal rap sheets, is scheduled for arraignment Sept. 22 in San Bernardino Superior Court.On Aug. 31, the state Attorney General’s Office filed one felony count of grand theft [...]

Former Corrupt San Bernardino County DA says he may run against Ramos

Former San Bernardino County District Attorney Dennis Stout announced Wednesday that he is considering running for his old job in 2010 — challenging District Attorney Mike Ramos, who defeated him in 2002.
Stout, who served as the county’s top prosecutor for eight years, said he believes political corruption is worse than [...]

Failure to disclose property ownership results in Penrod getting warning letter from FPPC

Former San Bernardino County Sheriff Gary Penrod failed to disclose, over a period of several years, ownership of several properties, a violation of the Political Reform Act, according to the Fair Political Practices Commission.Penrod, who retired in January after serving 14 years as the county’s top cop, received a [...]

Family of man shot by San Bernardino police hires lawyer

The family of Cedric May Jr., who was shot and killed by San Bernardino police on Monday, has hired a lawyer. The family says May was repeatedly tased and then shot while handcuffed; police say May grabbed the taser and pointed it at an officer’s head.

Deputy’s gun used in Ontario double slaying, suicide

A service weapon belonging to a San Bernardino County Sheriff’s deputy was used in Saturday’s double slaying of a mother and son by a parolee who then shot himself to death, authorities confirmed Monday.
Sheriff’s officials said the details of how a parolee managed to acquire Deputy Andrew Gressley’s department-issued Glock [...]

DA involved with another county employee

New reports have surfaced out of the District Attorney’s Office indicating that our illustrious Mr. Ramos has found himself another woman……
Yes. You read it correctly.
Unfortunately, Ramos is feeding at his own trough again. In other words another employee in his own department. Sources say this time it’s a 28-30 year [...]

Trial date postponed in sheriff’s deputy’s assault case

INDIO — An off-duty San Bernardino County Sheriff’s deputy accused of assaulting a tow-druck driver with a handgun appeared in court this morning, and his trial date was postponed more than two months.
Richard Charles Heverly, of La Verne, is now set to stand trial Oct. 28 in Indio Superior Court [...]

Operation Terrorization: Coming To A Neighborhood Near You!

A program started by San Bernardino City Mayor, Patrick J. Morris, supposedly developed to stop gang activity is being considered in Washington. The program, dubbed “Operation Phoenix,” was supposed to be a collaboration between law enforcement, social services, code enforcement and many others to “reach the community” through community [...]