Sheriff’s department higher-ups late last week and early this week were attempting to ascertain whether an outbreak of violence within one of the female inmate housing units at West Valley Detention Center on November 13 was an isolated spontaneous occurrence or whether it was part of a planned and concerted attack on jailers that presages a general uprising of prisoners chaffing under harsh conditions.
What appears to be certain is that a female deputy sheriff sustained injuries serious enough to require hospitalization after what was a planned and coordinated attack involving deception by at least two female inmates.
According to the Sheriff’s Department, the deputy was violently attacked by two inmates on November 13 after she was induced to break strict security protocol and let her guard down in response to what seemed to be a medical emergency. In addition to the participation of two identified inmates, department investigators believe a third and perhaps a fourth rendered assistance in the assault.
At approximately 6:12 p.m. on Wednesday, November 13, while making routine rounds within the housing unit for female inmates, a deputy saw an inmate, Rose Marie Villalobos, 32, hovering over another inmate, 24-year-old Kyanna Renee Patterson, who was prone on the housing unit floor. Villalobos was feigning rendering assistance to Patterson, whose twitching and body contortions simulated an epileptic seizure.
As the deputy positioned herself to render Patterson assistance, Villalobos threw a cup of vomit into the deputy’s face, punched her and slashed her face with a razor. Villalobos took the deputy’s radio and used it to strike the deputy repeatedly in the head.
Patterson also used a cup to physically assault the deputy, according to the department.
Sheriff’s department custody personnel monitoring video images streamed into a secure area located elsewhere in the West Valley Detention Center spotted signs that the attack was underway within 30 seconds of its onset, and several deputies flooded into the housing unit and restrained Patterson and Villalobos, bringing to a close the assault upon the deputy.
It appeared that at least one other inmate was acting as a watch-out to alert Villalobos and Patterson if any additional sheriff’s department personnel were approaching.
The deputy who had been attacked was immediately transferred to a local hospital for treatment. She has been released, but at press time had not yet returned to work.
The department has initiated an investigation of the incident and its context, utilizing internal and external investigators, that is, ones already assigned to the West Valley Detention Center as well as detectives operating out of the sheriff’s department headquarters who are assigned to the sheriff’s command echelon or the department’s intelligence unit.
Investigators have already made some headway, determining to a considerable degree what occurred.
Both Villalobos and Patterson have a history of violence. Villalobos has a history of violence while in custody.
Rose Marie Villalobos was serving time for an incident that occurred on April 3 of this year, which was originally charged as felony assault with a non-firearm deadly weapon in a way that was likely to cause great bodily injury on April 5. That charge was reduced to a misdemeanor in a plea arrangement entered before Judge Richard Peel on July 22. Villalobos, who has used the alias Rosemary Hernandez, had previously been arrested for battery that occurred on August 26, 2016. She was charged with a misdemeanor on that offense, which was then dismissed subject to a conditional plea arrangement. That dismissal was rescinded and the charge revived, however, after her arrest and conviction for the April 3, 2019 assault with a deadly weapon. In 2009, she was convicted of assault with a deadly weapon while in custody, a felony. On July 2, 2007, she was charged with attempted murder, infliction of great bodily injury and assault with a deadly weapon other than a firearm stemming from an incident on June 28 of that year. The attempted murder and great bodily injury charges were dismissed in return for her plea to assault with a deadly weapon other than a firearm in a manner likely to result in great bodily injury.
Patterson is in custody on a series of yet outstanding cases. One is based upon an incident that occurred in August 2018, in which she was charged with battery against a police officer. She pleaded not guilty to that charge before Judge Ingrid Uhler on August 16, 2018. That case remains active. She has another misdemeanor battery case stemming from an incident on September 29, 2018 pending against her. Additionally, based on her action on August 21, 2018, she is charged with attempted murder, kidnapping, evading a police officer with wanton disregard for the safety of others and hit and run driving resulting in injury or death, all of which are felonies and are yet pending.
Investigators believe that Villalobos and Patterson had the assistance of others, one of whom was inmate Amber Rae Tena. Tena, who also goes by the aliases Amber Word and Amber Rodriguez, was in custody on misdemeanor petty theft and assault charges when she was charged with assault by a prisoner and then both manufacturing a weapon while in custody and being in possession of that weapon. Tena participated in the November 13 assault by keeping watch and alerting Villalobos and Patterson when the deputy was approaching, investigators believe.
The investigation will touch on a number of issues, including the prisoners’ access to items in the jail’s commissary as well as cosmetics. Female prisoners in California are sometimes provided access to cosmetics, including makeup and eyeliner, because it is believed to reduce the incidence of violence in custody situations.
The investigation’s data and report are to be forwarded to the sheriff’s command as well as to the district attorney’s office for review and a determination on whether charges are to be filed against Villalobos, Patterson and potentially Tena and others.

Humboldt’s lily is a species of lily endemic to Baja and Alta California, where it is native to the San Bernardino Mountains, as well as the High Cascade Range, High Sierra Nevada, the south Outer South Coast Ranges, the Santa Monica Mountains and other spots in Southwestern California.
Within its habitat, it is one of the most visually striking of plants.
Known scientifically as the Lilium humboldtii. It has two subspecies ocellatum and humboldtii. Both flourish at elevations from approximately 2,000 feet to 3,900 feet. Subspecies humbodtii is found primarily in the foothills of the Sierras and central California; subspecies ocellatum is found primarily in southern California on the coastal side of the mountains and on the Channel Islands and in Baja California. Both subspecies are considered rare.
Its preferred habitat is chaparral and oak woodland near intermittent streams and in a spot providing dappled sunshine.
Classified by Roezi and German horticulturist Max Leichtlin and named by them after the naturalist and explorer Baron Alexander von Humboldt, it has sometimes been misidentified. Albert Kellog, unaware that the plant had already been named by Roezl and Leichtlin, gave it the name Lilium bloomerianum. Laymen quite often confuse it with the tiger lily, a different plant.
Growing on occasion to a height of 8 feet, with flowers that are large and showy, golden-orange with dark red or maroon splotches and orange to brown stamens, it sports leaves that grow in whorls, and are undulate, shiny, and oblance-shaped.
The plant flowers from May to July, with flowers growing in a pyramidal cluster, with approaching 50 flowers on a healthy plant. The flowers are on stout stems, which are sometimes brown-purple. The subrhizomatous bulb is large, with yellowish-white scales, and grows very deep in the soil. It is summer-deciduous, dying back after flowering in mid-to-late summer. Often, the flower will stand above eye level. The flowers have 3 petals and 3 sepals, which look alike, curving upward and back. From the center of the flower hang six long stamens with orange-colored anthers. The bright green leaves are 3-to-5 inches long,
Humboldt’s lily can be grown beyond its naturally occurring range. It is sold as a garden bulb. If raised in that circumstance, it should be allowed to go dry in late July or early August, with no water after blooming, as it prefers a dry summer dormancy and if possible good drainage and part shade. In winter it will do well with minimal supplemental water unless it is an especially dry winter.
Both subspecies are on the California Native Plant Society Inventory of Rare and Endangered Plants of California and described as “fairly endangered in California.”
It was one of the parents, along with Lilium pardalinum, that produced the Bellingham hybrid lilies, the most popular offshoots of which are the ‘Shuksan’ and ‘Star of Oregon’ lilies.
The plant is resistant to fire eradication in that it will germinate from seed on charred ground.

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Sentinel 11-15-19

Several of the San Bernardino County political races that are to take place in the March 3 California Primary have begun to shape up.
The March race’s nomination period, during which those seeking to qualify to seek office must file documents to declare their candidacies, opened on Monday, November 11. It will close on December 6, according to the California Secretary of State’s office.
As of today, candidates filing to run in the 8th Congressional District included Republicans Jay Obernolte and Jerry Laws, Green Party member Manuel Musquiz and Democrats Blanca Gomez, Bob Conaway, James Ellars and Charles Peterson.
In the 31st Congressional District, the only candidate filing so far was Democratic incumbent Pete Aguilar.
The only nominee so far in the 35th Congressional District is incumbent Democrat Norma Torres.
In the 39th Congressional District, Steve Cox, with no party preference, and  Republican Young Kim have taken out nomination papers. Democratic incumbent Gil Cisneros had not filed nomination papers by press time this week.
In State Senatorial District 21 Republican Omar Ramirez and Democrat Blanca Gomez have taken out papers.
In State Senatorial District 23 Democrats Hank Ramey, Abigail Medina and Kris Goodfellow are running.
Running for the California Assembly in District 33 are Republicans Rick Herrick, Thurston Smith and Alex Walton, and Democrats Blanca Gomez, Roger La Plante and Socorro Cisneros.
Vying to become an Assembly member in District 36 is Democrat Ollie McCaulley.
James Ramos, the incumbent, was the only candidate to file to serve as the member of the State Assembly in District 40.
In Assembly District 42, Democrat Deniantionette Mazingo has taken out nomination papers.
In State Assembly District 52 Republican Toni Holle is running against incumbent Democrat Freddie Rodriguez.
Members of the Democratic Central Committee in San Bernardino County are elected based upon which Assembly District they reside in.
Those vying to become members of the Democratic Central Committee within the confines of Assembly District 33 are Roger La Plante, Lizet Angulo, Valentino Godina, Sr., Fernando Hernandez, Denise Wells, Blanca Gomez, Doug Olson, Barbara James Dew, Lionel Dew, Mike Curran, Elise Brown, Leslie Irving, Rita Ramirez Dean, Kareema Abdul-Khabir and Stevevonna Evans.
Those within Assembly District 36 seeking membership in the Democratic Central Committee are Scott Brown, Deborah McAfee and Victoria Chang.
Candidates for the Democratic Central Committee representing District 40 include  James Albert, Lorraine Enriquez, Talat Khan, Frank Garcia, Valarie Lichtman, Jennifer Xicara, Andrea Vega, Gilda Gularte, Christina Leroy, Nancy Glenn, Mike Saifie, Terry Masl, Diana Cosand, Alice Ruiz, John Jesus Abad, Tim Prince and Ed Millican.
Democratic Central Committee candidates from District 41 are Wendy Lee Eccles,  Irmalina Osuma, Linda Lou Baker and Peter Baker.
Democratic Central Committee candidates living in District 42 are Deborah Dunaway, Nicholas Christensen, Debra Gail Savitt, Jo Ann Bollen, John Edward Brennan, Sara Lee, Matthew Mark Campos and Crystal Starr Wysong.
Residing in Assembly District  47 and running for Democratic Central Committee membership are Rafael Trujillo, Bobbie Jo Chavarria, Joe Britt, Gil Navarro, Mark Alvarez, Carol Robb, Marcela Soliz Ferguson, Christina Marquez, Dorothy Kim, Loretta Christine Arenas, Sean Holle, Tariq Azim and Stacie Marie Ramos.
Seeking positions on the Democratic Central Committee to represent Assembly District 52 are Martina Rangel, Flora Juarez Martinez, Judy Jacobs, Chris Robles, Diane Boudreaux, Aaron Bratton and Camille Butts.
Democratic Central Committee candidates from District 55 so far are Brenda Walker, James Gallagher, Kathryn Ann Gallagher, Dena Anderson-Peoples, Mario Gabriel Alfaro, Rodrick Lee Ertel, and Vincent Kaje Hennerty.
Members of the Republican Central Committee in San Bernardino County are elected based upon which supervisorial district they call home.
Those seeking membership in the San Bernardino County Republican Central Committee from District 1 are Valerie Emick, Christopher Dustin, Jo Ann Marie Betty, Rebekah Swanson, Eric Swanson and Shannon Shannon.
The sole candidate filing at this time for membership on the Republican Central Committee from District 3 is Robert Rego.
In District 4, the candidates for membership on the  Republican Central Committee are James Na, Sylvia Cervantez Orozco, Andrew Cruz, Roman Gabriel Nava, Candice Cetrone, and Tyler James Ferrari.
Peter Torres and Karen Contreras are vying for election as members of the Republican Central Committee representing District 5.
Orlando Pardo is the only individual to yet declare his candidacy as a member of the Peace and Freedom Central Committee representing District 4.

The Federal Aviation Administration will initiate on December 5 the use of a new flight path that will divert air traffic away from directly over Lake Arrowhead.
According to the Federal Aviation Administration, the new flight path will be referred to as JCKIE TWO.
On April 27, 2017, the Federal Aviation Administration initiated its Southern California Metroplex Project, which was intended to increase the efficiency of the approaches into five Southern California commercial airports and reduce fuel consumption. The revised routing, based on pre-set satellite navigation beams, diverted westbound planes formerly headed to Ontario International Airport from their previous trajectory over the San Bernardino Mountains using Heaps Peak as a pass-over locus to the airspace above 5,100 foot elevation Lake Arrowhead. With those planes flying at anywhere from an elevation of 7,200 feet to 9,600 feet on what is referred to as the EAGLZ route, those planes passed somewhere between 2,100 feet to 4,500 feet over the homes, schools and businesses of Lake Arrowhead.
Lake Arrowhead residents found the resultant engine noise to be anywhere on the scale from mildly irritating to absolutely unbearable. There were conflicting figures as to how many planes come into Ontario on the EAGLZ route daily, with the Federal Aviation Administration acknowledging an average of no fewer than 29. Anecdotal counts by residents put that number at closer to 80 per day. Furthermore, Lake Arrowhead residents said that an internet site, www.Planefinder.net documented planes flying as low as 1,640 feet above Lake Arrowhead.
Lake Arrowhead residents began importuning their governmental representatives, ranging from Second District San Bernardino County Supervisor Janice Rutherford to Assemblyman Jay Obernolte to Congressman Paul Cook to U.S. Senators Dianne Feinstein and Kamala Harris, to seek a solution.
Lake Arrowhead resident David Caine formed the group Quiet Skies Lake Arrowhead, which redoubled those efforts and initiated a petition-gathering drive which netted 4,000 signatures on a resolution requesting the route to be changed. Some residents advocated legal action, which resulted in Rutherford and her representatives insisting that such an approach would not have a salutary effect, and might even harden the Federal Aviation Administration’s position. The Federal Aviation Administration maintained that it had served public notice of the Metroplex Project and the EAGLZ route in a way that was legally adequate, had engaged in public outreach and held information workshops, all ahead of making the change.
In January 2018, the FAA signaled that it was working toward making an adjustment in the flight path during evening hours. Either by chance or by intent, upon the one-year anniversary of the April 27, 2017 switch to the EAGLZ route, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) through its special programs office and regional administrator, Dennis Roberts, announced a change in nighttime flights was in the offing. At the beginning of May 2018, the Federal Aviation Administration made good on that commitment, and the later PM routes were in fact altered to alleviate the sound impacts to the community during evening hours, with Southern California’s terminal control center vectoring Ontario Airport’s nighttime arrivals onto a path east of the EAGLZ arrival route
Nevertheless, planes continued to fly almost directly over Lake Arrowhead during daylight hours.
While the nighttime adjustment was welcomed throughout the community, it was pointed out that several daytime flights at an approximate altitude of 7,700 feet continue to pass over 5,780-foot elevation Rim of the World High School, a clearance of some 1,920 feet, on a daily basis. Similar sound disturbances punctuate the day in Lake Arrowhead.
Earlier this month, FAA officials announced they had completed work on plotting a new flight path to address the remaining excessive sound issues in Lake Arrowhead.
“As part of the post-implementation phase of the SoCal Metroplex project, the FAA looked at designing a new route that could address community concerns while maintaining the project’s enhanced airspace safety and efficiency benefits,” the Federal Aviation Agency announced. “In May 2018, the FAA created a new arrival route for ONT [Ontario International Airport] called the JCKIE ONE, which is located east of Lake Arrowhead.” According to the FAA statement, “The JCKIE ONE could only be used between approximately 11 p.m. and 6 a.m. because it did not provide the necessary separation with the nearby DSNEE and ROOBY arrival routes, which serve John Wayne Airport and Long Beach Airport, respectively. The DSNEE and ROOBY routes are not used at night due to curfews at John Wayne Airport and Long Beach Airport. Therefore, the FAA was able to use the JCKIE ONE route at night.”
The FAA maintains, “After implementing the JCKIE ONE route, the Federal Aviation Administration continued to explore additional options to address community concerns about flights that use the EAGLZ flight path during the day. The FAA determined it could modify the JCKIE ONE route to create a route that could be used 24 hours a day. This route will be called the JCKIE TWO.”
The Federal Aviation Administration reported that “Aircraft that currently use the JCKIE ONE and the EAGLZ flight routes will be assigned to the JCKIE TWO at all times of day. It will provide both nighttime and daytime overflight reduction to the Lake Arrowhead community. The FAA conducted an environmental review of the JCKIE TWO flight path in compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act. The FAA will post its documented environmental review once the JCKIE TWO is published. The FAA plans to publish and start using the JCKIE TWO on December 5, 2019. The FAA will cancel the EAGLZ arrival route when it publishes the JCKIE TWO. Implementing the JCKIE TWO will not change runway usage at ONT. The vast majority of aircraft will continue to land from east to west, on Runways 26L and 26R.”
Cook, Obernolte and Rutherford had meetings with Federal Aviation Administration officials to discuss the need for a permanent route change that would not disturb the Lake Arrowhead community. During the development of the new route, they networked with the Federal Aviation Administration to support the creation of a nighttime flight path away from population centers to reduce the impact of noise on the community.
Cook said, “I’m glad the FAA has heard the voice of my constituents whose quality of life has been affected by this issue. Since it was first brought to my attention, I’ve worked with Supervisor Janice Rutherford, as well as my colleagues in the House and Senate, to resolve this problem. I’d also like to thank David Caine and the entire Quiet Skies Lake Arrowhead group for their work and tireless advocacy.”
-Mark Gutglueck