On time and on budget, the $1.5 billion Foothill Gold Line light rail extension from Glendora to Pomona reached substantial completion today. The 9.1-mile rail line addition connects the four furthest-east stations on the Metro A Line, those in the cities of Glendora, San Dimas, La Verne and Pomona. The design-build contract was completed by Kiewit-Parsons, as part of a joint venture involving the two companies, over the last five years. The contract involved all elements of the light rail project, including construction of four new stations and associated parking facilities, 19 bridges, 21 at-grade crossings, the light rail system – including the track, power, train control, communications and safety systems – nine miles of relocated freight track, 10 miles of decorative retaining walls and sound walls, and more.
Metro officials used the term “substantial completion,” meaning that the Glendora-to-Pomona portion of the system is now ready to be turned over to Metro for final testing, training and preparation for passenger service, among other tasks that will take place in the months ahead. This milestone follows months of testing of the new systems by the Metro Rail Construction Authority and Kiewit-Parsons, and determination that the new extension is safe to operate. An opening date has not yet been determined; Metro will announce the date in the future.
“The Kiewit-Parsons team did an outstanding job designing and constructing the light rail project, despite significant and unprecedented challenges,” stated Gold Line Construction Authority CEO Habib F. Balian. “It is unusual for a large infrastructure project to come in on time and on budget, but Kiewit-Parsons was partners with the construction authority from the start and found ways to innovate and keep the project moving through the COVID-19 pandemic, historic heatwaves and historic rains. I am pleased to say that we not only completed the project on time and on budget – we ended as partners.” Continue reading →

Legal proceedings against Arthur Davies, whose actions nearly seven years ago were a causal or heedless factor in the death of his then-girlfriend’s 17-month-old son, will likely draw to a close later this month, three months after Davies’ conviction on involuntary manslaughter and abuse of a child resulting in death charges in November.
There remains a slight but unrealistic chance the judge who heard the case against him that ended in a conviction will grant Davies’ defense lawyer’s motion for a third trial on grounds of juror misconduct. Thereafter, Davies’ hope of walking free once more any time before he is an elderly man will hinge on his lawyer’s contention that there was judicial error when the court allowed the prosecution, which had failed to obtain a premeditated degree murder conviction against him in 2023 and then went after him on an unpremeditated murder charge in his second trial last year, to reduce the charge mid-trial to manslaughter.
Davies in 2023 was found not guilty of first degree murder in the February 12, 2018 death of Parker Schumacher, who died from blunt-force trauma to the head. The same jury was unable to reach a verdict on charges of second-degree murder and assault.
At his second trial held last year, Jury selection began on October 7, continuing on October 8, 9 10 and 14, 15 and 16, with Tsuei beginning the presentation of its case, evidence and witnesses on October 22 and continuing on October 23, 24, 28, and 29, at which point the prosecution rested. Beginning on October 31, Ali initiated his defense, continuing with the presentation of witnesses and evidence on November 4 and 6, at which point the defense rested. The jury began deliberations on November 12, and continued to deliberate on November 13, 14 and 19. On November 19, the voluntary manslaughter charge was amended to involuntary manslaughter. Thereupon, the jury found Davies guilty of involuntary manslaughter and assault on a child causing death, both felonies. Continue reading →

Sam Friedman and Ben Toffey and their company, Belfield Landing, Ltd, have applied with San Bernardino county for land use permits to construct a hotel on the 5.7-acre property located on Belfield Boulevard north of Reche Road in Landers.
Both Friedman and Toffey represent themselves as Landers residents, in their parlance, Landroids.
They say the hotel they are proposing will be called “The Landing.”
Though they maintain The Landing will be an upscale hotel, they said they do not want to impact the town any further than constructing and operating the hotel, which they insist will not disturb the rustic nature of Landers.
“This won’t change Landers at all,” Friedman said.
Their project will consist of a 35-room hotel, a lodge, an observatory, a bar, restaurant and market contained on the property. The project is to replicate, to some degree, the glory days of Landers, where George’s Sky Room, a hotel had its heyday in the 1950s and 1960s before it fell into disrepair and disuse in the 1970s.
The bar, restaurant and market will provide conveniences for the town’s exisiting residents, according to Toffey. The major advantage will be that Landers residents will no longer need to sojourn to Yucca Valley or Joshua tree to buy groceries, he said.
A primary feature/attraction of the hotel is an onsen — a facility that is best described as a community spa popular in Japan.
When pressed, Toffey said it was not right to think of the onsen as “a typical American private spa. Those have separate treatment rooms. This will be communal.” Continue reading →

Investors Paying Top Dollar To Purchase Already Leased Fontana Warehouses & Manufacturing Space

Three investment groups from outside San Bernardino County recently acquired warehouses in Fontana.
Rexford Industrial Reality, Incorporated, a Los Angeles-based industrial property owner and developer, purchased the 279,000-square-foot warehouse located at 13201 Dahlia Street in Fontana currently occupied by Eaton, a manufacturing company, for $70.1 million. Rexford agreed to pay $251 per square foot for the building.
According to JLL’s Mark Detmer, who led a sales and advisory team that marketed the property and counted among its members Patrick Nally, Evan Moran, Mike McCrary, Jeff Bellitti, Ruben Goodsell and Hunter McDonald, the property fetched the $70.1 million because it was fully leased and featured a “strategic location in one of the nation’s most competitive industrial markets together with unique functionality.
Toronto, Ontario-based BentallGreenOak paid Panattoni Development $240 million from developer – $348 per square foot – for a 691,000-square-foot building that was already being leased by Campbell Soups.
BentallGreenOak, an institutional investor, was interested in the newly constructed and fully leased warehouse in Fontana, which features 40-foot minimum clear heights, 92 dock-high loading doors, 46 mechanical dock levelers and a 225-kilowatt solar rooftop solar array, because, those involved in the sale said, the “building offers the advantage of being in a prime location in the west Inland Empire submarket adjacent to major transportation hubs.”
Previously, in August, Cabot Properties purchased from Transwestern Development Company the 236,129-square-foot Almeria Logistics Center in Fontana for $76.8 million, or $325 per square foot. The two-year-old Class A logistics center was fully leased through 2027 to LC Logistics Services at the time of the sale. The warehouse includes 2,000-amp power outlets and a uniform 36-foot height clearance.
Michael Kendall of Colliers Industrial Brokerage marketed the property in conjunction with Gian Bruno, Kenny Patricia and Kylie Jones, Thomas Taylor, Steve Bellitti, Joey Jones and Scott Sanders.

District Attorney Jason Anderson believes his office has been “pushed to extremity” on a “puffed up” case members of the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department pursued in an ultimately futile stab at aggrandizement and “cheap publicity” involving one of their colleagues, an 18-year veteran of the department, who has been demonized over his connection with the Mongols outlaw motorcycle club. The district attorney’s office last year was cozened into elevating that personalized demonization of Deputy Christopher Bingham into no fewer than 13 felony charges against him.  Just short of nine months after Bingham’s arrest, there has been little prosecutorial movement beyond what has now proven out to be a problematic showing of evidence in the defendant’s preliminary hearing in the weeks following his arrest, Anderson is now reported to be resentful at being inveigled into a dead-end case and growing impatient over the inability to find a graceful and face-saving exodus from the situation.
Bingham enlisted in the U.S. Marines at the age of 19 in 1998, serving with distinction as a rifleman during two separate overseas assignment. He was honorably discharged after four years of service in 2002. He did not migrate much further than Twentynine Palms, where the base he was last stationed at while with the 1st Battalion 7th Marines, is located. He hired on with the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department in 2005, where among other assignments, he worked motorcycle patrol. In 2015, whichle he was yet employed with the department, Bingham registered O’Three Tactical, a limited liability company in which he was the sole owner, with California Secretary of State. Located at 73749 29 Palms Highway in Twentynine Palms, O’Three Tactical was a gun shop, housed within a shop next to a Mexican restaurant east of Adobe Road in the downtown section of Twentynine Palms on Highway 62, also known at that point as 29 Palms Highway. O’Three Tactical dealt in standard firearm sales as well as obtaining for its customers specialized equipment and hardware prized by gun aficionados, particularly ones looking to replicate the actuality or mystique of military firepower. It became known for the ability to track down and deliver specialized firearms, as well as for providing servicing and augmenting equipment to those products, along with, as the shop’s name implied, all order of tactical gear, including knives, bulletproof wear and helmets, ammunition, magazines, cartridges, powders, primers, sights and scopes and all order of other accessories.
As an ex-military, command-presence-asserting law-enforcement, gun-toting, all-around macho-type, Bingham was also attracted to motorbiking. Despite the Hells Angels and the Devils Diciples motorcycle clubs having originated in San Bernardino County – Fontana, to be precise – over the last four decades or so, the Mongols and Vagos have claimed Southern California as their territory and have moved into the role of the dominant outlaw motorcycle gangs of the reason. For that reason, Bingham gravitated to the Mongols, with whom, on occasion, he would ride. Continue reading →

FBN 20240010409
The following entity is doing business primarily in Riverside County as
DELAPAZ GLASS 13152 EDGEMONT ST. MORENO VALLEY, CA 92353: ADRIAN DE LA PAZ
Business Mailing Address: 13152 EDGEMONT ST. MORENO VALLEY, CA 92353
The business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: N/A.
By signing, I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime (B&P Code 179130). I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing.
/s/ ADRIAN DE LA PAZ, Owner
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 11/08/2024
I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office San Bernardino County Clerk By:/Deputy J2522
Notice-This fictitious name statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the county clerk. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14400 et seq., Business and Professions Code).
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel on December 13, 20, 27 & January 3, 2025.

FBN 20240010678
The following entity is doing business primarily in San Bernardino County as
VA COURIER SERVICES 6832 BLANCHARD AVE FONTANA, CA 92336: VA COURIER SERVICES, LLC 6832 BLANCHARD AVE FONTANA, CA 92336 -1539
Business Mailing Address: 6832 BLANCHARD AVE FONTANA, CA 92336
The business is conducted by: A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY registered with the State of California under the number 202464513365.
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: N/A
By signing, I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime (B&P Code 179130). I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing.
/s/ ALYSIA CAMPBELL, Managing Member
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 11/20/2024
I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office San Bernardino County Clerk By:/Deputy K1583
Notice-This fictitious name statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the county clerk. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14400 et seq., Business and Professions Code).
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel on December 13, 20, 27 & January 3, 2025.

FBN 20240011268
The following entity is doing business primarily in San Bernardino County as
APEX ENGINEERING CONSULTANTS 11799 SEBASTIAN WAY, SUITE 103 RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA 91730: MICHAEL SERGAH
Business Mailing Address: 11799 SEBASTIAN WAY, SUITE 103 RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA 91730
The business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL.
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: N/A
By signing, I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime (B&P Code 179130). I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing.
/s/ MICHAEL SERGAH
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 12/09/2024
I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office San Bernardino County Clerk By:/Deputy J9965
Notice-This fictitious name statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the county clerk. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14400 et seq., Business and Professions Code).
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel on December 13, 20, 27 & January 3, 2025.

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