AMENDED ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME CASE
NUMBER CIV SB 2520045
TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner ANNETTE CARIANA VISORIO filed with this court for a decree changing names as follows: ANNETTE CARIANA VISORIO to ANNETTE CARIANA VISORIO SERRANO
THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.
Notice of Hearing:
Date: 09/17/2025, Time: 08:30 AM, Department: S 28
The address of the court is Superior Court of California, County of San Bernardino, San Bernardino District-Civil Division, 247 West Third Street, San Bernardino, CA 92415
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that a copy of this order be published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel, once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing of the petition.
Dated: 08/06/2025
Judge of the Superior Court: Gilbert G. Ochoa
Abrianna Rodriguez, Deputy Clerk of the Court
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel on August 8, 15, 22 & 29, 2025.

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME CASE
NUMBER CIV SB 2519255
TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner SHERRY JEANETTE THOMAS filed with this court for a decree changing names as follows:
SHERRY JEANETTE THOMAS to SHERRY JEANETTE JAMES
[and]
SHERRY JEANETTE NELSON to SHERRY JEANETTE JAMES
THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.
Notice of Hearing:
Date: 09/30/2025, Time: 08:30 AM, Department: S 30
The address of the court is Superior Court of California, County of San Bernardino, San Bernardino District-Civil Division, 247 West Third Street, San Bernardino, CA 92415
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that a copy of this order be published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel, once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing of the petition.
Dated: 08/04/2025
Judge of the Superior Court: Gilbert G. Ochoa
Matthew Stutte, Deputy Clerk of the Court
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel on August 8, 15, 22 & 29, 2025.

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Contradictory and provably false statements made to investigators by Jake and Rebecca Haro, blood evidence found in the home they shared with their two youngest children and Jake’s oldest son together with the discarding of their youngest child’s bedding and clothes formed the basis of their August 22 arrests on charges that they killed their 7-month-old son, Emmanuel.
The case is compounded by further internal inconsistencies, ones that so far have proven irresolvable, in Jake’s equally contradictory admissions to having killed his son, made both knowingly and unknowingly to law enforcement officers with two separate agencies availing themselves of completely different investigative techniques.
Equally in flux and inexact is the estimated date of the child’s death, which, under the theories of how the infant’s death came about, have varied, at different times, by almost as much as two weeks, from as late as just a day or two prior to August 14, the day the Haros’ originally told authorities the baby had been abducted back to as early as the final two or three days of July.
In the aftermath of the Haro’ report of their child’s kidnapping, an intense investigation into Emmanuel’s disappearance and the events and circumstances surrounding it was launched by the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department. During the course of that investigation, certain anomalies and troubling facts were uncovered, which extended to inconsistencies in several aspects of Rebecca Haro’s account of what she had experienced on August 14. Based on a set of recitations of fact put into an affidavit for a search warrant, the Haros home and vehicle were searched and their electronic devices, including cell phones were seized. The Haros provide their passwords for the devices, giving the investigators full access to the data within them in very short order.
Investigators found blood evidence in the Haro residence and Emmanuel’s clothing, bed clothes and photos in a neighbor’s trash, according to the Sentinel’s sources. This evidence formed a partial basis of the arrest warrant that was served on August 22.
Revealed to the Sentinel by highly credible sources within the law enforcement hierarchy connected to the case is that after more than a week of maintaining, along with his wife, that the child had been kidnapped on August 14 by an unknown man who had overpowered and knocked Rebecca unconscious as she was changing Emmanuel’s diaper on the passenger side backseat of the family vehicle in the parking lot at the Big 5 sporting goods store in Yucaipa, Jake Haro admitted that he had inadvertently killed his son by rolling over on him while he slept. In that narrative, he had disposed of the child’s body somewhere in the hills off the side of the 60 Freeway near Gilman Springs.
The Haros were awakened at their Cabazon home in Riverside County at 6:59 a.m. on August 22 and arrested on suspicion of murder in Emmanuel’s death. Based on the death having allegedly occurred in Riverside County, the two were booked into the Robert Presley Detention Center in downtown Riverside and the court there scheduled them for an arraignment on August 26 with an eye toward their standing trial on murder charges in Riverside County Superior Court.
Despite the consideration that Jake and Rebecca arrived at the Robert Presley Detention Center shortly before 8 a.m. on August 22, Rebecca remained in a holding cell and interrogation room for more than four-and-a-half hours, until 12:31 p.m. before she was booked and transferred to a holding cell/dormitory among the general female population of the jail on the 7th floor. In Jake Haro’s case, he was not booked until 5:32 p.m.
The delays in the couple’s bookings, more than four hours in Rebecca’s case and more than nine hours in Jake’s case, provided for a hand-off of the matter from San Bernardino County investigators to Riverside County investigators, in this case both being with their respective county’s sheriff’s department.
This afforded the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department the opportunity, the Sentinel is reliably informed, an opportunity to engage in a so-called Perkins operation.
A Perkins operation is an undercover jailhouse investigative strategy that involves a police officer or employee posing as a fellow inmate to interact with a suspect/arrestee while both are ostensibly incarcerated to surreptitiously gather information to assist in a yet-ongoing investigation and/or to be used against the suspect as evidence in court.
According to a well-placed individual in the Riverside County criminal justice system, Perkins operations were employed against both Rebecca Haro and Jake Haro to lead them into separately believing that different individuals they were speaking with in the confines of the Robert Presley Detention Center were inmates rather than law enforcement officers. In addition to the quarters in which Rebecca and Jake had these encounters with the undercover officers being subjected to both video and audio surveillance, the undercover officers were wearing body cameras.
On Sunday, August 24, two days after the Haros’ arrests, Jake, accompanied by law enforcement officers, including ones from both the San Bernardino County and Riverside County, went to an area near Gilman Springs Road off the 60 Freeway, reportedly to assist in the recovery of Emmanuel’s body. That search ended without any trace of the child being located, the Sentinel is told.
Now comes a report that the officer in the Perkins operation managed to obtain from Jake that he had killed his son and had disposed of his body in the trash.

The San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors this week gave preliminary passage to an ordinance prohibiting camping on sidewalks.
On Augus19, the board members made no comment in approving making it a civil infraction to camp on, sleep on or otherwise remain overnight on public sidewalks within the unincorporated areas of the county. The ordinance imposes fines of $100 for a first offense, $200 for a second, and going up to $500 for subsequent offenses.
Left unclear is how the county intends to keep track of individuals cited, as the homeless sometimes lack identification and do not have any ties to a specific address.
The ordinance, listed on the agenda as item 72, defined camping as setting up or occupying a temporary structure or erecting a temporary shelter for the purpose of sleeping, staying, living, and violating the ordinance and thereby impeding public access to sidewalks, highways, trails, and public facilities. The ordinance further prohibits storing or using personal property in the same spaces.
The board of supervisors is scheduled to revisit the matter and give the ordinance a second reading, that is a final approval, on September 9. Continue reading →

The case of the disappearance of 7-month-old Emmanuel Haro over the last seven days has taken a series of wicked turns, culminating in the arrest this morning of both of his parents on murder charges.
Despite the emergence of information that has thrown Rebecca Haro’s original account of her son’s August 14 kidnapping into progressively greater doubt, certainty about the infant’s fate and precisely how that came about remains elusive, despite the definitive action by the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department.
There are, as far as the public is concerned, multiple vagueries and unknowns in the case. That is partly an outgrowth of the investigative process in which information by authorities is being deliberately withheld to deny a suspect or suspects knowledge that might assist them in hiding or destroying evidence or materials related to the crime. Sheriff’s department investigators also acknowledged that some key facts, details and specifics are unknown to them, as when they stated after the arrests that Emmanuel’s body has yet to be located.
According to Rebecca Haro, between 7:40 p.m and 7:50 p.m. on August 14, the child had been forcibly taken from her by a man who approached her from behind as she was changing Emmanuel’s diaper on the passenger side of the family’s vehicle while parked in the parking lot of the Big 5 Sporting Goods store in Yucaipa. She had been knocked unconscious and fell to the ground, she said. Upon coming to, she said, her baby was gone. Lending credibility to he story was that her right eye had been blackened. Continue reading →

SACRAMENTO—Pressed by Governor Gavin Newsom and other state and national Democratic leaders, the California Legislature on Thursday, August 21 agreed to schedule a special election in November at which they anticipate California voters will approve the redrafting of the state’s electoral lines.
The Democratic members of both legislative houses in the state’s capital, who comprise a supermajority in both bodies, willingly went along with Newsom’s intention to present the voters with a map of Congressional districts calculated to result in five of the nine California Congressional seats now held by Republicans falling into the hands of Democrats during the 2026 mid-term election.
The special election will cost California taxpayers at least $235 million to hold and could run to as much as $260 million. San Bernardino County’s share of that burden will be at least $22 million, according to estimates, and could reach $25 million.
At present, Democrats lopsidedly outnumber Republicans in California’s 52-member Congressional delegation 43-to-9. That is a reflection of the degree to which California leans leftward politically.
Of California’s total 23,206,519 registered voters, 10,396,792 or 44.8 percent are Democrats, while 5,896,203 or 25.41 percent are Republicans. Those who have no party affiliation number 5,336,441 or 23 percent, a number not terribly far off from that of the Republicans. The remaining 1,577,083 voters or 6.8 percent are members of the American Independent, Green, Libertarian, Peace & Freedom or other more obscure parties. Despite comprising more than one-quarter of the state’s voters, the Republicans hold nine of the total 52 House seats in California’s congressional delegation, while the Democrats claim 43. In this way, California’s electoral map has already been set so that the Republicans are represented at a rate in the House of Representatives – 17.31 percent – well below the 25.41 percent of the voters they constitute. Continue reading →

The Twentynine Palms City Council’s decision last month to utilize a far less exacting environmental certification process than it could have when it gave approval to the Ofland resort in the community’s Indian Cove District has triggered a lawsuit challenging the project altogether.
Houston, Texas-based Ofland, headed by Charles Tate and Luke Searcy, on July 22 obtained the city council’s approval to build 100 guest cabins and 25 units of employee housing along with two lodges, a swimming pool and spas, recreational areas, playgrounds, restaurants and a bar on 42 acres at the center of a152-acre site. The council’s action came after the planning commission on June 25 made a non-binding recommendation that the city council give go-ahead to the project. At both the planning commission and city council hearings for the undertaking, there were significantly more residents voicing opposition to Ofland’s plan, which required a zone change from residential to tourist commercial, a general plan amendment and a conditional use permit to be allowed to proceed, than there were residents speaking in favor of it. Continue reading →

The San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday, August 19, 2025 gave unanimous approval to an industrial-scale solar project to be constructed in the virtually abandoned community of Hinkley in the western portion of the county’s Moajave Desert.
The project applicant, Overnight Solar LLC., which operates an existing solar generating facility on an adjoining property, had sought a conditional use permit to construct and operate a 150-megawatt photovoltaic solar facility, and 150-megawatt battery energy storage system on approximately 596 acres within an 822-acre parcel located at 41650 Lockhart Ranch Road in Hinckley and construct a 1.1-mile-long gen-tie line on a 456-acre parcel to connect the project to the Alpha substation.
According to Miguel Figueroa, the director of the county’s land use services department, told the board of supervisors in a staff report relating to the project that the project approval, if granted, would involve a policy plan amendment, a zoning amendment and and the conditional use permit for both the erection of the facility and its eventual operation.
The solar field will consist of photovoltaic solar cells and will include a battery energy storage system on approximately 596 acres of an 822-acre parcel, including a 1.1-mile-long gen-tie line located on an 456-acre parcel.
The battery energy storage system is to consist of individual lithium-ion cells contained in ten-foot-high steel battery cabinets confined within a 300-foot by-300 foot/90,000 square foot (2.06612-acre) area. Continue reading →

In the 51st year of his career in higher education, and his 13th year as president of California State University, San Bernardino President Tomás D. Morales has informed students and faculty that he will step down from the post at the end of the 2025-26 academic year. Morales’ retirement decision comes in the 51st year of his career in higher education and his 13th year as president of CSUSB.
The announcement was made at the university’s annual Convocation of faculty, staff and administrators on Thursday, August 21.
Having given a synopsis of recent accomplishments at the university and the challenges of the new academic year, Morales said, “It has been the honor of a lifetime to serve as your president. And I look forward to moving into this next year with you.”
He said he took genuine pride in the institution, adding “these are not just words. They are what I truly feel and believe — and I have a great deal of confidence in you and the future of our campus.”
Morales began his role as CSUSB’s fourth president in August 2012. He undertook various innovative summer bridge and other student and academic support services, including strengthening relationships with public K-12 school districts and community colleges in the Inland Empire during his tenure. He said these were elements of his commitment to student success. Continue reading →