Between April 13 and 19, investigators with the sheriff’s gangs/narcotics division led targeted crime suppression efforts as part of Operation Consequences.
The gang suppression unit, together with combined forces with the San Bernardino County Probation, the California Highway Patrol, Homeland Security Investigations and the San Bernardino Police Department to obtain search warrants that were ultimately served on April 17.
Additional support came from the Rialto, Ontario, Montclair, Colton and Barstow police departments, as well as the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation’s Division of Adult Parole Operations and the Federal Bureau of Investigation
Simultaneously, the San Bernardino movement against street hoodlums (SMASH) street enforcement team (SET) personnel from the sheriff’s specialized enforcement division and multiple patrol stations conducted proactive patrols in the High Desert and surrounding jurisdictions.
An area of intense focus in the coordinated operations was Hesperia and surrounding communities. As a result, investigators contacted gang members and persons prohibited from possessing firearms. Investigators made 43 felony arrests and 33 misdemeanor arrests. Nearly 12 pounds of suspected narcotics were seized, including suspected cocaine, methamphetamine and fentanyl. Investigators seized 76 firearms during the operation, which included 10 ghost guns. Continue reading →

Both Interpol and the FBI have joined the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department’s investigation into the disappearance of Naiping Hou, the father of cryptocurrency mogul Wen Hou, the Sentinel has learned.
Suspects in Naiping Hou’s 2025 disappearance include personages inside and outside of both California and the country, including foreigners who may have come into California under false pretenses and identities in December 2024 and initiated contact with the then-74-year-old in Rancho Cucamonga in what was apparently a successful effort to gain his trust before abducting him and seizing control of his assets.
Investigators have reached the conclusion that there was most certainly foul play involved in the elder Hou’s disappearance and that he is dead.
Hou was last seen in March 2025. A month-and-a-half later, the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department, which serves as the contract police department in Rancho Cucamonga, took the matter up as a missing person’s case. The Sentinel has confirmed that information turned up in the course of that investigation and other developments strongly indicates Hou was kidnapped.
That kidnapping, investigators have come to believe, was not undertaken for ransom, but rather to directly force Hou to turn money over to his abductors. Continue reading →

Ofland Hotels has given up on its plan, for which it was given an entitlement last July by the Twentynine Palms City, to construct what it had described as a luxury eco-resort near the entrance to Joshua Tree National Park.
Ofland, which is headed by Charles Tate and Luke Searcy and at that time was based in Houston Texas, on July 22, 2025 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 a 152-acre site within the Indian Cove District on the north side of Twentynine, just off Highway 62.
The council’s action was taken in the context of city staff’s support of the proposal as well as a non-binding recommendation by the 29 Palms Planning Commission the previous month that the city council give the project go-ahead. 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.
The project would have entailed a hundred cabins, two lodges, swimming pools, a stargazing area and an outdoor movie screen, and an on-site wastewater treatment plant capable of processing more than 13,000 gallons of effluent a day. Continue reading →

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME CASE
NUMBER 2608100,
TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner Santiago Cerda, filed with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Santiago Stephen Cerda to Santiago Stephen McAuliffe.
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: 05/18/2026, Time: 08:30 AM, Department: 514The 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 SBCS Rancho Cucamonga in San Bernardino County California, once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing of the petition.
Dated: 04/01/2026
Judge of the Superior Court: Joseph T. Ortiz
Published in the SBCS Rancho Cucamonga on 04/10/2026, 04/17/2026, 04/24/2026, 05/01/2026

NOTICE OF PUBLIC LIEN SALE
Notice is hereby given that personal property in the following units will be sold at public auction pursuant to Sections 21701-21716 of the California Self-Service Storage Facility Act. A public lien sale will be conducted by www.storagetreasures.com on the 1st day of May 2026, at or after 9:00 am. The property is stored by All American Storage Ontario located at 505 S. Mountain Avenue, Ontario, CA 91762. Purchases must be made in CASH ONLY. Items are sold AS IS WHERE IS and must be removed at the time of sale. All American Storage Ontario reserves the right to refuse any bid or cancel auction. The items to be sold are generally described as follows: miscellaneous personal and household goods stored by the following persons:
Unit Name
D035 Tracy Atkins
C037 Maanami Butler
D062 Juan Hernandez
D076 Jessi J Menjivar
Dated: 04/15/2026
Signed: Garrett Gossett
storagetreasures.com
Sales subject to prior cancellation in the event of settlement between Owner and obligated party.
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel on April 17, 2026 and April 24, 2026

FBN20260003035
The following entity is doing business primarily in San Bernardino County as
CASTANEDA BACKHOE 1958 S. OAKLAND AVENUE ONTARIO, CA 91762: ADOLFO CASTANEDA
Business Mailing Address: 1958 S. OAKLAND AVENUE ONTARIO, CA 91762
The business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL.
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: NOVEMBER 1, 2025.
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/ ADOLFO CASTANEDA, Owner
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 4/06/2026
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 J1808
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 April 10, 17 & 24 and May 1, 2026.

FBN20260003058
The following entity is doing business primarily in San Bernardino County as
MADD.CUSTOMZ 13289 16th STREET CHINO, CA 91710: JOSE R MADRIGAL
Business Mailing Address: 13289 16th STREET CHINO, CA 91710
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/ JOSE R MADRIGAL, Owner
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 4/07/2026
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 J9535
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 April 10, 17 & 24 and May 1, 2026.

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