On May 6, a marijuana deliveryman was shot and killed while making his rounds in Upland.
Johnnie Escalante, a 24-year-old cannabis product logistics specialist, was in a neighborhood at the extreme east end of Upland near Rancho Cucamonga when he had an encounter with three men near an apartment complex.
It is unclear whether Escalante’s death was the result of an attempt to waylay him and take both the products he was transporting and the monetary proceeds in his possession from sales made earlier that day.
According to Upland Police, Escalante was delivering marijuana to an apartment in Upland around in the 1300 block of East San Bernardino Road at 9:30 p.m. Saturday night when he became involved in a physical altercation. During that fight, he was shot.
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The Lake Arrowhead Christian School, faced with financial and enrollment challenges that grew out of the COVID-19 pandemic and from which it has not recovered, will close out its high school program at the end of the 2022–2023 school year.
During the 2019-20 school year the number of students at the school stood at 250. Enrollment has now dwindled to less than 150, such that its owner, Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa, is losing $500,000 yearly in sustaining its operations.
The school is arranging for current 11th grade students to complete their senior year in 2023-24 and to carry on as a kindergarten through 8th-grade campus.

Two iconic Stater Bros. markets in Colton and Fontana will close in June.
The Stater Bros. store at 9954 Sierra Avenue in Fontana is scheduled to close June 4 and the store at 1904 North Rancho Avenue in Colton will shutter on June 18.
Both are being closed as the consequence of expired leases, according to company spokesman Jonathan Lieu.
Both stores were key locations for the Stater Bros. corporate chain, which originated in San Bernardino County.
Stater Bros, founded in Yucaipa in 1936 by Cleo and Leo Stater, was among the first of what are considered modern grocery stores in the country, following upon the model first employed by Fontana-based Crawford Stores during the Depression-era, which allowed customers to access available products on their own without the constant assistance of store clerks, using at first in-store baskets and in subsequent decades, shopping carts. Continue reading →

NOTICE OF SALE OF VESSEL Notice is hereby given the undersigned will sell the following vessel and trailer at lien sale at said address below on: 02/17/2023 9:00 am VESSEL 9939RM 07 SEADOO YDV56810B707 CA TRAILER 1ZCB160167Z331321 07 ZIEM 331321X DATE OF SALE- 05/26/2023 TIME OF SALE-09:00 AM To be sold by JV MOTORSPORTS 1744 S WILLOW AVE RIALTO CA 92376 Said sale is for the purpose of satisfying lien for together with costs of advertising and expenses of sale. Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel on 05/12/2023

Notice is hereby given pursuant to Sections 3071 of the Civil Code of the State of California the undersigned will sell the following vehicle(s) at lien sale at said address below on: 05/26/2023 09:00 AM Year of Car / Make of Car / Vehicle ID No. / License No. (State) 13 AUDI WA1LGAFE2DD013200 013200X CA To be sold by SERGIO QUEZADA 4238 MISSION BLVD MONTCLAIR CA 91763 Said sale is for the purpose of satisfying lien for together with costs of advertising and expenses of sale. Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel on 5/12/2023

Notice is hereby given pursuant to Sections 3071 of the Civil Code of the State of California the undersigned will sell the following vehicle(s) at lien sale at said address below on: 05/26/2023 09:00 AM Year of Car / Make of Car / Vehicle ID No. / License No. (State) 13 AUDI 1JJV532D8NL334962 PA52119 IN To be sold by CONTINENTAL TOWING 14601 VALLEY BLVD FONTANA CA 92335 Said sale is for the purpose of satisfying lien for together with costs of advertising and expenses of sale. Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel on 5/12/2023

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In what officials hope will be a “total and final” extortion payment, San Bernardino County and its sheriff’s department have delivered $1.1 million in cryptocurrency to a team of Russian and Belarusian hackers after they successfully perpetrated a cyberattack that commandeered virtually all of the sheriff’s department’s data files and compromised the department’s ability to freely access the data bases shared by other state and national law enforcement agencies.
The $1.1 million is the second largest known ransom payment by a governmental entity and the tenth largest acknowledged monetary exchange ever made to resolve a cybernetic interruption perpetrated by underworld computer system hijackers.
Typically in a ransomware attack, a criminal phantom uses stealth, beguilement, deception, misrepresentation, fraud or the remote pirating of a keyboard to enter a data storage and retrieval system to obtain unauthorized access to the data therein, thereafter commandeering it by downloading it, altering it, corrupting it or encrypting it. The latter leaves the legitimate owner and operator of the system unable to access the data. Such encryption is generally followed by an extortionary demand in the form of an offer to either unlock the data or provide the original owner of the data with a decryption key to allow the data to be accessed once again. Continue reading →

Upland city officials have once more triggered the distrust of a cross section of politically active residents in the City of Gracious Living by making preparations to lease for commercial/industrial purposes more than two acres of current open space/potential future park land that is adjacent to an existing residential subdivision in the northwest quadrant of the city.
Attending the controversy are questions about whether the full city council or a quorum of its members violated the Brown Act, California’s open public meeting law by signaling to city staff to proceed with the deal with Tesla, Inc. prior to taking any official action relating to the lease.
Reports are that the city’s highest ranking staff members complied with Mayor Bill Velto’s insistence that the city accommodate the management of the Upland Tesla dealership by clearing the way, both physically and procedurally, for the creation of what officials maintain will be a temporary parking lot for the overflow vehicles to be sold by the dealership. At present, the Upland Tesla dealership does not have a sufficiently large sales lot for the vehicles in its inventory.
The Sentinel is told that Councilwoman Shannan Maust, the elected representative of the First District in which the temporary parking lot has already been created, was bypassed in the decision-making process for preparing the permitting of the facility.
A potential issue at play, at least in the minds of some city residents, is that transforming the land in question into a makeshift parking lot might set the city on what was termed a slippery slope which would result in the land in question being rezoned from its current status as open space – where a park or other recreational amenity might conceivably be established – into some alternate land use that could prove inimical to the adjacent residential subdivisions.

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