An Ontario man who confronted U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers as they were engaged in a field operation near his home was shot when one of the federal agents perceived him to have used his vehicle in an aggressive and potentially lethal maneuver to obstruct them.
Carlos Jimenez, 24, had left the trailer in which he resides within the Country Meadows Mobile Home Park, located at 1855 East Riverside Drive at 6:30 a.m. on Thursday October 30 in hid Lexus RX350. He was due to be at work in Baldwin Park at 8 a.m. Giving himself an hour-and-a-half to make the 26-mile commute in weekday morning rush hour traffic, as he routinely did, was a reasonable allotment he calculated, barring a disastrous accident and back-up on 60, 71, 57 or 10 freeways.
Country Meadows is situated on the northwest corner of Riverside Drive and Vineyard Avenue. After exiting the residential park and while traveling on Vineyard Avenue, Jimenez observed, less than two blocks north of Riverside Drive, a Department of Immigration vehicle had stopped a Honda Accord going south on Vineyard Avenue and a team of agents – consisting of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer, an enforcement and removal operations deportation officer and two U.S. Customs and Border Protection Office of Field Operations officers – was engaging with the Honda’s three occupants.
The Customs Enforcement officer was was speaking with the driver of the Honda on the driver’s side of the stopped vehicle when Jimenez pulled up in his Lexus RX350.
There is a discrepancy between what Jimenez maintains was said during the ensuing exchange and what the Customs Enforcement officer says was said. Continue reading →

California’s elected Democratic leadership makes no bones about Proposition 50, acknowledging that it is intended to gerrymander the Golden State’s U.S. Congressional Map in a way that will be even more favorable to their party. In making that admission, they insist however that it was not they but the Republicans who cast the first stone with regard to loading the political dice.
Proposition 50 was drafted by Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom with input from at least seven other Democratic officeholders and their advisors. No Republicans were involved in framing the proposition. It calls for a one-time suspension the authority of the state’s independent redistricting commission, which was established with the passage of Proposition 20 in 2010, to instead adopt a map drawn by the current state legislature. The California legislature, which meets at the statehouse in Sacramento, consists of the upper legislative house, the California Senate, and the lower legislative house, the California Assembly. A supermajority – more than two-thirds – of the California Senate, are Democrats, consisting of 30 of the body’s 40 members. Likewise, the Assembly is overwhelmingly dominated by the Democratic Party, with which 60 of its members are affiliated, while 20 of its 80 total seats are held by Republicans.
California, the most populous of the nation’s 50 states, is responsible for electing 52 of the 435 members of the U.S. House of Representatives, who meet at the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. 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. Continue reading →

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME CASE
NUMBER CIV SB 2528342
TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner EFREN MARTINEZ RODRIGUEZ filed with this court for a decree changing names as follows:
EFREN MARTINEZ RODRIGUEZ to JESSE EFREN MARTINEZ
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: November 25, 2025, Time: 8:35 AM, Department: S 27
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: 10/07/2025
Judge of the Superior Court: Gilbert G. Ochoa
Veronica Gonzalez, Deputy Clerk of the Court
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel on October 10, 17, 24 & 31, 2025.

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: PATRICIA ANN CUNNINGTON
CASE NO. PROVA2500770
To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of PATRICIA ANN CUNNINGTON
: a petition for probate has been filed by BELINDA LARSEN and KAREN VAN SANTEN in the Superior Court of California, County of SAN BERNARDINO.
THE PETITION for Probate requests that BELINDA LARSEN and KAREN VAN SANTEN be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.
THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.
A hearing on the petition will be held November 5, 2025 at 9:00 a.m. at:
San Bernardino County Superior Court Fontana District
Department F1 – Fontana
17780 Arrow Boulevard
Fontana, CA 92335
IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.
IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal de-livery to you of a notice under Section 9052 of the California Probate Code.
Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.
YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.
Attorney for Belinda Larsen and Karen Van Santen:
Mathew Alden (California Bar Number 288429)
255 North D Street Suite 200
San Bernardino, CA 92401
(909) 414-0797
mralden123@gmail.com
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel on October 17, 24 & 31, 2025.

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Brightline West’s financial backers are teetering on the brink of pulling the plug on the proposal to build what is planned as the United States’ third and fastest high speed rail system spanning the 228 miles from Rancho Cucamonga to Las Vegas, despite having been planned for over the course of 18 years, its April 2024 groundbreaking ceremony, having been subsidized with a $3 billion federal grant and having been allocated $3.5 billion in federal tax-exempt Private Activity Bonds.
A combination of seven factors, five of which were unanticipated at the time of the groundbreaking, have pushed the current projected cost to 269 percent of its original price tag and 135 percent of a more estimate that the project’s developers intimated would be its actual cost last year.
Preliminary and more advance planning and preparatory work that has taken place in the time since the groundbreaking has been negligible in comparison to the expenditures that are to come if the project is to proceed. If further assistance from the federal government is not forthcoming, corporate officials, who are being backed by New York-based hedge fund, are now resolved to back out of the proposition entirely, abandoning the foundation for the undertaking to prevent the throwing of good money after bad.
Meanwhile, key support in Congress and elsewhere is potentially being eroded as the Justice Department and some federal regulators under the Trump Administration weigh proceeding with probes into public officials of both parties suspected of engaging in investment activity that could ultimately be impacted by the successful establishment of the Southern California-to-Las Vegas fast rail system. Continue reading →

A semi-truck driver who plowed into at least three other vehicles leading to a pileup on the I-10 Freeway in Ontario in which three people were killed was in the country illegally, does not appear to have been properly trained or licensed as a commercial carrier and was likely driving under the influence of a yet-undisclosed substance, according to local, state and federal authorities.
According to the California Highway Patrol, Jashanpreet Singh, a 21-year-old Indian national who entered the country by crossing the U.S.-Mexico border in 2022, was at the wheel of a Freightliner tractor pulling a trailer while headed westbound on the 10 Freeway just east of the I-15 Freeway. The dashcam video from Singh’s cab, obtained by the Sentinel, shows the red Freightliner tractor in the number four lane, counting the high occupancy/toll lane as the number one lane, traveling at a high rate of speed estimated at 60 miles per hour or more, failing to brake entirely as it runs into the back of and obliterates a white SUV that had been at a full stop for several seconds before the impact and continues on into the back of a white pickup truck, which is hit hard and careens to the left as the Freightliner continues unabated into the back of another semi-tractor-pulled trailer, the rear of which momentarily lifts into the air upon impact. The momentum of the Freightliner at that point was diminished, though it careened to the right across two lanes of traffic where it ran into the front of a disable tractor connected to a long flatbed trailer and the back of the service truck in front of the disabled tractor that were in place on the shoulder of the freeway. The disabled tractors front hood was draped open forward and appeared to have been clipped and destroyed along with major elements of the truck’s engine in the collision. Continue reading →

At least 5,232 Yucaipa residents, all of them registered voters, have given indication they are opposed to action taken by the city council in August and September that upzoned 1,242 acres surrounding the I-10 Freeway in a way that would have cleared the way from intensive warehouse development on the properties along and around Live Oak Canyon Road.
Consequently, the rezoning has been put on hold and a ballot initiative to rescind the city council’s action will go before the city’s voters perhaps as early as next June.
In November 2008, the Yucaipa City Council adopted its currently applicable development standards and blueprint for land use and its intensity in the 1,242 acres along the freeway and surrounding areas in Yucaipa under what is known as the Freeway Corridor Specific Plan. The planning document allowed for the construction of up to 2,447 residential units on 424.7 acres and up to 4,585,779 square feet of nonresidential uses on 242.7 acres within the designated area.
In recent years, a handful of projects that were proposed and approved, taken together with development proposals within the 1,241-acre expanse prompted calls for the specific plan’s adjustment. Thirteen months ago, the Palmer, Robinson, and Issa families sought permission to construct warehouses along Live Oak Canyon. Continue reading →

In a blow that compounded his string of misfortune yet further, 26-year-old Brandon Padilla-Aguilera was arrested last week by the Barstow Police Department on suspicion of murder in the September 18 drowning death of his 2-year-old autistic son.
Four days later, the San Bernardino County District Attorney’s Office balked at characterizing Padilla-Aguilera’s transgression as murder, substituting a charge of reckless endangerment that nevertheless will result in a sentence of 25 years-to-life if he is prosecuted and convicted.
September 18 was a horrible day for Padilla-Aguilera, of Barstow, and his family.
The remnants of Tropical Storm Mario brought widespread rainfall to Southern California that moved across the American Southwest on September 17, worsening on September 18.
Padilla-Aguilera’s grandmother had died earlier that month. Her funeral had been scheduled for September 18. Despite the inclemency, which entailed torrential rains and flash floods that overwhelmed streets, roads and washes in Apple Valley, Barstow, Hesperia, Lucerne Valley and other areas throughout the Mojave Desert, the funeral was held.
After that somber service and the get-together that followed, Padilla-Aguilera and son, Xavier, were making their way home in Padilla-Aguilera’s white sedan. It is not entirely clear what then occurred. Somewhere in the vicinity of Lenwood Road and West Main Street, Padilla-Aguilera reportedly encountered a UPS truck that was positioned sideways in the road and apparently made an effort to drive around it. The vehicle in which Padilla-Aguilera and his son were traveling was propelled off the roadway by floodwaters and was thrust into a wash north of West Main Street. Continue reading →