By Mark Gutglueck
Former Adelanto Mayor Rich Kerr was arrested today by the FBI on a federal grand jury indictment alleging he accepted more than $57,000 in bribes and kickbacks in exchange for approving ordinances authorizing various types of commercial marijuana activity within the city, and ensuring his co-schemers obtained city licenses or permits authorizing certain commercial marijuana activities.
Richard Allen Kerr, 64, of Adelanto, was taken into federal custody without incident this morning. He is charged with seven counts of honest services wire fraud and two counts of bribery.
Kerr made his initial appearance this afternoon in United States District Court in Riverside for arraignment. He pleaded not guilty and was released upon the posting of a $30,000 bond. He did not waive his right to a speedy trial, which is set to begin on October 4.
According to the indictment returned on August 11, as part of his official duties, Kerr, who served as Adelanto’s mayor from 2014 to 2018, voted on ordinances governing zoning regulations in the city and served on Adelanto’s Cannabis Dispensary Permit Committee, which determined the number of dispensary permits that would be issued and which applicants would receive them.
“Beginning on an unknown date, but no later than on or about November 23, 2015, and continuing until an unknown date but no earlier than on or about June 18, 2018, in San Bernardino County, within the Central District of California, and elsewhere, defendant Richard Allen Kerr, together with others known and unknown to the grand jury, knowingly and with the intent to defraud, devised, participated in, and executed a scheme to defraud the City of Adelanto as to material matters, including by depriving the City of Adelanto of its right to the intangible right of honest services of defendant Kerr, namely, the honest performance of defendant Kerr’s duties as mayor,” the indictment states. “Specifically, defendant Kerr secretly used his official position to enrich himself and his co-schemers by: (1) passing ordinances authorizing various types of commercial marijuana activities, including marijuana cultivation, marijuana distribution and transportation, and retail sales of marijuana via a dispensary; (2) drafting zones for commercial marijuana activities to include locations used by his supporters; and (3) ensuring his supporters obtained the licenses or permits they sought; all in contravention of conflict of interest prohibitions applying to defendant KERR, and in exchange for bribes, kickbacks, gifts, payments, and other things of value.”
As mayor, Kerr supported marijuana legalization, voted in favor of an ordinance authorizing marijuana cultivation in the city, voted in favor of an ordinance authorizing the operation of medical marijuana dispensaries, and voted to authorize the distribution, transportation and testing of medical marijuana, among other commercial marijuana activities. At the same time, Kerr secretly used his official position to enrich himself and his co-schemers by passing these same ordinances, according to the indictment.
Kerr allegedly also drafted zones for commercial marijuana activities to include locations used by his co-schemers, and he ensured they obtained the licenses and permits they sought – in exchange for bribes, kickbacks and gifts.
Kerr’s alleged co-schemers were David Serrano, a lawyer who specialized in plaintiffs’ tort litigation – identified in the indictment as “Person A” – and two individuals – labeled “Person C and “Person D” – who had business interests in the city, including those involving marijuana cultivation.
The bribes and kickbacks were disguised by Kerr and his co-schemers as gifts, donations to a charitable fund, donations to Kerr’s election campaign, or advance payments for the proceeds of planned litigation associated with a motorcycle accident.
In exchange for the bribes and kickbacks, Kerr provided favorable official action on behalf of the city to Serrano, Person C, and other co-schemers with business interests in the city by authorizing various types of commercial marijuana activities, ensuring his supporters obtained the licenses or permits they sought, and interfering with enforcement activities by city officials.
For example, on November 29, 2016, the Adelanto City Council held a public discussion related to an ordinance, including discussion of “overlay zones” within which medical marijuana dispensaries would be located. The initial proposal included two zones, neither of which included a former restaurant known as the Jet Room, which was located on a 2.23 acre lot at 17499 Adelanto Road, the northeast corner of Adelanto Road and Joshua Avenue purchased for $450,000 from Dmitri Manucharyan by Serrano and his wife, Julia Orama-Serrano in a deal in which escrow was entered into on October 3, 2016 and finalized on October 11, 2016.
During the discussion, Kerr requested a change in the boundaries of the second overlay zone, which expanded the zone to include the Jet Room property. The plans for the business initially called for the building to be an attorney’s office, although they included items such as “elongated sales counters,” a “dispensing room,” “cashier,” and “security room,” the indictment alleges.
On December 5, 2016, Kerr deposited a $5,000 check – dated November 29, 2016 – from Serrano’s real estate trust account into his bank account, and the check’s memorandum line read, “ADV XMAS FUND.”
In May 2017, Kerr voted twice in favor of a city ordinance that included Serrano’s business in the marijuana dispensary overlay zone. In February, June and August of 2017, Kerr deposited three $10,000 checks from Serrano’s law firm, with the memorandum lines of each check stating, “ADVANCE.”
In total, Kerr accepted at least $57,500 in bribes and kickbacks from Serrano, Person C and other co-schemers.
An indictment contains allegations that a defendant has committed a crime. Every defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
     If convicted of all charges, Kerr would face a statutory maximum sentence of 160 years in federal prison.
The FBI investigated this matter.
Assistant United States Attorney Sean D. Peterson of the Riverside Branch Office is prosecuting this case.

NOTICE OF PROCEEDINGS
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF JUDICATURE OF JAMAICA
FAMILY DIVISION
MATRIMONIAL SUPREME COURT
CLAIM NO.    SU 2020MT02227
BETWEEN    MARICIA LORRAINE HENRY    PETITIONER
AND                MENELICK SAINT VICTOR        RESPONDENT
TAKE NOTICE THAT a Petition for Dissolution of Marriage dated the 3rd day of   August, 2020 was filed in the Supreme Court of Judicature of Jamaica by the Petitioner for the dissolution of the marriage between MARICIA LORRAINE HENRY and MENELICK SAINT VICTOR, who were lawfully married on the 12th day of May, 1998 at 11 Burbank Avenue in the parish of Saint Andrew, Jamaica by L Christopher Mason a Marriage Officer of the island of Jamaica.
AND FURTHER TAKE NOTICE that permission has been granted by the said court on December 1, 2020 to dispense with personal service and to effect service on you, MENELICK SAINT VICTOR by way serving the Petition and other supporting documents by way of post to the address you provided and by way of this advertisement. The deemed date of service is 21 days from the date of posting the Wife’s Petition and Notice of Proceedings. You are permitted within twenty- eight (28) day to enter an Acknowledgement of Service and an Answer from the date of the publication of the Notice of Proceedings hereof in a newspaper of wide circulation in Rancho, Cucamonga, California. If you should fail to enter an Acknowledgment of Service then the said MARICIA LORRAINE HENRY will proceed in default against you and in particular, by filing a Notice of Application to Dispense with Hearing pursuant to  Part 76.12 of the Civil Procedure Rules of Jamaica , 2002 as amended.
The Petitioner’s address for service is that of her Attorneys-at-Law, KIMBERLY L TAYLOR Attorney-at-Law of Hopeton C. D Henry & Associates of 12 Bravo Street, Saint Ann’s Bay Saint Ann. Telephone 972 0329 Fax 876-972-9024 whose email address is henryson87@yahoo.com  Attorney-at-Law for and on behalf of the Petitioner herein whose address for service is that of her said Attorney-at-Law
Dated The 18th DAY OF March,2021
Signed/ Fearon, Registrar
FILED by KIMBERLY L TAYLOR Attorney-at-Law of Hopeton C. D Henry & Associates of 12 Bravo Street, Saint Ann’s Bay Saint Ann. Telephone 972 0329 Fax 876-972-9024 whose email address is henryson87@yahoo.com  Attorney-at-Law for and on behalf of the Petitioner herein whose address for service is that of her said Attorney-at-Law
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel August 13, 2021

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME CASE NUMBER CIVSB2114732
TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner: JAMES FLANNIGAN IV filed with this court for a decree changing names as follows:
JAMES*** FLANNIGAN IV to Flannigan IV, 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: 09/15/21
Time: 9:00 a.m.
Department: S16
The address of the court is Superior Court of California,County of San Bernardino, San Bernardino District – Civil Division, 247 West Third Street, Same as above, San Bernardino, CA 92415, San Bernardino
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that a copy of this order be published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel in San Bernardino County California, once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing of the petition.
Dated: July 13, 2021
Lynn M. Poncin
Judge of the Superior Court.
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel on 7/23, 7/30, 8/06 & 8/13, 2021
NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: ROGER LINDENMUTH
CASE NO. PROSB2100063
To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of ROGER LINDENMUTH has been filed by ERIC LINDENMUTH in the Superior Court of California, County of SAN BERNARDINO.
THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that ERIC LINDENMUTH be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.
THE PETITION requests that the decedent’s wills and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.
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 4, 2021 at 9:00 a.m. in Dept. No. S35 at Superior Court of California, County of San Bernardino, 247 West Third Street, San Bernardino, CA 92415, San Bernardino District.
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 delivery 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.
Eric Lindenmuth
1148 Stonewood Ct.
San Pedro, CA 90732
(310) 872 6599
el.photography@gmail.com
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel on July 30 and August 6 & 13, 2021.

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: EMMETT RICHARD WALKER
CASE NO. PROPS2100054
To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of EMMET RICHARD WALKER:
A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by SHARON STONE WALKER in the Superior Court of California, County of SAN BERNARDINO.
THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that SHARON STONE WALKER be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.
THE PETITION requests the decedent’s wills and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.
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 in Dept. No. S-36 at 1:30 P.M. on AUGUST 19, 2021 at Superior Court of California, County of San Bernardino, 247 West Third Street, San Bernardino, CA 92415, San Bernardino District.
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 delivery 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 the Petitioner: TECLA M. LUNAK (SBN 457090)
LAW OFFICES OF TECLAR M. LUNAK, A.P.C.
71-780 SAN JACINTO DR., BLDG A-3
RANCHO MIRAGE, CA 92270
Telephone No: (760) 834 8625
Fax No: (760) 834-8596
tecla@lunaklaw.com
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel on 7/30, 8/06 & 8/13, 2021.
FBN 202100073333
The following entity is doing business as BUENOS DIAZ INSURANCE AND REGISTRATION 17914 FOOTHILL BLVD. #A FONTANA, CA 92335: BUENOS DIAZ INSURANCE AND REGISTRATION SERVICES 17914 FOOTHILL BLVD. #A FONTANA, CA  92335
This Business is Conducted By: A CORPORATION
BY SIGNING BELOW, 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 17913) I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing.
S/ Julie Diaz
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 7/16/2021
I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Began Transacting Business: JUNE 7, 2021
County Clerk, Deputy I1327
NOTICE- This fictitious business 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 name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see section 14400 et. Seq. Business & Professions Code). Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel on 7/30, 8/06, 8/13 & 8/20, 2021
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT FILE NO-20210007776
The following person(s) is(are) doing business as: New Horizon Real Estate Investments, 10730 Church Street Unit 204, San Bernardino, CA 91730, Chris Butner Mortgages LLC, 10730 Church Street Unit 204, San Bernardino, CA 91730
Business is Conducted By: A Limited Liability Company
Signed: BY SIGNING BELOW, 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 17913) I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing.
s/Christopher Butner
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 07/29/2021
I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.
Began Transacting Business: 07/01/2021
County Clerk, s/ I1327
NOTICE- This fictitious business 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 name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see section 14400 et. Seq. Business & Professions Code).
07/30/21, 08/06/21, 08/13/21, 08/20/21

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT FILE NO-20210007712
The following person(s) is(are) doing business as: Swirls Soft Serve, 1217 W. Foothill Blvd, Upland, CA 91786, Mailing Address: 75 Camellia Court, Upland, CA 91786, Gazar Investments LLC, 75 Camellia Court, Upland, CA 91786
Business is Conducted By: A Limited Liability Company
Signed: BY SIGNING BELOW, 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 17913) I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing.
s/Gerard Azar
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 07/28/2021
I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.
Began Transacting Business: N/A
County Clerk, s/ I1327
NOTICE- This fictitious business 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 name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see section 14400 et. Seq. Business & Professions Code).
07/30/21, 08/06/21, 08/13/21, 08/20/21

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT FILE NO-20210007572
The following person(s) is(are) doing business as: Express Notary; Mountain Express Notary; Express Notary & Scan; Mountain Express Notary & Scan, 2562 Oak Dr, Running Springs, CA 92382, Mailing Address: PO Box 1948, Running Springs, CA 92382, Rita C. Nelson, 2562 Oak Dr, Running Springs, CA 92382
Business is Conducted By: An Individual
Signed: BY SIGNING BELOW, 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 17913) I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing.
s/Rita C. Nelson
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 07/23/2021
I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.
Began Transacting Business: 06/02/2021
County Clerk, s/ I5199
NOTICE- This fictitious business 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 name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see section 14400 et. Seq. Business & Professions Code).
07/30/21, 08/06/21, 08/13/21, 08/20/21

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT FILE NO-20210007551
The following person(s) is(are) doing business as: MRC Financial Services; MRC Insurance Services, 14807 Hillstone Avenue, Fontana, CA 92336, Richa G Chand, 14807 Hillstone Avenue, Fontana, CA 92336, Ravi S Chand, 14807 Hillstone Avenue, Fontana, CA 92336
Business is Conducted By: A Married Couple
Signed: BY SIGNING BELOW, 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 17913) I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing.
s/Ravi S. Chand
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 07/23/2021
I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.
Began Transacting Business: 07/01/2021
County Clerk, s/ I5199
NOTICE- This fictitious business 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 name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see section 14400 et. Seq. Business & Professions Code).
07/30/21, 08/06/21, 08/13/21, 08/20/21
NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: LARRY VERNON JUDKINS
CASE NO. PROSB2100331
To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of LARRY VERNON JUDKINS has been filed by BARBARA L. NEWMAN in the Superior Court of California, County of SAN BERNARDINO.
THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that BARBARA L. NEWMAN be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.
THE PETITION requests that the decedent’s wills and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.
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.
THE PETITION requests a $350,000 bond fixed. The bond will be admitted by an admitted surety insuere or as otherwise provided by law.
Decedent died on 1/08/2021 in HELENDALE, CA, a resident of San Bernardino County.
A hearing on the petition will be held SEPTEMBER 20, 2021 2021 at 9:00 a.m. in Dept. No. S35 at Superior Court of California, County of San Bernardino, 247 West Third Street, San Bernardino, CA 92415, San Bernardino District.
Kimberly Tilley, Deputy
MAY 6, 2021
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 delivery 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.
The petition requests that a bond not be required.
The character and estimated value of the property of the estate is estimated at $464,000.
Filed: JULY 26, 2021
Attorney for Barbara L. Newman
R. SAM PRICE SBN 208603
PRICE LAW FIRM, APC
300 E STATE STREET SUITE 620
REDLANDS, CA 92373
(909) 328 7000
sam@pricelawfirm.com
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel August 6, 13 & 20, 2021.

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF:
CESAR OSORIO
NO. PROSB 2100339
To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of CESAR OSORIO
A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by JULIUS OSORIO in the Superior Court of California, County of SAN BERNARDINO.
THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that JULIUS OSORIO 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 in Dept. No. S37 at 9 a.m. on SEPTEMBER 20, 2021 at Superior Court of California, County of San Bernardino, 247 West Third Street, San Bernardino, CA 92415, San Bernardino District.
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 delivery 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.
Filed: JULY 20, 2021
Judge Tara Reilly
Attorney for Julius Osorio:
Jennifer Daniel
220 Nordina St.
Redlands, CA 92373
Telephone No: (909) 792-9244 Fax No: (909) 235-4733
Email address: jennifer@lawofficeofjenniferdaniel.com
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel August 6, 13 & 20, 27 & September 3, 2021.
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME CASE NUMBER CIVSB2119271
TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner: KHAREY JAMAL PERRY filed with this court for a decree changing names as follows:
KHAREY JAMAL PERRY to KHOREY JAMAL PERRY
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: 09/15/21
Time: 9:00 a.m.
Department: S16
The address of the court is Superior Court of California,County of San Bernardino, San Bernardino District – Civil Division, 247 West Third Street, Same as above, San Bernardino, CA 92415, San Bernardino
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that a copy of this order be published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel in San Bernardino County California, once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing of the petition.
Dated: July 23, 2021
Lynn M. Poncin
Judge of the Superior Court.
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel on 08/06/21, 08/13/21, 08/20 & 08/27/21, 04/16/21

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME CASE NUMBER CIVSB 2120307
TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner:
RUDOLPH GONZALEZ filed with this court for a decree changing names as follows:
RODOLFO CLEMENTE GONZALEZ to RUDOLPH CLEMENTE GONZALEZ
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: 09/14/21
Time: 9:00 a.m.
Department: S17
The address of the court is Superior Court of California,County of San Bernardino, San Bernardino District – Civil Division, 247 West Third Street, Same as above, San Bernardino, CA 92415, San Bernardino
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that a copy of this order be published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel in San Bernardino County California, once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing of the petition.
Lynn M. Poncin
Judge of the Superior Court.
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel on 08/06/21, 08/13/21, 08/20 & 08/27/21, 09/03/21

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME NUMBER 20210007348
The following person(s) is(are) doing business as: DYNAMIC SPA 1955 E FOURTH ST ONTARIO, CA 91764: YUEQING, INC. 8191 BOLSA AVE MIDWAY CITY, CA 92655
Business is Conducted By: A CORPORATION
Signed: BY SIGNING BELOW, 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 17913) I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing.
s/YAN QING DONG
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 07/16/2021
I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.
Began Transacting Business: 07/12/2021
County Clerk, s/ I1327
NOTICE- This fictitious business 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 name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see section 14400 et. Seq. Business & Professions Code).
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel 08/06/21, 08/13/21, 08/20/21& 08/27/21
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME NUMBER 20210008133
The following person is doing business as: GOT COOKIES? 6826 LUCERO DRIVE FONTANA, CA 92336:
JENNIFER L. JEEVES 6826 LUCERO DRIVE FONTANA, CA 92336
Business is Conducted By: AN INDIVIDUAL
Signed: BY SIGNING BELOW, 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 17913) I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing.
S/ JENNIFER L. JEEVES
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 08/06/2021
I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.
Began Transacting Business: 07/13/2021
County Clerk, s/ I7122
NOTICE- This fictitious business 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 name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see section 14400 et. Seq. Business & Professions Code).
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel 08/06/21, 08/13/21, 08/20/21& 08/27/21
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT FILE NO-20210007343
The following person(s) is(are) doing business as: Sky Spa, 4012 Grand Ave, STE E, Chino, CA 91710, Mailing Address: 142 E. Bonita Ave 181, San Dimas, CA 91773, AGX Group LL, 142 E. Bonita Ave 181, San Dimas, CA 91773
Business is Conducted By: A Limited Liability Company
Signed: BY SIGNING BELOW, 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 17913) I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing.
s/Wei Xin
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 07/16/21
I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.
Began Transacting Business: 07/08/21
County Clerk, s/ I5199
NOTICE- This fictitious business 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 name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see section 14400 et. Seq. Business & Professions Code).
08/06/21, 08/13/21, 08/20/21, 08/27/21
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT FILE NO-20210007868
The following person(s) is(are) doing business as: DVK Consulting & Financial Svcs, 1128 W. Mission Blvd, Suite C, Ontario, CA 91762, Deyanira Brandon, 875 S. Mountain Ave., Ontario, CA 91762
Business is Conducted By: An Individual
Signed: BY SIGNING BELOW, 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 17913) I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing.
s/Deyanira Brandon
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 07/30/21
I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.
Began Transacting Business: 07/22/21
County Clerk, s/ I1327
NOTICE- This fictitious business 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 name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see section 14400 et. Seq. Business & Professions Code).
08/06/21, 08/13/21, 08/20/21, 08/27/21

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT FILE NO-20210007242
The following person(s) is(are) doing business as: On Time Home Inspections, 10123 Hampshire St., Rancho Cucamonga, CA 91730, Mailing Address: 10123 Hampshire St., Rancho Cucamonga, CA 91730, Juan J. Tobin, 10123 Hampshire St., Rancho Cucamonga, CA 91730
Business is Conducted By: An Individual
Signed: BY SIGNING BELOW, 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 17913) I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing.
s/Juan J Tojin
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 07/14/21
I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.
Began Transacting Business: 07/01/21
County Clerk, s/ I5199
NOTICE- This fictitious business 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 name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see section 14400 et. Seq. Business & Professions Code).
08/06/21, 08/13/21, 08/20/21, 08/27/21

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF HOLLY NICOLETTE HOLMES aka HOLLY N. HOLMES, aka HOLLY HOLMES
Case No. PROSB 2100340
To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of HOLLY NICOLETTE HOLMES aka HOLLY N. HOLMES, aka HOLLY HOLMES
A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by JOHN HOLMES in the Superior Court of California, County of SAN BERNARDINO.
THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that JOHN HOLMES 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 on September 20, 2021 at 9:00 AM in Dept. No. S36 located at 247 W. Third St., San Bernardino, CA 92415.
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 delivery 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 petitioner:
LEAH LARKIN
LAW OFFICES OF LEAH LARKIN
873 BEAUMONT AVENUE
BEAUMONT, CALIFORNIA   92223
Telephone: 951-845-5930
Facsimile: 951-845-5407
Email: Leah@inlandlaw.com
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel August 13, 20 & 27, 2021
NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: DAVID JOHN DONALDSON
CASE NO. PROSB2100184
To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of DAVID JOHN DONALDSON has been filed by DAWN LEA DONALDSON in the Superior Court of California, County of SAN BERNARDINO.
THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that DAWN LEA DONALDSON be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.
THE PETITION requests that the decedent’s wills and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.
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 OCTOBER 7, 2021 at 9:00 a.m. in Dept. No. S35P at Superior Court of California, County of San Bernardino, 247 West Third Street, San Bernardino, CA 92415, San Bernardino District.
Brittney Spears, Deputy
MAY 6, 2021
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 delivery 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.
Filed: August 5, 2021
Self-represented:
DAWN LEA DONALDSON
11560 CRAFTON AVENUE
REDLANDS, CA 92374
(951) 265 5849
ddonaldson@sbccd.cc.ca.us
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel August 13, 20 & 27, 2021.

IN THE MATTER OF THE PETITION OF
Jose Antonio DelValle, Jr.
CASE NUMBER:
FFCSB 2100004
CITATION – FREEDOM FROM PARENTAL CUSTODY AND CONTROL
To JACOB ANDREW SWANSON and to all persons claiming to be the father or mother of minor person named MONIQUE ALYSSA- SWANSON SIMPSON
By order of this Court you are hereby cited and advised that you may appear before the Judge Presiding in
Department S44 of the SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO
CENTRAL DISTRICT
351 N. ARROWHEAD AVE.
SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92415-0245
on SEPTEMBER 15, 2021 at 1:30 p.m.
of that day, then and there to show cause, if any you have, why said person should not be declared free from the control of her parent according to the petition on file herein.
If the Court finds that the interest of the minor requires his or her protection, the Court shall appoint counsel to represent the minor. Such counsel shall be appointed whether or not the minor is able to afford counsel. If you appear without counsel and are unable to afford counsel, the Court shall appoint counsel for you if you request appointed counsel.
The purpose of this action, to free the minor from the custody of her parent, is to permit the adoption of said minor to a suitable adopting parent.
Attorney for Jose Antonio DelValle, Jr:
CHRISTINA FERRANTE SBN 80030
ATTORNEY AT LAW
10700 CIVIC CENTER DR., SUITE 200
RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA 91730
TELEPHONE NO (909) 989 – 9923 FAX NO (909) 466 – 0318.
The Court may continue these proceedings, not to exceed thirty (30) days, as necessary to appoint counsel and enable counsel to become familiar with these proceedings.
Given under my hand and seal of the Superior Court of the County of San Bernardino, State of California, this 15th day of June, 2021.
Clerk of the Court, Iris Mondragon, Deputy
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel August 13, 20, 27 & September 3, 2019.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME NUMBER 20210007493
The following person is doing business as: DSOCONCEPTS 6746 TREELINE PL RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA 91701: DARLENE S ORDONEZ 6746 TREELINE PL RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA 91701-5167
Business is Conducted By: AN INDIVIDUAL
Signed: BY SIGNING BELOW, 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 17913) I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing.
S/ DARLENE ORDONEZ
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 07/21/2021
I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.
Began Transacting Business: 07/13/2021
County Clerk, s/ I1327
NOTICE- This fictitious business 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 name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see section 14400 et. Seq. Business & Professions Code).
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel 08/13/21, 08/20/21, 08/27/21 & 09/03/21.
T.S. No. 19-20943-SP-CA Title No. 191126841-CA-VOI A.P.N. 1004-231-44-0-000 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE. YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST DATED 08/13/2003. UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. A public auction sale to the highest bidder for cash, (cashier’s check(s) must be made payable to National Default Servicing Corporation), drawn on a state or national bank, a check drawn by a state or federal credit union, or a check drawn by a state or federal savings and loan association, savings association, or savings bank specified in Section 5102 of the Financial Code and authorized to do business in this state; will be held by the duly appointed trustee as shown below, of all right, title, and interest conveyed to and now held by the trustee in the hereinafter described property under and pursuant to a Deed of Trust described below. The sale will be made in an “as is” condition, but without covenant or warranty, expressed or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances, to pay the remaining principal sum of the note(s) secured by the Deed of Trust, with interest and late charges thereon, as provided in the note(s), advances, under the terms of the Deed of Trust, interest thereon, fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee for the total amount (at the time of the initial publication of the Notice of Sale) reasonably estimated to be set forth below. The amount may be greater on the day of sale. Trustor: Gerald W. Cook and Linda J. Cook, Co-Trustees of The Gerald W. Cook and Linda J. Cook 2001 Living Trust, UTD July 10, 2001. Duly Appointed Trustee: National Default Servicing Corporation Recorded 08/22/2003 as Instrument No. 2003-0627799 (or Book, Page) of the Official Records of San Bernardino County, CA. Date of Sale: 09/07/2021 at 1:00 PM Place of Sale: At the Main (South) Entrance to the City of Chino Civic Center, 13220 Central Avenue, Chino, CA. 91710 Estimated amount of unpaid balance and other charges: $71,739.03 Street Address or other common designation of real property: 1171 Deborah Street Upland, CA 91784 A.P.N.: 1004-231-44-0-000 The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the street address or other common designation, if any, shown above. If no street address or other common designation is shown, directions to the location of the property may be obtained by sending a written request to the beneficiary within 10 days of the date of first publication of this Notice of Sale. If the Trustee is unable to convey title for any reason, the successful bidder’s sole and exclusive remedy shall be the return of monies paid to the Trustee, and the successful bidder shall have no further recourse. The requirements of California Civil Code Section 2923.5(b)/2923.55(c) were fulfilled when the Notice of Default was recorded. NOTICE TO POTENTIAL BIDDERS: If you are considering bidding on this property lien, you should understand that there are risks involved in bidding at a trustee auction. You will be bidding on a lien, not on the property itself. Placing the highest bid at a trustee auction does not automatically entitle you to free and clear ownership of the property. You should also be aware that the lien being auctioned off may be a junior lien. If you are the highest bidder at the auction, you are or may be responsible for paying off all liens senior to the lien being auctioned off, before you can receive clear title to the property. You are encouraged to investigate the existence, priority, and size of outstanding liens that may exist on this property by contacting the county recorder’s office or a title insurance company, either of which may charge you a fee for this information. If you consult either of these resources, you should be aware that the same lender may hold more than one mortgage or deed of trust on the property. NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNER: The sale date shown on this notice of sale may be postponed one or more times by the mortgagee, beneficiary, trustee, or a court, pursuant to Section 2924g of the California Civil Code. The law requires that information about trustee sale postponements be made available to you and to the public, as a courtesy to those not present at the sale. If you wish to learn whether your sale date has been postponed, and, if applicable, the rescheduled time and date for the sale of this property, you may call or visit this Internet Web site www.ndscorp.com/sales, using the file number assigned to this case 19-20943-SP-CA. Information about postponements that are very short in duration or that occur close in time to the scheduled sale may not immediately be reflected in the telephone information or on the Internet Web site. The best way to verify postponement information is to attend the scheduled sale. Date: 08/03/2021 National Default Servicing Corporation c/o Tiffany & Bosco, P.A., its agent, 1455 Frazee Road, Suite 820 San Diego, CA 92108 Toll Free Phone: 888-264-4010 Sales Line 855-219-8501; Sales Website: www.ndscorp.com By: Rachael Hamilton, Trustee Sales Representative 08/13/2021, 08/20/2021, 08/27/2021 CPP351228
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT FILE NO-20210007409
The following person(s) is(are) doing business as: New Look Salon, 253 No Mountain, Upland, CA 91786, Mailing Address: 577 East Montrose, Rialto, CA 92376, Tonya Johnson, 577 East Montrose, Rialto, CA 92376
Business is Conducted By: An Individual
Signed: BY SIGNING BELOW, 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 17913) I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing.
s/Tonya Johnson
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 07/19/21
I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.
Began Transacting Business: 07/10/21
County Clerk, s/ I5199
NOTICE- This fictitious business 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 name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see section 14400 et. Seq. Business & Professions Code).
08/13/21, 08/20/21, 08/27/21, 09/03/21

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT FILE NO-20210007962
The following person(s) is(are) doing business as: Love Sweets, 7431 Hyssop Dr., Rancho Cucamonga, CA 91739, Latunya D. Love-Banks, 7431 Hyssop Dr., Rancho Cucamonga, CA 91739
Business is Conducted By: An Individual
Signed: BY SIGNING BELOW, 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 17913) I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing.
s/Latunya D. Love-Banks
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 08/03/21
I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.
Began Transacting Business: 07/01/21
County Clerk, s/ I1327
NOTICE- This fictitious business 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 name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see section 14400 et. Seq. Business & Professions Code).
08/13/21, 08/20/21, 08/27/21, 09/03/21

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT FILE NO-20210008339
The following person(s) is(are) doing business as: Just Peached, 325 N. 2nd Ave Suite A, Upland, CA 91786, Adrian P. Alvarez, 1412 N Grand Ave O, Covina, CA 91724
Business is Conducted By: An Individual
Signed: BY SIGNING BELOW, 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 17913) I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing.
s/Adrian P Alvarez
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 08/12/21
I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.
Began Transacting Business: 07/23/21
County Clerk, s/ I7122
NOTICE- This fictitious business 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 name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see section 14400 et. Seq. Business & Professions Code).
08/13/21, 08/20/21, 08/27/21, 09/03/21

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT FILE NO-20210007417
The following person(s) is(are) doing business as: Detumiel, 11966 Cypress Ave, Hesperia, CA 92345, Mailing Address: 11966 Cypress Ave, Hesperia, CA 92345, Yulissa Y. Lopez-Nunez, 11966 Cypress Ave, Hesperia, CA 92345
Business is Conducted By: An Individual
Signed: BY SIGNING BELOW, 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 17913) I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing.
s/ Yulissa Y Lopez Nunez
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 07/19/21
I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.
Began Transacting Business: 06/30/21
County Clerk, s/ I5199
NOTICE- This fictitious business 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 name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see section 14400 et. Seq. Business & Professions Code).
08/13/21, 08/20/21, 08/27/21, 09/03/21

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME CASE NUMBER  CIVSB2120235
TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner: Jia-Yuee Chiao filed with this court for a decree changing names as follows:
Jia-Yuee Chiao to Elaine Jiayuee Chiao
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: 09/29/21
Time: 9:00 a.m.
Department: S17
The address of the court is Superior Court of California,County of San Bernardino, 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 in San Bernardino County California, once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing of the petition.
Dated: July 14, 2021
Lynn M. Poncin
Judge of the Superior Court.
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel 08/13/21, 08/20/21, 08/27/21, 09/03/21
FBN 20210007683
The following person is doing business as: CLUB SPIN 31514 YUCAIPA BLVD #D YUCAIPA, CA 92399 ( PRINCIPAL PLACE OF BUSINESS SAN BERNARDINO); CLUB SPIN LLC 31514 YUCAIPA BOULEVARD #D YUCAIPA, CA 92399
The business is conducted by: A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY
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/ KARLA ALANIS, MANAGING MEMBER
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 07/28/2021
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
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 08/06/2021, 08/13/2021, 08/20/2021, 08/27/2021 CNBB31202101MT

FBN 2021007549
The following person is doing business as: CALIFORNIA LANDSCAPE DESIGNS 18349 EUCALYPTUS ST HESPERIA, CA 92345 ( PRINCIPAL PLACE OF BUSINESS SAN BERNARDINO); SAUL TREJO 18349 EUCALYPTUS ST HESPERIA, CA 92345
The business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: JAN 04, 2015
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/ SAUL TREJO, OWNER
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 07/22/2021
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
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 08/06/2021, 08/13/2021, 08/20/2021, 08/27/2021 CNBB31202102IR

FBN 20210007633
The following person is doing business as: RED’S HOLY SMOKES 2751 RECHE CANYON RD. SP 102 COLTON, CA 92324 ( PRINCIPAL PLACE OF BUSINESS SAN BERNARDINO); CHRISTOPHER L HINE 2751 RECHE CANYON RD. SP 102 COLTON, CA 92324
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/ CHRISTOPHER L. HINE, OWNER
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 07/26/2021
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
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).
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The following person is doing business as: PATRIOT PAINTING 1595 W HOLY ST RIALTO, CA 92376 ( PRINCIPAL PLACE OF BUSINESS SAN BERNARDINO); JAMES L KEMPLE 1595 W HOLY ST RIALTO, CA 92376
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The following person is doing business as: THE ZUMBA ROOM 638 W. BASELINE RD RIALTO, CA 92376 ( PRINCIPAL PLACE OF BUSINESS SAN BERNARDINO); BELEN DIAZ 638 W. BASELINE RD RIALTO, CA 92376
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The following person is doing business as: EST AUTO REGISTRATION 582 W FOOTHILL BLVD RIALTO, CA 92376 ( PRINCIPAL PLACE OF BUSINESS SAN BERNARDINO); MICHAEL A DE LA ROSA 582 W FOOTHILL BLVD RIALTO, CA 92376
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The following person is doing business as: THE MOBILE HOT HOSE 1666 W 11TH ST SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92411 ( PRINCIPAL PLACE OF BUSINESS SAN BERNARDINO); DEVIN L HUMPHREYS 1666 W 11TH ST SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92411
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The following person is doing business as: THE REAL ESTATE GUYS 3350 SHELBY ST SUITE #100 ONTARIO, CA 91764 ( PRINCIPAL PLACE OF BUSINESS SAN BERNARDINO); LEONARD CALDERA 3350 SHELBY ST SUITE #100 ONTARIO, CA 91764
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The following person is doing business as: ALIGN HOMES 10535 FOOTHILL BLVD. SUITE #460 RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA 91730 ( PRINCIPAL PLACE OF BUSINESS SAN BERNARDINO); ALIGN HOMES, INC. 10535 FOOTHILL BLVD. SUITE # 460 RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA 91730
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The following person is doing business as: ALIGN HOMES, INC. 10535 FOOTHILL BLVD. SUITE # 460 RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA 91730 ( PRINCIPAL PLACE OF BUSINESS SAN BERNARDINO); ALIGN HOMES, INC. 10535 FOOTHILL BLVD. SUITE # 460 RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA 91730
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s/ JOHN DOUGLAS GOTOYCO FONTAMILLAS, SECRETARY
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FBN 20210007679
The following person is doing business as: CSG LIVING GROUP 10535 FOOTHILL BLVD. SUITE # 460 RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA 91730 ( PRINCIPAL PLACE OF BUSINESS SAN BERNARDINO); ALIGN HOMES, INC. 10535 FOOTHILL BLVD. SUITE #460 RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA 91730
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FBN 20210007607
The following person is doing business as: OPTIMUM REALTY GROUP 10535 FOOTHILL BLVD. SUITE #460 RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA 91730 ( PRINCIPAL PLACE OF BUSINESS SAN BERNARDINO); ALIGN HOMES, INC. 10535 FOOTHILL BLVD. SUITE #460 RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA 91730
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s/ JOEL R. VALMONTE, C.F.O
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By Ruth Musser-Lopez and Mark Gutglueck
For more than five years, a key American resource crucial to the advancement of science and top-flight industry and key to the United States maintaining its edge as a military power lay dormant.
Lying within the vast outreaches of San Bernardino County, the Mountain Pass Mine, which contains the richest known deposits of rare earth metals in the world, had been felled by the fluctuations of the marketplace and a skewed international competitive field that favors companies operating in places without regard to environmental considerations.
The mine has now been acquired by a new set of investors and is on the verge of a comeback. Still, despite the vast treasure that lies within the mine near the extreme east end of California’s Mojave Desert and the untold riches it represents if it can again be successfully tapped, tremendous risk is involved. In the seven years between 2008 and 2015, the mine’s previous ownership, known as the Molybdenum Corporation, or Molycorp Minerals LLC, made an investment approaching $2 billion to facilitate the retrieval and refinement of the precious commodities the mine has to offer. That effort, gallant, intensive and sophisticated, was one laced with chance, hard work, boldness, unfortuitous events, governmental red tape and environmental regulations, irony and poor timing which led to abject failure and the bankruptcy of Molycorp Minerals LLC in 2015.
Two years later, seeing an opportunity in Molycorp Minerals LLC’s misfortune, JHL Capital Group LLC, an alternative investment management firm founded by James H. Litinsky in 2006, formed MP Materials, which acquired the totality of the Molybdenum Corporation’s assets.
Lanthanides, also known as rare earth minerals or rare earth metals, are a set of seventeen chemical elements, specifically scandium, yttrium, lanthanum, cerium, praseodymium, neodymium, promethium, samarium, gadolinium, europium, terbium, dysprosium, holmium, erbium, thulium, lutetium and ytterbium. They have a number of critical industrial and technical uses and applications, including serving as components in mercury-vapor lamps, high-temperature superconductors, lasers, microwave filters, high refractive index glass, hybrid electrical vehicles, flint products, battery-electrodes, camera lenses, carbon arc lighting, didymium glass used in welding goggles, polishing powder, ceramic capacitors, nuclear batteries, rare-earth magnets, memory chips, red and blue phosphors, green phosphors, fluorescent lamps, vanadium steel, x-ray machines and infrared lasers. Rare earth elements also facilitate hydrogen storage, fluid catalytic cracking, creating violet and yellow colors in glass or ceramics, catalyzing the refining of petroleum, oxidizing chemicals, neutron capture, and contrasting magnetic resonance images.
Because of their geochemical properties, rare earth elements are typically dispersed and not often found in concentrated and economically exploitable forms.
Until 1948, most of the world’s rare earths were mined in India and Brazil. In the 1950s, South Africa became the leading supplier of rare earth metals.
In 1949, the Mountain Pass Mine, which lies in the extreme northeast portion of San Bernardino County roughly 15 miles from the California-Nevada state line, was discovered by a uranium prospector. The Molybdenum Corporation of America bought the mining claims, and small-scale production began in 1952. Production expanded greatly in the 1960s, with the Mountain Pass facility becoming the world’s dominant producer of rare earth elements. From 1965 until 1995 it was an almost exclusive supplier of europium, which is used in color television screens. The Molybdenum Corporation of America changed its name to Molycorp in 1974 and was acquired by Union Oil in 1977.
In the 1980s, the company began piping wastewater from the mining operation 14 miles to evaporation ponds at Ivanpah Dry Lake. Ruptures in the pipeline resulted in radioactive thorium and radium leaking into the desert floor at least 60 times between 1984 and 1998, according to federal investigators, at which point the pipeline was shut down and chemical processing at the mine ceased. Unocal was served with a cleanup order and sued by San Bernardino County’s district attorney’s office in a civil lawsuit. The company paid more than $1.4 million in fines and settlements. The mine was shut down in 2002, by which time China eclipsed the United States as the leading supplier of rare earth metals. Unocal in 2004 obtained a new operating permit for the mine, and it was acquired the following year by the Chevron Corporation.
By 2005, 96 percent of the world’s rare earth elements were mined in China. In 2007, China restricted exports of rare earth elements and imposed export tariffs. In 2008, Chevron sold the Mountain Pass Mine to privately-held Molycorp Minerals LLC, based in Greenwood Village, Colorado, a company formed to revive the Mountain Pass mine. On July 29, 2010, Molycorp, Inc. became a publicly-traded firm by selling 28,125,000 shares at $14 in its initial public offering. On September 22, 2010 China quietly enacted a ban on exports of rare earths to Japan. Later that fall, Congress passed legislation to subsidize the revival of the American rare earths industry, including the reopening of the Mountain Pass Mine.
Initially, Molycorp lost money. But by the second quarter of 2011, the company was showing a profit. Molycorp acquired processing facilities in Arizona and Estonia. In March 2012, Molycorp Inc. acquired Neo Material Technologies Inc., a Canadian rare earth processing company, for $1.3 billion. With the cost of rare earth metals skyrocketing because of the Chinese restrictions on rare earth exports, on August 27, 2012, Molycorp initiated Project Phoenix at the Mountain Pass Mine, which involved making a $1.7 billion investment to design and build a processing plant within a processing plant that would allow for the mining of 20,000 tons of ore per year in an environmentally advanced manner where the primary waste stream out of the process was salt water. This involved Molycorp’s creation of a chemical plant that used alkali and salt water at the front end of the process to convert the ore to a semi-processed product, facilitated by the addition of an on-site combined heat and power plant to provide low-cost, high-efficiency electrical power and steam for the company’s extraction processes. There proved to be some technical difficulties but by the fall of 2014 an onsite chlor-alkali facility, which uses processed waste water to produce hydrochloric acid and other chemical reagents used in rare earth production, was operational. Shortly thereafter, the company had ramped up the production process and completed the fourth quarter of 2014 with 1,328 metric tons of rare earth oxide equivalent production. That compared to 1,034 metric tons in the fourth quarter of 2013 and 691 metric tons in the third quarter of 2014. Full year 2014 production totaled 4,785 metric tons, compared to 3,473 metric tons in 2013. The company was expanding production well into the spring of 2015.
At that point, however, as the company was on the brink of having the United States emerge once again as a major competitor in rare earth mineral production, it was undercut by action the U.S. Government had previously taken in league with the European Union and Japan and some other nations, which had lodged a complaint against China with the World Trade Organization for limiting rare earth exports, which was alleged to be a violation of international law. A decision favoring the complainants was made shortly after the Mountain Pass Mine was fully retooled, forcing China to export more rare earth metals, precipitating a substantial price drop. Thus, Molycorp, on the hook for approaching two billion dollars made in mine and plant upgrades and in need of servicing its now due debt, could not compete let alone profit or service its debt. In June 2015, the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
On August 26, 2015, the company announced that as of October 20, 2015, it would transition its Mountain Pass rare earth facility to a “care and maintenance” mode, putting the site, including machinery and equipment into suspension, such that it was maintained in a safe and stable condition, meeting government regulatory commitments, but available for relatively quick reinitiation of production. The rare earth pricing decline was cited as a key factor in the decision to suspend rare earth production at Mountain Pass, company officials said.
On November 3, 2015, acknowledging that its plan to reassert American primacy in the provision of materials crucial to high tech development and production had flamed out, Molycorp filed a joint plan of reorganization with its affiliated debtors at the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware. That plan proposed an emergence from Chapter 11 through either a stand-alone reorganization that would substantially de-lever its balance sheet or a sale of substantially all of its assets.
In March 2016, Judge Christopher Sontchi confirmed Molycorp’s Chapter 11 exit plan that left production at the mine entirely in limbo and turned the company over to senior lender Oaktree Capital Management, giving unsecured creditors a minority stake in the company, which consisted thereafter as the Canadian, Arizona and Estonia processing facilities.
There ensued further developments in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court, with Molycorp, Inc. rechristening itself as Neo Performance Materials, with executive offices in Toronto, Canada and subsidiaries organized under a holding company based in the Cayman Islands. It continued to market and produce materials in ten countries, including Japan, China, Thailand, Estonia, Singapore, Germany, the United Kingdom, Canada, the United States, and South Korea. The dormant Mountain Pass Mine and processing facility were put under the care of trustee Paul E. Harner of Ballard Spahr LLC. Harner in conjunction with Batuta Capital Advisors LLP, sought to market the mine and solicit potential buyers. ERP Strategic Minerals LLC., a so-called stalking horse bidder, emerged, and three other entities, Virginia-based Natural Bridge; Pala Investment Ltd., a Swiss firm; and an Australian company, Peak Resources Ltd., expressed interest in taking over operations of the mine, though those did not pan out.
San Bernardino County in the meantime secured the services of the law firm of Harrison Temblador Hungerford & Johnson LLP on a $250,000 retainer for the provision of legal services in connection with the bankruptcy proceedings to ensure that whatever entity assumed ownership and operation of the mine, all requirements in the Surface Mining and Reclamation Act were met.
In 2017, JHL Capital Group LLC, in the form of MP Materials, swooped in to acquire the mine and its processing facilities.
According to MP Materials’ website, “Current ownership and management acquired the Mountain Pass assets in 2017, restarted operations from cold-idle status and embarked on a plan to recommission the facility and position MP Materials for growth and profitability.”
MP Materials recently announced that mining activity at Mountain Pass has resumed, with ore being transported off-site to be processed elsewhere. In the next stage of its revival of Mountain Pass, MP Materials is moving toward reviving the on-site processing plant and getting it fully permitted and licensed. Once the processing facility at Mountain Pass is reestablished, MP Materials will process all of the ore extracted from the mine and, conceivably, from other sites.
MP Materials is now involved in discussions with the Joseph Biden Administration’s Energy Department to have a concentrated coal product originating from mines in Kentucky transported to Mountain Pass, where it will be subjected to an extraction and refining process capable of yielding rare earth elements.
“With the first stage of our plan completed, MP Materials has re-emerged as a best-in-class, globally competitive rare earths producer,” the company stated. “Today, we produce approximately 15 percent of the global supply of rare earths, currently in the form of an intermediate product—rare earth concentrate—that requires further processing in Asia. Following completion of the second stage of our recommissioning, expected by 2022, MP Materials will relaunch its onsite processing facilities, setting the foundation for a renewed, self-sufficient U.S. rare earth industry.”
The company said it is committed to reestablishing U.S. independence in not only the mining but refining of rare earth minerals
“Today, China dominates the rare earth industry, producing over 80 percent of global supply,” according to MP Materials. “Having a single country as a potential point-of-failure in the industrial supply chain for trillions of dollars in gross domestic product is untenable, and MP Materials provides a straightforward solution. Mountain Pass is blessed with one of the world’s highest quality deposits of rare earths, which allows MP Materials to be a global low-cost producer while adhering to our rigorous environmental standards and fulfilling our commitments to employees and our community.”
Reliable sources have informed the Sentinel that efforts to geologically characterize the land upon which the mine is located have established that the soil contains lanthanide concentrations to support the mining of 20,000 tons of ore per year for thirty years and that indications are the deposits in the area far exceed that, though those concentrations have not been characterized.
“Mountain Pass’s bastnäsite is one of the world’s highest quality rare earth deposits with a greater than 8 percent average grade,” according to MP Materials. “The green technologies of the future—electric vehicles, wind turbines, drones, and more—depend on powerful rare earth magnets to turn energy into motion. Without the consistent and trusted supply provided by MP Materials, the entire supply chain for critical magnetic materials has shifted to Asia, primarily China. MP Materials serves as the beachhead for a renaissance in domestic manufacturing. It starts with us.”

In his whirlwind tour of the Golden State to stave off next month’s effort to recall him from office, Governor Gavin Newsom came to San Bernardino today to provide those in the impoverished county seat the lowdown on his accomplishments during his 21 months in office at the pinnacle of political power in California.
Newsom is the son of William Alfred Newsom III, an attorney for Getty Oil, administrator of the Getty Family Trust and a Superior Court judge and later appeals court judge. In his early twenties, Gavin Newsom used money provided to him by J. Paul Getty’s son, Gordon Getty, to start ten different businesses, one of which, PlumpJack Winery, became successful. In 1998, at the age of 31, he ran successfully for a position on the San Francisco County Board of Supervisors. In 2003, he was elected mayor of San Francisco. He retained that position until he was elected California’s lieutenant governor in 2011.
In 2018, by which point he was a mainstay of California’s Democratic establishment, he was elected governor. Newsom has embraced a bevy of progressive measures both prior to and during his tenure as governor, including abolishing capital punishment in California; categorizing a significant number of non-violent offenses previously designated as felonies as misdemeanors; championing free community college education; promoting government subsidization of technological innovation in the private sector; imposing a moratorium on any newly initiated hydraulic fracturing and steam-injected oil drilling in the state until the permits for those projects are reviewed by an independent team of scientists; seeking accountability and prosecution relating to provable instances of police brutality and excessive use of force; promoting water-sharing and water conservation among the state’s agricultural interests, its urban, metropolitan and municipal entities and environmentalists seeking to preserve rivers and lakes as habitat for endangered fish; decriminalizing the use of marijuana; meaningfully addressing the homelessness crisis; reducing the state’s energy reliance on the use of fossil fuels; and reducing the cost of healthcare.
Along the way he has garnered some degree of controversy as when he defied state law as mayor of San Francisco in 2004 by directing the San Francisco city/county clerk to issue marriage licenses to same-gender couples, in violation of state law at the time, which precipitated a California Supreme Court ruling later that year which annulled the marriages. He also skirted the law when he encouraged major corporations such as AT&T, Comcast, Kaiser Permanente, Pacific Gas & Electric and United Airlines to make donations to the Representation Project, a nonprofit run by his wife, the actress Jennifer Siebel Newsom. The millions of dollars the Representation Project has received from donors who have an interest in state legislation and policy has provided Siebel Newsom not only with the capital she needs to produce movies and documentaries, but more than $2.4 million in salary since the Representation Project was founded in 2011.
Gavin Newsom has continued to back the completion of the California High Speed Rail Project, which is already under construction and is intended to connect the Anaheim Regional Transportation Intermodal Center in Orange County and Union Station in Los Angeles with the Salesforce Transit Center in San Francisco. While the project’s sponsors and advocates as well as some others have touted the project as a farsighted undertaking which will provide benefits to the regions in California it will service and will represent a relative environmental improvement as it will lessen the use of vehicles transiting between Southern California and the Bay Area, there have been substantive questions about the economic cost and viability of the system as a transportation mode, given that it will have relatively few embarkation locations and limited destinations. The estimated cost of the project, originally pegged at $40 billion in 2008, has gone to $98 billion at present and is likely to triple to $300 billion by its projected 2033 completion. Even the most confident projections with regard to the system’s ridership levels upon completion hold that the system will not generate enough money in fares to sustain its operations going forward, let alone cover the cost of right-of-way acquisition and construction.
With 46.3 percent of California’s voters registered as Democrats and 24 percent affiliated with the Republican Party, Newsom seemed secure as the resident of the Governor’s Mansion at 1526 H Street in Sacramento at least until January 7, 2023, when his first term as governor was set to end, and perhaps until 2027, at the end of what would be the second and last term he could serve as governor under California’s term limits. The advent of the COVID-19 crisis, which provoked stern measures from the government to check the advance of the disease, let loose mounting disaffection on the part of the public with the precautionary measures being taken. A highly vocal and energized minority of the public adhered to a belief that the virus was no danger at all or was being used by liberals in control of the so-called Deep State to further assist in the government’s enslavement of the public and to erode the rights of Americans, while simultaneously increasing the authority and power of government. An even larger segment of the population, though less inclined to assign malicious intent to the part of the government, nevertheless grew weary, restless and disenchanted with the imposition of the precautions, which involved stay-at-home orders, mask-wearing mandates, business closures and other bothersome measures which Newsom had imposed through executive orders.
As the crisis wore on and businesses affected by the closures were driven into failure or their owners forced into bankruptcy, anger toward the government mounted. Opportunistically, Newsom’s opponents, primarily Republicans whose control in the Golden State had elapsed more than a decade ago at the close of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s second term as California governor, rose up and sought to convince their fellow citizens that Newsom was not fit to serve as governor and should be removed from office. They began a petition drive toward that end. Efforts by the state government to push residents to consent to being vaccinated against the coronavirus malady, even though the vaccines in use had not been certified as fully safe by the Food and Drug Administration, prompted even more more residents to support the recall drive as that effort neared its deadline. Well before the signature gathering effort drew to a close in April, recall proponents were able to garner more than the 1,495,000 signatures needed statewide to force Newsom into a special election in which his longevity in office was to be the main question on the ballot, accompanied by a vote as to who should succeed him.
That recall election, the second one in two decades, the last being the successful effort to remove then-Governor Grey Davis, likewise a Democrat, in 2003, stands as a mortal threat to Newsom’s political career. The recall election is to take place on September 14, what is to be Gavin Newsom’s moment of truth.
The proponents of Newsom’s recall say he practically violated the law with his plan, in the face of the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak, to provide mail-in ballots to every registered active voter for all elections. They suggest this is a silent conspiracy by Newsom and Democrats to allow illegal aliens to vote.
Newsom was responsible for $1 billion in unemployment checks going to prisoners and felons while those legitimately deserving of such assistance were ignored, his opponents state. They blame him for squandering $80 million on a billboard campaign to instruct people to social distance in the face of the COVID-19 threat. Newsom is soft on crime and has granted clemency to vicious criminals, according to those favoring the recall. He has taken a stand against gun owners and the Second Amendment, recall advocates say. Newsom is responsible for California’s homeless problem, his political enemies insist, and he is in favor of rent control. He has provided sanctuary in California for illegal aliens, according to those who want him removed from office, and he has allowed those in the country illegally to participate on state governmental boards and has provided state-sponsored medical insurance to unregistered aliens, along with welfare and food stamps, while simultaneously providing $50 million to subsidize illegal alien-owned businesses. Newsom is a tax and spend liberal who oversees a state with the highest income tax in the nation, those who want him removed from office say, and he has ruled like a tyrant, carrying out his depredations on the backs of the taxpayers who are staggering under a 7.25 percent state sales tax. He is working to layer into the tax code higher property taxes, the recall advocates warn, and they decry California’s vehicle registration tax as the highest in the United States. Newsom is a cop-hater who has hamstrung law enforcement agencies in their mission to collar criminals, they maintain. He has been both too easy and too hard on Pacific Gas & Electric, recall proponents say. His mandates that state residents wear masks is unconstitutional, his critics charge. Under his watch, the state purchased inferior masks from Chinese vendors rather than Americans. Under his management, the state’s debt has skyrocketed to $1.3 trillion, his rivals hasten to point out. Newsom is alleged to be a hypocrite who does not wear a mask when he is in social circumstances and who has skipped out on paying his property tax. As governor, he is driving farmers in the Central Valley into bankruptcy and ruin by his water rationing, his political enemies say. He is a tool of the public employee unions, according to the recall advocates. He has overstated the COVID-19 danger, his detractors say, and was responsible for too many people in the state’s nursing homes dying from COVID-19. He overstepped his authority by signing an executive order to phase out gasoline powered cars by 2035, it is alleged.
While Newsom doubtless has his detractors, his performance as governor has fallen within the standard realm of deviation of what President William Harding referred to as normalcy. No intractable scandal has befallen him and no indictable behavior that would qualify him for prosecution let alone conviction has surfaced. At the same time, he, like virtually all successful politicians, has engaged in fundraising efforts to endow his political war chest with money in ways that come across as being short of ethical. His opponents have condemned him for a host of attitudes, actions, non-actions and managerial faux-pas they perceive as being direct consequences of his arrogance. Much of that criticism is contradictory, as when he is blamed for a homeless crisis that has been burgeoning for a generation, while he is simultaneously excoriated for advocating rent control.
To be sure, like the rest of the Democratic Party, Newsom continues to advocate a welfare state that carries with it a price tag he and his political supporters have no realistic means of defraying, even as the state’s burdensome taxing structure is pushing more and more businesses, which represent the heavy lifters who are carrying the welfare state upon their backs, toward leaving California.
In the main, the primary grounds cited against Newsom to justify his removal as governor relate to the COVID-19 crisis.
In that regard, the record would appear to vindicate the governor. He has been charged with overreaction to a non-crisis and overstepping governmental authority and the bounds that should be applied in terms of governmental imposition of its authority. It is said he has overreached with his executive orders and mandates. And indeed, Newsom was bold in this regard, just as the Republicans maintain. Nevertheless statistics compiled by the National Centers For Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta show that as of August 4, 2021, of all of the major population states in the United States, with a single exception, California had the lowest COVID-19 related death rate among its citizens, making it a safer place than Texas, New York, Florida, Pennsylvania, Illinois Ohio, Georgia and Michigan. The Golden State, with 163 deaths per 100,000 population, fared better than Ohio, with 176 deaths per 100,000; Florida with 182 deaths per 100,000; Texas, with 184 deaths per 100,000; Illinois with 204 deaths per 100,000; Georgia, with 205 deaths per 100,000; Michigan with 212 deaths per 100,000; Pennsylvania with 218 deaths per 100,000; and New York with 276 deaths per 100,000.
Indeed, the only one of the ten states with a population of over 10 million residents that had a lower COVID-19 death rate than California was North Carolina, with 130 deaths per 100,000.
Whether or not those subject to his rule as governor appreciated it or respected his decision-making and the considerations that went into how he has governed in specific regard to the most immediate health threat to his constituents, the reality is that Newsom implemented a policy that protected the residents of his state more effectively than did the governors of eight of the nine largest states in the nation other than California, and that he did so in the face of fierce resistance and in spite of the potential political cost to himself, as the ongoing recall effort attests. Newsom’s profile is thus one, according to his supporters, in courage.
Having emerged from the woodwork are a number of opportunists – 46 to be exact – who are looking to replace Newsom as governor if the recall succeeds. Among those are former Republican Congressman Doug Ose; former Republican Assemblyman Kevin Kiley; Libertarian Jeff Hewitt, a Riverside county supervisor; Republican Ted Gaines, a former assemblyman and state senator; Republican Kevin Faulcanor, San Diego mayor; Republican Caitlyn Jenner, a transgender former Olympian and television personality; Republican Larry Elder, a conservative talk show host; Republican John Cox, a businessman who lost to Newsom in 2018; Democrat Kevin Paffrath, a real estate and stock investor who is advocating the construction of a canal from the Mississippi River to California; Republican Leo S. Zacky, one of the owners of Zacky Farms; Republican Anthony D. Trimino, an advertising executive; California National Party member Michael A. Loebs, a secessionist intent on having California de-annex from the United States to become its own sovereign nation.
For those seeking Newsom’s recall, the hope is that virtually all of the state’s Republicans will turn out to vote for his removal from office, that they will be joined by large numbers of the state’s voters who have no political affiliation or are aligned with the more obscure political parties as well as by a fair number of disaffected Democrats, while a good number of the state’s Democrats, who generally have much poorer voter turnout at election time than Republicans, will be even less attentive than they normally are and will not turn out to keep Newsom in office.
Meanwhile, Newsom is out there on the hustings, seeking to energize the majority of the state’s voters who elected him lieutenant governor in 2010, reelected him to that post in 2014, and made him governor a little more than two-and-a-half years ago.
This morning, he was in San Bernardino, seeking to remind voters in the overwhelmingly Democratic city that he is their strongest advocate in Sacramento. In his speech, he said the state and its residents need to pull together to overcome the resurgence of COVID-19 in its so-called Delta variant through an even fuller vaccination of the population than the state has already achieved and through maintaining the discipline of using masks in public. Also featured in his presentation was promoting his Comeback Initiative, a $123.9 billion economic recovery program which contains money to boost California’s public K-12 education system, as it moves into reopening classrooms after a year of classes being conducted remotely and on-line.
Prior to making his speech, Newsom made an appearance at Juanita B. Jones Elementary School in San Bernardino. This week, on Monday, Juanita B. Jones began conducting classes for the first time since the school was shut down as a safety measure in reaction to the rapidly spreading coronavirus outbreak in March 2020.
During the photo op, Newsom interacted with a class of first graders.
Notably, Newsom, who is dyslexic and reads at a fifth grade level, did not participate in any of the class’s reading lessons. Instead, he took off his suit coat and, sitting on a chair in front of the students while they sat cross-legged on a mat in the classroom, participated in a listening circle.
Newsom dialogued with the kids and asked them about their attitude with regard to returning to class.
“We’re done with Zoom school,” said Newsom.
“Yeah!” responded one of the students.
“Are you over that?” Newsom asked.
“Yeah,” shouted one of the kids.
“I’m over it, too,” said Newsom.
The education portion of his Comeback Initiative, Newsom said, will “transform schools into gateways to opportunity.” He said public schools in low-income neighborhoods can “fundamentally transform into the kind of complete campus every parent would want for their child – with before- and after-school instruction, sports and arts, personalized tutoring, nurses and counselors and nutrition for every kid in California.”
-Mark Gutglueck

Since shortly after Robert Shuey’s April 26 death, there has been persistent mystery as to how, exactly, he died, and by whose hand.
It was widely anticipated that the eventual release of the documentation of the autopsy carried out eight days after he died would clear up a good portion of the confusion, if not all of it.
Now, more than three months later, the coroner’s office’s findings have been made public. Nevertheless, despite the official cause of death pronounced in that document being acute fentanyl toxicity, it is still unclear as whether he was shot and suffered a fatal wound to his head, as has been widely rumored from the start, whether he was shot in the head but did not expire from that injury, whether a profusely bleeding hole at the base of his skull was not, in fact, a bullet entry or exit wound, or whether the presence of the powerful synthetic opiate present in his system was the sole factor that precipitated his death.
The information now available in the document known officially as an autopsy protocol, its accompanying toxicology report and attached investigator’s notations confirm much of the general narrative relating to Shuey’s final hours and minutes that has made the rounds since April, with some clarification as to further exact detail. Some of the previous narrative was inexact or wrong. For example, it was circulated, and previously reported in the Sentinel that Shuey was found dead inside his Blue Jay home, which was locked from the inside, on the morning of April 27. In fact, Shuey was discovered there in the evening of April 26.
Previous reports were that Shuey was shot point blank in the face. More recently, it was intimated that Shuey was shot at close range in the back of the head. Throughout that time, there was a contradictory report that Shuey had expired from a fentanyl overdose, which occurred either accidentally or deliberately as a suicide.
Even as the autopsy protocol sheds light on those previously shadowy versions of what occurred or may have occurred, it yet stands, despite its recitation of scientific fact, as a document of remarkable ambiguity. Still unresolved, in any satisfactory manner, is exactly how 30-year-old Robert Allen Shuey died.
Both the coroner investigation report and the autopsy protocol show acute fentanyl toxicity as the cause of death. On April 27, Jeff Lewison, a supervisor in the San Bernardino County Coroner’s Office, which is a division of the sheriff’s department, completed what was labeled as the “coroner supplement report” relating to Shuey’s death. Lewison, who arrived at Shuey’s residence at 11:57 p.m. on April 26, compiled the report based upon information provided to him while he was there by the first member of the sheriff’s office to arrive on the scene of the death, Deputy William Chad Zerbe, as well as by Dorian Stefan, who had discovered Shuey deceased earlier that evening.
At 9:12 p.m. on April 26, 2021, Lewison was called by Zerbe, who had previously been dispatched to the death scene, and was informed about Shuey’s death.
Lewison’s report states, “On Monday, 04/26/2021, at 2112 hours [9:12 p.m.], San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department Deputy W. Zerbe called to report the home death of Robert Shuey, age 30. I was assigned this coroner call, number 83, at 2244 hours [10:44 p.m.]. On Monday, 04/26/2021, at 2251 hours [10:51 p.m.], I spoke to Deputy Zerbe by telephone. The following is a summary of his statement. On Monday, 04/26/2021, at 2033 hours [8;33 p.m.], [the] San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department got a call for service from Dorian Stefan. She arrived at the residence located at 27115 Highway 189 in Blue Jay, as Shuey’s truck had been out front all day, which was unusual. The house was blacked out and the dog was home. She looked in the window and saw Shuey on the floor from the glow of the pilot light of the heater. She knocked on the door, knocked on the windows, and he did not answer. She used her key to make entry into the home. She saw him on the floor, and he had purple discoloration. She called 911. Stefan was Shuey’s three-year-old daughter’s babysitter. The little girl stated, ‘My daddy’s been shot.’ The little girl told deputies later that a boy came in and shot her daddy in the nose. She did not hear any loud bang. Earlier in the day, sometime in the morning, Shuey told his daughter to go into the bedroom and hide (according to the daughter). Later, the ‘boy’ arrived and the little girl initially stated she heard a boy’s voice and then later said she heard a girl’s voice. After Stefan called 911, deputies arrived and Deputy W. Zerbe confirmed the death at 2100 hours [9 p.m.]. Shuey had a history of drug use but there was no obvious paraphernalia in the house. Deputy Zerbe had notified Gary Shuey, Shuey’s father, of the death. Gary stated that Shuey had used methamphetamine, Xanax, and fentanyl in the past. He believed he was currently using fentanyl and had been for the past six months.”
Lewison’s report continues, “I responded from the Central Coroner Division at 2307 hours [11:07 p.m.] and arrived at 2357 hours [11:57 p.m.]. While awaiting the response from the San Bernardino County Sheriffs Department Overdose Response Team, I performed a body examination and located what appeared to be a gunshot exit wound in the back of the head. San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department Homicide Division was notified.”
According to Lewison, “The scene consisted of a single-story, single-family home in the mountain community of Blue Jay. The front entrance was on the center of the north side of the home. The body of a white male adult was supine on the floor in the geographic middle of the home. The head was oriented west and faced upright. The gas wall heater was immediately to the right of the male’s hip. The heater was on. In the bathroom in the center of the south side of the home, there was a small screw top vial filled with white bar pills with ‘Y21’ imprinted on them. There were approximately 6-1/2 pills remaining.”
Lewison’s report continued, “On Tuesday, 04/27/2021, at approximately 0015 hours [12:15 a.m.], I spoke to Stefan on scene. The following is a summary of that interview. Stefan has known Shuey since they were 15 or 16 years old. He had a history of methamphetamine use, but she believed he quit using methamphetamine several years before. He did not use tobacco, but he did smoke marijuana. He consumed alcohol socially, but in the past had drunk heavily to the point where he would black out nearly every time he drank. Stefan was not aware of any mental or medical health issues that Shuey had. He had been stabbed several years prior. I began the examination at 0130 hours [1:30 a.m.]. The body was that of a white male adult that appeared to be the described age of 30 years old. He had short blond hair, green eyes, was approximately 76 inches, and weighed approximately 180 pounds. He had a clean-shaven face. The body was supine on a carpeted floor. The head was oriented west and faced upright. The right arm extended slightly out from the shoulder approximately 45 degrees from the side of the torso. The right forearm was resting against the front of the gas heater. The left arm was extended out from the shoulder approximately 45 degrees from the side of the torso. The left elbow was bent and the left hand with a closed fist was resting on the front of the upper left shoulder. The right leg was extended slightly forward of the hips. The left leg was extended slightly out from the hip with the knee bent approximately 90 degrees. The body was clothed in a pair of blue briefs. The upper and lower natural teeth were present. The upper and lower frenula were intact. There were two broken teeth in the mouth that appeared to have been there for an extended period of time. There was a white foam exuding from the mouth. There was a reddish-brown fluid in the mouth. Bloody purge exuded from the nose. The nails were intact and there was no indication of injury or defensive wounds. The top of the left foot had a large bony bump. There was a linear scar approximately 4 inches in length on the outside of the left shoulder. There was a diagonal scar on the left flank. There was a linear surgical scar on the left flank. There were Tardieu spots on the left flank near the armpit. There was a healing abrasion on the inside of the right ankle.”
Tardieu spots are observed in the tissues of people who have been asphyxiated.
Lewison’s report further states, “There were no therapeutic devices.”
Lewison provided an inventory of Shuey’s visible tattoos. “‘Crestline’ was on the outside of the left ankle,” Lewison reported. “A clock with a knife in it was on the front of the left chest. A skull with four aces was on the inside of the upper left arm. A skull was on the outside of the upper left arm. A large indistinguishable design the size of a dinner plate was on the center of the back.”
Lewison thereafter provided a description of visible evidence of trauma to Shuey’s body.
“There was a circular defect on the back-left side of the head approximately one inch above the hairline,” the report states. “The underlying surface was slightly raised. Blood exuded from the wound. There was an abrasion on the left knee.”
According to Lewison, at that point, “The body was cool to the touch. Rigor mortis was present and was difficult to break. Lividity was present in the posterior of the entire body. It was also present on the anterior of the right arm. It blanched with significant pressure.”
According to Lewison, after the arrival of homicide investigators, “San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department Crime Scene Specialist S. Mathis performed a gunshot residue test.”
Lewis reported that “The examination concluded at 0135 hours [1:35 a.m.]. I took 52 photographs of the body and scene. Toe tag #01836 was affixed to the great right toe by transport personnel. The body was placed in a yellow coroner body bag and secured with pouch lock #5140972. After the examination, the body was transported to the San Bernardino County Morgue facility by All Caring Solutions transport. The transport of the body was delayed due to the necessity of the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department Homicide Division response.
Lewison noted that “Dorian Stefan initially identified the body to sheriff’s deputies. Due to the nature of the examination, fingerprints were requested to be obtained at autopsy.”
According to Lewison, “Deputy Zerbe notified Gary Shuey, Shuey’s father, on Monday, 04/26/2021, at approximately 2151 hours [9:51 p.m.].”
An autopsy was performed on Shuey’s body on May 4 between 9 a.m. and 9:45 a.m. by Brian Hutchins, a forensic pathologist, assisted by Andrea Meacham. Present were Kevin Riberich, Ian Gosswiller, and A. Martinez, all of the San Bernardino County Sheriffs Department.
The nomenclature on the autopsy is given variously as A0954-2 1 H U or A-0954-21,
The bottom line of the autopsy was that a “30-year-old male [was] found dead in [his] residence,” that he died of “acute fentanyl toxicity,” that “Prescription drugs [were] found at the scene” and that Shuey had a “reported history of drug abuse.” The “postmortem toxicology” revealed that Shuey had “fentanyl 3.6 ng/mL and norfentanyl 0.41 ng/mL in [his] femoral blood.” The findings were that there were on Shuey’s body “no traumatic injuries [and] no penetrating injuries.” The cause of death was listed as “acute fentanyl toxicity, [occurring within] minutes.” The manner of death, the report said, was an “accident.”
Despite the conclusion that Shuey had suffered no traumatic injuries, under the category of external examination, the autopsy protocol states matter-of-factly, “The head is covered by short blonde hair. Facial hair is cleanly shaven. There are no petechial hemorrhages in the conjunctivae of the lids or sclerae. There is congestion seen in the eyes. Upper and lower teeth are present. There are no injuries in the lips or oral mucosa. Upper and lower extremities show no edema. The external genitalia are without trauma or lesions. There are multiple healed surgical scars noted in the following areas: right shoulder, left shoulder, right elbow, left elbow, left flank, and left upper back. There is a small abrasion noted on the left knee. There is focal abrasion noted on the posterior surface of the right forearm. There is small abrasion noted in the medial aspect of the right foot. There is a small puncture noted on the left occipital scalp/base of the neck.”
With regard to the internal examination of Shuey’s head, Hutchins stated, “There is no hemorrhage in the scalp. There are no fractures of the calvarium or base of the skull. There is no epidural, subdural, or subarachnoid hemorrhage. The brain is 1500 grams. The cerebral hemispheres are symmetrical. A normal convolutionary pattern is observed. Upon sectioning of the brain, there is no hemorrhage or lesions seen within the cerebrum, brainstem, or cerebellum. The vessels at the base of the brain have a normal pattern of distribution. The cranial nerves are present.”
With regard to Shuey’s neck, Hutchins wrote, “There is no edema of the larynx. The hyoid bone and larynx are without fractures. There is no hemorrhage in the throat organs or strap muscles. There are no prevertebral fascial hemorrhages. The tongue is unremarkable.”
Included in the coroner’s examination report was a toxicology report completed by NMS Labs in Horsham, Pennsylvania on May 31, 2021. According to that analysis of Shuey’s femoral blood, reported by the lab’s certifying scientist, Erik Flail, there were 3.6 nanograms of fentanyl per milliliter of Shuey’s blood and 0.41 nanograms of norfentanyl per milliliter of his blood.
Investigating with Deputy Zerbe the circumstances surrounding Shuey in the immediate aftermath of the discovery of his body was Sheriff’s Detective M. Del Rio.
Lewison held off on making his conclusion as to the cause of death until June 4, at which point he offered his concurrence that the cause of death was acute fentanyl toxicity.
The investigative summary of the case included in the coroner’s report states, “On Monday, 04/26/2021, at 2033 hours [8:33 p.m.], Dorian Stefan called 911 after finding her friend, Robert Shuey, age 30, unresponsive in his home. Deputy W. Zerbe arrived and confirmed the death at 2100 hours [9 p.m.]. Shuey had foam cone, and Xanax pills without an obvious prescription were located in the home. During the body examination, a small defect was observed in the back of the head consistent with a small caliber gunshot wound. The San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department Homicide Division is investigating.”
-Mark Gutglueck