By Mark Gutglueck
Paul Russ, the one-time mayor of Hesperia whose career in public office involved a firm embrasure of the pay-to-play politics that brought the city he represented and the county he lived in into considerable disrepute during his brief but intense term in office, has died.
Russ’s actions while he was both a city councilman and mayor of Hesperia, taken together with his close association with those in the private sector and other politicians renowned for existing at the confluence of money, public policy and land use decisions, shaped the City of Hesperia’s future while simultaneously leading to the demise of his political viability.
Russ, who had health challenges for much of his life, was ultimately felled after he contracted COVID-19. He tested positive for the virus on January 8, and was under frequent medical care thereafter. On January 16, he posted on Facebook that he had made four trips to the emergency room in the previous week. Russ checked into the Victor Valley Global Medical Center on January 18, where the end of his life came on Thursday, January 21. He was 61.
In 1971, at the age of 12, Russ experienced a viral infection, which ravaged his kidneys. He gradually recovered, but not fully. In 1986, at the age of 26, he began kidney dialysis. The following year, as his renal failure escalated, he was in need of a kidney transplant. His brother, Raymond, donated one of his kidneys to him. His brother’s kidney did Paul yeoman’s service for thirty years, twice the 15-year span typical kidney transplants remain viable.
Along the way, Russ contracted hepatitis, but treatment had rendered it dormant.
For the 17 years after the transplant, Russ led a relatively normal life, one which was productive and successful. With a college degree in economics, he earned a comfortable living while working within the banking and finance industries.
In 2004, he was diagnosed with lymphatic cancer, which through treatment went into remission. Thirteen years after that, in March 2017, Russ pulled a muscle and took a muscle relaxant. A metabolic reaction to the muscle relaxant activated the hepatitis C. Dazed and disoriented, he was taken to the emergency room at Desert Valley Hospital. There it was determined that the drug he was taking was not passing beyond his kidneys, to the point that he had gone into stage 4 renal failure. He was given prednisone and he recovered, relatively, to stage 3. Follow-up tests showed his kidney was failing and that he had liver cancer.
That summer, he was set to begin chemotherapy to combat the liver cancer, which would have precluded any possibility that he could get another kidney transplant, consigning him to a lifetime of dialysis.
Before actually beginning chemotherapy, he applied for a double organ transplant. He was thereafter informed by Ochsner Medical Center in New Orleans that he had been accepted. He sojourned there in October 2017, where he awaited the availability of both a liver and kidney. He participated in the city council meetings via Skype. When compatible organs became available, the transplants took place on December 26, and he returned to Hesperia in March 2018.
A physician told the Sentinel that Russ’s underlying medical challenges very likely left him with a compromised immune system and therefore particularly vulnerable to COVID-19.
Russ’s physical vulnerability was belied by the aggressiveness of his politics, extending back at least to the early 1990s, when he was involved in promoting Republican candidates and causes.
Among those he was involved with in those efforts were then-Assemblyman and later State Senator Jim Brulte, who was the Republican legislative leader at that time; then-Assemblywoman Kathleen Honeycutt; her husband, one-time Hesperia Councilman and Mayor Theron Honeycutt; their son, Tad Honeycutt, who was subsequently a councilman and mayor in Hesperia; Kathleen Honeycutt’s successor in the Assembly, Keith Olberg; Brad Mitzelfelt, who would become more than a decade later First District San Bernardino County supervisor; and Bill Postmus, a future First District county supervisor and county assessor.
Russ formed a lasting political bond with the latter, one which withstood the scandal that would envelop Postmus and bring his once-promising political career to an abject close. Russ’s loyalty to Postmus found a degree of reward in that Postmus in 2014 came across with the formula, including a winning campaign strategy and a conduit to major political donors, that made Russ’s election to the city council possible.
Their shared affinity for Republicanism formed the basis of the relationship between Russ and Postmus, who was more than a decade younger than Russ. In the mid- and late-1990s, they worked together on political campaigns in conjunction with the High Desert Young Republicans, a group that had been formed by Postmus and Mitzelfelt after those two had made their acquaintance while attending the University of Redlands, where both were majoring in business administration. In 1990, in a move that would elevate him into the Boy Wonder of San Bernardino County politics, Postmus at the age of 29 vied successfully against then-incumbent First District Supervisor Kathy Davis, which made Postmus, after Minor Cobb Tuttle in 1862, Norman Taylor in 1855, Robert McCoy in 1861, John C. Turner in 1893 and Gus Skropos in 1985, the sixth youngest youngest supervisor in San Bernardino County history. Postmus went on to become the chairman of the board of supervisors in 2004, the same year Russ was diagnosed as suffering from lymphatic cancer. Russ would later say that while he dealt with his several health challenges, Postmus, had been caring and supportive throughout his ordeals.
In 2006, Postmus was elected county assessor, but by 2008, he had descended into into an intractable political scandal, beset by controversy over his drug addiction and abuse of his elected office. In 2009, methamphetamine and syringes used to inject it were found within Postmus’s premises when investigators served a search warrant for his residence. That warrant had been obtained by the San Bernardino County District Attorney’s Office, which was looking into reports of Postmus and his assessor’s office staff engaging in partisan political activity involving the use of county personnel, facilities, equipment and assets during working hours. A month later, Postmus resigned from office. In 2010 he was charged with a variety of political corruption charges. He initially pleaded not guilty, but in 2011, he pleaded guilty to 14 felonies pertaining to bribery, conspiracy, conflict of interest, misappropriation of public funds and perjury, acknowledging he asked for and received bribes and that he had set up in the assessor’s office while it was under his watch a political operation, and hired friends and cronies with little to no experience in assessor-related work to help bolster his political career, including using the county’s email server to blast an electronic Republican newsletter to county voters.
Postmus’s conviction on the public conflict of interest charge prohibited him from seeking elective public office ever again in California.
Nevertheless, Postmus sought to remain in the political game vicariously through other Republican politicians. A crucial element of Postmus’s approach to politics when he was in office was the fluency with which he would make arrangements with those in the private sector engaged in providing goods or services to government or who had development or land use proposals over which the county government had decision-making authority. Those arrangements brought him political donations or money, tantamount to bribes or kickbacks, for which he would trade votes in his elected capacity approving either the governmental contracts those private sector companies had with the government or their applications for clearance to proceed with their development or land use proposals. After he was out of office, Postmus acted as a choreographer for politicians who, like he had once done, were willing to exchange electioneering funding for their votes in their official capacities.
Postmus sought to install as many of his associates as he could into elected office, primarily in San Bernardino County. Postmus, who had been while he was chairman of the San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors also the chairman of the San Bernardino County Republican Central Committee, continued to cultivate relationships with the central committee’s members.
When the California Legislature passed legislation doing away with all redevelopment agencies throughout the state in 2011, Postmus urged Russ to seek appointment to the Hesperia Redevelopment Agency Oversight Committee formed in the aftermath of the creation of a successor agency to the redevelopment agency mandated by that legislation. Shortly thereafter, Russ was elected to serve as chairman of the oversight committee. From that position, again under Postmus’s advisal, Russ ran for the Hesperia City Council in 2014. Postmus arranged for Jeremiah Brosowske, a young and up-and-coming Republican who would subsequently become executive director of the San Bernardino County Republican Central Committee, to serve as Russ’s campaign manager. Russ’s election bid was successful.
Postmus created an entity, Mountain States Consulting Group LLC, which he registered as a limited liability company with the State of Wyoming though the Wyoming Secretary of State’s Office in Cheyenne on January 29, 2016. Postmus hired Broswoske to serve as Mountain States Consulting Group’s primary political operative. Postmus used Mountain States Consulting Group as a political fund laundering mechanism, one that took money from private sector entities seeking government contracts or land use or development application approvals from local governments with land use authority pertaining to those applications, and then vectored that money to the politicians in office heading those jurisdictional governments considering those goods or service provision bids or project or land use applications. Among the candidacies that Mountain States Consulting Group involved themselves with immediately upon its formation in early 2016 were those of Russ and two other Postmus allies, Eric Swanson and his wife, Rebekah Swanson. Through Mountain States Consulting Group, Postmus encouraged and promoted Russ’s and the Swansons’ successful efforts to be elected to the San Bernardino County Republican Central Committee that year. Postmus and Mountains States Consulting Group further promoted Russ’s candidacy for First District San Bernardino County supervisor and Rebekah Swanson’s run for the Hesperia City Council. Ultimately, Russ, who at that time had been selected by his colleagues to serve as Hesperia mayor, fell short in his race for supervisor. Rebekah Swanson, however, proved victorious in the November 2016 election, and she joined Russ as a member of the city council the following month.
Meanwhile, as mayor and a member of the city council, Russ was proving himself to be unabashedly pro-development. In virtually every case where a developer requested go-ahead for a development proposal, Russ, generally in concert with the majority of his council colleagues, went along with the request, consistently holding that developer to a minimal standard with regard to providing accompanying infrastructure to offset the impact of that development. While this would have been a less-than-defensible approach to governance virtually anywhere, it was particularly irresponsible in the case of Hesperia, which was and remains under the onus of an historical infrastructure deficit which has existed since the founder of modern Hesperia, Penn Phillips, arrived on the Hesperia scene in the 1950s.
Phillips, who was then the proprietor of the Omart Investment Company and the vice-president and director of Standard Federal Savings and Loan Association of Los Angeles, in conjunction with several co-investors including former World Heavyweight Champion Jack Dempsey; Charles Allen, vice-president of E.F. Hutton and Company of New York City; Fresno-based attorney Milo E. Rowell; Nat Mendelsohn of Riverside; Philip J. Farrar of Fresno; and Los Angeles investment brokers Dan Christy and Henry Paul Willis, on April 22, 1954 consummated what was billed as the largest private land sale in Southern California in 35 years with the purchase of a 36-square mile tract seven miles south of Victorville, representing roughly 90 percent of the entire township of Hesperia, for $1.25 million from the Appleton Land and Water Company and the Lacey Estate, which had owned the land jointly since 1888. Phillips simultaneously announced his intention to spend $8.25 million through the Hesperia Land Company, a subsidiary of Omart Investment Company, to prepare the property for development, indicating 1,000 acres of the property was to be allocated to industrial development, 8,000 acres for agriculture and that 5,000 homes would be built along with a two-and-one-half mile-long-and-one-quarter-mile-wide artificial lake, and a resort.
Phillips created the Hesperia Land Development and Hesperia Sales Corporation, which worked to promote his concept of the U-Finish Home, by which he intended to mass-produce housing units that were completely finished on the outside, leaving the buyer to complete the interior. He secured water rights to support this community through the newly created Mojave Water Agency, of which he was a founding member.
The formula Phillips applied in Hesperia was much like the one he used with his developments elsewhere: secure land, build homes on it, put in the minimal amount of infrastructure to make the homes habitable, bring in a population that creates the basis for a community that includes momentum for establishing some form of a jurisdictional governmental agency, sell all of the parcels acquired, take a profit and move on to the next development elsewhere.
Phillips built roads for Hesperia that were of a decidedly low standard, consisting of a mixture of desert sand used as aggregate and bitumen to create a road that was no more than one-and-a-half inches thick. The roads, when new, looked good, but under the withering sun and use, began to deteriorate within three to four years. The flash floods the desert is prone to further washed out these roads over the following decades, leaving many of Hesperia’s streets in poor condition, including some that eventually returned to being nothing more than dirt roads.
Phillips was equally irresponsible in the creation of the town’s water system. Though he started with the tremendous advantage of Hesperia being blessed with a world-class water supply, he squandered that asset in his head-long pursuit of a profit. Hesperia lies near the headwaters of the Mojave River, the watershed area north of the San Bernardino Mountains, a pristine and perpetually recharged water supply created by melting snow and overflowing rainwater from the heights southeast of Hesperia. The water system Phillips created for Hesperia consisted in large part of pipes cannibalized from a petroleum conveyance operation from depleted oil fields. Thus, the Hesperia Water Company, capturing water at the foot of the mountain before it rushed forward to become the Mojave River and wend out into the desert, used substandard pipes, which compromised the quality of the product provided to Hesperia for domestic use.
Thus, from its outset, modern Hesperia was beset with an infrastructure deficit it is still struggling, nearly 67 years later, to overcome. In the interim, developer after developer has come into Hesperia, both before the city’s 1988 incorporation and after, constructing homes as well as structures to host commercial and industrial operations, to one extent or another seeking to replicate the financial success Phillips achieved. A key element all along has been to prevail upon those with the city’s ultimate land use authority – which since incorporation has consisted of the city council – that they be permitted to proceed without having to provide the infrastructure needed to offset the impacts of their undertakings. Rather than require that the infrastructure deficit the city is functioning under be redressed before the next round of ongoing development occurs, past and current city officials have consistently permitted residential, commercial and industrial expansion to proceed without defraying the cost of providing public improvements and off-site augmentations to those developments consisting of roads, utilities and basic municipal facilities. Generations of political leaders in Hesperia have acceded to the argument that requiring the proponents of incoming projects to bear the burden of providing that infrastructure would impose a prohibitive expense on those developers, would be historically unfair given that past developers were not similarly constrained and that such requirements will prevent economic development. Simultaneously, the developers benefiting by the project approvals have proven themselves to be, over nearly three-and-a-half decades, extremely generous in supporting the city’s politicians, those being the members of the city council elected over 17 election cycles. Russ was as much or more of a beneficiary of the largesse provided by the development community as any of Hesperia’s politicians.
The most telling example of this pay-to-play corruption was that relating to what was originally referred to as the Rancho Las Flores project, which later became the Tapestry project.
Very shortly after the City of Hesperia’s incorporation on July 1, 1988, the maiden city council, consisting of Bruce Kitchen, George Beardsley, Percy Bakker, Mike Lampignano and Val Shearer, persuaded then-Rancho Cucamonga Deputy City Manager Robert Rizzo to become Hesperia’s first city manager. Rizzo, in turn, convinced the council to hire Rancho Cucamonga’s city attorney, Jim Markman, as Hesperia city attorney.
Deluded into thinking that cityhood would instantly transform Hesperia into an economically dynamic hotbed of upscale development similar to Rancho Cucamonga, the city council empowered Rizzo to cut deals with developers to convince them to begin building aggressively and soon. Rizzo took the council’s somewhat naïve instructions too literally, pushing his planning staff to approve projects as proposed by developers, entailing projects with sketchy or inadequate infrastructure, both in the immediate vicinity of the neighborhoods which were springing up as well as throughout the city in general. In some cases, Rizzo, to meet payroll, diverted bond money intended for the provision of infrastructure into the general fund, where it was eaten up by the day-to-day expenses of running the city. In time, many of the landowners inveigled into the assessment districts created to debt service those bonds lost those properties in tax foreclosures as the promised increases in the value of their properties failed to materialize because the infrastructure those bonds were supposed to pay for was never built. Correspondingly, the sales tax producing development that was to accompany the improvements to those properties in question never came about, depriving the city of revenue that could have been converted into infrastructure improvements.
Shortly after the city of Hesperia’s 1988 incorporation, the Dana Point-based ARC Las Flores Corporation sought city approval of the 10,000-acre property at the city’s extreme south end that consisted of the 490-acre Las Flores Ranch in Summit Valley and several adjacent parcels, including Bureau of Land Management property obtained through a series of land swaps. The project was originally projected to result in the construction of 9,100 residential units.
Rizzo, who had questionable links to the ARC Las Flores Corporation, convinced members of the city’s maiden city council that the project would generate economic development and create neighborhoods to rival those in upscale Rancho Cucamonga or Orange County. Within two years, under Rizzo’s guidance as well as that of Hesperia Planning Director Rob Zuel, the scope of the project grew, and in 1990 the city approved the Rancho Las Flores Specific Plan, which called for the development of 15,540 housing units in eight phases.
The manipulative and dishonest Rizzo, a University of California at Berkeley graduate who adroitly exploited the far less sophisticated members of the council who hired him, grew overconfident to the point that he engaged in activity that would eventually trip him up. Recognizing that he needed to keep in place the members of the city council who had directed him to develop the city at any cost and ensure that attitude prevailed at City Hall, he arranged through various contacts with developmental interests to get scores of residents in Orange County to write $99 checks in blank and entrust them to him. He then distributed those checks to the candidates up for election in the 1990 city council race that he deemed to be most accommodating of a pro-development agenda, including Bakker, Shearer and Planning Commissioner Donna Roland. In this way, Rizzo was seeking to obtain leverage over those to whom he was answerable. No one on the council objected until press accounts in early 1992 revealed what had occurred. Even then, the council sought to minimize the transgression. But public outrage over the exploitation of the electoral and governmental process forced the council’s hand and in April 1992, Rizzo left the city.
Some 18 years later, Rizzo’s corrupt manipulations of the elected city officials who hired him came home to roost when a series of legal, financial, managerial and governmental transgressions he had engaged in as city manager with the City of Bell came to light and he was arrested, criminally charged, and convicted in state court on 69 political corruption charges and in federal court on income tax evasion. In April 2014 he was sentenced to 12 years in prison on the state charges and 33 months in prison on the federal charges.
The Las Flores Ranch proposal remained active, or marginally so, under succeeding city managers and the guidance of community development director Tom Harp and principal planner Dave Reno, but encountered significant challenges that retarded its progression, such as the economic downturn of 1991 and 1992, and the listing of three species that inhabited the property – the arroyo toad, the Least Bell’s Vireo and the willow flycatcher – as endangered.
In 1993, the Las Flores project encountered a significant roadblock when the city of Barstow filed a lawsuit against upstream water users along the Mojave River, resulting in protracted litigation over water rights. The lawsuit led to a stipulated settlement in 2000 among the municipal and other water rights holders within the Mojave River Basin and a water allotment to Hesperia that brought into question whether Hesperia would have access to enough water to allow the project to proceed. The city subsequently sought to secure the project’s viability through the purchase of $30 million in water rights, deemed sufficient for ARC Las Flores’ purposes. The developers also obtained from the federal government clearance to proceed with the project subject to certain habitat protections for the endangered species living upon the property.
The original Las Flores Ranch project never got off the drawing boards, however, as Zuel’s departure from the city in 1991 followed by Rizzo’s demise as city manager in 1992 following the revelations about his illicit efforts to filter money from Orange County development interests into the campaign coffers of council members and council candidates amenable to the aggressive development proposals proved to be setbacks the project could not overcome. In the year 2000, the ten year delay resulted in the expiration of the project’s specific plan and its environmental impact report, requiring ARC Las Flores to reformulate those documents, which were not finalized until 2008. By that point, the economic downturn of 2007 inhibited progress on the project, and in 2012 ARC Las Flores declared bankruptcy.
Texas-based Terra Verde Group in 2013 purchased the 10,000 acres for roughly $45 million, and rechristened the Rancho Las Flores project as the Tapestry project, declaring its intention to maintain the eight-phase nature of the undertaking.
Led by Terra Verde’s director of development, John Ohanian, the company reformulated the specific plan for the project, which envisioned 19,300 dwelling units, and gave indication to the Hesperia City Council his company was purposed to proceed. Without defining the terms he was using, Ohanian said the density of the residential units would fall in the “low-to-medium” range.
In January 2016, after a number of workshops and public hearings relating to the project at which scores of Hesperia residents went on record as being opposed to the undertaking, the city council, then composed of Russ, Eric Schmidt, Mike Leonard, Bill Holland and Russ Blewett, gave approval to the project, which had been downscaled from 19,300 units to 16,196. The council took the action in the face of overwhelming resident opposition, which consisted of objections to the project’s density, the intensification of traffic it would entail on the city’s already overburdened streets and the 15 Freeway, what were said to be inadequacies in the project’s environmental impact report and concerns that the planning for the project had disregarded that the project was to be built in the floodplain beneath the Cedar Dam, which has seismic vulnerabilities which could lead to the deaths of hundreds or thousands who might be drowned or swept to perdition in the aftermath of a major earthquake.
Russ had received substantial money laundered to him through Mountain States Consulting Group, which was suspected of conveying money to him that originated with the Terra Verde Group. By that point, Russ had also been inundated with money coming directly from developers and individuals or entities representing developmental or real estate interests, such as Hesperia Venture I LLC; California Park West Investment, Mike Gallagher, Brookpine Equity, Tyler Girtman, Pacific Communities Builders, Joseph Nguyen, Archimetrics, the Building Industry Association of Southern California Political Action Committee, Cal-Equity, Oak Valley Management Company, California Arroyo Fund, TMSM Investment Corporation, California Coast Fund, Sam Akbarpour; California Highland Enterprise, Carl Coleman, California Land Enterprise, California Pams Enterprise, California Richland Enterprise, Canyon Vista Apartments, Sam Merhi, Cedar Creek Apartments, the California Next Generation Political Action Committee; Concord Square Apartments, Lewis Investment Company, DHR Verma, Mark Enderle, Michael Arias Jr., Falcon Equity, BCA Engineering Incorporated, FH II LLC, David Mlynarski, Gallery Equity, Bruno Mancinelli, I-15 Limited Partnership, Inland Development Strategies, Andre Jaeckel, Western States Development and Construction Inc., Craig Martin, Medico Investments LLC, Weiya Noble, Isaak Moradi, Pacific Housing, Darrell Peterson, Redlands Tower Square Apartments, Rich Macaluso, Sunrise Equity, Rebecca Otwell, VIP #3 Commercial Properties, Vista Equity, Lynn Henning, Vulture 1 Homes, Tsung Chi Wu, Mirposa Incorporated, Screenland Development Group, I & J Moradi and Realty Options Inc./Showcase Realty II.
In 2016, when Russ was vying for San Bernardino County First District Supervisor, developer Wyn Holmes arranged for $19,000 in donations to be made to Russ’s campaign fund. Holmes accomplished that by providing $4,000 in donations in his own name directly traceable to him and another $15,000 from entities controlled or directed jointly by Holmes and his business partner, Randall Friend. This was a violation of the County of San Bernardino Campaign Finance Ordinance, which prohibits an individual from contributing to a candidate more than $4,200 per election.
During the same time frame, Holmes, using similar tactics involving Friend, contributed $16,000 to Russ’s council colleague, Bill Holland, who also ran for supervisor in 2016.
For a time, it appeared as if Russ and Holland might be prosecuted for their shady involvement with Holmes. Ultimately, the California Fair Political Practices Commission took action not against Russ or Holland, but Holmes over the combined $35,000 contributions made to the Russ and Holland supervisorial campaigns, fining him $10,500.
Of note is that in 2016, Russ and Holland voted to approve The Villas 55+ Senior Community gated apartment project that was being proposed by Wyn Holmes’ Eagle Real Estate Group. In addition to approving the project, the city council provided Eagle Real Estate Group with a $3.8 million loan to be used toward completing the $13 million project.
It was no secret that for monetary contributions from developers, Russ would return those favors and vote to approve those developers’ projects when those proposals came before him as a city councilman or mayor.
Russ did not deny that he was friendly toward the development industry.
“Yeah, I do stuff for developers,” Russ said. “So, what? Those projects are good for the community. They bring in economic development and jobs. What’s wrong with that?”
It was not only on development projects that Russ showed himself capable of being influenced by money.
As a Republican, Russ insisted he was pro-law enforcement. He defined being opposed to drugs and drug use as supporting law enforcement. In April 2016, Russ posted on his supervisorial campaign Facebook page, “I was honored to attend the NO Drugs America event in Hesperia with my grandson this week. It is imperative that we continue to warn our youth about the dangers of drug and alcohol abuse. As a parent and grandparent, I believe awareness about the perils of drug use must be taught to discourage use and trafficking in our communities. I thank all those who joined in participating in this very worthwhile endeavor.”
The following year, after Russ was diagnosed with cancer and needed to undergo a liver and kidney transplant, then-Adelanto Mayor Rich Kerr, a proponent of the marijuana industry who was intent on permitting substantial numbers of marijuana-related businesses to operate in his city, induced Optimal Growers Incorporated, a company involved in the cultivation of marijuana, to provide a $30,000 contribution to a fund set up to assist Russ in defraying the cost of finding the organs he needed and getting the transplants.
Other marijuana purveyors provided money to Russ’s political campaigns, including Mountain High Greenhouse Construction, which donated $4,000 to his electioneering fund; and Heal Concept Incorporated, which donated $4,000 to his electioneering fund.
Thereafter, Russ changed his attitude about marijuana, concluding that marijuana-related businesses represented something good, and he supported Hesperia permitting marijuana distribution businesses operating in the city.
The degree to which Russ’s actions as a public official were influenced by money provided to him was demonstrated by his votes to raise water and sewer utility rates on the city’s residents, accompanied by votes to reduce by 50 percent the fees imposed on developers. Russ also pressured Hesperia’s public works and planning staff to complete engineering work and make project approval recommendations for developers who had provided him with money.
In May 2018, then-Hesperia Mayor Russ Blewett died. Shortly thereafter, Jeremiah Brosowske, the one-time executive director of the San Bernardino County Republican Central Committee who had served as Russ’s campaign chairman and was instrumental in getting Russ elected to the city council in 2014 and was the primary political operative assisting Postmus in the political fund laundering activity of Mountain States Consulting Group which had assisted Russ in his 2016 supervisorial election attempt, moved to Hesperia and sought appointment to the city council as Blewett’s replacement. Russ’s vote was a critical one in the 3-to-1 decision of the city council in which he joined with Holland and Postmus protégé Rebekah Swanson to appoint Brosowske to fill out the remainder of Blewett’s term, which was set to elapse in December of that year. Thereafter, in what was the first by-district election in the history of Hesperia, which from 1988 until that point selected its council members in at-large contests, Holland sought to remain on the council by seeking election in the city’s District 2, Russ endeavored to remain in office by running in District 3 and Brosowske sought election to remain on the council representing Hesperia’s District 4. All three went into the campaign endorsing one another as part of a pro-development ticket. As the campaign season progressed, however, a falling out between Holland and Brosowske occurred. Russ remained loyal to Brosowske, at which point Holland withdrew his endorsement of both of his colleagues.
Holland and Brosowske managed to lodge victories in the 2018 race. For Russ it was a different story. His demonstrated willingness to support anyone or any entity offering him money had become readily apparent even to the unsophisticated voters of Hesperia who had traditionally been remarkably tolerant of the giveaways the city’s council members had made to the development industry over the years. Russ’s embrace of the pay-to-play ethos of those who had promoted his political career proved too much for the voters of Hesperia’s Third District to stand, and he was turned out of office by his lone challenger, Cameron Gregg, who garnered 2,288 votes or 51.92 percent to Russ’s 2,119 votes or 48.08 percent.
That same month, despite his loss, Russ gave a demonstration of one of his positive attributes, that being his loyalty. Postmus’s sentencing on his 2011 guilty pleas had been held in abeyance for more than seven years as the prosecution of others accused by the San Bernardino County District Attorney’s Office and the California Attorney General’s Office of participating in many of the same depredations he had admitted to while in office were delayed by defense motions, pretrial appeals to the appellate court and to the California Supreme Court. At last, in 2017, the trial of those defendants took place. Postmus was brought in to testify as a witness in that prosecution. After that trial ended, following a further delay as Postmus explored vacating his guilty pleas, the court at last took up the issue of Postmus’s sentencing in November 2018. Some two weeks after his defeat at the polls, Russ came in to the courtroom of Judge Michael A. Smith to testify about Postmus’s character and humanity.
Russ testified about how he had waged several tough medical battles throughout his life, including getting a kidney transplant as a young man; learning in 2004 that he had lymphatic cancer, which through treatment went into remission; and discovering the previous year that he had liver cancer and that his kidney was failing before he ventured to New Orleans to undergo a dual liver and kidney transplant. Postmus, whom Russ said he had first gotten to know in the 1990s when both were involved in supporting Republican candidates, had been caring and supportive throughout both of his bouts with cancer, Russ said. During his latest health challenge, Russ testified that Postmus offered him encouragement and called him daily while he was in New Orleans.
Russ told Judge Smith that Postmus had intimated to him in 2017, just before Postmus had testified in the criminal case against others involved in the crimes Postmus had pleaded guilty to in 2011, that he was genuinely torn up about having to testify against his former associates and political donors.
“He talked to me about how he was in a dilemma, between a rock and a hard spot,” Russ said. “He said if he told the truth, he would be in trouble with the prosecution but if he kept with his testimony, he’d be able to go home free.”
Ultimately, Judge Smith Sentenced Postmus to three years in state prison.
Last year, Russ attempted to make a political comeback, running unsuccessfully for a position on the Hesperia Unified School District Board of Trustees. Hesperia’s voters, it seemed, had gotten their fill of Russ. Six years before that, however, before his remarkable four-year run on the Hesperia City Council during which he had engaged in mutually satisfying backscratching with the development community, Russ had made his way to the top of Hesperia’s political heap.
Russ possessed a keen intelligence and situational awareness developed over the years through his involvement in politics by which he recognized that a vast majority of San Bernardino County’s voters, and most certainly those in Hesperia, either were not sufficiently focused, did not have the collective intelligence or simply lacked the sophistication to understand the quality of life issues at stake in the selection of their political leadership, and they would elect virtually anyone who could skillfully use in his electioneering efforts the money provided to him by the interests who had the most to gain or lose from the governmental decision-making process. Russ thus acceded, for a brief four years, to political office, in that short time achieving the mayoralty in the city in which he lived, and constructed a record of action and votes that was a nearly perfect model of how elected authority can be wielded contrary to the interests of the vast majority of those a politician represents.

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Burrtec is a major campaign donor to politicians in those areas and jurisdictions in the county where it has franchises for refuse handling. Those donations are made in the name of the company, as well as by Cole Burr, the company’s owner; his wife, Tracy; and Burrtec Vice President Mike Arreguin.
Burrtec has plum franchises in the six largest of San Bernardino County’s 24 cities – San Bernardino, Fontana, Ontario, Rancho Cucamonga, Victorville and Rialto. The company also has franchises in ten of the county’s other municipalities – Apple Valley, Twentynine Palms, Yucca Valley, Yucaipa, Adelanto, Upland, Grand Terrace, Redlands, Montclair and Barstow. Additionally, it is the franchised garbage handler in the unincorporated San Bernardino County communities of Amboy, Angeles Oaks, Yermo, Victorville, Valley of Enchantment, Twin Peaks, Arrowbear, Baker, Barton Flats, Bloomington, Blue Jay, Skyforest, Silver Lakes, Cedar Glen, Cedarpines Park, Cima, Crestline, Daggett, Del Rosa, Devore, Dumont Dunes, El Rancho Verde, Forest Falls, Fort Irwin, San Antonio Heights, Running Springs, Nipton, Oak Glen, Newberry Springs, Mount Baldy, Mountain Pass, Haloran, Helendale, Hinkley, Kelso, Lake Arrowhead, Lenwood, Landers, Lucerne Valley, Ludlow and Mentone.
Impacted by the sputtering economy which has resulted in as many as twenty percent of its customers being several months delinquent in their payments to the company, Burrtec is continuing to carry out trash pickup, but service times have changed slightly, and some special requests from residents have been suspended until February. County and city officials, who approved the franchise arrangements with Burtec, are acceding to the service diminutions with an understanding refuse pick up will continue.
According to the company “Burrtec is currently experiencing COVID-19 staffing impacts and appreciates your understanding and assistance with the following: Set out barrels only when they are full or near full. Service times may change, so please leave barrels out for service until the next day. Bulky pickup requests are temporarily suspended until after February 1. Barrel exchanges for dirty and broken, but still usable, barrels are temporarily suspended until after February 1.”

Dillon Lesovsky, the political dirty trickster who worked with Matt Knox to assist Paul Cook fend off a serious political challenge by Tim Donnelly in 2018 and thereby remain in Congress until last month, is to be elevated to a position on the San Bernardino County Airports Commission based on Cook’s recommendation.
Last year, Cook did not seek reelection to his position as Congressman in California’s 8th Congressional District, opting instead to run for San Bernardino County Supervisor in the First District, representing a significant portion of the Mojave Desert that lies within San Bernardino County.
Cook in running for supervisor had seized upon the opportunity presented to him after then-incumbent First District Supervisor Robert Lovingood, a fellow Republican, in 2019 announced he was opting out of seeking reelection last year.
In 2018, however, Cook, who was first elected to Congress in 2012 and had been a California Assemblyman before that and the mayor of Yucca Valley previously, was intent on remaining in the House of Representatives. As a former Marine Corps lieutenant colonel who considered himself to be a rock-ribbed conservative Republican, Cook would normally have had little concern over his re-electoral prospects, given that the 8th Congressional District, located in Southern California’s sparsely-populated but expansive desert outback, was generally filled with residents who fell far to the right on the political spectrum. In 2018, however, Tim Donnelly, taking advantage of California’s open primaries, qualified as Cook’s opponent in the November race by running in a strong second place in the June Primary election, setting up a Republican vs. Republican contest.
Cook and his political advisers had reason to consider Donnelly a formidable opponent. Donnelly’s political persona was anchored to his identification as the most conservative politician in California and one who is unrelentingly faithful to bedrock ultra-right principles, which matched perfectly with a solid plurality if not an outright majority of the voters in the overwhelmingly right-wing 8th Congressional District.
Donnelly, who was an assemblyman for two terms before he made a failed attempt at capturing the Republican nomination for California governor in 2014, had taken a diamond-hard stance against illegal immigration, and was a die-hard Second Amendment advocate, living up to the principle he espoused by routinely carrying a concealed gun onto the floor of the statehouse while the legislature was in session. He took an aggressive stand against a 2011 bill restricting the open carrying of handguns in California by labeling the measure “a form of tyranny.” He topped that when, on the way back to Sacramento after the Christmas and New Year holidays for the first state legislative session in 2012, he was stopped by Transportation Security Administration officers at Ontario Airport for having a Colt .45 handgun loaded with four rounds of ammunition and five additional rounds in his carry on baggage. Donnelly thereafter wore the misdemeanor charges of carrying a loaded firearm in public without a concealed weapons permit and possessing a gun in an airport as a badge of honor. His conviction did not hamper him politically, as he was seen by gun owners as having stood up to unreasonable liberal efforts to restrict gun ownership, and he was handily reelected to the Assembly in the November 2012 General Election.
Of particular concern to the Cook political machine was Donnelly’s popularity with the large numbers of gun-toting constituents in the 8th District, which covers a large swath of the Mojave Desert and the San Bernardino Mountains, where gun ownership is a way of life for a majority of those living in isolated rural areas.
Lesovsky and Matt Knox had been members of Cook’s congressional staff. They were also tried and true members of Cook’s electioneering team. Faced with the Donnelly challenge, they committed themselves to keeping Cook in office.
The duo set about undoing Donnelly’s candidacy by constructing a website, dirtydonnelly.com, attacking Donnelly and augmenting it with signs to promote the website. Dirtydonnelly.com utilized doctored photos to paint Donnelly in the most negative of light, and dwelt at length on a number of derogatories relating to the former assemblyman, including that he had a criminal record, which was an unspecified reference to his gun-carrying conviction; accusations that he was scamming senior citizens; allegations that he had deserted his family; assertions that he had engaged in “political fraud,” which was again unspecified; and insinuations that he stole from his own wife. All that was punctuated by the contention that Donnelly was unemployed. In violation of state law, the website had no identifying California Fair Political Practices registration number nor any indicia required under California law for campaign literature and materials to show what entity, organization, committee or campaign paid for the website. The campaign on behalf of Cook, which was directed by Knox as Cook’s campaign manager, and the hit perpetrated by Knox and Lesovsky proved highly effective, as Cook trounced Donnelly in the November 6, 2018 election, 108,414 votes or 61.33 percent to 68,370 votes or 38.67 percent.
Paralleling Cook’s victory in the 2018 election year was that of James Ramos, then San Bernardino County’s Third District supervisor, who successfully vied for the California Assembly representing the 40th Assembly District. Ramos yet had two years on his term as supervisor, and he was obliged to resign from the county post to take his place in the California Legislature in Sacramento. After his resignation, the board of supervisors appointed former Yucca Valley Councilwoman Dawn Rowe, who was also a member of Cook’s congressional staff, to serve out the final two years of Ramos’s term as supervisor. Upon becoming Third District supervisor, Rowe hired Knox as her chief of staff and Lesovsky as her office’s policy advisor.
While working in Rowe’s office, both Knox and Lesovsky continued to function as political operatives, with Knox working on Rowe’s 2020 election campaign to remain as Third District supervisor and Lesovsky working on Cook’s campaign for First District supervisor.
On Tuesday, January 26, the board of supervisors is scheduled to make 45 separate appointments to various boards, committees, commissions and joint powers authorities, including two to the San Bernardino County Airports Commission. Cook has nominated Lesovsky to a 4-year term, commencing February 1, 2021 and expiring January 31, 2025 filling Seat 3 on that commission. It is anticipated that the entire board of supervisors will routinely and unanimously confirm that appointment.
-Mark Gutglueck

There has been a rash of arrests in San Bernardino County of individuals charged with sex crimes in recent days and weeks.
On January 14, Aaron Cardenas, 24 of Fontana, was arrested on a charge of lewd acts with a minor. His arrest came one month after he was charged, on December 14, 2020, with rape by force, sodomy by force, and sexual penetration with force. Those charges were leveled against him after he was identified the previous day, December 13, as a suspect in a reported rape in Fontana, police said. During the investigation, it was determined that Cardenas sexually assaulted an adult female with developmental disabilities.
Cardenas was released, but earlier this month, Fontana police learned that he was being investigated by the Torrance Police Department for the suspected sexual abuse of a minor. Torrance investigators reportedly turned up multiple incidents of sexual abuse of a 13-year-old girl.
Cardenas used social media, investigators said, including Instagram under the name “air_enn” to communicate with the alleged victim and falsely represent his age and appearance as a minor.
Cardenas has also been charged with possessing and distributing child pornography he is believed to have generated himself.
Detectives are seeking any information related to potential additional victims.
Cardenas is in custody, subject to a bail enhancement that will make it very difficult for him to be freed before he stands trial.
The day before Cardenas’ most recent arrest, January 13, 57-year-old Francisco Monterrey of Fontana was arrested on child pornography charges, according to the Fontana Police Department.
Detectives with the Fontana Police Department’s Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force discovered that Monterrey was downloading and distributing child pornography over the Internet. It was not disclosed whether Monterrey’s arrest was related to that of Cardenas.
Detectives served a search warrant at Monterrey’s residence in the 8200 block of Cherry Avenue, seizing several electronic devices. Monterrey was booked at West Valley Detention Center. It has been determined that Monterrey used the Facebook screen name of “Kiko2718,” the Kik screen name “Choix9” and the WhatsApp screen name “Franny” to make contact with either victims or provide or obtain illicit images.
On January 13, the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department, who since the previous day had been looking into allegations of a girl being sexually molested, served a search warrant at the Apple Valley home of 68-year-old George Mantooth
Evidence collected during the January 13 search confirmed that Mantooth had sexual contact with at least two underage girls. Deputies from the Apple Valley Sheriff’s Station returned to Mantooth’s home and arrested him on January 14.
Mantooth was booked into the High Desert Detention Center in Adelanto on suspicion of sexual abuse of a child, incest, oral copulation and lewd and lascivious act with a child under 14.
An older victim has been identified, whom, investigators say, Mantooth raped continuously from the age of 13 to adulthood.
Mantooth likely has victimized others, according to the sheriff’s department.
“Manthooth is believed to be a sexual predator,” the sheriff’s department said in a statement. “Investigators believe there may be additional juvenile victims.”
Mantooth is being held in lieu of $350,000 bail.
On January 15, 28-year-old Mario Renteria of Lenwood was charged with 14 counts of sexual abuse.
Renteria’s arraignment by video took place a week ago Friday. He pleaded not guilty to the 14 felony counts, ten of which are listed as ones involving an aggravated circumstance. The charges against him consist of five counts of lewd or lascivious acts, three counts of sexual penetration/oral copulation, two counts of sexual intercourse/sodomy, two counts of rape by force or fear, sodomy and sexual abuse of a child.
Documentation relating to the case indicates the acts alleged took place on at least ten different occasions over a seven-year period. It is not clear how the earliest crimes were brought in under the statute of limitations. The earliest charge pertains to a sexual assault that took place in 2013. There were two further incidents in 2014, four in 2016 and 2017, and three in 2020.
Left unaddressed is whether the charges pertain to one, two or three victims, at least two of whom were under the age of majority at the time of Renteria’s alleged sexual depredations.
“The sexual abuse consisted of inappropriate touching, oral copulation, rape, and digital penetration, which occurred over several years,” Sheriff’s officials said in a statement. “Detectives also learned of two additional female victims.”
He is being held on $7 million bail at the West Valley Detention Center in Rancho Cucamonga.
Renteria is also known as Mario Renteria Junior Gallegos. He was taken into custody by sheriff’s deputes from the Barstow station at his home in the 34200 block of Birch Road on January 13.
On January 17, the Chino Police Department arrested Edgar Uriel Estrada, 27 of Moreno Valley, on charges of sexual penetration with force.
Estrada, a massage therapist, is charged with assaulting a woman during a massage at a spa in the 3900 block of Grand Avenue in Chino on Sunday.
The female victim came to the Chino Police Department headquarters at 1:49 p.m. to report she had been sexually assaulted by her massage therapist at the massage clinic. Efforts were made to identify Estrada, who was summoned to the police station by a detective. When he arrived at the headquarters around 9 p.m., a further investigation including questioning of Estrada took place. He was arrested at 9:29 p.m. and booked at 1:08 a.m. Monday on $200,000 bail at the West Valley Detention Center in Rancho Cucamonga.
-Mark Gutglueck

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO-20200011307
The following person(s) is(are) doing business as: J Designs By BJ, 5446 Moreno Street, Ontario, CA 91762, P.O. Box 1037, Ontario, CA 91762, Bobbie J. Gibbs, 5446 Moreno Street, 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/ Bobbie J. Gibbs
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 12/14/20
I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.
Began Transacting Business: 11/01/20
County Clerk, s/ D5511
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).
01/01/21, 01/08/21, 01/15/21, 01/22/21

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO-20200011711
The following person(s) is(are) doing business as: BUNNYANDTIGRE, 1523 W Bonnie Brae Ct, Ontario, CA 91762, Mona J. Cordova, 1523 W Bonnie Brae Ct, 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/ Mona J. Cordova
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 12/23/20
I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.
Began Transacting Business: 12/22/20
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).
01/01/21, 01/08/21, 01/15/21, 01/22/21
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO-20200011272
The following person(s) is(are) doing business as: Tint USA, 740 West Mill Street Suite F, San Bernardino, CA 92410, Hilda Lopez, 1229 West La Glora Drive, Rialto, CA 92377
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/ Hilda Lopez
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 12/11/20
I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.
Began Transacting Business: 04/01/2000
County Clerk, s/ D5511
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).
01/01/21, 01/08/21, 01/15/21, 01/22/21
FBN 20200010198 The following person is doing business as: SHORELINE MG 5861 PINE AVE SUITE A-5 CHINO HILLS, CA 91709 ROMMY CHAVES 5861 PINE AVE SUITE A-5 CHINO HILLS, CA 91709 [and] LUCAS F BARRIOS 5861 PINE AVE SUITE A-5 CHINO HILLS, CA 91709 The business is conducted by: A GENERAL PARTNERSHIP 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/ ROMMY CHAVES Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 10/30/2020 D5511 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 11/27/2020, 12/04/2020, 12/11/2020, 12/18/2020 & Corrected on: 01/01/21, 01/08/21, 01/15/21, 01/22/21

FBN 20200010191 The following person is doing business as: BRIDGEPOINT GP 5861 PINE AVE SUITE A-5 CHINO HILLS, CA 91709 ROMMY CHAVES 5861 PINE AVE SUITE A-5 CHINO HILLS, CA 91709 [and] LUCAS F BARRIOS 5861 PINE AVE SUITE A-5 CHINO HILLS, CA 91709 The business is conducted by: A GENERAL PARTNERSHIP 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/ ROMMY CHAVES Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 10/30/2020 D5511 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 11/27/2020, 12/04/2020, 12/11/2020, 12/18/2020 & Corrected on: 01/01/21, 01/08/21, 01/15/21, 01/22/21

FBN 20200010162 The following person is doing business as: EQUITY LG 5861 PINE AVE SUITE A-5 CHINO HILLS, CA 91709 ROMMY CHAVES 5861 PINE AVE SUITE A-5 CHINO HILLS, CA 91709 [and] LUCAS F BARRIOS 5861 PINE AVE SUITE A-5 CHINO HILLS, CA 91709 The business is conducted by: A GENERAL PARTNERSHIP 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/ ROMMY CHAVES Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 10/29/2020 D5511 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 11/27/2020, 12/04/2020, 12/11/2020, 12/18/2020 & Corrected on: 01/01/21, 01/08/21, 01/15/21, 01/22/21

FBN 20200010102 The following person is doing business as: FONTANA SMOG CHECK TEST ONLY 8171 SIERRA AVE UNIT R FONTANA, CA 92335 S MARTINEZ LLC, SIERRA AVE UNIT R FONTANA, CA 92335 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/ SERGIO MARTINEZ Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 10/28/2020 D5511 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 11/27/2020, 12/04/2020, 12/11/2020, 12/18/2020 & Corrected on: 01/01/21, 01/08/21, 01/15/21, 01/22/21
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME
CASE NUMBER CIVSB 2026957
TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner MAURICE DAVIS filed with this court for a decree changing names as follows: MAURICE DAVIS
to DONALD MAURICE DAVIS
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: 2/2/2021
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 92415-0210, 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: NOVEMBER 25, 2020
Lynn M. Poncin
Judge of the Superior Court.
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel on 1/8, 1/15, 1/22 & 1/29, 2021.

FBN 20200011403
The following entity is doing business as UNITED AUTO RENTAL 4425 E. AIRPORT DRIVE STE. 101 ONTARIO, CA 91761: UR ENTERPRISES, INC. 3931 BIRCH ST. NEWPORT BEACH, CA 92660 State of Incorporation: CA Reg. No.: 2168735
Mailing Address: 3931 BIRCH ST. NEWPORT BEACH, CA 92660
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/ THOMAS ZURBA
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 12/16/2020 I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.
Began Transacting Business: MAY 6, 2006
County Clerk, Deputy A8608
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 1/8, 1/15, 1/22 & 1/29, 2021.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO-20200011233

The following person(s) is(are) doing business as: Bravo’s Store & More, 127 N. Euclid Avenue (First Floor), Ontario, Ca 91762, Mailing Address: 127 N. Euclid Avenue (First Floor), Ontario, Ca 91762, Jorge Bravo-Bautista, 323 N. Marin Privado, Ontario, CA 91764, Freida J. Ortega, 323 N. Marin Privado, Ontario, CA 91764
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/ Jorge Bravo-Bautista
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 12/10/20
I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.
Began Transacting Business: 11/04/20
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).
01/08/21, 01/15/21, 01/22/21, 01/29/21

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO-20200011780
The following person(s) is(are) doing business as: BB’s Brims, 950 N Dusenberg Dr., 08208, Ontario, CALIF 91764, Bridgette A. Bentley, 950 N Dusenberg Dr., 08208, Ontario, CALIFO 91764
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/ Bridgette A Bentley
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 12/29/20
I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.
Began Transacting Business: 12/28/20
County Clerk, s/ D5511
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).
01/08/21, 01/15/21, 01/22/21, 01/29/21

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF LAWRENCE LEON CASTRO
CASE NO. PROPS2100012
To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, and contingent creditors of LAWRENCE LEON CASTRO, aka LAWRENCE L. CASTRO, aka LAWRENCE CASTRO, aka LARRY CASTRO and persons who may be otherwise interested in the will or estate, or both: A petition has been filed by EILEEN CASTRO HERSHKOWITZ in the Superior Court of California, County of SAN BERNARDINO, requesting that EILEEN CASTRO HERSHKOWITZ be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of LAWRENCE LEON CASTRO, aka LAWRENCE L. CASTRO, aka LAWRENCE CASTRO, aka LARRY CASTRO.
The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This will avoid the need to obtain court approval for many actions taken in connection with the estate. However, before taking certain actions, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or have consented to the proposed action. The petition will be granted unless good cause is shown why it should not be.)
The petition is set for hearing in Dept. No. S35 at SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO SAN BERNARDINO DISTRICT – PROBATE DIVISION 247 W. 3rd STREET SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92415-0212 on February 23, 2021 at 09:00 AM
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 deceased, 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 subdivision (b) of Section 58 of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery of the notice to you under Section 9052 of the California Probate Code.
YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are interested in the estate, you may request special notice of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Section 1250 of the California Probate Code.
The Attorney for Petitioner EILEEN CASTRO HERSHKOWITZ is:
LEAH LARKIN SB 231329
LAW OFFICES OF LEAH LARKIN, A PROFESSIONAL LEGAL CORPORATION
873 BEAUMONT AVENUE
BEAUMONT, CA 92223
Telephone: (951) 845-5930
FAX: (951) 845-5407
leah@inlandlaw.com
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel on 1/15, 1/22 & 1/29, 2021

FBN 20210000227
The following person is doing business as PROTECTION 1 FIREARMS 7262 CUMBERLAND PL RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA 91739: JESSE EMBREY J7262 CUMBERLAND PL RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA 91739
Mailing Address: 7262 CUMBERLAND PL RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA 91739
This 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/ JESSE EMBREY
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 1/08/2021
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, Deputy D511
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 1/15, 1/22, 1/29 & 2/05, 2020.
FBN 20200011781
The following person is doing business as JASON’S ELECTRIC 770 WEST ORANGE STREET SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92410: JASON R ORTIZ 770 WEST ORANGE STREET SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92410
This 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/ JASON R. ORTIZ
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 12/29/2020
I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.
Began Transacting Business: 1/01/2005
County Clerk, Deputy D511
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 1/15, 1/22, 1/29 & 2/05, 2020.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT FILE NO-20200011780
The following person(s) is(are) doing business as: BB’s Brims; Don’t B Flat Vocal Coaching, 950 N Dusenberg Dr., 08208, Ontario, CALIF 91764, Bridgette A. Bentley, 950 N Dusenberg Dr., 08208, Ontario, CALIFO 91764
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/ Bridgette A Bentley
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 12/29/20
I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.
Began Transacting Business: 12/28/20
County Clerk, s/ D5511
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).
01/15/21, 01/22/21, 01/29/21, 02/05/21

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT FILE NO-20200011781
The following person(s) is(are) doing business as: Jason’s Electric, 770 West Orange Street, San Bernardino, CA 92410, Jason R. Ortiz, 770 West Orange Street, San Bernardino, CA 92410
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/ Jason R. Ortiz
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 12/29/20
I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.
Began Transacting Business: 01/01/2005
County Clerk, s/ D5511
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).
01/15/21, 01/22/21, 01/29/21, 02/05/21

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT FILE NO-20200011794
The following person(s) is(are) doing business as: Mirror Mirror By “Hairdesigner-B”, 5404 Moreno St. #J, Montclair, CA 91763, Mailing Address: 4803 Prairie Run Rd., Jurupa Valley, CA 91752, Mirror Mirror By “Hairdesigner-N” LLC, 4803 Prairie Run Rd., Jurupa Valley, CA 91752
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/ Bianca Simmons-Hale
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 12/29/20
I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.
Began Transacting Business: 11/16/20
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).
01/15/21, 01/22/21, 01/29/21, 02/05/21

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT FILE NO-20210000187
The following person(s) is(are) doing business as: Nubiyah Skincare, 14191 Redondo Court, Fontana, CA 92336, Mailing Address: P.O. Box 3594, Rancho Cucamonga, CA 91729, Gail A. Maldonado, 14191 Redondo Court, 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/ Gail A. Maldonado
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 01/07/21
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).
01/15/21, 01/22/21, 01/29/21, 02/05/21

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT FILE NO-20200011576
The following person(s) is(are) doing business as: Venegas Painting And Drywall, 460 Julie St., Colton, CALIF 92324, Camilo Venegas, 460 Julie St., Colton, CALIFO 92324
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/ Camilo Venegas
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 12/21/20
I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.
Began Transacting Business: 12/15/20
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).
01/15/21, 01/22/21, 01/29/21, 02/05/21
FBN 20210000336
The following person is doing business as: DANK WAYZ 2800 E RIVERSIDE DR. APT 356 ONTARIO, CA 91761 BRIAN J PATTISON 2800 E RIVERSIDE DR. APT 356 ONTARIO, CA 91761
This Business is Conducted By: AN INDIVIDUAL
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/ BRIAN J. PATTISON
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 1/14/2021 I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Began Transacting Business: JANUARY 8, 2021
County Clerk, Deputy I2443
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 1/22, 1/29, 2/5 & 2/12, 2021.
FBN 20210000075
The following person is doing business as AH, LOVE 7174 BODEGA ST FONTANA, CA 92336: HELEN HONG 7174 BODEGA ST FONTANA, CA 92336
This Business is Conducted By: AN INDIVIDUAL
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/ HELEN HONG
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 1/5/2021 I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Began Transacting Business: AUGUST 17, 2017
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 1/22, 1/29, 2/5, 2/12, 2021.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO-20210000035
The following person(s) is(are) doing business as: Qualis Life, 4847 Arrow Highway, #418, Montclair, CA 91763, Mailing Address: 16125 Upland Ave, Fontana, CA 92335, Bryan A. Esquivel, 16125 Upland Ave, Fontana, CA 92335
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/ Bryan A. Esquivel
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 1/4/21
I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.
Began Transacting Business: 12/29/20
County Clerk, s/ DD5511
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).

01/22/21, 01/29/21, 02/05/21, 02/12/21
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO-20210000418
The following person(s) is(are) doing business as: Foothill Motel, 2512 W. Foothill Blvd, San Bernardino, CA 92410, Foothill Motel LLC, 2512 W. Foothill Blvd, San Bernardino, CA 92410
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/ Jagdish Patel
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 1/15/21
I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.
Began Transacting Business: 01/01/21
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).
01/22/21, 01/29/21, 02/05/21, 02/12/21
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO20200011028 The following person(s) is(are) doing business as: Orthopedic Sport & Spine Medical Group, 330 E. 7th St 2nd Floor, Upland, CA 91786, Hamid U. Rahman M.D. a Medical Corp., 781 N. Redo Cir, Orange, CA 92869 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/ Hamid U. Rahman M.D. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 12/03/20 I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Began Transacting Business: 04/01/2010 County Clerk, s/E4004 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). 12/25/20, 01/01/21, 01/08/21, 01/15/21 & Corrected on: 01/22/21, 01/29/21, 02/05/21, 02/12/21

FBN 20200010183 The following person is doing business as: JOSEPH W. BRADY, INC. [and] ALLIANCE MANAGEMENT GROUP [and] BARSTOW REAL ESTATE GROUP 240 E WILLIAMS ST BARSTOW, CA 92311 JOSEPH BRADY, INC., 12138 INDUSTRIAL BLVD., SUITE 250 VICTORVILLE, CA 92395 Mailing Address: PO BOX 2710 VICTORVILLE, CA 92311 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/ JOSEPH W. BRADY This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 10/30/2020 I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Began Transacting Business: DECEMBER 4, 1989 County Clerk, Deputy A9730 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 11/13/20, 11/20/20, 11/27/20 & 12/04/20. Corrected on 12/25/20 and 1/1, 1/8 & 1/15, 2021 & 01/22/21, 01/29/21, 02/05/21, 02/12/21

FBN 20200010182 The following person is doing business as: JOSEPH W. BRADY, INC. [and] THE BRADCO COMPANIES [and] BRADCO HIGH DESERT REPORT [and] THE SHOPS AT SPANISH TRAIL [and] THE SHOPPES AT SPANISH TRAIL [and] MOJAVE RIVER VALLEY REAL ESTATE GROUP [and] BRADCO COMMERCIAL LEASING GROUP [and] BRADCO DEVELOPMENT [and] MOJAVE RIVER VALLEY COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE [and] BRADCO MOJAVE RIVER VALLEY ECONOMIC REPORT [and] HIGH DESERT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL [and] MOJAVE RIVER VALLEY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT [and] MOJAVE RIVER VALLEY ECONOMIC GROUP [and] HIGH DESERT SURVEY (which began transacting business 08/01/2019) [and] MOJAVE RIVER VALLEY SURVEY (for which no date for commencing service is provided) 12138 INDUSTRIAL BLVD., SUITE 250 VICTORVILLE, CA 92395 JOSEPH BRADY, INC., 12138 INDUSTRIAL BLVD., SUITE 250 VICTORVILLE, CA 92395 Mailing Address: PO BOX 2710 VICTORVILLE, CA 92393-2710 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/ JOSEPH W. BRADY This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 10/30/2020 I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Began Transacting Business: DECEMBER 4, 1989 County Clerk, Deputy A9730 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 11/13/20, 11/20/20, 11/27/20 & 12/04/20. Corrected on 12/25/20 and 1/1, 1/8 & 1/15, 2021 & 01/22/21, 01/29/21, 02/05/21, 02/12/21

CITATION — PROBATE *
Case Number: TRUPS2000076
Superior Court of California, County of San Bernardino, 247 W. 3rd Street, San Bernardino, CA 92415, San Bernardino Justice Center
ESTATE OR TRUST OF (Name): BOBBIE JEAN DAVIS LIVING TRUST, established April 10, 2019 Other
1. TO: CHRISTIAN RADLEY NICHOLSON, an individual
2. You are hereby cited and required to appear at a hearing in this court on:
a. Date: 05/13/2021, Time: 9:00 A.M., Dept.: S56
b. Address of court: same as noted above
3. At this hearing you are required to give any legal reason why the relief re-quested in the verified petition attached to and served with this citation, and filed with this court, should not be granted.
Assistive listening systems, computer-assisted real-time captioning, or sign language interpreter services are available upon request if at least 5 days notice is provided. Contact the clerk’s office for Request for Accommodations by Persons With Disabilities and Order (form MC-410). (Civil Code section 54.8.)
Date: JAN 11, 2021 (SEAL)
NANCY CS EBERHARDT, Clerk
By: AMY GAMEZ-REYES, Deputy
CN974959 DAVIS Jan 22,29,
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel on January 22, 29 and February 5 & 12, 2021
FBN 20200011416
The following person is doing business as: CHRIS MARQUEZ ANIMAL PREVENTION SERVICES 23816ZUGER DR CRESTLINE, CA 92325;[ MAILING ADDRESS P.O BOX 3220 CRESTLINE, CA 92325]; CHRISTOPHER S MARQUEZ 23816 ZUGER DR CRESTLINE, CA 92325
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 S. MARQUEZ, OWNER Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 12/16/2020
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 01/01/2021, 01/08/2021, 01/15/2021, 01/22/2021 CNBB52202001MT

FBN 2020011417
The following person is doing business as: S.B. SEW-VAC 28286 FISHER CT HIGHLAND, CA 92346; TWYLA J BACA 28286 FISHER CT HIGHLAND, CA 92346
The business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: 12/01/1997
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/ TWYLA J BACA, OWNER Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 12/16/2020
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 01/01/2021, 01/08/2021, 01/15/2021, 01/22/2021 CNBB52202002MT

FBN 20200011440
The following person is doing business as: JCZ CONCRETE; JCZ FINISHING CONCRETE 748 S GARDENA AVE RIALTO, CA 92376; JORGE A CERDA ZAMBRANO 748 S GARDENA AVE RIALTO, CA 92376
The business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: 03/07/2019
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/ JORGE A.CERDA ZAMBRANO, OWNER Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 12/16/2020
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 01/01/2021, 01/08/2021, 01/15/2021, 01/22/2021 CNBB52202003MT

FBN 20200011398
The following person is doing business as: JDG UPHOLSTERY 1339 W BUSSEY ST SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92405; JUAN GOMES BARAJASA 1339 W BUSSEY ST SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92405
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/ JUAN GOMES BARAJAS, OWNER Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 12/15/2020
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 01/01/2021, 01/08/2021, 01/15/2021, 01/22/2021 CNBB52202004MT

FBN 20200011202
The following person is doing business as: REASON JANITORIAL 12559 STRAWBERRY PLACE CHINO, CA 91710; RALPH Q LLOYD 12559 STRAWBERRY PLACE CHINO, CA 91710
The business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: N/A
By signing, I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime (B&P Code 179130. I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing.
s/ RALPH Q. LLOYD, OWNER Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 12/10/2020
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 01/01/2021, 01/08/2021, 01/15/2021, 01/22/2021 CNBB52202005MT

FBN 20200011664
The following person is doing business as: GABES CLASSIC GARAGE 13677 ½ CALIMESA BLVD. UNIT 2 YUCAIPA, CA 92399;[ MAILING ADDRESS 7671 TONNER CIR HIGHLAND, CA 92346]; GABRIEL FELIX 13677 ½ CALIMESA DR.UNIT 2 YUCAIPA, CA 92399
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/ GABRIEL FELIX, OWNER Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 12/22/2020
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 01/01/2021, 01/08/2021, 01/15/2021, 01/22/2021 CNBB52202006MT

FBN 20200011420
The following person is doing business as: MR.SMOKE SHOP 24950 REDLANDS BLVD SUITE D LOMA LINDA, CALIF 92354; 8051 SMOKE SHOP INC 24950 REDLANDS BLVD SUIITE D LOMA LINDA, CA 92354
The business is conducted by: A CORPORATION
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: 10/07/2020
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/ NAJED SAKER, PRESIDENT Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 12/16/2020
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 01/01/2021, 01/08/2021, 01/15/2021, 01/22/2021 CNBB52202007MT

FBN 20000011392
The following person is doing business as: AMERIPRIDE MORTGAGE FUNDERS 3333 CONCOURS ST SUITE 4102 ONTARIO, CA 91764; AMERIPRIDE PROPERTIES, INC. 9377 HAVEN AVE. SUITE 110 RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA 91730
The business is conducted by: A CORPORATION
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/ JFFREY FOHT, PRESIDENT Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 12/15/2020
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 01/15/2021, 01/22/2021, 01/29/2021, 02/05/2021 CNBB02202101MT

FBN 20200011389
The following person is doing business as: DONE RIGHT DRIVING SCHOOL 6787 COLE AVE #236 HIGHLAND, CA 92346;[ MAILING ADDRESS P.O BOX 3093 HIGHLAND, CA 92413]; RAYMOND J LASSANCE 6787 COLE AVE #236 HIGHLAND, CA 92346
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/ RAYMOND J. LASSANCE, OWNER Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 1215/2020
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 01/15/2021, 01/22/2021, 01/29/2021, 02/05/2021 CNBB02202102MT

FBN 20200011513
The following person is doing business as: MB COMPANY 1455 MILLER DR COLTON, CA 92324; SHELLEY M GENNARO 1455 MILLER DR COLTON, CA 92324; MIRANDA V MARTINEZ 1455 MILLER DR COLTON, CA 92324
The business is conducted by: A GENERAL PARTNERSHIP
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/ SHELLEY M. GENARO, GENERAL PARTNER Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 12/18/2020
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 01/15/2021, 01/22/2021, 01/29/2021, 02/05/2021 CNBB02202103MT

FBN 20200011627
The following person is doing business as: CHRONIC TACOS 806 S TIPPECANOE AVE STE B SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92408; LW TIPPECANOE GAS INC. 58314 JOSHUA LN YUCCA VALLEY, CA 92284
The business is conducted by: A CORPORATION
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/ SHUNDER SINGHPRESIDENT Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 12/22/2020
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 01/15/2021, 01/22/2021, 01/29/2021, 02/05/2021 CNBB02202104MT

FBN 20200011617
The following person is doing business as: UNITED M EXPRESS 1019 N. VERDE AVE RIALTO, CA 92376; DANIEL MONTALVO VILLA 1019 N. VERDE AVE RIALTO, CA 92376
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/ DANIEL MONTALVO VILLA, OWNER Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 12/22/2020
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 01/15/2021, 01/22/2021, 01/29/2021, 02/05/2021 CNBB02202105MT

FBN 20210000061
The following person is doing business as: IE JUNK.COM 2281 MENTONE BLVD MENTONE, CA 92359; JEFFREY M ORDAZ 2281 MENTONE BLVD MENTONE, CA 92359; BRANDI L ORDAZ 2281 MENTONE BLVD MENTONE, CA 92359
The business is conducted by: A MARRIED COUPLE
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/ BRANDI L. ORDAZ Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 01/05/2021
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 01/15/2021, 01/22/2021, 01/29/2021, 02/05/2021 CNBB02202106IR

FBN 20210000258
The following person is doing business as: K.O. PRINTING GRAPHIX 954 W. 9TH STREET UPLAND, CA 91786;[ MAILING ADDRESS 15584 SESAME SEED AVE FONTANA, CA 92336]; JOSE R RODRIGUEZ 15584 SESAME SEED AVE FONTANA, CA 92336
The business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: 07/17/2015
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/ JOE R RODRIGUEZ, OWNER Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 01/11/2021
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 01/15/2021, 01/22/2021, 01/29/2021, 02/05/2021 CNBB02202107IR

FBN 20200011862
The following person is doing business as: DIVINE 1642 E WASHINGTON ST COLTON, CA 92324; ANDREA D OSORIO 1642 E WASHINGTON ST 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: 12/08/2015
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/ ANDREA D. OSORIO, OWNER Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 12/30/2020
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 01/15/2021, 01/22/2021, 01/29/2021, 02/05/2021 CNBB02202108MT

FBN 20200011884
The following person is doing business as: ROSA LA MICHOACANA 1473 E. FOOTHILL BLVD UPLAND, CA 91786; JORGE GUTIERREZ 1473 E. FOOTHILL BLVD UPLAND, CA 91786; ROSALINA GUTIERREZ 1473 E. FOOTHILL BLVD UPLAND, CA 91786
The business is conducted by: A MARRIED COUPLE
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: 06/06/2016
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/ JORGE GUTIERREZ, HUSBAND Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 12/30/2020
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 01/15/2021, 01/22/2021, 01/29/2021, 02/05/2021 CNBB02202109MT

FBN 20200011883
The following person is doing business as: LOKA CHORES, LLC 25586 STATE STREET LOMA LINDA, CA 92354; LOKA CHORES, LLC 25586 STATE STREET LOMA LINDA, CA 92354
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/ LORI BURNS, MANAGER Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 12/30/2020
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 01/15/2021, 01/22/2021, 01/29/2021, 02/05/2021 CNBB02202110MT

FBN 20210000371
The following person is doing business as: ROSAS UPHOLSTERY 778 E BASELINE ST SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92410;[ MAILING ADDRESS 1924 VIA DEL RIO ST CORONA, CA 92882]; KENIA ROSAS 1924 VIA DEL RIO ST CORONA, CA 92882
The business is conducted by: AN INIVIDUAL
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: 01/01/2021
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/ KENIA ROSAS, OWNER Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 01/14//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 01/15/2021, 01/22/2021, 01/29/2021, 02/05/2021 CNBB02202111MT

FBN 20210000313
The following person is doing business as: HIGH LIMITZ TOWING 519 S. CYORESS AVE. ONTARIO, CA 9762; HIGH LIMITZ TOWING LLC 519 S. CYPRESS AVE ONTARIO, CA 91762
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: 01/11/2021
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/ FERNANDO VIZCARRA, MANAGING MEMBER Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 01/13/2021
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 01/15/2021, 01/22/2021, 01/29/2021, 02/05/2021 CNBB02202112IR

FBN 20210000244
The following person is doing business as: SHADES OF TINT 1409 W HOLLT BLVD ONTARIO, CA 91762;[ MAILING ADDRESS 1409 W HOLT BLVD ONTARIO, CA 91762
The business is conducted by: A CORPORATION
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: 01/01/2021
By signing, I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime (B&P Code 179130. I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing.
s/ JOSE A. LUNA, OWNER Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 01/08/2021
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 01/15/2021, 01/22/2021, 01/29/2021, 02/05/2021 CNBB02202113CV

FBN 20210000227
The following person is doing business as: PROTECTION 1 FIREARMS 7262 CUMBERLAND PL RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA 91739;[ MAILING ADDRESS 7262 CUMBERLAND PL RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA 91739]; JESSE EMBRY 7262 CUMBERLAND PL RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA 91739
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/ JESSE EMBRY, OWNER Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 01/08/2021
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 01/22/2021, 01/29/2021, 02/05/2021, 02/12/2021 CNBB03202101IR

FBN 20210000089
The following person is doing business as: IGOR LAPIN ENTERPRISES 15904 STRATHERN ST STE #20 VAN NUYS, CA 91406; IGOR LAPIN 15904 STRATHEN ST STE #20 VAN NUYS, CA 91406
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/ IGOR LAPIN, OWNER Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 01/06/2021
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 01/22/2021, 01/29/2021, 02/05/2021, 02/12/2021 CNBB03202102MT

FBN 20210000101
The following person is doing business as: BODY SHAPEZZZ 2550 S ARCHIBALD AVE #F ONTARIO, CA 91761; YASMEEN G CHOUDRY 2550 S ARCHIBALD AVE #F ONTARIO, CA 91761
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/ YASMEEN G. CHOUDRY, OWNER Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 01/06/2021
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 01/22/2021, 01/29/2021, 02/05/2021, 02/12/2021 CNBB03202103MT

FBN 20210000156
The following person is doing business as: GEM’S 1200 E WASHINGTON ST SUITE F4 COLTON, CA 92324; MARIA F OSORIO-LOPEZ 1200 E WASHINGTON ST 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: 02/08/2016
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/ MARIA D. OSORIO-LOPEZ, OWNER Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 01/07/2021
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 01/22/2021, 01/29/2021, 02/05/2021, 02/12/2021 CNBB03202104MT

FBN 20210000272
The following person is doing business as: CUTS OF RUBY BARBER AND BEAUTY 8901 FONTANA AVE UNIT B FONTANA, CA 92335; ARISBE L CORRALES 8901 FONTANA AVE UNIT B FONTANA, CA 92335
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/ ARISBE L. CORRALES, OWNER Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 01/11/2021
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 01/22/2021, 01/29/2021, 02/05/2021, 02/12/2021 CNBB03202105MT

FBN 20210000271
The following person is doing business as: AK-PLUMBING 923 CREST FIELD DR DUARTE, CA 91010; MATTHEW R FRACASSO 923 CREST FIELD DR DUARTE, CA 91010
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/ MATTHEW R. FRACASSO, OWNER Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 01/11/2021
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 01/22/2021, 01/29/2021, 02/05/2021, 02/12/2021 CNBB03202106MT

FBN 20210000220
The following person is doing business as: YEYO’S SMOG & TIRE 607 W 9TH ST SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92410; REDLANDS SMOG INC 24565 REDLANDS BLVD LOMA LINDA, CA 92354
The business is conducted by: A CORPORATION
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/ HECTOR CHAVEZ, PRESIDENT Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 01/08/2021
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 01/22/2021, 01/29/2021, 02/05/2021, 02/12/2021 CNBB03202107MT

FBN 20210000273
The following person is doing business as: ROYAL CROWNS CLEANING SERVICES 7860 SAN BENITO ST HIGHLAND, CA 92346; ROYAL CROWNS CLEANING SERVICES 7860 SAN BENITO ST HIGHLAND, CA 92346
The business is conducted by: A CORPORATION
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/ ROBERTO LARA, PRESIDENT Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 01/11/2021
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 01/22/2021, 01/29/2021, 02/05/2021, 02/12/2021 CNBB03202108MT

FBN 20210000221
The following person is doing business as: ARTISTRY IN MOTION DANCE & FIT 10557 JUNIPER AVE UNIT J FONTANA, CA 92337; MIGUEL A LIMON-RODARTE 10557 JUNIPER AVE UNIT J FONTANA, CA 92337
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/ MIGUEL A. LIMON-RODARTE, OWNER Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 01/08/2021
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 01/22/2021, 01/29/2021, 02/05/2021, 02/12/2021 CNBB03202109MT

FBN 20210000313
The following person is doing business as: HIGH LIMITZ TOWING 519 S. CYPRESS AVE ONTARIO, CA 91762; HIGH LIMITZ LLC 13657 LUNA RD VICTORVILLE, CA 92392
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: 01/31/2019
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/ FERNANDO VIZCARRA, MANAGING MEMBER Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 01/13/2021
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 01/22/2021, 01/29/2021, 02/05/2021, 02/12/2021 CNBB03202110IR

FBN 20210000431
The following person is doing business as: EL BOTANERO LOCO 1371 W. 2ND ST. SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92410; MICHELE J HERNANDEZ ALVARADO 1371 W. 2ND ST. SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92410
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/ MICHELE J. HERNANDEZ ALVARADO, OWNER Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 01/15/2021
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 01/22/2021, 01/29/2021, 02/05/2021, 02/12/2021 CNBB03202111IR

FBN 20210000452 STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTICIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT
The following person is doing business as: 909 TOWING 6183 SIERRA AVE FONTANA, CA 92354;[ MAILING ADDRESS 1634 ROGERS LN SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92404]; BRYAN A BOQUIN 6183 SIERRA AVE FONTANA, CA 92336
The business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino County on 03/20/2019. Original File# 20190003444
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: 03/20/2019
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/ BRYAN A. BOQUIN, OWNER Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 01/15/2021
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 01/22/2021, 01/29/2021, 02/05/2021, 02/12/2021 CNBB03202112IR

FBN 20210000463
The following person is doing business as: WWW.LEGALPROCESSSERVICES.COM 1266 N MT VERNON AVE COLTON, CA 92324; CREATIVE PRIVATEEYE LLC 1266 N MT VERNON AVE COLTON, CA 92324
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/ ABEL SILVA, MANAGING MEMBER Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 01/15/2021
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 01/22/2021, 01/29/2021, 02/05/2021, 02/12/2021 CNBB03202113IR

FBN 20210000398
The following person is doing business as: MARIBEL’S CATERING 12754 COBALT RD VICTORVILLE, CA 92392; MARIBEL SOLARES 12754 COBALT RD VICTORVILLE, CA 92392
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/ MARIBEL SOLARES, OWNER Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 01/14/2021
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 01/22/2021, 01/29/2021, 02/05/2021, 02/12/2021 CNBB03202114IR

FBN 20210000518
The following person is doing business as: REAPER OFFROAD 9908 PRADERA AVE MONTCLAIR, CA 91763; JOHN C GARCIA 9908 PRADERA AVE MONTCLAIR, CA 91763
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/ JOHN C. GARCIA, OWNER Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 01/19/2021
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 01/22/2021, 01/29/2021, 02/05/2021, 02/12/2021 CNBB03202115IR

FBN 20210000269
The following person is doing business as: GREASKULL TATTOO ALLEY 130 S MOUNTAIN AVE UNIT F UPLAND, CA 91786; GREASKULL TATTOO ALLEY 723 S HARBOR BLVD FULLERTON, CA 92832
The business is conducted by: A CORPORATION
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/ LUIS E. OLIVO, PRESIDENT Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 01/11/2021
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 01/22/2021, 01/29/2021, 02/05/2021, 02/12/2021 CNBB03202116IR

FBN 20210000218
The following person is doing business as: DIVERSIFIED TRANSPORT 305 N 2ND AVE #399 UPLAND, CA 91786; THREE POINT ENTERPRISES, INC., WHICH WILL DO BUSINESS IN CALIFORNIA AS THE T.P. COMPANY 1500 E TROPICANA AVE #132 LAS VEGAS, NV 89119
The business is conducted by: A CORPORATION
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/ TADD G. WYATT, PRESIDENT Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 01/08/2021
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 01/22/2021, 01/29/2021, 02/05/2021, 02/12/2021 CNBB03202117IR

FBN 20210000222
The following person is doing business as: KECKI CLEANING SERVICES 16689 FOOTHILL BLVD #108 FONTANA, CA 92335; ELIZABETH GONZALEZ 16689 FOTHILL BLVD #108 FONTANA, CA 92335
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/ ELIZABETH GONZALEZ , OWNER Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 01/08/2021
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 01/22/2021, 01/29/2021, 02/05/2021, 02/12/2021 CNBB03202118IR

FBN 20210000503
The following person is doing business as: PURE & DRINKING WATER 1640 E. HIGHLAND AVE. SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92404;[ MAILING ADDRESS 2185 W. COLLEGE VIEW AVE. APT 3065 SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92404]; FRANCISCO L GARCIA 1640 E. HIGHLAND AVE. SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92404
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/ FRANCISCO L. GARCIA, OWNER Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 01/19/2021
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 01/22/2021, 01/29/2021, 02/05/2021, 02/12/2021 CNBB03202119IR

FBN 20210000504
The following person is doing business as: TAZ.GURU2315 STATE LN BIG BEAR CITY, CA 92314;[ MAILING ADDRESS P.O BOX 416 BIG BEAR CITY, CA 92314]; KYLER J BULLOCK 2315 STATE LN BIG BEAR CITY, CA 92314
The business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: 06/03/2019
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/ KYLER J. BULLOCK, OWNER Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 01/19/2021
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 01/22/2021, 01/29/2021, 02/05/2021, 02/12/2021 CNBB03202120IR

FBN 20210000516
The following person is doing business as: MALU CREPES 600 S. RIVERSIDE AVE. APT 204 RIALTO, CA 92376; MAYRA P REYNA 600 S. RIVERSIDE AVE. APT 204 RIALTO, CA 92376; LUIS F SUAREZ JIMENEZ 600 S. RIVERSIDE AVE. APT 204 RIALTO, CA 92376
The business is conducted by: A MARRIED COUPLE
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/ MAYRA P. REYNA, WIFE Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 01/19/2021
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 01/22/2021, 01/29/2021, 02/05/2021, 02/12/2021 CNBB03202121IR

FBN 20210000431
The following person is doing business as: SOLYART BARBERSHOP 800 E. LUGONIA AVE. SUITE D REDLANDS, CA 92374; SLEIMAN I MOUSSA 800 E. LUGONIA AVE. SUITE D REDLANDS, CA 92374
The business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: SEP. 11, 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/ SLEIMAN I. MOUSSA OWNER Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 01/21/2021
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 01/22/2021, 01/29/2021, 02/05/2021, 02/12/2021 CNBB03202122IR

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Sentinel 01-15-21

By Mark Gutglueck
In a move which has consolidated a considerable portion of the power of county government into the hands of a single domineering political personage, the San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors last week broke with 50 years of tradition and established protocol, selecting Supervisor Curt Hagman, who has just finished a two-year term as board chairman, to a second two-year term as that panel’s leader.
The official rationale given for extending what has become Hagman’s vice-grip on the reins of local/regional government was to maintain continuity of leadership in the throes of the COVID-19 pandemic, so to ensure ongoing coordination of response to the crisis. Still, because the county’s performance in meeting the test of the coronavirus contagion has proven less than sterling, attributing the need to keep him in place to continue that effort suggests the willingness of Hagman’s board colleagues to perpetuate his hold on the scepter of county command in actuality grew out of his having prevailed in a power struggle by which he succeeded in ruthlessly vanquishing his rivals or otherwise convinced his coadjutors that their acceptance of an alliance in which he holds primacy is in their own political interest.
Whatever the true reason, the action elevates Hagman to a position of political prominence that rivals or surpasses that of any member of the board of supervisors in San Bernardino County history.
The role of board chairman, while considered by casual observers to be an honorific with little practical enhancement of the power a supervisor already possesses, actually carries with it authority that extends the gavel holder’s reach from that of one of the county’s five legislators to that of a top echelon administrator with a governmental structure with a $5 billion annual budget, who, if he chooses to exercise the power entrusted to him, can be a co-regent of the county together with the county chief executive officer. Presiding over the board of supervisors meetings, from which position the ebb and flow of debate and discussion of the panel is controlled, comes across as the most visible duty of the chairman or chairwoman. Yet, the board chairman also works more closely with the county executive leadership than any of the other supervisors. Thus, the supervisors’ chair has continuous contact with the county chief executive officer, and direct contact with the several assistant and deputy county chief executive officers, the county chief operating officer and the county’s various department heads. The board chairman sets the board’s agenda, controlling in large measure what action will be considered, and the chairman’s authority extends to being the board’s and thereby the county’s executive agent, as well as its official outside representative to other agencies and corporations the county deals with.
Since the codification of the policy pertaining to its internal authority and hierarchy in 1970, the board of supervisors has followed a practice of rotating the chair position to one of its members who has served a minimum of two years who has not yet served as chairperson. The board has consistently for half a century adhered to the other tenet of the policy which prevents a chairperson from serving two terms in succession.
In this way, when the board met on January 5, the logical appointment to head the county’s ultimate decision-making panel over the next two years was Third District Supervisor Dawn Rowe, who has been on the board since December 2018. Second District Supervisor Janice Rutherford, who has been on the board since 2010, previously served as chairwoman. Hagman has been on the board since 2014, and has been board chairman for the last two years. First District Supervisor Paul Cook was elected last year, as was Fifth District Supervisor Joe Baca, Jr.
It was thus widely assumed that Rowe was to be designated chairwoman. There were two issues on the board’s discussion calendar relating to the chair appointment, which were placed well down on the agenda as items number 54 and 55. Item 54 called for “waiv[ing] County Policy 02-02 … and direct[ing] the clerk of the board to conduct the election for chair of the board of supervisors without the requirements included in the policy. Item 54 was to be presented by Rowe. Item 55 was the election of both the board chair and board vice chair.
What followed had all the hallmarks of a choreographed set-up and a violation of the Brown Act, California’s open public meeting law.
Rowe said, “Policy 02-02 states that the office of the chairperson is to rotate every two years, and that no chairperson shall serve two terms in succession, and I would propose we suspend that policy. First and foremost, I think our chairman has done an exemplary job during [the] COVID [crisis]. The other consideration is the policy states the next chairperson is determined on the seniority of the members who have served on the board for a minimum of two years and have not yet served as chairperson. So, according to that scenario, I would be the most likely chairperson next on the board, and I look forward to that honor someday, and I would look forward to leading the county and this board. I have not even had the opportunity to serve as a vice chair, and I would enjoy some more time and rank, if the board chooses to go that direction. I think primarily, during a pandemic is not the time to change leadership. I think Supervisor Cook will understand battle rhythm and op tempo, and we have had a significant op tempo increase during COVID. Chairman Hagman and I have had opportunities to meet with our outside foreign partners, and what he has been able to negotiate in terms of PPE [personal protective equipment] and getting it in, and having the status as the chairman of the county has enabled him in part to be able to have those negotiations be successful. I have had the opportunity to see him implement our COVID Compliant Business Partnership Program. Tremendous leadership all the way around to our skilled nursing task force! So, Mr. Chairman, I commend you on your continued leadership, and it would be, I think, in the best interests of the citizens of San Bernardino County and our board if you were given another opportunity to serve, to continue your leadership during this pandemic. So, I would ask the board for comments and consideration to suspend the board policy.”
A giveaway that a violation of the Brown Act had occurred ensued with comments from Supervisor Paul Cook, whose comments clearly reflected that he was not taken by surprise over Rowe’s proposal.
The Brown Act is California’s open public meeting law, which prohibits a quorum of a governing board from coming to a decision or forming a consensus with regard to a matter to be voted upon in any way, manner or in a forum outside that of a scheduled and agendized public meeting. The Brown Act prohibits the holding of serial meetings in which one governing board member meets with another in private and the two resolve on taking action or coordinating a vote, followed by one of those meeting in private with another member of the same panel where further coordination of a vote takes place. Cook’s remarks strongly indicated he had come to a conclusion with regard to keeping Hagman as chairman prior to the meeting.
In what sounded to be a prepared response, Cook said, “I’m obviously new here, but I’ve been seeing a lot of changes in leadership in a lot of different areas, obviously the military, Congress, local government, and the one thing you have to be very, very careful of when you are in the middle of a crisis, and you have a leader who is handling the situation and everything is well in hand reacting to everything that is happening on a daily basis, you don’t want to change leadership unless you have a very good reason. Unfortunately, normally it’s illness or, heaven forbid, death. So, I strongly support continuing the leadership of the current chair for a short time.”
At that point, Cook, a Marine veteran who had reached the rank of lieutenant colonel, the one-time mayor of Yucca Valley, a member of the California Assembly and then the U.S. Congress, credited Hagman with being a member of Congress. “All the years in Congress, his leadership and everything else, his leadership has been exemplary,” Cook said of Hagman.
In fact, Hagman was not a member of Congress but had served in the California Assembly for six years.
Cook indicated he too wanted to keep Hagman in place.
Supervisor Baca said he supported suspending Policy 02-02, and the motion to do so passed unanimously.
Immediately thereafter, Hagman, as the chairman, pushed forward to the next agenda item, 55, election of the chair and vice-chair of the board. Once again, what looked to be a set-up ensued. Immediately upon Hagman introducing the item, Rowe and Rutherford preempted Clerk of the Board Lynna Monnell, who was unable to read the title of the issue to be voted on before Rowe nominated Hagman as chairman and Rutherford pressed to have that confirmed.
“Mr. Chair, I would like to nominate you to remain as chairman of the next duration,” uttered Rowe.
“Second,” Rutherford exclaimed. There was no discussion, but Monnell at that point asserted herself, insisting on complying with parliamentary protocol by reading through the order of proceedings, risking the ire of her political masters, who have already sued her on another issue, by doing so.
Thereafter, Rowe and Rutherford reiterated their nomination and second. Rutherford then nominated Rowe to serve as vice-chair. Monnell took separate votes on both nominations, each of which passed unanimously.
Public comments were not accepted until after the nominations were voted upon. No members of the public remarked upon Hagman’s retention as chairman.
Multiple questions attended the board’s action in retaining Hagman as board chairman.
No explanation was provided as to where the board derived the power to waive or suspend the rules governing itself.
Ostensibly, based on the statements made publicly by the members of the board of supervisors, the renomination of Hagman as chairman grew organically out of his board colleagues’ desire to have him remain installed in that capacity. There were indications, however, that the decision was not one spontaneously made among the supervisors during the January 5 meeting, and that the retention of Hagman was a carefully and artfully choreographed move to broaden his power. There are indications the move, indeed, originated with Hagman himself.
Hagman has generally made an effort to cultivate an image of calm collection and unhurried patience with the public decision-making process, and convey to his constituents that he is a team member who works through collective agreement. Despite his practice of maintaining his equanimity in public settings and avoiding any obvious showing of disconcertion, when the official action of the board runs counter to what Hagman’s intentions are, he will assert himself, usually in measured degrees, first mildly and then more firmly in an effort to move events in the direction he prefers. Those close to the situation of governance in the county seat and indeed Hagman himself acknowledge that he is an alpha type whose first and overriding aim is political dominance. Where possible, Hagman attempts to achieve a consensus of sorts, and he has done this by creative political horse-trading in the backroom in situations where he encounters others at the power brokerage table who have priorities that do not align with or coincide with his own. Simultaneously, however, he is constantly working toward establishing a coalition with his counterparts on the board, driving to get them to align with him while ultimately recognizing him as the top dog. Thus, Hagman militates to maintain control constantly.
An illustration of Hagman’s primacy unto himself is the circumstance by which he came onto the board of supervisors in 2014. At that point, Hagman had served six years – three two-year terms – in the California Assembly, representing the 60th District from 2008 to 2012 and then the 55th Assembly District for two years after the 2012 redistricting that took place following the 2010 Census. Under the term limit rules then in place, Hagman was precluded from seeking reelection to the Assembly and he could not run that year for the California Senate without changing his residence or challenging another incumbent Republican. Thus, he resolved to prolong his political career not by remaining in Sacramento or returning to the Chino Hills City Council where had he previously been a councilman and mayor, but by running for the board of supervisors. The Fourth District supervisor’s position at that time was held by Gary Ovitt, a fellow Republican. This presented Hagman with a certain dilemma, as it seemed to go without saying that Ovitt, who would not be termed out of his position as supervisor until 2022, was purposed to seek reelection in 2014. It so happened that Gloria Negrete-McLeod, a Democrat who was at that point a first term member of Congress and former California state senator and assemblywoman, was anxious to depart from Congress and was intent on running for Fourth District supervisor against Ovitt, hoping that voter registration numbers that were trending in favor of the Democrats in the Fourth Supervisorial District might aid her in her electoral quest.
Adroitly, Hagman in late 2013 made an effort to depose then-San Bernardino County Republican Central Committee Chairman Robert Rego, under whom the Party of Lincoln in San Bernardino County had built a highly efficient political machine. Marshaling all of his power and advantage as an incumbent state office holder, including his alliance with former Republican legislative leader Jim Brulte who was then vying to become the head of the California Republican Party, Hagman engineered a bloodless coup against Rego in San Bernardino County, getting his agreement to step down as county party chairman in return for Hagman keeping him in an important functionary role within the party. Having thus captured control of San Bernardino County’s Republican Party apparatus including its accrued funds, fundraising capability and campaign machinery, Hagman subtly put the squeeze on Ovitt, ultimately convincing him that discretion would prove the better part of valor by his choosing not to run for reelection in 2014 in a circumstance in which he would be facing, on one side, Negrete-McLeod and the growing number of Democratic voters in the Fourth District, and Hagman on the other side, with his control of the Republican Party’s electioneering machinery, existing funding and donors putting up money in the future. Aided by his chief of staff in his Assembly Office, Mike Spence, who was also the West Covina mayor, Hagman ran an energetic, resourceful and sophisticated campaign that relied on driving large numbers of Republicans to the polls. In this way, he proved successful against Negrete-McLeod, whose skill in running a campaign was nowhere as refined as Hagman’s and Spence’s. In that year’s June primary which featured four candidates, Hagman finished a close second behind Negrete-McLeod, thereby qualifying for the November 2014 run-off. At that point, Hagman and Spence brought all of their electioneering acumen to bear against Negrete-McLeod, such that the incumbent Assemblyman Hagman eked out a 24,480 votes or 52.11 percent to 22,502 votes or 47.89 percent victory over the incumbent Congresswoman Negrete-McLeod.
Hagman’s unerring political instincts have been constantly on display. Rarely does he lose in a political fight, and when he does, it comes across as a calculated loss, usually on an issue or matter that is less than crucial, one which he can afford to lose to appease his rivals and diminish their appetite for victory in the next and more important battle. While he is no longer the titular head of the Republican Party in San Bernardino County, having allowed the title of chair of the San Bernardino County Republican Central Committee to be claimed by Jan Leja, Hagman remains the de facto head of the GOP in San Bernardino County.
As Hagman goes in San Bernardino County, so go the Republicans. In 2018, when he had to stand for reelection, he was again faced by Negrete-McLeod, who was the second time around a little bit wiser as well as the beneficiary of the continuing movement of the Fourth Supervisorial District’s voter registration numbers in favor of the Democrats. Nevertheless, in a toe-to-toe slugfest in which they were the only candidates in the June Primary, Hagman again outhustled Negrete-McLeod by an even greater margin than not quite four years before, 25,468 votes or 53.41 percent to 22,213 votes of 46.59 percent. Thus Hagman in 2018 won the Fourth District supervisorial election outright, avoiding a November run-off.
The prior year, Hagman had surprised everyone when he hired Ontario City Councilman Alan Wapner as his policy advisor. Those in the know understood that there were definite differences between the two men, both of whom are alpha type personalities who dominate, or at least attempt to dominate, everyone and everything in their respective orbits. The move to hire Wapner was for many baffling, because it seemed to strengthen Wapner, who was perceived in some circles, at least, as a potential rival to Hagman, someone who might challenge him for the Fourth District supervisorial post. Giving Wapner the title of policy advisor or policy director was seen as risky, since the ambitious Wapner, who has well over $250,000 in his electioneering fund that has been accrued over his more than 20 years in office in Ontario, was and is capable of turning on a dime, perhaps challenging Hagman for the Fourth District supervisor post. Hagman appeared to be giving Wapner the opportunity to say that he had the practical experience to move into the supervisor’s post, based on his having served as the architect of Hagman’s policy as supervisor. If Wapner indeed sought to run against his employer, Hagman would be hard-pressed to deny Wapner’s suitability for the office of supervisor, given that Hagman held him in enough esteem to rely upon his advice. Hagman’s hiring of Wapner therefore struck many political observers as foolhardy. Still, Hagman appears to have known exactly what he was doing, which was to buy Wapner’s loyalty during the 2018 political season. Ultimately, while working for Hagman in the policy director’s post, Wapner chose not to run for supervisor, leaving Hagman free to battle one-on-one with Negrete-McLeod and vanquish her. Some sixth months after the June 2018 election where Hagman was retained by the Fourth District’s voters as supervisor, Hagman moved to quietly terminate Wapner as his policy advisor.
Another testimony to Hagman’s political skill is the abiding primacy of the Republican Party in San Bernardino County. Throughout the Golden State, the GOP is in eclipse and the Democrats are in an overwhelmingly superior position. Democrats occupy the governorship, the lieutenant governorship, the office of state attorney general, insurance commissioner, secretary of state, secretary of public instruction and state controller. The Democrats have super-majorities in both the Assembly and California Senate. Both of the state’s U.S. senators are Democrats. Of the state’s 53 members of Congress, 42 are Democrats. In San Bernardino County at present, voter registration solidly favors the Democrats overall, with 458,668 or 40.8 percent of the county’s 1,124,754 registered voters as of this week affiliated with the Democratic Party and 334,813 or 29.8 percent registered as Republicans. Of the county’s five supervisorial districts, all but the First District have more registered Democratic voters than registered Republican voters. The Republican voter registration advantage in the First District is by no means overwhelming: 78,444 voters or 35.6 percent identify as Republican while 76,050 voters or 34.5 percent call themselves Democrats. Despite what should be a major foothold for the Democrats in the county, four of the county’s five supervisors – Hagman, Rutherford, Rowe and Cook – are Republicans. Only Joe Baca, Jr., representing the Fifth District, is a Democrat. In the Fifth District, the Democratic registration advantage is overwhelming, as 100,971 or 50.4 percent of the district’s 200,442 voters are Democrats and 37,878 voters or 18.9 percent are Republicans.
Throughout San Bernardino County, Republican turnout at the polls percentagewise is far higher than the percentage of Democratic voter turnout. The San Bernardino County Republican Party’s electioneering machinery – consisting of the production of mailers, handbills, advertisements, media and signs promoting Republican candidates and issues – is far more energetic, coordinated and effective than the electioneering assets controlled by the Democratic Party in San Bernardino County. While the Republicans’ political hold on San Bernardino County is not wholly or in the main attributable to Hagman and Hagman alone, his position of party leadership over the years and his own ambition, which often runs in parallel with the efforts to benefit his allies so he can achieve his goals in office, has benefited the party.
In 2018, Democratic representation on the board of supervisors had crept up to 40 percent of the board, as then-Fifth District Supervisor Josie Gonzales, a Democrat, had been a member of the board since 2004 and James Ramos, an independently wealthy Democrat, had used his own money to fuel a campaign through which he captured a position on the board of supervisors representing the Third District in 2012, gaining reelection in 2016. In 2018, Ramos had successfully vied for election to the California Assembly, necessitating his resignation from the board of supervisors. At that point, the task of selecting Ramos’s replacement on the board fell to the four remaining supervisors. Though in making his departure Ramos had made clear that he wanted his former board colleagues to appoint a Democrat to replace him, three of the board’s members at that time were Republicans whose loyalty to their party outran whatever allegiance they may have felt toward Ramos or his wishes. When 48 hopefuls living in the Third District, many of them Democrats, applied for the chance to replace Ramos, the board in one fell swoop eliminated 35 of those, leaving 13 candidates at whom they intended to take a closer look. Only one of those 13 was a Democrat. Penultimately, the board reduced those 13 to five Republicans and then ultimately selected Rowe to take Ramos’s place. While Rutherford and then-First District Supervisor Robert Lovingood were sold on Rowe from the outset of the selection process that had to be completed within 30 days of Ramos’s departure to prevent the appointment falling into the hands of the state’s Democratic governor, Hagman hung back without showing partiality to any one candidate in particular, exploring the possibilities that existed with several of the other Republicans who were seeking the post, considering which might make the best fit for the alliance of politicians he is constantly looking to install into positions of governmental authority, thinking in terms of how others in office will advance him and his priorities. In the end, of course, Hagman came around to support Rowe, in so doing impressing upon her that it was his support of her that raised her into the supervisor’s position, in essence conferring upon her an elected office she did not need to actually run for and which paid her $176,236.56 in annual salary, another $18,040.10 in add-on pay and $48,664.60 in benefits for a total annual compensation of $242,941.27. Rowe’s appointment provided her with the advantage of incumbency, which assisted her in fundraising and ultimately assisted in her being able to win a four-year term as Third District supervisor in her own right in the election held in March 2020. This has made Rowe both politically and personally/financially beholden to Hagman, as evidenced by her willingness to forego being installed as chairwoman of the board of supervisors last week in order for Hagman to remain in the chairman’s post for another two years. In this way, Hagman will be board chairman in 2022, when he will need to run for reelection to remain as Fourth District supervisor. If indeed Hagman chooses to seek reelection in 2022, holding the position of board chairman presents a tremendous advantage in terms of numerous elements of running a campaign, including fundraising, as the chairman’s power gives him administrative reach that extends to, if not outright controlling, then influencing how and with whom the county contracts for the provision of goods and services.
No sooner did Rowe get oriented into office in January 2019 than she utilized the position of trust and governmental authority that had been vested in her to convert her governmental-derived power into political reach. Prior to her elevation to supervisor, Rowe had worked on Cook’s Congressional staff when he was a member of the House of Representatives. As supervisor, Rowe hired Matt Knox, who had worked with her as a member of Cook’s staff, as her chief-of-staff, and Dillon Lesovsky, who formerly was employed as a member of Cook’s congressional staff, as her policy advisor. Rowe also hired Suzette Swallow, who had previously worked for Rutherford, to serve as her director of communications. In addition to their governmental staff work, Knox, Lesovsky and Swallow had all served as political operatives for Republican candidates during previous elections. Once on board with Rowe’s office, they formed the core of a political operation that was dedicated to the election of Republican candidates in the 2020 election, including Rowe for supervisor and campaigns on behalf of Cook and Jay Obernolte, at that time an Assemblyman. In August of 2019, when Robert Lovingood announced his decision not to seek reelection as First District supervisor, Cook in short order announced he would not vie for reelection to Congress and would instead run for supervisor. Obernolte at once declared his intention to leave the California Legislature and seek the congressional seat that Cook was vacating.
The political operation in Rowe’s office went into overdrive. In the election corresponding to the March 2020 California Primary, both Rowe and Cook were handily elected as Third and First District supervisors respectively, bypassing the need for them to compete in a runoff in November 2020, as they both captured well over fifty percent of the vote. Ultimately, Obernolte in November 2020 won election to Congress in California’s 8th Congressional District, and he has now replaced Cook in Washington, D.C. Former Hesperia Mayor Thurston “Smitty” Smith, affiliated with the Republican coalition that numbers Cook, Rowe and Obernolte among its members, was elected in the same election to replace Obernolte as Assemblyman in the 33rd Assembly District.
In the aftermath of the March 2020 Primary Election, word of the political activity ongoing in Rowe’s supervisorial office was being bruited about the county. With Rowe’s and Cook’s election to office safely behind them, Knox and Lesovsky were redoubling their electioneering activity in preparation for the campaigns relating to the November 2020 election, in particular those for Obernolte, Smith and other Republican candidates such as Hesperia Mayor Larry Bird.
At the July 28, 2020 board of supervisors meeting, Supervisor Rutherford said, “I wanted to ask perhaps [then-County Chief Operating Officer] Leonard [Hernandez] or [County Counsel] Michelle [Blakemore], whoever feels it’s appropriate: We are entering what we refer to lovingly as silly season, that is, the campaign season where there’s lots of campaigning and politicking, and I know we have state law and county policy that we ask our county staff to abide by in terms of not using public resources to do political or campaign work. I wonder if we could just review those and give the public some assurance that we are emphasizing those and communicating those to our staff.”
To at least some members of the public observing the proceedings, which were video-recorded and streamed simultaneously and mounted on the county’s website, Supervisor Rutherford’s remarks appeared to be a call for Hernandez or Blakemore to look into the issues pertaining to campaigns being run out of county facilities by county personnel, and investigate whether there was any substance to recurrent reports to that effect.
Rutherford’s request immediately enlivened Hagman, who in his capacity as board chairman reacted by triggering a computerized voice-over from a teleconference line to interrupt what Supervisor Rutherford was saying in an apparent effort to sidetrack the request Rutherford had made. Ultimately, Hagman responded to the substance of what Rutherford had said, simultaneously downplaying any suggestion that there had been any improper political activity involving supervisorial staff.
“Leonard’s here and he’ll make sure that gets out,” said Hagman, directing, in his capacity as board chairman, that the action Rutherford had requested be carried out by Hernandez as opposed to Blakemore. Hagman then made a coded direction to Hernandez that he should not dig too deeply into the political activity ongoing in Rowe’s office. “He doesn’t have much to report,” Hagman said in a shot over both Rutherford’s and Hernandez’s bows.
In October 2020, the board of supervisors appointed Hernandez to replace Gary McBride as the county’s chief executive officer. By that point, Hernandez had made a final demonstration of his loyalty to Hagman, having receded from aggressively looking into the political activity ongoing in Rowe’s office, thereby avoiding churning up or forcing to the surface documentation or irrefutable proof of the illegal activity that has been rumored to be taking place at the highest level in San Bernardino County government.
Ultimately, the Sentinel ascertained, Hernandez opted out of carrying out a forensic analysis of the computers at Knox’s, Lesovsky’s and Swallow’s workstations or conducting any inquiry that would document their involvement in political activity while they were simultaneously functioning in their official capacities as county employees, what that political activity consisted of and which political candidates they were working on behalf of. Hernandez, from the standpoint of what was best for the advancement of his career, backed away from determining if the political activity Knox, Lesovsky and Swallow were engaged in was being coordinated with, through or at the behest of Supervisor Rowe. If his probe included evaluating the various supervisors’ emails and electronic communications, Hernandez on his own or in conjunction with McBride determined it would be prudent not to publicly reveal if he had come across any communications between Supervisor Rowe and her employees with regard to that political activity.
A multitude of factors appear to have gone into Hernandez’s decision to stand down in the assignment to look into political activity emanating out of the supervisors’ offices. Hernandez’s then-capacity as the county’s chief operating officer gave him access to the county’s assets, facilities, personnel, information and data, including that which could be gleaned from the county’s informational technology division, which would have permitted him to conduct a full-dimensional investigation to get to the bottom of the political activity that was ongoing within Supervisor Rowe’s office in which Lesovsky, Knox, Swallow and any others were involved.
The use of public facilities, equipment and personnel for partisan political activity is illegal.
Hernandez and McBride either collectively and or independently came to the conclusion that creating an evidence file establishing or otherwise documenting that a member or members of the board of supervisors was or were in violation of the law was inadvisable for a host of reasons. Hernandez and McBride also recognized that any documentation of the misdeeds in Rowe’s supervisorial office would potentially either indirectly or indirectly implicate Supervisor-elect Cook, as his campaign was a beneficiary of some of that political activity, and shedding discredit on two or more of the members of the board of supervisors might have unfavorable consequences for both Hernandez and McBride once Cook took up his position as supervisor. Another reason Hernandez chose to eighty-six the investigation was that Rutherford’s staff had also been implicated in political activity. Swallow, after serving as Rowe’s communications director, returned to Rutherford’s office. Additionally, Phil Paule, Rutherford’s chief of staff, was moonlighting during the 2020 election cycle as a political operative.
The Sentinel has obtained documentation showing that Rowe’s supervisorial campaign made a $16,500 payment to Knox, her chief of staff, for services he rendered to his boss’s 2020 electioneering effort. Rowe’s campaign also made a payment of $7,000 to Lesovsky as remuneration for his role as a consultant to her campaign for election on March 3, 2020, documentation in the possession of the Sentinel shows. The Paul Cook for Supervisor campaign paid Lesovsky $2,700, another document obtained by the Sentinel establishes. Additionally, the Sentinel has learned from campaign disclosure documents filed with the federal government, Paule, while simultaneously employed in the capacity of Rutherford’s chief of staff, worked on behalf of Obernolte’s congressional campaign. The Obernolte for Congress campaign paid Paule’s company, Paule Consulting, $10,000 for his assistance in the 2020 campaign.
Furthermore, information, documentation and other evidence available to the Sentinel show that Paule, along with Rutherford’s Assistant Chief of Staff Mark Taylor, Swallow and one of Rutherford’s district representatives, Ben Lopez, were actively involved in Rutherford’s 2018 reelection campaign. Swallow served in the capacity of Rutherford’s campaign manager and as her campaign scheduler. Finance documentation for Rutherford’s 2018 reelection campaign obtained by the Sentinel shows that Swallow received $24,262.35 in payments and reimbursements for her work, which included serving as a campaign consultant. Mark Taylor was not paid directly by the Rutherford campaign for the work he did on behalf of the effort to reelect Rutherford in 2018. Rather, his wife, Mondi Taylor, was paid $10,948.49 by the Rutherford campaign in 2018, primarily for “professional services.”
Campaign documentation shows Lopez was paid $2,878.31 by the Rutherford campaign, $2,750 of which was for consulting work. Documentation relating to the reimbursements Lopez received from the Rutherford campaign establish that he was engaged in campaign-related activity during normal business hours when he was supposed to be functioning in his role as a county employee.
No payments were made directly to Paule or his consulting company from Rutherford’s 2018 electioneering fund. Nevertheless, in 2018 during the campaign, Paule was repeatedly present at Rutherford’s campaign headquarters during normal weekday business hours. Similarly, Lopez, Swallow and Taylor were witnessed at Rutherford’s Rancho Cucamonga campaign office during the 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. workday window on several days during the Spring 2018 campaign season, hours when, as county employees, they were required to be at their county work stations.
Additionally, Meridian Pacific, Inc., which provided the Rutherford campaign with digital advertising, campaign literature, mailings and communication services for which it was paid $279,798.31, utilized Rutherford’s staff employees as subcontractors for work it was carrying out related to the Rutherford campaign, documents show.
Upon Rutherford learning that her July 28 remarks were being interpreted as a call for Hernandez to undertake an investigation into the electioneering activity of the county’s supervisors’ staff members, including her own, she made clear that was not her intent, according to David Wert, the county’s public information officer.
At least in part because of his willingness to shut down the investigation that Rutherford had seemed to commission and make sure that none of the information he turned up saw the light of day, Hernandez was awarded with being elevated to the county’s highest ranking staff position in October.
By keeping a lid on Hernandez’s investigation into the political activity within the various supervisors’ offices, Hagman earned the appreciation of Rowe, Cook and, ironically because she had touched it off, Rutherford. This appears to be a proximate reason for Rowe, Cook and Rutherford’s willingness to have Hagman remain as board chairman.
Hernandez, who was pulling down $206,650.80 yearly in salary as chief operating officer along with $26,567.20 in other pay and $117,390.60 in annual benefits for a total annual compensation package of $350,608.60, saw his annual salary zoom to around $302,000 and his total compensation package jump to somewhere in excess of $510,000 with his appointment to chief executive officer. Using public money, Hagman has purchased Hernandez’s loyalty.
Of note is that in justifying keeping Hagman in position as board chairman, first Rowe and then Cook cited Hagman’s performance in leading the county in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The county’s track record with respect to its response to the crisis brought on by the spread of the coronavirus, however, is checkered at best.
A critical shortcoming was the county’s employment of Trudy Raymundo as the county’s director of public health and Hagman’s initial unwillingness, in his role as board chairman last year, to come to terms with the implication of her failure to perform adequately as the coronavirus crisis in San Bernardino County deepened. Raymundo, who acceded to the director’s position in 2012, had been an employee with county since 1990, and was moved into a position within the San Bernardino County Department of Public Health as a program coordinator in 1997. Over the next dozen years she served in the capacity of administrative analyst in the department and then promoted into the position of assistant director. In 2010, she was elevated to serve as interim director of the department. In 2012, the qualifier “interim” was dropped from her title and she became the public health department’s director.
Raymundo is neither a nurse nor a doctor, and she has no extensive training in the field of medicine or the biological sciences. Rather, she holds a bachelor’s degree in accounting and business management from California State University San Bernardino. Her elevation to the head of the public health department was freely entered into by Greg Devereaux, then the county’s chief executive officer, as well as the board of supervisors in 2012. The calculation at that time was that Raymundo, as a numbers cruncher who had no training or especial interest in medical or public health issues, was someone who would not get abstracted into the minutiae of, or worry about, the latest trends in public health maintenance and medicine and addressing any single individual’s or groups of individuals’ medical needs but who would instead focus on the bottom line, concerning herself with economic management of the department and constraining her underlings to conforming to the budget the board of supervisors and the county chief executive officer had laid out for her to remain within.
There were repeated indications over the years that Raymundo was essentially unschooled with regard to public health issues, per se. As the head of the department, Raymundo was called upon to present reports to the board of supervisors with regard to items that body needed to consider and vote upon relating to public health issues. Raymundo was credited with having authored those reports, most of which dealt with the topics in question on a relatively superficial level without going into great depth, and giving the board members only a basic orientation and voting recommendation. Occasional press inquiries made directly to Raymundo, however, laid bare that she had no command whatsoever of the contents of those reports or the technical considerations upon which they were based. Indeed, after a relative handful of such inquiries, the county made a practice of routing any further such inquiries away from her to either the county’s official spokesman or a woman specifically hired to serve as the public health department’s spokesperson.
In the months just prior to the pandemic, as the coming crisis loomed and those steeped in the medical sciences had an inkling of what was to come, Raymundo, because of her lack of medical expertise, failed to foresee the importance of preparing for what was to befall the county.
In the crucial month-and-a-half to two-month run-up to the pandemic manifesting locally in March, Raymundo, who was provided with a base annual salary and add-ons equal to $196,349.73, together with $103,046.36 in benefits for a total yearly compensation of $299,396.09, failed to act with alacrity and use her hard-nosed business acumen and the negotiating leverage she had as a department head with California’s fifth-largest county population-wise to purchase adequate reserves of equipment, devices, materials and medicine, particularly the reagent needed to perform virus testing, to meet the crisis head on.
Essentially, throughout the initial stages of the crisis, public health officials and the medical community in San Bernardino County were flying blind, as they were unable to test anything more than a minute percentage of the population. Nevertheless, Hagman, under whose watch the county was functioning, engaged in defense after defense of Raymundo’s failure to act.
In the last week of March, the health department offered what it said would be testing for the most vulnerable element of the county population, including those aged 65 or older with the signs of COVID-19, including fever, cough, lethargy, and difficulty breathing. When county residents evincing that symptomology applied for those testing opportunities, an untold number were turned away with no acknowledgment whatsoever that they had even applied. This was repeated over the course of the next couple of weeks when the county claimed it was again hosting testing clinics. Despite the health department at that point having the phone numbers or email addresses of a significant number of individuals who had potentially contracted the coronavirus, the department of public health made no follow-up with them to check on their welfare or COVID-19 status.
The testing debacle prompted Hagman to put out a guardedly apologetic statement on April 10 that, “We understand the high demand for COVID-19 testing in our county and we are making every effort to organize drive-through events throughout the county. We are working closely with state and federal partners and exploring all avenues to increase testing capacity, despite a nationwide challenge with shortage of supplies.”
As the inadequacy of the county’s COVID-19 response became ever more clear, an effort to distance Hagman and the board of supervisors from the debacle was made. CaSonya Thomas, the county’s assistant executive director of human services, to whom the public health department is answerable, in a memo dated May 4 to the sheriff, district attorney, county treasurer, assessor, county chief financial officer, the county’s deputy executive officers and all county department heads announced Raymundo’s departure.
“The purpose of this memo is to share with you that Trudy Raymundo has announced her intention to resign from her position as the county’s director of public health effective May 29,” Thomas wrote.
Hagman took the lead in what turned into a legal action by the board of supervisors requesting the California Supreme Court to enter an order rescinding Governor Gavin Newsom’s precautionary mandates aimed at reducing the spread of the potentially deadly virus in a number of California counties where the contagion was running rampant. Those mandates called for the closures of restaurants and a host of other businesses where there is close contact between customers and employees which could lead to the spread of the condition. The legal action asked for the Supreme Court to quash the governor’s order and rescind the business closures in San Bernardino County.
The county, employing Murrietta-based attorney Robert Tyler in making that filing with the state’s highest court, did so despite the consideration that San Bernardino County was experiencing the highest level of COVID-19 infection rates among all counties in the state at the time it was undertaking the legal action. Between December 14, the day Tyler made the filing with the California Supreme Court, and December 21 inclusive, 134 deaths of county residents were attributed to the disease. That included 52 deaths over a 48-hour period on December 19 and 20. Deaths wholly or partially attributable to COVID-19 in San Bernardino County reached their apex on December 16, when 63 people died. The death rate in December eclipsed that of the summertime coronavirus surge, when, during the seven days of August 2 to August 9, inclusive, 129 people died.
Hagman and the board of supervisors resolved to move ahead with the legal action in response to local officials complaining that Newsom’s order was threatening the livelihoods of a vast number of business owners, and that the restrictions have already forced many entrepreneurs out of business permanently, and continuing restrictions were on the brink of doing the same to a substantial number of others.
Tyler’s filing sought a suspension of the stay-at-home-orders and other restrictions to San Bernardino County.
On Wednesday January 13, the California Supreme Court denied San Bernardino County’s petition to overturn Governor Newsom’s precautionary mandates aimed at slowing the spread of COVID-19.
On January 5, Hagman said he found Rowe’s praise for his leadership of the county in its COVID-19 response, “embarrassing.”
Following the board vote to retain him as chairman, Hagman said, “I just want to say thank you to my colleagues for the vote of confidence. Very humbling! Thank you, and we’ll just keep trying to work as a team to get through what 2021 brings. Hopefully it’s not as eventful as 2020. We’ll continue to work as we have been. It’s a great team, including all the directors and staff we have at the county, and all the county employees and the residents working together.”