FBN 20250000601
The following entity is doing business primarily in San Bernardino County as
GILES REAL ESTATE COMPANY 6081 HELLMAN AVENUE RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA 91737: GILES INDEPENDENT REALTY LLC 6081 HELLMAN AVENUE RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA 91737
Business Mailing Address: 6081 HELLMAN AVENUE RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA 91737
The business is conducted by: A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY registered with the State of California.
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/ BRADLEY GILES, Managing Member
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 1/22/2025
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 K3379
Notice-This fictitious name statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the county clerk. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14400 et seq., Business and Professions Code).
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel on January 31 and February 7, 14 & 21, 2025.

FBN 20250000557
The following entity is doing business primarily in San Bernardino County as
CARWASH MAFIA 18737 OUTER-HWY 18 APPLE VALLEY, CA 92307: CALIFORNIA CAR WASH COMPANY, LLC 31500 GRAPE STREET STE 3-163 LAKE ELSINORE, CA 92532
Business Mailing Address: 31500 GRAPE STREET STE 3-163 LAKE ELSINORE, CA 92532
The business is conducted by: A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY registered with the State of California under the number 201036210223
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: JULY 1, 2024.
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/ SHELLY BARRIOS, Manager
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 1/21/2025
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 J4646
Notice-This fictitious name statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the county clerk. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14400 et seq., Business and Professions Code).
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel on January 31 and February 7, 14 & 21, 2025.

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Outspoken and high-stepping LaVar Ball, the patriarch of one of basketball’s most celebrated families, underwent the amputation of his right foot recently in the aftermath of what was characterized as a “serious medical issue.”
The Chino Hills resident, who has parlayed his status as the father two current NBA stars and another professional basketball player who has played internationally into a lucrative sports apparel business, has a flare for making controversial and attention-grabbing comments on topical matters or those pertaining to the sports world, basketball in particular.
Upon his eldest son Lonzo submitting to the NBA draft after his freshman year at UCLA and turning pro in 2017 by signing with and playing for the Los Angeles Lakers, LaVar Ball immediately capitalized on the notoriety he had, boosting attention to himself, and ultimately his business ventures by making a series of outrageous statements. Included among these was his boast that in his prime hew would have beaten Michael Jordan in a one-on-one game.
He parlayed the notoriety and attention into the creation of a new basketball league in which two of his sons briefly played and the clothing/sports shoe line Big Baller Brand.
A promising but somewhat lackluster college basketball player himself, largely because he had not participated in the sport until late in high school, he briefly starred with West Los Angeles College, where in 1986 he got off to a brilliant start in 1986, scoring 33 points with 18 rebounds against Porterville College in the season opener. This led to his transfer to Washington State where he was made the Cougars’ starting forward. He never lived up to his billing there, however, averaging 2.2 points, 2.3 rebounds and a single assist in 26 games. He transferred once more to Cal State, where he garnered some publicity as one of the three Ball brothers who were starters on that team.
With his wife, Tina Slatinsky, who played women’s basketball at Cal State Los Angeles, he has three sons with talent in basketball that surpasses his own.
His oldest son, Lonzo, played one year with UCLA before submitting to the NBA draft, in which he was a second-round pick by the Los Angeles Lakers in 2017. He was subsequently traded to the New Orleans Pelicans and is now a point guard with the Chicago Bulls.
LaVar and Tina’s second oldest son, LiAngelo, was a standout with Chino Hills High, where both of his brothers played and where he was on a team that won the California State championship. He was recruited by UCLA but forwent playing in college and instead signed on with the Lithuanian team Prienai. Upon his father founding the Junior Basketball Association, he played in that league and seemed destined for the NBA when he was signed by the Detroit Pistons in 2020. The Pistons, nonetheless waived him before the 2020-21 season began. He played with the second tier professional Greensboro Swarm in the NBA G League and most recently played last year for the Mexican team Astros de Jalisco.
LaVar and Tina’s youngest son is LaMelo, who as a 14-year-old freshman school was, with his brothers, a member of the Chino Hills High team that won the state championship. A dispute with his high school coach in which his father was an instigator, led to his leaving Chino Hills High and signing with the Prinai team in Lithuania. In 2018, he returned to the United States to play in the Junior Basketball Association created by his father, and then went back to high school, this time with the SPIRE Academy in Geneva, Ohio. He, like his brother was recruited by UCLA, but instead turned professional once more, playing for the Illawarra Hawks in the Australian National Basketball League in 2019. Subsequently, he was drafted by the Hornets third overall in 2020. He played as a forward and was voted NBA Rookie of the Year in 2021 and played on the NBA All Stat team the following year.
While LaVar and Tina were blessed with tremendous athletic skill and the physical frames to match, they have both suffered health challenges that have tested them.
At this point, there has not been a clarification of what it was that led to the amputation of LaVar’s right foot.
In 2018, Tina had a stroke. She recovered, but was left with expressive aphasia as a result.

By Mark Gutglueck
The San Bernardino City Council on Monday, February 10 returned acting City Manager Rochelle Clayton to her underlying status as deputy city manager as part of a coordinated effort to have her depart the county seat next month to become city manager 69 miles north in Barstow.
Immediately upon Clayton relinquishing her hold on the role of top administrator in San Bernardino, the council that evening during a specially-called meeting elevated Assistant City Manager Tanya Romo to replace her.
Clayton will leave San Bernardino eleven months after she was hired to serve as deputy city manager by then-San Bernardino City Manager Charles Montoya in April 2024, ten months after she was elevated by the city council to serve as interim/acting city manager when the city council terminated Montoya in May 2024 and five months after the San Bernardino City Council unanimously offered her a $325,000 salary/$452,313.36 total annual compensation contract in October 2024 and four months after the city council rescinded that offer in November 2024. In the months since, San Bernardino Mayor Helen Tran, working in conjunction with recently-departed council members Benjamin Reynoso and Kimberly Calvin and recently-elected-and-installed council members Mario Flores and Treasure Ortiz Mayor, has sought to reestablish the consensus to dispense with the qualifier “acting” from Clayton’s official title.
Despite Tran’s intensive efforts, however, research Councilman Ted Sanchez carried out in October 2024 using the California Public Records Act revealed that in July 2024, Clayton learned from the California Department of Housing and Community Development that San Bernardino had been cleared to receive a $17 million Homekey grant earmarked to underwrite the cost of constructing residences for the homeless. The city council had not been informed about that grant award. Other documents Sanchez located showed that equally quietly and without seeking direction from the city council to do so, Clayton had declined the grants. When Clayton was questioned by the council as to why she had made a “command decision” against accepting the grants, she explained that they came with strings attached that she believed would have hamstrung the city in its effort to deal with the challenges presented by the proliferation of homeless.
Consequently, former Councilman Damon Alexander and council members Sanchez, Sandra Ibarra, Juan Figueroa, Fred Shorett and Kim Knaus proved hesitant over the last four months to commit to promoting Clayton to full-fledged city manager status. Continue reading →

At several locations in the San Bernardino Mountains this week there were mud flows that inundated the road and adjacent areas, in some cases creating flows that nearly buried several vehicles.
Indeed, public safety officials and residents as late as today are on the lookout for cars that may be covered by mud in their entirety, perhaps trapping motorists inside their cars and putting their lives in danger.
In particular, along Highway 330, where large swathes of land were denuded of trees, chaparral, bushes and the natural groundcover as a consequence of the Line Fire, which began as the result of arson on September 5 and was still smoldering as late as October 9, there were mudflows as high as four-and-a-half feet and perhaps higher. Photos have been posted to the internet depicting several cars that were either on Highway 330 or its shoulder enveloped in mud reaching nearly to the level of the front hood atop those cars’ engine compartment. One photo showed mud well above the level of what looked to be a small sports car’s hood to a point on the cars’ side windows and front windshield six or seven inches from the roof. Continue reading →

Milton Grimes, who is among a bevy of lawyers who successfully pushed no fewer than 17 of San Bernardino County’s 24 municipalities into adopting by-district city/town council elections between 2014 and 2024 by either veiled or more direct accusations of racial bias in the way those jurisdiction’s choose their elected leadership, was sentenced on Tuesday to 18 months in federal prison for evading the payment of more than $7.2 million in federal and state taxes over a period of more than two decades.
Grimes was sentenced by United States District Judge Stanley Blumenfeld Jr., who also ordered him to pay $7,236,556 in restitution, both to the Internal Revenue Service and to the California Franchise Tax Board.
In October 2024, Grimes pleaded guilty to one count of tax evasion relating to his 2014 taxes and admitted that he failed to pay $1,690,922 to the IRS.
“Despite being a respected attorney, Mr. Grimes also made the deliberate decision to cheat on his taxes for decades, evading the payment of millions of dollars in tax that all citizens are required to pay,” said Acting United States Attorney Joseph T. McNally. “Tax fraud has a corrosive effect on society’s foundations, and we thank our partners at the Internal Revenue Service for their diligence in bringing this defendant to justice.”
“As a successful attorney and owner of a law practice, Mr. Grimes was well aware of his income tax obligations, which he repeatedly chose to evade,” said Los Angeles Internal Revenue Service Field Office Special Agent in Charge Tyler Hatcher. “Despite multiple attempts by the IRS to help him settle his tax obligations, Mr. Grimes continued to obfuscate his income. Unfortunately for him, IRS criminal investigation special agents are the best financial investigators in the world, and now he will feel the repercussions of his actions.” Continue reading →

Ontario International Airport’s official spokesperson took issue with a portion of the narrative in the Sentinel’s January 31 article that bore the headline “Ontario International Airport Ridership Back To Where It Was Eighteen Years Ago.”
That article reported on how, essentially, in 2024 Ontario International Airport achieved the significant milestone of surpassing 7 million passengers, the highest number since the City of Ontario regained ownership from Los Angeles in 2015. The 7,084,864 passengers who passed through the airport’s gates from January 1, 2024 until December 31, 2024 was slightly over 98.3 percent of the 7,207,150 passenger total the airport experienced in 2007. That figure, just shy of the 2007 ridership level at the airport which was the highest in the aerodrome’s history, represented a notable comeback for the airport. During the economic downturn known as the “Great Recession,” which began in 2007 and lingered for six years, ridership at Ontario International Airport dropped off significantly, as it did at virtually every other airport in the country. Passenger traffic into and out of Ontario declined to 6,232,975 in 2008, then dropped to 4,861,110 in 2009 and fell to 4,812,578 in 2010. Those numbers worsened to 4,540,694 in 2011, continued to decline to 4,296,459 in 2012 and hit rock bottom at 3,971,136 in 2013.
By 2010, Ontario officials, spearheaded by Councilman Alan Wapner, seized upon the downturn in usage at Ontario International Airport to openly allege that the City of Los Angeles, which since 1967 pursuant to a joint powers authority agreement with Ontario had been managing and operating the airport and which in 1985 had assumed ownership of it as a public benefit asset, was deliberately mismanaging the airport. In 2011, Wapner and the other officials instituted a formal effort to reclaim control of the airport from Los Angeles. That effort matured into a lawsuit filed in 2013 in which the law firm of Washington, D.C.-based law firm of Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton, sued Los Angeles and Los Angeles World Airports on Ontario’s behalf, claiming neglect and negligence, breach of contract and misfeasance in the operation and management of Ontario International Airport. In 2015, that lawsuit was settled, with Los Angeles agreeing to surrender ownership of the facility to Ontario as of November 1, 2016. In return, Ontario agreed to remunerate Los Angeles $60 million out of its various operating funds and another $30 million taken out of its reserves, make payments of $50 million over five years and $70 million in the final five years of the ten-year ownership transition and further absorbed $60 million of the airport’s bond debt to recompense purchasers of municipal bonds issued by Los Angeles, the proceeds of which had been used to make improvements at the airport. Continue reading →

Travis Pennington, who bore the brunt of local outrage last year when the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation transferred a reported 39 prisoners from California’s Death Row at San Quentin Prison to the California Institution for Men at Chino, has departed as warden for a higher responsibility position with the state penal system.
He is being replaced by Eric Mejia, who has now assumed the title of acting warden in Chino.
Pennington is a fast-rising star in the world of corrections. In October 2021, he was a senior ranking – captain – prison guard. The following month, he was promoted to chief deputy warden. Two years later, in November 2023, while he remained in the rank of chief deputy warden, he was made the acting warden at the California Institution for Men. That turned into an eventful 14-month assignment.
Governor Gavin Newsom, who shortly after taking office enunciated his opposition to the death penalty and in 2020 initiated a pilot program to move a portion of the state’s condemned inmates – 104 of them – out of their traditional holding place at San Quentin Prison, decommissioned the death chamber their entirely in late 2023 and early 2024. In March 2024, he began one of his legacy programs, which called for dispatching the remaining 189 inmates at San Quentin who were sentenced to death and 20 from the women’s facility in Chowchilla to other prisons. In formulating that plan, Newsom seized upon Proposition 66, what had been proposed by its sponsors as a more hardnosed reform of the penal system as applied to capital punishment in the Golden State. Proposition 66 called for speeding the process of capital trials and executions, limiting the challenges to death sentences and eliminating objections and obstructions to the death penalty by those claiming it was a cruel and unusual punishment by prescribing a choice of four barbiturates for lethal injection: amobarbital, pentobarbital, secobarbital and thiopental. Proposition 66 also allowed those sentenced to death to work, with 70 percent of their pay to go toward restitution to their victims, insofar as they were housed in an institution which offered work programs and provided a level of security to prevent them from harming other inmates or escaping. The proposition authorized the state to house death row inmates in any prison, rather than the one death row prison for men and one death row prison for women. Continue reading →

There is concern that the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department and the San Bernardino County District Attorney’s Office may have engaged in inadequate follow-up after the Redlands Police Department’s Community Engagement Team collared two women believed to be key members of a regional retail theft ring.
On January 30, officers with the Redlands Police Department blanketed the Mountain Grove and Citrus Plaza shopping centers in a coordinated effort that also involved store employees, store security/loss prevention officers and retail theft investigators.
With both uniformed public law enforcement and undercover private personnel monitoring the malls in a casual manner, they were able to nab 11 individuals and recover of $7,600 in stolen merchandise in and around several stores, including Target, Kay Jewelers, Burlington, Lane Bryant, Sephora, Ross, Designer Shoe Warehouse, Old Navy, Victoria’s Secret, TJ Maxx, Famous Footwear, Ulta, World Market, Banana Republic, Kohls, Gap, and BevMo.
Among those 11 were two in particular, whose reputation for thievery proceeded them. One of these was Maria Isabel Torres, 28 of Los Angeles, who was recognized from photos taken of her during the commission of similar acts of larceny throughout Southern California in retail establishments in San Diego, Orange, Los Angeles and Riverside County as well as her believed affiliation with others whose thefts range from simple shoplifting such as the type she engages in to more aggressive acts, some of which involve violence and aggressive destruction as both a means of effectuating the theft and as a diversion. Torres, who had earlier that day been identified as having looted a Nordstrom Rack in Riverside in broad daylight and thereafter swiftly making a getaway, was recognized by members of the retail theft prevention team virtually as soon as she came into the Ross store in the Mountain Grove center. The theft-prevention team had been alerted by a Nordstroms loss prevention agent with an accurate description of how Torres was dressed. That information was followed up with a security camera photo of Torres at the Riverside location. Upon surveilling Torres for more than ten minutes, satisfying themselves as to her identity and observing her in action and that she was about to dash off, members of the community engagement team moved quickly to take her into custody. Arrested with her was Maria Isabel Hernandez, 53 and also of Los Angeles, who acted as a lookout while Torres filled a suitcase with merchandise shed did not pay for and then left the store. The pair communicated via Bluetooth, while Hernandez observed her partners from various angles and distances as much as 75 feet away. Hernandez did not detect any of the community engagement team in the area. Continue reading →