District Attorney Jason Anderson believes his office has been “pushed to extremity” on a “puffed up” case members of the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department pursued in an ultimately futile stab at aggrandizement and “cheap publicity” involving one of their colleagues, an 18-year veteran of the department, who has been demonized over his connection with the Mongols outlaw motorcycle club. The district attorney’s office last year was cozened into elevating that personalized demonization of Deputy Christopher Bingham into no fewer than 13 felony charges against him.  Just short of nine months after Bingham’s arrest, there has been little prosecutorial movement beyond what has now proven out to be a problematic showing of evidence in the defendant’s preliminary hearing in the weeks following his arrest, Anderson is now reported to be resentful at being inveigled into a dead-end case and growing impatient over the inability to find a graceful and face-saving exodus from the situation.
Bingham enlisted in the U.S. Marines at the age of 19 in 1998, serving with distinction as a rifleman during two separate overseas assignment. He was honorably discharged after four years of service in 2002. He did not migrate much further than Twentynine Palms, where the base he was last stationed at while with the 1st Battalion 7th Marines, is located. He hired on with the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department in 2005, where among other assignments, he worked motorcycle patrol. In 2015, whichle he was yet employed with the department, Bingham registered O’Three Tactical, a limited liability company in which he was the sole owner, with California Secretary of State. Located at 73749 29 Palms Highway in Twentynine Palms, O’Three Tactical was a gun shop, housed within a shop next to a Mexican restaurant east of Adobe Road in the downtown section of Twentynine Palms on Highway 62, also known at that point as 29 Palms Highway. O’Three Tactical dealt in standard firearm sales as well as obtaining for its customers specialized equipment and hardware prized by gun aficionados, particularly ones looking to replicate the actuality or mystique of military firepower. It became known for the ability to track down and deliver specialized firearms, as well as for providing servicing and augmenting equipment to those products, along with, as the shop’s name implied, all order of tactical gear, including knives, bulletproof wear and helmets, ammunition, magazines, cartridges, powders, primers, sights and scopes and all order of other accessories.
As an ex-military, command-presence-asserting law-enforcement, gun-toting, all-around macho-type, Bingham was also attracted to motorbiking. Despite the Hells Angels and the Devils Diciples motorcycle clubs having originated in San Bernardino County – Fontana, to be precise – over the last four decades or so, the Mongols and Vagos have claimed Southern California as their territory and have moved into the role of the dominant outlaw motorcycle gangs of the reason. For that reason, Bingham gravitated to the Mongols, with whom, on occasion, he would ride. Continue reading →

FBN 20240010409
The following entity is doing business primarily in Riverside County as
DELAPAZ GLASS 13152 EDGEMONT ST. MORENO VALLEY, CA 92353: ADRIAN DE LA PAZ
Business Mailing Address: 13152 EDGEMONT ST. MORENO VALLEY, CA 92353
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/ ADRIAN DE LA PAZ, Owner
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 11/08/2024
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 J2522
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 December 13, 20, 27 & January 3, 2025.

FBN 20240010678
The following entity is doing business primarily in San Bernardino County as
VA COURIER SERVICES 6832 BLANCHARD AVE FONTANA, CA 92336: VA COURIER SERVICES, LLC 6832 BLANCHARD AVE FONTANA, CA 92336 -1539
Business Mailing Address: 6832 BLANCHARD AVE FONTANA, CA 92336
The business is conducted by: A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY registered with the State of California under the number 202464513365.
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/ ALYSIA CAMPBELL, Managing Member
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 11/20/2024
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 K1583
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 December 13, 20, 27 & January 3, 2025.

FBN 20240011268
The following entity is doing business primarily in San Bernardino County as
APEX ENGINEERING CONSULTANTS 11799 SEBASTIAN WAY, SUITE 103 RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA 91730: MICHAEL SERGAH
Business Mailing Address: 11799 SEBASTIAN WAY, SUITE 103 RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA 91730
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/ MICHAEL SERGAH
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 12/09/2024
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 J9965
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 December 13, 20, 27 & January 3, 2025.

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In a unanimous vote that overrode multiple restrictions placed on residential development projects by the city’s voters in 1997, the Redlands City Council at its December 17 meeting approved a 3.15-acre project at the northeast corner of Stuart Avenue and Eureka Street.
Despite a degree of controversy relating to the intensity and nature of the proposed project, there was no protest mounted with regard to the apartment project due to, some observers said, the oxygen having been sucked out of the council chamber as a consequence of the contretemps relating to the selection of the mayor earlier in the evening.
The project was approved Tuesday, Dec. 17, without comments from the council or the public.
The site is vacant other than a transformer on the southeast area of the land, a city report states.
The project, put forth by developer Property One, LLC, called for a four-story apartment complex with 85 units together with 7,686-square-feet of commercial space.
The project is to include two parking garages and 53 off-street parking spaces and a community room. Given that slightly less than two-thirds of the project’s footprint is devoted to residential use, the maximum permissible density under Measure U would be roughly 54 to 57 apartment units. The maximum permissible height under Measure U would be two stories.
Not only did the project’s density meet the absolute limitation with regard to units per acre when the number of units were divided into the size of the property without taking into consideration that the land would also accommodate a mercantile component and parking facilities, the height of the buildings likewise topped out at the maximum threshold without considering any roof add-ons. Continue reading →

Jeff Burum’s National Core was a whisker away from being brought in to take over from Related California the assignment of establishing “low cost” senior citizen apartments in Chino Hills.
Despite the Chino Hills City Council placing faith in Related California ten months ago as the developer of a senior citizen – in which the residents were to be age 55 or older – apartment project, a majority of the council has concluded that the staff with the company either does not share the vision of the company’s owner or is wrongheadedly seeking too many compromises from the city. It accordingly rethought the commitment and has now given the highly favorable contract for the project to one of three other companies that competed to be used for project construction.
What was touted as a 50-unit senior citizen apartments project fully devoted to being “affordable” to those living there was proposed for construction on the 2.43 acres at the southwest corner of Peyton Drive and Eucalyptus Avenue by the City of Chino Hills. City officials invited home/apartment builders to submit competing bids/proposals, based upon the understanding that they would need to deliver a final product that would have with 50 percent of the units – 25 – occupied by those whose monetary availability qualified them as “low income” citizens, and the other and 50 percent of the units – 25 – for “very-low income” residents.
Chino Hills city fathers resolved during the general plan hearing process two years ago, to have the site converted to high density housing, along with several other properties, in order to comply with demands from the State of California and its Department of Housing and Community Development that it meet California’s affordable housing mandates, as laid out in the regional housing needs assessment. In the currently applicable housing needs assessment for Chino Hills, the city is under the gun to allow, during an eight year period running from 2021 to 2029, the development of 3,729 total units, which are to include 694 units for extremely low income individuals making 30 percent of the annual median income for the region; 694 units for very low income individuals making 50 percent of the annual median income for the region; 821 units for low income individuals making 50-to-80 percent of the annual median income for the region; 789 units for moderate income individuals making 80-to-120 percent of the annual median income for the region; and 731 units for above moderate income individuals making more than 10 percent of the annual median income for the region. Continue reading →

Having impoverished residents has paid off for the City of Fontana. Toning down the Republican rhetoric that four of the city’s top elected leadership are prone to did not hurt either.
The U.S. Department of Transportation awarded the City of Fontana a $19,808,986 grant Safe Streets and Roads for All Program grant.
In 2021, the Joseph Biden administration passed the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, in so doing launching the Safe Streets and Roads for All discretionary funding program with $5 billion in appropriated funds to be distributed over the five years running from 2022–2026. A commitment involved in the program is that 60 percent of the money is to be used for improving standards for underserved populations by funding community-led projects intended to reduce the number of preventable deaths on roads, streets, and highways in the United States through safer designs and standards.
As delineated in the application for the grant, the funding is to be used for substantial improvements to the portion of historic Route 66 running through the city. In Fontana, Route 66 is known as Foothill Boulevard.
Officials are hopeful that after six months of preparation, construction will begin in July 2025 and be completed by June 2026.
Enhancing safety for drivers, bicyclists and pedestrians who routinely utilize Foothill Boulevard was deemed worthwhile, given that city statistics show eight vehicle-related fatalities along that stretch of highway in Fontana since the beginning of 2019. Continue reading →