I am writing to address a recent statement made of the San Bernardino Police Officers Association that was reported in your publication.
It has come to my attention that certain claims made of the Association may contain inaccuracies that could mislead the public and affect community trust in law enforcement. These statements have significant implications, and it is essential that the information being disseminated is both accurate and fair. The San Bernardino Police Officers Association has endorsed Rochelle Clayton to become our next City Manager with no promises of a better contract from her office. We have endorsed Rochelle Clayton due to her work ethic and her vision to make our city better. Rochelle Clayton has lived in our city for several years in the past and knows the city better than our previous city managers.
I urge you to consider the implications of these statements and the importance of ensuring that all claims are thoroughly fact-checked before publication. Transparency and accountability are vital in maintaining the integrity of both the Police Officer Association and the media.
Thank you for your attention to this matter. I believe it is crucial for our community to have access to reliable information that reflects the truth of the situation.
Jose Loera
President
San Bernardino Police Officer Association

FBN20240010185
The following entity is doing business primarily in San Bernardino County as
MS. SEXY BOSSLADY INDIGO 154 W. FOOTHILL BLVD SUIT A # 345 UPLAND, CA 91786: DEBRA A HUNT
Business Mailing Address: 154 W. FOOTHILL BLVD SUIT A # 345 UPLAND, CA 91786
The business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL.
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: AUGUST 15, 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/ DEBRA A HUNT
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 11/05/2024
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 J7527
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 November 29 and December 6, 13 & 20, 2024.

SUMMONS – (CITACION JUDICIAL)
CASE NUMBER (NUMERO DEL CASO) 24PSCV02195
NOTICE TO ASHLEY BUSTAMONTE, AN INDIVIDUAL; AND DOES 1-100, inclusive
(AVISO DEMANDADO):
YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF:
(LO ESTA DEMANDANDO EL DEMANDANTE):
THOMAS ANDREWS, an individual.
NOTICE! You have been sued. The court may decide against you without your being heard unless you respond within 30 days. Read the information below.
You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this summons is served on you to file a written response at this court and have a copy served on the plaintiff. A letter or phone call will not protect you. Your written response must be in proper legal form if you want the court to hear your case. There may be a court form that you can use for your response. You can find these court forms and more information at the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), your county law library, or the courthouse nearest you. If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the court clerk for a fee waiver form. If you do not file your response on time, you may lose the case by default, and your wages, money, and property may be taken without further warning from the court.
There are other legal requirements. You may want to call an attorney right away. If you do not know an attorney, you may want to call an attorney referral service. If you cannot afford an attorney, you may be eligible for free legal services from a nonprofit legal services program. You can locate these nonprofit groups at the California Legal Services Web site (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), or by contacting your local court or county bar association. NOTE: The court has a statutory lien for waived fees and costs on any settlement or arbitration award of $10,000 or more in a civil case. The court’s lien must be paid before the court will dismiss the case.
¡AVISO! Lo han demandado. Si no responde dentro de 30 dias, la corte puede decidir en su contra sin escuchar su version. Lea la informacion a continuacion
Tiene 30 DIAS DE CALENDARIO después de que le entreguen esta citación y papeles legales para presentar una repuesta por escrito en esta corte y hacer que se entreque una copia al demandante. Una carta o una llamada telefonica no le protegen. Su respuesta por escrito tiene que estar on formato legal correcto si desea que procesen su caso en la corte. Es posible que haya un formulano que usted puede usar para su respuesta. Puede encontrar estos formularios de la corte y mas información en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California (www.sucorte.ca.gov), en la biblioteca de leyes de su condado o en la corte que le quede mas cerca. Si no puede pagar la cuota de presentación, pida si secretario de la corta que le de un formulario de exencion de pago de cuotas. Si no presenta su respuesta a tiempo, puede perder el caso por incumplimiento y la corta le podrá quitar su sueldo, dinero y bienes sin mas advertencia.
Hay otros requisitos legales. Es recomendable que llame a un abogado inmediatamente. Si no conace a un abogado, puede llamar a un servicio de referencia a abogados. Si no peude pagar a un a un abogado, es posible que cumpia con los requisitos para obtener servicios legales gratu de un programa de servicios legales sin fines de lucro. Puede encontrar estos grupos sin fines de lucro en el sitio web de California Legal Services, (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California, (www.sucorte.ca.gov), o poniendoso en contacto con la corte o el colegio de abogados locales. AVISO: Por ley, la corte tiene derecho a reclamar las cuotas y los costos exentos gravamen sobre cualquier recuperación da $10,000 o mas de vaior recibida mediante un aceurdo o una concesión de arbitraje en un caso de derecho civil. Tiene que pagar el gravamen de la corta antes de que la corta pueda desechar el caso.
The name and address of the court is: (El nombre y la direccion de la corte es):
POMONA COURTHOUS SOUTH 400 CIVIC CENTER PLAZA POMONA, CA 91766
The name, address and telephone number of plaintiff’s attorney is: (El nombre, la direccion y el numero de telefono del abogado del demandante es):
JASMINE MOTAZEDI, JM LAW FIRM, APC; 23586 CALABASAS RD., SUITE 204, CALABASAS, CA 91302, (818) 574-8186
DATE (Fecha): 17/08/2024
Clerk (Secretario), by A. GREER
Published in the SBCS Rancho Cucamonga on: 11/29/2024, 12/06/2024, 12/13/2024 & 12/20/2024.

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San Bernardino Acting City Manager Rochelle Clayton this week provisionally rescinded her self-demotion to deputy city manager, as the jockeying for longevity, if not permanence, in the county seat’s two most powerful staff position is intensifying.
Clayton, who was first hired by San Bernardino to serve as deputy city manager in April and was precipitously promoted to interim/acting city manager in May, was on the verge of being promoted into the full-fledged city manager post in October. In November, however, her grip on the reins of control in the city become somewhat more tenuous. This month, two of her most abiding supporters on the city council are leaving as a consequence of the results of this year’s election cycle. Over the next several weeks, moving into early 2025, there will be grounds for suspense as events play out to determine whether Clayton, who has already picked up the support of two of the three incoming council members can secure the backing of the third and can regain the confidence of at least one of the four current members of the council to guarantee that five of the city’s eight elected leaders will entrust her with the administration of the city for the next five to ten years.
Since 2012, the city has employed six city managers, one un-actuated or would-be city manager, and five so-called temporary/stand-in/interim and/or acting city managers. The discontinuity San Bernardino has suffered in its managerial echelon, which is equal to or greater than that of any of the 23 other municipalities in San Bernardino County over the last dozen years, has been compounded with other misfortunes pertaining to its litany of senior staff members. Two of those managers sued the city, with one receiving a $750,000 settlement in addition to her severance for what she claimed was an unjust termination and the other, whose employment with the city was never actuated when he spurned the city’s employment offer, collected an $800,000 settlement when he claimed the city’s failure to keep its job offer to him confidential cost him his job as city manager in Salinas, the city where he was employed when he applied for the San Bernardino job. The city paid out nearly a million dollars more in severance packages when it parted company with three of the other city managers. Continue reading →

A second former top tier West Valley Water District official acknowledged last year that he was caught up in a bribery scheme involving entanglements that connected the district to a growing list of one-time Baldwin Park city officials, several of whom have now been indicted on political corruption charges, the U.S. Attorney’s Office disclosed last week.
Since 2022, the way in which the hiring and contracting policy at the West Valley Water District in Rialto had been manipulated as part of a quid-pro-quo arrangement to essentially pay off former Baldwin Park Councilman Richard Pacheco has been known. What has now been learned is that Robert Tafoya, who was Baldwin Park city attorney while he was simultaneously serving as the water district’s general counsel, was in on the graft. Based upon both previously and recently available information, it appears that at least one of the district’s former board members and a local state senator also took part in receiving, in one form or another substantial amounts of graft money – political grease – put up by the owner of a business that succeeded in obtaining a permit to sell marijuana in the Los Angeles County city.
Central to the circumstance is Mike Taylor, who was once seen as a pillar of both the Los Angeles County/Baldwin Park and Los Angeles County/Rialto communities.
Taylor as a young man went to work with the Baldwin Park Police Department in the 1981. Baldwin Park is a 6.9-square mile city in which the population now stands at 72,176. Over Taylor’s first three decades with the police department, he slowly but steadily promoted through the ranks, educating himself to include certificates in specialized law enforcement disciplines extending to completing courses at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia and bachelor of arts and master’s degrees in political science and then a doctorate in education in public administration. In 2014, Taylor reached the top, or very nearly the top, of his profession when he was promoted to Baldwin Park police chief. Continue reading →

The four-fifths strength Yucaipa City Council this week bypassed a prime mover in the successful effort to remove Matt Garner from the council’s ranks when its members made a [3-to-1] decision to fill Garner’s empty council post with an individual who has been less outspokenly critical of the city’s leadership.
Garner’s abbreviated political career was rooted in events that took place in the weeks and months before he was elected to and sworn into office in the Fall of 2022.
At that time, Garner was vying, along with Sherilynn Long, Mark Taylor and Erik Sahakian, to succeed then-incumbent District 1 Councilman David Avila, who had declined to run for reelection that year. Similarly, in the city’s District 2, incumbent Greg Bogh was not seeking reelection. Chris Venable and Nena Dragoo were competing to take Bogh’s place.
On October 23, 2022, 16 days before the November 8, 2022 election, the Yucaipa City Council as it was then composed – consisting of Avila, Bogh, District 3 Councilman, District 4 Councilman Justin Beaver land District 5 Councilman Jon Thorp considered a proposal to extend then-City Manager Ray Casey’s employment contract, one which guaranteed his employment with the city until June 30, 2024, granted him a 3 percent increase of his base salary to $299,420 annually, such that he was making $422,901.50 in total annual compensation, putting him among the 25 highest-paid city managers in California. Comments by the council members that night memorialized their apparent collective belief that Casey’s experience, which included prior work as the Yucaipa’s city engineer/public works director from 2003 until 2008 and his 14 subsequent years as city manager, taken together with his standing within the municipal management profession, justified the action. Continue reading →

Even with the intensification of the effort by the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department, California Highway Patrol and other local law enforcement agencies clamp down on so-called swarm robberies and smash & grab robberie, in particular as the holiday shopping season is heading toward it zenith, aggressive retail theft in Redlands at its jewelry stores has remained undeterred.
While thieves since time immemorial have devised creative ways to pursue their larcenous inclination, during the 2020-2021 COVID-19 pandemic, coordinated thefts spiked. That approach to property crime has become a permanent phenomenon, with upticks when stores or shopping malls are crowded.
In a typical swarm theft, a significant number of participants – a dozen or more and, in some, multiple dozens or scores of of thieves – will enter a business and spend several minutes collecting and/or pocketing merchandise and then, upon a prearranged signal, walk out en masse without paying for any of it. By their sheer numbers, they overwhelm the clerks or store personnel and their ability to prevent what is occurring.
Smash and grab robberies likewise involve multiple participants, but usually far fewer than in a swarm theft scenario. Such actions similarly involve a rush and entail, at the very least, implied violence which often extends to actual violence, with an intentional display of destruction or mayhem. A key element is the distraction or disabling of any form of security or theft preventative measures. This can involve the brandishing of weapons – usually firearms – or the employment of chemical agents such as bear spray, pepper spray or mace against any security guards, the use of hammers or heavy metal rods in smashing glass display or containment cases, all carried out rapidly and with aggression. In effectuating such a thefts, perpetrators are not reluctant to make noise or conspicuously inflict damage on property to accentuate the intimidation effect. Continue reading →