ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME
CIVBA 2400346
TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS:
Petitioner SUSAN ELLEN BRIGHT filed with this court for a decree changing names as follows:
SUSAN ELLEN BRIGHT to JEAN HELEN MURRIETTA
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: August 6, 2024
Time: 1:30 p.m.
Department: B1
Superior Court of California, County of San Bernardino
Barstow District
The address of the court is 235 East Mountain View Stree Barstow, CA 92311
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.
James R. Baxter
Judge of the Superior Court.
Filed: June 11, 2024 by
Sarah Mishoe, Deputy Court Clerk
Susan Ellen Bright
15564 Tenth St.
Victorville, CA 92395
(760) 590-3277
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel on June 21 & 28 and July 5 & 12, 2024.

FBN 20240005515
The following entity is doing business primarily in San Bernardino County as
BRIGHT ROAD INSURANCES SERVICES LLC AND AUTO REGISTRATIONS 5153 HOLT BLVD A5 MONTCLAIR, CA 91763: BRIGHT ROAD INSURANCES SERVICES LLC 5153 HOLT BLVD A5 MONTCLAIR, CA 91763
Business Mailing Address: 10021 BEL AIR AVE MONTCLAIR, CA 91763
The business is conducted by: A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY registered in California.
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: June 14, 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/ JAZMIN NERI GARCIA, CEO
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 6/14/2024
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 D9865
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 June 21 & 28 and July 5 & 12, 2024.

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By Mark Gutglueck
Ontario City Councilman Jim Bowman on Monday July 8 was involved in what has been described as an alcohol-related hit-and-run incident.
According to information available to the Sentinel, around midday July 8, 2024, Bowman was southbound on Euclid Avenue and driving at a rate that was in excess of the speed limit. Near the intersection of Euclid and Mission Boulevard, he rear-ended a car in front of him that, apparently, was slowing to make a right turn. According to several accounts, Bowman did not slow sufficiently and his truck hit the vehicle, which was being driven by a woman. The meeting of the front of Councilman Bowman’s truck with the back of the car occurred with some degree of force, enough, according to three people, to result in the lady suffering whiplash and breaking her arm.
Bowman, according to several narratives, did not stop after the collision and headed further south, without stopping, until he was near the 60 Freeway, roughly two miles from the scene of the accident.
There are some differences in the accounts provided to the Sentinel from that point forward. Two people have told the Sentinel that Bowman at some point near the freeway pulled over and called 9-1-1. His 9-1-1 call came in after at least two other calls made from near the scene of the accident, the Sentinel is informed.
Bowman ended up in the hospital, claiming to have some type of medical issue. His blood was drawn at the hospital, according to one version of events. Another version is that some metric of his blood alcohol content was made, although in this rendition it is not clear whether this was achieved through a blood sample, urine analysis or breathalyzer. Information available to the Sentinel is that Bowman had a blood alcohol content of 0.05, which is below the threshold of 0.08, the legal standard for being under the influence of alcohol in California.
Reports clash as to whether the Ontario Police Department arrested Bowman or not. Two individuals who would seem to be vantaged with a clear perspective of the events insisted to the Sentinel that the councilman was arrested. However, the Sentinel’s effort to find such documentation was unsuccessful. The police department had no immediately available record of arrest and the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department showed no record of his being booked at the West Valley Detention Center or any of the sheriff’s department’s other holding facilities.
One individual with the city stated that he had strong suspicions that the documentation relating to the incident is being purposefully withheld.
The Sentinel was told that as of Wednesday, repairs to Bowman’s truck were already under way or had been completed.
A narrative that popped up from a source sympathetic to Councilman Bowman was that he had a medical issue and that he had taken some medication, referred to as “cough syrup.”
It has been known generally and specifically around Ontario for decades that Bowman has had recurrent, indeed consistent, issues with alcohol. He was displaced from his position as fire marshal with the Foothill Fire District in the 1980s when he was arrested for driving under the influence in a Foothill Fire District vehicle in Huntington Beach, 56 miles outside the boundary of the Foothill Fire District. Bowman has been seen in public in Ontario so intoxicated that he was staggering when on his feet. There have been reports that on multiple occasions within the City of Ontario over the last two decades Bowman has been stopped by Ontario police officers when he was behind the wheel in a state of inebriation and that the officers opted to take him home without effectuating his arrest.
It is now being bruited about the Ontario community that within the police department, with regard to the current situation, there is a sharp divide among the officers who are cognizant of what occurred Monday. According to this account, the city’s higher-ups are seeking to minimize what occurred on Monday and the department’s officers are being pressured to bury the matter as deep as it can be buried. It is said that some of the officers are in tune with doing just that, as they recognize that by acceding to the preference of the controlling majority of the city council and the senior echelon of city administration, the city’s police officers will remain in the vaunted position of being employed by the best paid law enforcement agency in San Bernardino County, earning that pay by going along to get along. Nevertheless, there are, it is reported to the Sentinel, a few “Pollyanna” types within the department who feel Councilman Bowman should be held accountable for what he did, despite his powerful position and political primacy in Ontario. They, it is said, want the department to follow through on having him answer for having engaged in a hit-and-run in which a woman was injured. As a consequence, the Sentinel is informed, there is some degree of unrest/distrust within the police department.
The Sentinel contacted Mayor Paul Leon, City Manager Gilbert Ochoa, Police Chief Mike Lorenz and Bowman with regard to what had occurred on Monday.
There was confirmation that Bowman had been involved in an accident.
The officials, however, would not deal directly with questions as to whether Bowman immediately left the scene of the collision; whether he traveled well over one-and-three-quarter miles before he stopped, at which point he made a report by phoning 9-1-1; whether Bowman had alcohol in his system at the time of the incident; whether the police department sought to ascertain his blood alcohol level; what processes the department was applying to the incident; whether the department was according Bowman some level of special treatment;  whether Bowman had been arrested; and whether he had been booked.
The Sentinel sought from Lorenz whether, if Bowman indeed was not arrested and booked, an explanation of why not arresting him and not booking him was appropriate.
The Sentinel sought to ascertain whether the police department was keeping any documentation relating to the case from being disclosed that would routinely be available if it did not involve a city official and, if so, for what purpose.
The Sentinel asked Leon, Ochoa and Lorenz if they had spoken to Bowman since the incident and inquired of Bowman whether he had contact with Leon, Ochoa and Lorenz or other members of the city council since the incident.
The Sentinel attempted to determine which of the Ontario Police Department’s officers had direct interaction with Bowman relating to the matter.
The Sentinel sought from Lorenz whether he had spoken with Ochoa regarding the matter and, conversely, asked Ochoa if he had spoken with Lorenz about what had befallen Bowman.
The Sentinel tried to ascertain whether Lorenz had briefed the mayor and members of the council as to what the incident entailed and what the substance of the exchanges involved.
Neither Ochoa nor Bowman responded to the Sentinel’s inquiries. Mayor Leon indicated he had been kept in the dark about matter. On Wednesday, he told the Sentinel that he knew nothing at all about the incident, Bowman’s involvement in it or whether Bowman had been arrested.
Lorenz told the Sentinel at 9:35 a.m. on Thursday, July 11, “To address your specific questions would be difficult at this time as this is an ongoing investigation. The public position someone may hold has no bearing on this or any of our investigations.”
Lorenz added, “Ontario PD is not split about this incident because our officers did their job. They did their job professionally, with care and compassion for all parties involved and will submit a thorough and complete investigation to the San Bernardino County District Attorney’s Office for review.”
Lorenz said, “We will be putting out a press release about the incident today.”
An issue is, the Sentinel was told by an attorney, that a blood alcohol content of 0.02 or greater is grounds for a DUI arrest if the driver was involved in an accident that resulted in injury to another. The Sentinel, however, was not able to find in the California Penal Code or California Vehicle Code any provision of the law that imposes a special circumstance which lowers the driving under the influence or driving while intoxicated threshold to a blood alcohol content of 0.02 if an injury occurs.
The Sentinel sought from Lorenz but did not resolve whether the consideration that Bowman’s blood alcohol content was reported at 0.05 – below the 0.08 DUI threshold – obviated any potential of his being arrested and/or prosecuted for driving under the influence or while intoxicated.
Furthermore, the Sentinel sought to pursue with Lorenz the potential criminal implication of Bowman having left the scene of the accident. The Sentinel asked Lorenz if Bowman making the 9-1-1 call some five to ten minutes after he rear-ended the other vehicle from a place that was some two miles removed from where the accident occurred put the hit-and-run issue to rest. Lorenz did not address that question.

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His friends and supporters are hopeful that Former Fontana Assistant Police Chief Alan Hostetter, who is serving an 11-year federal sentence as a result of his insurrectionist activity on the U.S. Capitol grounds on January 6, 2021 in the failed attempt to prevent Congress’s certification of the November 2020 U.S. Presidential Election, will be able to obtain a sentence reduction based on the U.S. Supreme Court’s June 28 decision calling into question the way in which federal prosecutors were applying a 2002 law prohibiting interference with or obstruction of governmental processes.
The law in question, 18 U.S.C. § 1512(c)(2), which makes it a crime to “otherwise obstruct, influence, or impede any official proceeding,” was used to convict Joseph Fischer of Pennsylvania who had participated in the demonstrations on January 6, 2021 that had raged out of control, including multiple incidents of violence as well as a number of protesters breaching the locked Capitol Building and flooding inside, which resulted in the interruption of the Electoral College ballot certification process. According to prosecutors and the presentation of evidence at the trial in which Fischer was convicted, he trespassed into the Capitol and was involved in a physical confrontation with law enforcement. Continue reading →

The San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors unanimously urged the state to declare a state of emergency and take immediate emergency regulatory and legislative action to strengthen and stabilize California’s marketplace for homeowners insurance and commercial property insurance as part of a resolution it adopted at its June 25 meeting.
“The reduction of insurance options in the state has had a direct negative impact on our consumers’ ability to get coverage and it’s putting our homeowners and businesses at risk of catastrophic loss,” said Board of Supervisors Chairman and Third District Supervisor Dawn Rowe.
In 1988, California voters enacted Proposition 103, which established a robust set of consumer protections designed to keep insurance rates fair and affordable and to ensure a competitive marketplace.
On May 26, 2023 State Farm General Insurance Company and on June 2, 2023, Allstate, California’s two largest insurance carriers, representing over 27 percent of the admitted insurance market in California, announced they would stop issuing new homeowners and commercial property insurance policies in California. Previously American International Group (AIG) notified thousands of homeowners in California that its policies would not be renewed following their 2023 expiration. Several others, representing an additional 36 percent of the market, announced plans to limit new policy origination. Continue reading →

Retired Marine Major General William F. Mullen died late last week at the Twentynine Palms Marine base, which he once commanded, under circumstances that are not clear.
Mullen was found dead within Building 1651, housing the base’s electronic training classrooms, on Saturday, June 29. It is not known how long he had been deceased when his body was found.
Mullen was 60. His body is undergoing an autopsic examination by the San Bernardino County Coroner’s Office, which is a division of the sheriff’s department.
It is customary within the U.S. Military for retired officers who achieved general or admiral rank to be given living accommodations at military installations, generally of their own choosing. Mullen, who was then a one-star brigadier general, took on the assignment of the commanding general of the Twentynine Palms base, known officially within the Marine Corps as the Marine Air Ground Task Force Training Command and Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center in July 2016. While he was in that assignment, Mullen promoted to two-star major general status. On June 8, 2018, he left Twentynine Palms to serve as the Commanding General, Training and Education Command in Quantico, Virginia. He took official retirement from the Marine Corps in 2020.
The Sentinel was given confirmation of Mullen’s death by both the Marine Corps and the sheriff’s department.
The circumstances of his death, the lack of previous medical indicators of concern and his age being below that of life expectancy triggered the involvement of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, which is investigating the matter. The Marine Corps is ther maritime land force service branch of the United States Armed Forces, an ostensibly independent branch of the military that serves under the Department of the Navy. The Naval Criminal Investigative Service is the law enforcement branch of the Department of the Navy, which conducts criminal investigations as well as routine examinations of the noncombat-related deaths of sailors or Marines.
A graduate of the Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps program at Marquette University, Mullen was commissioned in 1986 and assigned to 1st Battalion, 3rd Marines in Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii, where he served as a rifle and weapons platoon commander, and battalion training officer from 1987 to 1990.
From 1990-1993 he served as a platoon commander, executive officer and commanding officer of the Fleet Anti-Terrorism Security Team Company with the Marine Corps Security Force Battalion, Pacific at Mare Island, where he served as a platoon commander, executive officer and ultimately commanding officer. In this capacity, he deployed to Operation Desert Shield and participated in several counter-narcotics missions in support of Joint Task Force-6, also serving as battalion training officer.
After attending the Advanced Artillery Officer course at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, Mullen in 1993 was transferred to 2nd Battalion, 4th Marines (later converted to 2nd Battalion, 6th Marines) at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, as the commanding officer of Fox Company. He participated in Operation Sea Signal in 1994, and deployed to the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit from 1995 to 1996 as a company commander with the small boat raid and cliff assault company, participating in contingency operations in the former Yugoslavia. From 1996 to 1999 he served as the inspector-instructor for Fox Company, 2nd Battalion, 24th Marines based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and led a successful counter-narcotics mission in the Los Padres National Forest of California.
In 1999, then-Major Mullen was selected to be the Marine aide to President Bill Clinton and later George W. Bush. He served in that capacity until attending the School of Advanced Warfighting in 2001. After school, he reported to the Joint Operations Division of the Joint Staff, J-3 for duty in the Untied States Indo Pacific Command (PACOM) and the United States Central Command (CENTCOM) sections, and served as executive assistant to the deputy director for regional operations until 2004.
In 2004, having been promoted to lieutenant colonel, he reported to 2nd Marine Division at Camp Lejeune for duty as the division plans officer, and was chosen later that year to be the operations officer for Regimental Combat Team – 8, with whom he deployed to Fallujah, Iraq from 2005 to 2006. After returning, he assumed command of 2nd Battalion, 6th Marines and returned to Fallujah in 2007. Following command he attended the Naval War College from 2008 to 2009, and subsequently commanded the Marine Corps Tactics and Operations Group in Twentynine Palms from 2009 to 2011.
After promotion to brigadier general in 2012, he was assigned as the commanding general, Education Command, and president of Marine Corps University in Quantico, Virginia. He then became director of Capabilities Development Directorate, Combat Development and Integration, and subsequently deployed and served as the director of operations in the Combined Joint Operations Center in Baghdad from June 2015 to June 2016 in support of Iraqi security forces during Operation Inherent Resolve.
In July of 2016, he assumed command of Marine Corps Air Ground Task Force Training Command, Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center. Upon being succeeded by Brigadier General Roger Turner as the commanding general of the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center and Marine Air Ground Task Force Training Command in Twentynine Palms, Mullen was assigned to head the Training and Education Command, located 36 miles from Washington, D.C. in Quantico, Virginia.
Brigadier General Mullen held a BA and MA in political science from Marquette University, as well as an MA in national security and strategic studies from the Naval War College. He completed the Advanced Artillery Officer, School of Advanced Warfighting, Airborne, Ranger, Summer Mountain Leader and Royal Marine Arctic Warfare Survival courses. With his wife Vicki, he had three children.