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San Jacinto City Councilman Brian Hawkins faces alleged misdemeanor child endangerment charges Tony Ault Staf f Writer
SAN DIEGO — A 14-year-old girl was found in the barracks at a California Marine Corps base last month, two weeks after her grandmother in San Diego reported she had run away from home, and a Marine was detained for questioning, officials said Monday, July 10. see page A-6
Business Supervisors approve funding for Murrieta Innovation Center Joe Naiman Writer
The Riverside County Board of Supervisors approved $2,560,580 of American Rescue Plan Act funding for the Murrieta Innovation Center. The supervisors’ 5-0 vote June 27 approves the ARPA funding for the facility and also approves an agreement with Impact Riverside County for the use of the ARPA funding. The funding for the Murrieta Innovation Center will be distributed over a three-year period. see page C-6
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San Jacinto City Councilman Brian Eugene Hawkins was arrested on Sunday, July 2, according to Riverside County Sheriff’s reports, and initially charged with several alleged felony assault charges which were reduced to misdemeanors. Sheriff’s deputies arrested him in his home. He was charged on two counts of suspicion of assault on a person with the intention of doing great bodily injury according to the booking records. He was scheduled for arraignment on July 7 when the charges were reportedly reduced to misdemeanor counts of endangering the health of a boy, 10, and a girl, 11, according to District Attorney Mike Hestrin. He pleaded not guilty on both charges Bail was set at $5,000 but he was still in custody on July 7. It was not known if he posted bail. The next court date for Hawkins will be a Trial Readiness Conference and has been set for Aug, 17 in the Banning Superior Court. A criminal protective order see HAWKINS, page A-5
San Jacinto City Councilman Brian Hawkins.
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Flags fly high in Old Town at the Temecula 4th of July parade
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Members of the Old Town Temecula Gunfighters wave a large American flag during the 4th of July parade in Old Town Temecula, July 4. See more photos on page A-4. Valley News/Shane Gibson photo
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The investigation continued Sunday, July 9 into the crash of a Cessna business jet near the French Valley Airport that killed all six people on board, the second fatal crash near the airport in four days. The crash was reported at 4:15 a.m. Saturday, July 8 near Auld and Briggs roads, the Riverside County Fire Department reported. Deputies found the aircraft fully
engulfed in flames in a field. Six occupants were pronounced dead at the scene. They were identified late Saturday by the Riverside County coroner’s office as follows: Riese Lenders, 25, of Rancho Palos Verdes; Lindsey Gleiche, 31, of Huntington Beach; Manuel Vargas-Regalado, 32, of Temecula; Abigail Tellez-Vargas, 33, of Murrieta; Ibrahem Razick, 46, of Temecula;
Alma Razick, 51, of Temecula. According to Eliott Simpson of the National Transportation Safety Board, the person sitting in the pilot seat was a certified commercial pilot, though it wasn’t specified which of the six victims it was. The flight departed from Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas, according to Federal Aviation Administration spokesperson Mina Kaji. Shortly before the twin-jet plane was scheduled to land, a marine layer enveloped the area with low
visibility, said Simpson. “The pilot reported to air traffic control that he was going to perform a missed approach, which generally happens when a pilot can’t see the runway,” Simpson said at a Saturday evening news conference. The Cessna Citation C550 business jet crashed about 500 feet short of the originally intended landing runway, and most of the plane, with the exception of the see CRASH, page A-3