MORENO VALLEY (CBSLA) — The Veterans Memorial located at the Moreno Valley Civic Center was vandalized early Saturday morning, when it was the target of arson. Moreno Valley Fire Department crews were dispatched to the scene on Frederick Street at around 5 a.m., where they were able to quickly knock down the flames. Now, both the City of Moreno Valley and Riverside County have launched an arson investigation to determine cause in the fire. In a press release on the city’s website, Moreno Valley Mayor Dr. Yxstian Gutierrez said, ” The people responsible for this horrible and cowardly act w ..read more

MORENO VALLEY (CBSLA) — The new year is looking very happy for one SuperLotto player in the Inland Empire. A ticket sold at Sunnymead Liquor, 24121 Sunnymead Boulevard in Moreno Valley, was the first SuperLotto jackpot win of the year and is worth a very tidy $13 million. The ticket matched the numbers drawn on Saturday: 25, 2, 42, 41, 13, and a Mega Ball of 27. ICYMI: A #SuperLottoPlus ticket purchased in Riverside County hit the $13 million jackpot Saturday night! The lucky ticket was sold at Sunnymead Liquor located at 24121 Sunnymead Boulevard in Moreno Valley. Questions? Contact info in ..read more

MORENO VALLEY (CBSLA) — A Black man leaving a Moreno Valley Walmart quickly turned on his camera phone after a woman accused him of stealing her son’s phone. A woman wrongfully accused a Black man of stealing her son’s phone at a Moreno Valley Walmart. (Credit: Ja’Shar Bryant) Ja’Shar Bryant said he was shopping for curtains when he overheard the boy tell his mother that he lost his cellphone. The woman then gestured toward Bryant. “I felt so uncomfortable, ma’am, I left my basket there,” he said. “I proceed to walk out.” When Bryant went to leave the store, he said the woman followed him to ..read more

MORENO VALLEY (CBSLA) — A Black man leaving a Moreno Valley Walmart quickly turned on his camera phone after a woman accused him of stealing her son’s phone. Ja’Shar Bryant said he was leaving the store when he said the woman started “running after him” and accused him of stealing the phone. “I said, ‘Excuse me, do you have my son’s phone? Not, ‘You have my son’s phone,'” the woman can be heard saying in the video. “I did not come at you like that.” Bryant can be heard replying that she did, in fact, approach him like that and even kept accusing him of stealing the phone even after he told her ..read more

RIVERSIDE (CBSLA) — At least two people were wounded in separate Riverside County freeway shootings on the Fourth of July. The Fourth of July freeway shootings come just a day after Luis Mendoza of La Puente was shot and killed while driving with his two sons, further west on the 60 Freeway in Hacienda Heights. Mendoza’s 13-year-old boy remains hospitalized in the ICU at County-USC Medical Center Tuesday, and police say they are looking for a gray or silver 4-door sedan in that shooting. According to the CHP, one of the Fourth of July shootings was reported at about 7:50 p.m. as a crash involv ..read more

RIVERSIDE (CBSLA) — Three Inland Empire-area women pleaded guilty this week to charges in connection with filing fraudulent EDD claims using the names of California prison inmates. Paris Thomas, 33, of San Bernardino; 42-year-old Mireya Ramos of Colton; and 35-year-old Sequoia Edwards of Moreno Valley, were all arrested in April on suspicion of filing dozens of fraudulent EDD claims in the names of inmates within the California state prison system. According to her plea agreement, between June and December 2020, Thomas submitted at least 47 fraudulent unemployment benefits claims and received ..read more

LONG BEACH (CBSLA) — A Moreno Valley man has been arrested in connection with a hit-and-run crash that killed a beloved security guard in Long Beach. Quentin Darnell Black, 31, was arrested Monday and booked on one count of vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence and one count of felony hit-and-run resulting in death or injury. (credit: CBS) Long Beach police say Black was the driver of a 2012 Chevrolet Tahoe that sped into a security guard shack at Century Villages at Cabrillo apartment complex in the 2000 block of San Gabriel Avenue on Saturday afternoon. The security guard inside the ..read more

RIVERSIDE (CBSLA) – Mukesh Kisun, a 56-year-old Moreno Valley and a public school teacher, is out on $50,000 bail after being booked into the Robert Presley Detention Center Thursday for allegedly engaging in lewd acts upon a child under the age of 14. Kisun’s arrest came after allegations surfaced from a female teenager that she was sexually abused by her fifth grade teacher in 2015 while attending Rosemary Kennedy Elementary school in Riverside. The alleged victim told a family member who then reported the allegations to a Riverside Police Department School Resources Officer assigned to ..read more

MORENO VALLEY (CBSLA) – A new mass vaccination site will open Friday at the Moreno Valley Mall, on the first floor of the former Sears building, Kaiser Permanente announced Thursday. The new clinic will run alongside Riverside County’s current vaccination site in the same building on the second floor. The Kaiser Permanente vaccination site will be open to everyone – including children ages 12 to 15 – who is eligible to receive a COVID-19 vaccine at no cost. The clinic can administer about 2,000 COVID-19 vaccine doses daily through either walk-in service or by appointment. The site will open Fr ..read more

RANCHO CUCAMONGA (CBSLA) — A three-vehicle crash in Rancho Cucamonga led authorities to a Moreno Valley man who had been fatally shot. Deputies responding to a three-vehicle crash in the 10800 block of Church Street at about 6:30 p.m. Thursday found 39-year-old Corey Deshawn Cooper in his car with a gunshot wound. Cooper was declared dead at the scene. Detectives from the San Bernardino County sheriff’s specialized investigation division determined Cooper had been shot nearby and lost control of his vehicle, which veered into oncoming traffic and hit two vehicles. The drivers of the other two ..read more