One Inland Empire family received an unwanted guest in their home on Wednesday. In a video sent to KTLA by Ryan’s Rattlesnake Rescue, a four-foot long rattlesnake can be seen slithering through a home in La Cresta, an unincorporated community near Murrieta. A four-foot long Red diamond rattlesnake was found in a home near Murrieta on Wednesday, April 10, 2024. (Ryans Rattlesnake Rescue) Ryan Jessup with the rescue told KTLA that the snake, a Red diamond snake, moved from the home's living room to a game room. When he arrived to the home after the family called him, the snake was crawling ..read more

With the help of new high-tech drones, the Murrieta Police Department is now aided with a fresh perspective — an unobstructed view from the sky. The Unmanned Aerial Systems Program, which was launched in July 2023, has already helped police successfully apprehend suspects on the run. The drones give officers a much-needed aerial view and can arrive at scenes much quicker than a helicopter. “It’s amazing what a bird’s-eye perspective on something can do to help with your tactical awareness, your situation awareness,” said Lt. Jeremy Durrant.  The system was put to good use just this weeken ..read more

A Riverside County woman who ran a foster home for disabled children is again facing a murder charge after it was initially dismissed a year and a half ago. Michelle Louise Morris-Kerin, 82, and her husband, Edward Lawrence Kerin, 81, of Morris Small Family Home were arraigned again on Thursday in Riverside County, and both pleaded not guilty, according to the Riverside County District Attorney's Office. The couple faced about two dozen combined charges, including murder, manslaughter, lewd acts on dependent adults and child endangerment, among other felonies, after their 2021 arrests ..read more

Two men were charged for allegedly stealing over $1 million worth of luxury cars throughout Riverside County. The suspects were identified as Kendall Jamison Clark, 25, of Murrieta, and Gabriel Dean Watters, 47, of San Diego, according to the Riverside County District Attorney’s Office. The two suspects are accused of a multi-million dollar scheme involving the theft and sale of luxury rental cars.  In September, the owners of the stolen cars contacted authorities, reporting that vehicles rented by Clark were never returned. He had paid for a one-week rental and picked up the vehicles fro ..read more

A Southern California couple remains shaken up after security video shows two people watching them as they slept and attempting to enter their home. The Murrieta homeowners told KTLA they’ve never seen the suspects before and are terrified they may strike again. “The girl was here and there’s a little opening in the blinds right here so she was just angling her phone to film us sleeping,” homeowner John Luyben said. “The head of the bed is right here.” It was around 2:30 a.m. when the victims noticed the two suspects peeping through their window. “Our dog starts barking, he lays in the bed wit ..read more

Two women who picked out what they wanted from a nail salon in Murrieta and then allegedly walked out the front door without paying were arrested shortly after one of them returned and asked employees to return a cellphone that was dropped during the theft. The incident occurred last week, the Murrieta Police Department stated Monday in a post on its Facebook page. Police did not identify the store but said the suspect returned just minutes after the theft to retrieve their cellphone, which contained the suspect's driver's license and a credit card inside its case. Employees did not give back ..read more

One person was arrested and another is wanted by police after two Lamborghinis were involved in a crash in Riverside County Friday evening. The crash happened around 6:30 p.m. on Jefferson Avenue on a stretch of road with a 45 mph posted speed limit. Police in Murrieta say two Lamborghini Huracáns were traveling next to each other at a high rate of speed, likely exceeding the speed limit, when one of the supercars lost control and struck a third vehicle that was traveling in the far right lane. A Lamborghini Huracan sits crashed on a road in Murrieta following a crash that began as a street ra ..read more

Six people were killed when a jet crashed near the French Valley Airport in Murrieta early Saturday morning, marking the second deadly crash at the airstrip in less than a week. According to the FAA, the Cessna C550 business jet crashed just north of the airport around 4:15 a.m. The 45-minute flight, which had departed from Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas, went down in a field and burst into flames. The flight, which had departed from Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas, went down in a field and burst into flames. (KTLA ..read more

A Murrieta woman who suffered hundreds of bee stings in an attack is speaking out after she was hospitalized from the terrifying ordeal. It’s been nearly a week since Linda Briggs, 74, was attacked by a vicious swarm of bees outside of her home on June 28. “People said it was really lucky,” Briggs recalled. “That some people have died from this and that I had a lot of toxin in me. If I were to get stung again, that could be fatal.” Briggs recalls the terrifying moment she was attacked as the situation unfolded around 2 p.m. in the 23000 block of Spring Branch Court. She was standing in front o ..read more

Disturbing cell phone video shows an elderly woman getting stung by hundreds, and perhaps over a thousand bees, outside her home in Murrieta on Wednesday. The situation unfolded around 2 p.m. in the 23000 block of Spring Branch Court. “She staggered to where her car is, and then she fell to the ground,” a neighbor, who only wanted to be identified as Chuck, told KTLA on Thursday. “The bees were relentless. They were attacking her. They were attacking everyone that was in the neighborhood.” Cell phone video shows an elderly woman getting stung by hundreds, and perhaps over a thousand bees, outs ..read more