VICTORVILLE (CBSLA) — A woman police say fled the country after killing her husband in 2015 has been captured in Mexico and returned to San Bernardino County. Leticia Smith is wanted for the murder of her husband. (credit: San Bernardino Sheriff’s Dept.) Leticia Smith, 40, is being held at San Bernardino County’s West Valley Detention Center on $2 million bail, sheriff’s officials said Monday. Smith was named as the suspect in the murder of her husband, 35-year-old Antoine Smith. The couple lived together with their young daughters in the 13000 block of Brynwood Street in Victorville, where ..read more

VICTORVILLE (CBSLA) – A brush fire broke out in the Oro Grande community of San Bernardino County Monday afternoon, just north of Victorville in the Mojave Desert. March 14, 2022. (San Bernardino County Fire Department) The Heritage Fire was reported at about 1 p.m. in the 14700 block of Heritage Way, near the National Trails Highway, and quickly spread. The fire burned well into the night buoyed by “numerous wind shifts,” the San Bernardino County Fire Department reported. A chopper with the Orange County Fire Authority’s Fire Integrated Realtime Intelligence System (FIRIS) flew over the bl ..read more

VICTORVILLE (CBSLA) — Police now say they’ve identified a man who was believed to be a police impersonator as an employee of Alcohol Beverage Control. (credit: San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department) Victorville police on Friday had asked for the public’s help to identify an alleged police impersonator who visited Joe’s Liquor, 16137 Green Tree Boulevard in Victorville, at about 8 p.m. Wednesday. The store’s personnel told police the man came in and put on a necklace with a badge resembling a San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department badge and identified himself as a police officer with ..read more

VICTORVILLE (CBSLA) — The public’s help is needed to identify a man authorities say impersonated a law enforcement officer at a Victorville store. (credit: San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department) The police impersonator was reported to have visited Joe’s Liquor, 16137 Green Tree Boulevard in Victorville, at about 8 p.m. Wednesday. The store’s personnel told police the man came in and put on a necklace with a badge resembling a San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department badge and identified himself as a police officer with the city. The man told the store workers he was there to check on ..read more

VICTORVILLE (CBSLA) — The body of a 14-year-old Victorville girl has been found in an abandoned vehicle near a Home Depot in Victorville, authorities said Tuesday. San Bernardino County sheriff’s deputies were sent Monday morning to check on a report of a possibly deceased person in a field west of Home Depot, 15655 Roy Rogers Drive in Victorville. The deputies found a girl’s body in an abandoned vehicle, and from her fingerprints identified her as 14-year-old Genevieve Brinson. (credit: Riverside County Sheriff’s Department) Genevieve, who had run away in 2020 from a group home in the River ..read more

VICTORVILLE (CBSLA) — A man was killed in a road rage shooting on the 15 Freeway in Victorville Thursday night and the gunman remains at large. The shooting occurred at 7:46 p.m. on the northbound 15 Freeway near Nisqualli Road, according to California Highway Patrol. The situation unfolded after the driver of a black GMC SUV got into a road rage incident with the male driver of a yet unidentified sedan, CHP said. The two men exited the freeway, pulled over onto the shoulder of the Nisqualli Road offramp and got out of their vehicles. The sedan’s driver then produced a gun and opened fire on t ..read more

VICTORVILLE (CBSLA) — A 55-year-old man was killed after his Cadillac was hit head-on by a driver who police say was drunk and has had several prior arrests for DUI. Lacey Cecenthia Vickers, 30, of Barstow, was pulled from her burning Jeep SUV immediately after the crash at about 11 p.m. Sunday, according to the Victorville Police Department. The crash happened in the area of Village Drive at Clovis Street in Victorville. The man, a Victorville resident, was pronounced dead at the scene. Investigators say he was in a Cadillac sedan that was going south on Village Drive when he crashed head-on ..read more

FONTANA (CBSLA) — The gusting Santa Ana winds battered the Inland Empire, especially near the Cajon Pass, on Friday, forcing some residents to change their weekend plans. “When we first moved in we thought the windows were going to come in on us,” said Fontana resident Jeff Miller. While Miller is ready to sell his Fontana home, the Santa Ana winds have forced him to push the open house viewing to next weekend out of fears that the strong winds would scare off potential buyers. (Credit: CBS) “Well, you don’t want to scare away all the [Los Angeles] people,” he said. “They come out here ..read more

VICTORVILLE (CBSLA) — An Ohio teen faces charges of impersonating a police officer, and authorities believe he may have more victims. (credit: San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department) Rudy Reed, 18, was arrested last Wednesday while driving a white Ford Crown Victoria in the area of La Mesa and Petaluma roads. According to the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department, the vehicle had been observed responding to traffic collisions and being positioned in the roadway in a manner law enforcement does to block traffic. Authorities say the vehicle appeared to be an unmarked sheriff’s patrol ..read more

VICTORVILLE (CBSLA) – A Circle K convenience store clerk has been arrested on allegations he stabbed a man during a fight inside the Victorville store early Tuesday morning. The stabbing occurred just after 4 a.m. at the store in the 15800 block of Mojave Drive. San Bernardino County Sheriff’s deputies were called to the store to find the victim, identified as 25-year-old Elijah Griego, with multiple stab wounds. He was taken to a hospital, where he died. Investigators learned that Griego and the store clerk, 25-year-old Jeremy Fearon, had gotten into a fight which lead to the stabbing, the sh ..read more