Caution tape images12/12/2023 He isn’t making Riverside county any safer Radley Balko On 17 September, corrections deputy Jorge Alberto Oceguera-Rocha was charged after being arrested with more than 100 pounds of fentanyl in his car he was allegedly working for a drug-trafficking organization. On 16 September, Christian Heidecker was arrested and charged with extorting four incarcerated women and sexually assaulting one of them. On 13 September, Brent Bishop Turnwall was arrested after being discovered under the influence of and in possession of a drug while on duty at a jail. In September alone, three correctional deputies, who staff the county’s troubled jail system, were arrested and charged with serious crimes. Meanwhile, several deputies have been arrested for alleged criminal acts carried out while they were on duty. We use Google reCaptcha to protect our website and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. For more information see our Privacy Policy. Privacy Notice: Newsletters may contain info about charities, online ads, and content funded by outside parties. The Guardian emailed the department to ask about the status of that investigation but received no response. In February, California’s department of justice announced a probe into in-custody deaths in the county. In 2022 alone, 18 people incarcerated in Riverside county’s jails died – the largest number of deaths in the county’s system since 2005 another nine people died in custody this year, according to county records. The plaintiffs include the family of a transgender woman who was placed in a cell with a sex offender who murdered her in that case, deputies took an hour to notice the homicide had taken place. While Claremont prepares to honor Bianco, the Press-Enterprise, the newspaper of record in Riverside county, last month described his administration as a “complete disaster” in an editorial, citing a long string of incidents involving deputies, and lawsuits arising from a wave of deaths in custody in the county’s jail system.īianco is a defendant in at least half a dozen lawsuits filed on behalf of people who died while incarcerated in Riverside county’s jail system, including three filed last month, according to media reports and federal court records. John Eastman, left, with Rudy Giuliani, ex-president Donald Trump’s personal attorney, at the Trump rally in Washington DC on 6 January 2021. The Guardian also contacted Bianco for comment but received no response. In response to a request for comment on Bianco’s speech, Claremont’s senior communications director, David Bahr, wrote in an email that the institute is “pleased to honor Sheriff Bianco, who won re-election last year in Riverside County with nearly 60 percent of the vote, with our American Sheriff Award”.īahr added: “Sheriff Bianco’s fidelity to the Constitution and his desire to restore the principles of the American Founding to their rightful, preeminent authority in our national life, is something we think worth celebrating.” In recent months, the Guardian has reported on Claremont’s links to the hard right, including the board chair Thomas Kligenstein’s calls for a “war” on “woke communists” Claremont’s support of a secretive, men-only lodge founded by a would-be “warlord” and some Claremont fellows’ promotion of authoritarian “red Caesarism” as a solution to what they see as a decadent US. Eastman has since been indicted alongside Trump and 17 others in Georgia in a prosecution related to those efforts. The Claremont Institute has been described as the “ nerve center of the American right”, coming to greater prominence after the senior fellow John Eastman became one of the main faces of Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election. The advertised ticket price is $450, and the dinner comes two days before the start of the sheriffs fellowship, set for 11-17 November and for which no physical location has yet been made public. Then attorney general Jeff Sessions, right, with former president Donald Trump.
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