(PRESS RELEASE – MONO COUNTY SHERIFF – PIO JENNIFER HANSEN) Over the course of the last week, the Mono County Sheriff’s Office has been busy handling a wide range of calls to keep the residents and visitors of Mono County safe. On Tuesday, April 23, 2013, patrol deputies conducted a traffic stop on a vehicle [...]
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CHP advice for St. Pat’s Day
Green beer and laughter may be a fun way to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day Sunday, but the California Highway Patrol advises not to rely on the luck of the Irish but the safety of a designated driver. In a special press release, the CHP says they encourage celebrants to plan a safe way home and [...]
CHP Lieutenant responds to citizen complaint
In the wake of the petroglyph thefts near Bishop, law enforcement officers in all branches have had an eye out for clues. In the view of one of the commenters on our website, too close an eye. The California Highway Patrol Lieutenant in Bridgeport investigated a complaint. According to a local resident, he took friends [...]
Big Pine man killed in car chase
Thursday around 9pm, a 22-year-old Big Pine man sped away from a CHP officer, veered up Bir Road off South Barlow Lane, and at 80 mils per hour could not make a right hand curve. He flew off the road, struck numerous boulders, was ejected from his car which burst into flames. John L. Ericson, [...]
Five go to hospital from Ft. Independence wreck
At Fort Independence Wednesday morning, a parked vehicle blocked the view of two motorists who collided, according to the California Highway Patrol. The CHP said that 22-year-old Emerald Mason drove out of a driveway and tried to turn north on Willow Lane in Fort Independence. Another car, driven by 51-year-old William Ratchford was traveling northbound [...]
Three-vehicle wreck leaves eight injured
This afternoon (Friday) at about 1pm, three vehicles collided south of Lone Pine in an area called Lone Willow Dip by the Owens Dry Lake. The California Highway Patrol had some information. Officer Dennis Cleland said that a limousine and two pick-up trucks were involved. Cleland reported that the driver of the limo was at [...]
Suspected DUI, vehicle crash and power outages
(Bishop Police Department Press Release) On Thursday, November 8, 2012 at 7:02pm, a Bishop Police Officer responded to a report of a wrong way driver on South Main Street, driving northbound from Jay Street. Dispatch then advised the vehicle was reported to be in the area of East Line Street near Main Street, where the [...]
Nevada woman died in highway wreck
Kerrie Hageman, 61, of Fernley, Nevada, was driving north on Highway 395 just north of Fish Springs Road Monday morning when she lost control of her car and later died from injuries at Northern Inyo Hospital. According to the Highway Patrol, it was just after 7 in the morning Monday when Ms. Hageman allowed her [...]
Two found dead in a home on Pa Ha Lane
UPDATE: Inyo Sheriff’s Officers have said that the death of a third man on the reservation, Buzzie Beaver, is not connected to the deaths of the two individuals on Pa Ha Lane. Officers said Mr. Beaver’s death was a different day and different location Sunday afternoon before one o’clock, a call came into the Inyo [...]
INET eradicates 4,000 marijuana plants
The second marijuana eradication operation this summer unfolded on Inyo National Forest lands outside of Lone Pine on Tuesday. The Inyo Narcotics Enforcement Team reported that agents eradicated about 4,000 marijuana plants with a potential street value of $10 million dollars. It was the end of August when Mono narcotics agents reported the eradication of [...]
30,000 marijuana plants eradicated, two arrested
(PRESS RELEASE FROM MONO SHERIFF’S DEPARTMENT) From: Ralph Obenberger, Undersheriff Date: August 16, 2012 RE: Marijuana Eradication in the Inyo National Forest As part of the campaign of the Mono Narcotic Enforcement Team (MONET) to combat the cultivation of marijuana within Mono County, MONET agents, with the assistance of the Inyo Narcotics Enforcement Team, Inyo [...]
Missing Simi Valley woman found dead on Tioga Pass
On Tuesday, June 12, 2012, at approximately 11:00am, Mono County Sheriff’s Office Dispatch received a call from the Tuolumne County Sheriff’s Office with the report of a missing person thought to be traveling on Hwy 120W south down Tioga Pass. Mono County Sheriff’s Investigators responded to Tioga Pass at Blue Slide and located a vehicle [...]
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