Nearly seven months after two men were arrested for a triple homicide that occurred eight years ago, the Riverside County District Attorney’s office has dismissed all the charges against Robert Lars Pape and Cristin Conrad Smith. In March, a grand jury indicted Pape and Smith, but because he was under 17 years old at the…
Editor’s Note: This article introduces Mike Hestrin with some biographical data and general reasons why he says he is in the Riverside County district attorney race. A subsequent article will present both Hestrin’s and opponent Zellerbach’s answers to questions drawn up by News Editor J.P. Crumrine and Correspondent Marshall Smith. Hestrin, 15-year prosecutor with the…
The Riverside County District Attorney’s office has charged Ron Kimmerle, 49, of Pine Cove, with four felony counts, two for burglary and two for receiving stolen property. Kimmerle remains in custody at Southwest Detention Center in Murietta pending a June 1 felony settlement conference.
