A San Bernardino police officer shot and wounded a 28-year-old male parolee armed with a handgun after a brief chase Saturday, officials said.

Arthur Felder, 28, is seen in a booking photo. Felder was armed with a loaded handgun when he was shot and wounded by a police officer in San Bernardino on Saturday, May 2, 2015, authorities said. (Credit: San Bernardino Police Department)

A caller reported three people, one of whom had a gun in his hand, loitering in an alley in the 400 block of Meridian Avenue (map) about 6:06 p.m., according to a press release from the San Bernardino Police Department.

Officers responded to the area and located the subjects, who ran east through the alley, south to Foothill Boulevard, then east on that street, the release said.

About 1/2 a mile away, in the 2400 block of Foothill (map), a police sergeant saw the threesome running and stopped his patrol vehicle in front of them, the statement said.

One of the three, a man named Arthur Felder who was armed with a semi-automatic handgun, stopped and turned toward the officer, officials said. The officer saw the weapon and opened fire, striking Felder in the shoulder, buttocks and foot, according to the Police Department.

The sergeant rendered first aid to the wounded suspect, who was then transported to Arrowhead Regional Medical center for treatment, the news release said. Felder was released from the hospital hours later.

A loaded Desert Eagle .40 caliber handgun, with its hammer pulled back and a round in the chamber, was found at the scene, police said, adding that the weapon had been stolen in Phoenix, Arizona.

Felder was arrested on multiple charges including assault with a deadly weapon on an officer, felon in possession of a firearm, possession of cocaine for sales, possession of cocaine while armed with a firearm, participation in a criminal street gang, and a parole violation, authorities said.

A San Bernardino mother was arrested after her 3-year-old daughter allegedly pointed a loaded handgun — which had been stolen from a sheriff’s deputy — at police detectives, authorities announced Wednesday.

Kimberly Torres was arrested May 12, 2015, after her young daughter raised a deputy’s stolen firearm at police detectives. (Credit: San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department)

The child was removed from the home and the mother, 20-year-old at the home of Kimberly Torres, was booked on suspicion of child endangerment and possession of stolen property, according to a news release from the San Bernardino Police Department.

The arrest followed a May 7 vehicle break-in at West Valley Street and North Stoddard Avenue in San Bernardino, where an off-duty Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department deputy’s patrol vehicle was burglarized. Two handguns and other “police-related property” were taken, the release stated.

Later that day, San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department deputies conducted a traffic stop and found one of the deputy’s stolen handguns during a search of the vehicle. The driver, Ramon Quintero, 25, of San Bernardino, was arrested.

Then, on Tuesday, San Bernardino police detectives went to speak to Torres, whose name was on the registration for the vehicle Quintero was driving.

A photograph of the recovered firearm from the San Bernardino Police Department.

As detectives spoke to Torres at a home in the 2600 block of West Rialto Avenue, her 3-year-old daughter walked out of a bedroom holding a firearm and pointed it at the detectives, the release stated.

The gun was a black semiautomatic pistol with a tactical light attached, police said.

The firearm was immediately taken from the toddler and found to be loaded, according to police. Its serial number showed it was the other firearm stolen from the deputy’s patrol car.

After a search of the home, the majority of the deputy’s stolen property was found, as was another stolen firearm, according to police.

The little girl was taken into the care of Child and Family Services.

Torres was release from custody early Wednesday morning, and Quintero was released the morning after his arrest, inmate records indicated.

Thousands of stolen credit card account numbers and three firearms, including an assault rifle, were discovered during the recent arrest of an ex-felon in San Bernardino, authorities said Tuesday.

Dozens of credit cards and driver’s licenses are seen in a photo provided by the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department.

Deputies located Serob Frenkyan, a suspect involved in a credit card fraud investigation, outside a residence in the 3400 block of North F Street (map) at about 11:30 p.m. on May 21, the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department stated in a news release.

When he noticed the deputies, Frenkyan, 41, went inside the residence and refused to come out, according to the Sheriff’s Department.

After obtaining a search warrant, detectives found Frenkyan inside the residence and arrested him.

Firearms found during a property search in San Bernardino are seen in an image provided by the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department.

During a search of the property, deputies found three firearms, including an assault rifle and a stolen handgun.

Investigators also found thousands of victim’s credit card account numbers on different computers and equipment allegedly used to make fake credit cards and California driver’s licenses.

A photograph released by the Sheriff’s Department showed dozens of credit cards and several driver’s licenses nearly covering a table.

Frenkyan, who has prior felony convictions for credit card fraud, was booked into the Central Detention Center.

San Bernardino officials used a visual demonstration Monday as they urged residents to conserve water. Courtney Friel reports from San Bernardino for the KTLA 5 News at 1 on June 1, 2015.

Amazon plans to hire 1,000 additional workers at its three fulfillment centers in the Inland Empire, which already employ several thousand people, the company announced this week.

Employees arrive at Amazon’s San Bernardino Fulfillment Center October 29, 2013. (Credit: Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)

The 1,000 full-time positions will be added at centers in San Bernardino, Moreno Valley and Redlands.

The jobs, announced Tuesday, are in addition to the 6,000 positions that the company last week announced it would be filling at centers across the U.S.

The Seattle-based online retailer has more than 50 fulfillment centers — where employees pick, pack and ship orders — across the U.S. The first center in Southern California opened in San Bernardino in 2012, and the Redlands and Moreno Valley centers began fulfilling orders in 2014.

Mayors from the three cities were all quoted in an Amazon news release in support of the company’s local centers.

“Amazon coming to the region last year was an important step in the region’s recovery,” Redlands Mayor Paul Foster said. “Their continued growth and ongoing involvement in the community sends a clear message that Amazon is dedicated to the Inland Empire and, more importantly, that it has found a qualified workforce that makes it want to stay and grow here.”

The new positions are needed to meet growing customer demand, the company said.

Full-time employees receive competitive wages, according to the company, and “comprehensive” benefits that include health insurance and a 401(k) plan beginning on their first day.

Job applicants can apply at workatamazonfulfillment.com.

Three people were taken to the hospital with stab wounds after a San Bernardino man sent explicit photos of his pregnant girlfriend to her family and then attacked her when she confronted him, collapsing her lung, authorities said.

The incident occurred about 11:15 p.m. Monday outside the home of Daniel Vergara-Flores in the 25300 block of 20th Street, the San Bernardino County sheriff’s department said in a statement.

During an argument, Vergara-Flores allegedly shoved the 23-year-old woman, who is several months pregnant, against a car and then stabbed her near her right armpit.

When the woman’s brother came to defend her, Vergara-Flores allegedly stabbed him in the stomach and back. The men then fought, Vergara-Flores lost control of the knife and his girlfriend’s brother stabbed him back.

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Joseph McStay, his wife and their 4-year-old son died after suffering multiple blows to the head, possibly with a sledgehammer, a San Bernardino County sheriff’s detective testified Monday.

Charles Merritt was led out of the courtroom after his arraignment, where he pleaded not guilty in the slayings of the McStay family. (Credit: Los Angeles Times)

The testimony came in a preliminary hearing in San Bernardino Superior Court in the trial of Charles “Chase” Merritt, who is charged with killing Joseph McStay, his wife, Summer, and their sons Gianni, 4, and Joseph Jr., 3. The family disappeared from their San Diego County home in 2010 and were later found buried in shallow graves in the desert near Victorville.

The remains of Joseph Jr., 3, were so minimal that a cause of death could not be determined, San Bernardino County sheriff’s Det. Edward Bachman told the court.

Merritt was Joseph McStay’s business associate and alerted the McStays’ family to the disappearance, Bachman said.

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Fire crews were battling a 100-acre wildfire Thursday evening burning in the Del Rosa community of San Bernardino.

The so-called Sterling Fire was reported around 6:30 p.m. on Sterling Avenue east of Del Rosa Avenue. It was 20 percent contained as of 9:30 p.m.

The fire was threatening structures, but no evacuations had been ordered.

One firefighter was taken to the hospital with heat related injuries, according to the San Bernardino City Fire Department.

Fire crews were at the scene of the Sterling Fire in San Bernardino on Thursday, June 25, 2015. (Credit: SBFD)

Calfire, City of San Bernardino and Forest Service crews were responding to the blaze with air tankers, dozers, engines and ground crews, according to InciWeb, a wildfire website maintained by the U.S. Forest Service and other federal agencies.

Additional resources have been requested from the Lake Fire, the agency stated.

As with the Lake Fire earlier this week, drones in the area temporarily halted tanker operations, according to a tweet from the San Bernardino National Forest.

In this case, deputies were able to detain one of the drone pilots in Highland, Bryan Lane with the San Bernardibo County Sheriff’s Department tweeted.

The second drone was not located.

Investigators are searching for more potential victims of a 21-year-old Highland man who was arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting two juvenile girls in San  Bernardino County since 2010, officials said Saturday.

The San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department provided this photo of Matthew Alva, 21, after he was arrested for allegedly assaulting two juvenile girls from 2010 to 2015.

Matthew Alva was arrested for alleged “lewd acts” committed against two young girls in San Bernardino, Rialto and Muscoy, according to a San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department news release.

Alva lived with the two unidentified juvenile girls “on occasion” and cared for them over the past five years, according to the department.

“Since 2010, both victims have been sexually assaulted by Alva multiple times,” the news release stated.

Investigators interviewed Alva on Friday and he was later arrested and booked for alleged lewd and lascivious acts with a child.

The identities and ages of the victims were withheld.

Alva was booked at the San Bernardino County Detention Center. His bail was set at $250,000, and he was expected to be arraigned on Tuesday.

Any other victims were urged to come forward and contact Detective Marshall at 909-387-3545. Those wishing to remain anonymous could call the We-tip Hotline at 1-800-782-7463, or leave information on the We-Tip Hotline at http://www.wetip.com.

A father was arrested Sunday after allegedly leaving an infant and 9-year-old in a vehicle while he was inside a Wal-Mart for about 45 minutes, police said.

A Wal-Mart employee discovered the children in a vehicle parked in the 2000 block of East Highland Avenue (map) and called officials, San Bernardino Police Department Lt. Rich Lawhead said around 6:30 p.m.

The 15-month-old baby and child appeared hot and disoriented when officials arrived and they were transported to a local hospital, Lawhead said.

Temperatures outside the vehicle were about 95 degrees, but the children were later found to be OK and were released to their mother.

The vehicle’s doors were unlocked and the windows were down when the children were discovered.

The father was inside the Wal-Mart with an 8-year-old girl when the other children were found. He was arrested for alleged child endangerment, Lawhead said.

KTLA’s Feven Kiflegiorgis contributed to this report. 

An investigation was underway after San Bernardino firefighters responded to seven fires — all deemed “suspicious” in nature — in the city over a 24-hour period, authorities said early Wednesday.

The latest fire was reported at a residence in the 1000 block of Stoddard Avenue at about 12 a.m., according to the San Bernardino Fire Department.

The burning structure was fully engulfed in flames when first responders arrived at the scene, prompting firefighters to mount a defensive attack in order to protect surrounding homes, a tweet from the department stated.

It took firefighters roughly 30 minutes to extinguish the blaze, which did not spread to any neighboring buildings, fire officials said. However, the residence was declared a total loss.

No injuries to civilians or firefighters have been reported.

Although the cause of the blaze remained under investigation, it appeared to be suspicious in nature, according to authorities.

It was not immediately known if any of the fires were connected, investigators said.

No further information was immediately available.

KTLA’s Alberto Mendez contributed to this story.

A 21-year-old San Bernardino man was arrested after allegedly putting a woman in a headlock outside a convenience store and then attempting to rape her, police said Wednesday.

Ryan Andrade is shown in a photo released by San Bernardino police on July 1, 2015.

The woman was able to escape with minor injuries, and she positively identified the man as her attacker following his arrest several hours later, according to a news release from the San Bernardino Police Department.

Ryan Andrade admitted his “involvement” in similar previous assaults in the area, including one that occurred June 25 in the Carousel Mall parking lot, police said.

In the most recent incident, officers were called to Third Street and North Waterman Avenue Tuesday with a report of an attempted kidnapping and sexual assault that occurred about 2:30 p.m.

The attacker followed his victim out of a store, surveillance video showed, according to police. Then he grabbed her in a headlock and used some kind of sharp object to force her to a secluded area.

There, he attempted to rape his victim, who was able to get away, according to police.

Andrade was being held at West Valley Detention Center in Rancho Cucamonga on $250,000 bail, county inmate records showed.

After being arrested at West Fifth Street and North Arrowhead Avenue about 5:20 p.m., he was being held on suspicion of kidnapping, assault with intent to commit rape, lewd and lascivious acts with a child under 14, and criminal threats, according to his online inmate record.

He was due in court Thursday.

A bus carrying approximately 21 people veered off the 10 Freeway and into a ditch Saturday afternoon after a passenger grabbed the steering wheel, according to a California Highway Patrol incident report.

A Greyhound bus is seen in a ditch near the westbound 10 Freeway after a crash on Saturday, July 4, 2015. (Credit: Greg Cappis, Los Angeles News Group)

The number and extent of possible injuries was not immediately known.

The vehicle was traveling westbound near Waterman Avenue (map) about 2:50 p.m. when a passenger went to the front of the bus, grabbed the steering wheel and caused the crash, the CHP report stated. No other vehicles were involved in the collision.

The San Bernardino Fire Department responded to the scene, where at least one occupant exited the bus through a window, the Highway Patrol said.

A suspected gunman was killed Wednesday night when the SUV he was riding in slammed into a tree after a drive-by shooting in San Bernardino, authorities said.

An SUV slammed into a tree after a drive-by shooting in San Bernardino on Wednesday, July 15, 2015, police said. (Credit: Newspro News)

The incident occurred about 9:50 p.m. in the 1200 block of Blackstone Avenue, according to Sgt. Gerald Beall of the San Bernardino Police Department.

Officers responded to reports of shots fired and a crash at the location, where they found a driver and two passengers inside a black Dodge SUV and another passenger on the sidewalk, police said.

One of the passengers had apparently fired several shots at a person who was standing in the driveway of a home, Beall said. The SUV then sped away before the driver lost control and hit a tree.

The 22-year-old suspected gunman, identified as James Eley, died of his injuries after being ejected from the SUV during the crash, according to authorities. The intended target of the shooting was unharmed.

The SUV driver, Ronald Lewis, and surviving passengers, Shonte Tuner and Jackson Kendrick, ran from the scene but were later found at local hospitals and arrested, according to police Lt. Richard Lawhead.

Officers located two handguns at the scene near the collision, Lawhead said in a news release.

Lewis was booked at the San Bernardino County Jail for suspicion of attempt murder, vehicular manslaughter, and hit-and-run with injury.  Kendrick was booked for suspicion of attempted murder.

The suspects and the intended victim all have ties to local criminal gangs, according to Lawhead.

Anyone with additional information was asked to contact Detective Devin Peck at 909-384-5664 or Detective Sharon Bonshire at 909-384-5623.

A slow-speed pursuit through surface streets in the San Bernardino area on Monday morning came to an abrupt end when the driver stopped his vehicle and surrendered.

During the chase, the male driver reached of up to 30 mph, at times appearing to stop at intersections, according to Lt. Rich Lawhead of the San Bernardino Police Department.

The vehicle, a black sedan, had its windshield wipers on and was driving on rims, Sky5 video showed. The tires on the car appeared to be bare, though it was not immediately known if police employed a spike strip.

The driver appeared to surrender shortly after 7:30 a.m. He had his hands up in the air before lying facedown in the roadway, the video showed.

An officer placed handcuffs on him and he was taken to a police vehicle.

Lawhead said the pursuit began around 6:45 a.m. He was unsure what prompted officers to initiate the pursuit.

KTLA’s Jennifer Thang contributed to this story.

Residents were asked to contact authorities Wednesday if they have any information about a man who attempted to get three young girls into his van in an unincorporated area of San Bernardino.

The three girls, ages 7 to 10 years old, were riding bicycles near the intersection of North Ironwood Street and Dogwood Street (map) at about 10:45 a.m. Tuesday when they were approached by a man driving a gray older model Chevy Astro van, the San Bernardino Sheriff’s Department stated in a news release.

The man was telling the girls to get in the van as he waved them over, but they ignored him and rode home, according to the Sheriff’s Department.

The man was described as white, about 50 years old, with a mustache that curled at the ends.

He was bald on top of his head with shoulder length hair on the sides and was unshaven, according to the Sheriff’s Department.

The van had a light gray stripe along the sides, the news release stated.

Anyone with information was asked to contact the Sheriff’s Department Central Station.

Persons wishing to remain anonymous can contact WeTip at 1-800-78-CRIME or report online at WeTip.com.

A third-alarm fire that ripped through the No Name Cafe restaurant in San Bernardino late Monday was believed to have been set on purpose, and fire officials were looking to find a man seen walking away from the blaze.

Firefighters responded to a blaze that erupted overnight at the No Name Cafe restaurant in San Bernardino on July 28, 2015. (Credit: Newspro News)

Flames erupted just after 11:45 p.m. at the restaurant, which is located in the 1400 block of East Highland Avenue. It quickly turned into a third-alarm fire, Capt. Jason Serrano of the San Bernardino Fire Department said Tuesday morning.

By the time firefighters arrived at the location, the business was fully engulfed in flames, video from the scene showed.

At one point, crews battling the blaze inside the restaurant had to clear the structure amid fears that the roof was about to collapse, Serrano said.

Firefighters were able to extinguish the fire, but the business sustained $500,000 worth of damages, making it a complete loss, according to Serrano.

The No Name Cafe in San Bernardino is shown July 28, 2015, hours after it was left gutted by a fire. (Credit: KTLA)

Authorities said they believed the cause of Monday’s fire was arson, and responding firefighters saw an adult male walking away from the business shortly after the flames erupted.

Investigators were working to determine who the man was, and they were seeking surveillance video so they could provide a description of him, Serrano said.

Fire officials would not say if any accelerants were found in or near the building.

The blaze was the second one reported at the No Name Cafe this month, authorities said. On July 10, firefighters extinguished a fire that caused extensive damage to the kitchen area, according to officials.

That fire’s cause remained under investigation, but officials at the time had called it “accidental.” The cafe’s owner said he left a pan on the stove in the evening but had to leave the kitchen because of a family emergency, officials said.

The restaurant has been closed since the July 10 fire.

On Tuesday, witnesses said they watched as the blaze consumed the restaurant, a local landmark.

“It a lot of smoke, a whole lot of fire,” said San Bernardino resident Marquise Hockel. “You could feel the heat from the street.”

KTLA’s Alberto Mendez contributed to this story.

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A San Bernardino woman was arrested on suspicion of murder after her husband was found dead in their home, police said Friday.

Officials remove a body from a home in San Bernardino after police received a domestic disturbance call. (Credit: Newspro News)

Officers responded to a domestic disturbance call at the couple’s home in the 200 block of East 53rd Street (map) at about 8:19 p.m. Thursday, according to a news release from the San Bernardino Police Department.

Karen Marcil, 56, and her husband, 66-year-old Joseph Marcil, had gotten into a verbal argument at the home, which escalated to a physical altercation, investigators said.

During the incident, Joseph Marcil received fatal injuries and was pronounced dead at the scene, the Police Department stated.

The cause of death appeared to be blunt force trauma, according to the initial investigation cited in the news release.

Karen Marcil sustained a “substantial” injury to her hand during the altercation and was being treated, according to the Police Department.

She was arrested on suspicion of murder and was expected to be booked into jail after treatment for her injuries, the news release stated.

Police indicated they had no record of prior domestic violence incidents involving the family.

Anyone with information was asked to contact authorities at 909-384-5615.

Investigators were searching for a man and woman Saturday who allegedly fled the scene of a fatal three-vehicle crash that killed a father of two from San Bernardino who was the passenger in a taxi at the time of the incident, officials and family members said.

Cesar Figueroa’s family provided this photo after he was killed in a hit-and-run crash in San Bernardino on Aug. 7, 2015.

Police responded to reports of a major-injury traffic collision near avenues East Highland and Del Rosa North (map) around 10:15 p.m. Friday, according to a San Bernardino Police Department news release.

The initial investigation found a Ford Crown Victoria taxi was stopped westbound at a lit intersection when it was rear-ended by a speeding 2002-model Chevrolet Suburban.

The impact caused both vehicles to move into the intersection where one of them collided with a Honda Civic that had entered the intersection southbound and was in the process of making a left onto Highland’s eastbound lanes.

Photographs of the scene showed three badly mangled vehicles, with the taxi appearing as if it no longer had a back end.

Police said a 41-year-old San Bernardino resident who was a passenger in the taxi died at the scene, the taxi driver was transported to a hospital for moderate injuries and the driver of the Honda suffered minor injuries.

A mangled vehicle is pictured after a three-vehicle, hit-and-run crash that killed one person on Aug. 7, 2015. (Credit: Newspro News)

Family of the deceased man identified him as Cesar Figueroa, a husband and father of two girls.

“He was very, very happy,” Figueroa’s sister-in-law Maria Vallez said. “When he was around you, he was the only one who took over the conversation. … He had this way of making you laugh.”

Figueroa was a “very nice person” who loved singing and horses, Vallez added.

The male driver and female passenger in the suburban fled on foot, according to police. No further details were immediately available.

A 23-year-old woman has been arrested in connection with a February robbery attempt and shootout that left a security guard dead at a marijuana dispensary in San Bernardino, authorities announced Monday.

Tomeise Ray, 23, is seen in a booking photo. (Credit: San Bernardino Police Department)

Tomeise Ray, 23, of Los Angeles, was taken into custody Friday, the San Bernardino Police Department said in a news release. She was described as the second suspect in the case. Los Angeles resident Curtis Jackson, 21, was arrested on April 23.

The arrests stem from a Feb. 16 incident at a pot dispensary, in the 2800 block of Rialto Avenue, that police said was illegally operated.

After two armed men entered the business about 10 p.m., one of them forced his way into a back room and opened fire on security guard Anthony Victor Pineda, according to the Police Department’s initial account of the crime.

Pineda, a 25-year-old resident of Rowland Heights, returned fire and was struck at least once in the exchange, investigators said. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

One of the suspects was wounded in the shootout, police said, and a large pool of blood was found outside the business.

It was unclear if any cash or marijuana was taken in the incident.

Responding officers had to force their way into the dispensary, where people who identified themselves as “volunteers” were at first uncooperative with the investigation, said police Lt. Rich Lawhead.