DATE: May 12, 2025, to May 18, 2025
INCIDENT: Targeted Crime Suppression-Operation Consequences
LOCATION(S): 200 block of 18th Street, San Bernardino
800 block of E Second Street, San Bernardino
600 block of W Highland Avenue, San Bernardino
900 block of N Beechwood Avenue, Rialto
1500 block of Granada Road, Upland
8500 block of Sierra Madre Avenue, Rancho Cucamonga
8200 block of Amethyst Avenue, Rancho Cucamonga
SUMMARY: Between May 12 and May 18, 2025, investigators with the Sheriff’s Gangs/Narcotics Division, Specialized Enforcement Division, and multiple patrol stations, along with personnel from California Highway Patrol, San Bernardino County Probation, San Bernardino Police Department, Barstow Police Department, Upland Police Department, Fontana Police Department, Ontario Police Department and Department of Homeland Security Investigations continued the targeted crime suppression efforts of Operation Consequences.
During the one-week period, which included a focused operation in Rancho Cucamonga and surrounding communities on May 16, 2025, seven search warrants were served in Rialto, Upland, Rancho Cucamonga, and San Bernardino. As a result, investigators contacted gang members and persons prohibited from possessing firearms. Investigators made 26 felony arrests and 44 misdemeanor arrests. Nearly two pounds of suspected narcotics and eight firearms were recovered during the operation.
On November 5, 2024, California voters passed Proposition 36 titled “The Homelessness, Drug Addiction and Theft Reduction Act.” The proposition took effect on December 18, 2024, and reforms multiple laws from Proposition 47, which have been responsible for increasing homelessness, drug addiction and theft. Proposition 36 includes several new Penal and Health and Safety Codes that deputies will be able to apply during arrests when appropriate. These new charges can carry enhanced sentencing, as well as prevent offenders from being cite released prior to their court appearance. Proposition 36 applied to two of the above arrests.
The San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors authorized funds for county-wide crime suppression. The intent is to provide additional funding to the Sheriff’s Department, allowing for increased law enforcement services related to quality-of-life issues affecting the communities in our county.
Operation Consequences will focus on conducting targeted crime suppression operations and parole and probation checks in the High Desert and the Sheriff’s jurisdiction surrounding the city of San Bernardino. The operation will include personnel from the Sheriff’s Gangs/Narcotics Division, Specialized Enforcement Division, and patrol stations, as well as California Highway Patrol and San Bernardino County Probation, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, and Department of Homeland Security Investigations. Operation Consequences will take place over the next several months to curb violent crime, disrupt and dismantle targeted criminal street gangs, and locate and arrest criminals who are illegally possessing, manufacturing, and trafficking firearms.
Refer: Public Affairs Division
Station: Gangs/Narcotics Division
Phone No. (909) 387-3700
SHANNON D. DICUS, Sheriff-Coroner
San Bernardino County Sheriff-Coroner Department
