Targeted Crime Suppression-Operation Consequences: April 14 through April 20, 2025 

April 23, 2025 – San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department officials report that between April 14 and April 20, 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, Rialto Police Department, Fontana Police Department, Fontana School 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 Rialto and surrounding communities on April 18, 2025, four search warrants were served in Rialto and San Bernardino. As a result, investigators contacted gang members and persons prohibited from possessing firearms. Investigators made 36 felony arrests and 63 misdemeanor arrests. Over one pound of suspected narcotics and 13 firearms, including one ghost gun, 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. 

DATE: April 14, 2025, to April 20, 2025

INCIDENT: Targeted Crime Suppression-Operation Consequences

LOCATION(S): 100 block of King Street, San Bernardino

                         1200 block of North D Street, San Bernardino

                         100 block of Orange Avenue, Rialto

                         1800 block of W Bohnert Avenue, Rialto

Refer: Public Affairs Division 

Station: Gangs/Narcotics Division

Phone No. (909) 387-3700

Case No. 662500516

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                662500541

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Source & photo: San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department