Targeted Crime Suppression-Operation Consequences: July 14 through July 20, 2025
July 25, 2025 – San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department officials report that between July 14 and July 20, 2025, investigators with the Sheriff’s Gangs/Narcotics Division, San Bernardino County Probation, California Highway Patrol, Department of Homeland Security Investigations, and San Bernardino Police Department, in conjunction with personnel from the Sheriff’s Specialized Enforcement Division, multiple patrol stations, Barstow Police Department, Upland Police Department, Ontario Police Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigations continued the targeted crime suppression efforts of Operation Consequences. Additionally, the San Bernardino Movement Against Street Hoodlums (SMASH) Street Enforcement Team conducted proactive patrols in the town of Apple Valley and surrounding jurisdictions.
During the one-week period, which included a focused operation in Apple Valley and surrounding communities on July 18, 2025, six search warrants were served in Apple Valley, Victorville and Hesperia. As a result, investigators contacted gang members and persons prohibited from possessing firearms. Investigators made 38 felony arrests and 49 misdemeanor arrests. Suspected methamphetamine and heroin was seized and 49 firearms were recovered during the operation, which included four ghost guns.
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 six 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: July 14, 2025, to July 20, 2025
INCIDENT: Targeted Crime Suppression-Operation Consequences
LOCATION(S): 20700 block of Stoddard Wells Road, Apple Valley
12400 block of Orion Street, Victorville
13600 block of Gemini Street, Victorville
11000 block of Viola Court, Victorville
18600 block of Main Street, Hesperia
18000 block of Hinton Street, Hesperia
Refer: Public Affairs Division
Station: Gangs/Narcotics Division
Phone No. (909) 387-3700
Source & photo: San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department
