Press Releases

The Ontario Police Department Traffic Unit will be conducting a DUI/Drivers License Checkpoint on March 9, 2018 at an undisclosed location within the city limits between the hours of 6:00 p.m. to 2:00 a.m.

In recent years, California has seen a disturbing increase in drug-impaired driving crashes. The Ontario Police department supports the new effort from the Office of Traffic Safety that aims to educate all drivers that “DUI Doesn’t Just Mean Booze.” If you take prescription drugs, particularly those with a driving or operating machinery warning on the label, you might be… Read More

The Ontario Police Department Traffic Unit will be conducting a DUI/Drivers License Checkpoint on February 23, 2018 at an undisclosed location within the city limits between the hours of 6:00 p.m. to 2:00 a.m.

In recent years, California has seen a disturbing increase in drug-impaired driving crashes. The Ontario Police department supports the new effort from the Office of Traffic Safety that aims to educate all drivers that “DUI Doesn’t Just Mean Booze.” If you take prescription drugs, particularly those with a driving or operating machinery warning on the label, you might… Read More

Detectives are investigating what led up to a stabbing death of a Rialto man.

On February 7, 2018 at approximately 5:52 pm, police received a call of a stabbing in the 900 block of E. Deodar Street. Officers arrived on the scene and found a victim with numerous stab wounds. The victim was transported to a local area hospital where he died from his injuries. The victim was identified as 25 year-old Bernardo Vasquez of Rialto.

Witnesses at the scene advised the suspect involved in the stabbing was a family member who had fled prior to officers arriving. The family… Read More

Ontario Police Department will step up Bike & Pedestrian Safety Enforcement Operations on January 16, 2018 with focused enforcement on collision causing factors involving motorists, pedestrians and bicyclists.

The department has mapped out locations over the past three years where pedestrian and bike collisions have occurred along with the violations that led to those crashes. Extra officers will be on duty patrolling areas where bike and pedestrian traffic and crashes occur in an effort to lower deaths and injuries.

Officers will be looking for violations made by… Read More

Detectives are releasing the booking photograph of Youth Pastor Gerardo Custodio Jr., believing there may be additional victims or witnesses and they are encouraging them to come forward.

Gerardo Custodio Jr. has been the Youth Pastor for many years at the Iglesia La Familia De Dios Church located at 1305 North Euclid Avenue in Ontario. Gerardo Custodio Jr. was away from the church while attending college but has been back since 2011.

His father, Gerardo Custodio Sr. is the Senior Pastor of the church which opened in 1995. On Saturday, January 14, officers interviewed… Read More

Ontario Police Officers have recovered a child who was kidnapped when a suspect stole his father’s truck.

On January 12, 2018, at approximately 10:16 PM, Ontario Police Dispatch received a 911 call from a man who stated his vehicle had just been stolen with his 10-year-old son inside. The man had pulled into the Chevron gas station located in the 1000 block of North Ontario Mills Drive to fuel his pick-up truck. He allowed his son to stay in the vehicle as he went into the store. While he was inside the store, an unknown male stole the vehicle and drove away with the child… Read More