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The company whose bus hurtledout of control before a devastatingcollisionwith twoother vehiclesonHighway 38 north of Yucaipa wasordered Friday, Feb. 8, to cease op-erations immediately.

Federal officials described thecompany, Scapadas Magicas LLC,as an imminent hazard to publicsafety after finding mechanicalproblems with its other buses.

Eight people, including sevenpassengers, died as a result of theFeb. 3 crash.

U.S. Department of Transporta-tion investigators also determinedthat the Tijuana-based companysupplied documentation during aJanuary compliance check thatfalsely stated that its buses werewell-maintained and its driverswere properly licensed.

I give them an A-plus that theyordered them to cease, said Bren-da Knight, whose uncle, Fred B.Richardson, 72, died three days af-ter the bus slammed into the pick-

up he was driving four miles fromhis home.

Knight, a member of the Beau-mont City Council, is an alternateon the Riverside Transit Agencyand a member of a five-persongroup that discusses busing issues

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orderedto closeOne of its vehicles crashed Feb.3 north of Yucaipa, killing eight.Authorities say bus maintenancerecords were falsified

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Moreno Valley school boardmember Mike Rios was convictedFriday, Feb. 8, of pimping, pander-ing and insurance fraud.

Jurors found Rios, 42, not guiltyononerapecharge.They hungona

second rape chargeand one panderingcharge.

During the trial,Rios cried and en-gaged in sharp ex-changes with theprosecutor. Jurorsgot the case Thurs-

day.Statelaw says Rios school board

seat will not become vacant untilhis sentencing on March 8.

John Hall, spokesman for theRiverside County district attor-neys office, said it was unclearwhether Rios would be retried onthe two charges on which the juryhung.

Rios was taken into custody fol-lowing his conviction. His bail wasrevoked. He faces up to 33 years inprison during sentencing.

Deputy Riverside County Public

Rios is guiltyof pimping,fraud charges

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Mike Rios

As he remembers what hap-pened in his brush with an allegedmass killer, Lee McDaniel keepsthinking about 60 seconds.

What if60 seconds ofhis encoun-ter with Christopher Dorner weredifferent? Would it have changed ared light to green? A red lightwhere two Riverside police officerswerewaitingwhen anassailant rid-dled their car with bullets, killingone and wounding another?

I have people telling me No, you

changed the whole game plan ofthis. You changed the whole dy-namic Now instead of him hunt-ing,hes the hunted, McDaniel,48,saidin aninterviewat hishomeFri-day, Feb. 8.

And that allsounds reallygood.And granted, maybe five peoplemay be alive that might not havebeen.Buttheresstillone thats not.AndI dontthinkitsmuchof a con-solation to that officers family

McDanieldescribed what he saidwas his run-in with Dorner, a for-mer Los Angeles cop accused of amurderous rampage that beganwith a double homicide Sunday,

Feb.3,in Irvineandended theweekwith police searching the snowywoods in the mountains south ofBig Bear Lake, where Dornersburned-out Nissan Titan pickup

was found.

It was a pickup McDaniel said hesawaround1 a.m.Wednesday, Feb.6, when he stopped for gas at theampmstationon WeirickRoad,justoff Interstate15 in Corona.

The afternoon before, he said hesaw a news bulletin on the searchfor Dorner, the suspect in the mur-der of Monica Quan and KeithLawrence in Irvine. Quan was thedaughter of a retired LAPD captainwho represented Dorner at an ad-ministrative hearing before he wasfired from the department in 2009for making false accusationsagainst a training officer.

Thebulletin,he said,described ablue pickup with a license platestarting with 7. McDaniel said Dor-nerwas standingin linebehindhiminside the convenience store. Dor-

nerwasan imposingfigure,hesaid.He looked familiar to me for

some reason, McDaniel said.Still, McDaniel said he didnt

think anything of it until he gotback in his truck, turned right andpassed by the store to go out. Hesaid he saw Dorners pickup on theother side of the gas pumps, facingthe store, he said.

At that point, Im like OK. Wait

Corona man describes encounter with Dorner

CHRIS ERCOLI/STAFFLee McDaniel spotted Christopher Dorner at a Corona gas station andflagged down a passing LAPD car.

Lee McDaniel is being praisedfor notifying police after seeingthe murder suspects pickup ata gas station

BY JEFF HORSEMANSTAFF WRITER

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A 60-second change in time anywhere, that red lightturns green, those off icers arent there and (the

officer who died) is still alive.LEE MCDANIEL

Themanhunt forsuspected copkiller Christopher Dorner hit adead end Friday, Feb. 8, as moun-tain searchers battled unrelent-ing snow and investigatorschased numerous false leadsthroughout Southern Californiafor the man they say opened fireon Riverside police officers withan assault rifle.

The Big Bear area search washalted Friday night and will re-sume today, San Bernardino

County spokeswoman CindyBachman said. At least 24 addi-tional deputies patrolled the areaovernight, though it was un-known whether Dorner was stillin the area.

The danger is, he could be outthere, Bachman said.

Meanwhile, more detailsemerged of the early morning at-tack Thursday on two Riversideofficers on routine patrol.

O ne o f t he o ff ic er s, a

27-year-old trainee, was behindthewheel whena driver pulledupnext to them at Arlington andMagnolia avenues and openedfire with anassaultrifle, said Riv-

erside Police Chief Sergio Diaz. Amotorist who witnessed the at-tack rushed to help.

Becauseof thegunshots,the of-ficer was unable to use his arms.

His partner lay lifeless in the pas-senger seat.

The injured officer asked theman to press down on the buttonof his radio microphone so hecould make a distress call to dis-patch.

A second driver tried to follow

the suspect but lost him, Diazsaid.

They did thesesignificantactsof heroism not knowing whether(Dorner) wouldturn on them, hesaid.

The injured officer, who hadtransferred from the InglewoodPolice Department a month ago,was in intensive care Friday. Hewillprobablyneed reconstructivesurgery on his arms and shoul-

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Manhunt goes cold

MARK MUCKENFUSS/STAFFSan Bernardino County Sheriff John McMahon talks to the media Friday during a news conference about the search for fired Los Angeles policeofficer Christopher Dorner in Big Bear Lake. Searchers in the San Bernardino Mountains had to proceed without air support due to the weather.

Reported sightings of alleged killer around Southern California dont pan outBY JANET ZIMMERMAN, JOHN ASBURY

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STAN LIM/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERFlowers sit at the Safe in His Arms memorial by the Riverside policestation. An officer died and another was badly wounded Thursday.

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ders but is expected to makea full recovery, Diaz said.

Hes in good spirits, but alot of pain, he said. He hasvisits on a limited basis, butthe pain continues.

Funeral arrangements arepending for the 34-year-oldofficer who died. He was an11-yearveteran of the depart-ment and was training theyounger officer when theywere attacked.

The Riverside Police De-partmenthasaskedthenewsmedia not to report thenames of the officers whowere shot. The Press-Enter-prise is complying with therequest because the suspecthasthreatenedpublicly togoafter police officersfamilies.

The Riverside attack wasthe latest ina crimespree at-tributedto Dorner,33, a firedLos Angeles police officer.

Dorner is suspected of fa-tally shooting the daughterofa retired LAPDofficerandher fianc Sunday in Irvine.Early Thursday, about 20minutes before the 1:35 a.m.shooting in Riverside, Dor-ner is suspected of shootingattwoLAPDofficerson a callin Corona, injuring one.

Dorner had posted a long-winded manifesto on hisFacebook pagesayinghe wasdriven to revenge againstLAPDofficersandtheirfami-lies. He was fired four yearsago for making false state-

ments and a false personnelcomplaint against his train-ingofficerandvowedto clearhis name.

NARROWED SEARCH

On Thursday, searchersfollowedwhat they saidwereDorners footprints foundnear his Nissan Titan truck,which was discovered burn-ing near a Forest Serviceroad in the San BernardinoMountains.

The truck was turned overto the Irvine Police Depart-ment; officials declined tosaywhat wasinsidethe vehi-cle.

On Friday, the search forD orne r f oc us ed o n a n

8-square-mile area south-

west ofBear Mountainskire-sort in the Big Bear area.

A w in te r s to rm t ha tbrought more than a foot ofsnow and limited visibilityg ro un de d h el i co pt ersequipped with thermal andinfrared technology.

SWAT teams were able touse search dogs, a Snowcattrail groomer and an ar-mored personnel carriere qu ip pe d w it h c ha in s.Checkpoints were set up onthe major highways.

Officers canvassed about

200 vacant cabins to see if

Dorner might be hidingthere,in additionto thedoor-to-door search of 400 cabinsthe day before. They alsosearched a plot of vacantland 35 miles away in Arrow-bear Lake that belongs toDorners mother, Bachmansaid.

But there were no newleads, she said. Another setof footprints found six milesfrom Dorners truck turnedout to be those of a cross-country skier, and a kicked-in cabin door was deter-

mined to be old damage.

The manhunt was takingitstollon searchers,she said.

The level of frustration isthat, you know, its just tak-ing longer for them to do

what they do best. The snowis really slowing them down,and they dont have any airsupport today, Bachmansaid.

The hunt forDornercriss-crossed Southern Californiaand Nevada, and investiga-tors seized evidence fromthe La Palma home whereDorner lived with his moth-er. Police in Enid, Okla., andPensacola, Fla.,also were onalert because Dorner men-tioned the two cities wherehe once lived in his manifes-to.

Reported sightings of theformer Los Angeles police-man spanned from San Die-go to Los Angeles to Bar-

TERRY PIERSON/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERThe command post in the San Bernardino Mountains is under snow as the hunt for former LAPD Officer Christopher Dorner goes on around Big Bear Resortand Snow Summit on Friday. Dormer is wanted in connection with three killings: two last weekend and that of a Riverside police off icer Thursday.

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The level of frustration is that its justtaking longer for them to do what they do

best. The snow is really slowing them

down.CINDY BACHMAN,

SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY SHERIFFS SPOKEWOMAN

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stow, all of them fruitless.The Twin Towers Correc-

tional Facility in downtownLos Angeles was on lock-down for several hours Fri-day after a jail employee re-ported seeing someone whoresembled Dorner. Sheriffsofficials determined hewasnt there.

Reports that he was seenin a white Lexus in Barstowand at the Barona Casinonear SanDiegoalsowereun-substantiated, officials said.

In downtown Riverside,meanwhile, a strong policepresence remained Friday,with officers posted at cor-ners near the district attor-neys office and City Hall. Asmall memorial of flowerswas set up at the site of thefatal shooting.

BAD WEATHER

Very cold temperaturesareforecastoverthe nextfewdays on the mountain. Windgusts are expected to reach50 mph, with sustainedwinds of 30 mph.

Authorities said Dornerdid not have winter survival-ist training. It is unknownhow he may be battling theelements if he is in fact hid-ing in the wilderness.

Big Bear schools wereclosed Friday because of thepolice investigation and theweather. Snow also closedschools in the Rim of The

World district.Ski facilities reopened Fri-day, and visitors seemed un-concerned that Dornermight still be in the area.

If he were staying uphere, he wouldnt haveburned the car, said KelbyTovar, 31, of Newport Beach.That would just call atten-tion to him. Hes going to goback to LA and do what hesaid he was going to do.Thats my opinion. Hes aman on a mission.

VIOLENT MANIFESTO

Dorner, a former Navy Re-serve officer who receivedthe Iraq Campaign Medaland the Global War on Ter-

rorism Service Medal, wasdismissed from the Los An-geles Police Department in2009 after a board of reviewfound he made false allega-tions of police brutalityagainst a training officer. Hesued unsuccessfully to gethis job back.

Police records cited by theLos Angeles Times said histraining officer complainedthat Dorner made repeatedmistakes in the field, andlacked common sense andgoodjudgment.She toldDor-ner that she would recom-mend he be removed from

the field unless his perfor-mance improved, accordingto the report.

Shortly after that,he madethe use of force allegationsagainst her, the Times re-

ported.Dorner wasin theNavy Re-

serve from 2002 to Feb. 1 ofthisyear, when hewashonor-ably discharged after twicebeing passed over for promo-tion, officials said. He rose tothe rank of lieutenant.

He earned a rifle marks-man ribbon, a pistol expertmedal and an IraqCampaignMedal, military recordsshow. Dorner was assignedto a mobile inshore underseawarfare unit, among otherpostings.

His rambling manifestowas posted on his Facebook

page, which hecreatedin lateJanuary.In thestatement,he

vowed unconventional andasymmetrical warfare tothose in LAPD uniformwhether onor offduty Youwill now live the life of theprey.

Unfortunately, this is anecessary evil that I do notenjoy but must partake andcomplete for substantialchange to occur within theL AP D a nd r ec l ai m m yname.

The manifesto included alistof people he might target,and they were placed underprotection by the LAPD.

This is extremely worri-some andscary forthepoliceinvolved in this manhunt,Los Angeles Police Chief

Charlie Beck said.Of course he knows whathes doing, he said. Wetrained him.

DEADLY RAMPAGE

Dorner is suspected of be-ginning his deadly rampageFeb. 3 in Irvine, killing CalState Fullerton assistantbasketball coach MonicaQuan and her fianc, KeithLawrence. Quans father isRandy Quan, a retired LAPDcaptain involved in a person-nel review that led to Dor-ners dismissal.

Authorities believe Dor-

ner may have tried to leavethe country. He checked in-

to a hotel on Naval BasePoint Loma, in San Diego,on Tuesday, but never for-mally checked out, Navyspokesman Brad Fagansaid.

Dornertried tosteal a boatWednesday nightfrom a SanDiego-area yacht club, butthe motor wouldnt start, au-thorities said. Early Thurs-day, Dorners identificationand a badge were found by apasser-by on a street nearSan Diego International Air-port.

Early Thursday,twoLAPDofficersen routeto Corona toprotect someoneon Dornersmanifesto were flaggeddown by a witness who had

identified the suspects vehi-cle at a gas station.The officers were still in

their car outside an am/pmmarket near Interstate 15,

two exits south of MagnoliaAvenue, when Dorner,armed with a rifle or otherweapon on his shoulder,fired at them, LAPD Sgt. Ru-dy Lopez said.

One of the officers wasgrazed in the head.The officers fired back

with their handguns, but Lo-pez didnt know if they hit

Dorner.A short time later, the two

Riverside officers were am-bushed, said Diaz, the River-side chief.

Someone in a vehicle pull-ed alongside the squad car,which was facing south andstopped at a red light, andshot the officers multipletimes, Diazsaid. Theofficersnever got off a shot, author-ities said.

Neither officer worked forthe LAPD and nothing sug-gests the suspectwas target-ing Riverside, said Diaz, aformer LAPD commander.

He added: My opinion ofthe suspectis unprintable. The manifesto, I think,speaks for itself in terms ofthe evidence of a depraved

and abandoned mind andheart. And t he cowardly waythat he ambushed your pub-lic servants speaks to hischaracter.

STAN LIM/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERAn armed police officer guards the district attorney's office in Riverside on Friday. Police kept a stepped-up presence in the wake of the shootings.

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Hes going to go

back to LA and dowhat he said hewas going to do.Thats my opinion.Hes a man on a

mission.KELBY TOVAR, NEWPORTBEACH RESIDENT SKIING

IN S.B. MOUNTAINS

Hes in good

spirits, but a lot ofpain. He has visitson a limited basis,

but the paincontinues.

SERGIO DIAZ, RIVERSIDEPOLICE CHIEF, SPEAKING

OF ONE OF TWOOFFICERS SHOT EARLYTHURSDAY MORNING

a minute, he said. But hesaid the news story he sawdescribed the suspects vehi-cle as blue.

This Nissan was grey, hesaid. LAPD eventually de-scribed Dorners pickup asmetallic grey.

McDaniel said he and Dor-ner locked eyes. He de-scribed Dorners face asemotionless, and said Dor-ner, whohad hisdriverdooropen, had his hands claspedin front of him.

In hindsight, (the starewaslike)Whats thisguy do-ing? McDaniel said.

Dorner was wearing a ski-likejacket withlotsof pocketsthat was beige or light greenand dark pants, he said.

McDaniel said he pulledaway from the side of theroad,madea U-turnandpull-ed up across the street fromthe gas station.

He said Dorner got in hisvehicle and headed downWierick toward TemescalCanyon Road, where heturned right. He said he wasdialing the number for Coro-na police when he saw anLAPD car exiting the free-way.

McDaniel said he used hislightsto catch theofficers at-tention. McDanieland the of-

ficers pulled into the gas sta-tion, he said, where he askedthem iftheywerelookingforDorner. The officers were inCorona toprotectone ofDor-ners targets.

One officer radioed inwhile the other took downMcDaniels information, hesaid. Then oneof theofficerssaw Dorners truck drivepastandheadnorthboundon

I-15.Theofficersgot intheir car

in pursuit of Dorner. McDa-niel said he followed but,thinking Dorner exited at ElCerrito Road, he got off thefreeway there and searchedthe area for the pickup.

About 10 minutes later,McDanielsaidhe gotback onI-15 and saw Magnolia Ave-nuelitup bysirens.HeexitedatMagnolia, where an officertold himoneoftheLAPDoffi-cers had been shot in thehead. The officer suffered agraze wound, authoritiessaid.

Twenty to 30 minutes lat-er,McDanielsaid he wasstillat the scene giving his infor-

mation to authorities whenhe overheard a CaliforniaHighway Patrol officer re-ceiving a radio call about theRiverside shootings.

Citing policy, Los Angelespolice would notconfirmthatMcDaniel was the man whoflagged their officers down.But LA Sgt. Rudy Lopez saidMcDaniels account is verysimilar to his understandingof what happened.

McDaniel said hes notworried about his safety be-cause of the massive man-hunt under way for Dorner.He said he has received a lotof kind words about what hedid.

But it still doesnt change

youre constantly replay-ingeverythingin yourhead,he said. (A) 60-second dif-ferencesomewhere. Wouldithave made a difference?

A 60-second change intimeanywhere,that redlightturns green, those officersarent there and (the officerwho died) is still alive.

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The Big Bear community,which ordinarily would becelebrating a foot of freshpowder falling on the slopes,on Friday fretted that one ofthe biggesttourist weekendsof the winter ski season willtake a hitas themanhunt fora suspected copkiller contin-ues.

Snow conditions are opti-mal, with nearly a foot offresh snow blanketing theslopes in Big Bear beforenoon Friday. Temperaturesare moderate.

But Brent Tregaskis, gen-eral manager of Bear Moun-tain and Snow Summit, saidski-pass sales were downabout 15 percent.

Its slow, but were notsurprised, he said. Withthis amount of snow, thechainrequirementsand neg-ative press you get with po-tentially having a killer onthe loose, we havent had asmany on the hill as wed nor-mally have.

Tregaskis said about 100

fewer customers were atBear Mountain on Fridaythan the day before whenabout 600 skiers and snow-boarders were given half-price return passes and es-corted out of the groundsamid a massive search.

We felt it was prudent toclose it down to give law en-forcement a couple hours ofdaylight to search the ski ar-eas,cars and nearby cabins,he said.

Snow Summit closed forthe night at 4 p.m. and, likeBear Mountain, re-openedFriday morning.

We were encouraged bylawenforcement to close,butthey did not force us, he

said.Wejust didnot wantto

putthe publicor ouremploy-ees at risk.

Tregaskis said resort staffmembers consulted San Ber-

nardino County officials ear-ly Friday before opening.

San Bernardino CountySheriff John McMahon saidthe entire resort area hasbeen searched, and theSWAT officersare in the hillslooking for Christopher Dor-ner.

We have searched all thehouses, and gone door todoor, McMahon said.

Right now, its a little in-tense, Tregaskis said. Butwith this much law enforce-ment here, I feel pretty com-fortable. I think most peoplefeel like hes (Dorner) gone.And you cant have a powderday and not ski.

Its great powder, Kelby

Tovar, 31, of Newport Beach,

said ashe gotready tohit theslopes.

He wasnt expecting to seeas much police presence on

Friday as he did the day be-fore.

On Thursday, he said,The helicopters were flyingup next to you on the chair-lift. It was crazy.

During a press conferenceFriday, Big Bear Lake MayorJay Obernolte insisted thatthe ski areas are safe andwould not have reopened iflawenforcementofficials feltotherwise.

There is no panic here,he said, describing Big Bearas a hardy community.Many people here arearmed, he added.

Tregaskis said he hopedthe authorities find Dornersoon.

We haventcalculated the

revenueloss, yet, Tregaskissaid. If they find this guysoon, and find hes not here,itll bounce back quickly. If

theres reason to believehesstillin BigBear,which I dontbelieve there is, itll takesome time maybe three tofour days to get back ontrack.

Tourism and restaurantbusiness has been affected,he said.

Hotel guests at some BigB ea r a re a p ro pe rt ie schecked out Thursday. Res-taurants were practicallyempty. Bookingdesks forho-tel, B&B, lodge and cabin re-sort properties were busyfielding weekend cancel-lation calls.

As of mid-Friday, majorhotels and lodges collective-ly had more than 100 avail-

able rooms left to book for

the weekend.Cindy Nichols, a bar man-

ager at Mill Creek Cattle Co.& Diamond Lils Saloon, said

daytime business has beenslow since Thursday.

I have a lot of friends whowork in the resort businesswhere they rent homes, andtheyve had massive cancel-lations, she said. Peopledontwantto bringtheirfam-ily up here because of thatguy, Christopher.

It didnt scare everyoneoff, Rachel Wade, executivedirector of Big Bear Cham-ber of Commerce, said. Butwitheveryoneon heightenedalert, and a big storm com-ing, there was definitely animpact on business.

Kinner Oza, 29, of Los An-geles, had organized a skiweekend for a group of 23

people from his former

hometown of Houston. Aftertexting back-and-forth, thetravel party decided to makethe trip.

We had an action plan,Justin Ruth, 29, said of theirdrive to Big Bear on Thurs-day. We knew what (Dor-ner) looked like. Our actionplan was if we saw him, wewere just going to gun forhim in the Jeep.

Oza, an information tech-nology worker, said he hadfaith that police had madethe area safe.

Richard Bubel, 27, of Glen-dora, shared that view.

Yesterday, I looked at myphoneand therewerelikesixmessages: Dont go to BigBear. Theres a killer! Bu-bel said. With all the law en-forcement in the area, hesaid,I thinkthisis thesafest

place to be.

Manhunt, storm slow Big Bear business

MARK MUCKENFUSS/STAFFHeavy snow falls on skiiers at the Bear Moutain Ski area. Despite the ongoing manhunt for former LAPD officer Christopher Dorner, the slopes are open.

Ski resorts have lots offresh snow, but the huntfor a suspected killer putsa crimp in hotel bookings

BY DEBRA GRUSZECKIAND MARK MUCKENFUSS

STAFF WRITERSdgruszecki@pe.com