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Former Police Chief Pat Walsh to temporarily oversee Menifee Police Department

Former Menifee Police Department Chief Pat Walsh will return temporarily. Valley News/Courtesy photo see POLICE, page A-2

MENIFEE – Menifee’s former police chief, Pat Walsh, who successfully led the creation and operations of the city police department for two years, will return temporarily to manage the department while interim Chief Chris Karrer is out on injury medical leave due to an injury he sustained while off-duty.

Walsh, a law enforcement veteran with nearly 40 years of experience, provided critical leadership during the establishment of the Menifee Police Department in July 2020. He began his law enforcement career as a Los Angeles County Deputy Sheriff in 1984 before transferring to the Portland Police Bureau in 1992 where he served for over 20 years. In 2014, Walsh became the police chief in Lompoc and served in that position until taking the same role in Menifee. He retired from the Menifee Police Department in July 2022.

Panhandlers asked to leave Fallbrook

Julie Reeder and Tony Campbell Valley News and AC Investigations

Sheriff deputies asked a new group of panhandlers who returned to the intersection of South Mission and Ammunition roads in Fallbrook on Saturday, May 13, to leave. They were soliciting, supposedly, for a young girl with brain cancer again. Last week, Village News, Valley News’ sister newspaper, reported that different groups of panhandlers have used the same types of signs with the same red border, same lettering, same cash app link, but different children’s photos in the middle with various diseases.

The signs this past Saturday were exactly the same as reported last week in Village News. The buckets were the same, and the cash app link on the signs were the same. So the money still appeared to be going to the same person we reported on previously that has been charged for panhandling in other cities, as well as gathering 32 parking citations in various cities along their route. This time, however, there were different young women panhandling in the intersection and they were traveling in a different van, registered to a different man than last week. The van carrying the team this week was registered to a Solorio Francisco.

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He may have been one of the adult men in charge this time (Saturday). They were observed monitoring the panhandlers in see PANHANDLERS, page A-4