{"id":309351,"date":"2010-02-11T22:18:40","date_gmt":"2010-02-12T03:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a8901ce2970b"},"modified":"2010-02-11T22:17:57","modified_gmt":"2010-02-12T03:17:57","slug":"riverside-police-chief-steps-down-in-wake-of-car-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/309351","title":{"rendered":"Riverside police chief steps down in wake of car crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Embattled Riverside Police Chief Russ Leach stepped down Thursday night three days after he crashed a city-owned car in an accident that remains under investigation. <\/p>\n<p>According to a statement from Riverside City Manager Bradley Hudson, Leach, 61, will retire for &quot;medical reasons&quot; effective immediately. <\/p>\n<p>Hudson said &quot;a sweeping internal affairs investigation&quot; into the Riverside Police Department&#8217;s response to the chief&#8217;s early morning crash is underway with oversight provided by former Riverside County Dist. Atty. Grover Trask. <\/p>\n<p>A police report released Thursday said Leach was confused when stopped after the single-car crash, which occurred about 3 a.m. Monday. On the report, a box marked \u201cHBD \u2013 impairment unknown\u201d had been checked. HBD means \u201chas been drinking\u201d but there is no evidence Leach was given a field sobriety test. <\/p>\n<p>Leach drove three miles on front tires that were burned down to the rims after his car jumped a curb and hit a fire hydrant and a light pole. Police said he was driving the wrong way down the street. <\/p>\n<p>The accident is being investigated by the California Highway Patrol. <\/p>\n<p>&#8212; David Kelly <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Embattled Riverside Police Chief Russ Leach stepped down Thursday night three days after he crashed a city-owned car in an accident that remains under investigation. According to a statement from Riverside City Manager Bradley Hudson, Leach, 61, will retire for &quot;medical reasons&quot; effective immediately. Hudson said &quot;a sweeping internal affairs investigation&quot; into the Riverside Police [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4679,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-309351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4679"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}