Suspects Posing as Cops Harass Motorists

TEMECULA - Riverside County sheriff's officials today cautioned Temecula residents to be alert to individuals posing as law enforcement officers who may try to exploit them.

According to the sheriff's department, deputies received at least two reports on Monday night of a pair of suspects accosting people parked in their cars and forcing them to lay on the ground, apparently for kicks.

The first encounter occurred around 6:45 p.m. near the intersection of Lakehouse Road and Harveston Drive, and the second happened two hours later in the 31000 block of Sonoma Lane, said sheriff's Sgt. Leonard P...