New Paper Airs Local Criminals’ ‘Dirty Laundry’ With Mugshots

If you get busted by local cops, there’s a good chance your mugshot could end up in the Valley’s newest paper.

It’s not your average read, it is “The Jail Report.” The 6 week-old paper exposes Riverside County’s crime, criminals, and their mugshots.

“We want to help reduce crime through knowledge and exposing local crime,” said Craig Rickabaugh, who is the brains behind “The Jail Report.”

He says, the 16-page paper is just a dollar, and available on the counter at your local gas station. Each week, mugshots of the valley’s most-wanted and arrested from La Quinta to Coachella and sex offenders across the Valley along with DUI arrest are plastered throughout the paper.

“The more people know their faces will be out and about, maybe they’ll think twice about what they’re doing,” said local resident Mike Gubler.

The paper also focuses on education. The horrible effects of meth and drugs are reported on in almost every issue.

In their most recent and 6th edition, it features a story about the $200,000 reward being offered for anyone who helps catch the persons responsible for the latest attacks against the Hemet Gang Task Force. In the same issue a full report is written up about the former Riverside Police Chief Russ Leach’s DUI arrest 3 weeks ago.

Rickabaugh says, “If someone is afraid of their face getting in the paper then they shouldn’t get behind the wheel after they’ve been drinking.”

The Jail Report post its front-page of each edition at www.thejailreport.com. It is also on Facebook at www.facebook.com/thejailreport.