Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco said deputies will not be making immigration-related arrests, making the announcement in an online video Thursday in which he also slams the state's sanctuary state law.

Bianco, who was first elected sheriff in 2018, can continue to lead Riverside County’s top law enforcement agency if he were to run for governor and lose. A 2022 state law that shifts sheriff’s elections to presidential election years tacked on another two years to Bianco’s term, which now ends in 2028.

Riverside County deputies will not perform “any type of immigration enforcement,” Sheriff Chad Bianco said, as fear among local immigrant communities has increased due to intensifying raids.

First discovered: 5:20 p.m. Feb. 7 A new wildfire was reported today at 5:20 p.m. in Riverside County. The wildfire has been burning on private land. At this time, the containment status is unknown and the cause of the fire remains undetermined.

A man was arrested for allegedly starting multiple fires in Riverside County this week, one of which burned a trailer at a mobile home resort and killed one person, according to authorities.

An ex-Riverside County sheriff's deputy, who prosecutors sai smuggled drugs as a a middleman for a Mexican cartel, has pleaded guilty.

Deputies in Riverside County have arrested a man who allegedly started multiple fires earlier this week, one of which killed a person. According to the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department, a report of multiple fires came in late Monday afternoon around 4:45 p.