Raid on San Bernardino Sunshine Motel leads to pimping charges and 'red tag' Closure - BERITAJA

With a chopper circling overhead, constabulary successful armored vehicles rolled up to the Sunshine Motel successful downtown San Bernardino and jumped retired pinch battle rifles astatine the ready.

On April 29, They battered down doors and swept the modest, two-story building beside the 215 Freeway pinch subject precision. Startled young women, hands successful the air, staggered retired of darkened rooms.

The ambush was the culmination of an “extensive investigation” into allegations of pimping and pandering astatine the hotel, according to posts connected the San Bernardino Police Department’s X account.

Multiple units from the San Bernardino Police Department served a hunt warrant successful precocious April 2026 arsenic portion of a pimping and pandering investigation astatine the Sunshine Motel successful the 500 artifact of North H Street, successful San Bernardino.

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The hotel’s head was arrested connected felony charges and the building was “red tagged” by metropolis officials owed to unspecified wellness and information violations, according to police.

The anticipation that adultery was occurring astatine the motel came arsenic nary astonishment to locals, whose metropolis routinely ranks among the poorest and about crime-ridden successful California.

The vicinity about the motel, successful the 500 artifact of North H Street , is notorious for prostitution, Salvation Army worker Anthony Zavala told CBS LA.

“I deliberation a batch much activity needs to beryllium done, but evidently it’s awesome to put distant immoderate group for illustration that, that could do that to a young lady,” Zavala said.

Police posted a gritty, 50-second video of the ambush connected their societal media.

Officers from the San Bernardino Police Department served a hunt warrant arsenic portion of a pimping and pandering investigation astatine the Sunshine Motel successful the 500 artifact of North H Street, successful San Bernardino.

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With a sepia-toned select and Bill Withers crooning “Ain’t nary Sunshine” arsenic the soundtrack, the clip shows constabulary successful afloat tactical cogwheel breaking down doors and handcuffing group successful the parking lot.

A brace of pink, sparkling high-heeled boots flashes crossed the screen, reminiscent of a classical montage from HBO’s “The Wire.”

“The San Bernardino Police Department will relentlessly prosecute those who utilization and victimize others,” the X station said. Chief Darren Goodman added: “If you postulation successful quality lives aliases prey connected our community, you will beryllium identified, targeted, and held accountable.”

The station does not place the head arrested aliases specify the wellness violations cited to render the edifice unsafe for occupancy. Department officials did not respond to a petition for remark connected Saturday.