11:31 PM PST on Thursday, February 18, 2010
By ALICIA ROBINSON and PAUL LAROCCO
The Press-Enterprise
Contrary to policy, top Riverside city officials said Thursday that no one from the police department notified them of the chief’s Feb. 8 car crash, though officers already had taken him home without a field sobriety test.
Word that Russ Leach crashed his car and was stopped by police at 3 a.m. came in an anonymous phone call to City Hall six hours later, Mayor Ron Loveridge said in an interview.