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Sheriff Gary Penrod to retire this month

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San Bernardino County Sheriff Gary Penrod said Tuesday he plans to retire at the end of January.

Penrod, 60, a 38-year veteran of the Sheriff's Department, was elected to the top job in 1994. He told The Sun and Inland Valley Daily Bulletin he plans to pursue other interests.

An official announcement is expected Wednesday.

Penrod has lived in the county since 1953. He graduated from Redlands High School and attended San Bernardino Valley College, Victor Valley College, UC Santa Barbara and UC Riverside. He joined the Sheriff's Department in 1971 and moved up the ranks, from deputy to deputy chief. He took on the additional role of county coroner when the two offices merged in 2005.

No successor has been named. Athough sheriff is an elected position, the county's Board of Supervisors is able to make an interim appointment in instances such as this.

The upcoming trial in a multi-million dollar lawsuit filed by the wife of Sheriff Gary Penrod against a High Desert newspaper publisher was delayed until next year because of scheduling conflicts.

The announcement came this morning during a trial readiness hearing in San Bernardino Superior Court.

Another readiness hearing was set for Jan. 8, and a jury trial is scheduled for Jan. 12. In the meantime, lawyers in the case will be preparing pretrial motions and responses. One such motion to bifurcate, or divide, the trial into three phases for liability, damages and punitive damages will be addressed in December.

Penrod's wife, Nancy Bohl, filed a libel suit against Valley Wide Newspapers, a collection of newspapers owned by Raymond Pryke that includes the Hesperia Resorter, in June 2000.

 

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