A 42-year-old Jurupa Valley man suspected of illegally possessing high-capacity rifles that his 12-year-old son could access and allegedly threatened to use on his school mates was behind bars Friday.
Rolanda Sida was arrested and booked into the Robert Presley Jail Thursday night on suspicion of possession of assault weapons, criminal storage of firearms and child endangerment.
Sida is being held in lieu of $500,000 bail.
His son, whose identity was not released, was booked into Riverside Juvenile Hall on suspicion of making criminal threats.
According to Riverside County sheriff’s Sgt. Aaron Avila, on Thursday afternoon, administrators at Jurupa Middle School on Galena Avenue notified the campus resource deputy that the boy had made “threats … toward his classmates.”
No one on the campus was physically harmed.
“A thorough investigation of these criminal threats was immediately initiated,” according to Avila.
He said that deputies went to the youth’s family home in the 5000 block of Baldwin Avenue and questioned Sida.
“As a result of the investigation, three unsecured assault rifles, one handgun and several hundred rounds of ammunition were located within the residence and seized,” the sergeant said.
Sida was taken into custody without incident, as was his son.
Background information on the man was unavailable.