Riverside County pays $1.3 million to Wildomar man whose face was broken by deputies

Kenneth Ciccarelli was sitting in his backyard patio one summer night, listening to music — loud music — on his blue-tooth device, when a Riverside County sheriff’s deputy appeared seemingly out of nowhere and demanded he turn off the tunes.
Blinded by the deputy’s flashlight, Ciccarelli initially didn’t believe it was a real law enforcement officer standing in the darkened Wildomar patio, so he was slow in turning down the music that had drawn complaints from neigh