Sheriff Stan Sniff appointed Captain Jason Horton as the new Jurupa Valley Sheriff’s Station Commander. He will replace Captain Dan Feltenberger, whom Sheriff Stan Sniff appointed to lead the Riverside County Regional Gang Task Force (GTF), a multi-agency regionalized task force comprised of local, state, and federal law enforcement officers focused on the suppression, prevention and intervention of criminal street gangs. Captain Horton and Captain Feltenberger will officially begin their new duties on May 1, 2014.

Captain Horton has over 20 years of full-time law enforcement experience, all with the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department. Prior to his full-time employment, he volunteered for 4 years as a Reserve Deputy Sheriff with the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department. As a reserve, he was assigned to the former Riverside Station, which provided patrol services to the communities now patrolled by the Jurupa Valley Station.

Captain Horton has worked the Corrections Division as a deputy sheriff, sergeant, lieutenant, and captain. He recently commanded the Coordinated Custody Management Unit, which oversaw AB109 related issues in the department’s corrections division. Captain Horton has worked in the Field Operations Division at the Hemet Sheriff’s Station, the Perris Sheriff’s Station, and the Jurupa Valley Station as a deputy sheriff, corporal, sergeant, and lieutenant. He has also held assignments at the Ben Clark Training Center and the Sheriff’s Special Investigations Bureau.

When Captain Horton’s family moved to California from Indiana in the early 1970’s they first settled in Jurupa Valley where he attended elementary school for several years. While assigned to the Jurupa Valley Station as a deputy and corporal, Captain Horton served in patrol and as a School Resource Officer at Jurupa Valley High School. As a lieutenant, Captain Horton worked on the team responsible for forming the contracts for police services with the cities of Eastvale and Jurupa Valley. He served as the first Assistant Chief of Police for the city of Eastvale.

Captain Horton graduated in 2006 from the Sherman Block Leadership Institute (SLI) and holds a Bachelor’s degree from Cal State University San Bernardino and a Master’s degree from the University of Redlands. Captain Horton is a school board member for St. Catherine of Alexandria School in Riverside and is a supporter of athletics for Notre Dame High School. He is married with four children and resides in the city of Riverside