RIVERSIDE (KESQ) – A veteran Riverside County prosecutor will take the No. 2 spot at the District Attorney’s Office, following the retirement of another career litigator who served in the post for a decade.
District Attorney Mike Hestrin on Thursday formally appointed Jared Haringsma as chief assistant district attorney.
Haringsma takes the position previously held — until earlier this month — by John Aki, who retired after nearly a quarter century in the D.A.’s office. Aki had been in Hestrin’s executive circle since the three-term district attorney was first elected in 2014…