Ricardo Sanchez

A father and son remained in custody Wednesday after an investigation into a family member's report of sexual abuse revealed four other cases of alleged child molestation, police said. Ricardo Sanchez, 46, and his son Ruben Sanchez, 19, were arrested Monday on suspicion of continuous sexual abuse of a child and lewd and lascivious acts, said Carl Baker, a spokesman for the Redlands Police Department. Ruben Sanchez also was booked on suspicion of sodomy on a minor. Redlands police began investigating Ricardo Sanchez on May 13 after a female family member reported that she had been sexually abused by him as a child nearly a decade earlier, Baker said.

washington -- Retired Army Lt. Gen. Ricardo S. Sanchez, who led U.S. forces in Iraq for a year after the March 2003 invasion, accused the Bush administration Friday of going to war with a "catastrophically flawed" plan and said the United States is "living a nightmare with no end in sight." Sanchez described the current troop increase in Iraq as "a desperate attempt by the administration that has not accepted the political and economic realities of this war."

Pentagon officials plan to replace the top ground commander in Iraq, Army Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, with a higher-ranking officer leading a new command structure, defense officials said Monday. The successor is expected to be the Army's second-in-command, Gen. George W. Casey, officials said. Sanchez's departure has been long foreseen, said Defense Department officials speaking on condition of anonymity.

Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez stepped down Thursday as the top U.S. commander in Iraq, his 14-month tenure clouded by the Abu Ghraib prison scandal and the military's failure to crush the ongoing insurgency. Sanchez's departure was part of a long-scheduled command shift, officials said. Gen. George W. Casey, the Army vice chief of staff and a four-star general, replaced Sanchez as head of the U.S.-led coalition's 160,000 troops in Iraq.

The Pentagon plans to promote Army Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, former head of military operations in Iraq, risking a confrontation with members of Congress because of the prisoner abuses that occurred during his tenure. Senior Pentagon officials, including Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and Air Force Gen. Richard B.

To get to see Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, you pass through four security checks and two body searches and then are driven past high concrete barricades, earth-filled barriers and helixes of barbed wire deep into the bowels of one of Saddam Hussein's more splendid former palaces stretched out on the bank of the Tigris.