A teenager was arrested in connection with a shooting that injured a woman and her teenage son in a park in Coachella Monday evening. Riverside County Sheriff’s deputies responded to reports of attempted murder around 6:00 p.m. on the 51200 block of Douma Street near Bagdouma Park. The investigation revealed a 16-year-old teenage boy from
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Two people were hospitalized Monday after being shot in the city of Indio. The shooting was reported at around 5:30 p.m. on the 44700 block of Palm Street, according to Ben Guitron of the Indio Police Department. A witness near the scene told News Channel 3 she heard multiple shots fired. “I heard the shots.
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A former Los Angeles Police Department officer who was charged with committing lewd acts on four young boys at his Covina-area home has died while in custody, officials said today. Sheriff’s department officials said only that Paul Razo, 46, died of medical complications, but no further information was released. Razo was arrested May 10,
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WOODLAND, Calif. (AP) — A judge on Monday ordered a psychiatric review of the former University of California, Davis student charged with two fatal stabbings and an attempted murder that shook the normally serene community outside Sacramento. An attorney for Carlos Dominguez said in Yolo County Superior Court that his client is not mentally competent to stand trial. Dominguez,
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Five people were arrested following a driving under the influence checkpoint in La Quinta over the weekend, authorities said today. The La Quinta Riverside County Sheriff’s Office conducted the checkpoint from 6 p.m. Friday to 2 a.m. Saturday on Washington Street and Highland Palms Drive, according to Sgt. Kyle LaFond of the Riverside County
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A father and son accused with a 19-year-old man in the fatal shooting of a 48-year-old man in North Palm Springs earlier this week pleaded not guilty to murder today. North Palm Springs residents Mark Brian Barneck, 66, and his son Cody Barneck, 33, were arrested around 4 a.m. Wednesday in Desert Hot Springs, according
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After deliberating for almost two days, jurors ended the week without reaching a verdict in the retrial of a 40-year-old man accused of killing a Palm Springs retiree in a financial-enrichment scheme and dumping his body by Interstate 5 while en route to Daly City. Jurors began deliberating Thursday morning and will continue deliberating
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A 56-year-old man suspected of sexually assaulting a man in Palm Springs he met through an online dating app pleaded not guilty to felony charges on Friday. ‘He won’t be abusing people’ Sexual assault victim speaks out after suspect arrested Hakan Isik of Desert Hot Springs was charged with two felony counts of sodomy of
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Police today advised the public of a significant rise in pool pump and pool heater thefts in recent months as they searched for two men suspected of recently stealing pool equipment in Palm Springs and fleeing the scene. “The department recommends installing anti-theft cages, video surveillance cameras and GPS tracking devices to safeguard your property,”
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Authorities are searching for a Desert Hot Springs man wanted for allegedly supplying the fentanyl that led to the death of a 17-year-old girl in 2022. Michael Garcia, 22, was identified as the suspect in the fentanyl poisoning of a 17-year-old girl in an unincorporated area near Desert Hot Spring in August 2022, the Riverside
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Two North Palm Springs men were arrested in connection with a deadly shooting earlier this week in a property in an unincorporated area near Desert Hot Springs. The shooting was reported Tuesday at around 5:00 a.m. on the 64000 block of 16th Avenue. The area is located along N. Indian Canyon Drive approximately two miles north
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Report by Nicole Comstock, KCBS Deputies arrest a man for allegedly running a house of horrors – keeping two women against their will and torturing them. Detectives fear there may be more victims “I grew up with him you know, I love him. It’s crazy to see him like this,” said Mark Glasser referring to
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The fate of Miguel Bustamante, a man previously convicted in the murder of a Palm Springs retiree, now rests in the hands of the jury as they deliberate in his retrial. The case is centered on a financially motivated scheme that from more than a decade ago. After hearing closing arguments from the prosecution and
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A 33-year-old Indio man who prostituted minors throughout the Coachella Valley pleaded guilty today to multiple felony charges. Dewayne Deanthony Williams was charged with three counts of inducing minors to work in sex-for-hire operations and one count each of human trafficking, lewd acts on a child and procuring a person for the purpose of prostitution,
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A suspect was detained following a two-hour standoff in a Palm Desert home Thursday afternoon. Several Riverside County Sheriff’s units surrounded a home at Palmilla Circle, near Primrose Drive, just north of Sacred Heart Catholic Church. There are no details on this incident. We have reached out to the Riverside County Sheriff’s Office for information
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A Desert Hot Springs woman who made a viral video at a local Costco accusing a mixed-race family of neglecting and sexually assaulting a young Black female family member was granted a misdemeanor diversion program of six months for false information charges. Angelica Marie Mendez, 25, was charged with one misdemeanor count each of providing
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A 31-year-old man who forced a motorist at gunpoint to lead sheriff’s deputies on a high-speed chase in Mecca in 2020 was sentenced to six years in prison after pleading guilty to felony charges. Gutberto Antonio Rodriguez was charged with one felony count each of to kidnapping, kidnapping during the commission of a carjacking, assault
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Some of the families who have lost a loved one due to fentanyl poisoning in Riverside County are healing thanks to the power of art. A “Tree of Life” mural is set up at the Riverside County District Attorney’s office in Indio with the artwork of more than 20 families. The exhibit also has written testimonies from victims
Continue Reading Police have made an arrest in the sexual assault of a gay man during a hookup on a dating app earlier this year in Palm Springs. The suspect, Hakan Isik, 56, Desert Hot Springs, was placed under arrest Wednesday morning. Jail records show the suspect was booked into the John Benoit Detention Center in Indio
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A 34-year-old man suspected of fatally striking an elderly man in Cathedral City and leaving the scene pleaded not guilty today to murder. Heber Alexander Henriquez of Cathedral City also pleaded not guilty to one misdemeanor count of driving with a suspended license on Wednesday afternoon at the Larson Justice Center in Indio, according to
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