Month: September 2014

Two Indio Police officers are on paid administrative leave and are being investigated for their roles in an early morning arrest on September 12th. Indio Police opened an investigation into that arrest and requested the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department to conduct an independent investigation into any possible criminal conduct by the officers. Indio Police say

Hikers live by the code “no trace left behind,” but that’s not the case along a Palm Springs hiking trail, the Goat Trails hike, also known as the Rimrock trail. Dirty diapers, empty cans, and even dog feces line the trail above the Vons shopping center on East Palm Canyon Drive and Gene Autry Trail.

Arizona Cardinals running back Jonathan Dwyer became the the 4th NFL player Thursday to be recently charged with abusing a woman or child. Police say he head-butted his wife and broke her nose, after she refused his sexual advances. Carolina Panthers’ Greg Hardy and Minnesota Viking, Adrian Peterson are also facing abuse charges, both now

PGA West spokesman Christopher George says Cal Osha is investigating the death of a worker who fell into a golf course pond and drowned Tuesday. The course also released this statement today: “With deep regret, we can confirm that a maintenance worker for one of our vendors drowned while clearing weeds from a lake at

Autoridades de Cathedral City dicen que el Consejal Chuck Vasquez resignar a su puesto este domingo a la medianoche, 21 de septiembre. La Alcaldesa de Cathedral City Kathy DeRosa confirmo la informacin con nuestras estaciones hermanas KESQ, CBS local 2 y Kuna Noticias. Vasquez de 59 aos se declar culpable el lunes de cargos felonia

El gobierno de Mxico investiga concierto de Miley Cyrus por gesto con la bandera BBC Mundo (fuente informtica) La Secretara de Gobernacin investiga el posible mal uso de la bandera mexicana durante un concierto de la cantante estadounidense Miley Cyrus realizado este martes en Monterrey, Nuevo Len, segn confirm a BBC Mundo un funcionario de

El astro del reggaetn Don Omar enfrenta mltiples cargos por violencia domstica tras su arresto en Puerto Rico. El vocero de la polica ngel Mariani dijo en una entrevista telefnica el jueves que el artista de 36 aos, cuyo verdadero nombre es William Omar Landrn Rivera, enfrenta dos cargos de maltrato y dos de amenaza,

A Pollock Pines man has been arrested on suspicion of starting a fire in El Dorado County that has destroyed nearly 71,000 acres and forced the evacuation of 3,000 people. According to a release from Cal Fire, 37-year-old Wayne Allen Huntsman was booked into the El Dorado County Jail on arson charges stemming from the

Authorities have caught up with a man accused of stealing an elderly couple’s car in Palm Springs after threatening them with a knife on August 26. Daniel Ryan Volrich, a 24 year old transient, was arrested in Yucca Valley on Wednesday, September 17 in connection to the robbery. The crime occurred at a home in

Cathedral City officials said Councilman Chuck Vasquez will resign his post at midnight September 21st. See resignation letter Cathedral City Mayor Kathy DeRosa has confirmed the information with KESQ and CBS Local 2. Vasquez, 59, pleaded guilty to felony charges for embezzling funds from an employee loan program on Monday. He pleaded guilty to three

A standoff that lasted about two hours came to an end in Cathedral City shortly after 11 a.m. Thursday. According to police, officers were conducting a probation compliance check on 26-year-old Ryan Michael England, of Cathedral City, when he barricaded himself in a home in the 68100 block of Tortuga Road around 8:30 a.m. Officers

Self-proclaimed international jewel thief Doris Payne was taken back into custody in an Indio court Thursday for violating probation requirements following her release from prison. Sitting quietly in the front row of the gallery, Payne was surrounded by two armed probation officers. She wore a neat, white linen outfit with gold hoop earrings. After listening

An Oct. 3 bail hearing was set Wednesday for a man accused of killing two people while driving drunk in Palm Springs over Labor Day weekend. Jonathan Garcia-Avila, 21, is charged with two counts of murder and one count of DUI gross vehicular manslaughter, with sentence enhancing allegations of causing great bodily injury to multiple

The South Coast Air Quality Management District issued an odor advisory for the Coachella Valley on Thursday due to elevated levels of a gas that smells like rotten eggs. Officials with the SCAQMD said hourly levels of hydrogen sulfide (H2S) peaked Wednesday night at 46 parts per billion immediately downwind of the Salton Sea. The

La Oficina de Aduanas y Proteccin Fronteriza anuncio la compra de camaras de video que se usaran en el cuerpo de los agentes para asegurar la proteccion de los agentes asi como la acontabilidad y transparencia en los incidentes de brutalidad policial. Dos personas informadas sobre el reciente mandato, sealaron este mircoles que las pruebas

Officials say more than 2,000 homes are threatened and huge swaths of timberland have been destroyed by an out-of-control wildfire in Northern California. State fire officials say the blaze east of Sacramento was threatening 2,003 single residences and about 1,500 other structures Wednesday night. It has now burned nearly 44 square miles of trees and

The U.S. Border Patrol has purchased body cameras and will begin testing them this year at its training academy. Two people briefed on the move said Wednesday that testing will occur from October to December at the Border Patrol academy in Artesia, New Mexico. It is unclear when, or even if, they will be introduced

Riverside County wasn’t ready to proclaim a state of emergency a week ago, but after the city of La Quinta declared one, and another downpour damaged a high school in Wildomar, Supervisor John Benoit said it was time. “The damage was huge, we are just now getting a hold on most of the roads,” he

Kirk Rowland sent us video of floodwater rushing through the wash behind his home in Joshua Tree Tuesday. “It was amazing. It was a wall of water about 10 feet high,” said Rowland. “The wash behind our property is about 16 feet high and it came over the top. It was crazy.” Just a mile

Evan Brown didn’t want to start a typical business for extra cash, so he decided to mix it up. “I went from giving them away for fun to people asking where they could buy one. There’s an idea,” Brown said. It was a pretty colorful one tying together his two current projects-going to school to