Month: October 2017

We looked into reports of police activity near Via Escuela and Farrell on Thursday morning. A viewer saws he saw a heavy police presence there. Riverside County Sheriff’s Deputy Armando Munoz said the Coachella Valley Gang Task Force searched a property related search warrant on the 2400 block of Via Escuela around 7 a.m. Read:

A Chinese national was arrested Wednesday after authorities confiscated about 1,100 marijuana plants from a Palm Desert residence. Around 12:15 p.m., authorities served a search warrant at a residence on the 100 block of Azzuro Drive. That’s near Country Club Drive, a block west of Ronald Reagan Elementary School. The warrant was related to a

The Palm Desert City Council is set to formally adopt it’s commercial cannabis ordinance at Thursday’s scheduled council meeting. The city council voted to approve the ordinance in September. The ordinances contained regulations for potential businesses to follow including obtaining conditional use permits from the city’s planning commission and getting a state issued license from

El Centro Sector Border Patrol agents assigned to the Highway 86 checkpoint and Highway 111 checkpoint, arrested two men for smuggling narcotics on two separate events on Tuesday. The first incident occurred around 11:30 am, when a 67-year-old man approached the checkpoint on Highway 86 in a white, 1997 Chevrolet S-10 pickup. He was referred

A motorist who ran a red light in Coachella while driving with a blood-alcohol level nearly four times the legal limit, causing the death of a woman in another car, pleaded guilty Wednesday to DUI gross vehicular manslaughter and was immediately sentenced to six years in state prison. Cristian Hernandez Torres, 25, of Coachella, had

A man already facing DUI charges stemming from a Desert Hot Springs crash that killed one of his passengers and injured several others was charged in an amended complaint with gross vehicular manslaughter. Brandon Byars, 23, of Palm Desert, was initially charged with DUI causing injury, with sentence-enhancing allegations of causing great bodily injury to

Celebrations of death aren’t uncommon in cultures throughout the world. Some examples include the New Orleans jazz funeral or Dia de Los Muertos in Mexico. How various cultures celebrate death through ceremony is the topic of a new Sunnylands series. Kristel Lailblin, the executive producer of the popular Netflix series, “13 Reasons Why” is one

An ex-Beaumont city councilman, who tried to extract a $15,000 bribe from a real estate developer and falsified a campaign filing to get a colleague whose decisions he disliked into trouble, was sentenced Tuesday to three years probation. Mark Anthony Orozco, 41, pleaded guilty last month to acceptance of a bribe by a public official

A man accused of firing two handguns in Indio, causing bullets to strike a nearby home, pleaded not guilty Tuesday to three felony charges. Jason Diaz, 22, of Indio is charged with shooting at an inhabited dwelling, negligently discharging a firearm and carrying a loaded firearm. Read: Police arrest man suspected of shooting two handguns

Investigators say an argument led to the stabbing death of a 37-year-old man in Desert Hot Springs over the weekend. Now, another man faces a murder charge. Officers and paramedics found the victim, Edwin Carreto, after responding to reports of a stabbing in the 66500 block of Fourth Street. Police say when they arrived, Carreto

“I hear people say it’s not if, it’s when,” says one local resident. Could the big one be just around the corner? “Near Anza Gap experts think Anza Gap is very close to producing a damaging earthquake,” said Abhijit Ghosh, a geophysicist at UC Riverside. A breakthrough discovery by researchers at UC Riverside shows that

The future of the Coachella V alley was the focus of Wednesday’s economic summit in P alm S prings. Hundreds of c ity leaders and local organizations gathered at the annual Coachella Valley Economic Partnership (CVEP) E conomic S ummit to get a clearer picture of the state of the valley’s economy. This was the

Two local breweries are teaming up in a first of-its-kind fundraiser to help a young Indio boy battling leukemia. The fundraiser, Hops for Isaiah, takes place this Saturday, with Babe’s Bar-B-eque & Brewhouse along with La Quinta Brewing Co. running a brewery loop. Those who attend will be shuttled to three locations to enjoy beer

La Patrulla Fronteriza sector El Centro asignado al punto de revisión de la Carretera 86 y la Carretera 111, arrestaron a dos hombres por traficar narcóticos en dos casos por separado el martes. El primer incidente occurio al filo de las 11:30 am, caundo un hombre de 67 años se acercó al punto de revisión

Las autoridades arrestaron a un hombre sospechoso de al parecer asesinar a un hombre de 37 años en Desert Hot Springs el sábado, p oco antes de las 10:30 p.m., la policía de Desert Hot Springs respondió a un llamado de emergencia sobre la cuadra 66500 de la calle 4ta. Oficiales y paramedicos llegaron al

La celebración de la noche de brujas o Halloween ya esta aquí y las recomendaciones para los padres de familia de parte de las autoridades no se han hecho esperar ya que es muy importante llevar esta celebración con todas las precauciones para evitar algún hecho que lamentar. Según la Federación Nacional de Minoristas, en

Un automovilista que pasó una luz roja en Coachella mientras conducía con un nivel de alcohol en sangre casi cuatro veces superior al límite legal, causando la muerte de una mujer en otro automóvil, se declaró culpable el miercoles de homicidio imprudencial por DUI y fue sentenciado inmediatamente a seis años en prisión estatal. Cristian

Un hombre armado intentó robar a una persona en un banco en Palm Desert, para luego huir de la escena antes de que llegara la policía. El intento de robo ocurrió en el cajero automático de Chase Bank en el 72000 black de Hwy 111 en Palm Desert justo antes de las 7:30 p. M.

Un sujeto armado con una pistola intentó asaltar a un hombre que se encontraba en el cajero automático de la sucursal de Chase Bank que se ubica en la manzana 72000 del Hwy 111 en Palm Desert ayer martes pocos minutos antes de las 7:30 p.m. La víctima reportó a la policía que el hombre

La policía de Palm Springs acordonó dos escenas de crímenes la madrugada del miercoles luego de un ataque con arma punzante que dejó a dos hombres gravemente heridos. Un hombre herido pudo llegar a un hospital con la ayuda de alguien cercano. Los doctores lo pusieron en coma inducido. Otro hombre fue encontrado colapsando y