Month: August 2018

Audrey Moran and Jonathan Reynoso have been missing for over eight months, but the case is far from closed. The Riverside County Sheriff Department’s Central Homicide Unit took over the investigation in June and Sergeant Walt Mendez has been leading their efforts. The I-Team’s John White sat down with Sgt. Mendez to discuss the latest

David Allen Turpin and Louise Ann Turpin, if convicted on all charges, would face a minimum of 94 years in prison. The Turpins’ alleged crimes, detailed in court, consisted of 12 counts of false imprisonment, 12 counts of torture, 7 counts of abuse of a dependent adult, and 6 counts of child abuse. David Turpin

The start of 2018 has been busy for Robert Van Roo and others at Palm Springs Safe Access, one of the first dispensaries in California to open for recreational cannabis sales on New Year’s Day. “1,500 new people have walked through the door,” Van Roo said. “People are coming in here in generally larger groups.

The Whitewater rest area reopens at 10 a.m., ending an extended closure that began on December 26. Both the eastbound and westbound rest areas were shut down while water pump repairs were conducted. The Whitewater rest area has been snakebitten by repeated closures over the years, often due to water pump problems. “A couple of

It was a year ago this week, Feb. 16, 2017, the Riverside County District Attorneys Office formally filed criminal charges in the Palm Springs corruption scandal at City Hall. (Here’s a timeline of the chain of events that rocked City Hall starting in Feb. 2017.) Former Mayor Steve Pougnet was accused that day of accepting

You’re going to have to wait a bit longer before the new Virgin Hotel is ready to open its doors in downtown Palm Springs. The big project was initially set to open later this year, but construction has yet to begin and the hotel’s developers are still working to obtain the money to build it.

Parkland shook students across the nation to their cores. Driven by rage and grief over one of the deadliest school shootings in modern American history, students from across the country quickly took action, taking a stand against gun violence and pushing for absolute safety on school campuses. “Well, I actually spearheaded it along with my

It’s an industry has managed to muster up close to 61 million dollars in tax revenue for California this year. But even with the tough to argue with revenue numbers, Palm Desert had been resisting the trend toward going all in on the recreational marijuana industry. The keyword here is “had”. After a several-month-long process,

The Palm Springs Walk of Stars has recognized people for 26 years. For 16 of those 26 years, Bob Alexander’s life has been the Palm Springs Walk of Stars. “When we first started, the foundation had taken a big loss. and my wife and I had loaned the foundation $10,000. They paid us back and

Dan Dobas is the Supervisor of the Palm Springs DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration) Task Force. Dobas, who also has a law degree and was an Army paratrooper, is one of the DEA’s best and brightest, having served tours in such hot spots as Pakistan and North Africa, as well as two tours in the Los

Rep. Raul Ruiz (D) 36th District is keeping up his fight to expose the danger of burn pits used on military bases in Iraq and Afghanistan. Ruiz says two amendments to the National Defense Authorization Act for the next fiscal year have passed in Congress and will be part of the package that the house

Nobody likes getting a ticket or seeing their car towed and impounded. A KESQ News Channel 3 I-Team Investigation finds local police departments charge wildly different fees to the public when it comes to impound releases and fix-it tickets for equipment violations. Even obtaining a copy of a police report could cost you more, or

“We saw an increase in tax go up 139%,” John Hussar, legislative ambassador for the American Cancer Society’s Cancer Action Network. California smokers are paying one of the highest taxes in the country. That’s all thanks to Proposition 56 which went into effect in April 2016. Proposition 56 has nearly tripled California’s tobacco tax. I-Team

When a wildfire sparks up, seconds matter, minutes matter. But, nearly five years ago today, the Mountain Fire threatened the town of Idyllwild. Karen Devine has been digging into why some of the closest firefighters were not called to help for nearly a half hour, in an I-team investigation. On July 15, 2013, Idyllwild’s Fire

There was an early morning wake up call at two locations in Coachella Wednesday morning. Law enforcement from several different agencies surrounded an apartment complex on Frederick Street just after 6:00 a.m. They were later spotted outside a home on Avenida Aleenah Street also in Coachella. The raids, part of Operation Narco Navigator, were spearheaded

Patricia Winford looked over what she called a “bad paint job”, on her 2016 Hyundai Tuscon. “There is a lot of bubbles underneath the paint that they sprayed over as well, so I’m just not satifisfied,” said Winford. Sections of the SUV were re-painted after repair work was peformed on the Hyundai, after it was

The Indio Police Department is seeking the public’s help in located the above-pictured vehicle, which is wanted in connection with a shooting investigation. On July 29, IPD officers responded to reports of a gun-shot victim at JFK Hospital. The injury, a gunshot graze wound to the head, was non-life threatening and the victim was released

Holding a picture of her deceased mother, Amanda Knobloch says this year, the holidays are especially hard. 67-year-old Karol Spohn passed away at home, in her sleep, on November 12. “She was a very caring and loving woman that would do anything for people that needed help,” said Knobloch. Before she died, Knobloch says her

Some evacuees are returning to their homes once threatened by the Cranston fire. Residents are starting to go through the motions of cleaning up debris and restocking perishable goods. Emily Pearson has been living in Mountain Center for 48 years. She’s experienced many evacuations while living on the mountain and says each evacuation order is

Have you ever been targeted or harassed by scammers while selling something online, whether posting an item for sale on Craigslist, Ebay or Facebook? If so, would you be willing to share your story with us? As part of an upcoming special report, CBS Local 2’s Tom Tucker will present information on what it takes