Neighbors Fed Up Over So Much Criminal Activity

Two arrests made in the Parkview mobile home community in Palm Springs a week after the murder of one of Parkview’s own, Ken Moody, have neighbors saying enough is enough.

“We pay $640 to live here, and it’s turning into an urban ghetto,” Parkview resident Paul Washington. “We’ve had break-ins. We’ve had forced entry. It’s just escalated in the last six months.”

Last Sunday, police found Moody’s body on the side of a road in Sky Valley. Ten days later, they arrested two men in the mobile home park. Neighbors say one man lived there, and the other was picking him up in a Rolls Royce.

One man was arrested on a misdemeanor warrant and a controlled substance charge, and the other was arrested on charges on possession of stolen property and a controlled substance.

Are the arrests connected to last week’s murder? Neighbors say absolutely.

“There was a lot of traffic between this residence here and the home of the unfortunate murder of one of our Park residents,” Washington said.

Neighbors keep talking of a woman who lived with Moody when he was killed. They say she moved into the home where the two arrests happened.

KESQ found the woman, Moody’s close friend, Cari Jordan.

Jordan dismissed any lines drawn between the murder and the arrests.

“It has nothing in connection with the murder,” Jordan said.

She defined the murder as a murder for money.

“It had to do with insurance fraud. they’re saying he was robbed and that his insurance claim was fraud,” she said.

Police arrested Jason William Brokken in connection with the murder.

Neighbors continue to express concern about living in a community that has so much possible criminal activity. They’re holding a plan for action meeting to talk about what they can do about it.

“With homeless people back and forth, people that you know, what can they be doing leaving and coming every hour or so with no packages?” Washington said.

Neighbors said they’re ready for change to happen.