Crime

The Board of Supervisors today tentatively approved an ordinance intended to crack down on catalytic converter thieves by establishing local regulations and penalties where none exist at the state level.   “You’ve got to hold these crooks accountable for stealing catalytic converters in our neighborhoods,” Moreno Valley resident Daryl Terrell told the board. “The victims are

A large stash of methamphetamine was discovered during a traffic stop at the Highway 86 checkpoint last week. According to the agency, El Centro Sector Border Patrol Agents arrested a Mexican citizen attempting to smuggle narcotics through an immigration checkpoint early August 25th. The driver of a 2008 Hyundai Santa Fe, appeared nervous when approaching

A 91-year-old bicyclist was hospitalized and in critical condition today after an early-morning collision with a vehicle that fled the scene. Officers responded around 3:15 a.m. Monday to a report of a collision between a vehicle and a bicyclist in the area of Cathedral Canyon Drive near Dinah Shore Drive, according to the Cathedral City

A probationer accused of fatally stabbing a 39-year-old woman during an attack in her Desert Hot Springs apartment nearly three decades ago was re-arraigned today following a grand jury indictment for murder, pleading not guilty. Sharron Eugene Gadlin, 50, of Gardena was arrested last year following a cold case investigation that culminated in DNA evidence

 A 33-year-old woman suspected with two others in a robbery that started in Rancho Mirage, where a person was lured into a vehicle, driven away, and robbed, pleaded not guilty today to felony charges. Lucero Barraza Cagno of Indio was charged with one felony count each of robbery, receiving a stolen vehicle, taking a vehicle

A 33-year-old man suspected of prowling through a Palm Springs neighborhood and burglarizing a home pleaded not guilty today to felony charges. Justin Val Miller of Palm Springs is charged with one felony count of burglary, according to court records.   He pleaded not guilty to the charge Friday morning at the Larson Justice Center in

Palm Springs arrested a suspect in connection to a deadly hit-and-run crash in July 2022. The suspect, identified as Cody Jay Hamilton, 28 of Cathedral City, was arrested on Thursday at around 2:00 p.m. in Cathedral City. He is expected to be arraigned on Monday on charges of hit-and-run resulting in death. The crash happened

A 33-year-old man suspected of prowling, stealing two vehicles and burglarizing a home in Palm Springs pleaded not guilty today to felony charges. Justin Eric Dalton of Moreno Valley pleaded not guilty Thursday to one felony count each of burglary and taking a vehicle without the owner’s consent, according to court records. On Wednesday, he

A man accused in the hit-and-run death of a 39-year-old man in Palm Springs more than a year ago entered not guilty pleas today.    Chad Steinmetz, 42, had a warrant issued for his arrest May 24, when he was also charged with one felony count of a hit-and-run causing death, according to court records.

 A Cathedral City man suspected in a fight that led to a fatal shooting at an Applebee’s Grill & Bar had his bail reduced today by $900,000. Willie R. Bustamante, 33, is charged with one felony count of murder and faces a sentence-enhancing allegation of discharging a firearm causing great bodily injury, according to court

A 41-year-old man was sentenced to three years and four months in state prison today for a 2019 street racing collision that killed two senior citizens in Coachella. Angel Ramirez pleaded guilty in April to two counts of vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence stemming from the May 17, 2019, crash that killed Sofia Prieto, 74,