Students from Palm Desert High School have produced an original video to combat human trafficking, the Riverside County Office of Education announced today. Production of the four-minute video was a partnership among the Riverside County Office of Education, Riverside County Sheriff’s Department, Riverside County District Attorney’s Office and the Coalition to End Human Trafficking Coachella
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A now-former Texas sheriff’s corporal was arrested in connection with a hit-and-run in Riverside that killed a man who was trying to put gas in his pickup on the shoulder of Interstate 215, the California Highway Patrol announced today. According to the CHP, Giovanni Ceja, 31, of San Antonio, Texas, was arrested without incident
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A Riverside County man has been charged in a federal indictment alleging he sold a 17-year-old boy fentanyl, which resulted in the teenager’s fatal overdose the following day, officials announced today. Kyle Thomas Overby, 22, of Temecula, was arrested Friday and arraigned that day on the nine-count indictment, which a federal grand jury returned on
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A 26-year-old Indio man was arrested in connection with a car-to-car shooting in Rancho Mirage last month. The man was taken into custody Monday at around 1 p.m. at the Palm Desert Sheriff’s Station, according to county jail records. He was booked into the John Benoit Detention Center in Indio where he faces three counts
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Originally Published: 14 AUG 23 18:43 ET By Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — Cecily Aguilar, the woman charged in connection with the 2020 killing of Army Spc. Vanessa Guillen, has been sentenced to 30 years in federal prison. Aguilar pleaded guilty last year to one count of accessory after the fact, and three counts of
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A 16-year-old boy was killed in a shooting at the La Quinta Kohl’s parking lot early Monday morning. According to the Riverside County Sheriff’s Office, they responded to a possible shooting in the parking lot of Kohl’s shopping Center, located on the 78-000 block of Highway 111 just before 2:00 am Monday. RSO officials said
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One of the suspects in this weekend’s shooting at Applebee’s Grill and Bar in Cathedral City has been officially charged. According to the District Attorney’s Office, they filed one count of homicide for Willie Bustamante, 33. Bustamante was arraigned in court on Friday, where he pleaded not guilty to all charges of murder and a
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A Camp Pendleton Marine has been charged with sexual assault of a minor in connection with a 14-year-old Spring Valley girl found on base earlier this summer, it was announced today. The girl, who has not been identified because of her age, was reported missing by her grandmother on June 13, according to the San
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A bill seeking to have judges weigh a defendant’s race and potentially exempt him or her from some sentencing terms to “rectify racial bias” is a “straightforward measure” to correct past wrongs, according to one Riverside County lawmaker, while another characterizes it as an affront to “blind” justice that threatens equal due process of law.
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A 27-year-old woman was arrested early today on suspicion of almost hitting a group of pedestrians before colliding into a “Don’t Drink and Drive” signboard during a DUI checkpoint, but was later released on bond. The woman, a Texas resident, was arrested shortly after midnight Friday at the intersection of East Tahquitz Canyon Way and
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Authorities today identified a man who was killed in a hit-and-run collision in Palm Desert and found dead on a roadway. He was identified by the Riverside County coroner’s office as 48-year-old Francisco Rojas of Palm Desert. Deputies from the Palm Desert Sheriff’s Station responded at 10:16 p.m. Wednesday to a report of a vehicle-versus-pedestrian
Continue Reading A hit-and-run incident claimed the life of a pedestrian on Wednesday night, prompting a police investigation. The victim, an unidentified man, was struck and killed by a car that fled the scene The incident took place around 10:15 p.m. at the intersection of Country Club Drive and Barrington Drive, near the entrance to the Whitehawk
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Two men suspected of having several illegally possessed firearms as well as multiple gamecocks and items related to cockfighting were released from jail today on $10,000 bail bonds. The suspects, a 30-year-old from Coachella and a 27-year-old Indio resident, were arrested Wednesday afternoon on suspicion of being a gang member with a firearm, animal cruelty
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A Cathedral City man killed another man in 2017 out of jealousy over a woman, a prosecutor told jurors today as the defendant’s attorney insisted his client was never identified as the shooter. Ronald Dean Ricks, 37, is charged with one felony count of murder along with a special-circumstance allegation of discharging a firearm from
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Rapper Tory Lanez was sentenced today to 10 years in prison for shooting hip-hop star Megan Thee Stallion in the feet in the Hollywood Hills just over three years ago. Judge David Herriford of Los Angeles Superior Court handed down the sentence after a hearing that stretched over two days and saw prosecutors ask for
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A Desert Hot Springs man was sentenced to a work release program and approximately two years of formal probation today for possessing sexual images of a minor. Pedro Alfredo Elizalde pleaded guilty July 3 to one felony count of possessing matter depicting a minor in a sexual act, according to court records. He additionally admitted
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Two people are in custody following a deadly shooting inside the Applebee’s in Cathedral City Sunday night. The shooting was reported at around 11:30 p.m. at the Applebee’s near Date Palm Drive and Ramon Road. Police said the incident started as a fight involving numerous people inside the business. During the altercation, one person pulled
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Two men are in custody in connection with the murder of a Cabazon man missing since August 2021. Richard Seevers, 59, of Banning and Frank Mansfield, 48, of Cabazon were arrested for their role in the murder of Dillon Entler, 31. Entler was reported missing on Aug. 26, 2021. Enter’s family told News Channel
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A San Bernardino man was sentenced today to 40 years to life in state prison for fatally shooting a man outside a Cathedral City home in 2019. Christian Isaiah Jimenez, 24, was convicted June 13 of one felony count of murder in the Aug. 19, 2019, shooting of 21-year-old Alberto Rafael Sosa Alvarez. A sentence-enhancing
Continue Reading A San Bernardino man was convicted today of fatally shooting a man outside a Cathedral City home in 2019. Christian Isaiah Jimenez, 24, was convicted of one felony count of murder in the Aug. 19, 2019, shooting of 21-year-old Alberto Rafael Sosa Alvarez. A sentence-enhancing allegation of discharging a firearm causing great bodily injury
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