A 46-year-old Palm Springs man is facing 31 years to life in state prison today for the sexual abuse of a Coachella Valley girl. Jesus Lucio Rivera was charged with six felony counts — one each of lewd acts with a child under 14 and lewd acts with a child under 14 with force
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Authorities have arrested a suspect in a double murder over the weekend in Coachella. Two bodies were discovered Sunday at around 8:45 a.m. at a home in the 85300 block of Avenue 52. Authorities said a man and a woman were found dead with significant trauma inside a casita attached to the main residence. The two
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Riverside County District Attorney Mike Hestrin is criticizing judges’ decisions to dismiss criminal cases based on a lack of available trial courtrooms. According to the DA’s office, since Oct. 10, Superior Court judges have dismissed over 200 cases countywide. The dismissed cases range from misdemeanors to felonies with many types of crimes, however, officials added
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Two Coachella men suspected of kidnapping, robbing, assaulting and extorting a man for money were behind bars today. Brian Emmanuel Jamand, 26, pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to one felony count each of kidnapping for ransom, robbery and criminal threats to cause great bodily harm, according to court records. A second suspect, a 34-year-old man,
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A man accused of stabbing his wife and another man in what authorities called a domestic violence confrontation at a Palm Desert hotel parking lot will answer to murder charges, a judge ruled Friday. Kenny Shun Yu Wu, 34, of Palm Desert, pleaded not guilty in August to two counts of murder which include a
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A 42-year-old man suspected of fatally shooting a man in Desert Hot Springs pleaded not guilty today to murder. Oscar Ernesto Canas also pleaded not guilty at the Larson Justice Center in Indio on Thursday to one felony count of assault with a gun. Canas is suspected in a shooting that occurred around 7:40
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Authorities today seized several fentanyl pills hidden inside bags and boxes of candy that a suspect attempted to smuggle through TSA screening at LAX. Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department and Drug Enforcement Agency units at LAX seized the roughly 12,000 pills about 7:30 a.m., after the suspect went through TSA screening with the drugs concealed
Continue Reading A 42-year-old man was charged with murder today for allegedly shooting a man to death in Desert Hot Springs. Oscar Ernesto Canas was additionally charged with one felony count of assault with a gun, according to court records. He’s scheduled to be arraigned at the Larson Justice Center in Indio on Wednesday afternoon. Canas
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A man pleaded guilty today to assaulting an officer during a 2019 domestic violence call, prompting police to shoot him. Rigoberto Ramirez, 48, of Indio, pleaded guilty to three felony counts, one each of assault with a deadly weapon on a peace officer, resisting or deterring an officer using a deadly weapon and willful
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A verdict has been reached in the trial of a father and son charged in connection with the murder of Kristin Smart, 19, who went missing in 1996. Paul Flores, now 45, a former classmate of Smart, was found guilty of first-degree murder. Paul Flores His father, Ruben Flores, 81, was found not guilty of
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Police are investigating a shooting in Cathedral City Monday evening. The shooting happened around the area of Perez Road and Date Palm Drive. Details remain limited at this time. Cathedral City Police Commander Jon Enos confirmed there was a car-to-car shooting with one person. The person was hospitalized with non-life threatening injuries. Enos confirmed more
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The Desert Hot Springs Police Department Police Chief Jim Henson tells News Channel 3 that a suspect is now in custody after a homicide Friday morning in the city. Police got a call at 7:40 a.m. alerting them to an incident on the 13-500 block of Mountain View. The scene became a homicide investigation. Police
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RIVERSIDE (CNS) – An alleged bounty hunter who authorities said was on the lam on allegations of unlawfully detaining two people and burglarizing a home in San Diego County earlier this year has been arrested in Riverside County on assault charges that also stem from his work as a bounty hunter. Jesse Wagner, 47, who
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Reports of a shooting outside of a local middle school led to a short lockdown at Bobby Duke Middle School in Coachella. A teacher heard gunshots around the area and called 911, to Lissette Santiago, public information officer for the Coachella Valley Unified School District. The shooting was reported around the 85300 block of Cairo
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A Los Angeles man suspected of causing a fatal Palm Springs crash in July while under the influence pleaded not guilty to murder and other charges today. Kevin Atteberry, 57, was charged with three felony counts, one each of murder, driving under the influence of alcohol causing great bodily injury and DUI of alcohol with
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A juvenile was arrested and several illegal firearms were seized after detectives conducted a follow-up investigation into Tuesday evening’s shooting in Desert Hot Springs. Ghost guns seized during the investigation (Courtesy DHSPD) The shooting happened at around 5:00 p.m. in the area of Agua Dulce and Cactus Drive, south of Two Bunch Trails. Police said a boy
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Police continue to investigate a drive-by shooting that occurred Tuesday night in downtown Palm Springs. The shooting was reported just after 9:30 p.m. in the area of N Indian Canyon Drive and E El Alameda. Police said the alleged victim, who had just left work, told officers that he was driving northbound on Indian Canyon
Continue Reading Desert Hot Springs Police said a juvenile was recovering Wednesday morning from non-life-threatening gunshot wound injuries. He was shot Tuesday night at approximately 5:00 p.m. in the area of Agua Dulce and Cactus Drive just south of Two Bunch Palms Trail, according to police. Police say they were notified a half hour later that a boy was admitted to a
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A convicted felon accused of killing and hiding the remains of a 27-year-old San Jacinto woman and her unborn child was charged today with two counts of first-degree murder. Angel Martine McIntire, 28, of Beaumont was arrested Friday following a nearly two-year Riverside County Sheriff’s Department investigation into the disappearance of Diana Perez Gonzalez. McIntire
Continue Reading A Desert Hot Springs man accused of possessing over 600 images of child sexual abuse material was arrested on Tuesday. The man, a 19-year-old was arrested by DHSPD detectives in Banning, the department announced. According to DHSPD, the investigation began on Sept. 14, 2022. Detectives authored numerous search warrants and identified the suspect. The suspect
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