Crime

A 60-year-old woman suspected of killing her 85-year-old mother in La Quinta was ordered today to stand trial on a murder charge.    Sally Martha Webster of La Quinta is charged with one felony count each of murder and cruelty on an elder, according to court records. She additionally faces special circumstance allegations of inflicting

Police have arrested a man accused of pistol-whipping and shooting another man outside the Dollar Tree store in Cathedral City earlier this month. David Anthony William Garcia, 22, was arrested Thursday morning at a residence in Beaumont, police announced. Cathedral City Police detectives with the Riverside County Gang Impact Team to conduct surveillance in the

A 37-year-old man suspected of supplying a lethal dose of fentanyl to a 30-year-old man in Palm Desert pleaded not guilty to murder today. Gregory Michael Gauto of Palm Desert was charged June 6 and pleaded not guilty Thursday at the Larson Justice Center in Indio.    Deputies from the Palm Desert sheriff’s station responded

Two people who allegedly broke into a Palm Desert business and stole approximately $40,000 of merchandise pleaded not guilty to burglary and are due back in court next week. Michael James Graham, 53, of Lakewood in Los Angeles County, and Ali Danielle Castillo, 27, of Orange County, were charged with one felony count of burglary,

The Board of Supervisors today directed the Riverside County Executive Office to initiate the creation of an ordinance intended to crack down on catalytic converter thieves by establishing local regulations and penalties where none exist at the state level.    Board Chairman Kevin Jeffries and Supervisor Yxstian Gutierrez brought forward the proposal, noting in documents

A reputed gang member who shot up a home with adults and children on the property in Desert Hot Springs pleaded guilty to felony charges and was immediately sentenced to eight years and four months in prison.    Randy Sanudo, 25, of Cathedral City pleaded guilty Wednesday at the Larson Justice Center in Indio to

Two young men suspected in a car-to-car shooting in the parking lot of The Shops in Palm Desert earlier this year re-entered not guilty pleas to felony charges today. Adelanto residents Allen Curcio Adams Jr. and Alexander Brice Alvarado, both 20, were charged with four felony counts of attempted murder and one felony count each

Indio police officers are asking for the community’s assistance in locating a vehicle believed to have been involved in a hit-and-run crash that left a pedestrian injured over the weekend. The crash happened on Sunday, June 4 at around 9:15 p.m. in the area of King Street and Saidy Avenue. Police said the vehicle struck

Update 6/7/23: One of the suspects, Marie Ahsee Verest, is no longer wanted, police said. She is considered a person of interest. Felony charges were filed today against a young woman who allegedly took part in a confrontation at a Dollar Tree in Cathedral City, where an 18-year-old customer was pistol-whipped and struck by gunfire

A man and woman pleaded guilty today to felony charges of stealing checks from mailboxes in Rancho Mirage over a nearly five-month period, and were immediately sentenced to two years of probation each. John Fisher, 38, and Thea Lorraine Rich, 32, pleaded guilty at the Larson Justice Center in Indio to two felony counts of

A felon was acquitted today of causing the death of his infant daughter in a high-speed crash on the south end of Palm Desert. A Riverside jury deliberated nearly three days in the trial of 58-year-old Marcus Novell Green of Thermal before returning with not guilty verdicts on charges of second-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter