A La Quinta man will be arraigned next week on a murder charge stemming from the shooting death of a 20-year-old man whose body was found in the open desert of Desert Hot Springs. At the end of a preliminary hearing Monday, Riverside County Superior Court Judge Edward Forstenzer ruled there was sufficient evidence to
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It’s a guilty verdict for the man accused of killing four people in Palm Springs four years ago. A jury found Jose Larin Garcia guilty on all counts against him. The same jury will now decide whether to sentence him to death. The decision, which jurors reached after less than an hour of deliberations, comes
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A 33-year-old man was killed in a deputy-involved shooting following a mental health crisis call Monday afternoon in Moreno Valley. The incident started at around 12:31 p.m. when the man’s family called the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department in reference to a mentally disturbed subject. MORENO VALLEY: Deputy Involved Shooting in the 25400 block of Filaree
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A 15-year-old and a 24-year-old were arrested in connection to an armed robbery at a gas station in Palm Springs early Monday morning. The robbery was reported just before 1:00 a.m. on the 3600 block of E. Ramon Road. Witness told police that two Hispanic male suspects entered the store and stole a case of
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A 25-year-old woman accused of driving under the influence in a Desert Hot Springs crash that killed a motorcyclist pleaded not guilty to DUI gross vehicular manslaughter today, according to court records. Mia Janae Perry of Rialto was arrested Oct. 21, 2021, after the late-night collision, according to the Desert Hot Springs Police Department.
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Update 2/5/23 The gunshot victim was identified as a 17-year-old male resident of Desert Hot Springs. Investigators identified and arrested an 18-year-old male from Cathedral City for murder. If anyone has information regarding this investigation, they are encouraged to call Investigator B. Cline of the Central Homicide Unit at 951-955-2777 or Investigator Torres of the
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Update 2/3/23 The Riverside County Sheriff’s Dept. confirmed the shooting was gang-related. “Based on the investigation, it is believed the incident was a car-to-car, gang-related shooting, with over 40 rounds fired,” the agency wrote in a news release on Friday. Two people of interest were taken into custody in Desert Hot Springs and several search
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A convicted felon suspected of fatally shooting a woman in Indio in 2016 must stand trial for murder, a judge ruled Friday. Marcos Cruz Gaeta, 42, additionally faces one felony count of being a convicted felon and narcotic addict in possession of a firearm and a sentence-enhancing allegation of discharging a firearm causing great bodily
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To pare down the backlog of unresolved cases set for trial and prevent the ongoing cascade of dismissals that critics say pose a risk to public safety, the Riverside County Superior Court has expanded courtrooms available for the disposition of cases, including tasking civil court judges with handling criminal matters, according to officials. “The court
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The Riverside County Sheriff’s Department is currently on scene surrounding a home in North Palm Springs. “At 9:19 am, deputies responded to the 19000 block of King Road regarding a domestic dispute,” Says Sgt. Deirdre Vickers, of the Riverside County Sheriff’s Dept. “The male suspect fled the location with two juveniles. The Riverside Sheriff’s Special
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The Riverside County Sheriff’s Department and Palm Springs Police Department are sounding the alarm after there was an increased number of assaults on law enforcement in the last year. According to the Palm Springs police crime data report conducted by the police department for 2022, it shows while crime has decreased overall, the number of assaults on Palm
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A 57-year-old woman was hospitalized with life-threatening injuries after being struck by a suspected DUI driver Wednesday night in Palm Springs. The vehicle vs pedestrian crash happened at around 8:30 p.m. at the intersection of Tahquitz Canyon and Sunrise Way. The woman, a Palm Springs resident, was found by officers unresponsive in the roadway. She
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Police are searching for a suspect who stole a U-Haul truck Thursday morning. At around 10:00 a.m., viewers called News Channel 3 to report a heavy police presence in Date Palm and Vista Chino in Cathedral City. Callers told us that deputies were surrounding a U-Haul truck. A spokesperson for the Riverside County Sheriff’s Dept.
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Palm View Elementary School in Coachella was placed on a brief lockdown Wednesday afternoon. According to the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department, an employee saw a man jump the school’s fence while holding a knife. The employee called 911 and the school was placed on lockdown at 1:34 p.m. Authorities said the man left campus and
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The death of a man whose body was found under a bridge in Indio Boulevard has been officially ruled a homicide, police told News Channel 3 on Wednesday. Initially, police were investigating the incident as a suspicious death, but that was changed to a homicide investigation after the autopsy was complete, police said. The man
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A Palm Desert man who arranged over the internet to meet what he thought would be a 13-year-old girl for sex was sentenced to four years of state prison today. Marino Aaron Lopez, 31, faced six felony counts — two of oral copulation with a person 10 to 14 years old, and one each of
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A convicted felon was arrested, but two other subjects managed to flee, during a standoff in a Coachella neighborhood Tuesday afternoon. According to the Riverside County Sheriff’s Dept., the incident started at around 1:12 p.m. That’s when deputies responded to a residence in the 50100 block of Balboa Street to assist Child Protective Services with
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A former Coachella Valley Unified School District teacher who repeatedly sexually assaulted a child was bound for state prison today to serve a sentence of 36 years to life behind bars. Luis Alfonso Martinez, 43, of La Quinta, was convicted last month of two counts each of lewd acts on a minor and oral copulation
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The owner of I Heart Mac & Cheese in downtown Palm Springs has filed a vandalism report with police following an incident early Sunday morning. News Channel 3 obtained security camera footage from the restaurant which shows a man and a woman pushing drinking glasses off of a counter, which sent paper confetti and broken
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A Desert Hot Springs man who stabbed his sister in the face pleaded guilty to two felony charges today and was immediately sentenced to eight years in prison. Juan Angel Lopez, 41, pleaded guilty to one felony count each of aggravated mayhem and mayhem, according to court records. Lopez attacked his then-35-year-old sister Jessica
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