Crime

A 24-year-old man has been charged for his alleged role in a high-speed crash that killed three people in Palm Desert during the holidays. Ricardo Adrian Meza was officially charged with three counts of murder on Tuesday, the Riverside County District Attorney’s office confirmed. He was scheduled to be arraigned on those charges Tuesday afternoon,

A 33-year-old Orange County man who hit an Indio police officer with his pickup and led law enforcement on a brief chase near the Coachella Music & Arts Festival was bound for state prison today to serve a four-year sentence. Michael Anthony Berber of Fountain Valley pleaded guilty in January to assault with a deadly

A Desert Sands Unified School District employee and high school football coach remains behind bars after being suspected of driving under the influence and causing a deadly crash over the weekend. Cameron Curtis, 31, was arrested at a little after 6:00 p.m. on Saturday following a crash on Calliandra Street, east of Alamo Drive. The

The driver suspected of causing a high-speed crash that killed three people during the holidays in Palm Desert was arrested Friday afternoon. The 24-year-old Palm Desert man was arrested Friday on the 67000 block of Dillon Road in an unincorporated area near Desert Hot Springs, the Riverside County Sheriff’s Dept. announced. Authorities said he was

A 23-year-old woman accused with three men in an armed robbery last year at a Palm Desert jewelry store pleaded not guilty to felony charges today. Tracy resident Karina Monique Ortega and Demetrius Marquise Thornton, 24, of Colton were each charged with one felony count of robbery and assault with a deadly weapon to cause

A Coachella man who, with a 26-year-old man, kidnapped, robbed, assaulted and extorted a victim for money is facing six years in state prison today after pleading guilty to felony charges. Alexander Henry Edlund, 34, pleaded guilty Wednesday afternoon to one felony count each of kidnap for ransom, robbery, criminal threats to cause great bodily

Indio station Border Patrol agents made a fiery seizure Tuesday morning. Border Patrol agents and K-9 Edy found a flamethrower, a handgun, and about $233,000 in cash while stopping a smuggling scheme. US Border Patrol seizes Cash, Gun, & FlamethrowerK9 Edy & agents in Indio, Ca put the flames out on this smuggling scheme when

A 46-year-old man accused of beating and stabbing his girlfriend during a domestic dispute at the Morongo Casino Resort & Spa in Cabazon was charged today with attempted murder and other offenses. Jesse Romero of Bellflower was arrested Sunday night following a Riverside County Sheriff’s Department investigation on the casino property in the 49500 block

 27-year-old man suspected of assaulting a 24-year-old man in La Quinta and stealing his wallet and cell phone pleaded not guilty to attempted robbery today. Skylar Ray Brannen-Grove of La Quinta pleaded not guilty to the felony charge Tuesday afternoon at the Larson Justice Center in Indio. Deputies responded to the 45900 block of Adams

A Riverside tax preparer pleaded guilty today to federal criminal charges for filing thousands of tax returns that falsely claimed deductions, such as fake medical expenses and bogus mortgage interest, and which caused more than $3 million in losses to the IRS.   Andrew Hansack, 39, entered his plea in Los Angeles federal court to two

A Whitewater man pleaded guilty and was sentenced today for driving drunk and killing a 56-year-old man, apologizing to the family and hearing the fianceé and daughter of the decedent speak about the life that was taken from them. Austin George Jackson, 35, pleaded guilty Friday afternoon at the Larson Justice Center in Indio to

Murder charges have been filed against an Arizona woman accused of providing drugs that led to an overdose death in Yucca Valley in March 2021. Alicia Hegarty, 47, was arrested in Sierra Vista, Arizona on Thursday. The charges stem from the drug overdose death of Marshall Luppke, 22, of Yucca Valley on March 14, 2021.

A man who sped away from Cathedral City police during a 2018 traffic stop, dragging an officer, pleaded guilty to two felony charges. Steven Flores, 36, of Cathedral City, faced five felony counts, one each of attempted murder, assault with a semi-automatic firearm, robbery, assault with a deadly weapon on a police officer and resisting

A mother and daughter were arrested after border patrol agents said they found them in possession of nearly 700 pounds of meth during a traffic stop on the I-10 near Indio. The arrest happened Tuesday at around 6:00 a.m. Border Patrol agents were conducting anti-smuggling operations on Interstate 10. Agents stopped two separate vehicle stops