A 39-year-old dump truck driver accused of causing a deadly 1,000-acre blaze in Calimesa by intentionally dropping flaming debris from his rig in the middle of a windstorm pleaded not guilty today to felony charges. Antonio Ornelas Velazquez of Desert Hot Springs was charged last year with two counts of involuntary manslaughter and one count
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A former Shadow Hills High School basketball coach is pleading guilty to charges of sexually assaulting a teenage girl, who he coached. 36-year old Ryan Leron Towner was arrested last June, accused of felony counts of lewd acts with a child under 14 with force, and unlawful intercourse with a minor. Towner made his plea
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UPDATE 6/12 at 4:20 pm: The subject suffering from a gunshot wound after last night’s shooting in La Quinta is in stable condition. The suspect fled the area prior to deputies arriving. The suspect is described as a male wearing dark clothing. Authorities continue to investigate the circumstances that led to the incident. Stay with
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Palm Springs Police were investigating an early morning shooting on the city’s south side Friday. A shooting at an inhabited location call was received at 12:42 a.m. along the 1800 block of Smoke Tree Lane, which is just south of East Palm Canyon near the Smoke Tree Plaza shopping center. A security guard reportedly saw
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Two men were being held at the John J. Benoit Detention Center today on suspicion of illegally possessing multiple firearms and narcotics. The two suspects, a 23-year-old from Palm Springs and a 41-year-old from Cathedral City, were arrested Tuesday when members of the Coachella Valley Violent Crime Gang Task Force served search warrants and allegedly
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A pet owner was arrested after allegedly leaving their dog inside a car while temperatures reached 102 degrees in Palm Desert. The Animal Service Officer, Rebekah Reyes said ” So when I arrived on scene, I noticed a truck with a lot of people around it and there was a dog inside the truck. All the
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An arrest has been made in the shooting death of a 32-year-old man last week in Coachella. Jose A. Molina, 32, of Coachella was shot in front of a house near Cairo Street & Shady Lane just after midnight on June 2. He was rushed to the hospital where he was prononced dead. On Tuesday,
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A vehicle suspected of being involved in a deadly hit-and-run crash in Palm Springs has been found, however, no arrests have been made, police announced on Monday. On Friday, May 27, San Jacinto resident Jesse Fleury, 39, was struck and killed on E Palm Canyon Drive near S Broadmoor Drive. Police believed a red Porsche
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A 44-year-old Twentynine Palms woman was arrested on accusations of torturing and abusing a three-year-old boy. The investigation began on Saturday, when investigators from the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department-Crimes Against Children (CAC) Detail, Morongo Sheriff’s Station, and Children Family Services conducted an investigation regarding a three-year-old boy. Authorities said the boy was airlifted from
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A man is dead after a shooting in a house near a middle school in Coachella just after midnight, authorities confirmed. The shooting happened near the intersection of Shady Lane and Date Avenue across the street from Bobby Duke Middle School. Riverside County Sheriff’s Office confirmed that a shooting happened at approximately 12:17 a.m. NEWS
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Cathedral City Police are still working to identify the driver of a truck they say fled after hitting a motorcycle, killing the operator, and severely hurting the passenger in mid-May. Investigators now say they’ve found the truck involved. News Channel 3 has confirmed with the Coroner’s office that the man who was killed has been
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Indio Police were asking for the public’s help in identifying a hit-and-run driver who struck a pedestrian Tuesday night but never stopped to help. Authorities say the collision happened at 9:20 p.m. along Highway 111 between Las Palmas and Monroe Street. The man who was struck was hospitalized. There was no immediate word on his injuries or condition. Police said they
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One of four men arrested for allegedly stealing more than $36,000 worth of golf carts in the Palm Desert area pleaded guilty to one felony count today. Daniel Vital, 34, of Thousand Palms, was arrested May 16 and subsequently charged with one felony count of purchasing/receiving a stolen vehicle, trailer or motorized vessel, with an
Continue Reading A 7-year-old girl swimming in the Colorado River was struck and killed by a boat driven by an Indio man suspected of being under the influence. The crash happened Sunday afternoon near Buckskin State Park. According to the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department, the 7-year-old was swimming in the water near the shoreline when a
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Two 18-year-old campers were arrested for allegedly starting a fire in Yucca Valley that grew to 431 acres. The fire started near Elk Trail in Yucca Valley on Thursday and left the area covered in smoke, making it hard for some to breathe. Several nearby homes and ranches were threatened, but fire crews were able
Continue Reading Police were investigating a fatal hit-and-run collision in Palm Springs Friday morning and had no immediate information on the suspect driver. A department statement said a call to police reported a pedestrian found lying along the dirt shoulder of the eastbound lanes of East Palm Canyon Drive at 6:40 a.m. There were no immediate details
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The Palm Springs and Desert Hot Springs police departments said they will conduct close patrols of local schools until the end of the school year. The announcements via social media follow the tragic mass shooting that took the lives of nineteen students and two teachers in a Texas community. The Riverside County Sheriff’s Department said
Continue Reading A Palm Springs insurance agent who allegedly stole over $75,000 from one of his clients, a late prominent art dealer, and philanthropist who lived in Carlsbad, has been arrested, the California Department of Insurance said today. John Ryan, 64, who operated Calinsured, Greater Palm Springs Insurance, and PS Independent Insurance, was arrested in Palm
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PETA is offered a reward of up to $5,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person(s) responsible for shooting a puppy with an arrow in Desert Hot Springs. The four-month-old female Chihuahua puppy was found early Monday morning by a good samaritan on the 15500 block of Avenida Florencita, near Camino
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UVALDE, Texas (AP) — The gunman who massacred 19 children and two teachers at an elementary school in Texas had warned in online messages minutes before the attack that he had shot his grandmother and was going to shoot up a school, the governor said Wednesday. Salvador Ramos, 18, used an AR-15-style semi-automatic rifle in
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