Two boys allegedly targeted by a Beaumont Unified School District teacher’s aide suspected of sending them explicit images and repeatedly harassing them in an attempt to sleep with them sued her and the district for infliction of emotional distress and negligence, it was announced today. The plaintiffs and their families filed the civil action in
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A judge ruled today that a 22-year-old man must stand trial for attempted murder after allegedly opening fire at a Coachella home. Â Â Caillou Marcus Renteria and a then-16-year-old juvenile were arrested on June 21, 2022 for their alleged involvement in a shooting three weeks prior in which multiple vehicles were struck. Renteria was charged
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A July 12 trial date was confirmed today for a 50-year-old felon accused of preying on two Moreno Valley schoolgirls and trying to kidnap one of them. Rene Rodriguez Ramirez of Indio is charged with attempted kidnapping and annoying minors in connection with alleged offenses that occurred in April. Â Â During a status hearing at
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A 21-year-old Mountain Center resident accused in a shooting that injured a teenager in Palm Springs received a 10-year sentence after pleading guilty to lesser charges today. Jesse Alnarldo Simpson Jr. was sentenced Thursday by Judge Gregory Olson at the Larson Justice Center in Indio after pleading guilty to evading arrest and assault with a
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Two 19-year-old men received two years’ probation after pleading guilty to multiple charges stemming from the armed carjacking of a 75-year-old woman in La Quinta, authorities said. Daryl Haxiel Urbano of Coachella and David Reyes III of Palm Desert were arrested on April 11, 2023, according to inmate records. Urbano and Reyes each entered guilty
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A man convicted in the fentanyl overdose of a 16-year-old Cathedral City resident was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison. The incident took place on December 9, 2022, when Cathedral City Police Officers and Cathedral City Fire Department responded to a fentanyl (drug) overdose involving a 16-year-old. The teen was transported to Desert Regional
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The Riverside County Sheriff’s Office released information on a person of interest wanted in connection with the investigation into the murder of a 17-year-old earlier this year in Mecca. The murder was reported just after midnight on March 25, 2024, on the 71000 block of Miramar Drive. Deputies arrived and found evidence of a shooting
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The two suspects arrested for the murder of 17-year-old Jaden Ramos on Sunday night were formally charged with murder, which they pleaded not guilty to on Wednesday. Ramos was killed in a shooting at a prom afterparty in La Quinta Sunday night. He was killed a day before his 18th birthday and only a few
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Update 5/21 2:00 p.m. School officials confirmed the identity of La Quinta High School senior Jaden Ramos, 17, who was killed in the shooting. Ramos was set to graduate Thursday night from La Quinta High School. The two suspects in the shooting, both 18-year-old men, are scheduled to be arraigned on murder charges on Wednesday.
Continue Reading A 36-year-old Indio man must stand trial for allegedly sexually abusing an underage girl over several months, a judge ruled today.  Miguel Pedrero Tzompantzi was held to answer on Thursday by Riverside County Judge Kristi E. Hester at the Larson Justice Center in Indio. He faces 11 counts, including multiple alleged rapes of a minor
Continue Reading A 50-year-old convicted felon accused of preying on two Moreno Valley schoolgirls and trying to kidnap one of them must stand trial for attempted abduction and annoying minors, a judge ruled today. Rene Rodriguez Ramirez of Indio was arrested last month following a Riverside County Sheriff’s Department investigation. Â Â At the end of a preliminary
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A former Desert Hot Springs bus driver will be tried for allegedly molesting several girls years ago while working for the Coachella Valley Unified School District. Jose Luis Moncada, 67, was arrested in 2020 following a Riverside County Sheriff’s Department investigation. Â Â At the end of a preliminary hearing Tuesday, Superior Court Judge Jason Stone
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A La Quinta High School student, a security officer, and a Riverside County Sheriff’s deputy suffered minor injuries after an altercation on campus Thursday afternoon. According to the Sheriff’s Office, at around 2:55 p.m., deputies were contacted by security regarding an intoxicated juvenile. “While attempting to detain the juvenile, they resisted and assaulted the security
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A teenage driver was killed, and four others were badly injured, in a high-speed wreck in Cathedral City Monday night. The Riverside County Coroner’s Office identified the driver killed as Noah Garcia, 19, of Cathedral City. Police say they also found two loaded and unregistered handguns in a speeding car that slammed into a second
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An employee of the Beaumont Unified School District was arrested after accusations of sending explicit pictures to a minor. Michele Carrillo, 29, was arrested Thursday afternoon in Beaumont, according to jail records. She was released on $30,000 bail. Carrillo is accused of sending harmful material to seduce a minor and contacting a minor with intent
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A probationer who provided a fatal dose of fentanyl to a 15-year-old girl was sentenced today to 12 years in state prison. Â Â James Leon Dailey, 51, of Banning was arrested last July following a Riverside County Sheriff’s Department investigation into the death of the young girl, also of Banning. Dailey last week pleaded guilty
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A 32-year-old man suspected of torturing and killing his 7-month-old son in Indio re-entered not guilty pleas today to felony charges including murder. Jawhon Sherod Burts is also charged with one felony count each of torture and assault on a child under 8 with great bodily injury resulting in death, according to court records. He
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Authorities said today that a 17-year-old boy was a fifth suspect in the fatal shooting of a 48-year-old man in North Palm Springs last year. The Desert Hot Springs teen was arrested Thursday evening in Palm Springs, according to the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department. He was booked into Riverside County Juvenile Hall on suspicion of
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A Camp Pendleton-based Marine who drove drunk and caused the death of a 12-year-old boy in an Oceanside car crash pleaded guilty today to gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated and DUI charges. Â Â Edward Minot, 21, was arrested last summer for the crash that killed Santiago Gaspar and injured two others in the vehicle, including
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A series of bogus bomb threats targeting San Jacinto High School originated from a teenager in Tennessee, who is now under investigation, authorities said today. Beginning March 5 and continuing to Wednesday, the school “received multiple bomb threats,” resulting in responses by the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department’s Hazardous Devices Team, according to the agency.  “On
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