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After an 18-month investigation, a team of law enforcement officers started serving search warrants at 450 locations throughout the Coachella Valley on Tuesday morning, according to Indio Police Department spokesman Ben Guitron. Operation Eastern Encore targeted three gangs: the Southside Gang, Jackson Terrace Gang and the Campo Gang. All of them were based in Indio,

U.S. inspections agents assigned to the Indio station on Highway 86 said they seized about $950,000 worth of marijuana on Sunday. At 5:45 a.m., they said a semi-tractor trailer being driven by a 32-year-old male Guatemalan citizen, illegally present in the United States, approached the first inspection area. It was referred for secondary inspection after

Despus de una investigacin de 18 meses, un equipo de ms de mil agentes de 42 dependencias tanto federales, estatales, regionales y locales, realizan en estos momentos el operativo ?Operation Eastern Encore? enfocados en 450 sitios. En dicho operativo las autoridades han etiquetado a las pandillas ?Southside Gang?, ?Jackson Terrace Gang? y ?Campo Gang? del

Steve Sanchez, one-time candidate for the 80th District Assembly Seat, is in critical condition at a Los Angeles-area hospital after being stabbed at a birthday party over the weekend. Whittier police told News Channel 3 they responded to a complaint at 1:30 a.m. Sunday morning on the 6200 block of Friends Avenue. They said two

Palm Springs Unified School officials and police are investigating how thieves got away with thousands of dollars in electronics from Cahuilla Elementary School. The break-in occurred Saturday morning around 4 a.m. The suspects broke a window to get inside a 5th grade classroom. Once inside they took 30 Apple lap top computers which they placed

The Riverside County Sheriff’s Department is working to identify a body found in Whitewater Sunday morning. Deputies were searching for a missing man when they found the body near the base of the Whitewater Canyon area around 7 a.m., according to Deputy Melissa Nieburger. Forty-eight-year old Paul Kluge from Alhambra went missing last weekend. It’s

A local car club is gearing up for the holidays with a toy drive. The proceeds will go to the Coachella Valley Rescue Mission. The group Rollerz Only held their 5th annual car show and toy drive at the Fantasy Springs Casino. The toys will go to the Coachella Valley Rescue Mission who hope to

Defense attorneys will begin presenting their cases today in the trial of two men accused in the financially motivated killing of a Palm Springs retiree. San Francisco attorney David Replogle, 61, and Miguel Bustamante, 27, of Daly City, face first-degree murder and theft charges in the Dec. 5, 2008, slaying of 74-year-old Clifford Lambert. The

Coroner’s investigators determined today that a body pulled from Whitewater River is that of an Alhambra man. Paul Kluge, 48, was reported missing Friday, by authorities, after his personal effects were found in a rented silver Hyundai Accent at the Whitewater Road Cutoff, near the river, and his information was entered into a national missing

The lawyer for a San Francisco bartender accused with four others in the 2008 stabbing death of a Palm Springs retiree invoked author Ernest Hemingway today in claiming that his client is the victim of guilt by association. Deputy Public Defender Joe Forth, who represents Guatemala native Miguel Bustamante, said Hemingway was challenged once to

The teenage daughter of a woman accused in the scalding death of her 3-year-old child testified today that her mother often tied up her children and used both hot and cold water to inflict punishment on them. The 13-year-old, speaking in a barely audible voice and with her head down and her face covered by

A real estate developer charged in a bribery and money laundering scheme allegedly arranged to benefit a former San Jacinto city councilman is also accused of funneling illegal contributions to a 2008 state Senate campaign, the Riverside County District Attorney’s Office announced today. Stephen Russell Holgate, 63, was indicted by a grand jury last week

Despus de semanas tras su pista, Ral Trujillo Jr. de 25 aos se entreg en la Corte Superior de Banning. El sujeto es sospechoso de robar las tiendas Wal-Mart de Palm Desert en Octubre pasado, la de Beaumont en Noviembre y anteriormente las de Chino y Corona. Trujillo quien fuera empleado de Wal-Mart est tras

Varios proyectos de energa renovable se encaminan en llevarse a cabo en los condados de Imperial, San Bernardino y Riverside al que pertenece el Valle de Coachella. Imperial Irrigation District planea instalar ms de 100 mil paneles solares en 120 acres ubicados en Niland al sureste de Salton Sea, muy cercano a la subestacin del

El Departamento de Bomberos investiga e origen de un incendio que da severamente una casa mvil deshabitada ubicada sobre la Ave 58 y Van Buren Street en Thermal. El fuego inici a las 11:45 a.m. el pasado sbado. Y el domingo a las 11:20 a.m. los traga humo sofocaron el fuego de una casa ubicada

Tras las rejas se encuentra una mujer que el pasado sbado report a la polica que un hombre hispano le haba robado su bolsa en el rea de Date Palm Drive en Cathedral City. Despus de un interrogatorio, Debra King de 50 aos admiti haber inventado el robo para justificar que haba gastado todo su

Ayer domingo las autoridades encontraron un cadver en Whitewater, se cree que se trata de un hombre de Los ngeles que haba sido reportado extraviado. Primero la polica encontr el carro cerca del mismo lugar y luego hallaron al ahora occiso. El forense determinar la identidad y como muri por medio de la autopsia de

A US Airways flight made an emergency landing to Pittsburgh today because a 12-pound Manchester terrier named Mandy bit a passenger and flight attendant, the airline said. Flight 522, en route from Newark to Phoenix, had 122 passengers and five crew members on board. “The captain felt in the interest of safety, it was better

A 9-foot menorah, lots of food and soft rock with a Hebrew theme will be just some of the fare at the Chabad Jewish Community Center’s sixth annual Hanukkah Festival today. More than 700 people are expected to attend the event, slated to begin around 2:30 p.m. on the steps of the Riverside Historic Courthouse,