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Sergeant Dominic Vaca, a 17-year veteran with the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department, is being honored one day after he was shot and killed by a fleeing suspect in the high desert. Exclusive to News Channel 3, neighbors who saw the deadly encounter for themselves are sharing new details. “It was just 3 loud pops,
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Update 06/03/21: Felony charges were filed today against the brothers. They are accused of holding a man against his will and beating him with a wooden paddle over several days in Cathedral City. Eduardo and Carlos Espinoza Full Details: Cathedral City brothers charged with false imprisonment, assault of 36-year-old man ================== Original Report 06/01/21: A
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An overnight procession honored the sacrifice made by Sgt. Dominic Vaca, a San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department employee who served for 17 years. He was a sergeant at the Morongo Basin Station. Vaca was killed in a shooting in Yucca Valley on Memorial Day. “We appreciate the outpouring of support and prayers for Sergeant Vaca,
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UPDATE: San Bernardino County Sheriff John McMahon confirmed early Tuesday morning a deputy shot during a Yucca Valley pursuit was pronounced dead at Desert Regional Medical Center in Palm Springs. He was identified as Sergeant Dominic Vaca, 43. It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Sergeant Dominic Vaca. pic.twitter.com/VCqSX7YfhF— San Bernardino
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Police in Banning are looking for a carjacking suspect. It happened Tuesday morning just before 1:00 at a gas station in the 800 block of East Ramsey Street. Police say a woman got out of her, with the car running, and entered the station. When she came out a man was in the car. He
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An Orange County judge has denied a proposal to move a sexually violent predator to a home in Twentynine Palms. Lawtis Rhoden, 72, has been convicted on several charges dating as far back as the 1960’s, including raping five girls between the ages of 13 to 17 in three states. Back in March, the Orange
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Watch the Full Video Here (Viewer Discretion Advised): The Riverside County Sheriff’s Department has released the body cam footage and dispatcher call for a deadly deputy-involved shooting on Interstate 10 near Whitewater on April 9, 2021. The shooting shows a man armed with a crowbar approaching a deputy on the side of Interstate 10 near
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A Desert Hot Springs man has been arrested and charged in the murder of a man found shot in a Riverside motel last week. Robert Donald Intong, 45, of Desert Hot Springs was arrested on May 17 at a Motel 6 in the La Sierra neighborhood of Riverside. Riverside Police say they were called to
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Riverside County District Attorney Mike Hestrin announced today that he’s joining the top prosecutors in more than 40 other counties in a lawsuit to stop the potential release of 76,000 prisoners under a program implemented by state officials without public input. “Victims and their families deserve to be heard on how these regulations might affect
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Arraignment was postponed again today for one of two unlicensed bail agents accused in the fatal shooting of a knife-wielding fugitive who was gunned down in front of Palm Springs police officers last month. Lisa Roberta Vargas, 53, was arrested last Thursday in Whittier in connection with the shooting death of 33-year-old David Spann. Along
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An Indio woman allegedly told police that her boyfriend killed their infant son by shaking him two times because he wouldn’t stop crying, a police detective testified today. A preliminary hearing got underway at the Larson Justice Center in Indio for Leonardo Daniel Alvarado Fernandez, 34, and Zue Urias, 27, who are accused in the
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Riverside County Sheriff’s deputies are investigating a shooting with two victims in the community of Thermal. The shooting was reported at 4:24 p.m. in the area of Avenue 69 and Pierce Street, Correctional Sgt Deanna Pecoraro of the Sheriff’s Department told News Channel 3. There was no information available at this time on the first victim
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A man was arrested following an assault with a deadly weapon in Sky Valley Monday afternoon. Deputies were called to the 23000 block of Larsen Lane in Sky Valley at around 12:58 p.m. for reports of an assault with a deadly weapon, Sheriff’s Department spokesperson Sgt. Deonna Pecoraro said. Pecoraro said deputies arrived on the
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A Palm Desert man was sentenced to five years in federal prison for firebombing the East Valley Republican Women Federated (EVRWF) office in La Quinta, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced Monday. Carlos Espriu, 23, pleaded guilty to a single federal count of attempted arson of a building, admitting that he used a Molotov cocktail in
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A Palm Springs Unified School District patrol officer arrested during an investigation into domestic extremism by an FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force pleaded not guilty today to a felony weapons charge. Alfredo Luna Jr., 41, was arrested on Inauguration Day, Jan. 20, stemming from a prior search of his home that turned up an unregistered
Continue Reading The woman wanted in a shooting involving an alleged bail agent has been arrested and booked for murder. Lisa Vargas, 53, evaded capture for nearly a month. Palm Springs Police confirmed to News Channel 3 that Vargas is now in custody. According to Riverside County jail inmate records, Vargas was arrested on Thursday at 3:35
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Two people were arrested Wednesday in connection with an explosion in Rancho Mirage that happened on Halloween last year, according to the Sheriff’s Department. Authorities said two men, ages 49 and 58, are in custody. KESQ is withholding their names until they are formally charged by the DA’s office. On October 31, 2020, deputies responded
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Police took one person into custody late Tuesday night who’s facing charges of assault with a deadly weapon. The violence was reported at 8:58 p.m. on the 84000 block of North Sienna Circle, according to a Riverside County Sheriff’s Sergeant Lionel Murphy. Deputies on the scene said the suspect, who’s not yet been named, barricaded
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A reputed gang member accused of joining three accomplices in a fatal robbery more than three years ago in Desert Hot Springs pleaded not guilty today to murder and other offenses. Shyrum Trequell Taylor, 24, was arrested Thursday in connection to the fatal shooting of 25-year-old Alycia Alexander in October 2017 during a botched drug
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An Aug. 6 preliminary hearing date was confirmed today for a 34-year-old man accused of gunning down his octogenarian grandparents inside a gated community in Palm Desert. Frank Scott Castro III was arrested in September 2019 on suspicion of killing Frank Castro, 83, and Carolina Castro, 81, whose bodies were found in their home in
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