Crime

Officers are investigating the shooting of a juvenile at a skate park in Desert Hot Springs Tuesday afternoon. The shooting was reported shortly before 1:52 p.m. at Guy J Tedesco Park on 12800 W Arroyo Drive. The victim, only identified as a male juvenile, sustained non-life-threatening wounds, DHSPD Chief Jim Henson told News Channel 3.

Riverside County Sheriff’s deputies are investigating an assault that left a woman hospitalized in a residential area of Coachella Tuesday afternoon. The incident was first reported at approximately 12:59 p.m. in the 52000 block of Las Palmas Street, east of Avenue 52 and Cesar Chavez Street. Sgt. Deonna Pecoraro, public information officer for the Sheriff’s

A 45-year-old man accused of spray-painting racist and anti-LGBTQ graffiti and causing other property damage on a community center in Palm Springs pleaded not guilty today to felony and misdemeanor charges. Charinda Godakanda of Palm Springs remains out of custody on $10,000 bail stemming from his arrest on July 7 outside the vandalized James O.

The Riverside County Coroner’s Office has released the identities of the seven Laotian nationals killed in a shootout at an illegal marijuana growing operation in Aguanga earlier this month. The male victims were identified as Khamphour Nanthavongdovane, 53, and Vikham Silimanotham, 64. The female victims were identified as Phone Chankhamany, 54, Khamtoune Silimanotham, 59, Souphanh

A woman who says she was kidnapped by her ex-boyfriend Tuesday is sharing new details about the ordeal only with News Channel 3. Police say Manuel Valadez, 33, drove around the valley Wednesday and threatened his ex-girlfriend at gunpoint, eventually ending in a violent crash in Palm Desert. “It could have ended worse,” the woman

Two convicted felons and another man were charged with first-degree murder in the fatal beating of a local inmate accused of child molestation. Aaron Allen Aubrey, 26, Jason Lynn Barton, 43, and Richard Hampton, 37, allegedly killed 29-year-old Rosendo Echevarria earlier this month at the Larry D. Smith Correctional Facility in Banning. Larry D Smith

A Palm Springs man was in custody Friday morning accused of abducting an ex-girlfriend and driving her around the Coachella Valley while threatening her at gunpoint. Palm Springs Police say the suspect, 33-year-old Manuel Valadez, was taken into custody without incident last night at a residence in the Coachella / Thermal area by the Riverside

UPDATE: The man was identified as Randy Fedorchuk, 66, of La Quinta. Fedorchuk was shot and killed by Riverside County Sheriff’s deputies in La Quinta Thursday afternoon after they said he pointed a rifle at them. It happened in the courtyard of the La Quinta City Hall around 1:30 p.m. La Quinta Mayor Linda Evans

Authorities are working to identify a man believed to be in his 80s suspected of stealing an electric scooter from the Stater Bros market in Yucca Valley. The incident happened on August 27 at around 3:24 p.m. According to the Morongo Basin Sheriff’s Station, the man went into the store to buy a beverage and

The Riverside County Department of Animal Services is asking for the public’s help in identifying a man caught on camera abusing a dog in a Coachella neighborhood on Monday. Surveillance video courtesy of Animal Services (Viewer Discretion is Advised) The incident happened on Los Cabos Avenue in Coachella just before 5 p.m. “Out of view

A 63-year-old Canadian man convicted in the 1990 murder of a Palm Springs woman has been sentenced to 25-years-to-life. Anton Kubica, 63, was sentenced today to 25 years to life in prison for the 1990 murder of 78-year-old Marie Darling of Palm Springs. The case went cold but reopened in 2014. He was convicted of

Police were investigating a reported shooting in Palm Springs early Thursday morning. Officers were called to the 1500 block of East San Rafael Drive at 12:44 a.m. for reports of shots fired, according to a department spokesman, William Hutchinson. Officers located shell casings and took a report. Hutchinson said residents thought the shots came from

Police Wednesday night continued their hours-long search for a Palm Springs man who they say kidnapped his girlfriend at gunpoint. Manuel Valadez, 33, was still on the run into the night after the alleged kidnapping ended in a crash on Dinah Shore Drive in Palm Desert. Police said Valadez is considered “armed and dangerous.” Manuel

The Riverside County Sheriff’s Department has identified a man killed while in-custody at a county prison earlier this month. The department says that Rosendo Echevarria, 29, of Cathedral City, was pronounced dead on Sept. 8 after an attack by other inmates at the Larry D. Smith Correctional Facility in Banning. According to county court records,

Cal Fire investigators have released a photo of a vehicle seen in the area around the same time that the 33,000+ acre Apple Fire first sparked on July 31. Officials said the fire was started by a faulty diesel truck’s exhaust pipe. The fire quickly spread due to dry vegetation and winds, burning 33,424 acres,

An attempted murder charge was filed today against a felon accused of shooting a man inside a Palm Springs casino parking garage last week. As News Channel 3 first reported last week, Jose Arlando Gomez, 28, of Palm Springs was arrested last Tuesday on Nelson Avenue in Coachella in connection with the shooting that occurred

A pivotal court hearing scheduled today for a woman and her boyfriend, who are accused in the death of her 22-year-old developmentally disabled twin brother, was taken off calendar due to “significant developments in the case,” a judge said. Ines Patrisia Mendez, 30, and her boyfriend, Shanen Ryan Riley, 31, were arrested in Aug. 2017

A woman was sentenced today to 15 years to life in state prison for fatally stabbing her 83-year-old husband as he slept at their Rancho Mirage home more than 10 years ago. Riverside County Superior Court Judge Harold Hopp, who handed down the sentence at the Larson Justice Center in Indio, gave Marsha Kay Esswein,

A 21-year-old is in police custody after allegedly stealing a SunBus from a bus stop in Desert Hot Springs, leading police on a pursuit that ended in a crash Friday afternoon. Multiple viewers reported seeing the end of a crash between a SunBus and a fire hydrant on Bob Hope Drive and Varner Road in