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A Rancho Mirage cosmetic surgeon who pleaded guilty in a multi-million-dollar insurance scheme was extradited from Israel to Santa Ana, California last night, according to the United States Attorney’s Office. David Morrow has been on the run for months after he accepted a plea deal in federal court to charges including fraud. According to federal
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The Palm Springs Police Department alerted residents of a surge in thefts of catalytic converters over the past year. A catalytic converter is usually installed underneath most vehicles as a part of a vehicle’s emission system. A catalytic converter When the part is removed, the vehicle will sound like the muffler has been taken. The
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Alex Perdriel, 41 of Palm Springs, is behind bars after police said he was caught on a live surveillance feed breaking into a home and attempting to burglarize it. According to the Palm Springs Police Department, on Tuesday at approximately 4:45 p.m., officers were called to a burglary in progress at a house within the
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A Corona-area man accused of chasing down and ramming a car occupied by six teenagers, causing the vehicle to slam into a tree, killing three of the boys, was charged today with three counts of murder and other offenses. Anorag Chandra, 42, was arrested in the predawn hours Monday following a California Highway Patrol investigation
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A baby boy who was allegedly killed by his parents last week has been identified by the Indio Police Department. 2-month-old Marcos Fabian Fernandez died after his father, 33-year-old Daniel Alvarado Fernandez, reportedly shook and traumatically injured him. His mother, 26-year-old Zue Itzayanna Flores Urias, reportedly witnessed the abuse, and did not check on Marcos
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Police were investigating an overnight shooting in La Quinta Thursday morning. It reportedly happened around midnight on Avenida Diaz near Eisenhower Drive. KESQ News Channel 3 was told deputies responded to initial reports of a suspect shooting at his girlfriend. But they could not find any shell casings or anyone injured in the surrounding area.
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A 29-year-old man from the Hemet area is hospitalized after being the victim of a robbery on Christmas morning. “It literally went from opening a present to getting a call, and screaming and nothing. It was like a nightmare almost,” said the victim’s brother, Christopher Valenzuela. Valenzuela recalls the phone call he received from the
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La Quinta Police arrested an Indio resident Thomas Prince, 43, the night of January 6, along the 78900 block of Adams Street for driving with a suspended license. Prince was found to be in possession of fentanyl, Xanax, hydrocodone and cocaine with the intent to sell, according to the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department. He was
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Deputies arrested three teens in La Quinta and discovered they may have been involved in a previous burglary. According to the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department, deputies were called to the 54400 block of Avenida Rubio on Tuesday at around 12:10 p.m. to respond to a report of trespassing. A neighbor told deputies they heard glass
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A previously-deported MS-13 gang member was arrested by El Centro Sector Border Patrol agents over the weekend. At 11:25 p.m., agents patrolling an area 11 miles west of the Calexico West Port of Entry observed a man illegally crossing the U.S./Mexico border, according to the Border Patrol news release, issued Wednesday. The suspect was detained
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A Thermal man charged with molesting a teenage girl had his bail reduced today from $1 million to $55,000, in the wake of the dismissal of a kidnapping count. The bail reduction approved by Riverside County Superior Court Judge Burke Strunsky came two weeks after another judge ordered 36-year-old Elit Barroso Miranda to stand trial
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A man was arrested Tuesday afternoon by El Centro Sector Border Patrol agents for allegedly attempting to smuggle methamphetamine in his car’s spare tire through the Highway 86 immigration checkpoint near Salton City. At 12:15 p.m. Tuesday, a 35-year-old man, a Lawfully-Admitted Permanent Resident, approached the immigration checkpoint driving a silver Volvo 50. After initial
Continue Reading Two parents who are charged with the murder of their baby allegedly stated that their son’s death was God’s will and had plans to flee to Mexico once they made bail, according to court documents acquired by News Channel 3. Last week, Daniel Alvarado Fernandez, 33, and Zue Itzayanna Flores Urias, 26 were arrested on
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A High Desert man is behind bars after allegedly vandalizing a gas station, causing over $10,000 dollars in damages to the business. Tuesday at approximately 12:16 a.m., deputies from the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department Morongo Basin Station were called to the 76 Gas Station at 61920 Twentynine Palms Highway to look into reports of
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A car dealership employee was arrested Sunday evening after police say he drove a vehicle he was on to deliver recklessly, driving well above the speed limit and nearly causing several accidents on Interstate 10. Officer Butler of the California Highway Patrol San Gorgonio Pass Station was monitoring traffic on the I-10 near Haugen-Lehmann Way
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Charles Merritt has been sentenced to death. In June, the 62-year-old was found guilty in the killing of his former business partner, Joseph McStay, McStay’s wife, Summer, and the couple’s 3 and 4-year-old sons. Later in June, a jury recommended a death sentence. According to KABC, the sentencing was originally slated for Friday after Merritt
Continue Reading An Indio couple was charged with murder today for the death of their 3-month-old child. Leonardo Daniel Alvarado Fernandez, 33, and Zue Itzayanna Flores Urias, 26, were arrested Thursday on suspicion of murder after police responded to John F. Kennedy Memorial Hospital on a report that two parents had brought their dead child into the
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With prosecutors planning to re-try the defendants on a second-degree murder charge, sentencing remained on hold today for two men convicted of vehicular manslaughter for a street race that killed an 81-year-old woman seven years ago in Rancho Mirage. Scott Daniel Bahls, 34, of Palm Springs, and Wade Klinton Wheeler, 37, of Rancho Mirage, were
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A Los Angeles man accused of attacking and holding his girlfriend against her will in Palm Springs in 2019 was sued by the woman. The plaintiff is identified only as Jane Doe in the Los Angeles Superior Court lawsuit brought Thursday against William Lakoff. The allegations include sexual battery, gender violence, false imprisonment, civil rights
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A Coachella Valley man convicted of stabbing a 57-year-old man to death six years ago was sentenced today to 56 years to life in state prison. David Montoya Sanchez, 49, was one of three people arrested in the days after Felix Candelaria was found stabbed in the driveway of a home in the 84000 block
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