Crime

A man fatally shot in Cathedral City last week has been identified. 23-year-old Jaime Antonio Monjaraz died at Desert Regional Medical Center on Friday night. Cathedral City Police Department Commander Paul Herrera confirmed the victim’s identity on Tuesday. According to CCPD, Monjaraz was a Desert Hot Springs resident. Monjaraz’s best friend, Alex Estrada, spoke with

The valley is remembering the lives of two Palm Springs police officers who were killed in the line of duty three years ago Tuesday. Lesley Zerebny and Jose ‘Gil’ Vega were shot and killed by John Hernandez Felix after they responded to a family disturbance call on October 8, 2016. Dozens attended a memorial service

A man who allegedly shot at three people in Thermal was charged today with three counts of attempted murder and one count of negligently discharging a firearm. Juan Pablo Linares, 19, of Thermal, allegedly fired a handgun at the victims — none of whom were hit by the gunfire — on Sept. 27 as they

One man is dead, another has been hospitalized after being shot in a Cathedral City neighborhood late Friday night. UPDATE: Man fatally shot in Cathedral City identified According to a news release by the Cathedral City Police Department, officers received several reports of a shooting at approximately 11:15 p.m. in the area of Navajo Trail

The jury reached a verdict Monday in the case of a parolee charged with the beating death of his girlfriend’s 1-year-old baby nearly a decade ago. Esteban Alamo, 33, was found guilty in the murder of 1-year-old Serik Nieto. Alamo was arrested for causing the injuries to Nieto that led to his death Oct. 9,

Riverside County Sheriff’s Deputies were searching for two armed-robbery suspects who were involved in a Coachella store hold-up late Sunday. It happened shortly before 11:30 p.m. along the 45800 block of Dillon Road. Sheriffs Deputies say two men, who were possibly in their early 20s, came into the store and held up an employee at

A death sentence was imposed today on a convicted felon who stabbed his ex-girlfriend to death along Interstate 10 in Whitewater and, four months later, strangled his 82-year-old cellmate at the Smith Correctional Facility in Banning. In July, a Riverside jury unanimously recommended capital punishment for 43-year-old Rigoberto Villanueva of Fontana for the 2016 killings

A Palm Springs man accused of locking dogs and cats in a moving truck and a storage unit, causing some of them to die, failed to show up today for his trial, prompting a judge to issue an arrest warrant. Prosecution testimony got underway earlier this week in the trial of Douglas John Yates, 57,

A convicted felon who stabbed a 37-year-old Desert Hot Springs man not long after getting out of prison for another deadly attack pleaded guilty today to second-degree murder and was immediately sentenced to 17 years to life in state prison. Joseph Arrez, 39, admitted the murder count, as well as sentence-enhancing allegations of using a

A Landers man was arrested for allegedly making a fake bomb threat towards a local elementary school Thursday morning. According to the Desert Hot Springs Police Department, at approximately 10:36 a.m., officers were alerted of a report of a bomb threat at Cabot Yerxa Elementary School. Kitchen staff at the school told police they received

Jury deliberations began today in the trial of a parolee charged with the beating death of his girlfriend’s 1-year-old baby nearly a decade ago. Esteban Alamo, who was 24 at the time of his arrest and is now 33, is suspected of causing injuries to Serik Nieto, which led to his death Oct. 9, 2010.

Grand theft and other charges were filed today against four men accused of stealing hundreds of dollars worth of goods from a Palm Desert cellphone store and then fleeing from sheriff’s deputies prior to surrendering in Cabazon. Dominic Gabriel Claude, 23, of Colton, Damarie D. Knight, 19, of Rialto, Malachai Cash Moten, 19, of Colton,

A woman suspected of drunk driving and causing a two-vehicle crash in Rancho Mirage that injured two people, including her young child, remained jailed Wednesday in lieu of $100,000 bail. Deputies responded around 4 p.m. Tuesday to a crash at Highway 111 and Rancho Las Palmas Drive, where they found a Mercedes Benz that was

Deputies arrested four suspects who allegedly shoplifted from a Palm Desert store, then led police on a pursuit down Interstate 10 Tuesday afternoon. According to Sergeant Joe Ruiz of the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department, the suspects stole multiple cell phones from a retail store on the 72200 block of Highway 111. The suspects then fled

Two Thermal residents remain behind bars Wednesday afternoon after being arrested by members of a Riverside County Sheriff’s Department gang task force. On Tuesday at 3:00 p.m., members of the Coachella Valley Violent Crime Gan Task Force went to a residence near the 85000 block of Middleton Road in Thermal to conduct a probation compliance

A 22-year-old man who gunned down his ex-girlfriend at her Banning home was convicted today of first-degree murder and other charges. A Banning jury deliberated less than a day before finding Devonta Eugene Leonard of Beaumont guilty of the 2018 slaying of 21-year-old Evangelina Ysiano. In addition to the murder count, jurors convicted Leonard of

Deputies have arrested a third man in connection with an attempted murder investigation in Twentynine Palms. Corey Harris, 20, of Twentynine Palms was arrested by detectives after evidence linked him to an attempted murder that occurred on Friday, Sept. 6 on the 72000 block of Wildcat Way. Joshua Hill, 18, and Branden Smith, 18, both

A man shot and killed in Cathedral City has been identified by the Riverside County Coroner’s Bureau. 31-year-old Cathedral City resident Mario Mercado died at Desert Regional Medical Center at 2:28 a.m. on September 25. According to initial information released by the Cathedral City Police Department, calls went in of shots being fired on the

A man suspected of robbing a Little Caesars Pizza in Palm Desert on Friday remained behind bars on Tuesday. 37-year-old Thousand Palms resident Arturo Galeana was arrested near the intersection of Robert Road and Ramon Road in Thousand Palms at 5:17 p.m. Friday, according to county jail records. At 2:21 p.m. Friday, a Galeana allegedly

A young man who allegedly snatched a purse from a woman inside a La Quinta business, then was tailed by witnesses until deputies arrived to arrest him, was being held today in lieu of $30,000 bail. The Monday afternoon robbery took place in the 7800 block of Main Street. According to the Riverside County Sheriff’s