Crime

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

For the second consecutive day, the Riverside County Sheriff’s deputies are investigating a shooting in the city of Coachella. A spokesperson for the Sheriff’s Department confirmed the shooting happened in the area of First Street and Vine Avenue, just west of Grapefruit Boulevard at around 4:06 p.m. Information on this shooting remains limited as the