Crime

A series of raids on illegal cannabis grows throughout the Anza Valley led to the seizure of more than 100,000 marijuana plants and nearly five tons of processed product, authorities said today. Confiscation operations were conducted all day Thursday by Riverside County Sheriff’s Department personnel, along with law enforcement officers from multiple municipal agencies, the

Authorities today publicly identified a man killed in Palm Springs last month. Jose Sosa, 44, of Coachella was pronounced dead at the scene of the fatal shooting on June 22. Officers were sent to the 700 block of West Racquet Club Drive at about 4:15 a.m. on a shooting report and found Sosa dead in

A Desert Hot Springs man was convicted today of murder for the stabbing death of his landlord. An Indio jury that heard three days of testimony deliberated 40 minutes before finding Albert Marchain, 29, guilty of first-degree murder for killing 69-year-old Stanislaw Tokarski. Jurors also found true a sentence-enhancing allegation of using a weapon —

Units from multiple law enforcement agencies are at a neighborhood in Desert Hot Springs Friday afternoon. Riverside County Sheriff’s deputies and other police agencies are at the 16000 block of Via Vista near Camino Idilio conducting an investigation. There were multiple medical units on scene as well and it appeared that a deputies was being

A 28-year-old man accused in a fatal shooting in Cathedral City pleaded not guilty today to a murder charge. Jose Ernesto Martinez of Desert Hot Springs was arrested Saturday on suspicion of gunning down 27-year-old Isaac Valles of Rancho Mirage earlier that morning. Martinez was arraigned at the Banning Justice Center before Riverside County Superior

Update 3/14/23 The case was dismissed after the suspect completed his misdemeanor diversion program. Original Report 7/1/21 A $5,000 bench warrant was issued today for the arrest of a Coachella man accused of threatening to bomb the 2021 Desert X art exhibition. Phillip Matthew Carrillo, 31, was taken into custody about a week after the

The Palm Springs Police Department says they have been seeing an increase in skimming devices at bank ATM’s and fuel pumps around the city. Skimming devices are placed into an ATM or Gas Pump card reader. The device can read your card once you put your card into the machine. Your personal information can be

A 28-year-old man accused in a fatal shooting over the weekend in Cathedral City is scheduled to be arraigned tomorrow. Jose Ernesto Martinez of Desert Hot Springs was arrested Saturday and remains held at the John Benoit Detention Center in Indio on $1 million bail awaiting his arraignment at the Banning Justice Center. Martinez was

A Palm Desert man who was sentenced in federal court to five years behind bars for throwing a firebomb into a Republican office in the Coachella Valley is scheduled to appear in Riverside County Superior Court tomorrow, where he is facing similar charges. Carlos Espriu, 24, pleaded guilty in March to a single federal count

Palm Springs police investigators have located and recovered the vehicle believed to have been involved in a deadly hit-and-run crash last week in the city. John Grizzell Jr, 28, of Palm Springs, was struck and killed by a a Silver 2006 Nissan Altima on the morning of Friday, June 25 near the area of E.

A man suffered minor injuries after being shot at in Palm Springs early Tuesday morning. Police say they were called to respond to reports of a shooting in the area of N. Indian Canyon Drive and E. San Rafael Drive at approximately 1:30 a.m. The caller told police he had been the victim of a

A Sky Valley resident accused of gunning down a man in Palm Springs pleaded not guilty today to a murder charge. Jeffrey Burgess, 42, was arrested Tuesday stemming from the shooting reported earlier that morning. Burgess was arraigned at the Banning Justice Center before Riverside County Superior Court Judge Alfonso Fernandez, who set the defendant’s

A gang member accused of shooting two people who were seated in a car in Thermal a month ago was in custody today without bail. The suspect, a 30-year-old man from Thermal was arrested Thursday and booked into the John Benoit Detention Center in Indio on suspicion of mayhem, attempted murder and assault with a