LOS ANGELES (AP) — A veteran Los Angeles politician was sentenced Monday to 3 1/2 years in prison for a scheme in which he sought benefits for his son in exchange for supporting lucrative government contracts with the University of Southern California School of Social Work. Mark Ridley-Thomas, most recently a city councilmember, was sentenced
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Trial proceedings scheduled for an ex-cop accused of fatally shooting a developmentally disabled man in a Corona Costco, as well as critically wounding the victim’s parents, were postponed today to the end of October. Salvador Alejandro Sanchez, 34, of Corona, is charged with voluntary manslaughter and two counts of assault with a semiautomatic firearm resulting
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A November trial date is set for a 22-year-old man accused of fatally shooting a couple watching a thriller at a Corona movie theater while in the midst of delusions about someone trying to kill him. Joseph Jimenez allegedly gunned down Anthony Barajas, 19, and Rylee Goodrich, 18, both of Corona, in 2021 at the
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A 91-year-old bicyclist was hospitalized and in critical condition today after an early-morning collision with a vehicle that fled the scene. Officers responded around 3:15 a.m. Monday to a report of a collision between a vehicle and a bicyclist in the area of Cathedral Canyon Drive near Dinah Shore Drive, according to the Cathedral City
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A probationer accused of fatally stabbing a 39-year-old woman during an attack in her Desert Hot Springs apartment nearly three decades ago was re-arraigned today following a grand jury indictment for murder, pleading not guilty. Sharron Eugene Gadlin, 50, of Gardena was arrested last year following a cold case investigation that culminated in DNA evidence
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 A 33-year-old woman suspected with two others in a robbery that started in Rancho Mirage, where a person was lured into a vehicle, driven away, and robbed, pleaded not guilty today to felony charges. Lucero Barraza Cagno of Indio was charged with one felony count each of robbery, receiving a stolen vehicle, taking a vehicle
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A 33-year-old man suspected of prowling through a Palm Springs neighborhood and burglarizing a home pleaded not guilty today to felony charges. Justin Val Miller of Palm Springs is charged with one felony count of burglary, according to court records.  He pleaded not guilty to the charge Friday morning at the Larson Justice Center in
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Palm Springs arrested a suspect in connection to a deadly hit-and-run crash in July 2022. The suspect, identified as Cody Jay Hamilton, 28 of Cathedral City, was arrested on Thursday at around 2:00 p.m. in Cathedral City. He is expected to be arraigned on Monday on charges of hit-and-run resulting in death. The crash happened
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A 33-year-old man suspected of prowling, stealing two vehicles and burglarizing a home in Palm Springs pleaded not guilty today to felony charges. Justin Eric Dalton of Moreno Valley pleaded not guilty Thursday to one felony count each of burglary and taking a vehicle without the owner’s consent, according to court records. On Wednesday, he
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Investigators were working today to unravel what prompted a retired Ventura Police Department sergeant to go on a shooting rampage inside a famed Orange County biker bar, killing three people and injuring six others before being killed in an apparent shootout with responding sheriff’s deputies. The Orange County Sheriff’s Department identified the gunman Thursday morning
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A man accused in the hit-and-run death of a 39-year-old man in Palm Springs more than a year ago entered not guilty pleas today. Â Â Chad Steinmetz, 42, had a warrant issued for his arrest May 24, when he was also charged with one felony count of a hit-and-run causing death, according to court records.
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At least 10 people were shot at Cook’s Corner, a famed biker bar in Orange County Wednesday night. Authorities said three people were killed as well as the shooter. The shooting occurred at about 7:30 p.m. at Cook’s Corner in the 19100 block of Santiago Canyon Road. Video from the scene clearly showed multiple bodies
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A GoFundMe page has been set up to help family with funeral expenses for a 16-year-old boy killed in a shooting in Coachella over the weekend. Joseph Aroz, 16, was pronounced dead after being shot Sunday at around 9:07 p.m. in the 53500 block of Cesar Chavez Street. Family said the shooting happened at the
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 A Cathedral City man suspected in a fight that led to a fatal shooting at an Applebee’s Grill & Bar had his bail reduced today by $900,000. Willie R. Bustamante, 33, is charged with one felony count of murder and faces a sentence-enhancing allegation of discharging a firearm causing great bodily injury, according to court
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 A 20-year-old man pleaded not guilty today to murder and other charges stemming from the kidnapping and death of a young woman who was attacked at Penn Park in Whittier and whose body was found a day later in Riverside County. Gabriel Sean Esparza of Whittier is charged with one count each of murder, kidnapping
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A 41-year-old man was sentenced to three years and four months in state prison today for a 2019 street racing collision that killed two senior citizens in Coachella. Angel Ramirez pleaded guilty in April to two counts of vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence stemming from the May 17, 2019, crash that killed Sofia Prieto, 74,
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A Hemet policeman accused of assaulting a woman during an arrest, inflicting major head trauma, pleaded not guilty today to assault resulting in great bodily injury and other offenses. Jacob Alan Hobson, 29, was arrested last week following a Force Investigation Detail Task Force probe, relying on Riverside County District Attorney’s Office and sheriff’s personnel.
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A probationer and his cohort accused of killing a 31-year-old Cabazon man whose remains still haven’t been located pleaded not guilty today to murder. Richard Eugene Seevers, 58, of Banning, and Frank Edward Mansfield, 48, of Cabazon, were arrested earlier this month following a two-year Riverside County Sheriff’s Department investigation into the disappearance and death
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The Riverside County Sheriff’s Dept. is investigating a robbery at a Cabazon outlets store where an employee was pepper sprayed. The robbery was reported Monday around 8:00 p.m. on the 48000 block of Seminole Drive. “The reporting party advised three subjects entered the business, stole items, and pepper sprayed an employee,” Authorities said the employee
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A teenage boy was killed in a shooting Sunday night in the city of Coachella. The shooting was reported at around 9:07 p.m. in the 53500 block of Cesar Chavez Street. Deputies arrived at the scene and found a 16-year-old boy with gunshot wounds. The boy was pronounced dead at the scene. Deputies secured the
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