Multiple teenagers are in custody in connection with a pair of shootings in Thermal that left a boy in the hospital last weekend. The shootings happened on Saturday, Oct 1. The first one happened on the 63000 block of Landon Lane in Thermal at approximately 3:09 p.m. Details on this shooting remain limited. Authorities searched
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By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ and STEFANIE DAZIO SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The younger brother of a man suspected in the kidnapping and killings of an 8-month-old baby, her parents and an uncle, was arrested on suspicion he helped his brother destroy evidence, authorities said Friday. Alberto Salgado, 41, was arrested late Thursday and accused of
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A homicide investigation is underway after a person was found dead in Indio Tuesday night. Police said that at around 11:41 p.m., officers were called to investigate reports of a person down in an east-west alleyway north of the 44400 block of Palm Street. Officers found an unresponsive man and pronounced him dead at the
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The Coachella Valley Unified School District is responding to concerns following the arrest of two teachers just weeks apart for being drunk on campus during school hours. On September 30, 2022, 43-year-old Marcos Jesus Espinoza was arrested for public intoxication, possession of alcohol on school grounds, and child endangerment. Records show he’s expected to appear
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A nearly two-ton seizure of methamphetamine in Norco was the largest meth seizure documented by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s Los Angeles Division, it was announced today. “Synthetic drugs like methamphetamine are highly addictive, dangerous and killing people at alarming rates,” DEA Los Angeles Special Agent in Charge Bill Bodner said. “This massive seizure likely
Continue Reading Two juveniles accused of an armed carjacking at an elementary school parking lot were arrested when they were seen driving that vehicle nearby, the Indio police announced. The robbery was reported at Herbert Hoover Elementary School in Indio at around 6:00 a.m. on Tuesday. Indio police officers said they learned that an employee with the
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A 45-year-old man who allegedly stole power tools and led deputies on a foot pursuit in La Quinta pleaded guilty to charges and was immediately sentenced to 24 days in county jail. Jose Manuel Alvarez of Indio was charged with two misdemeanor counts, one each of shoplifting a value of $950 or under and resisting
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A 50-year-old man was arrested after Border Patrol agents allegedly found more than $500,000 worth of methamphetamine in a tractor-trailer at the Highway 86 checkpoint. The man, a legal permanent resident, arrived at the immigration checkpoint in a white 2015 Freighliner Friday at around 2:05 a.m. The Border Patrol agent inspecting vehicles in the primary
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In the re-trial for Jose Larin Garcia, the man accused of murdering four people in Palm Springs nearly four years ago, the jury was brought on-location to the scene of the crimes Monday. News Channel 3’s cameras were denied by the judge to film witness testimony. Larin Garcia’s first trial ended earlier this year with
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Sheriff’s deputies arrested a teacher believed to be intoxicated in the classroom. On Sept. 30, 2022, just before 3 p.m. deputies from the Thermal Station responded to a location off of Center Street in Thermal, regarding reports of an intoxicated teacher at a local school campus. A student inside a classroom called their parent to
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UPDATE 10:30 p.m.: We have learned that Gabriel Garcia was hit by two cars, and both drivers are still at large. UPDATE: The man in Friday night’s hit-and-run crash has been identified as 41-year-old Gabriel Garcia of Coachella. Garcia was struck and killed by two vehicles that fled the scene Friday night in Coachella. The
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A 22-year-old man was arrested in connection with the sexual assault of a child at a Yucca Valley residence in 2020. The sexual assault happened in 2020 however deputies were notified of the crime on Aug. 9, 2022, the Morongo Basin Sheriff’s Station announced on Tuesday. Deputies said they were able to substantiate the claims
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A convicted felon who broke into a house that had been evacuated due to threats from a wildfire near Hemet pleaded guilty today to burglary and was immediately sentenced to two years probation. Michael Edward Serrano, 50, of Hemet admitted the felony count under a plea agreement with the Riverside County District Attorney’s Office. In
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A 31-year-old man who allegedly led police on a lengthy foot pursuit that went through a grocery store roof and onto a hiking trail in Palm Springs was charged today with burglary and other counts. Julian Baez was charged along with Sandra Lee Pritchard, 21, with one felony count of burglary and one misdemeanor count
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A man wanted in connection with a murder in Fontana on Monday is dead along with his teenage daughter after a shootout with police on Southbound Interstate 15 in Hesperia. Sheriff Shannon Dicus said in a news conference Tuesday afternoon that they believe the suspect’s daughter, Savannah Graziano, 15, was the female passenger injured in
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A foster parent was arrested Monday after a 16-month-old infant died in a Beaumont home, the Beaumont Police Department announced. Police said they received a call to the 1500 block of Ruby Lane at around 2:15 p.m. after the father reported that he found the toddler face down, not breathing in his playpen. The father
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A man accused of killing four people in Palm Springs will return to court for the start of his retrial on Wednesday. Jose Larin-Garcia, 22, of Cathedral City was arrested for the murders of Carlos Campos, Jacob Montgomery, Yuliana Garcia and Juan Duarte Raya on February 3, 2019. When police arrived on scene, they found
Continue Reading Authorities today identified a 31-year-old man who was fatally shot in Coachella in early August. At about 4:50 a.m. on Aug. 7, deputies responded to the 84000 block of Fiesta Road to a report of a shooting, according to Sgt. Richard Carroll of the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department. Carroll said an adult male with gunshot
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Authorities say a suspect was found dead inside a north La Quinta home early Tuesday morning after an hours-long standoff with police from apparently self-inflicted gunshot wounds. The Riverside County Sheriffs Department said the suspect was acting paranoid, but nobody else was hurt. The two family members who reported being shot at, but not hit,
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A man and a woman accused of a residential burglary are behind bars after Palm Springs police searched the roof of a grocery store as well a nearby steep hillside. The incident began at around 11:30 a.m. on Monday. Police said a homeowner called 911 reporting a theft at their vacant rental property on the
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