Crime

A felon accused of beating a Cabazon man with a chunk of wood and stabbing him multiple times was charged today with assault with a deadly weapon and other offenses. Sergio Martinez Gutierrez, 44, was arrested Tuesday following a five-day Riverside County Sheriff’s Department investigation.   Along with the assault count, Gutierrez is charged with a

Two men suspected in the 2018 fatal shooting of a jiu-jitsu instructor in Cathedral City pleaded not guilty to murder today.    Ramon Diaz In addition to the murder charge, Troy Walter Edmund, 44, and Kipko Griffin, 48, additionally denied a special-circumstance allegation of lying in wait, according to court records. Edmund also pleaded not

A 24-year-old man who led police on a pursuit that ended in a fiery collision at a gas station in Indio pleaded guilty to felony charges today and was immediately sentenced to 180 days in county jail and nearly three years of formal probation.   Zeus Rico of Desert Hot Springs was charged with two felony

A man suspected of starting a fire that burned over 100 acres in Banning has been officially charged with arson, among other counts. Ande Delgado Cox Jr., 45, was charged with one count of arson, one count of possession of drug paraphernalia, and a sentence-enhancing allegation of perpetrating arson in an area wherea state of

Six people were arrested after a police officer reported hearing gunshots in a Palm Springs neighborhood overnight on Tuesday. Police were originally called to the area of Granada Ave and Tramview Rd. just after midnight to respond to multiple disturbance calls about a block party in the neighborhood. Officials with the Palm Springs Police Department

A Cathedral City man brutally murdered another man in 2017 out of jealousy over a woman, a prosecutor told jurors today as the alleged shooter’s trial unfolded. Ronald Dean Ricks, 37, is charged with one felony count of murder along with a special-circumstance allegation of discharging a firearm from a vehicle and a sentence-enhancing allegation

A Salton City man has been charged with multiple counts of violent sexual assaults, the Imperial County District Attorney’s Office announced on Friday. Philip Warren Carter, 32, was arrested by the Imperial County Sheriff’s Office on July 19. Investigators from the Imperial County Sherriff’s Office and the Imperial County District Attorney’s Office are seeking any

A person suspected of starting a wildland fire that burned over 100 acres Thursday night in Banning has been arrested. The suspect, a 45-year-old man was arrested a little after midnight in Highlands Springs in Banning, Cal Fire announced. Cal Fire said the arrest came after investigators determined the fire was a case of arson.

A man and woman suspected with two juveniles of robbing a jewelry store at the Palm Desert mall are set to be arraigned today on a felony charge of robbery. Mason Tyler Barron, 21, of Hemet and Cleopatra Tredai Jones, 25, of Los Angeles are set to be arraigned on the charge Friday afternoon at

Police released a photo of a vehicle believed to have been involved in a hit-and-run crash that left a person with major injuries earlier this month in downtown Palm Springs. The crash happened just after midnight on Sunday, July 9 on the 300 block of S Palm Canyon Drive. Police said the pedestrian continues to

A multi-convicted felon dubbed the “snake burglar” for his method of burglarizing businesses pleaded guilty today to more than four dozen felony charges and was immediately sentenced to a jail term – which he was expected to avoid serving — along with 12 years’ probation. Christopher Michael Paul Jackson, 33, of Riverside admitted 54 counts