Crime

Already serving life sentences after their first trials in 2012 and 2011. they were back in court Tuesday morning for a trial readiness conference. Kashual Niroula, Daniel Carlos Garcia, David Replogle and Miguel Bustamante were all handcuffed and wearing prison garb.  This appearances in Indio came after the court granted retrials for the men in

A Yucca Valley man is in jail and is accused of abusing a three-month-old boy. Phillip Candeleria was arrested after the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department was notified that the severely injured child was admitted to Loma Linda University Medical Center. Doctors determined the injury was not accidental and say it was caused by severe

The California Highway Patrol – Indio Station released the description of a vehicle wanted in connection with a deadly hit-and-run collision that occurred on June 13 in Mecca. The crash was reported at 8:50 p.m. in the area of 66th Avenue and Date Palm Street. A pedestrian was pronounced dead at the scene. The suspect

Indio police have arrested a suspect in a deadly shooting earlier this week, however, one other suspect still remains outstanding. A man in his 20s was shot to death Wednesday night on the 81-500 block of Armata Street. The victim has not been identified at this time. Oscar Bustos Detectives identified two suspects responsible for

Robert Barrett, 19, of Oceanside remains behind bars after being accused of uploading child pornography while stationed at the Twentynine Palms base. According to the San Bernardino Sheriff’s Department, the Morongo Basino Station detectives were first tipped off by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children on May 14. The tip contained information that

Indio police were in the Colony Park neighborhood searching for a suspect in a shots fired call Thursday afternoon. According to Ben Guitron, public information officer for the Indio Police Department, said the department received the shots fired call at around 7:50 p.m. in the area of John Nobles Avenue and Arabia Street. This is

Indio Police were investigating a deadly shooting that occurred in the city Wednesday night. Police were called to the 85100 block of Armata Street at 10:30 p.m. in a neighborhood near Hoover Street and Fred Waring Drive. The original call to police was about a disturbance and then a gunshot. Officers found a man who’d

Palm Springs Police officers say they found a loaded firearm and a suspected methamphetamine in a vehicle during a traffic stop. The traffic stop happened Wednesday at around 10:22 p.m. on the 400 Block of E. Amado Road. Police say they stopped the vehicle for a minor traffic violation but did not disclose what exactly

First responders were attacked by a motorist involved in a Mecca traffic collision Tuesday night, according to police. CalFire says two vehicles collided on State Highway 86 near Avenue 66 just before 7:30 p.m. One of those vehicles rolled over causing traffic to be blocked, according to the California Highway Patrol. Police said one of

Robert Eric Stahlnecker, 48, of Twentynine Palms was found guilty of one count of making threats by interstate commerce and five counts of anonymous telecommunications harassment, the Department of Justice announced on Thursday. A federal jury acquitted him of two additional counts of threatening federal employees. According to the DOJ, Stahlnecker made multiple abusive telephone

A transient accused of igniting nine brush fires over two days along Interstate 10 in Palm Desert is being held on $315,000 bail while awaiting his first court appearance tomorrow. Jose Ruben Rodriguez Jose Ruben Rodriguez, 34, was arrested at a homeless encampment in Palm Desert late last month and booked at the Indio jail

Palm Springs Police were investigating a vehicle to vehicle shooting early Wednesday morning that caused no injuries but damaged a car. The victim was driving along South Gene Autry Trail near East Ramon Road at 12:24 a.m. when shots were fired by someone in a nearby vehicle, according to Palm Springs Police Department Sgt. Mike

Retired Palm Springs resident Mark Sherman and his spouse Victor Poglinco enjoy their home in the Four Seasons community on the north end of Sunrise Way. But, it’s what’s happening around their home is what their worried about.  “All we want is some action.  There is a lot of concerns.  This seems to be growing

The San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department is at the scene of a barricaded suspect at a home in the community of Landers, which is north of Yucca Valley off Highway 247. According to a spokesperson for the Sheriff’s Department, the situation began just after noon when deputies attempted to stop a driver on Twentynine Palms