Crime

Traffic on the eastbound side of Interstate 10 is backed up after a suspect attempting to evade police crashed into another vehicle east of Cook Street. According to the California Highway Patrol, officers were told the suspect rear-ended another vehicle near Moreno Valley. The victim attempted to follow the suspect but the suspect began to

A driver’s license and sobriety checkpoint in Coachella nabbed nine intoxicated drivers and triggered a high-speed chase, sheriff’s officials reported today. Riverside County sheriff’s deputies conducted the checkpoint between 8 p.m. Friday and 2 a.m. Saturday in the area of Cesar Chavez and Fourth streets, according to Sgt. Mariano Matos III. A total of 363

Riverside County Sheriff’s deputies were investigating a shooting that occurred outside the Morongo Travel Center gas station and Starbucks in Cabazon Wednesday evening. According to Sgt Deanna Pecoraro, public information officer for the Sheriff’s Department, deputies found evidence of a shooting but did not locate any possible victims or suspects. The area has been deemed

Coachella Police were investigating a crime scene in the area of Second Street and Vine Avenue early Tuesday morning. KESQ News Channel 3 had calls into the Riverside County Sheriffs Department inquiring as to what exactly happened. Neighbors called into our newsroom saying they heard gun shots. Officers were called to the scene at 10:30

A 17-year-old was arrested Friday morning in Cathedral City in connection with a shooting in La Quinta back in September. According to the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department, the shooting happened on September 2020 at a residence within the 47000 block of Dune Palms Road. Authorities said that three juveniles standing outside the residence were shot

Jesse Torres, 44, has been sentenced to death for the abduction and murder of 17-year-old Norma Lopez in 2010. “They say that time heals everything, but it doesn’t. We just had tolearn how to go on with our lives and live with the pain, even though it isn’t easy to do,” Lopez’s sister told the

Murder charges have been filed against a woman accused of causing a DUI crash that took the lives of the two teen children of a producer of “Black-ish” in Morongo Valley back in June 2019. Nicole Packer,34, of Morongo Valley has also been charged with Felony D.U.I. causing injury and driving 20 miles per hour

Cathedral City Police officers investigated a shooting in a parking lot in front of the Cathedral City Liquor / ACE Rent-A-Car business area off of Ramon Road. Police were seen investigating a vehicle in the parking lot. The vehicle had several markers place on it and one of the passenger side windows was broken. One

A Yucca Valley man arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting a three-week-old infant was officially charged by the San Bernardino County District Attorney’s Office. Keith Russell Tyerman, 33, was arrested at his Yucca Valley home on Nov 10 following an investigation by the Riverside County DA’s Office-led Riverside County Child Exploitation Team. The same day that

A 24-year-old felon who shot and killed a Palm Desert man at a gas station nearly six years ago was convicted today of second-degree murder. Following three days of deliberations, a Murrieta jury found Kurtis Knigge of La Quinta guilty of one count each of murder and shooting at an occupied vehicle, along with several

A felon whose alleged accomplice in a Desert Hot Springs residential break-in was fatally shot by an occupant of the targeted home pleaded not guilty today to murder and other felony charges. Nathan Michael Alger, 20, of Desert Hot Springs was arrested last Thursday, a day after he and another man allegedly carried out the

The San Bernardino District Attorney’s Office has officially charged a Desert Hot Springs man accused of killing a toddler over the weekend. Santos Guerrero Rodriguez, 24 was arrested on Saturday following the death of his girlfriend’s three-year-old child in San Bernardino. After reviewing the case, the DA’s office officially charged Rodriguez with murder and felony

Murder and other charges were filed today against a felon whose alleged accomplice in a Desert Hot Springs residential break-in was fatally shot by an occupant of the targeted home. Nathan Michael Alger, 20, of Desert Hot Springs was arrested last Thursday, a day after he and another man allegedly carried out a home invasion

The Cathedral City Police Department is investigating the death of a 24-year-old man as a homicide. Police say that officers responded to the 68800 block of Ramon Road regarding an assault victim. Officers arrived and located an adult male on the sidewalk with major injuries. The fire department was called to assist and provided life-saving

(CAUTION – Viewer Discretion Advised on video for shooting & swearing) The Riverside County Sheriff’s Department released bodycam footage of a deadly deputy-involved shooting in Rancho Mirage from July 2019. The incident happened on July 9, 2019 near the intersection of Ramon Road and Bob Hope, right by the Agua Caliente Casino in Rancho Mirage.

The California Highway Patrol released additional information on an officer-involved shooting Sunday evening with Beaumont Police. A CHP statement said Beaumont Police and California Highway Patrol Officers were called at 7:44 p.m. and made contact with a man at a business at the intersection of 6th Street and Beaumont Avenue. The Beaumont Police Department is