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Riverside County Animal Services officers put a stop to a cockfighting operation on Thanksgiving morning in Thermal. According to John Welsh, public information specialist for RCAS, at 7:40 a.m., the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department alerted animal services to an illegal cockfighting operation “set up deep inside some lemon orchards near avenue 77 and Polk Street.”
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A Special Enforcement Team in La Quinta served a search warrant at the home of a 64-year-old parolee and found items that led to his arrest, authorities announced on Wednesday. The warrant was served at 12:27 p.m. Wednesday in the 78600 block of Avenida La Torres, Riverside County sheriff’s Sgt. David Aldrich said. It was
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The Riverside County Sheriff’s Department has released the identity of a homicide victim whose body was found in Thermal in May. 35-year-old Rafael Machuca’s body was found near the intersection of Avenue 58 and Buchanan Street in Thermal at around 6:26 a.m. on May 14. The next day, the Sheriff’s Department confirmed to News Channel
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Police arrested an Indio man Tuesday for possessing heroin for sale. The Riverside County Sheriffs Department says La Quinta Police Officers stopped Francisco Lopez, 46, along the 78600-block of Avenida La Torres Tuesday afternoon. Officers say they found half a pound of heroin on Lopez and said he planned to sell it. Sheriffs deputies obtained
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A felony complaint obtained by News Channel 3 on Tuesday has revealed more information about the killing of a man whose body was found in a garbage can in La Quinta last week. On Tuesday, 32-year-old Cristina Noelle Canimo of Palm Desert was set to be arraigned for murder. Her arraignment was postponed until December
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Seven juveniles were taken into custody by Riverside County Sheriff’s deputies on Monday night in connection with the attempted thefts and subsequent crashes of landscaping machinery in Thousand Palms. At 8:09 p.m. Monday, deputies assigned to the Palm Desert station responded to the 72000 block of Manufacturing Road in Thousand Palms in reference to an
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Four suspected gang members, including a teenage boy, were taken into custody today in connection with an assault inside a Cathedral City business that left a man with serious injuries. The attack, which occurred last Saturday at an unnamed business in the 34000 block of Date Palm Drive, left the unidentified victim with injuries to
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The Riverside County Sheriff’s Department is seeking two juvenile suspects suspected of joyriding a pair of forklifts in Thousand Palms on Monday afternoon. At 1:19 p.m., deputies responded to a report of two juveniles riding a pair of forklifts in the area of Calle Jessica and Datil Road in Thousand Palms. Upon arrival, the juveniles
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The Riverside County Coroner’s Bureau has released the identity of a Beaumont man fatally struck in a hit-and-run collision in Banning over the weekend. 52-year-old Rene Rivoli died on Saturday at 5 p.m. after being struck by an unknown vehicle in front of the Margarita Motel at 1551 West Ramsey Street. The incident was reported
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Riverside County Sheriff’s Deputies are investigating a shooting incident in Coachella. It happened just before 1:00 Saturday afternoon on Avenue 49 and Grapefruit Boulevard. A spokesperson for the sheriff’s department tells News Channel 3 no one was injured. The department has not confirmed where the gunfire was directed. No arrests have been made in the
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The Indio Police Department is investigating a double shooting Friday night near Golf Center Parkway and Intestate 10. According to Ben Guitron, IPD’s public information officer, the shooting was reported in the area of Avenue 44 and Apache Street at approximately 8:38 p.m. Guitron confirmed that both victims have been taken to the hospital. One
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Police say a negative Yelp review prompted a man to threaten someone with a gun near Indio High School Thursday afternoon. “The suspect threatened the victim due to the victim writing a negative Yelp Review of the suspect’s business,” reads an IPD news release. The Indio Police Department identified the suspect as 26-year-old Roy Becerra.
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A 19-year-old gang member accused of gunning down a man in Desert Hot Springs last weekend pleaded not guilty today to murder and robbery charges. Matthew James Gallegos of Desert Hot Springs also denied two special circumstance allegations — killing for the benefit of a criminal street gang and killing during the course of a
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A motion to dismiss a potential new trial for Patricia Brown has been denied in Indio court Thursday. Brown was released from jail in April 2018. She was serving time after being convicted of second-degree murder in the death of her 2-year-old step-son, Deetrick Brown. Deetrick died in 2003, and Brown was convicted in August
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UPDATE: Police arrested Cristina Noelle Canimo, 32, of Palm Desert early Friday morning at a north La Quinta home where a body was found a day earlier. Canimo was charged with Felony Murder with Malice, according to jail records. She was booked into the Riverside County Jail in Indio and held without bail. Canimo was
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A woman was arrested early Friday morning in connection with a La Quinta homicide reported Thursday, according to the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department. County jail records show that 32-year-old Palm Desert resident Cristina Noelle Canimo was taken into custody at 3 a.m. on the same street in which the body of the unidentified murder victim
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Several local law enforcement agencies united to serve numerous search warrants throughout the Coachella Valley on Thursday morning. The efforts resulted in nearly two dozen arrests. “The search warrants were served on the residences of suspected gang members as the result of criminal investigations into several separate shooting and gun-related crimes within the city of
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Three store employees, including a 19-year-old, were cited for selling alcohol to minors during a sting operation in Cathedral City, police announced today. Cathedral City officers worked with agents from the California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control and minor decoys to target several alcohol license-holders on Wednesday. The employees who were cited work at Carniceria
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John Gless, the owner of the sprawling Gless Ranch in Coachella talked about thieves taking a bite out of his profits. “We’re out here farming you know, putting a good California product on the table for everyone and it’s tough,” said Gless. The farm, where they grow citrus, figs and other fruits is one of
Continue ReadingA judge told jurors Wednesday that a La Quinta man who went on trial earlier this month for the 2003 death of his 2-year-old son was no longer a defendant in the murder case, which is continuing against his wife. Riverside Superior Court Judge John G. Evans granted a defense motion for acquittal Tuesday and
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