On Wednesday, May 2, 2018, at 1:00 P.M. the Coachella Valley Violent Crime Gang Task Force conducted a suppression patrol in Desert Hot Springs. The operation was carried out with the assistance of Gang Task Force Regions 2 and 4 to combat recent gang crime in the city. During the operation Gang Task Force Officers arrested […]
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A murder in San Juan Capistrano sparked a wider probe that resulted in the arrests of around seven dozen “middle manager” Mexican Mafia gang members in Orange County and the seizure of weapons, drugs and counterfeit currency, officials announced Wednesday. The gang takedown, dubbed Operation Scarecrow, grew out of the investigation into a fatal shooting […]
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A woman who sued Eisenhower Medical Center alleging that a nurse’s aide sexually assaulted her during an overnight stay at the hospital settled her suit with the Rancho Mirage medical center and the former nursing aide Thursday. The woman, identified as Jane Doe in court documents, alleged that Gil Ernesto Lopez, 50, of Cathedral City, […]
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Arrests and non-vehicle related citations issued during the 2018 Stagecoach Music Festival in Indio last weekend were down for the second consecutive year, according to statistics released Wednesday by the Indio Police Department. Police said 60 people were arrested for drug or alcohol intoxication, while 46 were for cited carrying a false ID at the […]
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A 23-year-old Riverside man was arrested Wednesday for allegedly gunning down two women in a car parked on the west end of the city. Daniel Garcia was booked into the Robert Presley Jail in Riverside on suspicion of murder and was being held in lieu of $1 million bail. According to Riverside police Officer Ryan Railsback, the […]
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A body shop worker accused of stealing Palm Springs police Chief Bryan Reyes’ patrol vehicle from the Cathedral City body shop where the ex-con worked and subsequently posing as a cop pleaded not guilty Wednesday charges related to the alleged theft and unlawful possession of firearms, ammunition and other prohibited items seized from his Indio home. William […]
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Jurors who convicted an Escondido teenager last week of first-degree murder for beating his friend to death and posting the sound of his victim’s cries on Snapchat also found the teen to be sane at the time of the crime. The determination was made during the sanity phase of the trial. Maithem Alfuraiji, 20, was last […]
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An appeals court has upheld the life-without-parole sentence of a young man who gunned down another man during a botched robbery in Cathedral City over $50 worth of marijuana. Jacob Paul Winters, 23, was convicted in October 2016 of murder and being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm. Jurors also found true a […]
