Palm Desert, CA On Monday, July 31, 2017, at 12:07 AM, deputies from the Palm Desert Station responded to a ringing alarm at a gun store located at the 38000 block of El Viento Rd. in the unincorporated area of Palm Desert. Deputies arrived within minutes and learned the business had been burglarized. The suspects had already […]
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Desert Hot Springs, CA A passenger who jumped out of a stolen vehicle during a police pursuit in Desert Hot Springs, triggering a brief lockdown of a local elementary school, was charged Tuesday with firearm possession and resisting arrest. Juan Carlos Dorado, 29, was one of several passengers riding in the car during the pursuit […]
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Mecca, CA On Sunday. August 13, 2017, at about 10:59 PM, deputies from the Perris Station responded to the 25000 block of Waldon Road regarding a call of an unknown trouble. Upon arrival deputies located two deceased Hispanic male adults. Both sustained gunshot injuries that caused their deaths. Investigators from the Perris Station and Central Homicide […]
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Cathedral City, CA Two men initially charged with attempted murder in the shooting of two other men outside a Cathedral City bar will stand trial on criminal counts, but only one will be held for attempted murder, a judge ruled today. Santos Franco, 20, of Palm Springs and Felipe Arechiga, 25, of Desert Hot Springs, […]
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Rancho Mirage, CA Kidnapping, evading arrest, firearm and drug possession charges were filed today against a Los Angeles man accused of trying to kidnap a 9-year-old girl at a Rancho Mirage supermarket, then leading authorities on a pursuit that ended in Moreno Valley. Roberto Arce Cardenas, 39,is accused of trying to abduct the girl about […]
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Murrieta, CA A Murrieta man and his live-in girlfriend were behind bars today on suspicion of severely abusing his 5-year-old son, who remains in an intensive care unit at a pediatric hospital. Benjamin Matthew Whitten, 33, and Jeryn Christine Johnson, 25, were arrested Tuesday and booked on suspicion of child abuse and inflicting great bodily […]
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Salton City, CA El Centro Sector Border Patrol agents working at the Highway 86 immigration checkpoint arrested a man suspected of smuggling methamphetamine Tuesday evening. The incident occurred at approximately 6:45 p.m. when a 31-year-old man driving a 2013 Nissan Maxima approached the checkpoint. A Border Patrol canine detection team alerted to the vehicle. Agents sent […]
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Indio, CA Jury selection is slated to begin tomorrow for the trial of a transient accused of stabbing a homeless woman to death in Palm Springs. Verne Raymond Orlop Jr., 54, is charged with murder and a sentence- enhancing knife-use allegation in the Feb. 21, 2015, death of 48-year-old DeneeSalisbury, whose body was found in a lot […]
