An arrest woman is behind bars Monday after two early morning fires in Palm Springs. The first call was for a fire in the back of a business in the 300 block of South Palm Canyon Drive at 5 a.m. When crews arrived they found a stack of debris outside of the business engulfed in […]
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A $50,000 reward was in effect Thursday for information related to the capture of an arsonist who torched an Indio gas station under construction. Two blazes were reported earlier this month, one on July 4 and the other on July 10, at an AMPM gas station and car wash located at 81933 Indio Blvd., according […]
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A Canyon Lake man who set fires in an attempt to burn down his neighbors’ property and led law enforcement officers on a 40-mile chase before he was arrested pleaded guilty Monday to attempted murder and other charges. David Brian Harry, 46, perpetrated two attacks, roughly nine months apart, targeting the same residence in the […]
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A Temecula man who ignited the 13,000-acre Cranston Fire south of Idyllwild pleaded guilty Thursday to two counts of arson and was immediately sentenced to 12 years, four months in state prison. Brandon N. McGlover, 33, admitted the felony charges, as well as a sentence-enhancing allegation of causing damage to multiple structures as a result […]
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Ahead of the Idyllwild Strong weekend, KMIR spoke with mountain residents Friday morning to see how the community is recovering. Decades of memories gone. Ernesto Ale was out of town when the Cranston Fire lit up the Idyllwild community. He got the devastating call from a friend. “She goes, your house is gone,” says Ale. Few […]
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Police said a Florida man was locked up after he was accused of trying to kill sex offenders. Officers said he tried to set the men on fire. Jorge Porto-Sierra has been formally charged with four counts of attempted premeditated murder. Osceola County detectives said the 50-year-old confessed to deputies he tried to kill multiple […]
