Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco Tuesday will ask the Board of Supervisors to approve his plans to purchase a new helicopter and airplane for patrol and other deployments at a total cost of $18.46 million.
A 19-year-old man suspected of driving around Moreno Valley in a stolen vehicle and robbing a resident at knifepoint near March Air Reserve Base was arrested Thursday.
Pretrial motions are slated to get underway Friday ahead of jury selection for the trial of a convicted sex offender accused of repeatedly assaulting a Murrieta boy and arranging for other men to do the same.
Opening statements were delivered Wednesday in the penalty phase for a Cathedral City man convicted of fatally gunning down four people in Palm Springs more than four years ago — with the prosecution recommending the death penalty and the defense urging jurors to spare the life of the 23-year- old defendant.
The suspects were identified as Chance Sawyer, 24 of Palm Desert, and Brett Wellard, 33 of Palm Desert. Sawyer and Wellard are currently in custody at the John Benoit Detention Center for several counts of vandalism and illegal possession of a firearm.
A 31-year-old man who allegedly led police on a lengthy foot pursuit that traversed a grocery store roof and a hiking trail in Palm Springs pleaded not guilty Wednesday to burglary and other counts.
