A Coachella man accused of threatening to bomb the 2021 Desert X art exhibition had his case dismissed Tuesday after completing his misdemeanor diversion program.
Hazardous-materials and bomb squad investigators descended on a Bermuda Dunes home Monday, and while it was unclear what prompted the response, sheriff’s officials said “explosive hazards” located at the home were rendered safe. FBI bomb squad technicians assisted Riverside County Sheriff’s Department investigators and other agencies at the home on Darrell Road, sheriff’s officials said. […]
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Security was stepped up and attendance was dramatically down at Raymond Cree Middle School Wednesday, one day after a student allegedly posted a bomb threat on social media — possibly the result of a group of students who wanted a day off from school. Palm Springs police said they were notified by school staff at […]
A man who had been suspended or expelled from two South Florida colleges asked an FBI informant he thought had ISIS connections to bomb the schools, targeting specific deans, a federal prosecutor says. Salman Rashid, 23, who was born in Bangladesh but is a naturalized US citizen, is charged with soliciting another person to commit a crime […]
Police Thursday said they arrested a man accused of making a false bomb threat to a Desert Hot Springs school. Jerrett Tagger III, 31, of Landers allegedly placed a phone call at 10:36 a.m. to the Cabot Yerxa Elementary School kitchen staff in which he said there was a bomb on the campus, according to […]
Army soldier Jarrett Smith pleaded not guilty during a hearing Thursday to charges related to distributing bomb-making information and a recipe for making napalm, as well as planning to enter a home and set it on fire. Smith, who allegedly discussed bomb-making techniques and suggested targeting a news network that sources say is CNN, faces two counts of […]
Part of an Indio apartment complex was evacuated Thursday when workers reported “suspicious wiring” inside an evicted tenant’s former unit. Officers were sent about 9:30 a.m. to the Watercrest at the Polo Fields apartment complex in the 46000 block of Monroe Street and evacuated about a dozen nearby units as a precaution, according to Indio […]
