Desert Hot Springs, CA A brother and sister who helped conceal a man’s shooting death in Desert Hot Springs pleaded guilty today to being accessories after the fact. Candelaria DeSantiago, 32, and Alejandro DeSantiago, 39, were each sentenced to one year and four months in state prison, but both had already accumulated enough credit for […]
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Riverside, CA A man who killed a 19-year-old woman in a hit-and-run collision at a Riverside intersection was sentenced today to 15 months in jail. Erasto Gomez, 59, pleaded guilty last month to hit-and-run resulting in death, vehicular manslaughter without gross negligence and driving on a suspended license. In exchange for his admissions, the Riverside […]
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California Highway Patrol says a Thousand Palms man was killed after being hit by a car as he walked along Highway 86 in Thermal Sunday Night. The initial incident happened sometime before 11:15 p.m. near Avenue 84. The victim is identified as 30-year-old Brandon Cooper of Thousand Palms. Officers say he was walking down Highway […]
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Desert Hot Springs, CA A man was found dead inside a Desert Hot Springs home, and sheriff’s deputies today searched for a suspect in the case. The victim, whose name was withheld, was found at 10:42 p.m. Thursday inside a home in the 16000 block of Via Corto West, according to the Sheriff’s Department. Story: Man Who […]
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Salton City, CA Authorities are investigating the death of a 27-year-old Salton City man whose body was found on Friday, July 21st. Mario Alberto Raya of Salton city has been identified as the body found in Salton City around 12:51 PM last Friday. Raya was reported missing on Wednesday July 26th. There are no signs […]
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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 […]
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Indio, CA Authorities say a 25-year-old man sought by police in the stabbing death of his roommate at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, has been arrested near the Southern California desert town of Indio. Records showed that Zachary Tait Drey was being held Wednesday at a Riverside County jail in Banning, California, pending a […]
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Desert Center, CA A judge decided today that a 19-year-old man, who pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter and other charges in the shooting death of a woman found inside a car alongside Interstate 10 near Desert Center, will be allowed to enroll in a substance abuse treatment program in lieu of prison time. Kyler Jeffrey […]
