The Inland Regional Child Exploitation & Human Trafficking Task Force completed “Operation Inland Regional Roundup” over the last week, resulting in registered sex offenders, suspected drug dealers and others being taken into custody and charged in state and federal courts, according to the FBI.
Officers with the Desert Hot Springs Police Department are investigating an incident involving a student with a knife at school Wednesday. Police were called to the 65800 block of Pierson Boulevard to Desert Hot Springs High School after reports of a student with a knife. There is no word on if a student was located […]
A parolee charged with bludgeoning a woman to death with a hammer in Desert Hot Springs re-entered a not guilty plea Friday and was ordered to return to court on Sept. 20 for a trial-readiness conference. Joseph Cantu Montanez, 42, of Desert Hot Springs, is accused of killing 39-year-old Andrea Reyes, who was found dead […]
On Sunday just after 11:00 p.m. Desert Hot Springs Police activated an Amber Alert, that’s how Daisy Rios found out her two-year-old son, Anthony was missing. “I fainted and I had seizure after seizure, they called the paramedics,” says Daisy. When she came to, her nightmare was just beginning. “I thought I was never going […]
Jim Henson, who has been serving as acting Desert Hot Springs police chief since May, will be appointed to the full-time position Tuesday evening by the City Council. Henson took over the post on an interim basis following the resignation of Chief Dale Mondary, who acknowledged inappropriately texting a woman two years ago. Henson, who […]
