SAN JACINTO (CNS) – A 20-year-old man was gunned down north of San Jacinto, and authorities Monday were attempting to track down leads in the homicide. Dean Michael Vincent Martinez of Hemet was shot to death Saturday morning in the area of Gilman Springs Road and Highway 79, according to the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department. […]
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Jury selection got underway Wednesday for the trial of a man accused of gunning down two young women in a car parked in west Riverside. Daniel Garcia, 25, was arrested immediately after the 2018 attack that killed 21-year-old Gabriela Perez of Hemet and 20-year-old Miranda Duran of Riverside. Garcia is charged with two counts of […]
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A Mexican citizen who claimed he was in debt to a Mexican drug cartel pleaded guilty to the 2014 murder of a Cathedral City resident during a Craiglist car purchase and was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole, the Riverside County District Attorney’s Office confirmed Monday. Gabriel Gaytan Cardenas, 34, was […]
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A convicted felon suspected of gunning down a 21-year-old man during a robbery outside a Perris gas station earlier this month was behind bars Tuesday. Francisco Anthony Yzararraz, 26, of Perris was arrested Monday and booked on suspicion of killing Gelder Funes-Lopez of Guatemala. The suspect is being held without bail at the Byrd Detention […]
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A 43-year-old woman who gunned down her husband at their Hemet home and then attempted to make a run for the border was sentenced Thursday to 16 years in state prison. Beatriz Navarrete Torres pleaded guilty earlier this month during a hearing at the Banning Justice Center, admitting one count of voluntary manslaughter and a […]
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An ex-con who abducted and gunned down a 40-year-old San Jacinto woman over an unpaid debt was sentenced Friday to life in prison without the possibility of parole. A Murrieta jury in October deliberated less than a day before finding 42-year-old Traevon Denae Stewart guilty of the 2017 slaying of Latoya Calhoun. Stewart was convicted […]
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A Florida man who was found guilty of manslaughter in the fatal shooting of an unarmed man during a dispute over a handicapped parking space in Florida last year was sentenced to 20 years in prison Thursday. Michael Drejka, who fatally shot Markeis McGlockton, 28, outside of a Clearwater convenience store in July 2018, was found guilty […]
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A 31-year-old man was shot and killed in a residential area of Cathedral City early Wednesday, police reported. Dispatchers fielded multiple 911 calls reporting gunshots bout 12:35 a.m. near San Gabriel Circle and San Luis Rey Drive, where the victim was found, Cathedral City police Cmdr. Paul Herrera said. Paramedics took the man to a […]
