A Thermal man charged with molesting a teenage relative had his bail reduced Wednesday from $1 million to $55,000, in the wake of the dismissal of a kidnapping count. The bail reduction approved by Riverside County Superior Court Judge Burke Strunsky came two weeks after another judge ordered 36-year-old Elit Barroso Miranda to stand trial […]
-
-
A Desert Hot Springs man who spent almost four years in jail awaiting trial for allegedly trying to lure teenage girls into his car was sentenced Tuesday to time he has already served behind bars and released from custody. Daniel Hernandez, 23, pleaded guilty last month to one count of lewd acts with a child […]
-
U.S. Border Patrol agents assigned to the El Centro Sector arrested a previously deported convicted sex offender last Thursday night. Border Patrol agents near Calexico apprehended Miguel Ramirez-Gonzalez, a 43-year-old Mexican citizen, On Sept. 13 at around 10:21 p.m., after he illegally entered the United States. Border Patrol agents conducted records checks, which revealed that […]
-
Jury deliberations began Wednesday in the trial of a Temecula man accused of molesting his 6-year-old stepdaughter repeatedly while her mother was at work. Dana Leon Wilber, 51, is charged with two counts each of lewd acts on a minor and copulation of a child under 10 years old. Following four days of testimony, the […]
-
U.S. Border Patrol agents assigned to the El Centro Sector Border Patrol arrested two previously deported sex offenders in separate incidents over the weekend. The first incident occurred on Saturday at approximately 11 a.m., after agents encountered a man who had illegally entered the United States, east of the Calexico Port of Entry. Record checks […]
-
More than a dozen felony counts, including lewd acts with a child under 14 and aggravated sexual assault of a child, were filed Tuesday against a Palm Desert man accused of repeatedly molesting his former roommate’s 6-year-old daughter, as well as another girl nearly two decades ago. James Paul Adkins, 54, was arrested Friday for […]
-
A man found inside a car in La Quinta with a teenage boy must stand trial on a felony charge of committing lewd or lascivious acts with a minor, a judge ruled Friday. Court documents indicate that the boy was 14 at the time of Fernando Cancino’s Dec. 13, 2016, arrest near La Palma Drive and Arosa Way. According to sheriff’s Sgt. […]
