(CNS) – A 41-year-old man arrested over the weekend on suspicion of killing a 23-year-old former high school football player in a hit-and- run crash in Desert Hot Springs was due in court Wednesday on DUI gross vehicular manslaughter charges. Jose Roberto Tafoya-Flores was arrested at the intersection of Two Bunch Palms Trail and Palm […]
A parolee was behind bars Friday on suspicion of possessing firearms, including a so-called “ghost gun,” while being a convicted felon. Brandon Myers, 33, was booked into the John Benoit Detention Center in Indio on suspicion possessing firearms while being a felon, possessing ammunition while being a felon and possessing suspected methamphetamine. The Coachella Valley […]
County firefighters knocked a fire inside a business building Desert Hot Springs Sunday evening. The fire at the single-story building in the 13000 block of Palm Drive was reported at 8:47 p.m., according to Cal Fire/Riverside County Fire Department. Firefighters extinguished the flames at 9:23 p.m., the department reported. No injuries occurred. The cause of […]
A felon accused of hacking a 65-year-old North Palm Springs woman to death with a machete days after being released from state prison re-entered a not guilty plea Thursday. David Earl Williams Jr., 29, was ordered to return to the Larson Justice Center in Indio on May 17 for a trial-readiness conference. He remains held […]
DESERT HOT SPRINGS (CNS) – A parolee accused of killing a woman in Desert Hot Springs was behind bars Thursday without bail. Joseph Cantu Montanez, 41, of Desert Hot Springs was arrested Monday and booked at the Southwest Detention Center in Murrieta on suspicion of murder and violating his parole. Jail records indicate Montanez could […]
