The City of Indio has set up a temporary memorial in front of city hall to honor Corporal Hunter Lopez, a 22-year-old U.S. Marine who was killed helping evacuate people from Afghanistan. People are encouraged to bring flowers, mementos and messages for the Lopez family. The Lopez family lives in Indio, they just returned from […]
A former Shadow Hills High School boys’ basketball coach is scheduled to be arraigned Oct. 12 on charges he raped a teenage girl he coached. Ryan Leron Towner, 35, was arrested June 10 stemming from a Riverside County Sheriff’s Department investigation. The alleged conduct occurred between May and July 2018, according to the Riverside County […]
A man barricaded himself inside a home in La Quinta this morning, prompting heavy police presence at a gated community near Washington Street. The Riverside County Sheriff’s Department told us the incident began around 3 a.m. on the 78500 block of Via Bolero inside the community. The community was shut down for hours as authorities […]
A young man accused of joining a teenager in carrying out a drive-by shooting in Thermal was in custody Wednesday in lieu of $1 million bail. Jorge Dominguez, 21, of Indio was arrested Tuesday night and booked into the John Benoit Detention Center on suspicion of attempted murder, shooting at an inhabited building and conspiracy. […]
A man who investigators say is linked to 15 residential burglaries in the Coachella Valley was arrested and remained behind bars Sunday in lieu of $500,000 bail. Teddy Kaiser Hartwell, 35, was arrested after deputies responded to a burglary call Thursday night in the 40 block of Via Las Flores in Rancho Mirage, according to […]
Jury selection got underway Monday for the trial of a Cathedral City man accused of molesting a girl at a Palm Desert resort. Ismael Gaspar, 38, was arrested March 26, 2018, on suspicion of sex crimes he allegedly committed six days earlier at the Marriott Shadow Ridge Resort. Gaspar, who remains free on $55,000 bail, […]
WARNING: GRAPHIC AND DISTURBING VIDEO The Riverside County Sheriff’s Department released body camera of an officer involved shooting that happened outside La Quinta City Hall in September. The shooting happened just outside the sheriff’s substation. The footage shows two deputies confronting a man armed with a semi automatic rifle. Deputies ask the man several times […]
