RIVERSIDE (CNS) – More than 10 years after he kidnapped and killed a 17-year-old Moreno Valley girl during an attempted sexual assault, a Long Beach man was sentenced to death Friday. A Riverside jury in March 2019 convicted 44-year-old Jesse Perez Torres of first-degree murder and a special circumstance allegation of killing in the course […]
A Canadian man was sentenced Thursday 25 years to life in prison for the 1990 murder of Marie Darling. 63-year-old Anton Kubica was convicted of 78-year-old Darling’s murder in November 2019. The 78-year-old victim was a widow and lived alone in Palm Springs. She was last seen alive in early June 1990 and her body […]
One of two men who robbed a woman in Sky Valley and left her stranded in the desert was sentenced Monday to 10 years in state prison. Joseph Verdusco, 23, of Coachella, and his co-defendant, Oscar Esqueda, 23, of Palm Desert, both pleaded guilty in November to robbing the victim in a plea deal in […]
A man who slashed a pedestrian near a Hemet convenience store was sentenced Wednesday to two years in state prison. Cole Willie Butts, 36, pleaded guilty last month to assault resulting in great bodily injury for the February attack. Riverside County Superior Court Judge Mark Johnson certified the plea and imposed the sentence stipulated by […]
