Disgraced R&B singer R. Kelly was sentenced to 30 years in prison Wednesday, according to the US Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York, following his conviction last year on federal racketeering and sex trafficking charges stemming from his efforts over years to use his fame to ensnare victims he sexually abused.
Sentencing is scheduled Thursday for a ride-hailing driver who sexually assaulted a 13-year-old girl in Palm Desert after the two met during a ride. Ismael Gaspar, 38, of Cathedral City faces a maximum of 16 years in state prison at his sentencing hearing, scheduled for the Larson Justice Center in Indio. Gaspar pleaded guilty to […]
(CNS) – A 22-year-old La Quinta resident was sentenced Friday to 50 years to life in state prison for the shooting death of a young man during a botched drug deal in La Quinta. An Indio jury deliberated about six hours in January before finding Jesse Keith Cottom and fellow La Quinta resident Kenneth Michael […]
A man who gunned down two Palm Springs police officers who had responded to his family’s home due to a domestic disturbance was sentenced to death Friday. John Hernandez Felix, 28, was convicted in May of murder and other charges for the Oct. 8, 2016, killings of veteran Officer Jose Gilbert “Gil” Vega, 63, and […]
Two men who murdered a Pinyon Pines family over a decade ago in a methodical attack that involved “a high degree of cruelty” were each sentenced Friday to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Riverside County Superior Court Judge Bernard Schwartz imposed the life terms on Robert Lars Pape, 30, and Cristin Conrad […]
