A judge Thursday dismissed one of the 11 sex-related counts against disgraced film producer Harvey Weinstein, whose attorneys contended that the charge was barred by the statute of limitations. The charge — which alleged sexual battery by restraint against a woman in May 2010 — was the only count involving one of the five alleged […]
Jury deliberations began Thursday in the trial of a probationer accused of breaking into a Palm Springs condominium and sexually assaulting a married couple in their bed. Thomas Dean Mabe, 48, is charged with two counts each of assault with intent to commit rape and elder abuse, as well as sexual battery, oral copulation of […]
A Los Angeles man accused of attacking and holding his girlfriend against her will in Palm Springs in 2019 was sued by the woman. The plaintiff is identified only as Jane Doe in the Los Angeles Superior Court lawsuit brought Thursday against William Lakoff. The allegations include sexual battery, gender violence, false imprisonment, civil rights […]
A man who groped two teenage girls on separate occasions at a Palm Desert Walmart store was sentenced Monday to three years probation and three months in a sheriff’s work release program. Brian John Averett, 45, of Palm Desert, pleaded guilty in April to two misdemeanor counts of sexual battery. Riverside County Superior Court Judge […]
A bartender accused of raping an unconscious patron in her room after serving the victim and her mother drinks for several hours at a Palm Springs hotel was behind bars Friday. Alejandro Adan, 29, was arrested Thursday afternoon, hours after Judge Anthony Villalobos issued a warrant for his arrest. Adan was charged May 2 with […]
A 20-year-old convicted of raping his neighbor and then offering to do work around her house to make it up to her is being sent to prison for 50 years. Jurors in West Palm Beach found Timothy Walding guilty of sexual battery, false imprisonment and armed burglary in October. On Monday a judge sentenced him […]
