Felony charges were filed Wednesday against a 36-year-old man accused of threatening to kill his girlfriend and several family members with a knife in Desert Hot Springs. Juan Valentin Cortez, who was arrested Sunday, was charged with assault with a deadly weapon and criminal threats, both felonies, along with a misdemeanor charge of resisting arrest. […]
A 36-year-old man accused of threatening to kill his girlfriend and several family members with a knife in Desert Hot Springs was in custody Monday. Juan Valentin Cortez was arrested Sunday and booked into the John Benoit Detention Center in Indio on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon, criminal threats and other offenses, with […]
PALM SPRINGS (CNS) – A nearly three-hour standoff between police and a man barricaded inside a van in Palm Springs ended peacefully just after midnight Sunday. Police initially responded to a call that a man had threatened to shoot another man at about 9:20 p.m. Saturday at the Agua Caliente Spa Resort Casino, according to […]
INDIO (CNS) – A convicted felon accused of engaging in an hours-long standoff with Palm Springs police pleaded not guilty Wednesday to felony and misdemeanor charges. Bruce Lombardi Jr. of Palm Springs, 37, was arrested Friday at a home in the 300 block of West Santa Elena Road and charged with being a felon in […]
34-year-old Elizabeth Gaitan of Palm Desert is in custody following an hours long standoff with Riverside County Sheriff’s deputies. Around 9:47 Tuesday morning deputies received calls of vandalism in progress in the 45000 Block of Driftwood Drive, the location of the Mountain Villas. When deputies arrived on scene they located Gaitan who barricaded herself within […]
A man who barricaded himself inside a Coachella apartment, following reports of a gunshot fired within the residence, was charged with two counts of making criminal threats today.
Coachella, CA A 57-year-old parolee suspected in a shooting was arrested at the end of a near five-hour standoff with authorities at a Coachella apartment. Just before 1:00 PM, police received a report of a shot being fired in the 700 block of Vine Street, said sheriff’s Sgt. Chris Durham. Officers arrived and determined the […]
