Benjamin Briones of Thousand Palms was charged with one felony count each of murder, burglary and forging a signature, according to court records. He additionally faces a special-circumstance allegation of committing murder for financial gain and in the commission of a robbery.
A jury was seated Tuesday and testimony got underway in the trial of a 28-year-old Coachella Valley man accused of fatally stabbing his girlfriend during a frenzied attack possibly stemming from drug use.
A man accused of killing his 33-year-old girlfriend, whose remains are the subject of an ongoing search in southwest Riverside County, must stand trial for murder, a judge ruled Friday.
With jurors again indicating they were hopelessly deadlocked, a mistrial was declared Wednesday in the rape trial of “That ’70s Show” actor Danny Masterson.
A prosecutor told jurors that former film producer Harvey Weinstein sexually assaulted eight women between 1991 and 2015, including four he is charged with attacking in Los Angeles County.
An Oct. 13 trial date was set Friday for a man who is among four people charged with murder in the killing of rapper Pop Smoke during a 2020 robbery at a Hollywood Hills home.
