UPDATE: A man who sexually assaulted a 10-year-old girl in Desert Hot Springs has been sentenced to 25 years to life in prison. Angel Lua, 22, of Mecca, was convicted in October of assaulting the girl, along with a burglary charge.
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A Florida teen is safe and seven adults are under arrest and accused of sex trafficking, officials said. The 15-year-old boy had been missing for nearly a year and there was also another teen from Louisiana who detectives said was a victim. Investigators with the St. Petersburg Police Department said the suspects are responsible for […]
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A homicide at the Musicland Hotel in Palm Springs prompted the victim’s sister to identify him as Jason Gregory Banks. “He was like my son. He was everything to me. And today is his birthday. And he was a good person,” said Banks’ sister, Caroline Abdenschoen, through tears. Police say they found Banks in a […]
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At least 74 people were shot between Friday afternoon and Monday morning across Chicago, according to police, marking a violent weekend with six shooting incidents that wounded at least four people at one time. Of the people who were shot between 3 p.m. Friday and 9 a.m. Monday, 12 have died, officials said. Among the […]
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Police Tuesday released a sketch of a man suspected of exposing himself while groping and attempting to kidnap a 10-year-old girl while she walked with her twin sister and their mother in El Monte. The three were walking south with their mother about 8:30 p.m. Saturday in the 2600 block of Tyler Avenue, south of […]
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A 17-year-old student accused of fatally shooting 10 people at a Texas high school should be seen as a “victim” because he may have recently been bullied, causing him to lash out, his father says. In a phone interview over the weekend with Greece’s Antenna TV, Antonios Pagourtzis said he wished that he could have […]
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A Coachella man who raped two women in Indio within a 10-day span was sentenced today to three years in state prison. Allen Raul Montano, 33, pleaded guilty in February to two counts of rape by force or fear for assaults committed on Oct. 24 and Nov. 3, 2016. Indio police began searching for Montano […]
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A man who says he was shot at random in Indio is recovering and telling KMIR News what happened. The shooting victim is now speaking about how he was gunned down while meeting someone to buy car parts. His name is Zeus, but we’re keeping his family anonymous for their safety. “I could have easily […]
