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On Monday, October 5, 2020, investigators from the Palm Desert Station in conjunction with the Rancho Mirage Special Enforcement team conducted an arrest warrant service in the 81000 block of Iris Court, Indio. The arrest warrant was a result of a lengthy-ongoing fraud investigation, which occurred in the city of Rancho Mirage.

On Sunday, October 4, 2020, at 3:59 PM, Canyon Lake deputies responded to the north area of Canyon Lake, for a report of a drowning. Eyewitnesses stated the victim a 20-year-old, male and resident of the Los Angeles area, swam out to the middle of the lake from the north shore. The male appeared to be in distress and submerged underwater.

On Monday, October 5, 2020, at 12:19 PM, deputies from the Perris Station responded to a call of an assault with a deadly weapon in the 22000 Block of John Street in Meadow Brook. Upon arrival, they located a deceased male suffering from a gunshot wound.

In the Navajo Nation, called home by almost 200,000 Native Americans, the COVID-19 death rate is one of the highest in the United States. Residents and health workers there say that part of the reason has been inadequate healthcare resources and personnel stemming from years of U.S. government’s underfunding of the Indian Health Service, “the government program that provides health care to the 2.2 million members of the nation’s tribal communities,” writes Mark Walker for The New York Times.

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) announced today its Veterans Crisis Line (VCL) formally launched the Caring Letters Program, an evidence-based suicide prevention intervention that involves sending periodic messages with simple expressions of care and concern to Veterans who use VA health care and contact the VCL.