Crime & Incidents

Gang Members Arrested with Loaded Firearms

On Friday, November 12, 2021, at 11:30 A.M. the Coachella Valley Violent Crime Gang Task Force with the assistance of Riverside County Sheriff’s Department Special Enforcement Bureau conducted a vehicle stop at Los Felices Circle and San Rafael Road in Palm Springs.

California ‘fortune teller’ arrested in $50,000 scam

Arrest probably wasn’t in the cards for a self-proclaimed fortune teller whom authorities say scammed a Southern California woman out of $50,000 by claiming to cure her of parasites and her family of a curse.

California man gets prison for fatally torturing puppy

A Southern California man who fatally tortured a Chihuahua puppy and posted a video about it online was sentenced Monday to two years in federal prison.

Prosecutors step up charges for those dealing in fentanyl

Some Southern California prosecutors are stepping up charges against those who sell deadly, fentanyl-laced illegal drugs.

Los Angeles County hate crime reports increased 20% in 2020

The number of hate crimes reported last year in Los Angeles County was the highest in 12 years, led by a spike in racial crimes, the county Commission on Human Relations said Wednesday in an annual report.

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