On April 11, 2023, at about 6:27 pm, deputies were dispatched to a report of a carjacking in the 34000 block of Monterey Avenue in Palm Desert. The victim, a 21-year-old resident of Coachella, placed an ad on Facebook Messenger to sell his vehicle.
On April 02, 2023, Thermal Station patrol units responded to the 79800 block of Highway 111, in the city of La Quinta, reference an assault with a deadly weapon.
On Tuesday, March 28, 2023, at 3:00 P.M. , the Coachella Valley Violent Crime Gang Task Force assumed an investigation related to the illegal possession and trafficking of multiple firearms.
On January 11, 2023, approximately 2:00 AM, deputies from the Riverside Sheriff’s Office, assigned to the Thermal Station responded to a business in the 86000 block of Avenue 54 in the City of Coachella, to investigate a burglary.
Mason Drew Kohler, 31, was booked on felony murder, hit-and-run death, and DUI charges, according to the Riverside County jail roster, which lists a Hemet PD arrest at Palm Avenue and Commonwealth Avenue. Hemet police say two pedestrians on an electric scooter were struck there about 6:55 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 22; one was pronounced dead. Police have not named the driver, and the decedent's identity remains withheld.
The San Jacinto Planning Commission voted 3-0 Tuesday to recommend two sphere-of-influence annexations to the City Council, including Tentative Tract Map 34271 for 151 single-family lots south of Ramona Expressway. Neither file is a completed annexation.
Shooters Sports Bar & Grill at 121 E. Florida Ave. was approved Sept. 22 to open back to full permit status, and the A placard was re-posted. The county report lists a manual score of 92, with no live or dead cockroach activity observed and a surveillance recheck by Sept. 29.