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Jury selection begins for man accused in 2017 Cathedral City bar shooting
City News Service
Thomas Zaragoza, 39, of Desert Hot Springs, is accused of opening fire on Mike Avila following an argument that erupted at what was The Block Sports Bar & Grill at Ramon Road and Date Palm Drive on July 26, 2017. The establishment is now known as Henry s.
Zaragoza is charged with one count each of attempted murder, assault with a gun, assault on a person causing great bodily injury and criminal street gang activity. He also faces several gun- and gang-related sentence-enhancing allegations.
Riverside County Superior Court Judge Timothy Freer summoned multiple panels of prospective jurors for screening at the Southwest Justice Center in Murrieta. It s unclear how many days the vetting process may take because of new public health protocols that limit courtroom capacity.
By Homer Clance, San Diego Union Staff Writer
PALM SPRINGS Lawmen yesterday routed the youth invasions that had engulfed this normally placid desert resort.
Hundreds of youths and hippies were ousted from their camps in rugged, rocky Tahquitz Canyon, where they had settled earlier in the week. They were among the 20,000 young persons who flooded the town for the Easter vacation.
A city ordinance prohibits camping or campfires in the beautiful canyon, which has a waterfall and stream. City regulations prohibit anyone in the area after dark.
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Copter Orders Youths Out
A helicopter on loan from the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Office circled the area yesterday and ordered the invaders to leave. A sergeant notified them they were violating the law and would be arrested if they did not move on.
Two men sentenced to probation for causing crash that killed bicyclist
GARRETT BERGTHOLD
Two young men who caused a collision that killed a bicyclist in Rancho Mirage pleaded guilty on Wednesday to vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence and were immediately sentenced to two years probation in lieu of jail time.
Luis Armando Castaneda, 23, and Alex Isidro Quiroz, 24, were arrested almost a year after 32-year-old Cathedral City resident William Campbell was killed while riding his bike in December 2018. Authorities alleged Campbell was fatally struck while the pair were illegally street racing, but prosecutors never filed charges to that effect.
Quiroz additionally faced a sentence-enhancing allegation of fleeing the scene of a crime. Both men pleaded guilty Wednesday at the Larson Justice Center in Indio and not as part of a deal with prosecutors.
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