Day two of the Rafael Aikens murder trial continued Tuesday in Joshua Tree Superior Court. Aikens is accused of shooting and killing 62-year-old Renee Metcalf and her 32-year-old daughter, Christy McKissic in Twentynine Palms in March 2017.…
Former Marine machine-gunner Rafael Aikens is on trial in Joshua Tree Superior Court. The 24-year-old is accused of the 2017 mother/daughter double homicide of Renee Metcalf, 62, and Christy McKissic, 32, in Twentynine Palms. Aikens had been in…
They say the wheels of justice turn slowly and the double murder trial of defendant Rafael Aikens appears to be no exception. Here’s reporter Mike Lipsitz with more on the case … Rafael Aikens Jury selection in trial of 23-year-old Rafael…
Rafael Aikins UPDATE 11 a.m.Jury selection has been postponed until Wednesday while the attorneys work out motions and other routine court matters. Jury selection is set to start today for a former Twentynine Palms Marine who is accused of…
A 28-year-old Joshua Tree woman was arrested last week, accused of being an accessory to the murder of a Murrieta man last May. Curtis Krueger, 30, a former Marine at the Combat Center in Twentynine Palms, is accused of bludgeoning Henry…
A man who has been in jail for more than five years awaiting trial for murder pleaded guilty to manslaughter in Joshua Tree Superior Court on Thursday. On October 6, 2013, deputies were called to the 63200 block of Pole Road in Joshua Tree…
In a Joshua Tree courtroom Monday, faced with misconduct by the Sheriff’s Department, a judge ordered a trial to continue for a man who is accused of a 2004 murder. Charles Leppan has been incarcerated since October 2013 charged with the 2004…
Updated 1/28/19 10:35 a.m. https://www.z1077fm.com/judge-orders-case-against-accused-murderer-to-continue-despite-sheriff-misconduct/ Accused of the murder of his former wife, 44-year-old former Marine Charles Leppan was in the Joshua Tree Court…
The Yucca Valley man accused of shooting at Sheriff’s deputies during a pursuit in October withdrew his guilty plea in a Joshua Tree courtroom Wednesday morning. After receiving the results of a competency evaluation, Judge Rodney Cortez ruled…
A Twentynine Palms Marine who was arrested in August, accused of murdering a Murrieta man, and who was subsequently released when the Riverside County District Attorney’s refused to proceed with prosecution, was arrested again last week.…
The man accused of attempted murder of a Yucca Valley man, as well as eight counts of attempted murder for shooting at Sheriff’s deputies during a pursuit in October—and who posted a live video on Facebook during the pursuit—was in court…
It started as a routine pre-preliminary hearing in a Joshua Tree courtroom yesterday for Roger Tindell who is accused of attempted murder of a man in Yucca Valley, and then shooting at deputies during a pursuit that he recorded and posted live…
The Yucca Valley man accused of shooting another Yucca Valley man and of shooting at Morongo Basin Sheriff’s deputies during a pursuit October 17, all while recording the pursuit live on Facebook, pleaded not guilty in a Joshua Tree courtroom…
The Yucca Valley man accused of shooting at Morongo Basin Sheriff’s deputies during a pursuit October 17, all while recording the pursuit live on Facebook, is scheduled to be arraigned in a Joshua Tree courtroom today on dozens of charges. Roger…
A Twentynine Palms Marine and a Joshua Tree woman who were arrested last week, accused of murdering a Murrieta man, were released from jail Friday after the Riverside County District Attorney’s office failed to file formal charges against them…
A Twentynine Palms Marine and his wife were arrested Wednesday, accused of murdering a Murrieta man. On June 2, a Joshua Tree National Park ranger discovered a shallow grave in the park just off Bighorn Pass Road that contained partially buried…
Listen to this story here: Janet Kodish: “You got to have a hardware store!…
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