A Joshua Tree man was arrested, accused of beating up his elderly parents. About 9:30 Friday night, 911 received a call that Joseph Matich, 46, kicked down his father’s bedroom door, in the 6400 block of Valley View Street in Joshua Tree, to get to his father, who was refusing to give him medication. Witnesses stated that Matich used his hands and feet to beat his father, kicking him with steel-toed boots, while elbowing his mother and ripping the phone out of the wall when she tried to call for help. Joseph Matich was arrested for investigation of felony elder abuse, and booked into the Morongo Basin Jail, with bail at $50,000.
