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November 12, 2013

Several Shots Rang Out
CITY OF DESERT HOT SPRINGS POLICE DEPARTMENT

PRESS RELEASE

INCIDENT: Vehicle pursuit

DATE/TIME OF INCIDENT: Nov 12, 2013, 0327 hours

SUSPECT: Carey, Kenneth 09/08/1985, Male Black, 6-1/187, Black/Brown, Address: 66358 7th Street, DHS

CHARGES:

  • CVC 2800.2 (Evading a Peace Officer Reckless Driving),
  • PC 243.3 (Battery "of an operator, driver, or passenger on a bus, taxicab, streetcar, cable car, trackless trolley, or other motor vehicle, including a vehicle operated on stationary rails or on a track or rail suspended in the air, used for the transportation of persons for hire, or against a schoolbus driver, or against the person of a station agent or ticket agent for the entity providing the transportation"),
  • PC 26350 (Openly carrying an unloaded handgun).

STATUS: In Custody, Riverside County Jail.

NARRATIVE
While Desert Hot Springs Officers were on patrol, several shots rang out in the 66300 Block of 7th Street. Officers saw a vehicle fleeing the area at a high rate of speed and when they attempted to stop it a vehicle pursuit ensued. The pursuit took place in the east part of city lasting several minutes. During the pursuit the suspect discarded the firearm which was later recovered. The vehicle ultimately drove over a spike strip and the pursuit terminated at the intersection of Dillon Road and Mountain View Avenue where the suspect was arrested without incident.

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