Edward Miranda, 28, was booked into the Benoit Detention Center in Indio on Saturday on suspicion of making criminal threats and violating civil rights, police said.

He was out on $200,000 bail on Sunday.

According to the Palm Springs Police Department, shortly after 2 p.m. Friday, officers were notified of an online threat to target attendees at Saturday’s rally. In collaboration with the FBI, Miranda was identified as the suspect and search warrants were served at his residence on Eisenhower Drive in La Quinta and another residence in San Bernardino County, authorities said.

A firearm allegedly belonging to Miranda was seized at one of the properties, and he was taken into custody without incident.

“We take all threats to public safety seriously and will vigorously pursue those intent on committing violence in our community,” Palm Springs Police Chief Andrew Mills said.

The investigation remains ongoing.

Anyone with additional information about the alleged threat was urged to contact the department at 760-327-1441, or anonymously through Crime Stoppers at 760-341-7867.

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OCFA announced the discovery in an X post on Friday, Jan. 3.

The University of California San Diego’s ALERTCalifornia camera network’s AI alerted the OCFA of an “anomaly” seen on video footage around 2 a.m. on Dec. 4. The network has several cameras located in wildfire-prone spots around Southern California.

The anomaly turned out to be a vegetation fire in Black Star Canyon, east of Irvine Lake.

“Unlike traditional emergency calls made through 911, this fire was solely detected by strategically mounted cameras monitoring high-risk areas across the county,” the OCFA post said. “This location is not heavily trafficked at night, which likely contributed to the fact that zero reports of smoke or fire came in from the public.”

After receiving the AI alert, fire crews were able to contain the fire to less than a quarter of an acre, and there were no injuries, evacuations or homes burned.

“While the agency has been utilizing AI in tandem with 911 calls to detect wildfires for some time, this is the first fire that was located exclusively by AI,” the OCFA said.

Without it, the blaze could have spread significantly before anyone noticed it, the agency added.

“This is one example of how we are leveraging emerging technology and strategic partnerships to combat wildfires,” OCFA Fire Chief Brian Fennessy said. “With wildfire hazards now a year-round challenge, early detection and collaboration are crucial to protect lives and property.”

The crash happened around 11:10 a.m. at the 2700 block of Fairplex Drive, adjacent to the In-N-Out Burger Pomona Dragstrip, the Los Angeles County Fire Department said.

It’s unclear what caused the single-engine Piper PA-32 to crash. The Federal Aviation Administration said it likely will have a preliminary report on Monday.

The airplane struck several vehicles on the ground, including a large RV, but no bystanders were hit or injured. The pilot and three occupants of the airplane all suffered moderate to critical, non-life-threatening injuries, and were being treated at a nearby hospital, according to Los Angeles County Fire Department spokesman Jonathan Torres.

No fire was seen, but fuel spilled all over the area. The plane crash happened during the first round of Top Fuel eliminations. The races were delayed because of the crash and the cars were removed from the drag strip.

An estimated 10,000 people were attending the National Hot Rod Association championship drag racing finals, which was placed on hold. Racing later resumed.

Footage from a grandstand spectator obtained by KNN News showed the plane descending close to the ground over the parking lot moments before the crash.

Norman Wade of Corona parked across the street before the crash. He wanted to watch the drag races from a nearby parking lot to avoid paying expensive ticket fees, he said.

Wade was in his car with the door open watching a plane flyover after the National Anthem played, when he noticed two smaller planes heading for a landing at the Brackett Field Airport. Both planes appeared like they would land safely, but then one stalled and its nose dropped before it crashed into the Fairplex parking lot, Wade said.

“He just dropped right out of the sky,” Wade said.

The crash caused a loud bang, a plume of dust and debris and some smoke, he said.

Wade feared a fire would erupt, but after the dust settled nothing else happened, he said.

Greg Correa, who arrived early Sunday to see the races, said watching the plane go down was like witnessing a car crash. “It was like slow motion just coming in,” he said. “There was no explosion or nothing.”

Kathy Mickelson, who saw the crash from across the street, said the spectators were shocked.

After the crash, firefighters from La Verne, who had been standing on their trucks to watch the race from the parking lot, sprung into action, Mickelson said. They jumped in their trucks, turned their lights on and rushed to the scene.

Investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board were on their way to conduct an investigation into the crash on Sunday afternoon.

Staff writer Tim Haddock contributed to this report.

The quake, at 3:51 a.m., was centered at 4.3 miles southeast of Ontario, 4.5 miles north, northwest of Eastvale, 4.9 miles north, northwest of Jurupa Valley and 5.6 miles south of Rancho Cucamonga , according to a preliminary report by the USGS.

It occurred at a depth of about 3 miles.

The temblor, with its epicenter near S. Archibald Avenue a few blocks from the Whispering Lakes Golf Course, initially was reported at a 4.1 magnitude, but later was downgraded. It was the latest in a series of relatively mild earthquakes in the Ontario area since early September, the USGS said.

Light shaking was recorded throughout the Inland Valley, as well as San Bernardino, Riverside and Orange counties and many parts of the Los Angeles area.

The quake was followed by eight aftershocks as of 7:25 a.m., including the strongest one, registering a 2.5-magnitude at 4:04 a.m., a senior data analyst at the Caltech Seismology Laboratory said.

“More aftershocks may be expected in the next few days,” Zackary Newman, the analyst, wrote in his report. “The largest expected is approximately 1 magnitude unit smaller than the mainshock.

“There is a small chance (about 5%) that a larger quake could occur, with the likelihood decreasing over time,” he wrote.

No injuries or damage were reported on Sunday morning.

On Tuesday, Oct. 1, a magnitude-3.5 quake struck nearby; it was centered two miles southeast of Ontario.

The video was posted on general manager Rhonda Palmeri’s Facebook page. She sighed heavily as it began, and her voice cracked and she looked to be fighting back tears at times.

“I would like to send my most sincere condolences to the families of Tonya, Glen and John, and all the injured, and those fighting for their lives and the friends and family of Cook’s Corner who were here Wednesday, August 23 for the most horrific act by one man who has changed the lives of so many,” she said.

“We would like to thank everyone for all your love, support and prayers.”

John Leehey, 67, of Irvine, Glen Sprowl Jr., 53, of Stanton and Tonya Clark, 49, of Scottsdale, Arizona were killed when retired Ventura Police Department Sgt. John Snowling marched into the iconic biker and family restaurant Wednesday evening and without uttering a word, opened fire on his wife and others, Orange County Sheriff Don Barnes said.

“The outpouring of love and support from our community has truly been amazing,” Palmeri went on to say in the video, also praising “the quick actions of our first responders and Orange County law enforcement.”

Palmeri said “a private, intimate gathering with family and friends” is being planned for those who were at Cook’s Corner that terrible evening.

“We still do not have an opening date planned yet,” she added. “We will notify the community as soon as possible.”

More than 70 Orange County sheriff’s vehicles and 100 deputies responded to Cook’s Corner after getting the initial 911 call at 7:04 p.m., Barnes said last week. Two minutes later, they encountered Snowling and by 7:08 p.m., deputies had shot him. He died in a barrage of police bullets after pulling a 12-gauge shotgun on the deputies.

Seven deputies shot and killed him. At least one of Snowling’s rounds hit a sheriff’s SUV. In all, 75 casings were found.

The tragedy has sent the community of Trabuco Canyon reeling.

Zeke Rich, an engineer and motorcycle rider, called Cook’s Corner “neutral ground” where anyone from any background was welcome. The colorful bar has long been among the most iconic Western-style roadhouses in Southern California.

Bikers who frequent Cook’s Corner said they are planning a memorial, but details, including a date and time, are to be determined.

A community prayer service was held at Saddleback Church in Lake Forest last week. A long procession of bikers rode their motorcycles to the church campus, some wearing Cook’s Corner hats and shirts, and greeting and hugging one another before heading inside.

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Spitzer, speaking at a podium flanked by flags set up at Watson’s Soda Fountain and Cafe, said the shooter was a man, while a woman was driving the car. A DA spokeswoman later said the information came from witness statements.

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“I want the two individuals in that vehicle to understand: this is Orange County, California. This is not Los Angeles or San Francisco,” Spitzer said, taking an obvious swipe at the progressive agenda of Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascon, who once also was the top prosecutor in San Francisco.

“As we understand it, the male pulled the trigger,” Spitzer said. “You killed a little boy. A little boy who today should be in kindergarten.”

“You’re going through immense guilt and consternation about what you did and you don’t know what to do about it,” he said.

“To the woman driver,” he added, “I would say: ‘You need to turn yourself in. You’re an accomplice.’ “

Aiden Leos was shot and killed Friday, May 21. The boy was in a booster seat as his mother drove along the freeway in Orange, when a vehicle described as a white Volkswagen station wagon cut them off to get into the carpool lane. The boy’s mom told witnesses she made a rude gesture at the vehicle just before gunfire struck the boy in the belly.

The California Highway Patrol Thursday afternoon put out a BOLO on the car, with a photo, stating, “The suspect vehicle appears to be a white Volkswagen Golf SportWagen with non-tinted windows. The Golf appears to be a 2018 or 2019 model and the license plate is unknown. After the shooting, the suspect vehicle continued northbound SR-55 to eastbound SR-91 towards the city of Riverside.”

In an interview following the news conference, Spitzer expanded on his commitment to finding the shooter and the driver.

During the next 24 hours, he said, his message to the suspects is, “I will listen to your story, what your motivation was and your thinking and why you did what you did. If you want to prolong this, try to escape, flee, get a new identity, make it difficult for law enforcement, then door A is going to close and we’ll go after you with door B, the full effect of the law.”

He added, “I can’t force anybody to talk and I’m not saying they have to talk. But what I’m saying right now is I have an open mind to hear what their thought process was. But that door for me is closing quickly.”

Publicly addressing offenders is an oft-used tactic that can pay off. But if it fails, it fails spectacularly.

In October 2011, two days after the shooting spree that claimed eight lives at a Seal Beach beauty salon, then Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas publicly promised to win the death penalty against the worst mass killer in county history. Rackauckas failed, because his prosecutors and deputies violated shooter Scott Dekraai’s civil rights so badly that a judge took the case away from the DA’s office and took the death penalty off the table.

The “threat” strategy worked better for former Orange County Sheriff Mike Carona, in the kidnapping and killing of a 5-year-old Stanton girl whose body was discarded in Riverside County.

Carona told the perpetrator on national TV, “Don’t eat, don’t sleep, because we are coming after you.” And Carona made good on that promise of arrest. But within a few years he went to prison himself, for witness tampering in a federal corruption case against him.

Gascon could not immediately be reached for comment Thursday.

Spitzer has clashed with the L.A. prosecutor, at one point trying unsuccessfully to take a homicide case away from him because Spitzer wanted a defendant to receive a stiffer penalty. The victim in that case was a child, as well.

Spitzer also has routinely thrown public barbs at what he sees as Gascon’s leftist agenda.

Meanwhile, a GoFundMe page for the family topped $300,000 by Thursday afternoon with some 5,100 donations. And reward money to anyone who offers information that leads to an arrest reached $310,000.

One Huntington Beach martial arts school, Z-Ultimate Self Defense Studios, created a website, aiden-reward.com, and created 25 large banners that will be draped over highway overpasses in Orange County and the Inland Empire.

The banners refer to the website and ask one question: “Who shot Aiden?”

Other drivers began reporting loudly revving motors, vehicles racing up and down the street, and a large crowd of observers at Sunflower Avenue and Sakioka Drive just before 8 p.m., Costa Mesa Police Lt. Stephanie Selinske said.

Commuters were trapped in standstill traffic until authorities quickly dispersed the gathering.

Vehicles sped from the scene when about 10 patrol cars from the Costa Mesa and Santa Ana police departments arrived, Selinske said. Some whipped around corners so fast that tires screeched and nearly lost grip of the roadway. At least one went into opposing traffic lanes.

Onlookers, raising their phones high to take photos, were packed together along Sunflower, a wide street divided by a median, and at the intersection – disregarding social distancing.

“It is a sizable intersection, but with a group that large it is definitely a concern in a pandemic,” Selinske said.

Costa Mesa and Santa Ana officials weren’t aware of any citations or arrests tied to Tuesday night’s takeover. But one driver, pursued by police, crashed into a median and fled on foot, leaving a passenger behind.

Selinske said officers in her department have intercepted at least one other gathering involving high-performance cars and illegal exhibitions of speed in the past month.

“Every time we show up, they take off and move to another intersection, start doing doughnuts again,” said Andrew Alvarez, a Santa Ana police commander.

Santa Ana police Cpl. Anthony Bertagna said on Wednesday his department estimates that 500 vehicles were involved, with reports of drivers racing and driving recklessly.

“There were numerous calls about them doing doughnuts in the street, racing up and down Bristol (Street),” he said.

Bertagna tied the gathering to Santa Ana’s annual “cruising” season, which traditionally begins on Easter weekend.

The decades-old tradition began with car clubs wanting to take advantage of the warmer weather to show off cars they had spent countless hours working on during the winter.

The tradition took a more violent turn by the early ’90s, as rival gangs, street racers and large crowds became involved, bringing with them fights and shootings.

But the violence has waned in recent years, as police cracked down on cruisers and the crowds they draw.

Bertagna said that while some cruisers are often out on weekends, the Tuesday night incident was by far Santa Ana’s largest gathering in recent memory.

“Every week its an issue, but usually not with 500-plus cars,” Bertagna said. “Obviously, if we see stuff like this we are going to have to address the issue with more enforcement.”

Investigators were looking into how the gathering was organized, Bertagna said, something that often occurs on social media.

“Was this a planned event?” Bertagna asked. “That is obviously something we need to know.”

Around midnight, Tustin police received several calls regarding a street takeover in the area of Newport and Del Amo avenues.

“Officers located approximately 100 vehicles at the intersection blocking all directions of traffic with one driver doing burnouts in the intersection,” Tustin police said on Facebook. “Officers attempted to stop one vehicle after the driver made several unsafe and illegal driving maneuvers.”

The driver didn’t stop, police said, and they pursued the vehicle on the 55 and 5 freeways.

Eventually, the driver yielded to authorities in Santa Ana and was taken into custody without incident. The driver, a juvenile, was arrested on suspicion of evading police, reckless driving, and several other traffic offenses, and the vehicle was impounded.

No additional information about the incident was immediately available on Saturday.

In sideshows, participants shut down and take over streets or freeways for such car stunts as burnouts or donuts.

The phenomenon has existed for years around California. In the last several weeks, sideshows in Orange County have been stopped on the 57 Freeway in Anaheim and major streets in Huntington Beach, authorities said.

“Lately, we are seeing an increase in organized car meet ups often involving reckless driving,” police said in their Facebook statement. “Let it be known – Tustin PD and the Tustin community do not tolerate these unsafe behaviors which endanger the motoring public.”

Orange County Firefighters responding to a call at 12:24 a.m. in the area of Westminster Avenue and Euclid Street found a number of patients scattered throughout several blocks in Garden Grove who had been hit by “fireworks shrapnel,” said OCFA Capt. Jeff Sutherlin.

He described the fireworks as professional-grade, adding, “Some were discharged into the crowd.”

It wasn’t known what led to the incident. An investigation is underway, Sutherlin said.

Firefighters needed police escorts to get to the injured people because the crowd was so large, he said. In all, he said, 12 people were assessed at the scene and eight were transported. Of the eight, two people had traumatic injuries. He described other injuries as minor.

Editor’s note: A previous version of this story had the wrong city as the location of the incident.