Crime & Safety
Palm Desert Woman Accused Of Murder In La Quinta Death
Sheriff's officials say the woman has been arrested in connection to the death of a person whose body was found in a trash bin.
PALM DESERT, CA — A 32-year-old Palm Desert woman was arrested Friday in connection with the discovery of a body inside a trash bin Thursday at a residence in a gated La Quinta neighborhood.
Deputies were dispatched at 11:41 a.m. Thursday to the 43500 block of east Parkway Esplanade where they located a male body inside a trash bin, according to the Riverside County Sheriff's Department.
Through subsequent investigation, authorities arrested Cristina Noelle Canimo at 3 a.m. Friday, jail records show. She was booked at Indio Jail on suspicion of murder with malice.
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She was arrested on the same street where the body was found.
Neighbors told KESQ that the house where the body was located may have been used as an end-of-life elderly care facility.
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The name of the victim is being withheld pending family notification.
Canimo is being held in lieu of $1 million bail. Her arraignment is scheduled for Nov. 26.
— By City News Service
