Riverside daycare operator charged with molesting 2 children

By City News Service

who is no longer in custody.

The Lopez brothers have no documented prior felony convictions in Riverside County.

The Inland Empire and other regions statewide have been plagued by catalytic converter thefts. Converters are used to filter engine emissions to cut down on the amount of pollutants discharged by cars and trucks. The devices, located within a vehicle’s exhaust system, average about $1,000 apiece. Police asked that anyone with knowledge of similar crimes should contact Corona PD Detective Daniel Clary at 951-736-2359 or Daniel.Clary@coronaca. gov.

Los Angeles man in fatal Riverside County crash sentenced 15 years to life in prison

By City News Service

The operator of a Riverside child daycare facility accused of sexually assaulting two children and possibly others was charged Wednesday with multiple counts of lewd acts on a child and other offenses.

Ladislao Diaz Cuevas, 51, was arrested Friday following a Riverside Police Department investigation.

Along with five counts of lewd acts on a child under 14 years old, Cuevas was charged with two counts of sexual penetration with a foreign object and a sentence-enhancing allegation of targeting more than one victim in a sex crime.

The defendant, who is being held in lieu of $500,000 bail at the Robert Presley Jail in Riverside, was slated to make his initial court appearance Wednesday afternoon at the Riverside Hall of Justice.

According to Riverside police Officer Ryan Railsback, detectives from the police department’s Sexual Assault-Child Abuse Unit received information in January indicating that Cuevas allegedly had inappropriate contact with a girl about three years ago.

During the ensuing investigation, “a second victim came forward to report similar allegations that occurred in December 2022,” Railsback said.

The two children were identified only as Jane Does.

Cuevas operates Little Steps Family Daycare in the 11000 block of Oriole Drive, in the La Sierra Hills area, the police spokesman said.

The specific circum- stances behind the alleged assaults on the children were not disclosed.

Cuevas has no documented prior felony convictions in Riverside County.

SACA Detective Jolynn Turner said investigators are seeking other potential victims and asked anyone with information to contact her at 951-826-8716, or jturner@riversideca.gov.

ALos Angeles man who caused a fatal Palm Springs crash in July while driving under the influence of alcohol was sentenced to 15 years to life in prison Thursday.

Kevin Atteberry, 57, pleaded guilty on Dec. 22, 2022, to one felony count each of murder, driving under the influence of alcohol causing bodily injury, and DUI of alcohol with 0.08% or more causing bodily injury, as well as one misdemeanor count of driving with a suspended or revoked license, according to court records. He additionally admitted to sentence-enhancing allegations of causing great bodily injury.

He was sentenced to 15 years to life in prison Thursday at the Larson Justice Center in Indio.

Around 9:30 p.m. July 30, 2022, Atteberry was traveling south on Sunrise Way when his vehicle rear-ended another vehicle stopped at the intersection of East Palm Canyon Drive, according to the Palm Springs Police Department. The driver of the rear-ended vehicle, Burbank resident Erik Verdian, died at the scene.

According to a declara- tion in support of arrest filed by Officer Rhett Arden from the Palm Springs Police Department, a boy of an unspecified age was taken to the Loma Linda Medical Center with head and neck pain, a laceration on his right heel and a brain bleed.

Two other vehicles were also struck, but no other occupants were injured, according to Arden.

Atteberry is also suspected of causing a noninjury hit-and-run collision on North Sunrise Way and

East Ramon Road prior to the fatal crash, according to Arden. He was taken to a hospital after the fact and according to Arden, spoke slow with slurred speech and had red, bloodshot or watery eyes, refusing to speak about events prior.

He received medical treatment for more than two months before he was released on Oct. 9 and surrendered at the police department, according to police.

Arden said Atteberry had a prior DUI conviction.

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