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Dan OBrien

About Dan OBrien

Cactus Thorns has been online in one form or the other since 2001. What started as a personal blog documenting the corruption and lack of Due Process of the 29 Palms Community Development Department has turned into over these many years into a hugely popular Independent Alternative News Media Outlet. We have partnered with other media including The Desert Star Weekly, Joshua Tree Star, other blogs, indie media and an incredible staff of volunteer Reporters, Commentators and Opinion Makers to create one of the most read, honest and dependable alternative to the Local traditional Media services in the country. Thanks to you the reader we are in the 5% of most read sites in the World.

Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.

December 30, 2009
On 12/29/09, approximately 2:30 am, The La Quinta Police Department received a report regarding an assault with a deadly weapon at a residence in the 55000 block of Laurel Valley Way in La Quinta. Th...

UPDATE: Headon kills two near Cima

December 29, 2009
On 12/21/2009 at approximately 9:30 AM, a 1998 Pontiac Firebird was traveling southbound in the #1 lane on Interstate 15 near Cima, when a 2003 Hyundai Accent traveling northbound on Interstate 15 cr...

Turns out it was an inside job

December 29, 2009
On December 27, 2009, at approximately 10:45 p.m., an employee of Game Stop, while outside emptying a trash can, was approached by an unknown male. The male pulled out a rifle and ordered the employe...

Helendale fire consumes woman

December 29, 2009
On Monday, December 28, 2009, at approximately 2:19 a.m., Deputies from the Barstow Sheriff’s Station responded to a fire at a mobile home in Helendale. Upon arrival deputies found the mobile h...

29 PD urges all to drive safe

December 28, 2009
By Sgt. Jeff Joling On the evening of December 26, 2009 the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department, in part with the Twentynine Palms Police Department, conducted a DUI Checkpoint within the city...

Man vs. Motorhome, Motorhome 1, Man 0

December 26, 2009
On Thursday, December 24, 2009 at 1:20 p.m., a white male adult was walking on the west roadway edge of Hwy 247 near Marmac in Landers. He was walking south bound when for unknown reasons, he walked ...

Duane Newcomb, 46

December 26, 2009
On December 25, 2009, at approximately 9:55 p.m., Duane Newcomb a 46 year-old male of Hesperia, was riding a 2009 KTM motorcycle in the Johnson Valley Off Road Vehicle area of Lucerne Valley. Newcomb...

Bank Robbery Syndicate Busted in Loma Linda

December 24, 2009
In January 2009, a series of takeover bank robberies began occurring Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, and San Bernardino County. The robberies appeared to have been committed by a group of male black ...

Cabazon Station gets new Captain

December 24, 2009
On Tuesday, December 22, 2009, Sheriff Stanley Sniff promoted Ross Koepp to the rank of Captain in a brief ceremony at Sheriff’s Administration and will oversee the Cabazon Station. Captain Ross R. K...