Former DHS counselor, Russell Betts, receives 12 months of trial for road anger incident

Riverside, California (Kesq) – A former counselor of the city of Hot Springs Dessert, who damaged the car of a young man following a road meeting was sentenced today to 12 months of evidence and ordered to pay the victim $ 3,400 in refund.

Russell Trueman Betts, 66, was guilty last week for an illegal struggle in public, a crime, based on an agreement with the District Courty District Prosecutor. In exchange for his admission, the prosecutors gave up two related charges against Betts.

During an hearing at Riverside Hall of Justice on Friday, the judge of the Gail O’Rane Superior Court certified the conditions of the agreement and imposed the stipulated sentence. In addition to probation, the judge ordered Bets to serve a day in the county prison, but this was expected to be a so-called “paper commitment”, in which the party appears and is signed in the correctional installation, then released immediately due to space constraints.

According to the District Lawyer’s office, last morning, August 4, Betts was driving in the Palm Drive area and the eighth street in Desert Hot Springs, when the victim, identified only as’ KS ” passed by him, using the shoulder of the road instead of a traffic lane, stealing the defendant, who threw a young man.

The victim stopped in a parking lot of the convenient store, where Betts immediately parked behind him, actually blocking the car to leave.

There was a brief verbal exchange, after which the victim tried to return, easily touching Bets in this process, the defendant encouraged, according to the published reports.

Prosecutors said Betts hit and hit the sedan with two doors of the victim, causing visible damage, then left.

The incident was related to the Dessert Hot Springs Police Department, but the problem was sent to the DA Bureau for further investigations, as it involved a public person.

Betts did not have previous or criminal documented convictions.