INDIO — The desert town of Blythe is short on bench officers, and Judge Russell Moore has agreed to make the 100-mile trek between the Coachella Valley and the Arizona border town several times a week to help fill in.
The last of a pool of judges living in Blythe retired a few years ago, so for the time being, bench officers are being outsourced from other parts of Riverside County for one-year rotations. But Moore made... (continued)