Palm Desert man who firebombed Republican HQ due in state court Riverside County DA / East Valley Republican Women Federated Carlos Espriu A Palm Desert man who was sentenced in federal court to five years behind bars for throwing a firebomb into a Republican office in the Coachella Valley is scheduled to appear in Riverside County Superior Court tomorrow, where he is facing similar charges. Carlos Espriu, 24, pleaded guilty in March to a single federal count of attempted arson of a building, admitting that he used a Molotov cocktail in an attempt to destroy the East Valley Republican Women Federated office in La Quinta in May 2020.