Federal Bureau of Investigation

Missing Northridge Girl Apparently Abducted, Attacked

Updated at the bottom: She was found with injuries after she was apparently abducted. Headline has changed. First posted at 3:29 p.m. Lots of people go missing in this mean city, unfortunately, and many do so largely unnoticed. But when a 10-year-old disappeared after she was last seen in her subur ... More >>

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L.A. FBI Agents Ready To Investigate Allegations Of Voter Fraud in Southern California

Voter fraud is rarer than a global-warming denier in New York City right now. Republican efforts to scare away the poor, dark and Democratic vote in states like Pennsylvania and Florida have made this non-issue a hot topic nonetheless. Ironically, some of the biggest headlines about voter fraud th ... More >>

Mara Salvatrucha, Koreatown Gang, Is Now An International Crime Syndicate

Mara Salvatrucha, the Salvadoran American group that got its start in the heart of L.A.'s Koreatown, has been designated by federal authorities as an international criminal organization, a first for a street gang. MS-13, as it's also known, "is being targeted for its involvement in serious transnat ... More >>

LAPD Spy Device Taps Your Cell Phone

StingRay is secretly used without warrants

Bank of America Manager Kidnapped, Strapped to Would-Be Bomb, Told to Rob Workplace in East L.A.

A bank manager was kidnapped by masked men, strapped to a would-be bomb, and sent into her Bank of America branch in unincorporated East L.A. this morning to get cash for her assailants, according to sheriff's officials and reports. The device was detonated by an L.A. County Sheriff's Department bo ... More >>

Kourtney Reppert, Sexy L.A. Model, Facebook-Stalked by Luis Plascencia, FBI Says: PHOTOS

The FBI this week came down hard on a Chicago man they say has been cyberstalking an L.A.-based model the Weekly has determined is Kourtney E. Reppert. An FBI affidavit in the case against 47-year-old Luis F. Plascencia identifies the victim as "K.E.R.," indicates she's originally from "Philly," an ... More >>

Roshaun Kevin Porter Pimped Out Women He Met on Craigslist For Dates, FBI Says

A Long Beach man met women on Craigslist and forced them into prostitution, federal authorities alleged today. Roshaun "Kevin" Nakia Porter, 36, was indicted last week after five women told agents they met him on Craigslist or seekingarrangements.com thinking they were headed for a romantic one-on- ... More >>

Corruption at Los Angeles Building and Safety

FBI probes whether a Koreatown inspector did business via cash-stuffed envelopes

Victoria Jackson Joins the Tea Party: Five Saturday Night Live Alums Who Have Taken Career 180s

Flickr/89AKurtNot so funny anymore: former SNLer Victoria Jackson joined the Tea Party because she enjoys Snapple.​ Careers after Saturday Night Live aren't as easy as you think. For those alums who haven't reached Adam Sandler-level box office heights or thrived in sitcom character roles -- ... More >>

Assaults on L.A. Cops up Nearly 27 Percent in 2011, Even as Crime Went Down

​Strange days in the world of policing, especially in L.A. While violent crime continued its downward slide in 2011, with the FBI's latest stats indicating a 6.4 percent decline nationwide, attacks on cops in the City of Angels were up. Way up. Last week LAPD Chief Charlie Beck reported that ... More >>

Cody Kretsinger, Alleged 'LulzSec' Hacker From Arizona, on Way to L.A. for Sony Hacking Trial

LulzSec does L.A.​The summer storm of hacks carried out by Anonymous offshoot LulzSec -- beginning with Fox News in May, and ending with News Corp. in July -- may have gone quiet, but the FBI is just now nabbing some of its alleged masterminds. (If you consider giggly, self-satisfied techies t ... More >>

Glen Hartford's Hollywood Dream and How It Came to Ruin

Steve Kinzey, CSU Professor Accused in Biker Meth Ring, Described on 'Rate My Professor' as a 'Cool Cat'

CSUSBKinzey, in dark blue, with fellow faculty members.​There have been varied reactions, today, to the arrest warrant for 10-year Cal State San Bernardino professor Steve Kinzey, who has allegedly been running a monster meth ring with 11 cohorts. Shock. Awe. Nausea. (His father told the Time ... More >>

Carlos Montes, 'Brown Berets' Latino Activist, Believes SWAT Raid of His L.A. County Home Was Front for FBI Investigation

Are the glory days back again for Carlos Montes?​On May 17 at 5 a.m., the L.A. County Sheriff's Department upended the Alhambra home of 1960s Latino-rights legend Carlos Montes (still kickin' at 63 years old), shattering his front door and seizing his computer, cell phones and activist files - ... More >>

Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) Monthy Meeting: My Name is Jim and 'I Was Abducted By An Alien'

Have you been abducted by someone who looks like this?​ A well-dressed Jim Moroney stood at a podium at the Unitarian Universalist Church in Studio City one recent evening and said: "I was abducted by an alien. I mean, how do you tell someone you're dating that you were abducted by aliens?" ... More >>

Is Whitey Bulger Southern California's Bank-Robbing 'Geezer Bandit?'

Sky NewsBulger vs. Geezer.​Is Whitey Bulger Southern California's famous "Geezer Bandit" bank robber? The notorious Boston mob boss portrayed by Jack Nicholson in The Departed did allegedly have $800,000 in cash stashed in his rent-controlled Santa Monica pad when the authorities finally trac ... More >>

LulzSec Arizona Leak: We Called Public Safety Officers' Cell Phones, and They're Not Laughing

Department of Public SafetyNo lulz hurr​LulzSec, the anonymous hacker group best known for attacking NPR Sony and wiping the CIA website, took the hacker mission beyond lulz this week with a political statement against Arizona law SB 1070: "Chinga la Migra." (Glossary break. Lulz is like, out ... More >>

James 'Whitey' Bulger, Santa Monica Misfit: He Never Pet Our Dogs, or Let Catherine Stop for 'Girl Talk,' Complain Neighbors

Associated PressBulger, 81, and his longtime girlfriend: Santa Monica misfits.​Boston mob boss James "Whitey" Bulger, arrested yesterday after 16 years on the run, should have known he'd stand out like a sore thumb at the Princess Eugenia -- a peaceful apartment complex on Third Street, where ... More >>

Tupac Shakur, Notorious B.I.G. Murders and ex-LA Times Reporter Chuck Philips: A Timeline

Chuck Philips, award-winning LA Times journalist, is out of a job.​Chuck Philips, once a top reporter for the Los Angeles Times, spent over a decade investigating the murders of West Coast rapper Tupac Shakur and his East Coast rival, the Notorious B.I.G. But in 2008, when it was revealed tha ... More >>

SoCal Border Patrol Agent Hoards Meth, Illegal Immigrants In Home -- Including Own Father

FBIThe Sr. half of the Manzano schemers​How about a fresh slice of tragic irony for this humdrum Wednesday afternoon? We've just learned of one U.S. Border Patrol agent who, let's just say, isn't quite as anti-immigrant as those in Weekly cover story "The Feds Bury Border Patrol Abuses of Imm ... More >>

Q & A With Fig's Ray Garcia: On FBI Dreams, Revolutionary Sushi Cooking For Dogs

J. GarbeeRay Garcia​Ray Garcia, Executive Chef at Fig in Santa Monica, is perhaps the only 32-year-old chef who can say he has worked for Thomas Keller, Douglas Keane, and a picky canine in the same year (more on that later, but yes, a customer at the Peninsula Beverly Hills, where Garcia was ... More >>

ACLU Seeks Answers From FBI on the Issue of 'Muslim Mapping'

​The ACLU requested FBI records today related to the bureau's use of mapping and data collection technologies to create ethnic maps, according to the Los Angeles Daily News. Based on the agency's domestic intelligence guidelines, the FBI is authorized to collect data and map areas where ther ... More >>

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No Punctuation Necessary in The Informant!

Soderbergh's latest gets cute with massive corporate scandal, blows the story

FBI Joins Kicking-Cop Probe

According to the San Gabriel Valley Tribune, the Federal Bureau of Investigation is examiningRichard Rodriguez the actions of an El Monte police officer caught on video last month as he seemingly kicked a suspect who lay surrendered on a lawn. The suspect, Richard Rodriguez, is an alleged gang membe ... More >>

FBI Agents Investigate Los Angeles City Attorney

The San Francisco Chronicle reported today that San Francisco-based FBI agents have begun a criminal investigation of Los Angeles City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo. The newspaper quoted sources familiar with the FBI investigation as saying that agents recently went to Los Angeles to conduct interviews. ... More >>

The Bastard Question

A former Blood explores the roots of our nation’s longest-running war

Film Reviews

Including Alpha Dog, God Grew Tired of Us and Black Gold

Lodi's Trumped-Up Terrorists

Doubts about the feds’ case against a father and son

Outliving the Bastards

Frank Wilkinson, 1914–2006

Hospital Ills

The Rohrabacher Test

Congressman questions Terry Nichols about Oklahoma City bombing

Felt’s Dark Side

Germs for Art’s Sake

What does the FBI want with Steven Kurtz?

Exit Stage Left, Slowly

Gordon Davidson and the changing of the guard

The FBI’s at the Door

An Iraqi immigrant recounts the unsettling visit at his Walnut home

All in the Familia

One man’s dogged pursuit of his drug cartel in-laws

The Terror Watch

A chronology of events leading up to 9/11

Home Grown?

If anthrax is domestic, likely suspects abound

The Hate Files

Hackers Unite

Geeks rally for jailed Russian programmer. But it’s hard to explain why it really does matter.

From Their Vaults to Your Desktop

Finding documents “The Man” wants to hide

Street Crime

New series from Barry Levinson and Tom Fontana -- and Shaun Cassidy

Mitnick Speaks

Computer-hacking guru Kevin Mitnick says he's no cyberbogeyman

Baca's Debacle

Sheriff Lee Baca Relied Heavily on two Controversial Campaign Supporters to Set up His Asian Crime Task Force. Now Both Men Have Drawn FBI Scrutiny, and the New Sheriff's Reputation is on the Line

Crash and Burn

Tobacconists report rise in heists to match price hikes

Radical and Real

Twenty years of smog, wars and holes in the ground

Smash the Technorealist State

Light & Shadows

Photographer Jock Sturges, under fire - again