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May 13, 2013
Teacher's Aide Molested Teen In Full View of High School Camera, Cops Say
A teacher's aide molested a teen girl at a local high school, and it was caught on tape. So says the L.A. County Sheriff's Department, which today announced the arrest over the weekend of Juan Carlos Gutierrez, a 60-year-old who worked at Lawndale's Leuzinger High School. According to a sheriff's ... More >>
Blogs
May 10, 2013
Jogger Dies After She's Attacked by 4 Pit Bulls East of Palmdale
Updated at the bottom: The victim has been identified. A marijuana grow was found in the search for the dogs. First posted at 1:45 p.m. A woman attacked by four pit bulls in the High Desert community of Littlerock died today, authorities said. The L.A. County Department of Animal Care and Control ... More >>
Blogs
May 7, 2013
Sheriff's Car Rear-Ended By Drunk Near West Hollywood, Cops Say
From the Department of Don't Even Try This At Home Kids comes this amazing story from the L.A. County Sheriff's Department. Deputies say two of their own who had been conducting a pedestrian stop near West Hollywood early yesterday were inside their stopped patrol car when it was rear-ended by a dr ... More >>
Blogs
April 24, 2013
Christopher Waters: Body Found In Burned-Out SUV In Upscale Rancho Palos Verdes
Updated at the bottom with an ID. Headline has changed. First posted at 5:17 p.m. Tuesday. Rancho Palos Verdes is one of the most elite communities in the Unites States, and it's certainly a place where murder is quite foreign. Not today, it would appear: Sheriff's deputies responded to a home i ... More >>
Blogs
April 15, 2013
Pregnant Woman Tackled, Kicked In Random Attack In San Gabriel Valley
Truly random acts of violence are rare, but they do happen in this big city. Take the case of a pregnant woman walking down the street in the Charter Oak area of unincorporated Covina yesterday: A man approached from behind, took her to the ground and -- get this -- started kicking, according to co ... More >>
Blogs
March 29, 2013
Noz Parties Return As L.A. Authorities Crack Down On Nitrous Distribution
Following its crackdown on alleged distributors of rave drug nitrous oxide last week, the L.A. County Sheriff's Department today said local "noz parties" are on the rise and frequently end in violence. The department says there have been 350 "illegal raves" featuring nitrous and advertised via soci ... More >>
Blogs
March 1, 2013
DUI Checkpoints, Patrols For Silver Lake, Hollywood, Long Beach Starting Tonight
Can you say early spring? Yeah, as things warm up out there, the heat is on. The LAPD, the L.A. County Sheriff's Department and Long Beach police have a bunch of DUI checkpoints waiting for you this weekend. They want you to know about them so that maybe you'll avoid drinking and driving altogethe ... More >>
Blogs
December 28, 2012
Don't Shoot On New Years Eve; L.A. Cops Can Hunt You Down With New Tech
Firing guns into the air to celebrate the new year is probably as old as El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora de los Angeles itself. After all, we're about as wild and west as it gets. And still, you would think that in contemporary Los Angeles, home of the world's best university, Hollywood and the supers ... More >>
Blogs
September 18, 2012
Eric Yee, Yale Dropout, Allegedly Threatened to Shoot Valencia Schoolkids, Aurora Style, in ESPN Chat Room
Updated at the bottom with personal details on Eric Yee, and the comments that may have triggered his arrest. (Headline has been changed to reflect the suspect's identity.) Originally posted at 9:30 a.m. The L.A. County Sheriff's Department is refusing to release the name of a young Asian man in h ... More >>
Blogs
September 5, 2012
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 >>
Blogs
August 30, 2012
How the City of Gardena Turns Every Piece of Graffiti Into a Felony Crime
In this week's cover story, "Los Angeles' War on Street Artists," we reveal that the L.A. County Sheriff's Department, with the help of city and county prosecutors, figured out how to try all graffiti artists as gangsters in court. In short: For the last five years or so, the sheriff has been treat ... More >>
Blogs
July 13, 2012
FBI Looking Into School Sex Abuse Allegations at Miramonte? Nope
One of the lawyers representing parents who are suing the L.A. public school district over the Miramonte Elementary School sex abuse scandal says the FBI should look into the situation. After all, moms and dads were kept in the dark regarding longtime allegations that teacher Mark Berndt was a mole ... More >>
Blogs
July 9, 2012
DUI Arrests in L.A. County For 4th of July Week Top a Whopping 1,000
A whopping number of DUI arrests for the 4th of July holiday week were racked up in L.A. County this year. Last year the number was 836, and boy did we top that. The numbers can't be compared, however, because last year's numbers span a 5-day "holiday weekend" while this year saw a midweek 4th that ... More >>
Blogs
July 2, 2012
Compton Party Shooting Leaves One Dead; Deputy Shoots an Alleged Gunman
When you're at an illicit party in the middle of the night, you gotta think the cops are coming sooner or later. That notion didn't seen to occur to a party-goer who allegedly whipped out his gun just as deputy arrived to festivities in the 500 block of South Long Beach Boulevard in Compton about 2 ... More >>
Blogs
June 26, 2012
Sex Trafficking Sweep Rescues 79 Children Nationwide, 5 in L.A.
Sex trafficking is a huge national story with little evidence that it's as pervasive as some of its critics say. But today the FBI came up with a solid case that minors are indeed being prostituted across America, including the "recovery" of 79 children and the arrests of 104 alleged pimps. The L. ... More >>
Blogs
April 27, 2012
Nude Photo of Female Agoura High School Staffer Ends Up On Facebook
A nude photo of an Agoura High School administrator might have ended up on Facebook and before the eyes of underage boys, prompting the L.A. County Sheriff's Department to investigate. It appears that, this time around, the school employee in question wasn't a former porn star: It's not clear how t ... More >>
Blogs
April 20, 2012
L.A. Sheriff's Gang 'Jump Out Boys' Reportedly Prides Itself on Officer-Involved Shootings
What happens when the very badges chosen to dismantle and disempower the gangs of Los Angeles County form a gang of their own? It's no secret that the L.A. County Sheriff's Department -- whose reputation with the public has completely disintegrated under Sheriff Lee Baca, in a swirl of scandals inc ... More >>
Blogs
April 6, 2012
Hollywood Bowl-Adjacent Homeless Swept Out: No More Free Concerts For You
The people with the best seats in the house above the Hollywood Bowl were unceremoniously bounced from the party by the L.A. County Sheriff's Department today. These were not, however, ordinary gatecrashers with good taste in tunes, a bottle of chianti in their Louis Vuitton bags, and their radios ... More >>
Blogs
March 1, 2012
Sheriff's Department Seeking Information About Body Found Behind Walmart in Lancaster
An intact skeleton was discovered in bushes by a loading dock back behind a shuttered Wal-Mart in Lancaster on July 5 of last year. The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, seeking information about the mysterious remains, released this forensic reconstruction today.
Blogs
February 23, 2012
Javier Arrioja, Soccer Coach for the Los Angeles Misioneros, Charged With Molesting Teen Player
lamisionerosfc.comUpdated below: The sheriff says Arrioja actually molested two 14-year-old players. Originally posted February 22 at 6 p.m. A former soccer coach for the Los Angeles Misioneros, a private under-17 club team based out of Inglewood, has been accused of molesting one of his yo ... More >>
Blogs
January 13, 2012
VIDEO: Cyclist Airlifted Out of Marshall Canyon in Daring Helicopter Rescue
L.A. County Sheriff's DepartmentPerhaps the L.A. County Sheriff's Department is looking to offset a more unflattering video currently making the rounds on the Internet? This morning, in wake of the controversy, the department's (quite excellently maintained) Facebook account was playing up t ... More >>
Blogs
December 16, 2011
Geo-Tag Technology Used to Track Down Drugs Tossed by Suspect, L.A. Sheriff's Officials Say
LASDGeo-tag, you're it.Remember the good old days when you'd watch Cops and the bad guys would be leading officers on a chase and dumping bags of white powder out the window and at some point you'd be at the edge of your seat rooting for them? Just a little? Well stop. That game is over. Ev ... More >>
Blogs
December 14, 2011
L.A. Bomb Squad Detains Man Named 'Bang' in Union Station, Detonates His Backpack
The Red Line: of brutal stabbings and suspicious packages.The L.A. County Sheriff's Department took no chances yesterday afternoon, upon receiving word from passengers exiting a Red Line subway car at Union Station that somebody may have left a "package" behind. (Tattletales.) "Deputies evac ... More >>
Blogs
November 28, 2011
West Hollywood Marijuana Dispensary The Farmacy Robbed of Weed, Cash: Three Suspects Quickly Nabbed
Correction after the jump: A dispensary worker says the suspects were tracked via a stolen smartphone and that they were previously unknown to the shop. Three men were arrested after a brazen robbery of West Hollywood's well-known marijuana dispensary called The Farmacy over the weekend. The heist ... More >>
Blogs
November 3, 2011
David Oakleaf: 74-Year-Old Beaten to Death With Bat in Walmart Sporting Goods Department
WalmartUpdated at the bottom with a murder charge being filed against the suspect. The victim and suspect are ID'd. First posted at 7 a.m. on Wednesday. A homeless man allegedly grabbed a bat from a Walmart sporting goods department and beat an elderly man to death in front of horrified shop ... More >>
Blogs
October 28, 2011
Marijuana Halloween Candy to be Given Away to Grateful Partygoers This Weekend: Best Warning Ever
sbsheriff.orgGive me some candy.You have to love the folks at the L.A. County Sheriff's Department for being sincere in their concern for your safety. But really now, holding a press conference to tell people to beware of marijuana-laced candy? In L.A. that's only going to make people want ... More >>
Blogs
August 9, 2011
Hall of Justice Downtown Sees Key Renovation Starting This Month: L.A. Sheriff Ready to Move in
Downtown's iconic Hall of Justice is coming back to life, with "primary renovation" starting up this month. The L.A. County Sheriff's Department, which will occupy the 1925 Beaux Arts building that was the backdrop for TV's Dragnet and Get Smart, is champing at the bit. But it'll have to wai ... More >>
Blogs
August 5, 2011
Craigslist Classifieds Turn up Stuff Just Stolen From Lancaster Home: Dennis Hyde of South L.A. Arrested
LASDA stolen gun.When you deal in stolen goods you have to allow time to pass for the hot stuff to cool off, ya' dig? If you've ever seen Heat or any other crime "crew" movie you know that you need a grizzled old white guy with a handlebar mustache who did hard time at "the shoe" (whatever th ... More >>
Blogs
July 19, 2011
L.A. Sheriff's Deputies Torch Own Cars, Commit Insurance Fraud -- Then Blame It on Overtime Pay Cuts
Don't try this at home, like a certain dumbass deputy.The L.A. County Sheriff's Department has had an embarrassing 2011: After KTLA revealed that a hypocritical "3000 Boys" gang had formed between allied deputies, a front-page LA Weekly expose centered on inmates and visitors who'd been beate ... More >>
Blogs
July 5, 2011
Six-Year-Old Boy Molested in Pico Rivera Park Bathroom as His Mother Stood Nearby
LASDAn artist's rendition of the alleged molester.A parent's worst nightmare came true over the weekend after a mom walked her 6-year-old boy to the entrance of a park bathroom in Pico Rivera only to see him come out crying with a creep of a man following, authorities say. On Tuesday the L.A ... More >>
Blogs
May 5, 2011
Cinco de Mayo Drunk Patrol in Full Effect Tonight Through The Weekend, Says LAPD
Horia VarlanUpdated after the jump with the sheriff's department and the CHP jumping in on the fun. A victory over the French is like saying you beat Andy Dick only using your left hand. Too easy. Still, any excuse is a good excuse to party, and, to be fair, Cinco de Mayo has become America' ... More >>
Blogs
April 11, 2011
L.A. County Sheriff's Car: Coming to a Wal-Mart (and Chinese Sweatshop) Near You
Zev's BlogCharge this, China.The kids were apparently getting tired of pushing around those frumpy old Ford Crown Victorias that used to epitomize the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. A few lucky deputies have since upgraded to the menacing, pitbullish Dodge Charger -- and so upgrade ... More >>
Blogs
March 23, 2011
Will the LA Sheriff's Firing of Six Deputies Accused of Beating Fellow Officers at Christmas Party Finally Be Enough to Spur Real Reform in County Jail?
The Los Angeles Sheriff's Department is in the process of firing half a dozen deputies who worked on the third floor of Men's Central Jail for supposedly beating up a pair of fellow officers at a Christmas party. The LA Times is reporting that the deputies, who have not been publicly named, were ... More >>
Blogs
March 2, 2011
Palmdale Teen Dad Stabs Baby, Takes Bullet From Sheriff's Deputy; Both Dad, Baby Die
jamillionaire15 via FlickrThe Palmdale Metrolink Station, near where the crime occurredUpdated after the jump: Christopher Earl Glass was a star high-school basketball player, and may have been traumatized from his grandmother's death six months prior. The Palmdale teen who allegedly abducte ... More >>
Blogs
February 28, 2011
Bellflower Dad Who Threatened, Kidnapped Two Daughters Turns Up in Utah
Los Angeles County Sheriff's DepartmentKatelyn Litwin (left) and Natalya Litwin (right)The was an Amber Alert out this morning for 34-year-old Bellflower man Stephen Andrew Litwin, who was believed by L.A. County sheriff's deputies to have kidnapped his two young daughters Sunday at about 10: ... More >>
Blogs
February 17, 2011
Girl, 14, Grabbed Near Metro Station in Hawthorne, Kidnapped, Sexually Assaulted
LASDA sketch of the suspect.A man made a brazen grab for a 14-year-old who was walking up stairs to the Metro Green Line Crenshaw station in Hawthorne: He got her, kidnapped her, sexually assaulted her and tried to rape her before the brave girl got away. Such blatant crimes suggest a propen ... More >>
Blogs
February 7, 2011
Maywood Teen Admits to Dismembring Mother With Saw, Storing Body Parts in Freezer
Los Angeles County Sheriff's DepartmentMaywood's Moises Meraz-Espinoza admitted to stuffing his mother in the freezer last FridayMoises Meraz-Espinoza, a 19-year-old Latino male who was living at home in a small, southeast L.A. County town called Maywood -- in the same cluster of cities as sc ... More >>
Blogs
January 10, 2011
Today In WTF: Group Of Men Sought For Sex Assaults On Disabled Women In L.A.
One of the suspects.Updated after the jump with a second suspect in custody. Los Angeles County Sheriff's officials on Thursday released images of men they suspect of raping disabled women. Authorities believe there are a least 10 victims, but they're not exactly sure when and where the atta ... More >>
Blogs
November 12, 2010
Sheriffs Go Out In Full Force to Catch DUI Offenders
LA County Sheriff's DepartmentIt will only be a matter of time before you get caught drinking and driving Drunk drivers beware! The sheriff is coming to town and she's going after all you boozers who are too stupid to down that last tequila shot right before driving off in your vehicle. T ... More >>
Blogs
November 11, 2010
Santa Clarita High School Students Get Marijuana Grow Lights For Class Experiments
Fast TimesSpicoli would have been happy to take delivery of grow lights in class.The kids at Golden Valley High School in Santa Clarita are getting an early holiday present: Grow lights -- actual hydroponic devices used in real drug operations, donated by the L.A. County Sheriff's Department. ... More >>
Blogs
October 29, 2010
LA County Sheriffs Warn Narco Candy as Next Big Threat to LA Children's Health
Los Angeles County Sheriff's DepartmentIt doesn't look anything like the real thing Just when you thought Halloween was safe for children again, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department issued a new health warning: your kids could be ingesting (gulp!) marijuana-laced goodies! This morning ... More >>
Blogs
October 25, 2010
Robyn And Leamond Turnage Beaten And Strangled To Death In Hawthorne Robbery
Los Angeles County Sheriff's DepartmentA married couple strangled to death at their house in Hawthorne on Wed., October 20, were identified as Robyn Turnage, 57, and Leamond Turnage, 69. Their bodies were found at about 3:45 p.m. in a house the husband's mother owned on the 4100 block of Wes ... More >>
Blogs
October 6, 2010
Sheriff Lee Baca Boasts About Booting Illegal Immigrants From Los Angeles County Jails
Over the last four years Sheriff Lee Baca has helped to turn over 21,000 inmates to federal immigration authorities. And he's proud of it. While the LAPD has long had a controversial don't-ask policy when it comes to dealing with potential undocumented immigrants on the street, the Los Angel ... More >>
Blogs
July 21, 2010
FBI Task Force Busts Credit Card Identity Theft Ring; 40,000 Local Victims Possible
According to NBC Los Angeles, a task force consisting of members from the FBI and the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department has busted a alleged identity theft ring that reportedly stole from tens of thousands of credit card holders throughout California. The alleged mastermind behind the ... More >>
Blogs
July 1, 2010
Plane Crashes At Catalina Island After Pilot Reports He May Be Suffering From Heart Attack ***Updated
Santa Catalina A small plane crashed short of the runway on Santa Catalina Island Thursday afternoon. The pilot had radioed in, saying that he was suffering chest pains and possibly having a heart attack. The plane crashed about two miles away in heavy mountain terrain near Echo Lake, Lt. Je ... More >>
Blogs
November 11, 2009
Sheriff's Boat Runs Aground On Dry Land
The Old West image of the local sheriff as a six-shot cowboy still endures, so you might give Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputies a little leeway for any perceived lack of sea legs and water navigation skills. But a sheriff's boat was on dry land Wednesday when it hit an obstacle -- a freeway over ... More >>
Blogs
October 19, 2009
Suspect Wanted For Questioning In Station Fire Arrested
A 25-year-old man wanted for questioning in the 160,000-acre Station Fire, which raged in August and September and was only fully contained Friday, has been arrested in connection with a smaller, nearby fire that burned in August, Sgt. David Infante of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department rep ... More >>
Blogs
September 3, 2009
Official: Station Fire Was Arson
Several news outlets, including City News Service and the San Gabriel Valley Tribune, are reporting official findings confirming that the Station Fire was deliberately set. Reports the Trib: "At an evening briefing, officials said they made the determination after a forensic examination of the ... More >>
Blogs
August 12, 2009
Pot Pharmacies Raided, Dog Shot
The L.A. Times reports that federal and local law enforcement agencies raided a pair of Westside medical marijuana pharmacies today, along with the homes of their owners. In one of the raids a pit bull was shot although, according to the Times report, it is expected to fully recover. It's unclear wh ... More >>
Blogs
December 30, 2008
Alleged Avenues Gangsters Plead Not Guilty to Cop Killing
Two alleged Avenues gangsters pleaded not guilty in downtown Los Angeles today to capital murder charges stemming from the August 2 shooting of a 27-year-old Los Angeles County Sheriff Deputy as he was preparing to go to work at the Men's Central Jail. Juan Escalante was shot from behind about five ... More >>
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