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May 21, 2013
LAPD Officer Arrested For Lewd Conduct With Minors, Cops Say
Updated at the bottom with the officer charged. First posted at 4:02 p.m. Monday. An LAPD officer was arrested today on suspicion of lewd conduct in a case involving underage victims, authorities told the Weekly. The officer was arrested in the Santa Clarita area, a sheriff's official said. Accord ... More >>
Blogs
May 6, 2013
LAPD License Plate Readers Know What You Did Last Summer; ACLU Sues
The LAPD, the L.A. County Sheriff's Department and other law enforcement agencies in Southern California routinely scan millions of license plates via patrol-car-based devices that can track your whereabouts. What do they do with the info? It's not entirely clear, but the record shows that cops ha ... More >>
Blogs
April 15, 2013
Boston Marathon Explosions Injure Several Runners; Race Called Off
Many updates at the bottom: Three are now reported dead; L.A. authorities are on heightened alert. First posted at 12:23 p.m. See also: L.A. Witness In Boston: 'We Were Caught Between 2 Explosions.' About a half-dozen people were injured in two mid-race explosions at the Boston Marathon today, acc ... More >>
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April 10, 2013
Swatting Celebrities Could Cost Pranksters $10,000 Under Proposed Law
See also: SWATting, a Deadly Political Game. Swatting has hit the homes of Rihanna, Justin Timberlake, Ashton Kutcher, Sean "P. Diddy" Combs and others. And, while it probably is pretty funny to the braces-wearing little buttheads who dial 911 with app-enabled masked numbers to report that their fa ... More >>
Blogs
March 14, 2013
Gavin Smith's Disappearance Now A Homicide Case After His Mercedes Is Found
Cops today say they found the Mercedes of missing Fox movie executive Gavin Smith. The discovery means that this is officially a homicide case, the L.A. County Sheriff's Department announced. Smith, a 6 feet, 6 inch member of John Wooden's championship UCLA basketball team from 1975, worked at Fox ... More >>
Blogs
March 12, 2013
Strip Club Customers Lose Legs In Crash At Sam's Hofbrau; Terrence Meeks Arrested
Updated at the bottom with the suspect charged only with DUI. First posted shortly after 7 a.m. Monday. Headline has changed. Two men had legs amputated after a driver rammed them against another car in the parking lot of the Sam's Hofbrau strip club over the weekend, police said. One of the victi ... More >>
Blogs
February 28, 2013
Ammar Harris, Suspect In Crazy Vegas Strip Shooting, Arrested In L.A.
Updated below. First posted at 1:58 p.m. See also: Crazy Vegas Strip Car-To-Car Shooting Involving Maserati Ends With 3 Dead. When ultra-violence broke out on the Las Vegas Strip one week ago we had a feeling the investigation would somehow lead to Los Angeles. It did. The Las Vegas Metropolitan ... More >>
Blogs
February 18, 2013
Tagger Caught In Act At Sylmar Park Flees Into LAPD Party, Cops Say (PHOTOS)
This tagger must have the worst luck ever. Sheriff's officials said today they nabbed three spray-can artists after they were allegedly caught in the act over the weekend at Veterans Memorial Park in Sylmar, which was being patrolled by all-seeing deputies on horseback. That's not the bad-luck par ... More >>
Blogs
January 31, 2013
Duane Van Tuinen: L.A. Times Subscriber List Used For $1 Mil Burglary Ring, Cops Say
It all started with a call of a suicidal woman in Monrovia. But when cops arrived, instead of a basket case, they found "a large cache of cameras and other electronics," according to Monrovia police. That led them to sniff around and obtain search warrants that included a storage facility cops say ... More >>
Blogs
January 15, 2013
Donald Vincent: Ice Skating Coach Suspected Of Molestation Worked Throughout SoCal
An ice-skating coach who has worked at rinks in Culver City, Anaheim, Riverside and more, was charged this week with lewd acts on a minor. The L.A. County Sheriff's Department announced that 29-year-old Donald Vincent was jailed in lieu of $1 million bail after a 17-year-old boy came forward and cl ... More >>
Blogs
December 27, 2012
Fort Hernandez, Symbol Of Occupy's Anti-Foreclosure Stance, Evicted
A bastion of the contemporary Occupy movement is no more. A foreclosed house dubbed Fort Hernandez was cleared out by sheriff's deputies early this morning, observers report. The eviction after a four-month sit-in at the Hernandez family home in Van Nuys was reported about 4:30 a.m. An witness said ... More >>
Blogs
December 21, 2012
Michael Wieczorek Stole Christmas Cards, Presents, Mail In South Bay -- Cops
Sheriff's officials say Michael Wieczorek is a Grinch who stole Christmas. Literally. After busting him Wednesday for allegedly swiping a delivered package from the porch of a home on Redondela Drive in Rancho Palos Verdes, cops say they found more pilfered holiday goods in his possession, includin ... More >>
Blogs
October 19, 2012
Immigrant Inmates Kept in L.A. County Jail For Days For No Legal Reason, Says ACLU
Updated at the bottom with strong allegations from an ACLU attorney. For some inmates L.A. County Jail is like the "Hotel California" -- You can check-out any time you like / But you can never leave. At least that's what the ACLU of Southern California claims in a lawsuit announced today. The grou ... More >>
Blogs
September 24, 2012
La Puente High Horrors: Soccer Players Claim to Have Been Hazed, Sodomized With Poles
The same lawyer currently suing LAUSD for keeping parents and students at Miramonte Elementary in the dark about Mark Berndt -- a third-grade teacher allegedly caught spoon-feeding his own semen to kids as part of a sick and sexual "tasting game" -- is now at the forefront of an unraveling scandal a ... More >>
Blogs
September 14, 2012
Police Chase Coverage by TV Puts Cops, Public in Danger, Says L.A. Police Union
L.A. was treated to three dramatic police chases in three days this week, including one that appeared to attract money-grabbers who realized from television coverage that cash was being thrown out of an alleged bank-robbery getaway car. The union that represents LAPD officers isn't too happy with t ... More >>
Blogs
September 7, 2012
East L.A. Bank Robbery-Kidnapping an Inside Job?
It was one of the craziest crimes this summer: A Bank of America branch manager was kidnapped from her home in Huntington Park, held overnight, taken to her workplace with a fake bomb strapped to her body, and ordered to rob it Wednesday morning. Except that ... maybe those aren't all the facts. Th ... More >>
Blogs
September 4, 2012
Darnell and Tania Washington, Bonnie and Clyde of L.A. County, Wanted for Wild Crime Spree in Carjacked Minivan
An attractive Southern California couple is wanted in two counties this morning for the jailbreak and joyride of a lifetime. San Bernardino County Sheriff's officials say that 24-year-old robbery suspect Darnell Washington escaped from county jail on August 28 with the help of his wife, 25-year-old ... More >>
Blogs
August 31, 2012
Sight, Graffiti Artist on Cover of LA Weekly, Suspended From His Job for Speaking Out Against L.A.'s War on Graffiti
The star of L.A. Weekly's current cover story -- a talented and gentle young man named Bryant Mangum, aka UPN member "Sight," fresh out of four years in state prison for scratching up the L.A. bus system as a teenager -- has been suspended from his job as a result of the story. As we revealed in "L ... More >>
Blogs
August 24, 2012
Sergio Alvarez, Malibu Bum, Allegedly Strangled Pelican to Death Because 'He Was Hungry'
Updated at the bottom with Alvarez' horrendously scary mug shot, and the D.A. agreeing to file felony charges. Originally posted August 23 at 9:20 a.m. We can't wait to see L.A. County's equally fierce homeless advocates and animal-rights activists go head-to-head on this one: Sheriff's officials ... More >>
Blogs
July 18, 2012
The 10 Most Depressing Excerpts From Sheriff Spokesman Steve Whitmore's Personal Blog
All of a sudden, every terrifying conversation we've ever had with L.A. County Sheriff's Department spokesman Steve Whitmore makes so much more sense. We just discovered his LiveJournal personal blog -- and it's an absolute minefield of bitterness and morbid regrets and 15-year-old girl tears. (Als ... More >>
Blogs
July 11, 2012
Jong Huh, Torrance Real-Estate Agent, Charged With Literally Gambling Clients' Money Away
A warrant has been out for the arrest of Torrance real-estate agent Jong Hwan Huh since late April, when the L.A. County District Attorney's office filed 17 felony counts against him -- including grand theft, forgery, issuing bad checks and "enhancements for aggravated white collar crime." Accordin ... More >>
Blogs
July 6, 2012
Gordon Solomon, Inglewood Pastor, Allegedly Carried on Two-Year Sexual Relationship With 14-Year-Old
Update: To be clear, Solomon's victim was a a mere 12 years old when the alleged sexting/sexing began. That's CHILD status. More on his charges -- including "oral copulation" -- at the bottom. Originally posted at 9:45 a.m. A two-decade-old community church in Inglewood has been turned upside down ... More >>
Blogs
June 20, 2012
L.A. Tagging Crews Could Now Get Gang-Like 'Injunctions', Thanks to City Attorney's Settlement With MTA Vandals
L.A. City Attorney Carmen Trutanich won a huge battle today in his war against the city's taggers and street artists. He settled with eight alleged members of a prolific Los Angeles tagging crew called the "Metro Transit Assassins," responsible for America's largest tag along the L.A. River. The pi ... More >>
Blogs
May 8, 2012
Gavin Smith, Missing Fox Executive, Gets Twitter Campaign From Son Evan, USC Basketball Player
Updated at the bottom with some strange details about the last time he was seen. First posted at 7:05 a.m. Monday. Gavin Smith, a longtime Fox movie distribution exec, has been missing for nearly a week. His son, USC basketball forward Evan Smith, has taken to Twitter to publicize the plight of hi ... More >>
Blogs
April 26, 2012
L.A. Sheriff's Deputy Manuel Perallon Allegedly Sexed Up 16-Year-Old Girl in 'Explorer' Program
Of all places you'd hope your kid would be safe, the sheriff's youth "Explorer" program (available in many counties around SoCal, including L.A. County) might be pretty high on the list. A whole room of deputies to keep the sexual predators away! But then charges like these come along, completely u ... More >>
Blogs
April 2, 2012
Elgin Olu Stafford, USC Student, Found Dead in Carson Water Channel
The body of a man found last week in the Dominguez Channel in Carson, not far from a popular Ikea store, was identified over the weekend as belonging to 23-year-old USC master's student Elgin Olu Stafford. Reports indicated he interned last summer for area U.S. Rep. Karen Bass. He was studying publ ... More >>
Blogs
March 12, 2012
Michael Madsen Allegedly Went 'Reservoir Dogs' on His Own Son?
He was a bad ass in Reservoir Dogs, and cops say he was a bad ass with his own son. That's the story told about actor Michael Madsen over the weekend by the L.A. County Sheriff's Department. Officials there said he was arrested Friday afternoon. Deputies said in a statement that the 54-year-old . ... More >>
Blogs
February 23, 2012
'Anonymous' Hacks Into L.A. County Police and Sheriff Databases; Posts Contact Info, Nude Pics
Anonymous offshoot CabinCr3w has set its sights back on L.A. law enforcement. The hackers first targeted the LAPD in the angry aftermath of the massive, allegedly violent raid of the Occupy L.A. encampment downtown. And they're back for more Internet payback this week, getting revenge on the cops ... More >>
Blogs
February 10, 2012
Allan Munnecke's Charges Lifted by D.A. -- Rose Parade Official Arrested for Murder of Parade Volunteer Goes Free
L.A. County Sheriff's DepartmentMunnecke.Richard Allan Munnecke, the ex-Rose Parade director suspected by sheriff's investigators of murdering a Rose Parade volunteer almost a decade ago, won't be prosecuted for the crime, says the L.A. County District Attorney's office. (At least for now.) ... More >>
Blogs
February 3, 2012
Martin Bernard Springer: Second Teacher at Miramonte Elementary School Arrested in Sex Crime Scandal
Updated at the bottom with the suspect's ID, more info from the sheriff's department. First posted at 11:36 a.m. Miramonte Elementary School in South L.A. is turning into a big shop of horrors. Following this week's arrest of former teacher Mark Berndt, charged with committing lewd acts on ... More >>
Blogs
January 27, 2012
L.A. Sheriff's Creepy New Facial-Recognition Software Matches Surveillance Video With Mug Shot Database
The Lancaster station of the L.A. County Sheriff's Department got a little help from Big Brother in cracking its latest robbery spree: Of three armed robberies in Lancaster over eight days, one of the incidents was caught on surveillance tape. So Sheriff's investigators entered "a clear image of th ... More >>
Blogs
January 23, 2012
Vigen Sarkisyan, 18, Killed When Car Plunges 500 Feet off Angeles Crest Highway
Corrected at the bottom: There was apparently no car involved in the plunge. An 18-year-old from Sunland-Tujunga, a small mountain community in northeast Los Angeles, died in a tragic Sunday-afternoon accident off Angeles Crest Highway. Vigen Sarkisyan was in a car with two of his friends when it ... More >>
Blogs
December 21, 2011
Michael Downs, High-School Senior From Santa Clarita, Charged With Raping 14 Girls He Met on Facebook, at Parties
Michael C. Downs via FacebookThat Justin Bieber haircut isn't fooling anybody.Updated at the bottom with creepy details from Downs' Facebook and Formspring profiles. No, this is not a scene from that Clive Owen movie about what your tween daughter is really doing on her smartphone all day. ... More >>
Blogs
December 5, 2011
Teflon Sheriff Lee Baca's Jail Officials Didn't Report Allegedly Serious Inmate Assaults by Deputies to D.A.
888bailbondIf you thought that cops have a different justice system than the rest of us, that they can be, indeed, above the law when faced with serious allegations of their own, this story might prove you right. The Los Angeles Times reported today that despite serious allegations of assaul ... More >>
Blogs
October 24, 2011
Fake iPhone Parts Alleged to be Worth $250,000 Seized in San Gabriel Valley: Three Arrested
AppleThe real deal.Does anyone remember when the hot part to steal was the rim off a car or its air bag? Old school, we know. Well, here in 2011, the new contraband of the criminal realm, it seems, is iPhone parts. (Another sign of nerds triumphant). Authorities in the San Gabriel Valley ... More >>
Blogs
July 7, 2011
Sheng Chen Ran Hostess Club Out of San Gabriel Valley House, Authorities Say
Dernier ExileLadies of the mic.If you're to believe the L.A. County Sheriff's Department, 38-year-old Sheng Hui Chen is a brave, shit-talking man. In fact, they claim, he pretty much made a lifestyle of it. Not only did Chen allegedly extort mom-and-pop Chinese immigrants by saying he was a ... More >>
Blogs
June 29, 2011
L.A. Latinos Sue Sheriff Lee Baca for Failing to Reveal Internal 'Secure Communities' Correspondance With ICE
Sheriff Baca just got sued.Updated after the jump: The Sheriff's Department says this is ICE's problem, not theirs. This should be an interesting lawsuit -- not only for the future of immigration reform, but for frustrated journalists who repeatedly get their California Public Records Act re ... More >>
Blogs
May 6, 2011
Orlando Denison, L.A. County Sheriff's Deputy, Charged With Having Sex With 16-Year-Old Female Relative
A Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputy says he didn't do it. Orlando Denison was arrested yesterday on suspicion of having sex with an underage girl who authorities say is his relative. The 34-year-old appeared in court today and pleaded not guilty. District Attorney's prosecutors allege he ... More >>
Blogs
May 2, 2011
Kevin Wolfe Pochter -- Hiker Accused of Killing Old Friend at L.A. Forest Campground -- Leads Sheriff on 'Armed and Dangerous' Manhunt
Los Angeles County Sheriff's DepartmentSuspected friend-killer Kevin Pochter: On the loose in the San Gabriel MountainsThis guy's good. After allegedly murdering "lifelong friend" Dean Ron Albert, 53, deep in the Angeles National Forest on Thursday, Huntington Beach resident Kevin Wolfe Pocht ... More >>
Blogs
November 8, 2010
10 Beaters Belonging To Car Hoarder Mark Shoff Towed From Covina Neighborhood Streets
JalopnikThese lucky bastards scored a spot in the drivewayCall it a midlife crisis: 51-year-old Covina resident Mark Shoff owns 48 cars. Which would be cool, in a creepy A&E kind of way, if Shoff also owned a 48-car parking garage. Instead, he lives with his 81-year-old mom Barbara in a sub ... More >>
Blogs
September 28, 2010
Los Angeles Times Prints Names Of Witnesses In Case Against Gangster And Associates Who Allegedly Murdered Sheriff's Deputy Juan Abel Escalante: Police Union Says The Paper Is Putting Wits In Danger
Bad week for the Los Angeles Times. First a well-liked educator appears to have committed suicide after the paper published its controversial public-school teacher ratings database that gave the man, Rigoberto Ruelas, a lackluster review. Now the Los Angeles police union is taking the Times ... More >>
News
August 12, 2010
Pomona Cops Dodge a Bullet
Accepting severe pay cuts, a police department survives to patrol another day
Blogs
August 10, 2010
L.A. Sheriff's Dept. Refuses To Give Up Records In 40-Year-Old Case Of Journalist Ruben Salazar, Killed By A Deputy
The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department is refusing to release eight boxes of records that could shed light on the death of Mexican American journalist Ruben Salazar, who was felled by a deputy's projectile 40 years ago. The records are older than the famous "Watergate tapes," but the dep ... More >>
Blogs
July 19, 2010
Valet Killed: West Hollywood Club Shooting Caught On Video
A valet at a West Hollywood nightclub was fatally shot early Monday after two groups of party-goers got into a fracas. The man was apparently not the target of the gunman. KNX 1070 Newsradio reports that two other people were wounded in the attack. The shooting outside Guys & Dolls in the 87 ... More >>
Blogs
June 16, 2010
Tagging Crew Suspected Of Vandalizing Metro Bus After Last Year's Lakers Championship Targeted One Year Later
puregraffiti.comA tagging crew suspected of vandalizing a Metro bus and Blue Line train following last year's Lakers championship was targeted by authorities in Los Angeles and Riverside counties this week. Thirty-one warrants were served and 15 arrests were made, although sheriff's Lt. Erik ... More >>
Blogs
April 26, 2010
Robbery Suspect Fatally Shot By Police On The Westside
Google MapsA Culver City police officer fatally shot a robbery suspect near Venice Boulveard and Motor Avenue in the Westside Los Angeles community of Palms, just outside Culver City, authorities said. Officers on Sunday were responding to a noontime robbery call at a nearby Radio Shack when ... More >>
Blogs
August 31, 2009
Station Fire Update: Stupid Gold Creek Road residents put firefighters' lives on the line
5 P.M. UPDATE: Firefighters have abandoned efforts to rescue the trapped people on Gold Creek Road, deeming the rescue operation too hazardous, at least for now. The most incredible news about today's growing fire, which many fire officials fear could get whipped into a massive conflagration t ... More >>
Blogs
August 7, 2009
Suspect Sought in String of Armed Robberies of Eastside Taco Trucks
Amy Scattergoodtaco truck at nightThe LA Times reported yesterday that at least 22 Eastside taco truck vendors have been robbed, at gunpoint, over the last few months. 22 robberies have been reported, but police assume that there have likely been more that have gone unreported, due to fear wi ... More >>
Blogs
April 13, 2009
Ready for His Close-up: Phil Spector's Booking Photo
This booking photo of Phil Spector was released this evening from the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. Spector, 69, was convicted of second-degree murder in the 2003 death of Lana Clarkson Monday afternoon. (See report here.) According to Deputy District Attorney Alan Jackson who, with ... More >>
News
August 13, 1998
Cannabis Connection
Clinton's campaign against California's California's medical-marijuana movement
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