Moreno Valley

Marijuana Worth $1.5 Million Seized in Moreno Valley

For a town where you can legally get marijuana in many, many neighborhoods, we sure do have a lot of illegal grow houses. Maybe the problem is that while it's often legit to sell medical cannabis, it's a crime to grow it in mass quantities. And the retail business is voracious for weed. The latest ... More >>

Antonio Villaraigosa's Quest for Wall Street, Washington and Wealth

10 Best Arcades in L.A.

See also: *Family Fun Arcade Prepares to Close After Four Decades *10 Oddball L.A. Museums Worth Seeing *10 Best Standup Comedy Shows in L.A. For those of us who grew up in the 1980s and '90s, arcades were an integral part of our childhood and adolescence. They existed inside malls and in shoppin ... More >>

Aaron Sandusky, Marijuana Dispensary Operator, Faces Up To Life Behind Bars

We called him a brave man. And that he was. Aaron Sandusky, cannabis dispensary operator, is probably going to federal prison to atone for your medical marijuana sins. Over the weekend the 42-year-old was convicted by a federal jury of conspiracy to manufacture marijuana plants, possession of pot w ... More >>

Larry Beal of Moreno Valley Gets Laptop Stolen; Thieves Find Child Porn, Try to Blackmail Him, Says Riverside Sheriff

What's the cruddiest possible scenario for a guy with (alleged) child porn on his laptop? Lawrence Tibbals Beal of Moreno Valley might hold the world record for worst luck-having by a suspected pedophile. According to the Riverside County Sheriff's Department, the 63-year-old resident was arrested ... More >>

Marijuana Dispensary in Upland Raided by Feds: Six Arrested As Part of Ongoing Obama Administration Crackdown

Don't say they didn't warn you. Federal authorities today seem to be making an example of the folks behind an Inland Empire chain of marijuana dispensaries run under the banner of G3 Holistic. Six people were indicted and then arrested today in connection with what the U.S. Attorney's Office in Lo ... More >>

Mike Rios, Moreno Valley School Board Member, Is Sketchiest School Board Member of All Time

We don't usually concern ourselves with all the weird inbred stuff going on in Riverside County, but this tale of elected-official-gone-awry is too absurd to pass up. Mike Rios, 42, a member of the Moreno Valley School Board, has just set the record for sketchiest school-board member of all time. ... More >>

Areceli Luisjuan, Former Miramonte Aide: Did She Write 'Love Letters' to 11-Year-Old, or Has Media Witch Hunt Gone Too Far?

Every L.A. media outlet from KNX news radio to HuffPost has picked up the Los Angeles Times' latest Miramonte Elementary reveal this morning, in which one mother claims that a former teacher's aide at the beleaguered campus wrote numerous "love letters" to her 11-year-old son. There are certainly s ... More >>

Unlicensed Driver Tenina Calhoun Crashes SUV Into Palm Tree; 3 L.A. Sisters Dead

The three fatalities in Friday's tragic collision between an Infiniti SUV and a Hyde Park palm tree have been identified as a trio of sisters from the South L.A. area, according to City News Service. The youngest, 19-year-old Jeshai Chanae Jones, was declared dead just hours after the 2:45 a.m. cra ... More >>

Skee-Lo Wished He Was a Little Bit Taller. Then He Promptly Retired

[Editor's note: Weekly scribe Jeff Weiss's column, "Bizarre Ride," appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday. His archives are available here.] The directions haven't changed. If you want to find Skee-Lo, take the 110 to the 105 and get off on Crenshaw. It's everything else that's been altered si ... More >>

Meet Speak, Who Co-Wrote Kreayshawn's "Gucci Gucci"

BrassSpeak​It's an August afternoon in Hollywood, and the shaggy-bearded rapper Speak is snacking on mac 'n' cheese in a recording studio at Atlantic Records. He doesn't seem like he belongs here. For starters, he's wearing beach bum attire: sun-bleached peach board shorts and Sperry Top-Sid ... More >>

Christina Casey Mauled to Death by Neighbor's Pit Bulls; Brother Sues City of Moreno Valley

​If your neighbor's vicious pit-bulls repeatedly tunnel under your fence, only to one day maul you to death, take note: Your family can sue -- not the owner of the beasts -- but the city, which presumably has much deeper pockets. Such is the case in the tragic death of Christina Casey, and her b ... More >>

Carrie Thomas, 23-Year-Old Manager at Shakey's Pizza in Moreno Valley, Shot to Death in Car After Apparent ATM Robbery

FacebookCarrie Thomas​The last thing Carrie Thomas' boss remembers her saying -- before the longtime Shakey's Pizza manager was found bleeding out in her black Mazda at 11:45 p.m. on Sunday night -- is that she needed to use the ATM [Press-Enterprise]. When police were called to the Visterra ... More >>

Michael Sykes, 19-Year-Old Suspect Wanted in Brutal Gang Rape of 11-Year-Old Girl, Could Be in L.A.

Google MapsAuthorities say an 11-year-old girl was gang raped in this park.​Updated after the jump: The teen suspect at-large was arrested this morning. The attack shocked even veteran cops. They say an 11-year-old girl was raped by at least 7 young gang members at a Moreno Valley park. Over ... More >>

Earl Ellis Green, Man Accused Of Killing Riverside Officer, Could Have Been Kept Behind Bars Until 2012

Riverside Press-EnterpriseEarl Ellis Green could have been behind bars. Instead he was allegedly shooting a cop.​Updated after the jump with a response to Green's arrest from the Los Angeles police union. First posted at 3:09 p.m. The man suspected of killing a Riverside police officer with h ... More >>

Investigation Into Murder Of Teen Norma Lopez Leads To Home Three Blocks From Inland Empire Field Where Her Body Was Found

Norma Lopez.​The investigation into the murder of Inland Empire teenager Norma Lopez led authorities late Tuesday to a home where a search warrant was served and a green SUV was seized, according to the Riverside Press-Enterprise. Crime scene technicians and detectives were at the Moreno Va ... More >>

'Missing White Woman Syndrome' Still A Bias For Southern California Media?

Norma Lopez.​Following the wide attention recently given to the tragic case of 17-year-old Norma Lopez, the Inland Empire teenager whose body was found in a field in Moreno Valley this week, it's fair to ask if the news media still give more air time and ink to missing white women than they do ... More >>

Body Found Following Search For 17-Year-Old Norma Lopez, Who Was Reported Missing

Norma Lopez.​Updated throughout. Inland Empire authorities searching for 17-year-old Norma Lopez confirmed Wednesday afternoon that a body found late Tuesday in Moreno Valley, not far from where the girl was last seen, is that of the missing teen. Some of her personal items were found in the ... More >>

200 Pounds Of Meth And Heroin Seized In SoCal

Yuma County Narcotics Task ForceThis is your face on meth.​What does 119 pounds of meth look like? Oh, about yay-high, lives in a trailer park, missing some teeth. But seriously, that's a lot of country crack, and it was seized right here in Southern California. Attorney General Jerry Brown, ... More >>

Bad Rap: San Francisco Burritos, and a Man Named Herbie Gonzalez

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For Erin Aubry Kaplan, coming home has been a labor of tough love

Dancing in the Rain

U.S. Iraqis visit the polls twice to vote

Predator or Prey?

For James Rodriguez, the only way to freedom was to confess to sex crimes he — and one of his alleged victims — says he did not commit.

Two Against One

Teenage love and murder in Redlands, California

Invisble Man

Novelist Percival Everett on the wrong kind of success and his desire for anonymity

Frittering Away

What the City Council does instead of governing

Crash and Burn

Tobacconists report rise in heists to match price hikes

Lost Soul

A lament for black Los Angeles