U.S. Marshals Service

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 >>

Fast & Furious & Elegant: Justin Lin and the Vulgar Auteurs

Christopher Dorner Manhunt Task Force: LAPD, Irvine, Riverside, FBI On-Board

The LAPD today announced the formation of a Christopher Dorner task force that includes police in Irvine and Riverside as well as personnel from the FBI and U.S. Marshall's Service. Noticeably absent from the list is the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department, which has been searching the Big B ... More >>

Christopher Dorner Escape Attempt in San Diego, Discovery of His Wallet Near Police Station, Set Off Wave of False Sightings

At 2 a.m. today, alleged triple-murderer and LAPD ex-cop Christopher Dorner's disgraced badge and ID were found in a bag near Lindbergh Field in San Diego by an airport shuttle driver. Shortly after that, police found items they believe are Dorner's in a trash can in National City outside of San Die ... More >>

Father Jose Luis Cuevas, Long Beach Priest, Charged With Sexual Battery on Church Grounds

The latest sex scandal and PR nightmare for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles comes by way of northern Long Beach, near Compton: Father Jose Luis Cuevas, 67, the longtime head priest at St. Athanasius Church, is being charged with "nine counts of sexual assault" for years of allegedly m ... More >>

Scott Schenter, Former Appraiser, Arrested And Charged With 60 Counts In Assessor Scandal

Updated with booking photo and further detail of the arrest. Scott Schenter, a former appraiser, was arrested this morning and charged with 60 felony counts in connection with a growing corruption investigation at the L.A. County Assessor's Office.Schenter is accused of wrongfully lowering property ... More >>

Oaksterdam Marijuana Raid Happened As 7 Were Shot At Nearby School: Critics Rip Feds

Monday's federal marijuana raid on Oaksterdam University in Oakland happened on the same day that a man opened fire at a nearby college campus, killing 7. That fact hasn't been lost on critics, who are railing against the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, the U.S. Marshals Service and the IRS f ... More >>

ICE Deportation Sweep Includes Over 200 Illegal Immigrants in L.A. Area -- Only Half of Whom Are Serious Criminals

In a plea for the Latino vote, President Obama keeps promising that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will ease up on the deportations. In a direct contradiction to that promise, ICE officers across the country just conducted a week-long deportation sweep called "Cross Check" --

Ivan Lopez, 23, Courts 8th Grader Online and Takes Her to Vegas Motel for Sex

luisvilla via flickr​It's a parent's worst nightmare: You wake up in the middle of the night and find out that your 13-year-old daughter is missing. Then you realize that the man who has been courting your daughter sexually on the Internet is probably the one who took her away --- to Las Vegas, n ... More >>

Robbery Inmates Escape on Mulholland Drive: LAPD on The Lookout in Laurel Canyon Area

​Updated at the bottom: California prison officials say the pair has been caught. First posted at 4:38 p.m. on Aug. 5. Cops in the Laurel Canyon area were on the lookout for two jail inmates who escaped while on brush-clearance work detail, according to the LAPD. Officer Sara Faden told the W ... More >>

Robert Canizalez and Martin Morones, Illegal Street Racers, Murdered Dora Groce and Her Two Kids in Fiery El Monte Crash

Dora, Robert and Catherine Groce, murdered by street racers.​Robert Canizalez and Martin Morones murdered Dora Groce and her two children in a horrific car blaze like a terror scene from Terminator, and California's 2nd District Court of Appeal yesterday denied their absurd attempt to undo the ... More >>

Feds Raid L.A. Union Station for Illegals, Tweeters Claim; 'Union Station' Starts Trending on Twitter

​[Update: Erick Huerta, who says he was one of the first to Tweet about the feds at Union Station on Friday morning, says he saw three men from the Department of Homeland Security -- one in full Transportation Security Officer uniform, another in "dress pants and a polo shirt with a 'Homeland ... More >>

Keith Hasson, Most-Wanted Kingpin of $20 Million Drug Ring, Busted by U.S. Marshal in Woodland Hills

Blacky.​These larger-than-life crime bosses, man -- they sure love to play house among the L.A. gentry. Whitey Bulger, before last week's big FBI bust, chose to spend post-mafia life strolling Santa Monica's Promenade, scaring off nice old ladies in his sunny retirement community. Now the fed ... More >>

Adult Swim Renews Chris Elliott's Late Night Comedy Eagleheart for Second Season

Adult Swim has just announced that it will be picking up a second season of Eagleheart starring Chris Elliott. Image courtesy of Adult Swim​

U.S. Deputy Marshal Shoots Fugitive in Hollywood After Prison Break, Car Chase

Keeping them troublemakers in line​Updated after the jump: The fugitive was reportedly in jail for a bigtime jewelry heist. It was a crazy, Old West-style afternoon on Sunset Boulevard, after an alleged escapee from federal prison was shot by a deputy from the U.S. Marshal's Office. It's sti ... More >>

'East Side Longos,' LBC Latino Gang, Lose 13 Members to SWAT Crackdown at 4 A.M.

rap.matters.comDon't mess with the Longos -- unless you're a cop with a search warrant​Updated after the jump: A Long Beach gang expert gives us the Longo lowdown. The East Side Longos may have been laughing after Marvin "Shy Boy'' Mercado, an ex-leader of rival gang Asian Boyz, was threatene ... More >>

Chris Elliott on His New Show Eagleheart and the Cult Classic Get a Life

In Eagleheart, which premieres tonight on Adult Swim, Chris Elliott plays Chris Monsanto, a U.S. Marshal whose combination of ineptitude and confidence leads to more disasters than you thought could fit into a twelve-minute episode. If you're familiar with Elliott's work over the years, then this tu ... More >>

Body Of Herbert Tracy White Found In Five Pieces In L.A. Skid Row Hotel: Couple Sought For His Murder

Google MapsThe lovely Continental Hotel, where Herbert Tracy White never checked out.​Updated after the jump with couple arrested. First posted at 10:58 a.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 8. This murder mystery started when a hotel maid found a backpack in a room with part of a body in it. And under th ... More >>

Bruce Beresford-Redman Arrested In L.A. At The Behest Of Mexico For The Alleged Murder Of His Wife, Monica Beresford-Redman

Bruce and Monica.​Updated after the jump with details from the Mexican prosecutors' allegations. First posted at 5:22 p.m. Bruce Beresford-Redman, long suspected of the murder of his wife while the two were in Mexico with their children, was arrested Tuesday afternoon at his Rancho Palos Ver ... More >>

Grinding Justice

Operation Streamline Costs Millions, Tramples the Constitution, Treats Migrants Like Cattle, and Doesn't Work

Today In WTF: Mexican Authorities Search For L.A. 'Survivor' Producer There Before Extraditing Him

The Palms eatery once owned by Monica Beresford-Redman.​You think the United States has an arcane, red-tape plagued legal system? Mexican authorities are delaying the extradition of murder suspect and former Survivor producer Bruce Beresford-Redman south of the border because ... they have to ... More >>

Survivor Producer Bruce Beresford-Redman Charged For Wife's Murder

The Beresford-Redmans.​After nearly two months of investigation authorities in Mexico Monday filed murder charges against former Survivor television show producer Bruce Beresford-Redman, long suspected in the death of his wife there. News outlets, including ABC, reported that state prosecutor ... More >>

America's Cocaine King Hid From Drug Cartels for 25 Years

It took a screenwriter to find him

Suspect In Valley Village Slayings Found Near Seattle

Nerses Galstyan.​Authorities near Seattle apprehended Nerses Galstyan, the man named as the prime suspect in the fatal shootings of four men earlier this month at a Valley Village restaurant, the Seattle Times reports. The U.S. Marshals Service's Pacific Southwest Regional Fugitive Task Force ... More >>

Today In WTF: Man Allegedly Poses As U.S. Agent, Deports Relative's Wife

Hemet policeGreg Raymond Denny Jr..​We couldn't make this up if we tried. In a story first reported in the Riverside Press-Enterprise, a man is alleged to have dressed and identified himself as a U.S. Marshal, kidnapped the wife of a distant cousin under the guise of an immigration arrest, and ... More >>

SoCal's Most Wanted: Alleged Molester Frederick McLean Still On The Run

U.S. Marshals ServiceFrederick McLean.​(Speaking in the voice of America's Most Wanted's John Walsh): We've seen a lot of scumbags in our day, but this guy takes the cake. Frederick McLean is an alleged sexual predator of the lowest kind. Authorities allege McLean met many of the child vict ... More >>

Movie Reviews: Did You Hear About the Morgans?, Iron Cross, The Young Victoria

Also, The Lightkeepers, My Son, My Son What Have Ye Done and more

Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

Torched Dancer Suspects Nabbed A joint effort by police and U.S. Marshals netted the two suspects who allegedly set bikini dancer Roberta Busby afire in the early morning hours of last Thursday. Rianne Theriault-Odom, 27, and Nathaniel Petrillo, 22, were run to ground at a San Fernando Valley motel ... More >>

Hollywood Ten Anniversary

Sixty one years ago today, screenwriter Dalton Trumbo surrendered to U.S. Marshals, charged with contempt of Congress following hearings held by the House Un-American Activities Committee. Trumbo, who'd written scripts for Kitty Foyle and A Guy Named Joe, was among nine other Hollywood writers and d ... More >>

Ninth Circuit Court Retreats to Idaho

Legal insiders point everywhere but at themselves during a sun-filled non-examination

Pellicano Sequel

L.A. Gangs: Nine Miles and Spreading

More codeless, arbitrary and brutal than ever... and coming to a neighborhood near you

The Quiet Mexican

Living next to a suspected contract killer in El Sereno

Taking Down the Vineland Boyz

Another Valley raid targets gang named in two cop killings

Bad Night for the Vineland Boyz

Huge raid could be a mortal blow to notorious Valley gang

LA’s Underground Power Broker

The name Vignali receded into L.A. history after the “Pardongate” scandal of 2001, but questions remain about drug-dealing son Carlos and his real estate magnate father, Horacio, who just might be pulling the strings in the remaking of downtown L.A.

An International Thriller

Task force nabs "Jake Adams" in Hollywood

The Devils' Advocates

How Arkansas’ West Memphis Three went from convicts to L.A.’s cause célèbre

Once Is Not Enough

Operation Tarnish

The plight of LAX workers caught up in a counter-terrorism crackdown

Anthrax Reborn

A new wave of threatening letters sent to abortion clinics

Weeping Willes