Los Angeles Criminal Defense Blog
Posted on Feb 22, 2012 By admin
A former Marine who has been charged with fatally stabbing six people in an Orange County, California crime spree that spanned nearly 3 months pleaded not guilty. Itzcoatl Ocampo, 23, appeared ...
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Posted on Feb 19, 2012 By admin
Around $100 million worth of PCP was seized this week in Los Angeles and Culver City in what police described as a major bust of a national drug trafficking organization. Police said they discovered ...
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Posted on Feb 16, 2012 By admin
A Los Angeles Unified teacher's aide who coaches at a South Los Angeles high school was charged with three counts of lewd acts on one child . Alain Salas, a teacher's aide at Fremont High ...
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Posted on Feb 14, 2012 By admin
A routine traffic stop led Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies to an estimated $1 million worth of marijuana and nine arrests. LA Sheriff's Deputies pulled over Harry Kaladjian, 29, at about ...
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Posted on Feb 12, 2012 By admin
A former third-grade teacher at Telfair Elementary School in Pacoima has been arrested for child molestation against 4 children. He is the latest suspect to be named in an unfolding sex-abuse scandal ...
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Posted on Feb 8, 2012 By admin
A former sailor was sentenced to 21 years in a California state prison after pleading guilty to four counts of felony child abuse in the death of his 3-month-old stepdaughter. The sailor's wife ...
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Posted on Feb 6, 2012 By admin
drug crime A Los Angeles Police Department narcotics squad has made an end-run around the city's fumbling efforts to regulate medical marijuana . They have shut down every marijuana dispensary in ...
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Posted on Feb 3, 2012 By admin
A Westlake Village, California man was sentenced to 21 years in a California state prison prison for fatally shooting an instructor from Pasadena’s Art Center College of Design during a Persian ...
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Posted on Feb 1, 2012 By admin
Five more victims have contacted sheriff's detectives since they announced the arrest of a longtime Miramonte Elementary School teacher accused of abusing children in his classroom. The lewd ...
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Posted on Jan 26, 2012 By admin
Local police and federal agents arrested more than 100 suspected gang members throughout San Diego County as part of an investigation into racketeering , firearms trafficking and drug distribution ...
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Posted on Jan 23, 2012 By admin
San Bernardino County district attorney’s office requested a court-approved injunction to crack down on a Rancho Cucamonga street gang that uses the downtown area as its gang turf. The ...
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Posted on Jan 19, 2012 By admin
A Long Beach, California police officer was charged with numerous counts of domestic violence and assault with a deadly weapon in connection with nearly a dozen separate incidents. According to the ...
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Posted on Jan 17, 2012 By admin
An investigation that lasted for a month resulted in five arrests and the seizure of more than $200,000 in marijuana in Orange County, California. Anthony Mave, of San Clemente, was arrested in ...
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Posted on Jan 13, 2012 By admin
A Victorville, California teenager could face 15 years in prison if he is convicted of assault on his ex-girlfriend. Taylor Redshaw, 16, will be tried as an adult on charges of kidnapping for the ...
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Posted on Jan 11, 2012 By admin
A woman was sentenced to 14 years in a California state prison for her role in recruiting a gang member to kill her co-worker's brother in an Orange County murder-for-hire conspiracy. Edelmira ...
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Posted on Jan 9, 2012 By admin
Huntington Beach, California police arrested a Santa Ana man after he attempted to initiate a sexual relationship with a minor on Craigslist. Police detectives who were posing on the website as a ...
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Posted on Jan 5, 2012 By admin
In San Diego, California, former drug kingpin Benjamin Felix pleaded guilty to federal racketeering and money-laundering conspiracy charges. This marks the end of a decade-old case that targeted ...
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Posted on Jan 3, 2012 By admin
A 16-year-old charged with murder during a fight in a Huntington Beach, California park will be tried as an adult, according to the Orange County district attorney's office. Jesse Shockey, of ...
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Posted on Jan 1, 2012 By admin
A federal grand jury in Los Angeles has indicted six foreign nationals for running an elaborate money laundering scheme that scammed hundreds of customers out of more than $4 million in fake Internet ...
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Posted on Dec 28, 2011 By admin
A Los Angeles man is facing numerous sex crime criminal charges stemming from his arrest on suspicion of forcing a child into prostitution and sexually assaulting her, according to the Los Angeles ...
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Posted on Dec 26, 2011 By admin
A Riverside County, California sheriff's deputy, who was off-duty when he shot a man inside a sports bar in Murrieta, has been charged with murder . Dayle Long, who is a 10-year department ...
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Posted on Dec 22, 2011 By admin
A former Camp Pendleton Marine charged with murder of a fellow Marine from the base in a dispute over stolen drug money has been convicted of murder. Christian Carney was a drug dealer who sold ...
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Posted on Dec 19, 2011 By admin
In San Francisco, California, A federal judge sentenced baseball star Barry Bonds to probation, 30 days confinement in his Beverly Hills home and community service, but placed the sentence on hold ...
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Posted on Dec 15, 2011 By admin
Robert Valdez, pleaded guilty to 19 felony counts, including arson and two counts of first-degree murder , was sentenced to 605 years in state prison, with two consecutive terms of life without the ...
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Posted on Dec 12, 2011 By admin
As former Penn State coach Jerry Sandusky’s preliminary hearing on sex abuse charges begin, California lawmakers are rushing to introduce legislation aimed at preventing similar sex crime ...
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