Blog Posts in 2012
46 results found. Viewing page 1 of 2.
Go to page
Posted on May 16, 2012 By admin
Federal agents said a drug smuggling case in which TSA screeners allowed luggage with drugs inside through checkpoints at Los Angeles International Airport represents a serious security breach. A man ...
Continue reading "TSA Drug Smuggling Case is a Significant Security Breach" »
Posted on May 13, 2012 By admin
A San Marino, California businessman was sentenced to over 10 years in federal prison for operating a scheme to defraud banks, where he used straw borrowers with fake documents to obtain about $9 ...
Continue reading "San Marino Man Sentenced to Federal Prison in Bank Fraud Scheme" »
Posted on May 10, 2012 By admin
A Santa Ana, California gang member was sentenced to life in prison without parole for his part in the 2010 death of a 16-year-old who was shot in the back as he fled semiautomatic gunfire, according ...
Continue reading "Santa Ana Gang Member Gets Life for Teenager's Murder" »
Posted on May 7, 2012 By admin
A Long Beach police officer has been arrested on suspicion of felony possession of child pornography after meeting a teenager while on patrol and soliciting explicit photographs of the youth through ...
Continue reading "Long Beach Police Officer Arrested for Possession of Child Pornography" »
Posted on May 4, 2012 By admin
Former baseball star Lenny Dykstra pleaded no contest to criminal charges of lewd conduct and assault with a deadly weapon involving women who responded to housekeeping ads he placed on Craigslist. He ...
Continue reading "Baseball Star Lenny Dykstra Pleads No Contest to Lewd Conduct and Assault" »
Posted on May 1, 2012 By admin
In many cases, our criminal justice system is pronouncing people guilty without evidence, lawyers, or a chance to plead their case. People across the United States plead guilty to crimes they did not ...
Continue reading "Misdmeanor Conviction Can Have Major Consequences for People Charged" »
Posted on Apr 28, 2012 By admin
Drug operators running an online narcotics marketplace through a virtual network facilitated sales of illegal drugs to 3,000 people in 34 countries and every single state in the United States, ...
Continue reading "Federal Agents Bust Online Drug Market in International Sting" »
Posted on Apr 25, 2012 By admin
A former Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy is set to go on trial on violent crime charges he tortured, beat and sexually assaulted his wife and another man he believed to be her lover. The man ...
Continue reading "Ex-LA Sheriff's Deputy Faces Trail for Sexual Assault and Torture" »
Posted on Apr 22, 2012 By admin
A rise in deaths from black-tar heroin overdoses in Redlands, California in late 2010 led police to an investigation that has resulted in the indictment of 20 people who made up a large group of drug ...
Continue reading "20 Indicted in Inland Empire Heroin Investigation" »
Posted on Apr 19, 2012 By admin
California Gov. Jerry Brown commuted the prison sentence of a 51-year-old woman convicted of shaking her infant grandson to death 15 years ago, citing significant doubts about her guilt. Shirley Ree ...
Continue reading "Governor Jerry Brown Commutes Grandmother's Murder Sentence" »
Posted on Apr 16, 2012 By admin
A former Modesto, California high school teacher who recently made headlines for leaving his wife and family for a student was arrested charged with sexually abusing a minor . The sexual assault ...
Continue reading "Modesto Teacher Arrested for Sexually Abusing a Minor" »
Posted on Apr 13, 2012 By admin
Long Beach, California police arrested three men after finding drugs and a marijuana-growing operation at a home that later caught fire. Police were on the 1900 block of Caspian Avenue, searching for ...
Continue reading "3 Arrested at Long Beach Home with Marijuana Growing Equipment" »
Posted on Apr 10, 2012 By admin
A Los Angeles man who stole and chopped more than 30 classic cars, including actor John Travolta’s classic Mercedes-Benz, was sentenced to 14 years in a California state prison after police ...
Continue reading "LA Man Sentenced for 'Chopping' John Travolta's Classic Mercedes" »
Posted on Apr 6, 2012 By admin
Kinde Durkee, who used to be a campaign treasurer for Democratic candidates in California, pleaded guilty to five counts of mail fraud after an FBI investigation found she pilfered more than $7 ...
Continue reading "Ex-Campaign Treasurer in California Pleads Guilty to Mail Fraud" »
Posted on Apr 4, 2012 By admin
A San Francisco Bay Area woman who was pulled over for speeding three times in one hour on the same highway has been released from the Yuba County jail. Lynne Cahill-Gomez, 53, was arrested for ...
Continue reading "Woman Cited for Speeding 3 Times in an Hour is Arrested for Reckless Driving" »
Posted on Apr 1, 2012 By admin
The man arrested in the brutal slaying of 5 people in a San Francisco home has been charged with five counts of murder with special circumstances, which makes him eligible for the death penalty. The ...
Continue reading "San Francisco Man Charged with 5 Counts of Murder" »
Posted on Mar 28, 2012 By admin
For five years, an employee at Santa Monica based Lionsgate Entertainment arranged for the company to pay a cardboard salesman more than $2 million for marketing display boxes he never delivered. Both ...
Continue reading "Two Arrested for Stealing $2 Million from Movie Studio" »
Posted on Mar 23, 2012 By admin
A 37-year-old man is scheduled for arraingment on charges he sexually assaulted two boys, ages 9 to 11, and had child pornography in his possession. This information was obtained from the Orange ...
Continue reading "Anaheim Man Arrested for Child Molestation of 2 Boys" »
Posted on Mar 20, 2012 By admin
A 33-year-old Santa Ana, California man was arrested for child molestation of an 8-year-old boy in his car. Pedro Castillo Sanchez, was observed by a friend tossing a condom out the window of his car, ...
Continue reading "Santa Ana Man Arrested in Child Sex Abuse Case" »
Posted on Mar 17, 2012 By admin
A North Hollywood, California man was sentenced to 64 months in a federal prison for submitting a false loan application, obtaining a credit card in somebody else's name and running up charges on ...
Continue reading "North Hollywood Man gets 5 Years for Credit Card Scam" »
Posted on Mar 13, 2012 By admin
The girlfriend of mob boss James “Whitey” Bulger has agreed to plead guilty to various federal crime charges related to helping him avoid capture for 16 years. Catherine Greig will plead ...
Continue reading "Girlfriend of Mob Boss James Whitey Bulger Pleads Guilty to Identity Theft" »
Posted on Mar 11, 2012 By admin
A former California Highway Patrol officer whose tearful testimony of self-defense failed to sway a jury was sentenced to 50 years to life in prison for murder of her husband. Tomiekia Johnson cried ...
Continue reading "Former CHP Officer gets 50 Years to Life for Murder of Her Husband" »
Posted on Mar 8, 2012 By admin
An Orange County, California gang member was convicted of special circumstances murder of a man during a botched drug sale . According to the Orange County district attorney's office, Robert Reil, ...
Continue reading "Orange County Gang Member Convicted of Murder in Botched Drug Deal" »
Posted on Mar 6, 2012 By admin
Former New York Mets star Lenny Dykstra was sentenced to three years in a California state prison after a judge rejected a last minute effort to change his no contest plea and fight the grand theft ...
Continue reading "Baseball Star Lenny Dykstra gets 3 Years for Grand Theft" »
Posted on Mar 4, 2012 By asmin
A man is scheduled to go to trial in Orange County, California in the case of the rape and killing of his neighbor in 1988. The case was considered cold until police linked the defendant's DNA to ...
Continue reading "Man Faces Trail in 1988 Rape & Murder of His Neighbor" »
46 results found. Viewing page 1 of 2.
Go to page