Blog Posts in April, 2012
Posted on Apr 28, 2012 By Cron, Israels & Stark
Drug operators running an on-line 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, ...
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Posted on Apr 25, 2012 By Cron, Israels & Stark
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 ...
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Posted on Apr 22, 2012 By Cron, Israels & Stark
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 ...
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Posted on Apr 19, 2012 By Cron, Israels & Stark
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 ...
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Posted on Apr 16, 2012 By Cron, Israels & Stark
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 arrest ...
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Posted on Apr 13, 2012 By Cron, Israels & Stark
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 ...
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Posted on Apr 10, 2012 By Cron, Israels & Stark
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 ...
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Posted on Apr 6, 2012 By Cron, Israels & Stark
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 ...
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Posted on Apr 4, 2012 By Cron, Israels & Stark
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 ...
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Posted on Apr 1, 2012 By Cron, Israels & Stark
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 ...
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