Blog Posts in May, 2012
Posted on May 29, 2012 By Cron, Israels & Stark
Police have shut down a Van Nuys, California medical clinic because they said it was operating as an illegal pill mill, where drug addicts and drug dealers could purchase prescriptions. This was a ...
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Posted on May 25, 2012 By Cron, Israels & Stark
An organized crime boss from Israel pleaded guilty in federal court in Los Angeles to narcotics and racketeering charges, according to the United States attorney's office in Los Angeles. Itzhak ...
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Posted on May 22, 2012 By Cron, Israels & Stark
A Newport Beach, California man who was a teacher in Santa Ana schools was arrested for allegedly molesting two teenage girls and for possessing child pornography. The Orange County district ...
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Posted on May 19, 2012 By Cron, Israels & Stark
Eight people in Los Angeles, including two doctors, were among many health care providers indicted as part of a national crackdown on Medicare fraud. The arrests were made in seven major cities, where ...
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Posted on May 16, 2012 By Cron, Israels & Stark
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 ...
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Posted on May 13, 2012 By Cron, Israels & Stark
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 ...
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Posted on May 10, 2012 By Cron, Israels & Stark
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 ...
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Posted on May 7, 2012 By Cron, Israels & Stark
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 ...
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Posted on May 4, 2012 By Cron, Israels & Stark
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 ...
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Posted on May 1, 2012 By Cron, Israels & Stark
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 ...
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