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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 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 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 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 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 9, 2011 By admin
A woman struck by Los Angeles Dodger James Loney described the bizarre multi-car Maserati crash as terrifying. He was arrested November 14 for driving under the influence after hitting three cars on ...
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Posted on Nov 18, 2011 By admin
L.A. City prosecutors have charged two men with violating an injunction prohibiting gang and narcotics activity on Los Angeles' skid row. This represents the first legal action since the ...
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Posted on Oct 14, 2011 By admin
A federal indictment in Los Angeles has charged 14 people that includes an 88-year-old doctor and two operators of a Los Angeles clinic, with running an illegal insurance fraud scheme to obtain and ...
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Posted on Oct 3, 2011 By admin
United States Border Patrol Agents intercepted a tractor-trailer rig that was loaded with 14 tons of marijuana heading for the Los Angeles area. This seizure is believed to be one of the largest ...
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Posted on Sep 25, 2011 By admin
A member of the "bling ring" accused of breaking into celebrity homes and stealing $3 million in jewels, art and watches pleaded no contest to the burglary of reality star Audrina ...
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Posted on Sep 19, 2011 By admin
A Compton, California man bound for Japan has been charged with federal drug trafficking after Transportation Security Administration officials at Los Angeles LAX Airport discovered almost 5 pounds of ...
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Posted on Sep 14, 2011 By admin
After a series of earlier sex crime charges, six more women have claimed that a rug store manager, who is a registered sex offender, sexually assaulted them. This information was released by the the ...
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Posted on Sep 12, 2011 By admin
A Hollywood producer and businessman pleaded guilty in Los Angeles to federal charges of stock fraud and bilking an investor. Drew Levin, of Pacific Palisades, conspired to inflate the revenue and ...
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Posted on Aug 19, 2011 By admin
The Los Angeles police department will launch a crackdown on drunk driving by setting up sobriety checkpoints starting this weekend. The crackdown is named "avoid the 100" campaign due to ...
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Posted on Aug 17, 2011 By admin
Shane Sparks, who is a judge on the popular MTV's "America's Best Dance Crew," pleaded no contest to a felony count of having unlawful sex with a minor under 16. This information was ...
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Posted on Jul 27, 2011 By admin
According to prosecutors, a Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy was involved in a traffic accient with another car in the middle of a South LA intersection while driving drunk , then fled the ...
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Posted on Jul 8, 2011 By admin
Three former PTA members at the Diamond Bar, California elementary school have been charged with almost two dozen criminal charges relating to a Ponzi scheme that defrauded more than 40 people out of ...
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Posted on Jul 1, 2011 By admin
Ten members of two Pacoima, California gangs with ties to the Mexican Mafia were arrested by an FBI and Los Angeles Police Department task force for activity in a narcotics distribution network and ...
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Posted on Jun 29, 2011 By admin
David "Puck" Rainey, who became famous as a cast member on MTV's "The Real World," was arrested in a domestic violence case. He was arrested by Los Angeles police at his home ...
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Posted on Jun 7, 2011 By admin
Former New York Mets star Lenny Dykstra was once considered baseball's most improbable post-career success story because of his financial success after retiring from Major League Baseball. But ...
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Posted on May 19, 2011 By admin
The FBI and Los Angeles Police Department arrested dozens of gang members who have controlled drug trafficking for decades in southwest Los Angeles. LAPD officers and FBI agents carrying more than a ...
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