Investigators with the Orange County Sheriff’s Department are working the scene of a suspected shooting that left a man dead in Stanton on Monday afternoon. The Sheriff’s Department said it received a call at around 1:15 p.m. about an unknown disturbance at the Villa Motel, on the 11000 block of Beach Boulevard. The caller said…
A former Fullerton police officer accused of secretly photographing and videotaping up a high school student’s skirt, while on duty, was charged Monday with disorderly conduct, prosecutors announced. Jose Anthony Paez, a former Fullerton police school resource officer, could face up to a year in jail if convicted of the misdemeanor offense, according to the…
A gang member convicted of murdering a 19-year-old Marine from Camp Pendleton, who was found shot inside his car in South Los Angeles in 2016, was sentenced Monday to 100 years to life in prison and a co-defendant was handed a 50-years-to-life term. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Kathleen Kennedy said she believed the two…
A Santa Ana man who lived in a high-rise penthouse and called himself “Oxygod” was sentenced to 17½ years in federal prison for using fentanyl and other synthetic opioids to make and sell counterfeit pills designed to look like oxycodone, federal prosecutors said Monday. Wyatt Pasek, 22, was arrested in April 2018 and charged along…
The parents of an intellectually disabled man who was fatally shot by an off-duty Los Angeles police officer and were seriously wounded themselves in the Corona Costco two months ago have filed a claim with the city of Los Angeles, a family lawyer said on Monday. Russell and Paola French spoke publicly for the first…
Harvey Weinstein pleaded not guilty to two new counts of sexual assault in New York City on Monday after prosecutors in Manhattan sought to introduce a new accuser to the case just weeks before the disgraced mogul’s criminal trial was set to begin.
A section of the 2 Freeway in Glendale remains closed early Monday as fire crews continue to battle a brush fire that erupted in the Eagle Rock area and quickly scorched 30 acres a day earlier.
An L.A. County sheriff’s deputy claimed that he was shot by a sniper, but signs that it was a hoax surfaced quickly. Now, Deputy Angel Reinosa could face charges of filing a false report about a crime, authorities say.
Facing protests from jail-reform activists and a desire to reshape the county’s criminal justice system, the L.A. County Board of Supervisors scrapped a $1.7 billion contract to build a mental health treatment center near the antiquated Men’s Central Jail. But the reversal — and the lack of a specific plan to replace it — has…
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