Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva runs the nation’s largest jail system and patrols 4,000 square miles of the country’s most populous county. He’s also head of the police force for dozens of individual cities throughout the county that contract with his agency for law enforcement services….
Homicide investigators have identified the man and woman who they say led police on a high-speed chase that ended in a dramatic shootout in Vernon and a tense standoff involving flash-bang grenades on Friday. The male suspect, Dylan Andres Lindsey, 24, of Torrance, had leaned out of the car window…
A 22-year-old motorcyclist was killed in a collision with a sedan in Anaheim on Sunday morning, police said. Police at 10:28 a.m. responded to a call of a crash at Western and Orange avenues. Attempts to revive the man failed, and he was pronounced dead at the scene, said Anaheim Officer Ron Light. The rider…
Homebuying in North Orange County — Brea, Buena Park, Fullerton, La Habra, La Palma, Placentia and Yorba Linda — fell 11.5% in what was Orange County homebuying’s slowest start to a year since 2009. CoreLogic stats show the lowest countywide sales count for any first three months of a year since the Great Recession. It…
The upscale town of Ojai is so safe that a single attempt by teens to steal beer accounted for the majority of its violent crimes last year. Sheriff’s Capt. James Fryhoff tells the Ventura County Star that “a beer run that went bad” accounted for four of the six crimes. The teens allegedly went…
A Northern California woman has been arrested on suspicion of abusing four girls she adopted. The El Dorado County Sheriff’s office said 63-year-old Patricia Taylor was an adoptive mother to the girls, who range in age from 11 to 16, and had fostered and adopted several other children in the past…
OK, what is it with these whiz kids from Granada Hills Charter High School? They did it again, as you may have heard. They won the regional academic decathlon competition, then swept the state, then snagged the national championship trophy April 27 in Minnesota. That makes seven national titles…
Michael Vechell had already drawn the attention of an airline worker and two passengers at Los Angeles International Airport by the time he was confronted by police. Waiting to board his Philadelphia-bound flight with his dog Odie, Vechell had sparked concern when he sidled up to another passenger…
Brian Hassine’s heart raced as he stood alone in the dark behind the Nuggets & Carets jewelry store in Mission Viejo he co-owns with his brother. It was after 11 p.m. April 14, and the burglars suspected of stealing more than $1.2 million in diamonds and assorted baubles from his other store in Laguna Niguel…
Federal, state and local law enforcement agencies throughout Southern California are joining forces to catch a new breed of brazen criminals using travel visas to enter the U.S. to pillage homes, businesses and automobiles. Dubbed by authorities as “burglary tourism,” sophisticated gangs comprised of Chilean nationals are suspected of committing a string of thefts in…
