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Posted on May 5, 2013
A Santa Ana, California man, Angel Perez, has been sentenced to 16 years in a state prison for killing a 2-year-old boy in a drunk driving accident and then fleeing the scene. After leaving a ...
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Posted on Apr 29, 2013
A San Fernando Valley doctor, Pezhman Ebrahimzadeh, who is the owner of a cosmetic medicine clinic in the Winnetka district was sentenced to over three years in federal prison for receiving more than ...
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Posted on Apr 21, 2013
The Supreme Court, in an 8-1 decision, said that police must usually have a search warrant before they can require a drunk driving suspect to have his blood drawn to determine blood-alcohol content. ...
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Posted on Apr 12, 2013
A Los Angeles gang member, Jermaine Hardiman, who used violence and intimidation to control the Pueblo del Rio Housing Projects in South Los Angeles has been sentenced to 15 years in a federal prison. ...
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Posted on Apr 3, 2013
Nine marijuana dispensaries around Los Angeles and Orange County were set up to appear to be operated by different owners. However, they were secretly owned by a convicted drug-dealer who used the ...
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Posted on Mar 29, 2013
In Riverside, California, federal agents and local police arrested 10 people that were indicted in a federal criminal complaint for their participation in a complex drug conspiracy that operated ...
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Posted on Mar 22, 2013
The San Diego Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation has announced the arrest of Manuel Gonzales, age 28. He was arrested on a federal arrest warrant charging for violation of Title 18, United ...
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Posted on Nov 16, 2011
The number of state prisoners arriving in county jails under California's prison diversion program is much higher than estimated, adding more pressure on sheriff's departments to figure out ...
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Posted on Oct 7, 2011
Federal prosecutors are threatening to shut down California medical marijuana dispensaries by sending letters that warn landlords to stop sales of the drug within 45 days or face the possibility that ...
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Posted on Dec 24, 2010
After two hours of wrenching, tear-filled pleas for both maximum justice and mercy, the man convicted of murder in the drunk-driving crash that killed Angels pitcher Nick Adenhart and two friends was ...
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Posted on Dec 15, 2010
A Georgia man pled guilty in Los Angeles to transporting child pornography using a secret Internet bulletin board that allowed approximately three dozen members to trade thousands of images and videos ...
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Posted on Dec 10, 2010
A man wanted in connection with the sexual assault of a woman in North Hollywood, California in March was charged with rape, while police sought other possible victims. Louis Robert Mercado, of North ...
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Posted on Dec 8, 2010
A West Covina, California man was sentenced to 135 months in federal prison for running an investment fraud scheme that took in almost $4 million from more than 100 victims who were lured to the ...
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Posted on Dec 6, 2010
In Sacramento, California, a United States Attorney announced that Ronald T. Lim, of Redding, has paid $175,000 to settle the government’s claims for civil statutory violations occurring at his ...
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Posted on Nov 29, 2010
In Granada Hills, California, a teacher at Hillcrest Christian School has been arrested for having sex several times with a high school student and police said he might have abused other students of ...
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Posted on Nov 23, 2010
In Sacramento, California, a United States Attorney announced that Kerry Seaman, of Lake Ronkoukoma, New York, pleaded guilty in connection with a scheme to divert more than $20 million from ...
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Posted on Nov 22, 2010
A celebrity disc jockey and the heads of an entertainment company were among 14 people indicted in a cocaine ring where private jets were used to shuttle large amounts of the drug from Southern ...
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Posted on Nov 17, 2010
A grand jury indictment was unsealed against eight alleged leaders of the Canoga Park Alabama street gang, who face conspiracy and extortion charges that could send them to prison for life. The ...
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Posted on Nov 16, 2010
A man who prosecutors say made millions of dollars from a prescription drug scam in which he recruited destitute people with HIV to serve as straw patients was sentenced to eight years in prison by a ...
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Posted on Nov 11, 2010
In Sacramento, California, a United States Attorney announced that United States District Judge Frank C. Damrell sentenced Marvin Chavelle Epps, of Sacramento, to 12 years and seven months in federal ...
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Posted on Nov 8, 2010
In Las Vegas, Nevada, federal prosecutors unsealed charges against 27 individuals for their involvement in an Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force investigation in Nevada and Alaska involving ...
Continue reading "27 Persons Charged in Oxycodone Distribution and Money Laundering Conspiracy" »
Posted on Nov 5, 2010
A Riverside, California man was sentenced to 12 years in state prison for his part in a conspiracy to defraud two insurance companies out of $1.4 million by illegally selling liens on workers' ...
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Posted on Nov 3, 2010
In Santa Ana, California, a Long Beach man sat motionless in court as he was convicted of killing a high school friend in 1988 and setting the body on fire in an unsuccessful effort to destroy ...
Continue reading "Long Beach Man Guilty of Cold Case Murder of his Marijuana Dealer" »
Posted on Nov 1, 2010
Doctors, staff members and the owner of a North Hollywood clinic have been charged with orchestrating a multimillion-dollar scheme to recruit mentially ill transients for unnecessary treatments. The ...
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Posted on Oct 29, 2010
A jury has absolved Anna Nicole Smith's doctor of prescribing excessive drugs for her but convicted her boyfriend and a psychiatrist of conspiring to use fake names on prescriptions, in a case ...
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