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Posted on Oct 7, 2011 By admin
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 By admin
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 10, 2010 By admin
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 Nov 29, 2010 By admin
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 By admin
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 By admin
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 By admin
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 By admin
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 8, 2010 By admin
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 ...
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Posted on Nov 5, 2010 By admin
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 By admin
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 ...
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Posted on Oct 29, 2010 By admin
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 that ...
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Posted on Oct 4, 2010 By admin
The owner of a Sherman Oaks company that promised investors healthy returns with claims of a successful business based on the rehabilitation of “scratch and dent” real estate was indicted on federal ...
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Posted on Oct 1, 2010 By admin
A leader of the so-called "Hillside Burglars," believed reponsible for more than 150 break-ins targeting some of Los Angeles' wealthiest neighborhoods, was sentenced to 17 years in state prison. Troy ...
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Posted on Sep 18, 2010 By admin
A commercial truck driver wanted for a brutal sexual assault of a woman in Castaic in 2009 was in custody in Santa Clarita, California after being extradited from New York. Eugene Lee Upshaw was ...
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Posted on Sep 13, 2010 By admin
Two residents of Oxnard, California and a South Carolina man were taken into custody after being charged with operating a $26 million investment scheme that victimized hundreds of investors throughout ...
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Posted on Sep 8, 2010 By admin
A United States Attorney of the Northern District of New York, announced that Dr. Frank Boehm of Utica, New York, pled guilty in United States District Court in Syracuse to a felony information that ...
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Posted on Sep 6, 2010 By admin
The young man, wearing an orange prison jumpsuit and shackled at the waist, was poised on the witness stand, politely addressing attorneys as "sir" and "ma'am" as he matter-of-factly described the ...
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Posted on Sep 5, 2010 By admin
A Malibu, California man who fled the state after allegedly trying to bribe and then extort sheriff's deputies in Reseda by pretending they assaulted him in custody has been arrested in Hawaii. Robert ...
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Posted on Sep 4, 2010 By admin
The medical marijuana industry has been 'hijacked by underground' drug dealers, Lee Baca says as a suspect is charged in last week's triple murder in West Hollywood, which allegedly has ties to ...
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Posted on Sep 2, 2010 By admin
The stiff penalty is rarely used against white-collar criminals. Timothy Barnett is charged with 23 felonies for allegedly tricking five people into unknowingly granting him title to their homes. ...
Continue reading "Man Accused of Fraud May Get Life Under California's Three-Strikes Law" »
Posted on Aug 31, 2010 By admin
Harold Yong Park allegedly murdered three men in a West Hollywood, California apartment. Los Angeles police say the case involves the robbery of several pounds of marijuana. Park had pot in his car ...
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Posted on Aug 26, 2010 By admin
Police raided the office of a Rowland Heights doctor suspected of improperly prescribing narcotics to patients. Her practice has been linked to at least eight overdose and suicide deaths in recent ...
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Posted on Aug 17, 2010 By admin
A Los Angeles County sheriff's lieutenant recently sent an internal memo to deputies in Norwalk encouraging them to consider an individual's past and career potential before making a felony arrest. In ...
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Posted on Aug 8, 2010 By admin
There was applause this week when President Obama signed legislation cutting the federal penalties for possession of crack cocaine. The Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 is an overdue correction of a ...
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