41-year-old Jonathan Jackson is facing criminal charges in Los Angeles for attempted extortion and extortion by threatening letter. The charges arise from actions Jackson took last August when he tried to extort money from actor/comedian Kevin Hart. According to U.S. News, Jackson secretly sho...
Cesar Lozano, a 23-year-old man from Reseda, was taken into custody by the Los Angeles Police Department facing charges for the fatal shooting of Guillermo Hernandez. ABC News 7 reported that Hernandez was attending a party on Sunday May 13, 2018 in Encino. According to witnesses, while at th...
The Redondo Beach Police Department recently arrested a 44-year old transient, Richard John Reynierse, for allegedly stabbing a man repeatedly while on a bus in Redondo Beach. As reported by The Daily Breeze, police responded to reports of a stabbing on a Beach Cities Transit bus stopped near Ki...
68-year-old Vicente Benavides has been on California's death row for 25 years. In 1993, Benavides was convicted of raping and killing his girlfriend's 2-year-old daughter. Benavides was finally freed from San Quentin State Prison in Northern California when evidence of false medical testimony at ...
Last month, three teens from Las Vegas were killed by a drunk driver, and another seriously injured, while visiting Southern California for spring break. The driver, Bani Duarte from San Clemente, was originally arrested for driving under the influence, but then released on bail after the acciden...
The Anaheim police are searching for a suspect who carjacked a 79-year-old woman's 2008 Kia Rio. According to CBS Los Angeles, the carjacking victim saw a young woman, about 18-years-old, in the parking lot of her apartment complex apparently crying. The victim offered to help the young woman and...
Recently, a man from Colorado was arrested in Beverly Hills for allegedly stalking Taylor Swift. The Daily Breeze reported that the man was taken into custody after Taylor Swift's security personnel called police saying there was a suspicious person near Swift's home. While the man has now be...
The California Highway Patrol are looking for an FFA trailer that was stolen from their location in Northern California. The 90th Future Farmers of America Leadership Conference is to be held in Anaheim, and the contents of the trailer are particularly important—the trailer held 8,000 Disneyland ...
The crime of forgery is often glamorized by crime shows and movies. The reality is, forgery is a crime that can be charged as a misdemeanor or a felony. Under California Law, forgery is a white collar crime that includes: signing someone else's name, forging someone else's handwriting, falsif...
KTLA 5 News reports that a San Fernando Valley man, Patrick Robert Day, has been arrested for allegedly committing several bank robberies in the San Fernando Valley area. Nick-named the “Ginger-bandit” because of his red hair and beard, Day allegedly robbed three banks in one day. According to...
The summer months bring endless of hours of sunlight, hotter temperatures and more trips to the beach. Unfortunately, summer months also bring an increase in crime rates such as Valencia burglaries. The U.S. Department of Justice[1], using information provided by the Bureau of Justice Stati...
A Santa Clarita restaurant owner is on trial for four misdemeanor counts of sexual battery against one of his employees. The female employee accused the owner of inappropriately touching her on four different occasions, two of which included the owner putting his hand down her pants. The Signal ...
According to USA today, a 40-year-old Ventura County man was arrested on suspicion of felony assault with a deadly weapon for throwing an object at a Camarillo hotel receptionist's face. The Ventura County Sheriff's Office stated that the man “entered the hotel Monday and requested a cup of coff...
Hardly a day goes by without news of the current opioid crisis facing the country. As the crisis grows, more and more doctors are being investigated and accused of illegally writing prescriptions, over proscribing opioids, and illegally selling opioids. Some doctors have even faced involuntary ma...
Recently, ex-NBA star Dennis Rodman was arrested in Newport Beach for driving under the influence. According to FOX News, Rodman was arrested in January after a breathalyzer test showed his blood alcohol level was .21 percent, making it almost three times the legal limit of .08 percent. This i...
Recently, an Arleta man, Andrew Flanigan, was arrested for allegedly causing an accident on a Santa Clarita freeway last June. The cause of the accident: road rage. A video filming what led up to the accident and the accident itself was captured by a passing car. Flanigan, riding a motorcycle...
Every day, hundreds of people are charged with violating one of California's many drug laws. Being convicted of even a minor drug charge can have many negative consequences on a person's life. It is important to know that even if you have been charged with a drug offense, you still have rights an...
A 14-year-old boy in San Bernardino County was arrest last week when he took “playing cop” way too far. The teenage boy dressed in a sheriff's uniform, with what appeared to be a gun strapped to his side, and drove up to a Victorville home with red and blue emergency lights flashing from his grea...
A Southern California man is facing charges of arson for six different fires started in Pasadena, Arcadia and Monrovia. “Five of the fires took place on Jan. 13, along the Foothill Boulevard corridor between Sierra Madre Villa Avenue in Pasadena and the Los Angeles County Arboretum in Arcadia. An...
According to the Los Angeles Daily News, three people were arrested in Glendale when officers found 10 pounds of meth in their car. The three individuals were traveling through Glendale from Wyoming when an officer pulled the driver over for a traffic violation. Once pulled over, a license chec...
According to ABC News 7, a “U.S. government-commissioned report by a panel of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine recommends significantly lowering the drunken-driving threshold from .08 to .05.” The main goal of the drop is to aid in reducing the number of alcohol-impair...
The Los Angeles Daily News recently reported that “two men from Los Angeles were arrested on suspicion of committing a residential burglary.” The police responded to the home after neighbors heard an alarm sounding at the residential home. The caller “indicated three men—who didnt live in the ne...
What started as a prank 911 call, ended with an innocent death. According CNN News, Wichita Kansas police received a 911 call begging police to respond to a murder and hostage situation at a local home. The officers arrived and prepared for a hostage situation with an armed perpetrator and got in...
In September of 2016, California voters voted to legalize marijuana. This legalization of marijuana not only ended the possibility of future criminal charges for recreational marijuana use and sale, but also addressed what happens to individuals convicted of marijuana crimes before the law change...
A welcome trend in Los Angeles—criminal arrests continue to drop. In addition to arrests, citations such as traffic violations also continue to fall. How drastic is this decline? From 2013 (a low year) to 20015, arrests dropped 25%. And the decline is seen across the state of California—from 1.5...
