A 70-year-old man in San Bernardino county may be facing charges after police found more than 1,700 cannabis plants and 20 pounds of processed marijuana at two outdoor grow locations. The man, Craig Schaffnit of Big River, was apparently growing the marijuana on two plots of unincorporated land i...
On the morning of August 8th, a 51-year-old man, Forrest Gordon Clark, was arrested at his home in connection with the large forest fire in the Cleveland National forest, that has burned over 18,000 acres. According to ABC 7 News, the Orange County fire authority became suspicious of Clark when t...
Officials from the Los Angeles Police Department report that they arrested two car burglars, Shant Balyan, 24, as well as David Asoyan, 27, for stealing from several cars in Van Nuys and Sylmar. According to ABC 7 News, police served two search warrants on the two men and discovered they had ...
Newly released crime data from the California Attorney General and state's Department of Justice shows a significant increase in hate crimes in California over the past two years. According to the department's report, reported hate crimes are up 17 percent from 2016. The report analyzed crimes t...
Early this year, USC wide receiver Joseph Lewis IV was arrested for two separate incidents of domestic violence. He was later released on a $50,000 bond. Lewis was immediately suspended from the USC football team following the allegations. According to the Los Angeles Times, the District Atto...
Police are currently looking for suspects who stole $18,000 worth of chemo medicine from a cancer patient visiting Southern California, according to a report by ABC 7 News. Officials say that the man, Warren Chambers, was on a trip from Philadelphia. He went to an open house in Inglewood, whe...
A 29-year-old Los Angeles woman was recently arrested and charged on suspicion of child abduction. According to the Los Angeles Times, Dariia Kostenko picked up her eight-year-old biological son Dylan from his elementary school. Dylan, however, had been placed in foster care over a year ago. W...
Farrah Laurel Abraham, best known for her roles on MTV's “Teen Mom,” is currently facing criminal charges after an alleged scuffle with a security guard at the Beverly Hills Hotel. KTLA News reported that Abraham was for some reason asked to leave the hotel's restaurant. She is accused of fig...
Gloria Govan, a former “Basketball Wives” star, has been arrested on suspicion of child endangerment after a confrontation with her ex-husband, former Los Angeles Laker Matt Barnes, that involved their children. According to a news report in the Los Angeles Daily News, the arrest took place a...
A star of the popular television show “Blackish,” Anthony Anderson, who is set to receive a Hollywood star this year, has been accused of sexual assault and is under criminal investigation. According to Variety, the woman claims she was assaulted after an event she catered last year for Anderso...
Far too often, individuals with mental health issues get mixed up in violating the law. However, because the criminal behavior is typically linked with deeper mental health issues, jail time or prison is likely not a proper or effective punishment for their behavior. In June of 2018, Governor B...
When people hear the phrase “driving under the influence” or “DUI” most people immediately associate it with driving after drinking alcohol or taking illegal drugs. The charge is not often associated with legal prescription drugs. However, in California, if you take a prescription drug that impai...
Legislators and several community organizations are working hard to pass SB-1437 which addresses California's Felony Murder statute. Recently, Senate Bill 1437 (SB-1437) was presented and passed out of the Senate Public Safety Committee, taking it one step closer to becoming a law. The goal of th...
A 26-year-old man, Justin Thomas, was arrested on suspicion of battery and assault with a dangerous weapon charges after he choked a man and threatened him with a knife near the Pasadena police station. According to the San Gabriel Valley Tribune, Thomas and the victim, a 37-year-old Los Angel...
Another year is upon us and even if you are doing a daytime celebration of 2019, NYE can be a really dangerous time of year when it comes to drinking and driving. Not only are alcohol-related car accidents on the rise during this time of year but so too are DUI arrests. According to the National ...
Officers from the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department recently arrested a man suspected of sexual battery of a 51-year-old woman. The man, Thomas Flach, owns an acupuncture clinic in Lake Arrowhead. According to CBS News, the victim went in to her acupuncture appointment and “was lying fa...
‘Tis the season not only for holiday cheer but also for a surge in crime as well. But what happens if you steal Christmas ornaments—is that actually a crime? It certainly is! Stealing is always a crime and stealing something as sentimental as holiday displays is one that the local Ventura and Los...
On May 10, 2018 a 21-year-old man, Thomas Lee McElroy, pleaded guilty to five felony counts of rape and one felony count of forcible oral copulation with a 17-year-old female victim, according to a report by the Orange County Register. According to the report, McElroy was able to send threateni...
According to the Orange County Register, a young boy was taken into custody on the morning of May 11, 2018 after he fired a rifle at school, injuring one student. The shooting occurred just after 7 a.m. in the morning before school had started for the day. The injured student, who was shot in t...
According to a report by the Los Angeles Daily News, a 44-year-old male, Brett Patrick Rogers, was arrested on May 11 for allegedly committing several Los Angeles County burglaries. According to the report, Rogers allegedly committed the burglaries while the residents were at funerals. The burgl...
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...
