A cross-border drug tunnel connecting a Mexican restaurant in Mexicali to a house in Calexico was seized Wednesday morning, federal officials said. The investigation led to the confiscation of more than a ton of marijuana and the arrests of four people in Calexico and Arizona. The 415-yard tunnel...
It was clear to Debbie Hawk’s family that she probably met a grim end when she disappeared 10 years ago. When her three children walked into her Hanford home in June 2006, they found a trail of blood leading to the garage. Her van was missing. Though she was never seen again, her ex-husband, Dave...
The sketch artist listened as Enietra Washington described the man she said raped and shot her. It was Nov. 29, 1988, and as Washington lay in her hospital bed, she described to Los Angeles County Sheriff's Deputy Mahlon Coleman features of the man she said left her for dead on a South Los Angeles...
One question has persisted in the months since the San Bernardino terrorist attack: Could authorities have foiled the shooters' plot before they opened fire? Syed Rizwan Farook and his wife, officials said, were self-radicalized terrorists who built bombs in their suburban garage in the months...
Police are searching for an arsonist who set a series of blazes around the North Park and Hillcrest neighborhoods of San Diego on Monday morning. The first fires were started in the beds of pickups parked on Boundary Street between Lincoln and Polk avenues about 4:40 a.m., said San Diego Fire-Rescue...
California Atty. Gen. Kamala Harris wants to require police agencies to file detailed reports about officer-involved shootings to her office electronically, so they can be quickly and easily posted on a state website for public viewing. Despite the heated national debate over police use of force,...
The sight of people sprinting through one of Los Angeles International Airport's sprawling terminals isn't all that uncommon. As long as they're running toward a flight, anyway. But after she was selected for a random security screening, a flight attendant kicked off her heels and sprinted in the...
The trial of the man accused in the so-called Grim Sleeper serial killings shifted to the defense Monday, with an attorney repeatedly challenging DNA and ballistics evidence linking his client to the grisly deaths and suggesting other attackers may have been involved.Lonnie Franklin Jr. faces 10...
One person was killed Monday afternoon in a car crash that possibly involved street racing near a San Bernardino elementary school. The crash was reported about 3:15 p.m. near Waterman Avenue and 9th Street, where a gray Acura sedan had been speeding and weaving in and out of traffic, San Bernardino...
A Bay Area man who was wanted in connection with killing a CarMax salesman while test driving a Corvette has turned himself in to authorities, prosecutors said. Alex Demetro, 28, surrendered to authorities at 10:45 a.m. Friday at the San Bernardino County Superior Court in Rancho Cucamonga, according...
A Los Angeles County Jail inmate died early Sunday, shortly after fellow inmates reported that he was having a seizure. Inmates at the North County Correctional Facility in Castaic told deputies about 7 a.m. that a man in their dorm was having a seizure, said Deputy Guillermina Saldaña of the L.A....
Los Angeles Sheriff's Department detectives are investigating the possible kidnapping of a man in East Los Angeles, authorities said Saturday. A man was last seen being forced into a vehicle by two men before being driven away from the 300 block of North Rowan Avenue, according to a statement from...
The death of a 33-year-old inmate at the California state prison in Lancaster is being investigated as “suspicious” pending the outcome of an autopsy. Gordon Rowell, who was serving a manslaughter sentence, was found unresponsive in his cell Friday morning after other inmates apparently alerted...
Authorities are investigating the shooting of a disabled woman that left her critically injured Saturday morning. The woman was sitting in her wheelchair outside the Maravilla Housing Project on the corner of Cesar E. Chavez and Mednik avenues when she was shot about 4:30 a.m. Saturday, said Sgt....
The pilot of a commercial jetliner said his plane nearly collided with a drone while approaching Los Angeles International Airport on Friday afternoon, sparking a search by L.A. police and sheriff's officials for the owner of the unmanned aircraft. The near-miss was reported before 2 p.m. about...
A generation ago, long before Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown and the Black Lives Matter movement, the death of Latasha Harlins lit a fuse inside Los Angeles' African American community. Latasha, 15, was shot in the back of the head by a Korean woman who owned a South Los Angeles liquor store. The...
A woman who was convicted of damaging statues at a Santa Ana Buddhist temple last year is at it again, police said. Santa Ana police said Trang Thu Pham targeted another Buddhist temple on Feb. 26, stealing two 2-foot-tall statues from a shrine. The shrine was near a sidewalk outside Chua Truc...
A murder charge against a drug and alcohol rehab corporation and its employees in the death of a client was thrown out Friday by a Riverside County judge, sharply limiting a criminal case that had sent a jolt through California’s large drug and alcohol rehabilitation industry. The judge ruled that...
The white and brown pup had been staked to the ground with a rope and shovel, and likely drowned as the tide slowly rose over its head at Mother's Beach in Marina del Rey, according to authorities. On Friday, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said it was investigating the animal's death...
A 63-year-old public health professor at Loma Linda University was arrested Thursday on suspicion of sexual battery during a meeting with a student in his office, authorities said. Mahmood G. Ghamsary, an associate professor who previously directed the private university's biostatistics program,...
Demonstrators accused of blocking the 101 Freeway during a 2014 protest against police abuse were exercising their free-speech rights and used nonviolent action to make their point, a defense attorney told jurors on Thursday. As the trial of seven Black Lives Matter protesters began in an East...
Prosecutors are seeking possible victims connected to an Uber driver who has been charged with raping a female passenger after he picked her up from a bar in Fullerton. Omar Mahmoud Mousa, 52, of Anaheim appeared in court Thursday, where his bail was set at $100,000, said Roxi Fyad, spokeswoman...
An off-duty Fontana police officer shot and killed a suspected robber at his Apple Valley home Wednesday morning, authorities said. The officer awoke about 5:39 a.m. to find a man trying to steal personal belongings inside his home in the 20000 block of Ochoa Road, according to the San Bernardino...
A Los Angeles-based cyclist has pleaded guilty to procuring performance-enhancing drugs from Europe and China and selling them online to professional and amateur athletes, according to court papers. Nicholas Brandt-Sorenson entered his plea Wednesday in a downtown federal courtroom, admitting to...
Two weeks after the beating of Rodney King, a Korean-born shopkeeper shot a 15-year-old black girl named Latasha Harlins in the back of her head in a dispute over a bottle of orange juice. Unlike King, the teen did not live to tell about it. The two racially charged incidents sparked outrage in...
A 33-year-old woman was sentenced Wednesday to 14 years in state prison for abandoning her newborn daughter under slabs of asphalt near a Compton bike path, prosecutors said. A judge sentenced Porche Laronda Washington after she pleaded no contest to attempted murder, according to Sarah Ardalani,...
An 18-year-old man was charged Tuesday in connection with the torture, rape and beating of a woman for several hours at her home in Hesperia, authorities said. Charles Agnew-Toland of Las Vegas pleaded not guilty Tuesday to one count of torture, assault with a deadly weapon, false imprisonment...
The photograph screened in a downtown Los Angeles courtroom revealed a gruesome image: the face of a woman with a long-sleeve white shirt stuffed down her throat. Henrietta Wright’s nearly nude body was found under a mattress in a South Los Angeles alley in 1986. It would be more than 25 years...
Mixed martial arts fighter Jason “Mayhem” Miller is in trouble with the law again. This time, Miller was arrested on a warrant in connection with vandalizing a now-shuttered tattoo shop in Lake Forest on Jan. 27, said Lt. Mark Stichter, a spokesman for the Orange County Sheriff’s Department. Miller...
The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department and the FBI have joined forces to turn up the heat on the so-called Cold Hands Bandit and his right-hand man, a pair of bank robbers who have hit at least 15 banks in L.A. County in four months, authorities said. In a statement Tuesday, the sheriff’s...
Two weeks after the beating of Rodney King, a Korean-born shopkeeper shot a 15-year-old black girl named Latasha Harlins in the back of her head in a dispute over a bottle of orange juice. Unlike King, the teen did not live to tell about it. The two racially charged incidents sparked outrage in...
A defense attorney representing convicted murderer Daniel Wozniak will have until the end of April to file a brief asking the court to throw out the jury's death penalty verdict. Wozniak was expected to receive his final sentence in Orange County Superior Court last week. Instead, Judge John Conley...
Two students at Palisades Charter High School were arrested in connection with racist graffiti that was spray-painted on a sign and an iconic mural at the Westside campus, police said late Tuesday. Both students are under the age of 18 and were released to their parents, the Los Angeles Police...
In its back-and-forth legal wrangling with the FBI over a killer's locked iPhone, Apple got a final word in Tuesday — arguing again in court papers that forcing the company to help federal officials access the phone would be illegal and dangerous. The filing in U.S. District Court in Riverside...
An off-duty LAPD lieutenant shot two suspected burglars who broke into his San Gabriel home Tuesday morning, leaving one in critical condition, police said. The lieutenant, who was not identified, was in his kitchen when he shot the two men after they climbed out a window and were in his backyard,...
The detective slid the photograph across the table. The man on the other side tilted his head, silently eyeing the picture of a smiling woman with a brown ponytail and red lipstick. It was July 7, 2010, and on the fifth floor of LAPD headquarters, two detectives sat across from Lonnie Franklin...
Just one day after advocates for the homeless filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the city of Los Angeles, work crews and police were out again Tuesday making arrests and removing homeless encampments along a highly visible stretch of the 101 Freeway downtown.The sweep, which was conducted...
Attorneys for a man accused in a Lake Forest assault have asked that the Orange County district attorney's office be thrown off the case, citing "a pattern of intimidation" against defense witnesses — most recently when one of the district attorney's investigators bloodied an attorney in a courthouse...
A jury Tuesday convicted a Los Angeles man of killing four people after he fired more than 50 shots inside a Valley Village restaurant during a memorial gathering in 2010. The jury of nine men and three women found Nerses Arthur Galstyan guilty of two counts of first-degree murder with the special...
Authorities are asking for the public’s help in identifying a man with foul body odor who attempted to kidnap a woman at knifepoint as she placed items in her vehicle in a Norwalk neighborhood. The 26-year-old woman was attacked from behind about 9:20 a.m. on Feb. 25 in the parking lot of her apartment...
A Bay Area man has been charged with killing a CarMax salesman while test driving a Corvette, prosecutors announced Tuesday. Alex Demetro, 28, was charged last week with one count of gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated, one count of driving under the influence of a drug and causing injury...