Seema Mehta (LA Times)
November 20th, 2009
Police are asking for the public’s help today in solving three separate murders in south Los Angeles County.
One person was killed and two wounded about 11:30 p.m. Thursday in a shooting outside a liquor store in the 3600 block of Santa Fe Avenue in Long Beach, according to city police [...]
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Liset Márquez (Contra Costa Times)
11/19/09
ONTARIO – These days social networking sites and cell phones are not just a place to catch up with friends.
Gangs in Southern California are using them to orchestra crime, commit fraud and traffic drugs.
The issue is so severe at California Institution for Men in Chino, that Lt. Thomas Goetz said he [...]
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by Raja Abdulrahim (LA Times)
November 19, 2009
Los Angeles County saw an overall 4% drop in hate crimes last year, while crimes against gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgendered people increased, prompted in part by last November’s highly charged Proposition 8 initiative, the voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage in California, according to a new report released today.
There [...]
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Justo Bautista (NorthJersey.com)
November 19, 2009
Eight alleged members and associates of the Bloods and Crips street gangs have been arrested on drug and weapons charges by a task force from Bergen and Hudson counties and the Secret Service, authorities announced Wednesday.
Those arrested were rounded up after a four-month undercover operation that began in July, Bergen County [...]
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by Robert Lopez (LA Times)
November 18, 2009
Devin Petelski’s BMW had just entered a Venice intersection shortly before midnight Oct. 15, when she was broadsided by a Los Angeles Police Department cruiser. She died two days later in the hospital, where she had been on life support.
In the weeks following the collision, friends and relatives of [...]
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by Robert Lopez (LA Times)
November 19, 2009
In the end, despite a sophisticated filtration system, it was the smell that smoked out the marijuana-growing operation located just 25 feet from the Los Angeles Police Department’s Topanga station in Canoga Park.
LAPD officials said officers began noticing the smell of pot Tuesday morning, investigated, got warrants and closed [...]
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By Scott Gold (LA Times)
November 19, 2009
A city-sponsored training academy for gang intervention workers will open at least a year later than Los Angeles officials had hoped after a collision of philosophies and egos — a hitch in the city’s effort to modernize its campaign against street violence.
Officials said this week that an independent panel [...]
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Stacia Glenn (The Sun)
11/19/2009
A 16-year-old boy was arrested Wednesday night for a triple shooting in San Bernardino earlier this week that killed one man and wounded two others, police said.
The boy was arrested about 7:20 p.m. in the 200 block of W. 39th Street. His name was not released because of his age. The District [...]
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By Alex Alonso
November 18, 2009
The Fulton County coroner has ruled Ashley “AJ” Jewell’s death was not a result of the injuries that he sustained in a fight he had with Frederick Richardson on October 2, 2009. Jewell was the ex-fiance of Kandi Burruss, a cast member on Bravo’s The Real Housewives of [...]
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By Scott Glover and Joel Rubin (LA Times)
November 18, 2009
A once-promising high school football star accused of fatally shooting the mother of a young woman who was expected to testify against him in a robbery case was convicted Tuesday of attempting to intimidate a witness, but the jury deadlocked on the more serious charges against [...]
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