By Robert Faturechi, Los Angeles Times June 14, 2013, 11:55 p.m. Compton jury awards $7.5 million to the parents of 21-year-old Robert Thomas Jr., who was shot seven times by an L.A. County deputy in Willowbrook in 2010. A Compton jury Friday awarded $7.5 million to the parents of a man shot dead by a [...]
By John Harper, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune June 13, 2013 at 9:42 PM Forty-four Orleans Parish inmates, for years denied almost all close contact with family members, sat just feet away from parents and other relatives waiting to congratulate them Thursday. The occasion: The 23rd class was graduating from the Sheriff’s Office’s Re-entry and Rehabilitation [...]
By Lauren McGaughy, NOLA.com | The Times Picayune June 10, 2013 at 11:59 PM, updated June 11, 2013 at 7:43 PM Three inmates on death row at the Louisiana State Penitentiary have filed suit in Baton Rouge federal court against jail officials for what they call “appalling and extreme conditions … as a result of [...]
By Stefani Camille WWW.STREETGANGS.COM STAFF WRITER June 11, 2013 Compton rapper and record producer David Marvin Blake aka DJ Quik best know for his West Coast style of self made mix tapes. Blake’s daughter, Davieanna Marlena Blake, 21, was arrested for first-degree murder and child abuse according to Phoenix police. Davienna and the father of [...]
By Joel Rubin, Los Angeles Times June 4, 2013, 11:54 p.m Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck is shown outside LAPD headquarters. The department has reportedly concluded the 2009 dismissal of former officer Christopher Dorner was appropriate and that his allegations of corruption prior to a deadly rampage earlier this year were unfounded. (Christina House [...]
By Nicole Santa Cruz, Los Angeles Times June 3, 2013, 10:41 p.m. Los Angeles police detectives are seeking people who may have seen the deadly shootings in South L.A. over the weekend. Detectives from the Los Angeles Police Department are searching for people who may have witnessed three fatal shootings that occurred in South Los [...]
By Thomas Curwen, Los Angeles Times June 2, 2013, 8:20 p.m. The officer, who normally patrols the streets of Watsonville, Calif., takes action when she hears a desperate immigrant’s story of kidnapping and death threats. WATSONVILLE, Calif. — She introduced herself as Sarani Hernandez and said in Spanish that she needed help. She took a [...]
By Veronica Rocha, Los Angeles Times May 29, 2013 Three Glendale police officers, a department-issued car and a joyride to Las Vegas — that journey and its potential consequences hit in Los Angeles County Superior Court on Tuesday. An attorney for Officer Patrick Hamblin and his former colleagues — Fernando Salmeron and Mike Ullerich, who [...]
By Joel Rubin, Los Angeles Times May 27, 2013 Just 11 months into his job as a Los Angeles police officer, Sergio Arreola had a choice to make: resign or be fired. The day before, April 11, 2012, he had been handcuffed and booked by Pomona police for allegedly assaulting them during a traffic accident [...]
by Joaquin Sapien ProPublica, May 23, 2013, 9 a.m. This is part of a series. Read Part 1 and Part 2. May 23: This story has been corrected. Michael Vecchione, head of the rackets division in the Brooklyn district attorney’s office, takes questions from the media in 2008. Vecchione is named in the wrongful conviction [...]
By Andrew Blankstein | Los Angeles Times | May 21, 2013 A Los Angeles police officer was due in court Tuesday on charges he committed lewd acts on two girls under 10 years old. Miguel Angel Schiappapietra, a six-year veteran of the LAPD, was arrested Saturday, said LAPD Cmdr. Andrew Smith. According to the Los Angeles County [...]
By J. David Goodman, The New York Times Published: May 21, 2013 It was the sort of discovery that is usually the mark of good police work: A Bronx detective came upon an online criminal enterprise that offered — for a low price — to hack into private e-mail accounts. But the detective was not [...]
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