
By Alex Alonso Streetgangs.com Staff Writer May 13, 2012 | 10:49 p.m. Former LAPD detective that was convicted of murder last March was sentence Friday by Judge Robert Perry to 27 years to life. Stephanie Lazarus, 52, has been incarcerated in the Los Angeles County jail since her 2009 arrest for the 1986 murder of [...]

Streetgangs.com Staff May 11, 2012 | 10:23 p.m. PST A Riverside jury found Earl Ellis Green of killing Riverside police officer Ryan Bonaminio at point-blank range as the officer pleaded for his life. The jury deliberated for three hours before returning Friday with the guilty verdict on first-degree murder. That conviction also carried a special [...]
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Streetgangs.com Staff May 10, 2012 | 4:25 p.m. PST An investigation into the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department has revealed that the gang unit has members involved in their own secret gang. They have matching tattoos of a gun-toting skeleton which deputies would modify when they were involved in a shooting. One deputy has already [...]

May 9, 2012 | 22:20 PDT | Long Beach, Calif. (AP) – Long Beach police say an officer who was arrested last month for investigation of possession of child pornography has been arrested again for several sexually-based offenses. A police department statement says Officer Noe Yanez was arrested Wednesday and was being held on $951,000 [...]

Streetgangs.com Staff April 20, 2012 | 10:51 a.m. PST LONG BEACH, Calif.—Investigators say a Long Beach police officer has been arrested for child porn possession. Officer Noe Yanez, a nine-year veteran of the department, came into contact with the minor in the course of his work and began contacting the victim via text messages, officials [...]

Brian Charles (Pasadena-Star News) | March 27, 2012 PASADENA – The lawyer for slain teenager Kendrec McDade’s family on Tuesday described the shooting of the former Azusa High School football standout as a drive-by conducted by a member of the Pasadena Police Department. Attorney Caree Harper said an unidentified officer rolled down the window of [...]
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Streetgangs.com Staff March 20, 2012 | 1:15 p.m. PST San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi was sentenced Monday to three years of probation in a domestic-violence case involving his wife, Eliana Lopez a former Venezuelan telenovela star. The saga began New Year’s Eve, when Mirkarimi, his wife and their 2-year-old son, Theo, went out for lunch, [...]

MATT GUTMAN, OLIVIA KATRANDJIAN and SENI TIENABESO (ABC) | March 18, 2012 The family of Trayvon Martin is asking the FBI to get involved in the investigation of the killing of the unarmed 17-year-old Florida high school student, who was shot last month by a self-appointed neighborhood watchman outside his stepmother’s home. Martin, a black [...]

Streetgangs.com Staff March 16, 2012 | 12:00 p.m. PST Lee Freddie Gaines II, a former Modesto police officer was arrested at his Modesto home on Thursday and, after a brief court appearance, was booked at the Stanislaus County Jail, according to police Lt. Rick Armendariz. Gaines had worked for the department for five years before [...]

Streetgangs.com Staff Writer March 15, 2012 | 10:30 a.m. PST Joshua Jinwook Chong, 41, of Fullerton, is a 15-year veteran of the LAPD. Chong has been charged with making criminal threats against a woman he formerly had a relationship with. Within 24 hours, Chong is accused of making more than two dozen calls to the [...]

Joel Rubin (Los Angeles Times) | March 14, 2012 Acknowledging major problems with the quality of its investigations into serious traffic collisions involving officers, the Los Angeles Police Department on Tuesday announced new rules intended to improve the thoroughness and credibility of the inquiries. The move follows a pair of Los Angeles Times articles in [...]
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Richard Winton and Abby Sewell (Los Angeles Times) | March 13, 2012 A former Fullerton police officer was charged Tuesday with destroying evidence by smashing a digital audio recorder that would have captured his conversations with a 52-year-old man who later committed suicide in the city jail. Vincent Thomas Mater, 41, is charged with one misdemeanor [...]
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