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 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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
Streetgangs.com Staff March 9, 2012 | 1:30 p.m. PST Downtown Los Angeles, Former California Highway Patrol officer Tomiekia Johnson, was sentenced to 50 years to life in state prison. Johnson, 32, was convicted in the first-degree murder or her husband, in 2009. Johnson claimed throughout the trial that the shooting of her 31-year-old husband, Marcus [...]
Streetgangs.com Staff February 24, 2012 | 7:46 p.m. PST LOS ANGELES – Last month a Los Angeles County Sheriff Deputy was arrested for smuggling drugs into a jail facility. Henry Marin, 27, surrendered to his colleagues at the South Los Angeles station after he was informed of the charges. Marin pleaded not guilty to charges [...]
Streetgangs.com Staff February 24, 2012 | 1:04 a.m. PST Last week, Jennifer Tamara McClain, 29, an Orange County Sheriff’s Department deputy, was arrested for engaging in a sexual relationship with an inmate. The identify of the inmate is, Christopher R. Brown, 30, who is a member of a white supremacist gang. McClain, a black woman, [...]
Streetgangs.com Staff February 10, 2012 | 8:05 a.m. PST An Orange County sheriff’s deputy was arrested and charged with having sex with an inmate at a jail facility in Santa Ana. Jennifer McClain, 29, was taken into custody Thursday while on the job at the jail facility. She was released on her own recognizance (OR) [...]
Streetgangs.com Staff February 9, 2012 | 2:30 p.m. PST LOS ANGELES – A former Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputy was charged last month for agreeing to accept $20,000 in bribes in exchange for smuggling contraband into the Men’s Central Jail in Los Angeles. Gilbert Michel, 38, was charged with one count of bribery of a [...]
Photos: Los Angeles Riots in 1992 and 20 years later (page 1 of 2)
Los Angeles Riots property damage from 1992 and 1997
Funeral Service for Rolland Miller in Los Angeles
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