LOS ANGELES (CNS) — The leader of Manny’s Delivery Service, a pizza-style telephone-order heroin and cocaine ring that operated in the San Fernando Valley for years, has pleaded guilty to […]
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Man Sent to Prison for Boy’s 2001 Kidnapping, Sexual Assault
SAN FERNANDO (CNS) — A Hollywood man who kidnapped a 14-year-old boy from a San Fernando Valley street in 2001 and sexually assaulted him was sentenced today to 35 years […]
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Murder Trial Opens for North Hills Man Charged in the Killings of Wife, Gay Son
SAN FERNANDO (CNS) — An angry husband thought that he had committed the “perfect crime” by killing his wife and blaming it on his gay son, whom he claimed to […]
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Ex-Sheriff Convicted in Federal Corruption Retrial
LOS ANGELES — Former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca was convicted of three federal charges for orchestrating a scheme to thwart an FBI investigation into inmate mistreatment in the […]
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Prosecutor Blasts Baca for Abusing Power
LOS ANGELES (CNS) — Former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca was the “heartbeat” of an internal conspiracy to thwart a federal probe into abuses in the jail system, a […]
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Former LA County Sheriff’s Deputies Sentenced to Prison
LOS ANGELES (CNS) — Two former Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies who beat and pepper-sprayed a mentally ill county jail inmate without provocation and then lied about it were sentenced […]
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Killer of TSA Officer at LAX Sentenced to Life in Prison
LOS ANGELES (CNS) — The gunman who opened fire inside a Los Angeles International Airport terminal three years ago, killing a TSA officer and wounding three other people, was sentenced […]
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Jury Clears NBA Star Derrick Rose in Rape Lawsuit
LOS ANGELES (CNS) — A federal court jury in downtown Los Angeles rejected a woman’s $21.5 million lawsuit alleging New York Knicks guard Derrick Rose and two of his friends […]
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LAX Shooter Pleads Guilty to TSA Officer’s Murder
LOS ANGELES (CNS) – A man who opened fire inside a Los Angeles International Airport terminal in 2013, killing a Transportation Security Administration officer, a San Fernando Valley resident and […]
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Ex-Sheriff Lee Baca Withdraws Guilty Plea, Heads to Trial
LOS ANGELES (CNS) – Former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca withdrew his guilty plea to a federal corruption charge today and will go to trial, with a court date […]