Ex-Taco Bell exec accused of assault, battery in attack on Uber driver
Photo via Pixabay A 32-year-old former Taco Bell executive was charged Tuesday with misdemeanor assault and battery in connection with an alleged attack on an Uber driver in Costa Mesa. Benjamin Allen...
View ArticleConvicted drunken driver runs over, kills man sitting on a curb; murder...
Photo via Pixabay A 55-year-old Santa Ana resident with multiple drunken driving convictions was charged Thursday with second-degree murder, hit-and-run and DUI charges for allegedly running over a man...
View ArticleLAPD sergeant who detained ‘Django’ actress accused of violating ethics rules...
MyNewsLA.com Photo A retired Los Angeles Police sergeant who released a recording of his conversation with a “Django Unchained” actress who accused him of racial profiling could face up to $10,000 in...
View ArticleMan pleads not guilty to attack on ‘NCIS’ star Pauley Perrette
2014 AHA Hero Dog Awards Celebrity Presenters, Pauley Perrette, September 2014. Photo by State Farm [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons.A 45-year-old...
View ArticleFormer NBA player charged with felony count of driving without consent
Photo via Shutterstock Former NBA player Jeff Adrien, who’s accused of driving off in a luxury car that had been left with a hotel valet, pleaded not guilty Wednesday to a felony charge of driving or...
View ArticleJanitor suspected of killing escort in Newport Beach office building charged...
A 29-year-old man suspected of killing a young female escort whose body was found in a Newport Beach office complex where he worked as a janitor pleaded not guilty Monday to murder. Nain Isaac Nieto...
View ArticleFly a drone, go to jail? Drone operators first in LA to be charged with crimes
A type of drone. Photo by Flying Eye [Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0] via Wikimedia Commons.Two people who allegedly flew drones near heliports in downtown Los Angeles and...
View ArticleHusband charged with attacking wife with meat cleaver in front of 7-year-old son
Photo via Shutterstock A 46-year-old Garden Grove man accused of attacking his wife with a meat cleaver in front of the couple’s 7-year-old son was charged Thursday with attempted murder and other...
View Article‘Kia Hamster’ danced on TV while on disability; ‘No contest’ plea to...
A Los Angeles man who portrayed one of the dancing hamsters in TV commercials for Kia Soul cars — while collecting disability benefits — will be spending the next three months under electronic...
View ArticleSoCalGas pleads not guilty to criminal charges arising from Porter Ranch gas...
Photo via Southern California Gas Co. Days after Southern California Gas Co. declared that it had temporarily capped a months-old leak of natural gas in Porter Ranch, the company pleaded not guilty...
View ArticleSteal cerebral palsy teen’s $5,300 tricycle? Career criminal says no
Photo via Wikimedia Commons. A career criminal pleaded not guilty Friday to charges stemming from the theft of a 13-year-old disabled boy’s $5,300 tricycle from the parking garage of a Burbank...
View Article11-year-old boy denies trying to kill classmate at Boyle Heights school
Bridge Street Elementary School. Photo via Facebook A fifth-grader charged with attempted murder Monday denied stabbing a classmate at their Boyle Heights elementary school. The 11-year-old boy...
View ArticleSchool bus driver charged in death of 19-year-old autistic man
Photo via Pixabay The driver of a school bus on which an autistic 19-year-old was left alone last September was charged Friday with a felony count of dependent adult abuse resulting in the young man’s...
View ArticleEx-con charged in killing owner of Tustin mixed-martial arts boxing center
A 44-year-old man shot to death at a Tustin mixed-martial arts and boxing training center was identified Monday by the Orange County coroner’s office, as police tried to figure how why he was killed....
View ArticleVan Nuys man charged with raping hairstylist at salon
File photo. More than a half-dozen felony charges were filed Tuesday against a man accused of grabbing a hairstylist at a Van Nuys salon, dragging her to the back of the shop and raping her, in a crime...
View ArticleDad allegedly left 9-month-old daughter in car while visiting strip club
Photo via Pixabay A man who allegedly left his 9-month-old daughter inside a car in Panorama City last month while he went into a strip club is facing a felony child abuse charge, the Los Angeles...
View ArticleLA Times photographer charged over shots of Nancy Reagan funeral
Photo via Pixabay A Los Angeles Times photographer has been charged with a misdemeanor count of resisting, obstructing or delaying a peace officer in a complaint filed by the Ventura County District...
View ArticleMusic teacher charged with child pornography count
Photo via Shutterstock A Torrance middle school music teacher made his initial court appearance Friday on a child pornography charge. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Sergio C. Tapia II ordered Eric...
View ArticleToddler’s alleged killer – mother’s boyfriend – charged: Pregnant mother also...
Photo via Pixabay A 22-year-old man accused of fatally stabbing a 2- year-old girl and wounding her pregnant mother — his live-in girlfriend — in the Jefferson Park area was charged Thursday with...
View ArticleMystery of lifeguard naked girls pix: How’d he get those alleged cell phone...
Photo by John Schreiber. Burbank police Thursday had not yet released any details of how a public pool lifeguard allegedly managed to photograph on his cell phone naked underage girls and adult women...
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