Archive for October, 2008

A San Luis Obispo mother and her son were arrested this week following an investigation into fraud allegations connected to the operation of their business, Estate Financial. The pair are being held on $5 million bonds and face 26 separate felony charges related to Estate Financial’s operation and eventual failure in July 2008.
The District [...]

Actor Ryan O’Neal, 67, and his son Redmond, 23, were charged with felony drug possession after police searched their home in Malibu in September. The search was one of the terms of Redmond O’Neal’s probation in an earlier drug arrest. In June, Redmond O’Neal was sentenced to three years’ probation after police stopped him while [...]

An Orange County man has been arrested in connection with the robbery of a Wescom Credit Union branch. The branch, located on West Chapman, was robbed on Friday, October 10. Charles Langsdon is suspected of entering the branch and handing a teller a note demanding money. The note allegedly mentioned a weapon but no weapon [...]

Last week, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms announced the arrests of 22 individuals allegedly linked to the Rollin’ 30s Harlem Crips street gang. Those detained face a number of federal narcotics and firearms charges. The arrests were the result of a joint investigation by federal and state authorities. In addition, two other individuals [...]

A Los Angeles Superior Court judge has sentenced former Los Angeles city commissioner Leland Wong to five years in prison and ordered to pay $138,000 in restitution and fines after Wong was convicted of 14 felony counts including bribery, conflict of interest, perjury and embezzlement.
Prosecutors accused Wong of accepting $5,000 monthly bribes from a [...]

A Los Angeles man was arraigned in Los Angeles Superior Court on charges of murder, arson and causing an explosion in the firebombing death of Rose Marco, 57, in Hollywood in September 2007. Frank Siganoff is accused of throwing a Molotov cocktail into a business establishment occupied by the victim, who operated a fortunetelling shop [...]

A federal grand jury in San Diego handed down indictments against eleven people accused of conspiring to cheat a number of casinos across the country. The indictments are part of an investigation of the activities of a group known as the “Tran Organization.” Members of the Tran Organization devised methods, which included bribing casino dealers, [...]

This November, California voters will consider Proposition 5, a measure that reduces the incarceration of non-violent drug offenders and provides more intensive rehabilitation for those convicted of certain drug-related offenses.
If passed, Proposition 5 will require the state to expand treatment options for individuals convicted of non-violent drug offenses. This portion of the ballot measure [...]

A Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputy who has been with the department for 10 months, has been charged in an assault on his wife and the man with whom she admitted to having an affair. The victim informed her husband that she was leaving him for her lover, who was also a co-worker.
The deputy [...]

Authorities in Southern California have charged a man arrested at Disneyland last month with nine felonies after linking him to a 10-city crime spree that spanned cities in Los Angeles, Orange and Ventura counties. The suspect faces charges of attempted murder, carjacking, home invasion, robbery, burglary, identity theft, causing serious injury to a peace officer, [...]