VENTURA, California – Shooting by Sheriff’s Sergeant and CHP Officer at Borderline Bar & Grill on Nov. 7, 2018 was justified, the Ventura County District Attorney announced Thursday. The District Attorney’s concluded…
Category: Courts & Cases
Woman Admits Stealing More Than $500,000 in COVID-19 Jobless Relief
LOS ANGELES A Riverside County woman plead guilty Wednesday to a federal criminal charge for fraudulently obtaining more than $500,000 in COVID-related unemployment benefits for herself, officials stated. Cara Marie Kirk-Connell,…
40 Charged in Indictment Involving Use of Cell Phones by Inmates to Commit Crimes
SOUTH CAROLINA A federal grand jury returned a 147-count superseding indictment against 40 defendants across South Carolina in the largest federal racketeering conspiracy in South Carolina history, officials announced Thursday. The indictment…
ICE: Ten High-Profile Human Smugglers Arrested
ICE assists Brazil in the arrests of 10 human smugglers BRASILIA, Brazil – U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) assists Brazil Federal Police (PF) in the arrests of ten high-profile targets in…
Man Who Decapitated Two Children, Abused Two More, Charged with Murder, Child Abuse
LOS ANGELES COUNTY A Lancaster father of four has been charged with decapitating his teenage son and daughter and abusing his other two boys last week, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s…
Feds File Lawsuit Against Facebook for Discriminating Against U.S. Workers
The Department of Justice announced Thursday that it filed a lawsuit against Facebook Inc. for discriminating against U.S. workers, according to officials. The lawsuit alleges that Facebook refused to recruit, consider, or…
Five MS-13 Members Charged with Brutal, Hacking Murder
HOUSTON Five members of the violent Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) gang were charged with conspiracy and murder in aid of racketeering, officials announced Tuesday. Wilson Jose Ventura-Mejia, 24; Jimmy Villalobos-Gomez, 23; Angel Miguel…
Man Executed for the 1994 Kidnapping and Murder of 16-Year-Old Girl
INDIANA Orlando Cordia Hall was executed Thursday at U.S. Penitentiary Terre Haute, according to officials. Hall was pronounced dead at 11:47 p.m. In September 1994, Hall and several accomplices ran a marijuana…
Apple Inc. Pays $24.6 Million for Allegedly Slowing Down Performance in Older iPhones
LOS ANGELES Apple Inc. will pay $24.6 million to settle a California lawsuit alleging the company failed to disclose that iPhone software it instructed consumers to download slowed down the performance in…
Fourteen South L.A. Street Gang Members Arrested for Drug Dealing
LOS ANGELES An investigation led by the FBI and the Los Angeles Police Department Tuesday and Wednesday resulted in the arrest of 14 defendants linked to the Hoover Criminal Gang, officials…
Former Police Officer Guilty of Illegally Acting as Firearms Dealer
LOS ANGELES A former officer with the Torrance Police Department has been charged with being an unlicensed firearms dealer who sold dozens of guns, officials stated Tuesday. He was Also he was…
Drug Dealer Sentenced to 15 Years for Selling Fentanyl That Resulted in Fatal Overdose
SANTA ANA, CALIF. A San Fernando Valley man was sentenced Monday to 15 years in federal prison for selling fentanyl to a 22-year-old man who suffered a fatal overdose about 20 minutes…