After the formality of a weekend swearing-in ceremony, Robert Luna this week officially assumed his duties as the 34th sheriff of Los Angeles County. The former Long Beach Police chief […]
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Fraud charges brought in scheme to loot EBT
Sixteen people have been charged in an alleged massive Electronic Benefit Transfer fraud scheme in which funds were siphoned off that were intended for families in need, Los Angeles County […]
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Missing man is found safe
A wheelchair-bound man suffering from dementia and high blood pressure who went missing in Lancaster has been found safe. Eduardo Delgado went missing about 12:30 p.m. July 2 at 15th […]
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No contest plea entered in Las Vegas kidnap case
A Riverside man and his daughter who pleaded no contest to kidnapping a woman who was dumped in the desert near Edwards Air Force Base were sentenced this week to […]
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Woman cannot file lawsuit over late boyfriend’s death
A judge has ruled that a woman whose late boyfriend was fatally shot in his living room by Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies investigating a 2020 domestic violence call in […]
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Sheriff concedes ‘procedural errors’ in courthouse use of force proben
Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva conceded this week that procedural errors were made in the internal investigation of an altercation in which a deputy knelt on a handcuffed inmate’s […]
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County-wide gun sweep nets assault weapons
The California Justice Department has announced that a five-day sweep to remove guns from people legally barred from possessing them in Los Angeles County resulted in 13 arrests and the […]
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Crime rate declines in City of Palmdale
The City of Palmdale and Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department (LASD) Palmdale Station have announced a 2.45 percent decrease in the number of Part I crimes reported for all of […]
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Parents enter not-guilty plea for decapitation, murder of children
The parents of two children who were decapitated in Lancaster have pleaded not guilty to murder and child abuse charges. The children’s father, Maurice Jewel Taylor Sr., now 35, was […]
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Board moves closer to chasen unvaccinated county workers
With Sheriff Alex Villanueva declining to enforce the county’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate among his deputies, the Board of Supervisors this week gave preliminary approval to a proposal that would give […]
