Bruce Riordan Leaving Trutanich to Join US Attorney Andre Birotte, Jr
It was announced Friday afternoon that Bruce Riordan—a former federal prosecutor who has been the head of the gang detail for the City Attorney’s office under both Rocky Delgadillo and now Carmen...
View ArticleFour Members of 18th Street Gang Clique Convicted of Charges Relating to the...
On a warm Saturday night in mid-September 2007, a 22-year-old gang member named Giovanni Macedo waded into a crowd near MacArthur Park and—as he had been told to do—opened fire on a street vender who...
View ArticleUS AG Holder Announces Criminal Justice Reforms, Judge Rules NYPD’s...
HOLDER REVEALS FED. SENTENCING REFORMS AND OTHER CHANGES AIMED AT REDUCING THE PRISON POP. Monday morning Attorney General Eric Holder unveiled a much-anticipated criminal justice reform package to the...
View ArticleCalifornia Locks Up Too Many Undocumented Kids…Force-Feeding Hunger...
EXCESSIVE DETENTION OF UNDOCUMENTED YOUTH IN CALIFORNIA According to a newly compiled fact sheet, undocumented kids in California are often unnecessarily incarcerated in local detention facilities. In...
View ArticleLASD Obstruction of Justice Defendants Go to Court…One Whistleblower Among...
7 PLEAD NOT GUILTY By Monday afternoon, all seven Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department members indicted last Monday for obstruction of justice had entered pleas not guilty for their alleged roles in an...
View ArticleConvictions in Coast Guard Killing, Probationers Jailed for Inability to Pay...
US ATTORNEY ANNOUNCES CONVICTIONS IN DEATH OF CALIFORNIA COAST GUARD Chief Petty Officer Terrell Horne III was killed while intercepting a suspected drug-smuggling boat in the Channel Islands National...
View ArticleTwo More LASD Deputies Indicted Friday Morning
On Friday morning, US Attorney Andre Birotte announced that two more members of the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department have been indicted. Deputies Joey Aguiar and Mariano Ramirez were charged in...
View ArticleAt First Public Sheriff’s Debate Candidates Come Out Swinging
At Wednesday night’s debate between those in the race for the office of LA county sheriff, an event put on by the Van Nuys Neighborhood Council, the six candidates who showed up began taking swings at...
View ArticleFBI Asked Indicted Deputy To Wear A Wire With His Father….& Baca
According to information contained new documents filed Monday by the attorneys of Los Angeles Sheriff’s Deputy James Sexton, FBI agents reportedly asked Sexton to wear a wire with the idea that the son...
View ArticleU.S. Attorney André Birotte Tapped by Obama to be Fed. Judge—& Why This is...
U.S. ATTORNEY ANDRE BIROTTE NOMINATED BY POTUS TO BECOME FEDERAL JUDGE On Thursday afternoon the news came down that LA’s own U.S. Attorney André Birotte had been nominated by President Barak Obama for...
View ArticleLA Sheriff’s Debaters Finally Start to Draw Blood…. & More
If we are to judge by the last two debates featuring the men who hope to become the next LA County sheriff, there is not a whole lot of difference between the candidates when it comes to…..well…just...
View ArticleSex Trafficked Boys Overlooked as Victims….Trials for Sheriff’s Department...
SEXUALLY TRAFFICKED BOYS ARE SEEN AS VICTIMS LESS OFTEN It is heartening that kids who are involved in sex trafficking are now being seen—for the most part anyway—as victims to be protected and helped,...
View ArticleFirst Pandora’s Box Trial Begins: The Big Q: Who Called the Shots?
On Tuesday morning, the trial for Los Angeles Sheriff’s Deputy James Sexton will begin. Sexton is one of 7 LASD personnel indicted for conspiracy to obstruct justice, pertaining to the alleged hiding...
View ArticlePandora’s Box: the Sexton Obstruction of Justice Trial Continues, Tanaka...
Thursday is Day Three of the obstruction of justice trial of Los Angeles Sheriff’s Deputy James Sexton, who is charged with engaging in a conspiracy to hide federal informant Anthony Brown from his FBI...
View ArticlePANDORA’S BOX: Sexton Trial Day 4: Tanaka Takes the Stand
TANAKA AS WITNESS FOR THE DEFENSE It was just before the noon hour on Friday when word evidently went round the stately old U.S. District Courthouse that Paul Tanaka was going to be the next witness...
View ArticlePANDORA’S BOX: After Closing Arguments the Sexton Case Goes to the Jury
COLLATERAL DAMAGE “Mr. Sexton is nothing more than collateral damage” in a conflict involving “two massive law enforcement agencies fighting like children,” said former U.S. Attorney Tom O’Brien as he...
View ArticlePANDORA’S BOX: Mistrial declared! Jurors “hopelessly split” 6-6 in James...
After being sent back for additional deliberation twice by Judge Percy Anderson, a jury of five women and seven men again declared themselves hopelessly deadlocked—with an even split of six to six—in...
View ArticleIsla Vista & the 2nd Amendment…..Paroling Lifers in CA…..LASD Opens Inmate...
ISLA VISTA & THE SECOND AMENDMENT Three days before Elliot Rodger went on his murderous rampage on May 23 in Isla Vista, a new non-fiction book called The Second Amendment: A Biography was...
View ArticleIs Paul Tanaka the “Subject” of a Criminal Investigation….or the “Target”
It was near the end of Monday’s cross examination of former undersheriff Paul Tanaka that Assistant U.S. Attorney Brandon Fox asked Tanaka a curious question. Monday was Tanaka’s second day of...
View ArticleLASD Lt. On Trial Tells of Orders Given by Baca and Tanaka, and Admits to...
Lieutenant Steve Leavins, one of six defendants in the ongoing obstruction of justice trial involving members of the Los Angeles Sheriffs Department, took the stand on Friday morning in a packed...
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