Blog Posts in January, 2012
Posted on Jan 31, 2012 By Editor
A South Los Angeles teacher accused of gagging and blindfolding children and feeding them semen will face multiple felony charges in a court hearing Wednesday. Authorities say the alleged crimes took ...
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Posted on Jan 31, 2012 By Editor
Authorities released new details Monday about the fatal police shooting of a 47-year-old man who reportedly rushed at detectives with a machete outside his rural Moorpark home. The incident began ...
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Posted on Jan 30, 2012 By Editor
Simi Valley police were investigating a bank robbery that occurred Sunday afternoon. The incident was reported about 4:25 p.m. in the U.S. Bank in Albertsons grocery store, 5135 Los Angeles Ave.. The ...
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Posted on Jan 26, 2012 By Editor
A federal grand jury has indicted a 46-year-old parolee known as the "Puffy Coat Bandit" for seven bank robberies across Southern California. Steven Dwayne Paulson was arrested Jan. 10 by an ...
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Posted on Jan 25, 2012 By Editor
Authorities arrested two men they say stole John Travolta's classic Mercedes-Benz. He left it parked back in September for about 10 minutes in a Santa Monica residential neighborhood and then ...
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Posted on Jan 24, 2012 By Editor
A 66-year-old man whose head, hands and feet were found in Bronson Canyon below the Hollywood sign was reported missing eight days before his dismembered remains were discovered. Hervey ...
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Posted on Jan 18, 2012 By Editor
A 24-year-old Calabasas man was charged Wednesday with killing a 17-year-old El Camino Real High School soccer player, who was shot to death in the frontyard of his home in Winnetka. Jason Alejandro ...
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Posted on Jan 13, 2012 By Editor
Two women were sentenced Thursday to 33 months in federal prison for stealing more than $1.1 million from Billy Blanks, the founder of the Tae Bo exercise program. The two women -- Rhenee Sharmell ...
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Posted on Jan 13, 2012 By Editor
A popular 17-year-old high school student was killed by a girl after a knock at his west San Fernando Valley front door. Francisco Rodriguez Jr. talked to the girl briefly in the doorway Wednesday ...
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Posted on Jan 12, 2012 By Editor
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Posted on Jan 12, 2012 By Editor
A sheriff's deputy was accused of trying to get heroin into a courthouse jail inside a bean-and-cheese burrito. In recent years, three Sheriff's Department guards have been convicted and a ...
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Posted on Jan 4, 2012 By Editor
About 2,000 pounds of marijuana were seized and 10 people were arrested Wednesday in an early-morning raid off the Ventura County coast, federal officials said. Agents from the Department of Homeland ...
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Posted on Jan 4, 2012 By Editor
Four people were killed and and 274 suspected drunken drivers were arrested in Los Angeles County over the New Year's holiday, according to figures from the California Highway Patrol. Across ...
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Posted on Jan 3, 2012 By Editor
Dorothee Burkhart, the mother of the man suspected of setting a series of fires around Los Angeles, was arrested Thursday on a criminal warrant issued by German authorities. A day later, the series of ...
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Posted on Jan 2, 2012 By Editor
Los Angeles police Chief Charlie Beck said the key break in the L.A. serial arson investigation came Saturday night when federal officials recognized a "person of interest" in the fires. ...
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