Courtroom outburst means jury selection must start over in trial of man...
Jury selection is starting over in the high-profile murder trial of Samuel Woodward — accused of stabbing former high-school classmate Blaze Bernstein to death and burying his body near a Lake Forest...
View Article2 wrongly convicted men sue LA County sheriff’s investigators for allegedly...
Two men wrongly convicted and imprisoned for 17 years are suing Los Angeles County, claiming three sheriff’s detectives fabricated reports, hid exculpatory evidence and intimidated witnesses from...
View ArticleOC district attorney’s billboards send message to criminals: Stay away
Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer is sending thieves and robbers a message via Southern California billboards, buses and bumper stickers: “Crime doesn’t pay in Orange County. If you steal,...
View ArticleOC jail workers not negligent in the suicide of former columnist’s son, DA says
The Orange County district attorney’s office has concluded that jail personnel were not negligent in the suicide of former Southern California News Group columnist David Whiting’s adult son. Sean...
View ArticleOC bookie at center of gambling scandal thought link to Ohtani would help...
As a gambler, Mathew Bowyer bet big, often unsuccessfully, listing nearly half a million dollars in losses to two Las Vegas casinos in his 2011 bankruptcy. As a bookmaker, the Orange County man wagered...
View ArticleFontana police keep public in the dark on shootings involving officers
San Bernardino County Sheriff Shannon Dicus was quick to disclose information after deputies fatally shot an autistic 15-year-old boy armed with a sharp gardening tool in Apple Valley. Within days of...
View ArticleVeteran San Bernardino County sheriff’s deputy arrested on gun charges, ties...
Since January, San Bernardino County sheriff’s investigators have been secretly watching Deputy Christopher Bingham, a firearms expert and former gun shop owner with suspected ties to the notorious...
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San Bernardino County sheriff’s deputy with alleged ties to Mongols...
A San Bernardino County sheriff’s deputy charged with possession of illegal firearms, explosive devices and grand theft in connection with the Mongols outlaw motorcycle gang pleaded not guilty Tuesday,...
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Ohtani’s interpreter charged with bank fraud, stealing $16 million from...
Baseball superstar Shohei Ohtani’s former interpreter has been charged with stealing more than $16 million from Ohtani’s bank account to pay the translator’s illegal gambling debts, federal authorities...
View ArticleIppei Mizuhara made 19,000 illegal wagers and fell into debt by more than $40...
On the gambling books, Ippei Mizuhara was known by the account number “35966.” Using that handle, Mizuhara made 19,000 illegal wagers with an Orange County bookmaker, averaging 25 bets a day, from $10...
View ArticleDriver faced gun-wielding OC deputies after his loaner car was mistakenly...
Jamie Rodgers was mildly curious when he noticed a line of Orange County sheriff’s patrol cars driving near him on the 73 toll road in Laguna Niguel one morning in June 2021. Rodgers’ curiosity grew...
View ArticleJudge allows hearings over misconduct allegations in OC murder prosecution
A San Diego judge has agreed to hold a special hearing on whether a former high-level Orange County prosecutor, now a current judge, withheld evidence in a murder case and covered up the county’s...
View ArticlePolice shootings of mentally ill expose gaps in SoCal programs to assist...
Raising a garden hoe, 15-year-old Ryan Gainer chased a San Bernardino County sheriff’s deputy from his doorstep. In a separate confrontation, a knife-wielding Aaron James, 17, slashed the hand of...
View ArticleProsecutors fight bail release for reputed Mexican Mafia chief in OC
To those in his corner, Johnny Martinez is a brilliant, caring, jailhouse lawyer who has unfairly spent his entire adult life behind bars for a murder he did not commit. But to those trying to keep him...
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Fontana pays nearly $900,000 for ‘psychological torture’ inflicted by police...
Within hours after Thomas Perez Jr. called police to report his father missing, he found himself in a tiny interrogation room confronted by Fontana detectives determined to extract a confession that he...
View ArticleFontana denies wrongdoing in 2018 police interrogation characterized as...
In a forceful defense of its police officers, Fontana city officials say detectives did nothing illegal in the 2018 interrogation of a man who was “psychologically tortured” into falsely confessing to...
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Ex-OC prosecutor testifies he doesn’t know why evidence wasn’t disclosed in...
In a courtroom confrontation years in the making, a former high-ranking Orange County prosecutor, now a judge, testified Monday, June 10, that he didn’t know why evidence in a 2010 murder case was not...
View ArticleFontana’s widely condemned interrogation helps fuel efforts to stop police...
They call it “the box” — the cramped, anxiety-inducing room where police conduct interrogations, pushing and probing for a confession or at least case-solving information. It was in the box that...
View ArticleJury sets damages at $40 million in death of Long Beach pedestrian struck by...
A Los Angeles County jury on Friday, June 21, set damages at $40 million in the wrongful death of a Long Beach pedestrian killed in 2019 by a speeding CHP motorcycle officer with an eye ailment that...
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SoCal Jan. 6 rioters charged with obstruction hopeful under U.S. Supreme...
Derek Kinnison, convicted of obstruction in the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, is serving two years and nine months in a federal prison in Victorville. But he hopes to get out sooner — much sooner —...
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