Blog Posts in May, 2010
Posted on May 31, 2010 By Marks and Brooklier
Long Beach police made eight arrests in connection with at least 12 gang-related shootings, two of them homicides. Through witness descriptions and surveillance footage, authorities were able to ...
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Posted on May 18, 2010 By Marks and Brooklier
Owner of Irving bookkeeping and taxes company defrauded investors out of millions and was sentenced to federal prison for 20 years. In San Francisco, Roberto Heckscher was sentenced today to 240 ...
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Posted on May 18, 2010 By Marks and Brooklier
Charles Ray Smith, 41, was convicted in the shooting deaths of three people, including a 10-year-old boy, in South L.A. in 2006. He was armed with an AK-47 assault rifle. An alleged gang member was ...
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Posted on May 14, 2010 By Marks and Brooklier
A 75-year-old former Santa Monica resident with a previous child-sex conviction is expected to plead guilty in Los Angeles federal court to traveling to Cambodia to have sex with boys. Jack Louis ...
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Posted on May 13, 2010 By Marks and Brooklier
Inglewood, California police announced the arrest of a suspect in a 15-year-old homicide, marking the first successful investigation for the department's new cold-case unit. Donald Bridgewater, 58, ...
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Posted on May 12, 2010 By Marks and Brooklier
Two Los Angeles-Area men found guilty for role in Kidnapping of California man who was shot, shocked with taser and held for $1 million ransom. A federal jury in Los Angeles convicted two men on ...
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Posted on May 12, 2010 By Marks and Brooklier
Three men convicted in Orange County sexual assault take case to California Supreme Court. Gregory Haidl and two others who videotaped their attack on a 16-year-old girl want their convictions ...
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Posted on May 11, 2010 By Marks and Brooklier
The Los Angeles County district attorney's office charged a Compton High School math teacher with multiple felonies, alleging that he sexually abused three female students. Nicolei Hurtado Ocaña, 28, ...
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Posted on May 6, 2010 By Marks and Brooklier
The son of former Assembly Speaker Fabian Nuñez and a co-defendant pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter and assault in the 2008 stabbing death of a college student in San Diego. Their guilty pleas ...
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Posted on May 5, 2010 By Marks and Brooklier
One of the inmates who escaped from a Los Angeles County jail was found guilty of multiple counts of armed robbery. Winder Barrios was found guilty of all 15 charges he faced filed by the Los Angeles ...
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