Recent Posts in California Category
Posted on Apr 4, 2011 By admin
A former insurance claims adjuster who was suspected of terrorizing women in the 1970s as the Westside Rapist has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for seven murders ...
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Posted on Feb 8, 2011 By admin
A Garden Grove man was sentenced to four years, four months in a California State prison for kidnapping his daughter and assaulting her mother with a handgun in Lake Forest. The assault occurred ...
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Posted on Feb 4, 2011 By admin
Two men were arrested in connection with what police call a complex, multimillion-dollar car theft ring. Kirsio Cruz, of Norco and Luis Marroquin, of Huntington Park, California were taken into ...
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Posted on Jan 28, 2011 By admin
A former employee of an adult day-care center in El Monte pleaded no contest to sexually assaulting three severely disabled women with the mental capacity of children. The plea came in exchange for an ...
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Posted on Jan 26, 2011 By admin
Two men arrested after a robbery in Fontana, California are believed to be responsible for an armed robbery of a Redlands restaurant and many other robberies in surrounding cities. Fontana police ...
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Posted on Jan 24, 2011 By admin
A man accused of stealing wallets from purses of several customers at Walmart has been sentenced to nearly seven years in a California state prison. Jose Bernardino Vargas, of Placentia, pleaded ...
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Posted on Jan 18, 2011 By admin
In Santa Ana, California, a Lake Forest man goes on trial on multiple felony charges of raping five women and sexually assaulting a sixth. The charges against Sekayi Rudo White, could result in a ...
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Posted on Jan 13, 2011 By admin
An Anaheim, California man has been arrested and charged with manufacturing methamphetamine in the living room of his 87-year-old bedridden aunt. The methamphetamine lab was discovered by police while ...
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Posted on Jan 10, 2011 By admin
In Tustin, Californa, in Orange County, a law office manager has been charged with embezzling more than $480,000, after prosecutors allege she used the money for her own personal pleasure. Donna Joy ...
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Posted on Jan 7, 2011 By admin
Los Angeles police arrested one person at a suspected methamphetamine lab in Sylmar, California, where SWAT officers confiscated narcotics and weapons and evacuated part of the property. The ...
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Posted on Jan 6, 2011 By admin
A San Diego FBI Special Agent announced the arrest of Amado Nicholas Hernandez, of Chico, California. Hernandez was arrested as he arrived on board a cruise ship at the Port of San Diego. Hernandez ...
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Posted on Dec 20, 2010 By admin
In Santa Ana, California, a Houston man was sentenced to three terms of life in prison without parole for murdering a husband, wife and their 6-year-old son in a crime prosecutors say was motivated by ...
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Posted on Dec 15, 2010 By admin
Two Santa Clarita, California residents responding to a Craigslist ad for a camera were robbed in Hollywood Nov. 20 by three suspects who blocked their vehicle and took all their personal belongings, ...
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Posted on Dec 13, 2010 By admin
Police have arrested a Santa Ana man who they say molested his friend's 13-year-old daughter, as well as her two younger siblings, during nights they spent at his home over the past several years. ...
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Posted on Dec 8, 2010 By admin
A Santa Ana man was charged with abducting and raping a 16-year-old girl as she was walking home from a fast-food restaurant. Police were led to Juan Humberto Avila, from DNA collected after he was ...
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Posted on Dec 6, 2010 By admin
In Sacramento, California, a United States Attorney announced that United States District Judge Garland E. Burrell sentenced two men to 20-year prison terms today as follows: David Wehde—Docket #: No. ...
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Posted on Nov 29, 2010 By admin
In Fresno, California, a United States Attorney, Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge, and Fresno County Sheriff announced the unsealing of a federal indictment charging Bounepheng ...
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Posted on Nov 23, 2010 By Jerry Kastler
In Washington, D.C., an Oakland, California woman was convicted of health care fraud in connection with a scheme to bill Medicare for power wheelchairs that were medically unnecessary, announced the ...
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Posted on Nov 22, 2010 By admin
Authorities using DNA evidence have linked a 44-year-old convicted murderer and rapist on death row to a 1990 double homicide in Riverside County. Alfredo Rolando Prieto, who is already on ...
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Posted on Oct 26, 2010 By admin
Maher Talal Muhawieh was charged for perpetrating a Ponzi scheme over the course of almost three years, United States Attorney Melinda Haag announced. According to court documents, Muhawieh allegedly ...
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Posted on Sep 16, 2010 By admin
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed legislation to put some sex offenders in prison for life at a bittersweet ceremony for family and friends of a 17-year-girl who was killed after being ...
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