December 2011
17 posts
Miami's Federal Jail Overrun With Strippers Posing... →
Jeffrey Stenroos, the forPolice officer who staged... →
Conrad Murray: I'm broke and need a... →
Prosecutors want prison time for Barry Bonds →
(CNN) — Federal prosecutors want baseball legend Barry Bonds to serve 15 months in prison for his obstruction of justice conviction, according to a sentencing memo filed in court Thursday.
Defense lawyers argued in their filing that the judge should accept the probation office’s recommendation that Bonds be sentenced to two years probation, fined $4,000 and ordered to perform 250...
Hollywood shootout: Gunman calmly targeted... →
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Women's prison in Chowchilla to house male inmates... →
El Cajon police sergeant on leave during... →
A veteran El Cajon police sergeant has been suspended amid an investigation into allegations that he sexually assaulted a 20-year-old male volunteer with the Police Department.
Police Chief Pat Sprecco said the sergeant, whose name was not released, has been on administrative leave since late August after the volunteer reported being sexually assaulted in Alpine.
After an investigation by the...
New child sex charges filed against Sandusky →
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Blagojevich sentenced to 14 years for corruption... →
D.A. not informed of allegation against San... →
The L.A. County district attorney’s office says it was never informed that a San Fernando police sergeant allegedly threatened a former cadet who accused the police chief of having an affair with her.
A high-ranking police commander said in a memo that San Fernando’s acting police chief abandoned a plan last April to place Sgt. Alvaro Castellon on leave after Mayor Mario Hernandez...
Arrested former Colorado sheriff held in jail that... →
In a case full of strange details, this one was a doozy: When former Colorado Sheriff Patrick J. Sullivan Jr. was arrested last week, he was held in the Patrick J. Sullivan Jr. Detention Facility.
Once named the nation’s sheriff of the year, Sullivan is accused of trying to trade methamphetamine for sex with another man. The charges stunned Arapahoe County, where Sullivan was elected sheriff...
Armed robbers hit Ruth's Chris steakhouse, take... →
California Supreme Court voids two death row... →
By Maura Dolan, Los Angeles Times
December 5, 2011, 10:38 p.m.
After upholding nearly 50 death sentences in a row, the California Supreme Court on Monday broke its pattern by overturning the convictions of a reputed gang leader in Los Angeles and his alleged accomplice in two killings that sent both men to death row for 15 years. The state high court unanimously ruled that Cleamon Johnson...
Rima Fakih, former Miss USA, arrested on suspicion... →
FAA chief placed on leave after drunk-driving... →
D.A. in the dark on jail probes →
An inmate walks a hallway in Men’s Central Jail in downtown L.A. (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)
Sheriff Baca was warned about jail deputies'... →
