Articles Posted in Los-Angeles

The Los Angeles City Attorney Mike Feuer will appeal a judge’s ruling against the police department’s vehicle impound policy. Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck had developed a policy, Special Order 7, regarding vehicle impounds for unlicensed drivers. If the unlicensed driver has insurance, a valid identification card and no record for unlicensed driving, then…

The Los Angeles Times reported on Monday, September 9, 2013, that California Attorney General Kamala Harris announced a computer application “app” for law enforcement. This app would be used on cell phones and tablets. The purpose would be to get an individual suspects information from state and federal databases. From the databases police officers would…

The Los Angeles Police Department’s robbery and homicide division are investigating three stabbing incidents. One incident occurred in Santa Monica the other two in Los Angeles. Three homeless people were stabbed by one suspect. According to the Los Angeles Times, police said they were searching for David Ben Keyes who has been missing from Santa…

The Los Angeles Police Commission will not renew the contract with the firm that operates the red-light cameras in the city. The information collected by the cameras will not be readily available to the police. The officers that attend the court hearings will not have the evidence required by the court to prove the violation.…

The LA Times reports that a person of interest of German nationality has been detained in connection with parking lot fires in Los Angeles. The multiple incidents have taken place in Hollywood, North Hollywood, West Hollywood and near Fairfax. There have been no injuries reported. News outlets reported on surveillance footage from a parking structure…

This year’s big rave concert, known as the Electric Daisy Carnival, will not be held at the L.A. Coliseum. The company in charge of the event, Insomniac Inc. will have the concert in Las Vegas instead. Unwanted attention had come to raves at the Coliseum after an incident last year when a teenager died from…

A legal battle is under way over gang injunctions in Los Angeles. One attorney is taking the matter to federal court in a lawsuit against the broad terms of curfews imposed by the injunction. The argument is that the wording is too general and fails to specifically explain the aspects of the curfew. A past…

Sometimes what happens in Los Angeles seems like the stuff only Hollywood could imagine. Members of one of the most notorious and oldest gangs in Los Angeles, the 38th Street gang, were arrested in a federal indictment alleging murder and drug trafficking. Early morning raids, involving 800 law enforcement officers, resulted in the documentation of…

In 2005 former USC student, Holly Ashcraft, arrived at a Southern California Hospital showing signs of having just given birth. Police were unable to locate the infant which she claimed was still born. Los Angeles Prosecutors tried unsuccessfully to try her for murder but settled for a lesser child of endangerment in 2008. Ms. Ashcraft…

Los Angeles Police Department is trying to piece together a mystery from decades ago. The bodies of two infants were found wrapped in newspapers from 1935 and 1937, in a trunk forgotten in a basement of a Westlake Apartment building. There are no signs of trauma on the bodies from an autopsy report; one is…