Can Gaming Lead to Crime?
Rockstar Games’ release of the popular video game Grand Theft Auto IV set sales records earlier this year, easily topping first week sales of Halo 3, which had pulled in $300 million during the first seven days of its release. Variety called the international launch of Grand Theft Auto IV last April the most lucrative game […]
FBI Breaks Up Nationwide Child Prostitution Rings
In the dramatic break-up of a major national sex trafficking ring this week, 47 children aged 13 to 17 were rescued. All but one were female. The FBI coordinated the arrests of more than 600 adults in 29 U.S. cities to break up 12 major prostitution rings that forced children into prostitution. The rings operated out […]
California Cracks Down on Gangs
Throughout California, federal and state authorities have been attempting for years to combat gang activity and membership. Gang activity can be quite varied, involving everything from tagging (graffiti) to murder and drug trafficking. Combating gangs is difficult in part because communities often live in fear of being targeted by gangs if they interfere. Those involved in […]
Voter Fraud Mars Presidential Election
With the election countdown in its final days, charges of voter fraud are heating up, particularly in key swing-vote states in America’s heartland. Fictitious voter registrations in Ohio, an absentee ballot mailed to a goldfish in Illinois and campaign workers voting illegally in Indiana have topped Midwestern headlines in the final weeks of what has become an increasingly contentious […]
Lynyrd Skynyrd Member Charged With DUI
Lynyard Skynyrd is one of the quintessential bands from the 1970’s, made legendary when members of their original band died in a terrible plane crash. Gary Rossington, one of the founding members of the band was arrested on DUI charges last month in Milton, Ga.
According to California Penal Code 23152 (as per the California DMV Website):
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Former LA Rams Tony Zendejas to Stand Trial for Rape
In an emotionally charged courtroom filled with his family and friends, former Los Angeles Rams kicker Tony Zendejas was recently ordered to stand trail on four counts of felony rape and sodomy at the conclusion of a preliminary hearing. The unnamed victim testified that Zendejas gave her two drugged drinks when she and friends visited his […]
Update on Proposition 9
Many Los Angeles criminal defense attorneys are up in arms over the chaos that an upcoming state proposition could cause if voters choose to pass it. Proposition 9 would alter the state Constitution to require that crime victims be notified and consulted on developments in their cases. It would give them first claim on any […]
The LAPD and Solicitation
Solicitation, also known as Solicitation for Prostitution, is the act of directing or asking someone to exchange money for sexual activity, as defined under Section 647(b) of the California Penal Code.
A Los Angeles police officer is under investigation for allegedly trying to force women he met while on duty to have sex with him, law […]
Craigslist Ad Lures Decoys to Robbery Site
It was like that scene in the 1999 movie The Thomas Crown Affair where dozens of identical bowler-topped, trenchcoat-wearing, briefcase-carrying decoys confuse art museum security guards while the master crook walks out with a priceless painting. Only this time the setting was the small-town streets of Monroe, Washington, just northeast of Seattle. The decoys wore […]
Disturbing Crime at UCLA
A former member of UCLA’s staff pleaded guilty last week to a disturbing theft crime involving donated body parts. The former chief of UCLA’s cadaver program pleaded guilty Friday for his role in selling donated body parts to medical, drug and research companies in a scheme that netted up to $1 million.
Henry Reid, 58, pleaded […]