A 44-year-old man and his wife were charged today with child abuse after Burbank police discovered a live hand grenade and illegal drugs in their home, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Peter Jacquin (dob 12/12/70) and Deborah Charves (dob 5/7/71), both of Burbank, face...

A 33-year-old man pleaded no contest today to raping two women in separate incidents in Long Beach, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. At today's court appearance, David Faavale Tautolo of Signal Hill pleaded no contest to two counts of forcible rape in case NA100574. Th...

A 35-year-old Pacoima woman has been indicted for murder in the 2014 fatal crash that killed LAPD motorcycle Officer Christopher Cortijo, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced today. Qaneak Shaney Cobb pleaded not guilty on Tuesday when the three-count indictment was unseale...

LOS ANGELES– An Antelope Valley woman pleaded guilty this morning in a mail fraud scheme that used personal data stolen from elderly victims in an effort to defraud California's unemployment insurance program out of nearly $300,000. Dena Peterman, who also uses the name Dena Buttram, 32, of Littl...

A 22-year-old man was charged today with making bomb threats to a television station, causing the studio's evacuation, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Tyler Raj Barriss (dob 11/9/92) of Glendale faces two felony counts of false report of bomb to agency or business and...

LOS ANGELES– Investigations led by the Drug Enforcement Administration and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Homeland Security Investigations in the Los Angeles area have resulted in the arrest of a dozen defendants allegedly involved in the large-scale manufacture and distribution of sy...

A man convicted in 1998 of killing a woman in Lancaster has been charged with sexually assaulting and raping another woman in Lancaster, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced today. Leonard Earl Bales (dob 12/22/68) of Palmdale, faces one count each of forcible oral copulati...

Two purported Bryant Street gang members have been charged with the murder of a man allegedly hit by a stray bullet during a shooting in Canoga Park, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced today. To purported Bryant Street gang members have been charged with the murder of a m...

A federal jury in Los Angeles convicted the former owner and the former operator of a durable medical equipment supply company of health care fraud charges in connection with a $1.5 million Medicare fraud scheme. Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department's Criminal ...

LOS ANGELES– In a case stemming from the beating of a handcuffed man at Men's Central Jail in downtown Los Angeles, a sixth member of the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department was indicted today on federal charges for allegedly participating in the cover-up of the violent incident. Byron Dredd, 33, wh...