The feds charged Jerry Nehl Boylan, 67, the captain of the P/V Conception, a Santa Barbara-based dive boat that caught fire last year near Santa Cruz Island, resulting in the 33 passenger and one crew member's deaths of 33 passengers and one crew member, with 34 counts of seaman's manslaughter. A...

              A federal Judge sentenced Chaunta A. Bashir, a.k.a. “taytheonly,” 27, to 300 months in federal prison for producing dozens of sexually explicit images and videos of children, including videos that were recorded on his Snapchat and Facebook social media accounts. He pled guilty to on...

The Department of Justice's Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office) today released a new report, Roadmap to Implementing an Effective Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) Program, with its partners at the Police Executive Research Forum (PERF). Drones, as UAS are generally known, p...

DECEMBER 7, 2020 After his swearing in today, District Attorney George Gascón issued a number of new directives, drastically changing the landscape of criminal law in Los Angeles County. While the directives are directed at the District Attorney's office, a number of them may be directly relevant...

Carl De Vera Bennington, 34 pleaded guilty to two federal cyberstalking charges for his multiyear internet harassment campaign against two teenage girls who rejected his sexual advances. Bennington sent one teenager unsolicited online messages for several years. When she blocked him from contacti...