by City News Service | Dec 1, 2023 | Uncategorized
LOS ANGELES—Staff working in the mayor’s office will be expected to abide by new, stricter ethics rules, Mayor Karen Bass announced Nov. 30. “We must move to restore trust and faith in City Hall and ensure that City Hall is working for the people of Los Angeles,” Ms....
by City News Service | Dec 1, 2023 | Uncategorized
SANTA ANA, Calif.—A 19-year-old was charged Nov. 30 with a gang-related fatal stabbing of another man in Santa Ana. Ricky Raymond Rocha was charged with murder with a special-circumstance allegation of murder for a gang and a felony count of participating in a...
by City News Service | Nov 30, 2023 | Uncategorized
LOS ANGELES—Michael Latt, a film marketing consultant who worked on social justice campaigns with well-known people in Hollywood, was fatally shot by an intruder at his home in the Miracle Mile area of Los Angeles, and a homeless woman was behind bars Nov. 30 in...
by City News Service | Nov 30, 2023 | Uncategorized
FULLERTON, Calif.–A 58-year-old Irvine man pleaded guilty Nov. 29 and was immediately sentenced to a year in jail for embezzling nearly $145,000 from a Buena Park-based nonprofit. Kwang Lee pleaded guilty to three counts of grand theft by embezzlement with sentencing...
by City News Service | Nov 30, 2023 | Uncategorized
NORWALK, Calif.—A former Torrance police officer who was convicted for a series of crimes, including kidnapping, false imprisonment, and extortion, committed during his work as a bail agent, was sentenced to 27 years in state prison Nov. 29. California Insurance...