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2 teens, 18, arrested on hate crime, vandalism charges in Thousand Oaks
Two 18-year-olds have been arrested on felony vandalism and hate crime charges in Thousand Oaks, the Ventura County Sheriff’s Office announced Thursday. A media release issued by VCSO states that Thousand Oaks Patrol deputies received a report of two suspects who were captured on surveillance video vandalizing the walls of a commercial building on Monday. […]
Lancaster Man Arrested On Charges That He Used Drone To Fly Fentanyl, Including To Customer Who Later Died From Overdose
An Antelope Valley man was arrested Wednesday on a nine-count federal grand jury indictment charging him with using a drone to drop off fentanyl and other narcotics to buyers, one of whom died of a fatal overdose of the powerful synthetic last year. Christopher Patrick Laney, 34, a.k.a. “Crany,” of Lancaster, is charged with one ...
Rapist, makeup heir’s parole granted, then reversed
A serial rapist who is the heir to a makeup fortune will no longer be paroled this year, the Ventura County District Attorney’s Office announced Wednesday. Andrew Luster, 60, great-grandson to Max Factor Sr., was convicted in absentia in 2003 of 86 felonies connected to a spree of rapes between 1996 and 2000 in which […]
Victim dies after being run over by DUI suspect on Santa Monica beach
An unidentified female died after being struck by a DUI suspect in an SUV on the beach in Santa Monica late Thursday night. The incident was reported around 11:30 p.m. when a silver SUV was seen driving on the sand near the Santa Monica Pier. “I just happened to be looking that way and I […]
Attempted murder charges filed in South L.A. shootout that wounded 6 bystanders
Los Angeles police said the victims were homeless people caught in the crossfire of a gang shootout, and that two suspects had already been arrested for allegedly participating in a flash mob-style robbery.