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July 29, 2010
  Olympic Gold Medalist Shawn Johnson’s Stalker Convicted
Posted By Los Angeles Criminal Defense Lawyer
In a Los Angeles Superior Court, Robert Michael O'Ryan was charged with one felony count each of stalking and commercial burglary, along with two misdemeanor counts of carrying a loaded firearm in a vehicle. O'Ryan had driven from Florida to Los ...
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July 28, 2010
  Actor May Face Death Penalty for Double Murder-for-Profit Plot
Posted By Los Angeles Criminal Defense Attorney
Daniel Wozniak, a part-time actor in need of extra cash has been charged in the Orange County Superior Court with two felony counts of murder , with special circumstances of multiple murders and murder for financial gain after he shot and beheaded ...
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July 23, 2010
  7 Hour Standoff Between Police and Woman with Child Ends
Posted By Los Angeles Criminal Defense Attorney
A woman whose identity has not been disclosed was involved in a 7 hour long standoff with Los Angeles police on the morning of July 2. The suspect allegedly fired shots at a nearby liquor store, and then locked herself, a 6 year old child, and a male ...
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July 16, 2010
  Suspected Drug Overdose at Rave Prompts Investigation
Posted By Los Angeles Criminal Defense Attorney
A 15 year old girl died last weekend at the Electric Daisy Festival, a two-day music festival and rave at the LA Memorial Coliseum. Sasha Rodriguez, the victim, was apparently on ecstasy, an illegal drug that is popular at raves. According to her ...
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July 09, 2010
  "Ed Rooney" Actor Arrested
Posted By Los Angeles Criminal Defense Attorney
Jeffrey Jones, the now 63 year old actor who infamously portrayed Ed Rooney, the principal in Ferris Bueller's Day Off, was arrested again after failing to update his sex offender registration status . He posted $20,000 bail and was released. He was ...
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July 07, 2010
  Hit-and-run couple get maximum sentence
Posted By Robert Bernstein
On March 29, 2009, two USC students, Adrianna Bachan and Marcus Garfinkle, were walking home from a fraternity party when they were struck by a vehicle that failed to stop at a red light at a crosswalk. Bachan, 18, died from massive head injuries. ...
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July 02, 2010
  Police Investigate 3rd Marijuana Dispensary Robbery, Homicide
Posted By Los Angeles Criminal Defense Attorney
Last Saturday marked the third shooting in as many days at medical marijuana dispensary in Los Angeles. The shooting was the result of a robbery in which $11,000 was stolen. An employee of the Northridge dispensary was shot in the face and is in ...
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May 31, 2010
  Former police cadet charged with stealing $225,000 from city
Posted By Robert Bernstein
23-year-old Kainat Syeda allegedly stole money from the city of Anaheim from January 2006 to April 2009, while working as a uniformed cadet in the front lobby traffic bureau window of the Anaheim Police Department. When people paid cash for the ...
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May 28, 2010
  Fed's Bust Child Pornography Web Ring
Posted By Robert Bernstein
Federal prosecutors announced that they had broken up a major online international child pornography ring that at its peak had more than 1,000 members trading millions of sexually explicit images. The investigation was kept secret for years in order ...
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May 24, 2010
  Former Television Chef Charged with Attempted Murder
Posted By Robert Bernstein
Food Network's former Calorie Commando host, Juan-Carlos Cruz, was arrested last Thursday for hiring homeless men to murder his wife, attorney Jennifer Campbell. Cruz allegedly approached three homeless men in Santa Monica and offered them $1,000.00 ...
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May 21, 2010
  Obama Nominates Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court
Posted By Robert Bernstein
President Barack Obama nominated Solicitor General Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court last Monday to replace liberal retiring Justice John Paul Stevens. At 50, Kagan would be the court's youngest justice and give it three female members for the first ...
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May 19, 2010
  Actor Sean Penn Charged with Battery and Vandalism
Posted By Robert Bernstein
Last year on Oct. 12, Oscar-winning actor, Sean Penn, attacked a photographer on a residential street in Brentwood, California. The actor was caught on video, which showed him breaking the photographer's camera and kicking him in the legs. ...
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April 30, 2010
  Arrest Made in Connection to UCLA Sexual Assaults
Posted By Robert Bernstein
Los Angeles Police arrested 63-year-old Calixto Marcellana Nitro in connection with six sexual assaults in Westwood near the UCLA campus, spanning from March 8 through April 7. Nitro was allegedly caught just as he was about to strike again and ...
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April 28, 2010
  Police Detective Charged with Rape
Posted By Robert Bernstein
A Westminster, CA Police Detective, Anthony Orban, and a CA Corrections Officer, Jeff Jelinek, have been charged in the alleged rape and kidnapping of a 25-year-old female restaurant worker. The victim was walking to her car in the parking lot of ...
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April 27, 2010
  Hollywood Personal Trainer Charged with Sexual Assault
Posted By Robert Bernstein
A Hollywood personal trainer who has worked with many celebrities, 49-year-old Gregory Isaacs, was arrested by the Los Angeles Police Department for the sexual assault of a 27-year-old female. Isaacs had been employed at the gym in the victim's ...
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