Blog Posts in March, 2011
Posted on Mar 30, 2011 By Criminal Defense
A Hermosa Beach woman, Debra Louise Brass, sold dozens of fake Lady Gaga tickets on Craigslist last summer. She has been charged with Grand Theft. Police learned about the phony tickets from a woman ...
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Posted on Mar 28, 2011 By Criminal Defense
Michael Balderas of Santa Ana was recently sentenced to 25 years to life in prison for beating his 2-year-old niece to death. He had been given custody of his niece, Jo Jade, in October, 2005, after ...
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Posted on Mar 25, 2011 By Criminal Defense
A former state mental hospital director in Long Beach was recently sentenced to 248 years in prison for molesting his adopted foster son for over 10 years as part of what prosecutors claimed was a ...
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Posted on Mar 23, 2011 By Criminal Defense
An Orange County man was on trial after discharging his semen into the water bottle of a female co-worker on two separate occasions because he found her attractive and knew that her lips touched the ...
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Posted on Mar 21, 2011 By Criminal Defense Lawyer
Elijah Stinson and his then-girlfriend, Jeniell Galvan-Franco, approached Jeffrey Cortinez and without provocation, Stinson struck him once in the head with an aluminum baseball bat, leaving the ...
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Posted on Mar 18, 2011 By Criminal Defense Lawyer
A Los Angeles couple was arrested after detectives serving a search warrant at their apartment discovered seven rifles and shotguns, three handguns, thousands of rounds of ammunition, several ...
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Posted on Mar 16, 2011 By Los Angeles Criminal Lawyer
Lindsay Lohan, who is currently on probation for a misdemeanor drunk-driving conviction and is also facing a criminal investigation involving allegations that she committed a Battery against a Betty ...
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Posted on Mar 14, 2011 By Criminal Defense Lawyer
A California insurance agency owner has been sentenced to 10 days in jail and ordered to register as a sex offender for secretly videotaping a female employee while she used the office restroom. A ...
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Posted on Mar 12, 2011 By Los Angeles Defense Lawyer
A Beverly Hills movie producer, whose credits include numerous children's movies, recently plead guilty to molesting a teenage girl he met on MySpace. Iren Koster, 62, met the girl on the website when ...
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Posted on Mar 11, 2011 By Los Angeles Criminal Defense Lawyer
Faye Shilling, a Los Angeles woman who staged fake funerals to defraud insurance companies out of nearly $1 million, was recently sentenced to two years in federal prison and ordered to pay around ...
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Posted on Mar 6, 2011 By Criminal Defense Attorney
An Orange County real estate broker, Kathy Chen, was convicted of 136 felony counts, including one count of conspiracy, 47 counts of grand theft, 37 counts of forgery, 15 counts of identity theft and ...
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Posted on Mar 1, 2011 By Los Angeles Defense Lawyer
An Orange County man, Thomas George Hogue, has recently been charged with setting up a methamphetamine lab in the home where he lived with his bedridden, 87-year-old aunt as her caretaker. Police ...
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