Four Mexican Drug Cartel Members Convicted of Using Drug Profits to Buy...
Four members of a powerful Mexican drug cartel - Los Zetas - were convicted in federal court Friday in Austin, Texas for using drug profits since 2008 to purchase, train, breed and race American...
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"They didn't have a problem with me being wild and crazy when it came time to fill the arenas." - Dennis Rodman, former NBA basketball player
View ArticlePolice Officers Who Died in The Line of Duty Last Year, according to the FBI
Last year, there were 47 law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty, according to statistics released by the FBI today. This is 25 fewer than the 73 officers who died in 2011. By region, the...
View ArticleMexican Drug Dealer Sentenced To 35 Years in Prison
WASHINGTON - Aurelio Cano Flores, a Mexican national and high ranking member of the Gulf Cartel, was sentenced today to serve 35 years in prison for conspiring to import multi-ton quantities of...
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"Slaying the dragon of delay is no sport for the short-winded." - Sandra Day O'Connor.
View ArticlePolice Officers Who Have Died in The Line of Duty Last Year, according to the...
Last year, there were 47 law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty, according to statistics released by the FBI today. This is 25 fewer than the 73 officers who died in 2011. By region, the...
View ArticlePolice Officers Who Have Died in The Line of Duty Last Year, according to the...
Last year, there were 47 law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty, according to statistics released by the FBI today. This is 25 fewer than the 73 officers who died in 2011. By region, the...
View ArticleShout Out to the Homies!
A shout out to the homies from Victory Outreach in Santa Maria who are on their way to the Victory Outreach International convention in Ontario. I walked out of the gym today and saw a tattooed Johnny...
View ArticleVC Diversity Bar Alliance's One Year Anniversary Celebration
The Ventura County Bar Alliance will hold its one-year anniversary celebration on Wednesday from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., according to organizers. The celebration will be held at Safire Restaurant at...
View ArticleTwelve LA Residents Arrested for Submitting False Billings to Medicare
LOS ANGELES - Twelve Los Angeles-area residents - including California's second-largest billing group for chiropractic services, a physician's assistant, and owners of durable medical equipment and...
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"He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals." -- Immanuel Kant
View ArticleTennessee Men Plead Guilty to Harassing and Intimidating Black Families
WASHINGTON -- Two Tennessee men plead guilty today to conspiring to vandalize homes in the Spring Lake subdivision, admitting to spray painting a swastika and racial slurs on the driveway of an African...
View ArticleNearly 40 Montebello Gang Members and Associates Indicted and Charged With...
LOS ANGELES - A task force investigation into gang activities in Montebello resulted in nearly 40 gang members and gang associates being indicted and charged today with six "cold case" murders,...
View ArticleThe Court Reporter's Notes and Quotes
The roundtable discussion Tuesday at Ventura College of Law about why people are wrongfully convicted and what can be done about it was interesting. The panel consisted of Justin Brooks, director of...
View ArticleLawyers, including Prosecutors Have Big Egos, Says Innocence Project Lawyer
The round table discussion Tuesday at Ventura College of Law about why people are wrongfully convicted and what can be done about it was interesting. The panel consisted of Justin Brooks, director of...
View ArticleCafe Chavalos
Recommended Viewing: The documentary, Café Chavalos, is about poor street kids who are involved with gangs and drugs and how a restaurant in Granada, Nicaragua changes their lives. It is a story about...
View ArticleGeorgia State Representative Indicted for Misappropriating from Charity
ATLANTA--A federal grand jury indictment issued last week charges State Representative Tyrone Brooks, Sr. of misappropriating almost $1 million in charitable funds from Universal Humanities, a charity...
View ArticleTexas' Death Row Has 498 Names of Inmates Executed Since 1982
The state of Texas seems to have an express lane for prison inmates who are on death row. The state puts information through the Texas Department of Corrections' web site about inmates its executed....
View ArticleCustoms Seizes Elephant Meat, a Dead Primate and Other Animal Skins Taken...
LOS ANGELES-- Within four days, U.S. Customs and Border Protection seized nearly half a pound of elephant meat and a dead primate at Los Angeles International Airport, federal officials said today....
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