Recent Posts in Felonies Category
Posted on Nov 18, 2011 By Los Angeles Criminal Defense Lawyer
Police officers have confirmed that a local mother who was missing for a number of days has been found murdered and that they are launching a formal investigation into the death. Police have not yet ...
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Posted on Nov 10, 2011 By Los Angeles Criminal Defense Lawyer
A one-time actor who is currently serving a life sentence is now suspected of killing his cellmate in prison. The man, who once appeared in a famous comedy, was convicted in 2008 of gang raping a then ...
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Posted on Sep 3, 2011 By Los Angeles Criminal Defense Lawyer
Police in Chatsworth caught a break in a serial arsonist case, nabbing a man that had recently been placed on their most wanted list. The 38-year-old man was wanted for starting a fire back in July at ...
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Posted on Jul 22, 2011 By Los Angeles Criminal Defense Lawyer
A manhunt in California came to an end this week in Lancaster. Police reports show that the suspect, 18-year-old Jaquain Smith, shot at and killed Josefat Canchola and his nephew, Joshua Montes, 2. ...
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Posted on Jul 13, 2011 By Los Angeles Criminal Defense Lawyer
When a young girl reported that an elderly man attempted to kidnap her, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department went on full alert. After speaking with the 12-year-old girl, police were able to ...
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Posted on Jun 1, 2011 By Los Angeles Criminal Defense Lawyer
A trial in Century City is garnering serious media attention for the murder of a woman by her own husband. The jurors deliberated on the trial of James Fayed, 48, who was judged to be guilty of ...
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Posted on Apr 11, 2011 By Los Angeles Criminal Defense Lawyer
The man who jumped off a cliff last month in an effort to avoid capture pleaded not guilty to the murder of his wife this week. Even though he is still in recovery from his escape attempt David Robert ...
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Posted on Apr 1, 2011 By Los Angeles Criminal Defense Lawyer
The community of Moreno Valley feels relieved now that the last suspect in a gang rape was apprehended this weekend. The young man, 19-year-old Michael Sykes, was taken into custody on Monday by ...
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Posted on Mar 23, 2011 By Los Angeles Criminal Defense Lawyer
Anthony Wayne Smith, a former Raiders football defensive end, has been charged with a murder that occurred over two years ago. According to the Los Angeles County district attorney's office Smith, 43, ...
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Posted on Mar 1, 2011 By Los Angeles Criminal Defense Lawyer
When a school police officer claimed to have been shot on Jan. 19 detectives with the Los Angeles Police Department took it seriously. A few months later, however, they are now turning in the results ...
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Posted on Dec 15, 2010 By Los Angeles Criminal Defense Lawyer
An instructor at a Charlotte college was so intent on murder that she drove more than 600 miles to find her victim. Julie Ann Hopwood, 56, drove from Charlotte to Livonia, Michigan to kill 35-year-old ...
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Posted on Nov 24, 2010 By Los Angeles Criminal Defense Lawyer
Parole agents and local law enforcement working with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation department made four arrest this year at the Los Angeles County Fair. They had been ...
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Posted on Nov 11, 2010 By Los Angeles Criminal Defense Lawyer
Two mothers were reunited with their sons this week in the Netherlands after the boys were kidnapped over two years ago. The kidnappers? The boys own fathers, who are also brothers, John Silah and ...
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Posted on Oct 6, 2010 By Los Angeles Criminal Defense Lawyer
This past week, a 27-year-old woman was held on a felony evading charge after she led police officers on a high-speed chase from Oxnard to Orange County. Allegedly, Victoria Powell reached speeds that ...
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Posted on Sep 3, 2010 By Los Angeles Criminal Defense Lawyer
News sources report that Paris Hilton's original felony drug possession charge has been lowered to two misdemeanor counts, including drug possession and obstructing an officer. Hilton will have to ...
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Posted on Aug 2, 2010 By Los Angeles Criminal Defense Lawyer
Prosecutors in Los Angeles say that a man who used a sledgehammer to destroy a religious monument outside of the St. Mary's Armenian Apostolic Church is facing felony charges of vandalism, but not ...
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Posted on Jul 29, 2010 By Los Angeles Criminal Defense Lawyer
Recently, Riverside County authorities arrested the second of two men sought in a 2007 murder case . It is believed that the case involved a murder-for-hire and was connected to the Mexican drug ...
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Posted on Jul 22, 2010 By Los Angeles Criminal Defense Lawyer
In Florida, a man who was accused of stalking Olympic gold medalist Shawn Johnson in 2009 has been ordered to stay in a state mental hospital for five years. Last month, 36 year old Robert O'Ryan pled ...
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