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For several convicted killers, the horrific case of Seal Beach mass murderer Scott Evans Dekraai is a potential legal bounty. Last month, a Superior Court ruled that Dekraai — who admitted to killing eight people at a hair salon in two thousand eleven — should not receive the death penalty because of misconduct on the part of local prosecutors and the sheriff’s department.

SALT LAKE CITY >> A 2nd Salt Lake City police officer has been put on paid leave as authorities investigate the use of force in a nurse’s arrest. The July twenty six incident captured on police body-camera movie demonstrated Detective Jeff Payne dragging nurse Alex Wubbels from a hospital and handcuffing her after she refused to permit blood to be drawn from an unconscious patient in a car-crash investigation.

With only fifteen killings so far in 2017, Long Beach could be on rhythm to have its fewest homicides in at least the last forty nine years. This is despite the fact that overall violent crime in the city has risen more than ten percent during the very first half of this year, according to authorities.

A man stabbed another man on a Blue Line train in Downtown Long Beach and then fled as passengers scrambled to get away Friday afternoon, according to witnesses. Police said they’ve arrested the suspected attacker.

Fired Centinela Valley schools Superintendent Jose Fernandez pleaded not guilty Friday to public corruption allegations that a prosecutor alleged could have bilked the district of $1.Five million to as much as $Three million.

Los Angeles police asked for public help Friday to identify the person responsible for the drive-by shooting death of a Wilmington woman. Monica Nicole Ruiz, 31, suffered fatal wounds at about 9:50 p.

IRVINE – Two brothers who barricaded themselves inwards Harvest Orange County Church for two hours Wednesday night might have been armed with a fake gun and were intent on hurting the facility, a church official said on Thursday.

LOS ANGELES — A federal appeals court panel today upheld the obstruction of justice conviction of former Los Angeles County Undersheriff Paul Tanaka, who began serving a five-year prison term in January at a minimum security camp in Colorado.

The prime suspect in the hammering of a 15-year-old San Pedro boy who proceeds to recover from a brain injury was arrested Thursday and is expected to be charged next week with attempted murder, authorities said.

About ten days before prosecutors arrested former Centinela Valley Union High School Superintendent Jose Fernandez on embezzlement and public corruption charges, they obtained a improvised restraining order in court to freeze his assets, including his $1.

LOS ANGELES >> A woman once under the spell of Charles Manson testified Thursday that the violent and manipulative cult leader threatened to have her die a painful death if she left the ranch where they lived.

A drive-by shooting in Norwalk on Wednesday afternoon left a man wounded, authorities said. The gunfire was reported about Two:35 p.m. at

A patient stole an ambulance in Westminster Wednesday and led police on a pursue that ended near the four hundred five and six hundred five freeways. Police were called at 8:40 a.m. about a CARE ambulance being stolen at Magnolia Street and Edinger Avenue, according to Westminster police Cpl.

A suspect who reportedly stole an ambulance Wednesday in Westminster and then led police on a pursue northbound on the I-405 freeway was apprehended in the Long Beach area, authorities said. The suspect was taken into custody around nine a.

Three years after Jose Fernandez was fired from his position at the helm of the Centinela Valley Union High School District after revelations of excessive compensation, the disgraced former superintendent was arrested Wednesday on public corruption charges.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. >> Two women believed to be part of a stolen car ring led California police on a 20-mile pursue Wednesday before pointing them to a Sacramento hotel where another suspect opened fire with an brunt rifle in a shootout that left one officer dead and two others wounded, authorities said.

A college student from Downey was killed in a gang-style execution before his bod was dumped in Long Beach’s El Dorado Park last year, authorities alleged at a court hearing Tuesday where they exposed fresh details about the slaying.

Long Beach police are looking for whoever stabbed a 25-year-old man during a possibly gang-related attack on Saturday night, according to authorities. Police said the man was hospitalized to treat the wounds, which didn’t show up to be life-threatening.

Police arrested a man who pulled a gun on another man at the Long Beach Shoreline Marina on Sunday afternoon, according to authorities. Police headed to the marina in the

A Long Beach man has admitted in federal court to running a drug ring that imported powerful opioids from China and distributed them in bulk across the United States, according to authorities. Gary Resnik, 32, pleaded guilty on Monday to one charge each of conspiracy to manufacture and distribute narcotics and possession with the intent to distribute acetylfentanyl, a synthetic opioid that’s about as potent and addictive as fentanyl, according to the U.

One of four fellows arrested last year admitted on Monday he was manufacturing a powerful synthetic opioid at the Baldwin Park house, which doubled as a drug lab. The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office described Gary Resnik, 32, of Long Beach as the leader of a narcotics distribution ring that imported acetylfentanyl from China and turned it into pills to be distributed across the United States.

Fresh DELHI >> Thousands of supporters of an Indian quasi-religious sect leader left his headquarters in northern India on Sunday as authorities relaxed a curfew a day ahead of his sentencing for rape.

A man intentionally struck his gf with an SUV in Pico Rivera late Saturday, shattering her gam, before being arrested at his South Gate home, according to officials and witnesses. Suspect Daniel Lopez, 25, was ultimately found and arrested on suspicion of onslaught with a deadly weapon following the 11:50 p.

Low-level drug and prostitution offenders in North Long Beach and nearby communities may soon get help instead of prosecution when a fresh pilot program commences in September. The Los Angeles County Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion Program, or LEAD, will divert some offenders to social services like rehabilitation, counseling and stable housing in an effort to reduce crime.

A 49-year-old man suspected of menacing gardeners next door with a gun Saturday surrendered to sheriff’s deputies about five 1/Two hours after holing himself up inwards a home in Compton, authorities said.

LOS ANGELES — The coroner’s office today released the name of an armed man found dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound after he was holed up in his South Los Angeles apartment, prompting the evacuations of at least twenty people.

Police arrested a boy suspected of stabbing three people during a string of robberies in the Downtown Long Beach area just after midnight Friday, according to authorities. Long Beach police said they very first got a call about an attack in the one hundred block of Lime Avenue around 12:15 a.

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office today warned people with deep religious or spiritual beliefs to be aware of a hoax that can result in the loss of cash and valuables.

A man was hospitalized in critical condition after being shot near a Walgreens pharmacy just east of Downtown Long Beach Wednesday night, according to authorities. Officers found the man with a gunshot wound to the upper assets around 9:Ten p.

SAN FRANCISCO >> A voter-approved measure to speed up executions in California was upheld Thursday by the state Supreme Court, but justices rejected arguments that a provision setting a five-year limit on appeals was mandatory, raising doubts that the law will succeed in accelerating death sentences.

SAN DIEGO >> A California teenager who says he bought a Bengal tiger cub on the streets of Tijuana for $300 was arrested when he attempted to bring it into the United States in his two thousand seventeen Chevy Camaro.

A man who reportedly suggested drugs to patrons at a popular Torrance restaurant and led police on a pursue early Wednesday was critically injured when he crashed into a power pole and fire hydrant and was pinned under his car, police said.

Desirae Ortega was inwards her Encino apartment Tuesday night when gunfire erupted outside her window. It was inbetween a father accused of slaying a 9-year-old boy’s mother and police. Ortega said she and a guest ran to the upper level of her apartment after the shooting.

A man wished for felony onslaught barricaded himself in a North Long Beach house Tuesday afternoon, prompting police to evacuate some neighboring homes, according to authorities. SWAT officers eventually used rip gas to force the man out of a house where he was holed up in the one hundred block of W.

Police arrested a teenager suspected of shooting and wounding another teenager near a skate park north of Downtown Long Beach Wednesday afternoon, according to authorities and witnesses. Bystanders said they heard at least four shots around two p.

ALHAMBRA >> A South Pasadena man was sentenced Wednesday to twenty five years to life in prison for throttling his 5-year-old son then leaving the figure in a wooded area in Santa Barbara County. A day before the murder, Aramazd Andressian Sr.

Former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca has lost another bid to avoid prison time while his conviction on federal corruption charges is appealed, according to court documents. The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals determined that Baca did not display that the lower court erred in ordering the former lawman to begin serving his three-year prison term.

LOS ANGELES — A car believed to have been used in the abduction of a 9-year-old boy in Santa Maria, prompting an Amber Alert in Los Angeles, Ventura and Santa Barbara counties, was found abandoned today, but the child and the suspect remained missing and were believed to be traveling in another vehicle.

Long Beach police arrested two people on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol during a checkpoint Friday night, according to the department. Officers screening cars also arrested a third person on an outstanding warrant and wrote fifteen citations for driving without a license or other traffic violations, authorities said in a news release.

Police arrested a man suspected of firing a single gunshot into an apartment building in Downtown Long Beach Monday night, according to authorities. Nobody was hurt by the gunfire, police said. The suspected gunman surrendered to officers after they surrounded his apartment in the

A movie demonstrating a man clinging to the back of a tow truck while it dragged a car along Long Beach streets commenced with a repossession gone bad, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.

Two people broke into a home, tied up the residents and stole a safe, authorities said. At about four p.m. on Monday, Aug. 21, two people compelled their way into a home in the

Long Beach police arrested a 24-year-old suspected gang member last week in connection with a shooting in North Long Beach, according to authorities. Police allege the 24-year-old shot at a man in his 40s after an argument on Aug.

LOS ANGELES >> A man who abducted his 9-year-old son after allegedly shooting and killing the child’s mother, prompting an Amber Alert, was killed Tuesday in an officer-involved shooting in Tarzana and the child was found safe.

ALHAMBRA >> A South Pasadena man faces spending the next twenty five years in prison for killing his 5-year-old son whose bod detectives found in Santa Barbara County two months after he went missing.

A man was sentenced to twenty six years to life in prison Monday for stabbing his roomie to death on a Long Beach sidewalk after his gf accused the roomie of attacking her, according to authorities.

SANTA ANA >> A 41-year-old Long Beach man — previously convicted of first-degree murder after a stolen stove fell off of his truck on the freeway in Anaheim, allegedly prompting a traffic crash that killed an off-duty sheriff’s deputy — is back in court, this time facing a lesser charge.

COMPTON >> An armed suspect eluded arrest Sunday morning following almost four hours of what sheriff’s deputies thought was a barricade situation, authorities said. The initial report at ten p.

EDMOND, Okla. >> A convicted hook-up offender who molested his niece when she was seven years old moved in next door to his victim almost a dozen years after he was sent to prison for the crime. Outraged, the Oklahoma woman, now 21, called lawmakers, the police and advocacy groups to plead with them to take act.

The woman seated next to them on the Metro Blue Line began speaking louder, and her words became more profane. She embarked cursing at her bf who had his mitt under her T-shirt. Then, when she announced in utter voice she would take off her top and flash the train, that was the last straw.

Crime news, Cracking Crime news and More: Long Beach Press Telegram

Crime News

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For several convicted killers, the horrific case of Seal Beach mass murderer Scott Evans Dekraai is a potential legal bounty. Last month, a Superior Court ruled that Dekraai — who admitted to killing eight people at a hair salon in two thousand eleven — should not receive the death penalty because of misconduct on the part of local prosecutors and the sheriff’s department.

SALT LAKE CITY >> A 2nd Salt Lake City police officer has been put on paid leave as authorities investigate the use of force in a nurse’s arrest. The July twenty six incident captured on police body-camera movie demonstrated Detective Jeff Payne dragging nurse Alex Wubbels from a hospital and handcuffing her after she refused to permit blood to be drawn from an unconscious patient in a car-crash investigation.

With only fifteen killings so far in 2017, Long Beach could be on tempo to have its fewest homicides in at least the last forty nine years. This is despite the fact that overall violent crime in the city has risen more than ten percent during the very first half of this year, according to authorities.

A man stabbed another man on a Blue Line train in Downtown Long Beach and then fled as passengers scrambled to get away Friday afternoon, according to witnesses. Police said they’ve arrested the suspected attacker.

Fired Centinela Valley schools Superintendent Jose Fernandez pleaded not guilty Friday to public corruption allegations that a prosecutor alleged could have bilked the district of $1.Five million to as much as $Three million.

Los Angeles police asked for public help Friday to identify the person responsible for the drive-by shooting death of a Wilmington woman. Monica Nicole Ruiz, 31, suffered fatal wounds at about 9:50 p.

IRVINE – Two brothers who barricaded themselves inwards Harvest Orange County Church for two hours Wednesday night might have been armed with a fake gun and were intent on bruising the facility, a church official said on Thursday.

LOS ANGELES — A federal appeals court panel today upheld the obstruction of justice conviction of former Los Angeles County Undersheriff Paul Tanaka, who began serving a five-year prison term in January at a minimum security camp in Colorado.

The prime suspect in the striking of a 15-year-old San Pedro boy who proceeds to recover from a brain injury was arrested Thursday and is expected to be charged next week with attempted murder, authorities said.

About ten days before prosecutors arrested former Centinela Valley Union High School Superintendent Jose Fernandez on embezzlement and public corruption charges, they obtained a makeshift restraining order in court to freeze his assets, including his $1.

LOS ANGELES >> A woman once under the spell of Charles Manson testified Thursday that the violent and manipulative cult leader threatened to have her die a painful death if she left the ranch where they lived.

A drive-by shooting in Norwalk on Wednesday afternoon left a man wounded, authorities said. The gunfire was reported about Two:35 p.m. at

A patient stole an ambulance in Westminster Wednesday and led police on a pursue that ended near the four hundred five and six hundred five freeways. Police were called at 8:40 a.m. about a CARE ambulance being stolen at Magnolia Street and Edinger Avenue, according to Westminster police Cpl.

A suspect who reportedly stole an ambulance Wednesday in Westminster and then led police on a pursue northbound on the I-405 freeway was apprehended in the Long Beach area, authorities said. The suspect was taken into custody around nine a.

Three years after Jose Fernandez was fired from his position at the helm of the Centinela Valley Union High School District after revelations of excessive compensation, the disgraced former superintendent was arrested Wednesday on public corruption charges.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. >> Two women believed to be part of a stolen car ring led California police on a 20-mile pursue Wednesday before pointing them to a Sacramento hotel where another suspect opened fire with an onslaught rifle in a shootout that left one officer dead and two others wounded, authorities said.

A college student from Downey was killed in a gang-style execution before his figure was dumped in Long Beach’s El Dorado Park last year, authorities alleged at a court hearing Tuesday where they exposed fresh details about the slaying.

Long Beach police are looking for whoever stabbed a 25-year-old man during a possibly gang-related attack on Saturday night, according to authorities. Police said the man was hospitalized to treat the wounds, which didn’t show up to be life-threatening.

Police arrested a man who pulled a gun on another man at the Long Beach Shoreline Marina on Sunday afternoon, according to authorities. Police headed to the marina in the

A Long Beach man has admitted in federal court to running a drug ring that imported powerful opioids from China and distributed them in bulk across the United States, according to authorities. Gary Resnik, 32, pleaded guilty on Monday to one charge each of conspiracy to manufacture and distribute narcotics and possession with the intent to distribute acetylfentanyl, a synthetic opioid that’s about as potent and addictive as fentanyl, according to the U.

One of four guys arrested last year admitted on Monday he was manufacturing a powerful synthetic opioid at the Baldwin Park house, which doubled as a drug lab. The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office described Gary Resnik, 32, of Long Beach as the leader of a narcotics distribution ring that imported acetylfentanyl from China and turned it into pills to be distributed across the United States.

Fresh DELHI >> Thousands of supporters of an Indian quasi-religious sect leader left his headquarters in northern India on Sunday as authorities relaxed a curfew a day ahead of his sentencing for rape.

A man intentionally struck his gf with an SUV in Pico Rivera late Saturday, shattering her gam, before being arrested at his South Gate home, according to officials and witnesses. Suspect Daniel Lopez, 25, was ultimately found and arrested on suspicion of onslaught with a deadly weapon following the 11:50 p.

Low-level drug and prostitution offenders in North Long Beach and nearby communities may soon get help instead of prosecution when a fresh pilot program embarks in September. The Los Angeles County Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion Program, or LEAD, will divert some offenders to social services like rehabilitation, counseling and stable housing in an effort to reduce crime.

A 49-year-old man suspected of menacing gardeners next door with a gun Saturday surrendered to sheriff’s deputies about five 1/Two hours after holing himself up inwards a home in Compton, authorities said.

LOS ANGELES — The coroner’s office today released the name of an armed man found dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound after he was holed up in his South Los Angeles apartment, prompting the evacuations of at least twenty people.

Police arrested a boy suspected of stabbing three people during a string of robberies in the Downtown Long Beach area just after midnight Friday, according to authorities. Long Beach police said they very first got a call about an attack in the one hundred block of Lime Avenue around 12:15 a.

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office today warned people with deep religious or spiritual beliefs to be aware of a hoax that can result in the loss of cash and valuables.

A man was hospitalized in critical condition after being shot near a Walgreens pharmacy just east of Downtown Long Beach Wednesday night, according to authorities. Officers found the man with a gunshot wound to the upper bod around 9:Ten p.

SAN FRANCISCO >> A voter-approved measure to speed up executions in California was upheld Thursday by the state Supreme Court, but justices rejected arguments that a provision setting a five-year limit on appeals was mandatory, raising doubts that the law will succeed in accelerating death sentences.

SAN DIEGO >> A California teenager who says he bought a Bengal tiger cub on the streets of Tijuana for $300 was arrested when he attempted to bring it into the United States in his two thousand seventeen Chevy Camaro.

A man who reportedly suggested drugs to patrons at a popular Torrance restaurant and led police on a pursue early Wednesday was critically injured when he crashed into a power pole and fire hydrant and was pinned under his car, police said.

Desirae Ortega was inwards her Encino apartment Tuesday night when gunfire erupted outside her window. It was inbetween a father accused of slaying a 9-year-old boy’s mother and police. Ortega said she and a guest ran to the upper level of her apartment after the shooting.

A man dreamed for felony attack barricaded himself in a North Long Beach house Tuesday afternoon, prompting police to evacuate some neighboring homes, according to authorities. SWAT officers eventually used rip gas to force the man out of a house where he was holed up in the one hundred block of W.

Police arrested a teenager suspected of shooting and wounding another teenager near a skate park north of Downtown Long Beach Wednesday afternoon, according to authorities and witnesses. Bystanders said they heard at least four shots around two p.

ALHAMBRA >> A South Pasadena man was sentenced Wednesday to twenty five years to life in prison for throttling his 5-year-old son then leaving the bod in a wooded area in Santa Barbara County. A day before the murder, Aramazd Andressian Sr.

Former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca has lost another bid to avoid prison time while his conviction on federal corruption charges is appealed, according to court documents. The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals determined that Baca did not display that the lower court erred in ordering the former lawman to begin serving his three-year prison term.

LOS ANGELES — A car believed to have been used in the abduction of a 9-year-old boy in Santa Maria, prompting an Amber Alert in Los Angeles, Ventura and Santa Barbara counties, was found abandoned today, but the child and the suspect remained missing and were believed to be traveling in another vehicle.

Long Beach police arrested two people on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol during a checkpoint Friday night, according to the department. Officers screening cars also arrested a third person on an outstanding warrant and wrote fifteen citations for driving without a license or other traffic violations, authorities said in a news release.

Police arrested a man suspected of firing a single gunshot into an apartment building in Downtown Long Beach Monday night, according to authorities. Nobody was hurt by the gunfire, police said. The suspected gunman surrendered to officers after they surrounded his apartment in the

A movie demonstrating a man clinging to the back of a tow truck while it dragged a car along Long Beach streets began with a repossession gone bad, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.

Two people broke into a home, tied up the residents and stole a safe, authorities said. At about four p.m. on Monday, Aug. 21, two people compelled their way into a home in the

Long Beach police arrested a 24-year-old suspected gang member last week in connection with a shooting in North Long Beach, according to authorities. Police allege the 24-year-old shot at a man in his 40s after an argument on Aug.

LOS ANGELES >> A man who abducted his 9-year-old son after allegedly shooting and killing the child’s mother, prompting an Amber Alert, was killed Tuesday in an officer-involved shooting in Tarzana and the child was found safe.

ALHAMBRA >> A South Pasadena man faces spending the next twenty five years in prison for killing his 5-year-old son whose figure detectives found in Santa Barbara County two months after he went missing.

A man was sentenced to twenty six years to life in prison Monday for stabbing his roomie to death on a Long Beach sidewalk after his gf accused the roomy of attacking her, according to authorities.

SANTA ANA >> A 41-year-old Long Beach man — previously convicted of first-degree murder after a stolen stove fell off of his truck on the freeway in Anaheim, allegedly prompting a traffic crash that killed an off-duty sheriff’s deputy — is back in court, this time facing a lesser charge.

COMPTON >> An armed suspect eluded arrest Sunday morning following almost four hours of what sheriff’s deputies thought was a barricade situation, authorities said. The initial report at ten p.

EDMOND, Okla. >> A convicted hook-up offender who molested his niece when she was seven years old moved in next door to his victim almost a dozen years after he was sent to prison for the crime. Outraged, the Oklahoma woman, now 21, called lawmakers, the police and advocacy groups to plead with them to take activity.

The woman seated next to them on the Metro Blue Line began speaking louder, and her words became more profane. She embarked cursing at her beau who had his mitt under her T-shirt. Then, when she announced in total voice she would take off her top and flash the train, that was the last straw.

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