How the Mexican Mafia’s ‘Pomona Mike’ made L.A.’s federal jail his fiefdom
Michael Lerma, 68, was convicted of racketeering and murder in a trial that showed how he called the shots for gangs in his ...
Pomona gang and Mexican Mafia members found guilty of racketeering-related crimes, murder
Four men from Pomona with gang and Mexican Mafia ties were found guilty on Friday of racketeering-related crimes, including ...
San Gabriel Valley Tribune1d
Prop. 36 is California’s light at the end of a crime-ridden tunnel: Now we need to fund it.
Orange County drug dealer James Lee Studdert’s rap sheet is 97 pages long. In just the last five years, 54-year-old Studdert has racked up 86 prior drug convictions. Studdert has five prior ...
Pasadena Star-News2d
Public defender Scott Sanders, who upended OC’s legal landscape, retires after 32 years
The scandal that scrambled Orange County’s justice system ... had helped police gather evidence against the violent prison gang. Deputies secretly put a microphone in Dekraai’s cell and ...
San Gabriel Valley Tribune2d
Thomas Goethals, veteran judge whose rulings rocked the OC legal community, is retiring
It was the scandal that Orange County Judge Thomas Goethals didn’t want to believe, the incendiary allegations of law enforcement wrongdoing that landed the high-profile trial he was presiding ...
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17 indicted in DeKalb County gang case, district attorney announces
DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. — DeKalb County District Attorney Sherry Boston announced Wednesday the indictment of 17 individuals in a wide-ranging gang case. According to a release by the district ...
ABC30 Action News2d
4 alleged gang members arrested in major South Valley drug bust, officials say
TULARE COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- Four gang members are in jail after a major drug bust in the South Valley. The arrests follow several search warrants executed in Porterville, Tulare, Poplar and ...
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DeKalb County announces indictments of gang members, 4 murder suspects on weapons, drug charges
LITHONIA, Ga. — A multi-agency investigation at a DeKalb County home led to the arrest and now indictment of 17 alleged gang members, a DeKalb County grand jury announced Wednesday. Officials ...