One of the accomplices, Jimmy Lee Vernon III of Long Beach, also pleaded guilty and was also sentenced to over six years in prison. Authorities said Vernon had dropped his cellphone during the robbery ...

Ladell Tharpe, 39, was sentenced to 7 years in federal prison for his role in a $2.6 million smash-and-grab robbery in Beverly Hills. Tharpe and two accomplices used sledgehammers and crowbars to ...

Ladell Tharpe, 39, who pleaded guilty to interference with commerce by robbery in September, was also ordered to pay nearly $2.7 million in restitution, the U.S. Department of Justice said in a ...

The daylight robbery - which happened in full view of staff and customers - began when Ladell Tharpe, 39, and his two accomplices careered up to the store in a convoy of vehicles, one of which had ...

Ladell Tharpe, 39, was sentenced by a federal judge for the March 2022 crime and has been in federal custody since March 2023, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Central District of ...

Ladell Tharpe was also ordered to pay $2,674,600 in restitution by United States District Judge George H. Wu. Tharpe pleaded guilty in September 2024 to one count of interference with commerce by ...

A 39-year-old Long Beach man who was part of a group that stole more than $2.6 million during a Beverly Hills smash-and-grab ...