Police in California arrested a man on Friday who they said attacked and choked his elderly former landlord before leading them on a high-speed chase. Officers responded to an assault call at a Riverside County residence at around 4 a.m. on Friday. There, an 83-year-old man claimed his former tenant and an acquaintance, Paul Stephen …
A California inmate who was serving a life sentence for a 1993 murder was sentenced to death on Tuesday for killing his cellmate — a transgender woman — after she was housed with him in October 2013. Kern Valley State Prison inmate Miguel Crespo, 48, gagged, tortured, and murdered Carmen Guerrero after just eight hours …
The police union has declined to criminally defend a California police officer who allegedly fondled a woman’s dead body last month. The unidentified officer, who works in Los Angeles’ Central Division, was placed on paid leave in light of the allegations. Citing officials, the Los Angeles Times reported that detectives discovered the footage on the …
Police in California are closer to solving a cold case mystery after positively identifying the charred remains of a woman who was found in a burning dumpster more than 18 years earlier. Citing police, The Sacramento Bee reported that Perrean Gray, 20, was the woman firefighters found dead in a dumpster on June 29, 2001. …
The boy’s mother, who died in the slaying, had obtained a restraining order against her estranged husband a day before the murder-suicide
A woman accused of taking her 3-week-old daughter from the baby’s maternal grandmother on Wednesday afternoon — sparking an AMBER Alert in Utah —reportedly does not have legal custody of her child. KOVR reported that Taylor Webb, 25, drove from Modesto, California, to Clinton, Utah, to take her newborn daughter, Audrey Westfall, from her mother, …
A California man was convicted of first-degree murder on Tuesday for stabbing his boss to death last year at their place of work. Rafael Sanchez, 32, killed his supervisor, Daniel Sanchez, 20, at a Domino’s in La Puente on March 10, 2018. Though Daniel Sanchez died from a neck wound, police said Rafael Sanchez also …
A California man who had exploited at least five young children to produce child pornography was sentenced on Monday to 30 years in federal prison. As the Sacramento Bee reports, the U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California said in a press statement that most of the children 35-year-old Travis Elconin abused were younger …
A deceased teen’s aunt and uncle are planning to sue a California school district. They claim their nephew told administrators that he was being bullied days before two students fatally assaulted him on school grounds. The $100 million wrongful death claim against the Moreno Valley Unified School District alleges that Diego Stolz, 13, and his …
A California woman who was paroled late last month for the 2017 drunk driving wreck that killed her 14-year-old sister was rearrested on Thursday after allegedly leading police on a chase. The Stockton Police Department said in a Facebook post that officers attempted to pull over Obdulia Sanchez, 20, but she failed to yield and …
A former California brain surgeon who has been jailed since 2017 while waiting to stand trial on child sex abuse charges was reportedly found dead in his cell on Sunday. KSBW reported that correctional officers discovered James Kohut, 59, deceased in his cell when breakfast began at 5:45 a.m. Kohut reportedly didn’t have any cellmates …
A North Carolina man pleaded not guilty Tuesday for the cold case murder of an accomplished Hollywood television producer and bridge player. Edwin Hiatt, 53, was arrested in May for the 1985 beating death of Barry Crane, 57. Citing Los Angeles prosecutors, Deadline reported that Hiatt bludgeoned Crane to death with a large ceramic statue …
