Ex-Covina Teacher Gets 23.5 Years For Child Porn
A former Southern California teacher who used the Internet to lure a 14-year-old boy into having sex has been sentenced to 23 ½ years in federal prison.
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A former Southern California teacher who used the Internet to lure a 14-year-old boy into having sex has been sentenced to 23 ½ years in federal prison.
The District Attorney's Office reported Thursday that Jaime Vidales has been charged with killing Miguel Sanchez in July 1997. If convicted he faces life in prison without possibility of parole.
The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation officials have acknowledged that some low-level, nonviolent prisoners are being released early under a federal court order to reduce the inmate population.
A man who admitted to running over his estranged wife's Chihuahua on purpose was sentenced Monday to 16 months in prison.
A 27-year-old Pomona woman was sentenced Wednesday to 15 years to life in prison for stabbing her boyfriend to death two years ago, according to the Los Angeles County district attorney's office.
A 21-year-old woman who fatally struck a cyclist and injured two others in a drunk driving crash in Boyle Heights last year was sentenced Tuesday to nearly four years behind bars.
A former American Youth Soccer Organization coach in Lancaster was sentenced Friday to more than 130 years in prison for molesting 15 children, according to the Los Angeles County district attorney's office.
A 42-year-old man has been sentenced to 12 years in state prison for firing 54 rounds of ammunition outside of a Newport Beach mall back in 2012.
Former Bell City Manager Robert Rizzo was sentenced Wednesday morning to 12 years in state prison for his role in the Bell corruption scandal.
Former Bell City Manager Robert Rizzo was sentenced to 33 months in federal prison Monday for tax evasion.
A federal judge ruled Thursday that California's treatment of mentally ill inmates violates constitutional safeguards against cruel and unusual punishment through excessive use of pepper spray and isolation.
Two Southern California bank robbers who threw the loot out a car window during a police chase have been sentenced to long prison terms.
A former Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy has been sentenced to nine years in prison for raping a woman while on duty and trying to get another to have sex with him.
Gov. Jerry Brown defended his 3-year-old criminal justice realignment law Wednesday but also told California law enforcement organizations that he is open to making improvements.
A 74-year-old woman is expected to be released after serving 32 years in prison for a murder committed by her abusive boyfriend.
"Die Hard" director John McTiernan is free from federal prison in South Dakota. He served most of a one-year sentence for lying about his association with a private investigator to illegally wiretap a movie producer.
She apparently discovered her ex had been seeing another woman.
Three former California governors voiced their support Thursday for a signature-gathering campaign underway to reform California's death penalty system.
Gov. Jerry Brown asked federal judges Thursday to give the state two more years to reduce prison crowding to the level set by the court, and said inmates could be released early if the state fails to meet its goals.
California will have no choice but to move 4,000 more inmates to private prisons in other states if federal judges refuse to postpone a court-ordered population cap, state Corrections Secretary Jeffrey Beard said Wednesday.
After more than a decade behind bars, a Los Angeles man will spend Christmas with his family as a free man.
A Michigan man has been sentenced to five years in prison for traveling to San Diego with plans to kill two people he believed scammed him in an online romance.
L.A. County Sheriff Lee Baca denies authorizing the program "Friends of the Sheriff", which critics say accommodated those with connections.
A former Mormon church official was sentenced to three years in prison Wednesday for sexually assaulting two teenage girls.
Auto thefts and other property crimes were on the rise following a statewide initiative to release more California inmates early, according to a new study.
