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3 weeks ago | 
latimes.com | Salvador Hernandez |Salvador Hernández
Orange County Dist. Atty. Todd Spitzer harassed and retaliated against a high-ranking female prosecutor in his office after she raised concerns about his conduct and tried to protect other prosecutors who were sexually harassed by another superior, according to a jury verdict Thursday. The jury, which heard the case in San Diego County to avoid potential conflicts, found Spitzer acted with “malice” against Tracy Miller, who was at one point the highest-ranking woman in the prosecutor’s office.
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3 weeks ago | 
latimes.com | Salvador Hernandez |Salvador Hernández
Think it’s alright to hold your cell phone while driving, as long as you’re just looking at a navigation app? Think again. A state appeals court ruled Tuesday that the state law the prohibits drivers from texting or talking on a cell phone while driving also makes it illegal to hold a cell phone to look at a map on the screen. The driver doesn’t need to be swiping or tapping at the navigation application to break the law, the court ruled.
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3 weeks ago | 
latimes.com | Salvador Hernandez |Salvador Hernández
It started out as a friendship, but prosecutors allege it quickly turned into a nightmare kidnapping after Ian Edard Kroe held a 74-year-old woman captive in a hotel for two years, repeatedly raping her and threatening to torture her if she tried to escape. On Tuesday, 58-year-old Kroe was sentenced to 394 years to life in prison in a disturbing case that San Mateo County Dist. Atty. Stephen Wagstaffe said was unlike anything he or his prosecutors had seen before. He was convicted Feb.
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3 weeks ago | 
latimes.com | Salvador Hernandez |Salvador Hernández
Patricia Krenwinkel, a former member of the notorious Manson family that carried out a series of grisly killings across Los Angeles, was granted parole, but a final decision on her freedom now rests with Gov. Gavin Newsom. In a statement to The Times, her attorney said that after five decades behind bars, it was time for Krenwinkel to be released on parole.
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4 weeks ago | 
latimes.com | Salvador Hernandez |Salvador Hernández
The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation is reviewing hundreds of state parole hearings to see if any inmates who were denied parole were rejected because of faulty drug tests.
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1 month ago | 
latimes.com | Salvador Hernandez |Salvador Hernández
It’s a bitter feud the likes of which are seldom seen in law enforcement circles — or at least those that boil over into public view. For over seven years now, Orange County’s top prosecutor and a decorated former cop have been locked in an acrimonious dispute that shows little sign of abating. Both parties have accused the other of fractured ethics and corruption, and even an independent arbitrator likened the situation to a simmering cauldron.
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1 month ago | 
latimes.com | Salvador Hernandez |Salvador Hernández
A woman who tossed her boyfriend’s belongings from a balcony during an argument was killed after he allegedly threw her over a third-floor railing, police said. According to the San Diego Police Department, 61-year-old Irene Williams and 57-year-old Albert Turner had been dating for some time, but got into an argument Monday evening. Williams, police said, started throwing Turner’s belongings off the balcony of a third-floor apartment in the 500 block of West San Ysidro Boulevard.
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2 months ago | 
latimes.com | Salvador Hernandez |Salvador Hernández
Employees of security firm Lear Asset Management drag Teresa Borrenpohl out of a town hall meeting on Feb. 22 in Post Falls, Idaho. Five employees of a private Northern California security company, known for using controversial tactics, have been charged in connection with a February incident in Idaho where an audience member in a Republican town hall was forcibly removed by men in plainclothes.
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2 months ago | 
latimes.com | Salvador Hernandez |Salvador Hernández
Investigators examine electrical transmission towers near the origin of the deadly Eaton fire in Eaton Canyon in February. The possibility that an idle, unconnected Southern California Edison transmission line somehow reengerized on Jan. 7 is now “a leading hypothesis” for what started the destructive Eaton Fire, Edison International CEO Pedro Pizarro revealed Friday. In response, Edison will take steps to harden other idle towers and lines across its network to prevent reenergizing incidents.
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2 months ago | 
latimes.com | Salvador Hernandez |Salvador Hernández
Southern California Edison will bury more than 150 miles of power lines in Altadena and Malibu in the wake of January’s firestorms. Here, a scorched chimney rises above the rubble of a burned home on McNally Avenue, in Altadena. More than 150 miles of electrical power lines damaged by the Palisades and Eaton fires in Malibu and Altadena are slated to be replaced with underground lines, Southern California Edison announced Friday.
