EL CENTRO— District Attorney George Marquez and members of the District Attorney's Office hosted a meet and greet on Wednesday, Oct. 16. The event aimed to strengthen the office’s connections with community members and business owners.
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A Guatemalan judge on Friday granted the request for prominent journalist Jose Ruben Zamora to be placed under house arrest, months after the writer's conditional release had been revoked.
Former Fulham women's captain Ronnie Gibbons has alleged she was twice sexually assaulted by the club's late owner Mohamed Al Fayed, who was also the boss of Harrods.
(The Center Square) - A new analysis has found California's Proposition 47, which turned six drug and theft crimes into misdemeanors, has increased reoffending and levels of drug and theft crime. While the report did not analyze Prop. 36, a measure voters seem likely to approve in November that would strengthen prosecution and create a mental health or substance abuse treatment option, it noted the proposition could correct some of Prop. 47's harms.
(The Center Square) - A 37-year-old Denver, Colorado, woman received a one-year and one-day prison sentence after pleading guilty to committing wire fraud in a scheme where she defrauded her employer, Amazon.
SACRAMENTO, California — Maurice Bryant, a 54-year-old from Sacramento, has been sentenced to 168 months in prison for his role in a drug trafficking conspiracy involving cocaine and heroin. Bryant was among 15 federal defendants charged in a 2021 indictment, according to a press release from the U.S. Attorney's Office.
LOS ANGELES, California — Three members of a South Los Angeles family have been sentenced for defrauding 73 immigrants by unlawfully providing legal services for residency or work permits, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office.
LOS ANGELES, California — A Canadian former Olympic snowboarder and 15 others have been charged in a 16-count indictment for allegedly operating a transnational drug trafficking network. The operation reportedly shipped hundreds of kilograms of cocaine from Colombia through Mexico and Southern California to Canada and other U.S. locations, according to a press release.
(The Center Square) - Annual FBI crime victimization surveys show violent crime is up 10.4% and property crime is up 6.4% between 2019 and 2023.
A Vietnamese property tycoon sentenced to death for fraud totalling $27 billion was jailed for life Thursday in a related trial on money laundering charges, state media said.