James Queally
James Queally writes about crime and policing in Southern California. Since coming to The Times he has also traveled to Ferguson, Mo., and Cleveland to cover large-scale protests involving police use-of-force and the 2016 election. A Brooklyn native, he came to The Times in 2014 after covering crime and police news for the Star-Ledger in New Jersey. In that time he profiled Frank Lucas, the drug kingpin who inspired the film “American Gangster,” and wrote a series of stories that revealed how the state’s largest police departments failed to solve thousands of nonfatal shootings, which led to policy changes.
Recent Articles
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L.A. County probation officer pleads guilty to assaulting inmates at a juvenile hall
A Los Angeles County probation officer pleaded guilty Wednesday to two counts of assault after he was accused of sexually abusing several female inmates at a Santa Clarita juvenile hall, prosecutors said. Oscar Calderon Jr., 33, was immediately sentenced to a year in jail after pleading guilty in...
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Judge lowers $2-million bail for Suge Knight's fiancee on charges she sold murder trial evidence to TMZ
A Los Angeles County judge decided to sharply reduce the $2-million bail keeping Marion “Suge” Knight’s fiancee jailed on charges that she violated a court order by selling a key video in Knight’s murder trial to the gossip website TMZ. Toi-Lin Kelly, 36, was arrested this month after a grand jury...
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LAPD seeks suspect who vandalized Los Feliz Sikh temple, threatened witness
Los Angeles police have identified a suspect who wrote a pair of hateful screeds on the outside of a Sikh temple in Los Feliz and threatened to slit the throat of a witness who caught the incident on video, investigators said Monday. Artyom Manukyan, 27, is accused of using a black marker to write...
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Sheriff’s deputy arrested on suspicion of sexually assaulting 2 inmates
A Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy was arrested on suspicion of sexually assaulting two inmates inside a county jail facility, Sheriff Jim McDonnell said Thursday. Deputy Giancarlo Scotti, 31, was arrested at 6 p.m. Wednesday on suspicion of two counts of rape and two counts of oral copulation...
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Judge halts L.A. gang injunction against an Echo Park man who denies being in a gang
A federal judge on Thursday temporarily barred Los Angeles police and prosecutors from enforcing a gang injunction against an Echo Park man, saying she believed he would likely prove his rights were violated when he was swept up in the order. The 29-page order stems from a lawsuit filed by the...
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L.A. County to pay $1.5 million to family of disabled man who was fatally shot after being mistaken as suspect
Los Angeles County has agreed to pay $1.49 million to the family of an unarmed, disabled Compton man who was shot and killed by a sheriff’s deputy in a tragic case of mistaken identity last year, officials said. The settlement, approved Tuesday by the L.A. County Board of Supervisors, will be paid...
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After Bay Area violence, California debates classifying 'antifa' as a street gang
Not long after dozens of black-hooded protesters were filmed pummeling people on his city’s streets, Berkeley Mayor Jesse Arreguin made clear his disgust for the self-stylized vigilantes. “Antifa,” he said, is no different than a street gang, and police should start treating protesters in the anti-fascist...
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Alleged gang member arrested in assault that left San Pedro high school student in coma