CALIFORNIA IN BRIEF : SAN DIEGO : Bail Denied for Alleged Drug Leader

A federal magistrate denied bail to a Los Angeles defense attorney accused of running a cocaine and money-laundering ring in Southern California and Arizona. U.S. Magistrate Roger Curtis McKee said Juan Paul Robertson, 44, could pose a danger to others and might flee if released on bond. McKee ruled after a prosecutor said Robertson, a former federal prosecutor, had threatened witnesses, bragged about killing a cocaine dealer and once put a gun to his former wife’s head. A federal grand jury in San Diego indicted Robertson on Oct. 4 for allegedly overseeing a criminal ring that distributed cocaine in northern San Diego County, Phoenix and Los Angeles in the 1980s.