Matthew Ormseth is a reporter for the Los Angeles Times. Before joining The Times in 2018, he covered city news and state politics at the Hartford Courant.
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Eric Halem, a former Los Angeles Police Department officer, was convicted of taking $350,000 worth of cryptocurrency from a 17-year-old in a 2024 home invasion robbery.
Manuel Quintero, a reputed Mexican Mafia member nicknamed Snuffy, was found guilty of killing the owner of the nightclub El Farallon during a home invasion that went unsolved for nearly 16 years.
During an investigation of the Mosquito fire, which burned nearly 80,000 acres in Placer County, California regulators found PG&E committed safety violations.
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After a late lunch with his wife at Bossa Nova, Miguel Angel Aguilar got in his 1959 Chevrolet Impala and headed home. He didn’t notice the Acura that tailed him through rush-hour traffic on Sunset Boulevard.
The owner of a nail salon in the San Fernando Valley allegedly stole $1.4 million from a dozen people, taking advantage of connections in the local Vietnamese community to solicit investments that were never repaid.
A Los Angeles man admitted to recruiting thieves — who claimed they never knew each other’s real names — for brazen robberies that targeted marijuana grows, warehouses and luxury stores. Court filings show he was repeatedly arrested and released, even after a security guard was gunned down.
A California prison guard smuggled 20 kilograms of cocaine from Mexico to a stash house in Rowland Heights, prosecutors allege.
A recent Los Angeles trial revealed a subculture that revolves around newly created crypto wealth and young men who flaunt fortunes built through elaborate scams.