Los Angeles
Grand Theft Shenanigans
LOS ANGELES — Last month, 36-year-old Yesenia Oquendo of La Puente got pinched for grand theft in stealing insurance premium payments. As of yesterday, she’s been ordered to pay restitution,
A Winner at Collecting “Failures to Appear”?
INGLEWOOD —How many “failures to appear” can one collect, and will a career of collecting them count toward one’s retirement benefits? Eric Patrick Rhome, 62, was arrested by Inglewood police
Hawthorne Couple Arrested For Spousal Battery
HAWTHORNE, CA—Love is…a pair of reciprocal arrests for spousal battery on a late weekday night. Samona Michelle Chretten, 19, and Devon Christopher McKillian, 20, were apprehended by Hawthorne police officers
Transient Warehouse Worker Arrested For Robbery and Mail Theft
HAWTHORNE, CA—In this day and age of the World Wide Web, many entrepreneurs are trying to be self-contained conception, execution and distribution systems. Some people, however, take a more “hands on”
Dog Groomer Cleans Up in Warrants After Being Arrested For Assault with Firearm
INGLEWOOD, CA—It’s a dog’s life moonlighting as a collector of warrants and wracking up assault charges, but why bother grooming dogs as one’s day job? Kameron William Cook, 25, was
Lawndale Man Arrested For Hit and Run and DUI on Memorial Day
HAWTHORNE, CA—Memorial Day is one of the nation’s worst days for driving under the influence (DUI), according to a great many police departments’ statistics. Roberto Saldana, 30, apparently decided to
Two Nurses Apprehended for Domestic Violence
HAWTHORNE – What nurses do outside of the hospital or doctor’s office is certainly their own business, until it involves behavior such as assault. An afternoon domestic dispute between a
Pair of Burglars Popped in Hawthorne
HAWTHORNE, CA—Using the buddy system for burglary usually calls for one to break in and one to keep watch, but sometimes it doesn’t work out. Tremond Antrell Smith, 36, and
More insurance fraud and whatnot
LOS ANGELES — 32-year-old Jason Kwon of Santa Fe Springs and 32-year-old David Chang of Burbank are in hot water. The two face 41 felony counts of insurance fraud, grand
“Wise” Guys Arrested for Criminal Threats
HAWTHORNE — While “What’s in a name?” may apply to Shakesperean star-crossed lovers, it does not appear to be a positive harbinger for two brothers who seem to have acted
