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5 months, 3 weeks ago

Times reporter was leaked list of problem deputies. The Sheriff’s Department investigated her

LA Times

For at least three years, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department secretly investigated — and ultimately urged the state attorney general to prosecute — a Los Angeles Times reporter who wrote about a leaked list of problem deputies, according to internal department records. “I’m glad this investigation is over, and it’s an outrage that the Sheriff’s Department would criminally investigate …

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6 months, 3 weeks ago

Jeffrey Katzenberg: Biden’s big money man in Hollywood

LA Times

On the blisteringly cold day of the Iowa GOP caucuses, President Biden’s campaign convened reporters in a conference room to contrast the Democratic incumbent with the Republican field and its front-runner, former President Trump. “We’re entering the election year with the resources, enthusiasm and energy needed to mobilize the winning coalition that will reelect Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.” Politically …

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9 months, 1 week ago

California DOJ civil rights probe of Sheriff’s Department headed to settlement, sources say

LA Times

More than three years after the California Department of Justice launched a civil rights investigation into the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, the case is headed toward a sprawling settlement agreement expected to touch on issues including jail conditions, deputy gangs and staffing, according to sources familiar with the matter and emails viewed by The Times. Lawyers for Los Angeles …

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10 months ago

Hahn, Barger declare victory in L.A. County supervisors race; Mitchell holds big lead

LA Times

L.A. County Supervisors Janice Hahn, Kathryn Barger and Holly J. Mitchell all looked headed for reelection after the latest round of votes was counted Friday, a sweep that would continue the reign of the so-called Five Little Queens. On Friday afternoon, Hahn claimed victory over her two opponents — including former county Sheriff Alex Villanueva, whom she referred to as …

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1 year ago

Burger chain manager fined for using ‘straw donors’ to back ex-Sheriff Alex Villanueva’s 2018 campaign

LA Times

Prosecutors announced in 2022 that they would not file criminal charges against the owner of the Tam’s Burger restaurant chain, though a state campaign finance watchdog has now fined a restaurant manager. A burger chain manager accused of using “straw donors” to repeatedly contribute to former Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva’s 2018 bid for office has agreed to pay …

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1 year, 3 months ago

Alex Villanueva says he’ll challenge Janice Hahn in county supervisor race

LA Times

Former Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva, who lost his bid for reelection in November after a single term marked by scandal and controversy, said Wednesday he plans to challenge county Supervisor Janice Hahn in the March 2024 primary. for Los Angeles Deputy Sheriffs, which represents roughly 8,000 deputies, said in a statement Wednesday it had done “head-to-head polling” and …

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1 year, 7 months ago

Deputy accused of being in ‘Executioners’ gang reveals tattoo in court, names names

LA Times

Lt. Larry Waldie, shown here in May 2022, filed suit in a case that went to trial this month over claims he’d been retaliated against for reporting gang activity at Compton station. When he stepped up to the witness stand last week, Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Deputy Jaime Juarez told the court about his first inking party — the day …

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2 years, 2 months ago

Sheriff Villanueva is at war with nearly everyone. Will it cost him his job?

LA Times

After four years as Los Angeles County sheriff, Alex Villanueva’s view of things has crystallized into a simple idea: He knows best how to save the county — and you’re either on board with him or part of the problem. “As if I didn’t have enough work,” he said, “they created even more work on top of what we’re already …

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2 years, 2 months ago

Luna is running for Los Angeles County sheriff as the anti-Villanueva. Will it work?

LA Times

Robert Luna likes to point out that he’s held every rank in the Long Beach Police Department since he joined as a reserve officer in 1985. Retired Long Beach Police Chief Robert Luna, left, and Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva at a debate last month at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles. Our messaging worked.” California Alex Villanueva …

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2 years, 3 months ago

As midterm elections near, here’s how to read polls without driving yourself crazy

LA Times

People protest in New York against the Supreme Court’s overturn of Roe vs. Wade, removing a federal right to abortion. Because of polls, for example, we know that the Supreme Court’s June decision that overturned Roe vs. Wade and ended the nationwide guarantee of abortion rights caused a significant shift in public opinion, said Natalie Jackson, director of research at …

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2 years, 5 months ago

Sheriff’s Department under fire as trial starts over Kobe Bryant crash photos

LA Times

First responders gather at the site of the helicopter crash in Calabasas that killed Kobe Bryant, his daughter Gianna and seven others in January 2020. Surveillance footage from the Baja California Bar and Grill in Norwalk shows a bartender talking to Joey Cruz, left, a deputy trainee at the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. But in a 2020 interview about …

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2 years, 8 months ago

The right is running against L.A., with an assist from Sheriff Villanueva

LA Times

I’m Paul Thornton, and it is Saturday, April 23, 2022. Who’s not taking the election seriously — or at least not acting like it — is one of the most important incumbents on the local ballot: Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva, who followed up his bizarre letter declining to participate in The Times endorsement process, which was sent during …

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2 years, 9 months ago

Is it fair to blame Gascón alone for L.A.’s violent crime surge? Here’s what the data show

LA Times

Throughout his first year in office, Los Angeles County Dist. “We are seeing very similar trends elsewhere.. It’s not unique to Los Angeles,” said Magnus Lofstrom, director of criminal justice at the Public Policy Institute of California, which often publishes studies on crime trends. “It’s not unique to the period in which Gascón was in office as the L.A. County …

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2 years, 10 months ago

Majority of L.A. County sheriff’s deputies did not complete training requirements, audit says

LA Times

Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies in September 2020. An audit found that thousands of deputies, supervisors and dispatchers in the department have not completed required training courses in recent years, including instruction in firearms. Thousands of Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies, supervisors and dispatchers have not completed required training courses in recent years, according to a California oversight agency. An …

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2 years, 10 months ago

Sheriff Villanueva demands L.A. County leaders stop using term ‘deputy gangs’

LA Times

Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva sent a cease-and-desist letter to the Board of Supervisors, demanding supervisors and others stop using the phrase “deputy gangs.” Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva sent a cease-and-desist letter this week to the Board of Supervisors, demanding they and others stop using the phrase “deputy gangs” to refer to secretive groups that operate within …

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2 years, 11 months ago

Congressional panel again asks for probe into L.A. County deputy ‘gangs’

LA Times

A congressional subcommittee has again asked the Department of Justice to investigate allegations of systemic abuses by “criminal gangs” within the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. A congressional subcommittee has requested for a second time that the U.S. Department of Justice investigate allegations of systemic abuses by “criminal gangs” of deputies within the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department that celebrate …

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3 years, 3 months ago

Viral TikTok trend that encourages vandalism hits California schools

LA Times

A TikTok trend has left some California school districts grappling with thousands of dollars in damages to their facilities. Such has been the theft and vandalism provoked by a viral TikTok trend that has left some California school districts grappling with thousands of dollars in damages to their facilities. “The fact that we had it at such a high degree …

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3 years, 5 months ago

‘Running against the woke left’: Can Sheriff Villanueva’s shift to the right work in L.A.?

LA Times

For a sheriff who swept into office by convincing liberal, progressive voters he was their candidate, Alex Villanueva is making strange moves these days. “He has tried to change the chemistry of his reelection by kind of adopting a sort of law-and-order posture that may get a little traction in L.A. County this coming year,” said Raphe Sonenshein, head of …

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3 years, 6 months ago

$1 Billion In Illegal Marijuana Seized During Record-Breaking Southern California Drug Bust

Huff Post

LOADING ERROR LOADING LOS ANGELES — The largest illegal marijuana bust in Los Angeles County history — which netted 373,000 plants that would ultimately have been worth $1 billion on the street — eradicated only a fraction of the illicit grows in the Southern California high desert, authorities said Wednesday. Authorities seized tens of millions of dollars worth of illegal …

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3 years, 6 months ago

Testimony contradicts Sheriff Villanueva’s claims about handling of Banditos

LA Times

Eight L.A. County sheriff’s deputies allege in a lawsuit that they were routinely harassed by a gang of deputies at the department’s East L.A. station who have matching tattoos. Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva has repeatedly touted what he says was his first act in office in December 2018: removing the captain of East L.A. station, where a group …

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3 years, 6 months ago

Help wanted: Labor crisis plagues US restaurant industry

Associated Press

LOS ANGELES — Sherry Villanueva’s family of Santa Barbara restaurants employed 350 people before the pandemic took hold and darkened dining rooms across California. Sam Toia, CEO of the Illinois Restaurant Association, said he’s started talking with federal lawmakers about the possibility of expanding worker visa programs for the restaurant industry to open a new pipeline of labor. “I’ve never …

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3 years, 9 months ago

Tiger Woods crash due to 'unsafe' driving speed: Sheriff

The Hindu

Tiger Woods was driving more than 80 mph — nearly twice the posted speed limit — on a downhill stretch of road when he lost control of an SUV and crashed in a wreck that seriously injured the golf superstar, authorities said. Sheriff Alex Villanueva blamed the February 23 crash outside Los Angeles solely on excessive speed and Woods’ loss …

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3 years, 9 months ago

Tiger Woods was speeding before crashing SUV

The Hindu

Authorities say Tiger Woods was speeding when he crashed an SUV in Southern California less than two months ago, leaving him seriously injured. The golf superstar was driving 84 to 87 mph on a downhill stretch of road outside Los Angeles that had a speed limit of 45 mph, Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva said Wednesday. Mr. Villanueva blamed …

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3 years, 9 months ago

Tiger Woods was driving as fast as 87 mph, nearly twice the speed limit, before he crashed

LA Times

Tiger Woods was speeding when he crashed an SUV in Southern California less than two months ago, authorities said Wednesday. Tiger Woods was driving at nearly twice the posted speed limit of 45 mph when he hit a sharp curve and crashed on the Palos Verdes Peninsula in February, the Los Angeles County sheriff said Wednesday in a long-awaited report …

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Times reporter was leaked list of problem deputies. The Sheriff’s Department investigated her

Jeffrey Katzenberg: Biden’s big money man in Hollywood

California DOJ civil rights probe of Sheriff’s Department headed to settlement, sources say

Hahn, Barger declare victory in L.A. County supervisors race; Mitchell holds big lead

Burger chain manager fined for using ‘straw donors’ to back ex-Sheriff Alex Villanueva’s 2018 campaign

Alex Villanueva says he’ll challenge Janice Hahn in county supervisor race

Deputy accused of being in ‘Executioners’ gang reveals tattoo in court, names names

Sheriff Villanueva is at war with nearly everyone. Will it cost him his job?

Luna is running for Los Angeles County sheriff as the anti-Villanueva. Will it work?

As midterm elections near, here’s how to read polls without driving yourself crazy

Sheriff’s Department under fire as trial starts over Kobe Bryant crash photos

The right is running against L.A., with an assist from Sheriff Villanueva

Is it fair to blame Gascón alone for L.A.’s violent crime surge? Here’s what the data show

Majority of L.A. County sheriff’s deputies did not complete training requirements, audit says

Sheriff Villanueva demands L.A. County leaders stop using term ‘deputy gangs’

Congressional panel again asks for probe into L.A. County deputy ‘gangs’

Viral TikTok trend that encourages vandalism hits California schools

‘Running against the woke left’: Can Sheriff Villanueva’s shift to the right work in L.A.?

$1 Billion In Illegal Marijuana Seized During Record-Breaking Southern California Drug Bust

Testimony contradicts Sheriff Villanueva’s claims about handling of Banditos

Help wanted: Labor crisis plagues US restaurant industry

Tiger Woods crash due to 'unsafe' driving speed: Sheriff

Tiger Woods was speeding before crashing SUV

Tiger Woods was driving as fast as 87 mph, nearly twice the speed limit, before he crashed