Crime and Public Safety

Lonnie David Franklin Jr., who killed at least 10 people between 1985 and 2007 -- mainly in the South Los Angeles area -- has died at the age of 67, officials at San Quentin State Prison said Sunday.

A strip club in unincorporated LA County in the Avocado Heights community has been brazenly violating strict orders to shut down and has instead remained in business while checking patron’s temperature at the door before they’re allowed in.

A suspected DUI driver was taken into custody after leading officers on a chase through Los Angeles. 

The FBI has arrested a Southern California man who officials said falsely claimed to have developed a cure for the coronavirus and solicited investments in a company he said would market the medication, federal prosecutors said.

The number of crimes committed in Los Angeles County has declined as people heed stay-at-home orders issued in an attempt to stop the spread of the coronavirus, according to county officials.

Authorities on Wednesday circulated a composite photo of a suspect in the shooting death of two cousins gunned down in Compton nearly 2 1/2 years ago.

Police in Los Angeles were warning the public Tuesday about coronavirus inspection scammers, reminding residents not to open their doors to strangers and to always ask for credentials.

The District Attorney's Bureau of Investigation in Riverside County has set up a hotline number to report suspect price gouging during the current COVID-19 crisis.

A Riverside daycare worker faces numerous counts of lewd acts against children after authorities launched an investigation following a report of a child sexual assault on March 18.

A San Bernardino man was arrested Friday believed to have shot and killed a 41-year-old man outside Gary's Liquor store on North Golden Avenue in San Bernardino Tuesday.

Orange County issued a Health Officer's Order Tuesday banning "all public and private gatherings of any number of people."

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti Monday raised the city's emergency response status to its highest level due to the novel coronavirus outbreak, and he issued a series of new orders for the city, including delaying payment of parking tickets.

A Moreno Valley man was arrested Wednesday believed to have sexually assaulted a woman in her Riverside home while she slept, according to authorities.

President Trump's address to the nation Wednesday about U.S. efforts to control the coronavirus spread was supposed to calm the public. Instead, crowds rushed to local stores looking to stockpile thinks like soup, paper towels, and toilet paper. 

A woman was killed and a man was hospitalized after gunshots rang out in a quiet Woodland Hills neighborhood early Thursday morning, police said. 

Robert Durst’s defense lawyer said Tuesday that the multimillionaire real estate heir found the body of the friend he is charged with killing, and told jurors that Durst will testify at his trial.

The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department launched a death investigation after Josie Harris, Floyd Mayweather's ex-girlfriend and the mother of his three children, was found dead inside a car located in a gated Stevenson Ranch community. 

A 12-year-old boy crossing the street to go to school was struck and killed by a vehicle in South Los Angeles Tuesday morning, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.