Crime and Public Safety

Grammy Award-winning rapper Lil Durk pleaded not guilty to federal charges stemming from an alleged murder-for-hire conspiracy near the Beverly Center two years ago.

A baby, possibly thrown from a building, was found dead on a sidewalk in downtown Los Angeles.

Rangel Vega was killed and his best friend Alejandro Luquin was seriously injured after a car believed to be street racing crashed into them.

Maurice Latorre was taken into custody after a nurse at a local hospital recognized him from recent news reports, and called it in.

The suspect, 46-year-old Benjamin Bush, is accused of showing nude photographs of himself to at least four children at the Santa Monica Pier, according to police.

Amanda Leeann Porter, 44, of Virginia, allegedly impersonated a nurse at several Los Angeles County hospitals and had been working without a license. Authorities believe she may have been fraudulently employed at other hospitals in Southern California.

Court documents revealed Paul Alejandro Feliz, 25, worked as the main supplier of fentanyl-laced pills in Los Angeles, at times providing thousands of pills for less than a dollar each to other local traffickers, including major suppliers of counterfeit oxycodone pills to traffickers in Washington, D.C.

Mark Geragos, the attorney for Erik and Lyle Menendez, is reportedly set to call on 6 key witnesses to the stand at the brothers' Dec. 11 resentencing hearing.

The meth weighed 2,155.02 pounds and was worth $31,169,000, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

The Long Beach Police Department on Thursday announced its contract with Los Angeles Metro for providing public safety services on Metro trains and at the eight Metro stations in Long Beach has expired.

Benedicto Partida Quinonez is accused of sexually assaulting a 4-year-old girl at a Santa Ana park.