News Releases & Advisories

July 15, 2025: Man Charged with Attempted Murder of Woman Parked in Shopping Plaza in Torrance

TORRANCE, CA — A 47-year-old man has been charged with attempted murder for driving up behind a woman parked in her car in a Rolling Hills shopping plaza on May 9, 2025, and shooting more than two dozen rounds at her vehicle, with 20 bullets hitting her car and six hitting a nearby occupied dance studio, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office announced.

July 14, 2025: Samuel Haskell Jr. Charged With 2023 Murders of Wife, In-Laws Dies by Suicide Before Court Hearing

LOS ANGELES – Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan J. Hochman announced today that 37-year-old Samuel Haskell Jr., who was accused of brutally murdering and dismembering his wife and her parents, killed himself over the weekend while in custody – days before he was scheduled to appear in court for a preliminary hearing.

July 11, 2025: Off-Duty U.S. Border Patrol Agent Charged with Assaulting a Police Officer While Resisting Arrest in Long Beach

LONG BEACH, CA — An armed off-duty U.S. Border Patrol Officer was charged with assaulting a Long Beach police officer and resisting arrest in the Shoreline Village parking lot in the city of Long Beach on July 7, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office announced.

July 10, 2025: Man Charged with Committing Sex Crimes and a Hate Crime in Southern California Communities

LONG BEACH, CA — A 29-year-old Long Beach man has been charged by the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office with crimes occurring from April to July 2025 involving violently raping a woman in Long Beach, attempting to rape a woman in Santa Monica, and attacking a man in Long Beach as part of a hate crime.

July 10, 2025: Man Charged with Ghost Gun Shooting of an LAPD Officer Near Exposition Park

LOS ANGELES — A 26-year-old man has been charged with shooting at two Los Angeles police officers, injuring one of them, near Exposition Park this past Saturday.

July 10, 2025: Fast Fashion Company Shein Settles Consumer Protection Lawsuit for $700,000

LOS ANGELES – Global fast fashion retailer Shein will pay $700,000 to settle a civil lawsuit brought by the District Attorney’s Offices of Napa, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Sonoma counties. The lawsuit alleged that the company engaged in unlawful business practices by taking more than a month to ship online orders and failing to provide adequate delay notices to consumers or offer refunds for late orders as required by California law, Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan J. Hochman announced today.

July 8, 2025: San Marino Man Charged With Murder, Arson in Wife’s Death

LOS ANGELES — A husband has been charged with murder and arson in connection with the death of his wife, whose body was found in their burning San Marino home in January.

July 3, 2025: International Burglary Ring Charged in Jewelry Store Heists

LOS ANGELES – Seven members of a South American crime ring were charged with burglarizing two jewelry stores, stealing over $1 million in jewelry from a Glendale shop and disabling 911 and internet service to more than a million homes and hospitals during a La Verne break-in.

July 3, 2025: Tutor and Young Adult Ward Charged in Plot to Smuggle Xanax into Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall

DOWNEY, CA — A civilian contract tutor for incarcerated youth has been charged with multiple felonies for allegedly working with a young adult ward to smuggle a controlled substance into Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall in Downey. The ward has also been charged with a felony in connection with the case.

July 3, 2025: DA Hochman Announces Guilty Verdict in Murder of 7-Year-Old Girl by Her Mother, Boyfriend in Hawthorne

LOS ANGELES – A jury convicted Ida Helen Brockman and her boyfriend, Malachi Xavier Whalen, of the torture and murder of Brockman’s 7-year-old daughter, A’Miya D., at their Hawthorne residence in September 2021.

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