News Releases & Advisories

August 14, 2026: Spurned Boyfriend Pleads Guilty to Fatally Shooting Four People, Setting Lancaster House Ablaze

LOS ANGELES – A 21-year-old man, angered by the end of a romantic relationship, has pleaded guilty to the 2024 murders of four people inside a Lancaster home and then setting the residence on fire.

August 14, 2026: Convicted Pop Smoke Killer Sentenced to Jail for Fentanyl Possession While in Juvenile Hall

SAN FERNANDO, Calif. — Deijae Devon Jester, convicted as a juvenile in the 2020 murder of rapper and songwriter Bashar Barakah Jackson, known professionally as Pop Smoke, was sentenced to four years in County Jail for distributing fentanyl while serving time in a Los Angeles County juvenile detention facility.

August 13, 2026: District Attorney Hochman Continues to Aggressively Prosecute Commercial Sex Traffickers and Buyers on the Figueroa Corridor

LOS ANGELES — A man who allegedly attempted to buy sex from a 14-year-old girl was held to answer on conspiracy charges on July 30, the same day the Office charged convicted human sex trafficker Jihad Jones with murdering a man on the Figueroa Corridor in an unsolved 2021 case. These cases reflect the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office’s aggressive prosecutions of both the supply and demand side of the multibillion-dollar commercial sex exploitation market.

August 12, 2026: Nick Reiner Indicted on Murder Charges in Slaying of Parents Rob and Michele Reiner in Brentwood

LOS ANGELES – A grand jury indictment was unsealed today charging Nick Reiner with the murder of his parents, Hollywood actor-director Rob Reiner and photographer-producer Michele Singer Reiner last December in their Brentwood home.

August 10, 2026: Curren Price Ordered by a Second L.A. County Superior Court Judge to Stand Trial on 12 Public Corruption Felonies

LOS ANGELES — For the second time this year, sitting Los Angeles City Councilmember Curren Price has been ordered by a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge to stand trial on 12 felony public corruption charges including embezzlement of public funds, perjury and financial conflicts of interest.

August 7, 2026: Man Charged in Sexual Assault of Woman in North Hollywood, Additional Victims Sought

NORTH HOLLYWOOD, Calif. - A 27-year-old man is charged with sexually assaulting a woman after she left a North Hollywood gym on July 19. Investigators believe there are more victims.

August 7, 2026: Prosecutors File Brief Detailing Case Against LAPD Officer Charged With Illegally Recording Colleagues

LOS ANGELES – Prosecutors today filed a 26-page preliminary hearing brief that provides additional details and context about a Los Angeles police officer who has been charged with illegally recording portions of confidential conversations with 16 colleagues without their permission instead of going through the proper administrative channels when he heard racist, sexist or homophobic comments.

August 6, 2026: Man Sentenced to Life Plus Seven Years in Prison for Attempted Murder Hate Crime on Metro Bus

LOS ANGELES — Gerald Pitts today was sentenced to life plus seven years in state prison with the possibility of parole for the attempted murder of Santos Tejas Gonzalez during a brutal, unprovoked hate crime attack aboard a Metro bus in March 2023.

August 6, 2026: Son of Grammy-Nominated Opera Singer Jubilant Sykes Arraigned for Singer’s Murder

SANTA MONICA, Calif. — The 31-year-old son of Grammy-nominated opera singer Jubilant Sykes was arraigned today in the fatal stabbing of his 71-year-old father at the family’s Santa Monica home in December 2025.

August 5, 2026: Man Sentenced to Life Without Parole for Murder of Off-Duty Monterey Park Police Officer Gardiel Solorio

NORWALK, Calif. - A 24-year-old man was sentenced today to life in prison without the possibility of parole for fatally shooting Monterey Park Police Officer Gardiel Solorio, who was killed while he was off-duty in a gym parking lot in 2022.

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