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.
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.
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.
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.
LOS ANGELES – A Bell police officer has been charged with illegally accessing a California Department of Motor Vehicles database to get information about his ex-girlfriend’s former boyfriend and illegally placing a GPS tracking device on the ex-girlfriend’s vehicle.
