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A bag seemingly abandoned on a bench prompted the shutdown of the Torrance courthouse early Wednesday and drew the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s bomb squad to the scene.
Midway through his first term as L.A. County sheriff, Robert Luna told The Times that speculation he might step down is ‘not true.’
“Nervous.” “Emotional.” “Worried.” “Insecure.”
Humberto Duran was arrested on suspicion of murder in 1993, implicated by a teenage witness who since recanted her account. More than a decade later, Duran was still in prison.
Three weeks after one man died from a suspected overdose at a downtown jail, authorities said another seven Men’s Central Jail inmates were hospitalized early Tuesday morning following another potential drug exposure incident.
Jim McDonnell’s single term as L.A. County sheriff from 2014 to 2018 involved dealing with powerful union resistant to major disciplinary reforms. He’ll face a similar challenge as the LAPD’s next chief.
Employee at the Inmate Reception Center were sent to the hospital for evaluation after a mysterious odor prompted an evacuation.
An LAPD officer who shot and killed an unarmed homeless man in Venice Beach in 2015 will face criminal charges based on the recommendation of a special prosecutor hired by Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. George Gascón.
The controversial — and now disbanded — Civil Rights and Public Integrity Detail was behind several of the high-profile probes during former Sheriff Alex Villanueva’s tenure, including investigations into a county supervisor and a Times reporter.
At almost every moment in its history, Los Angeles has been building a new jail — or debating whether to do so.
