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Carlos Victor Mestanza Cercado was one of seven charged with stealing about $100 million worth of gold, gems and luxury watches from a Brinks truck in 2022.
The Trump administration’s emergency request to sequester 20,000 California ballots it alleged were sent to “likely noncitizens” had been rejected by the Supreme Court and lower federal courts.
Meghan Markle’s father, Thomas Markle, was arrested Friday on a child pornography charge after federal authorities raided two storage units he allegedly rents in California.
The first trial of Jonathan Rinderknecht — the man accused of intentionally starting a blaze that grew into the deadly Palisades fire — ended with a jury deadlocked 10 to 2 in favor of acquittal. Now, federal prosecutors are trying once again to convict him with revised charges.
The lack of federal election interference on Tuesday does not mean an end to the administration’s war on alleged voter fraud by noncitizens.
Gov. Gavin Newsom and others have warned of Trump administration interference in the midterm election, including potentially through attempted ballot seizures.
Federal grand jury subpoenas have demanded that county election officials turn over internal communications and testify, raising concerns that investigations could intimidate workers.
Federal prosecutors issued criminal grand jury subpoenas to three L.A. County election officials, demanding they appear in court the day after the election.
Citing agents’ own testimony and body-camera footage, U.S. District Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong found evidence of an unwritten policy targeting people who are Latino or appear to be and are working class.
U.S. District Judge David O. Carter ruled that the administration’s allegations were “not credible” and that the intervention it sought would violate a host of federal laws.
