James Queally writes about crime and policing in Southern California, where he currently covers Los Angeles County’s criminal courts, the district attorney’s office and juvenile justice issues for the Los Angeles Times. A part of the team of reporters that won a Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the 2015 terror attack at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino, Queally has written extensively about violence, police pursuits, street racing and law enforcement misconduct since coming to The Times. A Brooklyn native, he moved West in 2014 after spending five years covering crime and police news for the Star-Ledger in New Jersey. Not content with real-life crimes, he also makes up fictional ones: Queally is the author of three novels – “Line of Sight,” “All These Ashes” and “Surviving the Lie” – that make up the Russell Avery series for Counterpoint Press.
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Los Angeles police Officer Anthony Gutierrez has been charged with kidnapping, assault and two counts of child abuse likely to cause serious injury.
The officer, Anthony Gutierrez, was off duty when he was taken into custody by officers from the LAPD’s Mission Division late Monday and booked on suspicion of kidnapping and assault with a firearm.
Nick Reiner’s fight to access more than half a million dollars in trust fund money to defend himself against allegations he murdered his parents last year will now go before a mediator.
L.A. County prosecutor John McKinney burst into the city attorney’s race earlier this year, becoming part of a historic primary upset of incumbent Hydee Feldstein Soto. If he wins this November, he’ll complete a lifelong underdog story that began with a tough upbringing in New Jersey.
Los Angeles County prosecutors will not file criminal charges against a man who punched a self-described “MAGA influencer” earlier this year. David Vulin, who was out with his infant son and husband in West Hollywood, reacted after the streamer suggested gay men were likely to molest their children.
George Gascón has disappeared from public life. But critics are trying to tie the unpopular ex-prosecutor to candidates Nithya Raman and Marissa Roy.
Two parents accused of allowing more than a dozen surrogate children to suffer abuse inside a so-called “house of horrors” in Arcadia never let the children outside and kept the cremated remains of another surrogate baby in mail packaging, a prosecutor said in court Friday.
Prosecutors say a Los Angeles Department of Water and Power employee was one of four men who caused more than $170,000 in graffiti damage to downtown buildings.
A Times review of court records found Silvia Zhang was accused of child abuse and threatening tenants at rental properties around the same time she and her husband, Guojun Xuan, operated a so-called surrogacy mansion in Arcadia. Xuan allegedly used a Taser on a dog during a property dispute.
Guojun Xuan, 66, and Silvia Zhang, 39, were charged Tuesday with conspiracy to commit child abuse a year after police rescued 14 of their biological children.