Matthew Ormseth is a reporter for the Los Angeles Times. Before joining The Times in 2018, he covered city news and state politics at the Hartford Courant.
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Richard Buchanan, a reputed member of the Mexican Mafia from San Diego, was found unresponsive in his cell at the Kern Valley State Prison, authorities said Wednesday.
The FBI said six people were arrested Wednesday for allegedly extorting money from a business in Pomona and ordering the shooting of a man who owned a debt to gangsters affiliated with the Mexican Mafia.
A woman’s call for help in 2024 revealed what an LAPD detective called a ‘spider web’ of brothels that operated in plain sight throughout the San Fernando Valley, with operators recruiting sex workers through the Chinese social media app WeChat.
Rene B. Lopez was killed last week at Pelican Bay State Prison. Surveillance footage revealed five inmates worked together to kill him, authorities say.
An LAPD search warrant affidavit revealed that Beverly Hills police are investigating whether OnlyFans model Adva Lavie drugged her onetime fiancé Steve Cloobeck with ketamine.
Prosecutors say an alleged member of the Blythe Street gang shot a Black man who was sitting in a car outside a Panorama City building at the center of a battle over control of local drug sales.
When aspiring Mexican Mafia member Ezequiel Romo ordered a series of murders from prison, he told underlings he intended to purge their Blythe Street gang of weaknesses. Instead, authorities say, the plan backfired.
A young man serving time for the 2020 shooting of rapper Pop Smoke in the Hollywood Hills pleaded no contest to charges that accused him of smuggling fentanyl into juvenile hall.
People close to Zhengfeng Bo are struggling to understand why he kidnapped Shukur Aikebaer, then fatally shot his friend in front of sheriff’s deputies before the deputies killed him.
Eric Halem, a former Los Angeles Police Department officer, was convicted of taking $350,000 worth of cryptocurrency from a 17-year-old in a 2024 home invasion robbery.