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Gang member sentencing delayed again
The sentencing for a 36-year-old gang member convicted of killing a 16-year-old Burbank boy and trying to kill his four friends 20 years ago was postponed Thursday. Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Bob Bowers rescheduled Rodolfo Gallegos’...Tags: Assault, Crimes, Justice System, Judges, Lawyers
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Olive Avenue Confidential
This is the second in a two-part series.
In last week's Olive Avenue Confidential, former Burbank mover and shaker Scott Schaffer spoke out publicly for the first time since his 2005 arrest and 13-month prison sentence for mixing drugs and guns with bad...Tags: Crimes, Juvenile Delinquency, Bob Hope, University of Southern California, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Start the Presses: Broken window theories
It was a mess.
Broken glass from the left-side window of the Glendale News-Press and Burbank Leader lay strewn about the inside of our building last week. Someone, for unknown reason or motivation, destroyed one of our panel windows.
I gave my...Tags: Mexico, Crimes, Newspaper and Magazine, Burbank (Los Angeles, California), Health
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Mad baseball skills
OLIVE PARK — For most of the Hap Minor Baseball season, players were mainly concerned with team-orientated goals, like winning divisional titles.
But at the 54rd annual Burbank Civitan Club Baseball Jamboree, it was a time for individual...Tags: Crimes, Redman, Philadelphia Phillies, Sports, Piracy
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Clerks caught selling spray paint to minors
BURBANK — Four store clerks were cited this week after they allegedly sold spray paint supplies to underage teens who were working undercover for police, officials said. Several teens volunteered to go undercover Tuesday and purchase spray paint...Tags: Crimes, Juvenile Delinquency, Burbank (Los Angeles, California), Justice System, Teen-agers
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Olive Avenue Confidential: Scott Schaffer's side of the story
Note: This is the first of a two-part series.
More than a year-and-a-half after Scott Schaffer's release from a 13-month prison sentence for pleading guilty to trading guns for drugs with street-gang affiliates — a conspiracy he maintains he did...Tags: Substance Abuse, Stress, Crimes, Juvenile Delinquency, University of Southern California
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Facebook shotgun photos leads to arrests of two Crazy White Boys, deputies say
Detectives on the hunt for two fugitive gangsters earlier this month turned to Facebook for clues. That's where they say they hit the jackpot: Photos of Mario Daniel McDonald and Joseph Wayne Edwards each holding a shotgun. McDonald, 23, and Edwards,...Tags: Prosecution, Criminals, Social Media, Firearms, Crime, Law and Justice
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Crime rates fall in sheriff's patrol areas, report finds
When battling street gangs across Los Angeles County, sheriff's deputies rely too heavily on suppression and not enough on gang intervention, according to a study released Monday. By not doing more to connect with the communities they police, the report...Tags: FBI, Lee Baca, Crime, Law and Justice
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Man's murder conviction is reduced to voluntary manslaughter
After fatally shooting his unwanted houseguest in the head, Robert Charles Redd stuffed the man's body into a recycling bin and wheeled it into a room of his Pico Rivera home. When the stench of death grew too overpowering a couple of days later, Redd...
Tags: Prosecution, Defendants, Shootings, Trials, Justice System
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Man stabbed to death in apparent gang-related attack in Echo Park
A man was stabbed to death early Sunday on an Echo Park street in an attack that appeared to be gang-related, police said. About 2:40 a.m., two men got into an argument at Clinton and Waterloo streets when one of them pulled a knife, stabbed the other...
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As contraband phones flood Baltimore jail, blocking technology comes online
Maryland corrections officials are taking advantage of new technology designed to block the use of contraband cellphones by inmates — a problem at the heart of recent indictments at the Baltimore City Detention Center. In a program being used at...
Tags: Dwayne Johnson, U.S. Congress, Crime, Law and Justice, Prosecution, Media Industry
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LGBT inmates report sexual victimization at much higher percentages
Amid the unfolding jail scandal in Baltimore right now, there are two things relevant to the gay community that I want to bring up. I'm not sure if there are any connections between the two, or if one affects the other. But viewed together, they do...
Tags: Prosecution, Gays and Lesbians, Black Guerrilla Family, Justice System, U.S. Department of Justice
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