A convicted serial killer on California death row for murdering a dozen people in the 1980s and ’90s confessed to the 1986 murder of a 19-year-old woman in Los Angeles County, the police announced on Tuesday.
A man in Southern California who the authorities say led a shamanistic community in Riverside County was arraigned last week on charges that he sexually assaulted two female victims, including at least one who was under 14.
A woman was arrested in connection with a nearly 37-year-old cold case in which a newborn baby was found dead in a California dumpster, according to police.
The U.S. attorney’s office announced Wednesday federal charges against a man who was caught on camera assaulting a San Bernardino County sheriff’s deputy, then stealing and firing her own weapon at her.
The reclusive drug kingpin Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada was famous for staying out of the public eye, ruling a multibillion-dollar narcotics trafficking empire from remote mountain hideouts and speaking to the press just once over the course of his decades-long criminal career.