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'Two years is a pathetic outcome for man who is a career criminal with felony convictions ,' LA County Deputy District Attorney John McKinney said

"This clearly shows you the dangerous aspect of the blanket policies of George Gascón,"

Todd Kupfer, the father of the UCLA grad student who was stabbed to death while working in a luxury LA furniture store, is slamming politicians for ignoring the recent spike in violent crime.

Los Angeles DA George Gascon criticized as 26-year-old faces sentencing to a juvenile detention center or probation after pleading guilty to sexually assaulting young girl

A 26-year-old who pleaded guilty to the sexual assault of a 10-year-old girl will end up in juvenile custody or be set free on probation, despite a criminal record that includes another allegation of sexual abuse of a child.

The Beverly Hills City Council unanimously passed a resolution on January 4 endorsing the recall of Los Angeles District Attorney (DA) George Gascon.

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors is scheduled Tuesday to consider supporting the creation of a permanent juvenile detention facility at Camp Joseph Scott or Camp Kenyon Scudder, which are both in Saugus. If approved, the board motion – submitted by county Supervisors Holly Mitchell and Sheila Kuehl –would have the county adopt a state subcommittee’s recommendations to move violent youth offenders to the Santa Clarita facilities, which were originally designed to host non-viole...

Summary: In the first four months of 2021, the District Attorney’s Office declined to file charges on 537 Santa Clarita Valley criminal cases — already 156% of the total number of declined cases for the entire previous year. If the trend holds for the rest of the year, it will represent a 369% increase in rejected cases. Of those rejected cases, 60% are the result of new policy directives by L.A. County District Attorney George Gascón, fueling concerns among some government leaders that Ga...

LOS ANGELES — The crime was as gruesome as any committed by an adult.

The crime was as gruesome as any committed by an adult. Firefighters discovered the bodies of 16-year-old Sierra Brown and her older sister, Uniek Atkins, in a burned out Westchester apartment. Brown had been beaten and shot once at close range, while Atkins died from multiple gunshots, according to court filings. Police arrested Brown’s 17-year-old boyfriend, alleging he had doused the apartment in bleach and torched it to cover his tracks. George Gascón inherited the 2018 killings when he...