Being criminally charged with a sex offense is more than just dealing with criminal penalties. Not only will a defendant be forced to deal with such ramifications as incarceration and monetary fines, but they will also have a subsequent penalty imposed upon them that will prove to be more damaging and difficult than any time […]
In the state of California, being arrested or accused of committing assault is a serious situation that should not be treated as anything different. Due to the penalties that are associated with something of this nature, should you be charged, immediate and proactive steps should be taken to preserve your safety and to help defend against the […]
Typically, criminal charges pertaining to loitering bring to mind juvenile crimes and the like. In actuality, in many areas, such laws were enacted in an attempt to help crackdown in the activities of gangs who were in the works of a committing a drug crime – such as distribution or sale. Loitering, however, also has serious roots in sex […]
In the state of California, criminal charges pertaining to arson are taken extremely seriously and are given serious treatment by law enforcement and prosecutors alike. According to state law, arson is considered the willful and knowing action of setting fire to a burning, property or structure. Even the counseling of a person to set fire to a […]
Jonas Vital Silverio, a former Lynwood high school principal was recently sentenced to eight years in prison for sexually molesting four students. He served as their principal as well as their volleyball coach. Prior to this conviction, he had received probation for a misdemeanor conviction of unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor. He was working […]
In the state of California, sex crimes are taken seriously. This, however, is not always what people expect. Although sex crimes typically cover the crimes most often associated with this topic, such as rape, prostitution and sexual assault, there is another crime that can fall under this blanket term: indecent exposure. According to Chapter 8 of the 2010 California Penal Code, […]
On Monday, March 14, 43-year-old Russell Mecano, a police officer in the LAPD, was convicted of sexual assault and soliciting sex while on duty. Mecano has been found guilty of one misdemeanor charge of solicitation and one felony charge of sexual battery as well as penetration by foreign object by public official and penetration by foreign object […]
A series of raids conducted across Los Angeles County led to 11 arrests. On January 26th, 2011 local law enforcement officers, sheriff’s detectives, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agents and special weapons teams carried out a gang sweep targeting members of the Gardena 13 gang. The sweep resulted in 11 arrests, including the arrest of Luis Erasmo Garcia, […]
Early Thursday morning on October 28, a registered sex offender who had gone missing after cutting off his ankle bracelet, turned himself in on live television. After cutting off the monitoring device with scissors at a gas station on Monday morning, Valentino Rodriquez Jr. fled and was reported as missing. When he saw KTLA reporter, […]
On June 25, 2007, then 16-year-old Heriberto Garcia brutally stabbed and murdered a 13-year-old gang rival. Although underage, he was tried as an adult and convicted in October of 2008 with a sentence of 15-years-to-life spent in state prison. This year, on August 2, the California Supreme Court reviewed and upheld this conviction. Co-defendant Eva […]
This week, the Boston Globe announced that federal investigators “have identified several dozen Pentagon officials and contractors with high-level security clearances who allegedly purchased and downloaded child pornography, including an undisclosed number who used their government computers to obtain the illegal material.” Numerous employees were under investigation for child pornography. Detectives investigated workers from the […]
This week in Long Beach, California, a jury decided to convict a man that stood accused of repeatedly raping his niece and her two friends. The girls were between the ages of 14 and 16 when the rape took place. The jury presiding over the case took 90 minutes to convict the defendant, Carlos Aguirre Jr. He […]