Matthew Ormseth

A 17-year-old girl said she was “hurt everywhere” after a San Bernardino police officer threw her to the ground in a filmed arrest that has gone viral. The teenager, identified only as Erin, showed wounds to her face and chin […]

The crowd gathered at midnight at Washington Boulevard and Maple Avenue. It’s unclear why dozens of people converged at the intersection just south of downtown Los Angeles, but some were dressed to party, wearing pink platform heels and cat ears,

On a Monday night in February, police say, Roberto Martinez took his 14-year-old son in the Pico-Union neighborhood on a graffiti spree. With a can of yellow spray paint, they marked the facades of a pawn shop, laundromat and furniture

A judge on Monday sentenced three leaders of the Aryan Brotherhood to federal prison terms, clearing the way for the men to be transferred from the California lockups where they orchestrated murders and racketeering schemes and into the custody of

Herlyn Barrientos wasn’t happy to run into a fellow member of his gang in the produce section of his local grocery store. A burly man with tattoos inked on his head and face, Barrientos was from MS-13, a group notorious

Get ready for a temperature roller coaster this week. Angelenos could see the hottest day so far in 2025 on Monday, with the thermometer expected to climb into the 90s. The heat in downtown Los Angeles is predicted to reach

High in the mountains above Los Angeles, the kidnappers pressed a gun against Juan’s stomach and handed him a phone after making a call on FaceTime. Juan, who testified at a preliminary hearing Tuesday in L.A. County without revealing his

Faced with seven homicides in the first nine weeks of the year, California prison authorities announced they have restricted inmate movement and revoked privileges such as visits and phone calls at high-security facilities across the state. In a statement dated

Even after it was deciphered, the coded message from jail seemed strange. In a recorded call, a Los Angeles County inmate recited a string of numbers to a woman on the other end of the line: “84, 89, 17, 17,

Eight days after Michael Torres, a Mexican Mafia member known as “Mosca,” was killed in prison in 2023, a woman he referred to as his wife was gunned down. The circumstances surrounding the death of Stephanie Rodriguez — shot at