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Posted on Dec 17, 2011 By Jeffrey Vallens
A multi-jurisdictional task force arrested 35 people this week for weapons violations in Los Angeles County. The Los Angeles County Probation department in conjunction with the Federal Bureau of ...
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Posted on Sep 17, 2011 By Jeffrey Vallens
I currently have a client charged with evading arrest and DUI in the San Fernando Courthouse of Los Angeles County. He also has a 20 year old strike prior from a previous alcohol-related driving ...
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Posted on Sep 5, 2011 By Jeffrey Vallens
A Riverside County man was tragically sentenced to 29 to life in prison for shoplifting less than $21 worth of merchandise from a Home Depot Store in the Lake Elsinore area. Yes, he had an extensive ...
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Posted on Sep 2, 2011 By Jeffrey Vallens
Judge Charles Campbell declared a mistrial in the high profile murder trial of Brandon McInerney. A mistrial is declared for many different reasons, but in this case it was declared because the jury ...
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Posted on Aug 14, 2011 By Jeffrey Vallens
A staffmember at a West Hollywood plastic surgery clinic was caught in the act of practicing medicine without a license. After getting complaints from the State Medical Board, investigators fromthe ...
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Posted on Aug 2, 2011 By Jeffrey Vallens
Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Harvey Silberman was found not guilty yesterday. The judge was indicted in 2008 for allegedly violating an State Election Code. He was accused of bribing ...
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Posted on Jul 31, 2011 By Jeffrey Vallens
California's jailhouse informants may soon need to find a new source of income and benefits. The State Legislature just passed a bill prohibiting convictions in criminal cases which are based ...
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Posted on Jun 7, 2011 By Jeffrey Vallens
Playing with fircrackers can get you burned in California. After a juvenile court commissioner found that two teens didn't intend to set a forest fire, he sent them home on probation. Apparently ...
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Posted on Apr 16, 2011 By Jeffrey Vallens
California Governor Jerry Brown recently signed legislation that will cause thousands nonviolent felons to serve their time in county jails instead of state prisons. here in Los angeels County, that ...
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Posted on Apr 5, 2011 By Jeffrey Vallens
I regularly get calls from potential clients who do not wish to give out any case-specific information and want to get a "quote" over the telephone for the cost of my criminal defense services. It is ...
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Posted on Mar 20, 2011 By Jeffrey Vallens
Domestic Battery seems to be the crime de jour to prosecute these days. Ever since the O.J. Simpson case, police officers do not seem to be able to go out to any domestic battery call without ...
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Posted on Dec 25, 2010 By Jeffrey Vallens
Here in Los Angeles people have long had a liberal view of illegal drug use. In recent years we have seen our state's marijuana laws become more and more liberal as well. Not all other states take the ...
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Posted on Dec 22, 2010 By Jeffrey Vallens
A 61 year old Los Angeles Man was just sentenced to nine years in Federal Prison for traveling to Cambodia for the purpose of having sex with a 14 year old girl . Michael James Dodd was also ordered ...
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Posted on Dec 18, 2010 By Jeffrey Vallens
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Anthony Mohr issued a temporary injuction allowing dozens of Los Angeles medical marijuana dispensaries to stay open pending new City Laws or further court action. The ...
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Posted on Dec 4, 2010 By Jeffrey Vallens
Expect to see extra CHP cruisers on the 118 freeway for the next year. The California Highway Patrol obtained a large grant to fund extra DUI patrols on State Highway 118. These funds will go toward ...
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Posted on Dec 4, 2010 By Jeffrey Vallens
DUI arrests both locally and across the state increased this year from last year. The CHP reported that the number of people arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol drugs or both increased ...
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Posted on Sep 18, 2010 By Jeffrey Vallens
California Senator Roderick Wright from Los Angeles County was just indicted on charges of perjury and voter fraud stemming from his Senatorial race and voter registration in 2007. He also is alleged ...
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Posted on Aug 17, 2010 By Jeffrey Vallens
Prosecutors in New York just sent a Chinese born American citizen to federal prison for 37 months for importing and selling millions of dollars worth of counterfeit Trojan brand condoms. 4.3 million ...
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Posted on Aug 9, 2010 By Jeffrey Vallens
Former Los Angeles County Sheriff's Deputy Peter Paul Felix was just sentenced to four years in state prison for bringing drugs into the very jails that he was charged with protecting. He must have ...
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Posted on Aug 2, 2010 By Jeffrey Vallens
On a more serious note, two who were previously sentenced to death by courts in Japan were hanged last week. The executions spurred serious animosity by citizens rights groups including Amnesty ...
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Posted on Aug 2, 2010 By Jeffrey Vallens
I have been off for a while. This is because I have not seen many newsworthy articles to write about. Today I could not help myself. I read that a man in Israel was jailed for the crime of rape by ...
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Posted on Jul 17, 2010 By Jeffrey Vallens
94 people were charged Friday with defrauding the Medicare System of over $250 million. Arrests went down in Miami, New York, Detroit, Houston and Baton Rouge in what is being described as the largest ...
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Posted on Jul 4, 2010 By Jeffrey Vallens
Michael Eugene Richardson, of Chula Vista, California was arrested Thursday for allegeding having sex with his minor niece . His arrest comes just two days after his wife and mother-in-law were killed ...
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Posted on Jun 22, 2010 By Jeffrey Vallens
Luis Mijangos, a paraplegic man from Orange County was arrested and charged with multiple counts of violating federal laws as he extorted sexually explict images from women and girls in the Southland. ...
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Posted on Jun 8, 2010 By Jeffrey Vallens
Singer Chris Brown was recently denied a visa for travel to the United Kingdom because of his criminal history. As a result of the visa denial, Brown's tour had to be post-poned. As a result of ...
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