Seaman sentenced to 20 years for fatal stabbing aboard LA-bound container ship
The man attacked and killed his supervisor aboard the ship while it was 80 nautical miles off the Southern California coast, prosecutors said.
Long Beach man gets life in prison for killing of marijuana dispensary worker
Prosecutors said he participated in the brazen robbery and killing in Santa Ana in 2019.
Bellflower man gets 2 years for hit-and-run crash that killed 2 people
Damian Chavez was racing with another driver whose car burst into flames after it slammed into a tree in Santa Ana.
Long Beach man sentenced for stealing over $800,000 in bogus invoicing scheme
The man counterfeited 141 invoices for $835,151.35 in value he stole from a Buena Park furniture company, prosecutors said.
Long Beach woman sentenced to 5 years for fatally stabbing caregiver in 2018
Theresa Dargan was arrested four years ago in connection to the murder of her caregiver, 51-year-old Long Beach resident Olympia Riley.
Former engineer gets 3 years for intentional train wreck near Mercy hospital ship
A former locomotive engineer at the Port of Los Angeles was sentenced to three years behind bars today for intentionally running a train at full speed off the tracks near the Navy hospital ship Mercy, claiming the vessel was docked at the port as part of a possible “government takeover.”
Killer who fled to Vegas after deadly West Long Beach robbery gets 15-to-life in prison
Daniel Fernandez stabbed a man to death while he and the man’s son robbed him of the cash he’d saved up to buy a home in Wilmington, prosecutors said.
Man who dismembered, buried overdose victim gets prison in ‘house of horrors’ case
“He lured young men, many of them who were vulnerable and struggling with addiction, to his sex dungeon with the promise of drugs,” a judge said as he sentenced the defendant to six years and eight months.
Long Beach man gets 10 years for shooting gun into parked car
Witnesses later told law enforcement that the man had been harassing his ex-girlfriend and then threatened her just minutes before shooting into a car outside her home.
Man sentenced for shooting woman to death as she held her 2-year-old son
The shooter pulled a gun after he was teased for saying he had voted for Hillary Clinton and his bandmate told him to leave, prosecutors said.