Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass has set up a new task force of law enforcement officers and prosecutors to tackle the out-of-control problem.By Deborah Belgum Plus Icon August 17, 2023, 4:28pm One day after a mob stole merchandise, Ksubi in Los Angeles was closed. Deborah Belgum Sh...
After 47 years in business, Los Angeles jeweler Howard Rudich, 79, recently announced hisretirement due to an increase in break-ins and homeinvasions. “The gangs are emboldened to follow individual citizens… because penalties are so relaxed, they are more likely to rob jewelry stores.” It’...
Cooperation among the FBI, local law enforcers and the banking industry, the new federal parole system and access control units helped reduce violent bank robberies in Los Angeles, CA. In 1978, Los Angeles was called the 'bank robbery capital of the world' with ...
Los Angeles street gangs are behind brazen robberies in which people are followed home from fancy locations, stripped of a fortune in jewelry or other goods and sometimes shot, police said Tuesday. At least 17 gangs, most of them based in South Los Angeles, have independently staged robberies,...
Los Angeles has seen a recent spike in flash mob robberies at high-end retailers, part of an ongoing issue that prompted L.A. officials to announce a new multi-agency task force to crack down on the problem. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, along with officials from the LAPD and the L.A...
An Apple and Nordstrom were robbed on Wednesday in California, the latest in a string of smash-and-grab robberies that have spurred an increasingly hard-line response from officials. The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) said Nordstrom was robbed by five people on Wednesday evening, ...
LOS ANGELES - An arrest has been announced in connection to a series of robberies targeting taco stands across Los Angeles. On Friday, the Los Angeles Police Department announced officers arrested Stayshawn Stephens. The news of Stephens' arrest comes a day after six taco stands were ...
A company based in Los Angeles, the US, said it is offering used tissues to "train your immune system" to fight off illness. Vaev says its unusual offering allows users to catch a cold on their "own terms", therefore decreases the risk of catching that same strain of cold virus at a...
In one instance, the robber targeted a woman as she walked to her car in the Hustler Casino parking lot in Gardena, shoving a semiautomatic pistol into the mouth of his victim, breaking her teeth and threatening, “If you yell again, I’ll kill you.” He s...