Convicted jewelry thief Frank Carrillo thought he had hit the lottery when he was transferred from n Men's Central Jail in downtown L.A. to the tiny jail in the town of Avalon on bucolic Catalina Island. »
An assault suspect who held sheriff's deputies at bay for nearly six hours in Carson was identified as Randy Gil Ramirez, a 33-year-old gang member known as "Thumper," deputies said today.Deputies arrested Ramirez about 6:20 p.m. Monday when they disco... »
Sheriff's deputies have rescued twin toddler girls from a Carson home where a suspect in a weekend shooting is holed up.The standoff began about 12:45 p.m. when a Sheriff's Department special weapons team surrounded the home on Kingswood Lane in the Sc... »
nvestigators Thursday night were trying to determine what sparked a huge fire in Carson that burned a multistory residential complex that was being built and spread to an adjacent mobile home park. »
Firefighters evacuated a mobile home park in Carson as flames from a large neighboring building under construction caught some of the homes on fire. »
The captain who was in charge of the L.A. County sheriff's station in Avalon is under investigation amid allegations that he had an inappropriately cozy relationship with a professional-golfer-tuned-jewel thief who was incarcerated on Santa Catalina Is... »
