Matthew Ormseth is a reporter for the Los Angeles Times. Before joining The Times in 2018, he covered city news and state politics at the Hartford Courant.
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The day before state authorities announced plans to restrict inmate movement and revoke visits and other privileges, three inmates were killed in attacks at three different prisons.
Deputy Michael Meiser, assigned to a specialized sheriff’s department unit that monitored gang activity inside the jail system, has pleaded not guilty to charges he tried to smuggle more than a pound of heroin on behalf of “shot-callers” for the Mexican Mafia.
Allan Roshanski and Ruslan Magomedgadzhiev were gunned down in Lomita in 2020. A witness revealed why the Aryan Brotherhood wanted them dead.
On the heels of the death of Michael Torres, a Mexican Mafia member known as “Mosca,” a woman he referred to as his wife was gunned down. Was it a hit?
Three Aryan Brotherhood members were convicted of orchestrating murders and other crimes from California prisons. But will they ever be moved the most secure federal facility?
Three members of the Aryan Brotherhood were found guilty Friday in a trial that revealed five murders on the streets of Los Angeles County were orchestrated from behind bars.
Testimony delivered at the ongoing trial of three accused Aryan Brotherhood members delved into Los Angeles County’s underbelly: Cheap hotels, gambling parlors and crash pads from Lancaster to Long Beach, drug dealers and fraudsters.
Rodney Nickerson had lived in Altadena since 1968, when he bought his three-bedroom house on Alta Pine Drive with $5 down. The 82-year-old military veteran and church deacon received no warnings to evacuate before the Eaton fire swept through his neighborhood, his daughter said.
He pulled up to Palisades fire with a fire engine and an offer to help. It was fake, authorities say
Officials say a man who tried to enter the Palisades fire zone claiming to be a volunteer firefighter was a convicted arsonist in a decommissioned fire truck.
Federal prosecutors alleged Ronaldo Ayala, reputed to be a powerful member of the Mexican Mafia prison gang, conspired with the Sinaloa cartel and offered to protect its notorious former leader, Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán.