Former adult film star Ron Jeremy, 69, has been declared incompetent to stand trial in multiple sexual assault cases, including assaulting a 15 year old girl at a house party in Santa Clarita.  The case against Jeremy which included over 30 instances of sexual assault was suspended in March 2022 amid questions of his mental competence. It has been declared ...

May 29 marks the anniversary of the acquittal of Director John Landis on manslaughter charges following an infamous Santa Clarita helicopter crash that killed Twilight Zone actor Vic Morrow and two child actors.  On July 23, 1982 53-year-old Vic Morrow and two child actors died in a helicopter crash during the filming of “Twilight Zone: The Movie.”  The crash took ...

Vice President of the Santa Clarita Valley Water Agency, Dan Mortensen, resigned on Tuesday after being convicted with domestic assault earlier this month.  Prior to Tuesday’s regular meeting, Mortensen from SCV Water resigned from his position after having been convicted of one count misdemeanor domestic violence in the Santa Clarita courthouse on March 7. According to the agenda, the SCV ...

Senator Nancy Skinner, D-Berkeley, announced Friday legislation that would raise the age limit for when a person could be tried in court as an adult, officials said. Currently, 18- and 19-year-olds are tried as adults; however, if Senate Bill 889 becomes law, criminals would be charged as adults at age 20 instead, the bill reads. “When teenagers make serious mistakes ...

A Saugus man pled not guilty on New Year’s Eve to charges of lewd acts upon a child that stems from an incident at the Westfield Valencia Town Center in late December. Andres Madrigal, 69, of Saugus, is charged with one felony count of a “lewd and lascivious act upon and with the body and certain parts of … a ...

A former Disney executive charged with sexually assaulting two children over the course of six years is set to see a jury for the second time after the original jury was unable to reach a unanimous verdict. Jonathan Blake Heely, 58, was charged with three felony counts of lewd acts with a child, the earliest of which is alleged to ...

A Valencia man accused of strangling his boyfriend to death appeared in Friday, only to face another delay in a case that has been on-going since 2017. Christian Ortiz, 23, is suspected of strangling Brayan “Brian” Rodriguez, 20, and hiding his body at a Valencia home in September 2017. The couple had been arguing the last time Rodriguez was seen, ...

A man accused of rape, kidnapping and assault with a deadly weapon returned to court Friday for a preliminary hearing. Don’t miss a thing. Get breaking KHTS Santa Clarita News Alerts delivered right to your inbox. Jose Amadeo Cortez, 27, was charged with one felony count of fleeing a pursuing peace officer’s motor vehicle while driving recklessly after allegedly leading law enforcement ...

The woman accused of killing her brother in their Canyon Country home in 2015 will return to court in January to continue a hearing to determine if she was sane at the time of the murder. Don’t miss a thing. Get breaking KHTS Santa Clarita News Alerts delivered right to your inbox. Jessica Paige Greenback, 25, pleaded ‘no contest’ to charges stemming ...

The case against a woman accused of murdering her live-in girlfriend is likely a few months away from a preliminary hearing, officials said Thursday. Don’t miss a thing. Get breaking KHTS Santa Clarita News Alerts delivered right to your inbox. Pamela Walker, 35, has been in custody since April, when she was arrested for the stabbing death of her girlfriend Christine Diane ...