A former student employee from The Master’s University pled not guilty to allegations of taking upskirt images of multiple women. Sebastian Barrales Raymundobarrale, also known as Sebastian Raymundo, 21, was arrested on June 12 for reportedly “secretly videotaping or photographing the body or undergarments of another,” according to a complaint from the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office. The complaint ...

Two parolees from Bakersfield returned to court Wednesday for their alleged involvement in a brief pursuit that resulted in the pair crashing a vehicle into a tree outside the Westfield Valencia Town Center mall and fleeing from law enforcement, officials said. Ronnie Wiley, 26, and Sidney Walker, 26, were arrested on August 8 after a brief pursuit reportedly ended with ...

A mistrial was declared for the second time in the case of a former Disney executive charged with lewd acts on a child, and officials are now gearing up for a potential third trial, officials said Monday. After a second trial, a jury announced at the end of August that they could not reach a unanimous verdict in the case ...

A Santa Clarita Girl Scouts treasurer returned to court Friday for a preliminary hearing setting after she allegedly embezzled over $90,000. Patricia Cascione, 52, of Santa Clarita, pled not guilty in October 2018 to two felony counts of embezzlement by a public or private officer, according to Ricardo Santiago, spokesperson for the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office. Cascione, a ...

A man convicted of kidnapping his two young children and fleeing from law enforcement in an RV chase was sentenced to 88 years and four months in prison Wednesday. On May 1, 2018, 48-year-old Stephen Merle Houk and the mother of his children got into a fight in the family’s RV parked in Malibu. Houke then pointed a loaded firearm ...

A Santa Clarita basketball coach convicted of multiple sexual offenses against children was ordered to pay $2,500 in restitution to one of the victims, officials said Friday. Jeremy Haggerty, 34, was previously sentenced in July to nine years in prison after pleading no contest to six counts of lewd acts on a child and three counts of sexual battery, according ...

A Canyon Country murder suspect accused of stabbing his rehab acquaintance to death in 2018 returned to court Friday, officials said. David Alonso Figueroa, 35, of Pacoima, is on trial for the 2018 murder of 30-year-old Brent Hariston, said Ricardo Santiago, spokesperson for the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office. Figueroa is accused of stabbing Hariston near his Dewdrop Avenue ...

Rapper Jonathan “Blueface” Porter appeared in court this week for his alleged involvement in a gunfight between vehicles in Newhall, officials said. Porter, 22, also known by his rap pseudonym Blueface, was arrested in November 2018 after the incident, which ended with the vehicle carrying Porter crashing into a center divider on the 14 Freeway. “Under the course of the ...

A Santa Clarita man appeared in court Tuesday to receive his arraignment date after he allegedly raped seven women while posing as a rideshare driver in a span of 15 months, officials said. Nicolas Morales, 44, of Santa Clarita, was charged with 27 felony counts for allegedly assaulting seven women in areas throughout Los Angeles County, including Alhambra, Beverly Hills, ...

A RV chase suspect was found guilty of kidnapping his two young children and fleeing from law enforcement, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office announced Monday. Jurors deliberated for two hours before finding Stephen Merle Houk, 48, guilty of two counts each of kidnapping, child abuse, injuring a spouse and child detention, and one count each of assault with ...