A former Moorpark High School teacher is being sued after making racial remarks to a fruit vendor in 2023 in Newhall. Gnel Frankian, the defendant, threatened and verbally abused Plaintiff Sergio Medina in September 2023 with a rant full of racially charged and anti-immigrant language.  Now, the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) filed a lawsuit on Tuesday, ...

A Tarzana man was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison  Monday related to distributing fentanyl-laced fake Percocet pills that resulted in the deaths of two Santa Clarita teens. Dominick Alvarado was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison and was also ordered to pay restitution of $41,271, the U.S. Attorney’s Office confirmed to City News Service. Alvarado was arrested ...

Two people were arrested in connection with the kidnapping and torture of a woman at a location in Val Verde last month. Margaret Alexandria Harrison, 42, of Burbank, and Justin Steven Montoya, 24, of Val Verde,  were arrested earlier this month on a slew of charges, including aggravated mayhem, torture, kidnapping, assault with a firearm, and criminal threats. Harrison was ...

A model who allegedly crashed her car and then fought law enforcement in an assumed DUI crash in October was held to answer and is set to be arraigned later this month. Emily Danielle Miller, 24, faces charges of multiple alleged crimes in connection to her Sunday, Oct. 29 arrest, including: One count of resisting executive officer; one count of ...

Criminal proceedings have been suspended for a Canyon Country burglar to determine if he is mentally competent to stand trial after he allegedly awoke a sleeping woman by covering her mouth last month. Leonard Grim III, 36, from Canyon Country appeared in court Monday and had his burglary case suspended, said Venusse Dunn, a spokesperson for the Los Angeles County ...

A Canyon Country man who was arrested for allegedly raping his 16-year-old stepdaughter had all charges dropped, according to officials. Last Wednesday, a Canyon Country man was arrested for allegedly raping his then-16-year-old stepdaughter two years ago, according to Sgt. Joseph Mesa, with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Special Victims Bureau. However, when the Sex Crimes Division was presented with ...

A Canyon Country burglar who allegedly awoke a sleeping woman by covering her mouth last week pled not guilty Tuesday. Leonard Grim III, 36, from Canyon Country appeared in court Tuesday and pled not guilty to assault to commit a felony during the commission of a first-degree burglary, said Venusse Dunn, a spokesperson for the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s ...

A Canyon Country man who is a former Navy SEAL was sentenced Thursday to 20 years in federal prison for producing child sexual abuse material (CSAM) for surreptitiously filming nude minor victims with hidden cameras in a residential setting. Robert Quido Stella, 51, of Canyon Country, was sentenced by United States District Judge George H. Wu. At the conclusion of ...

Five years ago, a beloved young man was taken from his family in a violent attack inside his own home. Today, his family was betrayed once again by an astonishingly light sentence by a Ventura County Judge that they claim had a “clear bias” against the prosecution and the victim. In the years since Hart High School graduate Chad O’Melia’s ...

A 32-year-old woman convicted of killing a Hart High School graduate was sentenced Tuesday to serve less than an hour of community service for every stab wound she inflicted. Bryn Spejcher was sentenced in Ventura County court Tuesday for the May 28, 2018 killing of 26-year-old Chad O’Melia, a graduate of William S. Hart High School. Spejcher claimed the death ...