In a recent interview, former Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva alleged that a missing grenade in connection with an explosion that claimed the lives of three Sheriff’s detectives, including a Santa Clarita resident, was thrown into a “local lake.” At the end of July, Villanueva appeared on AM 870 The Answer, discussing the explosion that led to three Los ...

A former Pacific Palisades resident now living in Florida has been arrested on a federal criminal complaint charging him with maliciously starting what eventually became the Palisades Fire of January 2025, one of the most destructive wildfires in Los Angeles history, the Justice Department announced today. Jonathan Rinderknecht, 29, a.k.a. “Jonathan Rinder,” and “Jon Rinder,” of Melbourne, Florida, is charged ...

The Trump administration has removed a memorial honoring 120 victims of gun violence from the ATF headquarters, which included Saugus High School shooting victim Dominic Blackwell. The “Faces of Gun Violence” memorial exhibit at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) headquarters honors those whose lives have been tragically lost to gun violence. The “Faces of Gun Violence” ...

Saugus High school shooting survivor Mia Tretta introduced President Joe Biden during a press conference in the White House Gardens on Monday, announcing new regulations to manage unserialized “ghost guns” like the one used in the Saugus shooting. In 2019, a 16-year-old student at Saugus High School shot and killed two other students, and injured three others, including Tretta, before ...

An Antelope Valley man made his initial court appearance Friday for allegedly making false statements in connection with the unlawful purchase of multiple firearms and selling the firearms without a license, officials said. According to allegations contained in the federal indictment, from about May 13, 2020, to about August 17, 2021, Kenneth Earl Smith Jr. — 28, of Lancaster, California ...

The parents of the two victims killed in the Saugus High shooting joined the California Attorney General Tuesday to announce a federal lawsuit against the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), in order to crack down on so-called “ghost guns” that skirt laws requiring background checks and age verification. On Thursday, Nov. 14, 2019, 14-year-old Dominic Blackwell ...