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Eduardo Escobedo, a convicted drug trafficker affiliated with the Sinaloa cartel, was killed last Thanksgiving in Los Angeles. Now his son is running the family’s restaurant business and learning about his father’s hidden life working with the infamous El Chapo.
Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies found two men shot outside a VFW hall in La Mirada. Eric Ortiz, 34, was killed. Juan Garcia, a member of the Mexican Mafia called “Topo,†was seriously injured, according to a law enforcement source.
Samuel Villalba became a member of the Mexican Mafia in the 1980s. Police found him shot to death in a homeless camp in 2021 and recently arrested one suspected gunman.
The alleged assassins behind several recent murder-for-hire cases in Los Angeles were sloppy, authorities say, leaving behind a trail of evidence that links the killings to Chicago gang disputes.
The case of a man arrested five times in five months raises questions about the reliability of a Probation Department contractor that operates GPS ankle monitors.
Lil Durk and members of his music group Only the Family were arrested by federal authorities in an alleged plot to kill rival rapper Quando Rondo.
Vem Miller strongly denied in an interview that he planned to assassinate the former president at a rally in Coachella.
Deputies arrested a man with guns, fake IDs and license plates in what a sheriff calls a thwarted assassination plot near a Trump rally in Coachella.
Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies on Saturday arrested a man on suspicion of killing his father near Mt. Baldy.
Federal indictment accuses 68 alleged members and affiliates of the Peckerwoods white supremacist gang of selling drugs and committing fraud.
