Amanda Lee Myers | AP|Catalino Esteban Valiente Alonzo was arrested Friday for visa fraud. Authorities say he didn't reveal he had been charged with killing two political activists.
Immigrants held at a private facility contracted by the government say they are forced to perform chores for little or no pay, a violation of state and federal law.
Under a directive quietly issued by Chief Charlie Beck in December, officers will no longer ask crime victims, witnesses or other non-suspects where they were born.
Los Angeles Sheriff’s Deputy Gonzalo Inzunza shot at four people in seven months — a cluster of police shootings like few others in Los Angeles County. Each time, Inzunza said he feared for his life, and each time officials found Inzunza was justified to shoot. But three of the men who were shot at tell a different story. They claim Deputy Inzunza either shot without provocation or lied to justify his shootings.
The shooting happened late Tuesday after deputies received a call of a suspicious man looking inside cars at an East L.A. apartment complex, Sheriff's officials said.
Excessive force cases cost L.A. County more and more money each year, but recent dramatic drops in legal claims against the Sheriff's Department suggest that could change.
On the morning of April 4, 2011 a Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputy shot a suspect who tried to run from the scene of a burglary. The deputy told investigators the burglar pointed a gun at him. The burglar, who later pleaded guilty, claims the officer planted a gun to justify the shooting.
