A former U.S. Customs and Border Protection employee has pleaded guilty to his wife's kidnapping that resulted in her death. The United States Department of Justice announced that 38-year-old Eddy Reyes admitted to orchestrating his estranged wife's 2016 kidnapping after suspecting she had an affair. The victim -- identified as 21-year-old Claudia Sanchez Reyes -- died a short time after the kidnapping. Eddy met Claudia in El Salvador in 2014. The pair got married and he helped Claudia and their son move to Southern California. Court documents show that the victim filed a restraining order aga ..read more

A man from Ojai has pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter for the 2019 slaying of his friend and roommate. Authorities say 28-year-old Cameron Scott Lykins killed Houston Auer on May 12, 2019. The incident occurred in the 1100 block of Meyer Road in Ojai. Lykins and Aurer got into an altercation in a bedroom of the victim's grandmother's home. During the disturbance, Lykins used a sledgehammer to bludgeon Auer to death. Following the killing, Lykins dragged Auer's body out of a window and dumped the victim's remains in the Angeles National Forest. Lykins then went to his mother's home in Lo ..read more

Retail theft has been an ongoing issue in Los Angeles County, with shoplifting rates increasing by roughly 80 percent from 2022 to 2023. The L.A. County Sheriff's Department implemented a new task force to curb the growing number of retail thefts in September of 2023. The Major Crimes Retail Task Force is conducting undercover sting operations at local big box stores to catch suspects in the act. “Target and Walmart are big targets here for people coming in conducting thefts," LASD Miguel Kanemoto told KTLA 5's Rach Menitoff during a sting in Rosemead. Menitoff was on hand with deputies during ..read more

A Los Angeles man with a history of associating with a violent white supremacist group has been sentenced to nearly five years in federal prison. Ryan Scott Bradford, 35, of Reseda, was sentenced Friday to 57 months in prison for being a convicted felon in possession of ammunition and possessing eight "conversion devices" that allow for semi-automatic firearms to function as machine guns. He previously pleaded guilty to the federal weapons charges in January. Bradford is a known associate of an extremist white supremacist group in the San Fernando Valley, prosecutors said in a criminal affidav ..read more

Los Angeles General Medical Center is again asking the public's help to identify a patient. The Boyle Heights hospital is currently treating a woman who was found unresponsive at an apartment complex in downtown Los Angeles. The Los Angeles County Department of Health Services says the woman is believed to be between 40 and 50 years old with a thin build standing 5 feet 1 inch and weighing only 86 pounds. Los Angeles General Medical Center is asking the public's help to identify a woman who was found unresponsive in downtown L.A. on April 18, 2024. (Los Angeles General Medical Center) She has ..read more

California's most populous county has been officially recognized by the state and Governor Gavin Newsom as a "prohousing" community. On Friday, Newsom announced ten communities had received the distinction, including the whole of Los Angeles County. The designation is given to communities that are making a concerted effort to build more homes to help address the state’s critical need by cutting red tape, reducing construction and development costs and creating housing policies with a "growth mindset," officials said. In addition to L.A. County, the cities of Berkeley, Brea, Crescent City, Fair ..read more

Sales of existing single-family homes in California dipped in March as mortgage rates once again edged higher, according to new data from the California Association of Realtors. After two consecutive months of double-digit increases, statewide home sales fell by 7.8% month over month and were down 4.4% percent from March 2023. Home prices, however, continued to climb. The median price of a single-family home in California was $854,490 last month, up nearly $50,000 over February and more than $60,000 higher than March 2023. The San Francisco Bay Area continues to be the Golden State’s priciest ..read more

Authorities in Orange County announced the arrests this week of two women they said were caught earlier this month with roughly $2,000 worth of Target merchandise. "Mission Viejo deputies and the Community Services Unit (CSU) worked with Target Loss Prevention to successfully arrest some organized retail theft suspects," the Sheriff's Department posted on Instagram Tuesday. The two suspects were arrested after allegedly stealing from three stores in south Orange County, authorities said. Items recovered in a retail theft bust are seen in an image provided by the Orange County Sheriff's Depar ..read more

A man found dead in the back of an abandoned U-Haul truck in Los Angeles' Mid-City neighborhood on Thursday has been identified by the county medical examiner. Police were alerted to the U-Haul Thursday morning after a resident reported smelling a foul odor coming from the truck left near Apple Street and Redondo Boulevard, just north of the 10 Freeway. Officers and a U-Haul employee found the body, identified by the Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner's office as 50-year-old Henry Jernigan, wrapped in a tarp in the back of the vehicle. The victim's body was found wrapped in ta ..read more

The Los Angeles Zoo shared a recent video of two baby bighorn sheep lambs born last month.  The video posted to the L.A. Zoo's Facebook page Thursday shows the newborns jumping and bonding with the rest of the herd. "Baby alert, times two! ?? Say hello to our two boisterous bighorn sheep lambs," the L.A. Zoo announced in the post. A bighorn sheep lamb is seen with an older member of the herd in an image taken from video provided by the Los Angeles Zoo via Facebook on April 18, 2024. A bighorn sheep lamb is seen in an image taken from video provided by the Los Angeles Zoo via Facebook on ..read more