Crime

On April 14, 2024 a Los Angeles County Sherrifs Officer was patrolling Wardlow Park off Stanbridge in Long Beach . While performing his normal rounds of the park the officer noticed strange behavior between the occupants of a vehicle . There was a white male in his mid to late 50’s yelling at a younger […]

A homeless man was arrested in connection with a spree of sexual batteries in Long Beach, police said, and investigators believe there could be more victims who have not yet come forward. According to a Long Beach Police Department news release, Charles Larry Matthews, 56, committed the following sexual batteries: It was immediately after the later Jan.

A convicted sex offender from Long Beach faces arraignment Jan. 3 on federal charges of attempted sex trafficking of a child for allegedly responding to an online advertisement that offered sex with a 15- year-old girl in exchange for $200. Victor James Sporman, 46, who previously lived in Bellflower, was named in a two-count indictment

A standout football player turned assistant football coach and substitute teacher at Long Beach Polytechnic High School has been accused of sexually abusing a female student and possessing child pornography — and detectives are asking other potential victims to come forward, the Los Angeles Police Department said. Carson resident David Vernon Price Jr., 28, was

A former Jordan High School teacher was sentenced today to 80 years to life in prison for sexually assaulting two girls and forcing oral sex on an 18-year-old former student. “You are a predator Mr. Santo,” said Judge Laura Laesecke, referring to 54-year-old Mark Santo, who sat in front of her wearing a blue county jail

Police in Long Beach have arrested a man accused of multiple sexual battery incidents, and investigators believe there could be more victims. Meliton Santoyo Jaramillo, 38, of Norwalk was arrested on Monday in La Mirada. According to police, at least three women were attacked near Bellflower Boulevard and Wardlow Road. Two of the incidents allegedly

Long Beach Police arrested a homeless sex offender who they say followed a child home from the bus and intimidated them. Police say that Jose A. Rodriguez, 48, followed the child from the bus stop their their home, repeatedly engaging in conversation along the way. Police say he intimidated and pressured the child, and then