Henry Cantor
February 12, 2024
Phillip Maurice Allen, a 49-year-old from Stockton, California, faces federal indictment charges for his involvement in cocaine distribution and illegal firearm possession. U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced these charges following a detailed investigation into Allen’s activities. Charges and Legal Implications Cocaine Distribution and Possession with Intent to Distribute: Allen is charged under 21 U.S.C. […]
Henry Cantor
August 22, 2023
Photo Credit: Noelskeez/Twitter The rising incidence of organized retail theft in Los Angeles has prompted the establishment of a collaborative task force comprising multiple law enforcement agencies. This united effort is dedicated to curbing the rise of organized retail crime within the region. This article delves into the intricacies of organized retail crime and theft, […]
Arash Hashemi
August 17, 2023
In a recent and tragic incident at a Hollywood Ralph’s supermarket, a security guard employed at the store shot and killed a woman who had armed herself with a fire extinguisher and a screwdriver. The incident took place near the entrance of the store on Hollywood Boulevard, when the woman allegedly made an aggressive move […]
Arash Hashemi
August 2, 2023
In a shocking turn of events, Britney Spears‘ ex-husband, Jason Alexander, has once again found himself in trouble with the law. On August 2, 2023, TMZ recently that Alexander was arrested for stalking, marking the latest in a series of legal issues he has faced over the years. This time Alexander was taken into custody […]
Arash Hashemi
June 17, 2023
In recent news, comedian and actor Pete Davidson has been charged with reckless driving following an accident earlier this year. The incident, which involved crashing a car into a Beverly Hills home, allegedly occurred while Davidson was speeding through a residential neighborhood. In this blog post, we will delve into the concept of reckless driving […]
Arash Hashemi
October 29, 2018
Halloween, a night known for devious tricks and endless treats, also sees a spike of crime. People from all walks of society take advantage of being cloaked as some of the darkest creatures and characters our imaginations can conjure. It is one of the days of the year where keeping kids safe is the pinnacle […]
Arash Hashemi
August 21, 2018
The summer of 2018 saw the worst start to the summer fire season in 10 years. California was yet again undertaking a record-breaking fight against flames engulfing the state. Over 500 square miles burned in various counties, including the Carr Fire in Shatsta County, the Ferguson Fire near Yosemite National Park, and several other fires […]
Arash Hashemi
August 14, 2017
A couple in Southern California has been ordered to pay $1 million in fines for selling counterfeit Tide detergent. Husband and wife Marvin Santiago Caceres and Nancy Flores were charged with 4, 910 violations of the Unfair Competition Law by selling counterfeit Proctor & Gamble laundry detergents and dish soaps that were falsely labeled as […]
Arash Hashemi
August 7, 2017
A woman has been sentenced to 60 days in jail for triggering a false Amber Alert. Charlene Gaston, a 26 year old from Los Angeles, plead no contest to one misdemeanor count of filing a false police report. According to Gaston, she was held at gunpoint and carjacked on July 6th, 2017, and that her stepson, Eric […]
Arash Hashemi
June 14, 2017
Authorities have charged 22 suspects who have been accused of operating the elaborate cross-border drug trafficking ring linked to the infamous Sinaloa Cartel (which was previously led by Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman). It was discovered that the suspects used homes in the San Gabriel Valley of Southern California as stash houses to store their illicit merchandise. […]
Arash Hashemi
May 15, 2017
Georgia Firefighter, Ron Herens, was killed on May 1, 2017, and his two companions were hurt while on vacation in Los Angeles. Suspect Benjamin Seider was driving while under the influence of alcohol when he ran a red light at the intersection of Washington Boulevard and Ocean Avenue in Venice, crashing into Herens’ vehicle. The […]
Arash Hashemi
November 21, 2016
Crystal D. Hotlosz, 36, was accused of prostitution and arrested for advertising her services on Backpage.com. According to a Beaver Township Police Department report Crystal told an undercover police officer she would provide a sex act for $60 and nachos. Beaver Township police said the suspect met the officer in a Los Gallos Mexican Restaurant parking lot […]
UCLA Criminal Defense Lawyer, Offers Advice You Can Trust UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles) is the largest UC campus in terms of enrollment. It is a public research university located in the Westwood district of Los Angeles, California. UCLA has an approximate enrollment of 30,000 undergraduate and 12,000 graduate students. It has 119,000 applicants for Fall […]
Arash Hashemi
July 21, 2015
Bill Cosby, a captivating and hilarious TV icon, has been one of the most distinguished and well known television icons in recent history. In 2002, President George W. Bush presented Bill Cosby with the Presidential Medial of Freedom for his depiction of African Americans on national television and his renowned dedication to education. However, things […]
Arash Hashemi
July 15, 2015
CSUN student Desira Crittenden was killed in a car accident allegedly caused by a driver under the influence. The vehicle she was in was struck while going through an intersection in Northridge, California. The driver of the other vehicle was hospitalized in stable condition and arrested for suspicion of DUI. A total of five people — three females […]
Arash Hashemi
June 22, 2015
The man arrested for the arson of the unfinished Da Vinci apartments in Los Angeles was denied a reduction in bail. Judge Upinder Kalra ruled in favor of the prosecution, who argued against the reduction on June 11, 2015. The suspect, Dawud Abdulwali, is said to have traveled out of the country a number of times and […]
Arash Hashemi
June 17, 2015
Ryan Jawad, has been accused of the murder of his friend Gage Seal in Temecula. The police found the victim and the accused at a motel after the shooting. Jawad has had problems with the law in the past and will be tried as an adult. He is also a suspect in a number of burglaries in his […]
Arash Hashemi
June 15, 2015
Stuart Lynn Dunn, who was placed in a mental health facility after being convicted of stalking actress Mila Kunis, was recaptured four days after escaping from the facility. Dunn was found by members of the Los Angeles County Sheriff‘s department Major Crimes division, who had advised Ms. Kunis about the escape. Dunn escaped from the Pomona facility while […]
Arash Hashemi
June 9, 2015
According to the L.A. Times, a former Los Angeles police officer who had fled the United States was found in Mexico and transported back to face murder charges. Henry Solis had relatives in Mexico where he had been staying. Solis was fired by the LAPD when he was named a person of interest in the shooting death of […]
Arash Hashemi
June 6, 2015
The L.A. Times reported that a San Bernardino man, who had been beaten by Sheriff’s Deputies after a horse pursuit, has been charged with multiple crimes. Mr. Francis Pusock had received $650,000 from the county of San Bernardino a week after the beating, which was caught on film by a news helicopter. The dollar amount was […]
Arash Hashemi
June 1, 2015
On May 20th a woman was detained on the steps of a Federal Building after telling authorities she had a bomb and triggering device. The LAPD dispatched the bomb squad and the SAWT team and a standoff ensued. A robot was dispatched to the scene and was used to deliver a phone to her but she was seen pointing […]
Arash Hashemi
May 26, 2015
The Memorial Day weekend has seen a rise in fatal accidents in years past so the Highway Patrol was very vigilant in seat belt usage this past weekend. There was an increase in DUI checkpoints as well. The use of checkpoints for DUI is to make citizens more aware of the problems caused by driving under the […]
Arash Hashemi
May 18, 2015
According to a May 13, 2015, CBS local news Los Angeles report local police announced that a suspect has been arrested for a crime committed in Manhattan Beach in November of 2014. A second suspect is still at large and is believed to be connected to another home invasion robbery in Los Angeles. The two men were connected to the crime […]
Arash Hashemi
May 14, 2015
Homophobic and racially charged texts between police officers in San Francisco will be the focus of a new Task Force investigation according to District Attorney George Gascon. The task force has no deadline but the D.A. stated that the investigation may be finished by the end of the year. The texts came to light during the […]
Arash Hashemi
May 8, 2015
The Sacramento Bee has reported that Michael Ramirez of Contra Costa, who had multiple previous DUI convictions, has been sentenced to five years in prison for driving under the influence and operating a vehicle with a suspended license. A member of the sheriff’s office in El Dorado County had stopped Mr. Ramirez because, even though […]
Arash Hashemi
May 7, 2015
Two brothers have been sentenced in the Reseda murder of a third youth in 2013. The brothers had challenged the 18 year old victim Kevin Orlellana when he was playing handball as a possible member of a rival gang. The altercation that followed ended with Orellana being stabbed and the two brothers fleeing in a […]
Arash Hashemi
May 5, 2015
A man who allegedly sexually assaulted a woman in Santa Rosa, California is still at large. The police have provided a sketch of the suspect in an attack that was similar to two others in the area in the last year. A woman who was walking on a path near Round Barn Boulevard was grabbed […]
Arash Hashemi
April 28, 2015
The trial of David Acuna, who is charged with the murder of a resident of Natomas, California, will begin April 29, 2015, in Sacramento. This murder took place in 2013 and the accused also faces arson charges as part of the indictment. The prosecutors are charged with proving Mr. Acuna stabbed Mr. Patrick Kendrick a […]
Arash Hashemi
April 22, 2015
On April 15, 2015, Federal Agents arrested two men who work at the La Mesa Armory on suspicion of selling weapons and ammunition according to a story in Los Angeles Times. The men charged were said to have sold the weapons to an agent posing as a member of a Mexican drug cartel. Jaime Casillas […]
Arash Hashemi
April 20, 2015
On April 15, 2015, the Los Angeles Times reported that Yuba City policeman Harminder Phagura had been arrested by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Agency Investigations division. The officer is being charged with drug trafficking for helping a man believed to be a relative in a drug selling operation. The officer would keep […]
Arash Hashemi
April 15, 2015
Two different hit and run accidents in the area of University of Southern California have led to rewards being offered for information on either one. The first case, that has seen no new leads lately, involves an accident that took the life of a man after a black sedan hit him while he was crossing the […]
Arash Hashemi
April 13, 2015
On March 10, 2015, four different drivers were confronted by a woman of similar description and two of them had their cars stolen by her in Tustin, California. The first victim had her doors locked and windows closed and the suspect couldn’t take the vehicle. ABC Eyewitness news reported that after the first attempted carjacking […]
Arash Hashemi
April 8, 2015
Robert Durst, the real estate heir and man suspected in his wife’s murder many years ago, is back in Los Angeles news after being arrested in Louisiana. He was arrested because a friend of his, Susan Berman, was found dead soon after Los Angeles police allegedly wanted to speak with her about Durst and any […]
Arash Hashemi
April 6, 2015
The kidnapping of Denise Huskins has been the subject of local and national news stories and television reports. In what last week seemed to be thought of as a hoax Ms. Huskins was reported taken forcibly from her boyfriend’s home. He spoke to police and FBI agents and they were reported as being skeptical but […]
Arash Hashemi
April 1, 2015
A restaurant owner in Valencia, California was placed into custody by deputies from the Human Trafficking and major crime force divisions of the Sheriff’s department March 24, 2015. Federal officers are also involved in the case that was originally brought to the attention of authorities by the victim’s brother. His brother had sent an email from […]
Arash Hashemi
March 30, 2015
A woman from Vallejo, California has gone missing for the second time this week. The first time her boyfriend called the police and said she was forcibly taken from his home and soon after a ransom demand had been sent to him. The police were skeptical but they soon brought in the FBI to help […]
Arash Hashemi
March 25, 2015
It took a long while find out who has struck and killed a pedestrian in the Pacific Palisades last December, but the driver has been identified. The son of a California judge was walking home from a party when Marguerite Vuong hit him with her car while driving to her job at a Postal facility. […]
Arash Hashemi
March 23, 2015
St. Patrick’s Day is usually reserved for Parades and getting together with your friends. Unfortunately some times that get together involves drinking after work and that can turn the day from fun to no fun quickly. The National Highway Safety Council however rates this as one of the worst days involving traffic fatalities. The state […]
Arash Hashemi
March 18, 2015
A night at a sports bar in Oceanside, California turned ugly and when it was over a man had been injured in a hit and run accident that later was found to possibly be much more than that. The driver of the vehicle was eventually arrested by police, who were led to his home by […]
Arash Hashemi
March 16, 2015
A California woman, who was operating a vehicle that hit another car, killing the driver and seriously injuring his wife, has pleaded guilty recently in a San Diego courtroom to a manslaughter charge. The accident happened in February of 2013. A seventy seven year old man driving a car that the defendant hit was killed […]
Arash Hashemi
March 11, 2015
According to a Los Angeles Times article on March 3, 2015 the brother of Paris Hilton, Conrad, is scheduled to appear in a Los Angeles courtroom to be arraigned on an assault charge. This stems from an in July of last year incident last year when the younger brother of the socialite and reality TV […]
Arash Hashemi
March 9, 2015
There was an illegal street race in Chatsworth, California that led to the deaths of two spectators and seriously injured another. Israel Venezuela was arrested by the Valley Traffic division according to the LA Daily News story on March 5, 2015. He is the second man arrested for the crash which occurred on February 26, 2015. […]
Arash Hashemi
February 23, 2015
An Illinois woman has brought charges of battery and infliction of emotional distress against the owner of a Kane County haunted house. The incident that prompted the filing occurred in October of 2014, when the woman claims that she and her teenage daughter were accosted by two employees in the parking lot of the haunted […]
Arash Hashemi
February 2, 2015
A North Carolina man who has spent nearly the last forty years behind bars has been cleared of charges after an investigation conducted by the North Carolina Innocence Inquiry Commission. Joseph Sledge had escaped from prison just one day prior to the murders and was picked up, charged and ultimately convicted of the crime. Sledge […]
Arash Hashemi
January 30, 2015
Former music mogul Suge Knight is suspected of running over two men after an argument in Compton. The confrontation between Suge Knight and two unidentified men took place at 3:00 p.m. on January 29, 2015, on the set of “Straight Outta Compton,” a biopic about the group N.W.A. Witnesses says that about 20 minutes after the alleged […]
Arash Hashemi
January 13, 2015
State officials said that the lie detector tests will help the government better determine which offenders are most dangerous and in need of increased supervision. The question that will be asked of parolees can range from whether they are attending 12-step addiction programs to whether they are lingering at playgrounds or having inappropriate contact with […]
Arash Hashemi
January 5, 2015
With the start of a New Year comes the enforcement of new laws. Lawmakers in California passed over 900 new laws that went into effect January 1, 2015. However, most of the time the general public is not aware of the new laws. So here are some selected new laws every Californian should know: (AB […]
Arash Hashemi
November 12, 2014
On November 4, 2014, California voters approved Proposition 47 (“Prop 47”), which dramatically changed the Justice System in our State. These changes went into effect immediately. Some penalties for common drug and theft crimes in California will be reduced from potential felonies to misdemeanors, shortening the time some offenders spend behind bars to a maximum of […]
Arash Hashemi
September 19, 2014
Los Angeles, CA – The Law Offices of Arash Hashemi announced today that their telephone and facsimile numbers have changed. This change takes effect immediately, however, the old telephone number will remain working until October 15, 2014. All facsimile correspondence should be sent to the new number. The new numbers are as follows: Telephone: […]
Arash Hashemi
September 8, 2014
While driving, if you look at the car next to you chances are you will see the driver on his/her phone. Some are talking without a headphone. Others might be texting, Tweeting, or updating their Facebook statues. It seems the threat of getting a traffic ticket does not deter these drivers. All those public service […]
