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Three people were arrested by the Long Beach Police Department Wednesday after angry students erupted in protest outside of the California State University Board of Trustees meeting.

The protests came in response to an approved agenda item which moved to increase annual tuition within the CSU system by 9%.  Trustees voted 9-6 to approve the hike, making this ninth increase to Cal State tuition cost within nine years.  Protestors say this makes the cost of public college education too expensive for many Californians to afford.

University Chancellor Robert Turnage Read more »

With more cities looking to save money, Newport Beach and Costa Mesa are considering the idea of sharing their city jails in an effort to cut costs.

During a Newport council meeting this week, Councilwoman Leslie Daigle made a proposal that the city consider contracting its jail services and hire private guards to help bolster the existing jail staff. She called Costa Mesa, “a natural partner.”

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In addition to the regular jail booking process, Anyone who is arrested in the state of California can now be scanned throughout the fedeal system of immigration status information by authorities, according to reports. On Friday, ICE, an acronym for the Immigration and Customs Enforcement revealed that the six remaining counties had now been added to the Secure Communities program this past week.

ICE also revealed that since May 2009, they have taken approximately 48,000 convicted illegal alien criminals into custody as a result of the identification process resulting from the program. Furthermore, of that 48,000 arrestees – 23,712 of the defendants have been deported from the United States. Apparently, more than 10,000 undocumented immigrants have been deported just from the Secure Communities Program alone.

Not only is the program being instilled across the state of California, but National Security is also implementing the program. Homeland Security records Read more »

Who Gets Arrested?

People often ask about the type of person that needs to call a bail bond company. I assure them it could be anyone: students, lawyers, white-collar, blue-collar, celebrities, even mayors get arrested. As a bondsman, we hear the sad stories of people who are in situations they never could have imaged almost every day.

Such is the case with San Gabriel Mayor Albert Huang who this week resigned from office under allegations of battery, assualt and robbery. A mayor? What happened? We don’t know, exactly.

To onlookers, Huang seemed to almost be in tears. The second Asian American to serve on San Gabriel’s City Council Read more »

PALM SPRINGS — Here’s an example of a good deed gone bad. Actor, Jeremy London, best known for his roles in “7th Heaven” and “Party of Five” was approached by several men as he worked on fixing his flat tire. Apparently, in exchange for the help, Jeremy offered one of them a ride home.

That’s when the actor noticed a change of character. The Palm Springs Police report that one of the men held him at gunpoint and forced him to drive around the city, making occasional stops to buy alcohol and use illicit drugs.

London was able Read more »

It sounds like the combination of a joke and a game: “Knock, Knock” and “Go To Jail, Go Directly To Jail, Do Not Pass Go, Do Not Collect $200.” But according to CBS2, Glendale residence are breathing a sigh of relief rather than laughter.

The Glendale Police Department arrested three women on Friday and took them to the Glendale Jail where they are each being held on $20,000 bail. According to a witness, the women knocked on a residential door. When noone answered, they forced themselves in. The three were arrested as they drove away from the scene thanks to the fast acting witness.

The three, Sukari Joiffron, Valeria Acosta and Ziara Cannady, are suspected Read more »

440 pounds of heroin – that’s about the weight of a full grown black bear. Yet Jose Antonio Medina Arreguin, aka ‘Don Pepe,’ has been alegedly able to smuggle one bear-sized shipment of heroin per month into California. Arreguin reportedly did so by driving it across the Tijuana border into San Diego.

Mexican narcotics officers say Arreguin’s operation netted him $144 million a year. They were finally able to arrest the kingpin’s arrest in an attempt to take out the drug market there, after a two year investigation into his dealings,

Ventura County authorities now want to extradite Arreguin from Mexico, for trial.

At a news conference, Ventura County Read more »

A second Richmond teen has been arrested for his suspected role in a shooting spree that occurred inside a local church, last week. On Saturday night, a Richmond Police officer took the 16-year-old youth into custody on Barrett Avenue during a routine stop. Detectives had issued a warrant for him, and he is now being held at the Richmond Juvenile Hall. Juveniles are not eligible for bail bonds as adults would be. Generally, they are either released to their parents or held at a juvenile detention facility.

Another teen, 15, arrested in connection Read more »

The LAPD may have launched the future of crime fighting when they recently cracked the case of alleged kidnapper, Daniel Merino, AKA the “spiky-hair suspect.”

By using the latest in high-tech policing methods, detectives on the case implemented the use of enhanced video from a security camera to determine the make, model, color and year of the suspects car. The new high-tech camera device  installed on a police car can detect and read every license plate it sees. This played Read more »

Fresno, CA — There’s one less early release for Sheriff Mims. This one actually made bail, but maybe he’ll get lucky down the road.

A Fresno County jail correctional officer who she explains has been charged and jailed for embezzlement.  Alfonso Alanis, 28 was arrested by Fresno County Sheriff’s detectives at approximately 8:20 a.m. on Tuesday. His bail was set at $50,000.

The drama unfolded and Read more »