Van Nuys Crime

Crime, law and justice, and police blotter near Van Nuys (Los Angeles, CA) or anywhere in the US.

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• Dodgers senior director of security to retire

  Saturday May 26 | via Major League Baseball 

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  Related Topix: Sports, Major League Baseball, Sports Etc.

• 700 marijuana plants found in Van Nuys warehouse

  Friday May 25 | via Los Angeles Times 

  Three men with ties to a Montrose irrigation business were arrested Wednesday night after police seized 700 marijuana plants from a warehouse in Van Nuys and 200 more at the home of one of the men.

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  Related Topix: Drugs, Los Angeles, CA, Van Nuys (Los Angeles, CA), Van Nuys, CA, Montrose, CA, Glendale, CA

• Small plane crashes in front of home in LA suburb

  Tuesday May 22 | via KTIV-TV Sioux City 

  Jurors must decide whether strong physical evidence in the first trial from a series of stabbings in Michigan is outweighed by the mental health of a 35-year-old Israeli immigrant who is charged with murder.

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  Related Topix: Air Accidents, Glendale, CA

• Retired LAPD homicide detective charged with killing...

  Wednesday May 16 | via Los Angeles Times 

  A retired Los Angeles Police Department detective who worked on several high-profile homicide cases was in a Hawaiian jail Wednesday after he was formally charged with murder for allegedly killing his wife in 2006.

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  Related Topix: Obituaries

• Former Los Angeles Police detective sentenced for mu...

  Monday May 14 | via Catholic.org 

  A retired Los Angeles Police detective has been sentenced to 27 years to life in prison on Friday for murdering her ex-boyfriend's wife more than two decades ago.

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  Related Topix: Violent Crime, Van Nuys (Los Angeles, CA), Los Angeles, CA

• Former LAPD detective gets 27 years to life for murd...

  Friday May 11 | via The Daily Breeze 

  A former Los Angeles police detective was sentenced today to 27 years to life in state prison for gunning down her ex-boyfriend's wife inside the victim's Van Nuys condominium in a jealous rage more than 26 years ago.

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  Related Topix: Los Angeles, CA, Van Nuys (Los Angeles, CA), State Prisons, Prison, Criminal Defense Law, Law

• L.A. ex-detective sentenced in '86 killing

  Friday May 11 | via CNN 

  A California judge sentenced a retired Los Angeles Police detective Friday to 27 years to life in prison for murdering her ex-boyfriend's wife in a jealous rage more than two decades ago.

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  Related Topix: Violent Crime, Van Nuys (Los Angeles, CA), Los Angeles, CA, Van Nuys, CA, Los Angeles County, CA

• Stephanie Lazarus Sentenced To 27-Years

  Friday May 11 | via MyFoxLA 

  A former Los Angeles police detective who has been convicted of first-degree murder was sentenced today to 27 years to life in state prison for gunning down her ex-boyfriend's wife inside a Van Nuys condominium in a jealous rage more than 26 years ago.

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• Retired L.A. detective sentenced to 27 years to life...

  Friday May 11 | via CNN 

  A California judge sentenced a retired Los Angeles Police detective Friday to 27 years to life in prison for murdering her ex-boyfriend's wife in a jealous rage more than two decades ago.

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• Family faces ex-LAPD detective who killed their love...

  Friday May 11 | via Los Angeles Times 

  The family of the woman killed by former LAPD Det. Stephanie Lazarus spoke eloquently about Sherri Rae Rasmussen before the ex-cop was sentenced Friday to 27 years to life in prison for killing her romantic rival.

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  Related Topix: Criminal Defense Law, Law, Los Angeles, CA, Van Nuys (Los Angeles, CA), Van Nuys, CA, Los Angeles County, CA

• Ex-LAPD Detective Sentenced To 27 Years In Prison Fo...

  Friday May 11 | via CBS Local 

  A former Los Angeles police detective convicted of first-degree murder was sentenced Friday to 27 years to life in state prison for gunning down her ex-boyfriend's wife inside a Van Nuys condominium in a jealous rage more than 26 years ago.

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  Related Topix: Violent Crime, Los Angeles, CA, Van Nuys (Los Angeles, CA), State Prisons, Prison, Van Nuys, CA

• Former LAPD detective Stephanie Lazarus gets 27 to l...

  Friday May 11 | via LA Daily News 

  Attorney Mark Overland, left, and former Los Angeles police detective Stephanie Lazarus, right, sit in Superior Court just before reading of verdict which found Lazarus guilty of first degree murder for the 1986 killing of the wife of her former lover in Los Angeles Superior Court, Thursday March 8, 2012.

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• Child sex trafficking in Los Angeles: 'It happens wa...

  Sunday May 6 | via San Gabriel Valley Tribune 

  I'll give you a car, he told her, an apartment of your own. I'll protect you from the streets.

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  Related Topix: Los Angeles, CA, Van Nuys (Los Angeles, CA), Hollywood (Los Angeles, CA), Van Nuys, CA

• 16-year-old girl targeted by Burbank pimp -- it happ...

  Saturday May 5 | via LA Daily News 

  I'll give you a car, he told her, an apartment of your own. I'll protect you from the streets.

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  Related Topix: Burbank, CA, Los Angeles, CA, Van Nuys (Los Angeles, CA), Hollywood (Los Angeles, CA)