Matthew Ormseth is a reporter for the Los Angeles Times. Before joining The Times in 2018, he covered city news and state politics at the Hartford Courant.
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After authorities seized $377,000, Travis Reid felt cheated by his cocaine supplier, prosecutors told the jury in closing arguments. Reid’s answer, they say, was to lure his supplier into a drug deal, execute him and steal 10 kilograms of cocaine.
Dec. 5, 2023
Edgar Sargsyan, who presented himself as the right hand of an Armenian crime figure, was sentenced to six months after testifying against his former mentor and others.
Dec. 4, 2023
Eduardo Escobedo, a convicted drug trafficker who worked directly for the son of Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman, was gunned down Thursday morning in an industrial stretch of Willowbrook.
Nov. 25, 2023
Smoke devices were ignited in the street outside the Brentwood home, according to footage on social media, and fake blood was spattered on the property.
Nov. 24, 2023
A car struck two pedestrians in South Los Angeles on Thursday afternoon, leaving a woman dead and a girl seriously injured.
Nov. 24, 2023
Federal authorities in Los Angeles charged 23 suspected members and associates of the MS-13 gang, alleging that one of the group’s leaders in California is a powerful Mexican Mafia figure who controls local drug sales.
Nov. 14, 2023
Rakim Mayers and Terell Ephron, better known as ASAP Rocky and ASAP Relli, met in high school in New York. But one November night in 2021, tensions erupted into a fight on a Hollywood sidewalk. Ephron testified that Mayers shot him, grazing his hand.
Nov. 9, 2023
Deonte Murray was sentenced to 166 years in prison for seriously injuring two L.A. County sheriff’s deputies when he shot them at point-blank range in 2020.
Nov. 1, 2023
Police have not declared a motive in the mass shooting by Robert Card, whose body was discovered Friday.
Oct. 28, 2023
Nearly two days after he allegedly shot 18 people to death at a bowling alley and bar, the suspect in the deadliest assault in Maine’s history remained at large.
Oct. 27, 2023