SANTA ANA – A 41-year-old Garden Grove woman caught up in a crackdown on illegal gambling, extortion and drug trafficking in Santa Ana pleaded guilty Monday to a federal conspiracy charge. Honganh Thi Pham was scheduled to be sentenced Sept. 25. According to the defendant’s plea agreement, from April 2019 through August 2021 she conspired with three other defendants to operate an illegal gambling business. Phan managed illegal casinos known as nets or slaphouses in strip malls and homes, including four in Santa Ana, prosecutors said. The other co-defendants awaiting trial are: — Niem Ngoc Ha, 47, of Fountain Valley,…
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SANTA ANA – Police Tuesday are searching for a man who crashed a minivan into a Santa Ana apartment complex and left after hitting a woman and leaving her in critical condition. Photo: New Santa Ana Firefighters were called at 10:20 p.m. Monday to the 1600 block of West Memory Lane regarding reports of a fire where they found the victim inside a unit of the complex with smoke but no fire, according to the Orange County Fire Authority. The victim was rescued and taken to a hospital with serious injuries. ABC 7 reported witnesses told police the driver of…
LOS ANGELES – Police are looking Tuesday for suspects who stabbed two students near Los Angeles High School in what Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent Alberto Carvalho called another “senseless” attack. The students, both 16, who were stabbed were taken to a hospital trauma center and are in stable condition, police said. The attack occurred around 4:30 p.m. Monday near the school in the 4600 block of Olympic Boulevard, between West and Rimpau boulevards, according to Brian Humphrey of the Los Angeles Fire Department. The stabbing “was the result of an on-campus dispute,” according to a statement from the…
LOS ANGELES – There were no tickets sold with all six numbers in the latest drawing of the multi-state Powerball lottery and the estimated jackpot for Wednesday’s drawing is expected to grow to $71 million. There were also no tickets sold with five numbers, but missing the Powerball number, the Multi-State Lottery Association, which conducts the game, announced. The numbers drawn Monday were 3, 38, 55, 61, 66 and the Powerball number was 1. The jackpot was $60 million. The drawing was the fifth since a ticket with all six numbers was sold. The odds of matching all five numbers…
LOS ANGELES – After 55 years of operation as Los Angeles County- USC Medical Center, the county’s most distinctive and busiest healthcare facility is getting a new name. But no one is saying what it is just yet. The official announcement will be made Wednesday at the hospital’s Boyle Heights campus. The county Board of Supervisors will officially vote Tuesday to change the name, although even the board’s agenda doesn’t say what the new moniker will be. According to the motion by Supervisor Hilda Solis, whose Fourth District includes the hospital, “the center is now charting a new path forward,”…
LOS ANGELES – Beginning Monday, restaurants and food facilities in unincorporated areas of Los Angeles County must provide only recyclable or compostable food ware such as containers, cups, dishes and cutlery under a new ordinance aimed at reducing waste and fossil fuels. The ordinance also requires full-service restaurants to use reusable food service ware for dine-in customers, and it prohibits the sale or rental of single-use coolers, packaging and plastic peanuts, and pool toys with the exception of products that are encased in durable material. Food trucks will have an additional six months to comply. Operators that can demonstrate extreme…
LOS ANGELES – A man who allegedly shot and wounded a deputy sheriff who confronted the defendant in a parking lot near a Newhall apartment complex in 2017 once told a Los Angeles County jail custody assistant that he wanted to kill deputy sheriffs “because of what they do,” a prosecutor told a jury Monday. Deputy District Attorney Eric Siddall addressed a Los Angeles Superior Court jury hearing final arguments in the trial of 35-year-old Monolito Guerra, who is charged with attempted murder of a peace officer and other counts and was brought into court in a wheelchair. “He didn’t want…
LOS ANGELES – A man who was killed in the crash of a small, single-engine airplane in the Beverly Crest area over the weekend was identified Monday as a Woodland Hills resident. Alon Inditzky, 38, was killed in the crash that occurred about 8:10 p.m. Saturday near the 3000 block of Beverly Glen Circle, according to the Los Angeles County coroner’s office. The pilot was the lone occupant of the Cessna aircraft, authorities said earlier. Federal air traffic controllers had asked the Los Angeles Fire Department to “check a large swath of mountainous territory near Stone Canyon Road and Mulholland…
LOS ANGELES – At least three students at Johnnie L. Cochran Middle School in Arlington Heights were sickened Monday after possibly ingesting an unknown substance. Paramedics went to the campus in the 4000 block of Johnnie Cochran Vista about 11:35 a.m., according to the Los Angeles Fire Department. Officers were sent to the scene on a “possible overdose” report, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. According to the LAFD, paramedics were tending to children who experienced an “altered level of consciousness after possible exposure or ingestion of a yet-unknown substance.” The incident involved children about 13 or 14 years…
SANTA ANA – A 22-year-old man was committed indefinitely Monday to a state mental health facility after he was found to have been insane when he killed his father on a Laguna Niguel trail the day after Thanksgiving in 2018. Maximilian Gregory Ludwig was convicted March 21 of murder with a special circumstances allegation of lying in wait in a non-jury trial before Orange County Superior Court Patrick Donahue, who also found the defendant was insane at the time he killed 59-year-old Christopher Ludwig on Nov. 23, 2018. Because he was found to have been insane at the time of…