admin's blog

Access Holywood

November 15, 2012 | LA Times

A veteran L.A. County sheriff's deputy was charged Thursday in the off-duty murder of a former neighbor who had a fight with his son near the family home in Sylmar.

New York Post

It beats waiting in line at an Apple Store.

A pair of brazen crooks punched another hole in the lax JFK security when they stole a trove of new Apple iPad minis — worth $1.5 million — from the same cargo building that was the site of the 1978 Lufthansa heist featured in “GoodFellas,” The Post has learned.

Huffington Post

San Francisco Chronicle

The city of Oakland agreed Tuesday night to pay $4.6 million to 39 men who were illegally strip-searched by police in public.

NEW YORK (AP) — A man authorities say confessed to the infamous 1979 disappearance of a 6-year-old boy from his New York City neighborhood has been formally charged with murder and kidnapping, a major milestone in a case that has stymied investigators and Etan Patz's devoted family for decades.

The indictment against Pedro Hernandez, 51, of Maple Shade, N.J., was made public Wednesday and sets up a potential showdown at trial over whether prosecutors can convince a jury that his claim that he strangled the boy — a secret kept for more than 30 years — is credible.

The suspect's attorney has argued that Hernandez, who is due Thursday in state court in Manhattan on second-degree murder and first-degree kidnapping charges, is mentally ill and prone to hallucinations, and that his confession can't be trusted.

"Nothing that occurs in the course of this trial will answer what actually happened to Etan Patz," defense attorney Harvey Feinstein said in a statement. "The indictment is based solely on statements allegedly made by my client, who has, in the past, been repeatedly diagnosed as suffering from schizophrenia."

Prosecutors countered that an exhaustive post-arrest investigation found enough evidence to seek an indictment and proceed to trial.

KANSAS CITY, MO (KCTV) -

The suspect in a bizarre murder case involving sex and religion was in court for the first time.

Tuesday, the Jackson County prosecutor shed some light on a few questions surrounding the case as the media got the first look at the accused killer.