California

LOS ANGELES (KESQ) – One day after the Trump Administration sued the city of Los Angeles, challenging the constitutionality of its “sanctuary city” policies, Mayor Karen Bass said today the legal action is part of an “all-out assault against Los Angeles” by the federal government, but she “won’t be intimidated by these tactics.”    “I

LOS ANGELES (KESQ) – Gov. Gavin Newsom today hailed reports that a military commander has asked the federal government to return 200 California National Guard troops to their usual firefighting duties, rather than keeping them deployed in Los Angeles for immigration-enforcement efforts. President Donald Trump ordered the federalization and deployment of 4,000 California National Guard

LOS ANGELES (KESQ) – U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials today condemned a newly introduced iPhone app that lets users anonymously report sightings of ICE activity in real time, warning it puts officers in danger.    The app, called ICEBlock, is modeled after Waze but for immigration enforcement. It allows users to pinpoint ICE locations

LOS ANGELES (KESQ) – The Trump administration today sued the city of Los Angeles, Mayor Karen Bass and the City Council over L.A.’s so-called “sanctuary city” policies, alleging in federal court that the ordinance violates the Constitution by “thwarting” immigration enforcement. The lawsuit contends that the sanctuary laws — in which local law enforcement officials

HUNTINGTON PARK, Calif. (KESQ) – Amid heightened tensions in immigrant communities stemming from ongoing enforcement raids, Huntington Park police said today they arrested a man who may have been posing a federal immigration agent. Fernando Diaz, 23, was arrested Tuesday in the 7000 block of Alameda Street after officers came across an SUV parked in

LOS ANGELES (KESQ) – A Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy is expected to plead guilty today to taking part in a Mexican Mafia operation to smuggle heroin into a Castaic jail in exchange for cash bribes. The indictment against Michael Meiser, 40, of Lancaster and others stems from a sheriff’s department and FBI investigation that

SANTA MONICA, Calif. (KESQ) – A police officer was injured in a shooting near Santa Monica Place Mall today, and the suspect — who is believed to be connected to an earlier shooting that wounded two juveniles in a Waymo vehicle — was arrested after a roughly three-hour search. The shooting occurred shortly after 1

CUDAHY, Calif. (KESQ) – Cudahy Vice Mayor Cynthia Gonzalez was reported today to be facing a federal investigation for allegedly posting a since-deleted video on social media in which she seems to call out local gang members to defend their “streets” from federal immigration-enforcement agents. In the video, obtained and re-posted online by Fox News’

LOS ANGELES (KESQ) – Bobby Sherman, who gained prominence as an actor in the late 1960s but shot to fame as a singer — and whose good looks made him a popular teen idol in the early 1970s, died today at age 81.    Sherman’s wife, Brigette Poublon, announced his death on social media, saying

SAN DIEGO, Calif. (KESQ) – A man convicted of leading a bank robbery crew that stole nearly $400,000 across four separate San Diego County hold-ups was sentenced today to nearly 500 years to life in state prison.    Prosecutors said Larry Lightning Jr., 45, took part in armed robberies at banks in Escondido, Scripps Ranch,

LOS ANGELES (KESQ) – A veteran Los Angeles police sergeant and a motorist in his 30s whose truck broke down were killed early today when the sergeant stopped on the southbound San Diego (405) Freeway to assist the man and both were struck by another vehicle. The deadly multi-vehicle crash shut down the southbound San

SAN DIEGO, Calif. (KESQ) – The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals agreed today with a San Diego federal judge who found that California’s law that barred buying more than one gun per month was unconstitutional.    The law, which was struck down by U.S. District Judge William Hayes in March of last year, was