LOS ANGELES (KESQ) – A youth soccer coach charged with murder in connection with the death of a 13-year-old boy found in Oxnard and also facing charges of assaulting two other teenage boys was ordered today to be held without bail. Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Theresa R. McGonigle ordered Mario Edgardo Garcia-Aquino, 43,
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SAN DIEGO, Calif. (KESQ) – Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem issued a waiver of environmental regulations today to speed up construction of more than two miles of border wall in San Diego County. The waiver is the first under the new administration, which will forgo laws such as the National Environmental Policy
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LOS ANGELES (KESQ) – Two Los Angeles County prosecutors sued Los Angeles County and District Attorney Nathan Hochman today, alleging they were wrongfully demoted for their support of a resentencing of the Mendendez brothers while the office was under George Gascón. Deputy District Attorneys Nancy Theberge and Brock Lunsford each filed their own complaint in
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LOS ANGELES (KESQ) – State legislators today touted a proposed bill aimed at creating so-called “hospitality zones,” allowing cities to extend last call times to 4 a.m. on certain days. Currently, state law prohibits bars and nightclubs from selling alcohol past 2 a.m. However, Assemblymember Matt Haney, D-San Francisco, wants to extend alcohol service until
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LOS ANGELES, Calif. (KESQ) – In a move to combat substance use, the City Council today called for a new pilot program for the distribution of naloxone, an opioid reversal medication, in South Los Angeles neighborhoods. In a 10-0 vote, council members instructed the chief legislative analyst to report on the resources such a
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BIG BEAR, Calif. (KESQ) After tens of thousands of submissions, we’ve now got the names of the two eagle chicks at the Big Bear nest. The chicks hatched from their eggs on March 2. It’s the first egg hatching in three years. On Wednesday, the nonprofit, Friends of Big Bear Valley, officially introduced the world to
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NORCO, Calif. (KESQ) – Ex-Riverside Assemblyman Bill Essayli was sworn in today as the U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California following his appointment Tuesday by Attorney General Pam Bondi Essayli, 39, was sworn in during a private ceremony by Chief U.S. District Judge Dolly Gee in downtown Los Angeles. Essayli now oversees the
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GLENDALE, Calif. (KESQ) – A U.S. Army sergeant from Glendale was formally identified today as one of four soldiers who died in a training accident in Lithuania. The soldiers, who were aboard an M88 Hercules vehicle, disappeared March 25 during the training exercise in the town of Pabradé. They were found dead after a roughly
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SAN DIEGO, Calif. (KESQ) – One person was killed and another person was injured after they fell from a 30-foot wall along the U.S.-Mexico border near San Diego, authorities said today. San Diego agents discovered two suspected migrants around 11 p.m. Monday after they fell from the wall, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
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SAN DIEGO, Calif. (KESQ) – Five men accused of laundering money on behalf of the Sinaloa Cartel were charged in a pair of grand jury indictments unsealed today in San Diego federal court. The indictments were originally returned in 2022 against the defendants, all of whom remain at large and face drug trafficking and money
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SAN DIEGO, Calif. (KESQ) – The general manager and three employees of an El Cajon-area business that was raided by federal agents this week were facing immigration-related charges today. The U.S. Attorney’s Office alleges San Diego Powder & Protective Coatings’ general manager employed undocumented workers and let them live in the company’s warehouse. The general
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SANTA ANA, Calif. (KESQ) – Former Anaheim Mayor Harry Sidhu was sentenced today to two months behind bars and was ordered to pay a $55,000 fine for his guilty plea to obstruction of justice, wire fraud and lying to federal investigators about his role in the city’s effort to sell Angel Stadium. Sidhu, 67, was
Continue Reading SAN DIEGO, Calif. (KESQ) – A former Navy detective and El Cajon police officer sentenced earlier this year for using excessive force on a detained sailor at Naval Base San Diego is now facing a new charge of attempting to produce child sex abuse material. Jonathan Christopher Laroche, 41, of Spring Valley, is accused in
Continue Reading ANAHEIM, Calif. (KESQ) – State Auditor Grant Parks today issued a review of Anaheim’s lease with the Angels for Angel Stadium, criticizing a lack of access for inspections and its revenue-sharing terms, which compare unfavorably to other stadiums in the state. Sen. Tom Umberg, D-Santa Ana, who asked for the audit with Assemblyman Avelino Valencia,
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MURRIETA, Calif. (KESQ) – A week from today, a Lake Elsinore Unified School District employee accused of molesting a child and possessing child pornography will ask a judge to consider reducing his $500,000 bail so he can get out of jail. David Robledo Jr., 36, of Homeland was arrested last week following an investigation by
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RIVERSIDE, Calif. (KESQ) – An ex-con suspected of fatally stabbing her wife, a veteran Riverside County Fire Department captain, at their home and then fleeing to Mexico — where she was apprehended over the weekend — pleaded not guilty to a murder charge on Wednesday. Yolanda Marodi, 53, is accused of killing her spouse of
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LOS ANGELES (KESQ) – Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman announced today his office will seek the death penalty only in exceedingly rare cases, rescinding a directive by his predecessor that barred prosecutors from seeking capital punishment against defendants charged with special circumstance murders. “I remain unwaveringly committed to the comprehensive and thorough evaluation
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By Polo Sandoval, CNN (CNN) — When Dora Camarena was on her deathbed in 2021, her family recalls she wished to have lived long enough to see the Mexican cartel that killed her son pay for what it did. Forty years after his killing, the widow and sons of DEA special agent Enrique “Kiki” Camarena
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RIVERSIDE, Calif. (KESQ) – Multiple people were arrested today after being named in a federal indictment alleging conspiracy in a ring that involved smuggling controlled substances, including fentanyl, into the Riverside County correctional system. A total of 10 individuals were named in the indictment, which alleged the defendants engaged in smuggling substances into the correctional
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LOS ANGELES (KESQ) – Federal prosecutors in Los Angeles, working with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other law enforcement partners, have filed charges against 17 defendants who illegally re-entered the United States after being removed, officials said today. Many of the defendants charged were previously convicted of felony offenses before they were removed from
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