Crime

Local LAPD officer arraigned on fraud charges

A Los Angeles Police Department traffic officer who lives in Valencia was arraigned in a Los Angeles court Wednesday on a felony charge of worker’s compensation fraud. Officer Jason Gordon,

Preliminary hearing set in strangulation case

The case of a Valencia man accused of strangling his boyfriend finally has a preliminary hearing date set, after four previous tries, a prosecutor said Tuesday. Christian Alexander Ortiz, 22,

LASD car. Signal file photo.

Human trafficking operation leads to 11 arrests in SCV

Detectives with the Sheriff’s Department’s Human Trafficking Bureau arrested 11 suspected “johns” on solicitation charges during an operation in Castaic on Tuesday. “Ten were arrested on prostitution charges, and one

Smash and Grab purse thief sought

Deputies are looking for a man captured on a store surveillance video smashing the window an SUV parked at Seco Canyon Road and Copper Hill Road, stealing a purse and