Sargent Lucien Daigle of the Los Angeles Police Department was charged today with felony first-degree burglary for allegedly breaking into a woman's home in the community of Mentone. more ›

This tale from the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department is a little Big Brother-esque, and most definitely cautionary, but it does have a happy ending for the owner of some stolen property. A thief was busted when he used a stolen laptop outfitted with a "LoJack for Laptops" kind of software, and it was his very own Facebook profile photo that ultimately was his undoing. more ›

To state the obvious, people love their pets. One Buena Park woman loves her dogs so much that she's offering a $10k reward for their safe return. Between the hours of 10am and noon on Friday, Linda Bush's 8-year-old Yorkshire terrier and three Yorkie pups were stolen from her home on Poinsettia Drive. When Bush entered her home that morning, she was shocked to find that one of her windows had been smashed. more ›

The Mentone homeowner who was the victim of a recent burglary is saying she is "really, really scared" as it sinks in that the accused perp is a Los Angeles Police Department Sergeant, reports KTLA. Lucien Daigle was arrested over the weekend on suspicion of residential burglary. more ›

Authorities caution Angelenos time and time again not to leave valuables in our parked cars, but we do anyhow, even when our valuables might include the cremated remains of our loved ones. A family prepping to send their grandmother's ashes by plane to the East Coast had their car burglarized, and the ashes were inside the luggage that was stolen. more ›

21-year-old Rachel Lee, considered one of the main players in the "Bling Ring" burglary crew has been sentenced to four years in prison for her role in a thieving venture into the home of reality star Audrina Patridge. more ›

Perhaps this will wind up in the files of "When Cops Turn to Crime" when all is said and done: LAPD Sgt. Lucien Daigle, an 18-year veteran of the Department, was arrested Sunday, October 23 by the San Bernardino Sheriff’s Department on suspicion of burglary. more ›

A 21-year-old Redondo Beach man was arrested last week on suspicion of swiping several personal items left with the remains of people interred in a mausoleum at a Ranho Palos Verdes cemetery. The suspect, James R. Haggstron, was spotted trying to open a glass cabinet (niche) that holds the deceased's personal items inside the Pacifica North Court Mausoleum at Green Hills Memorial Park. more ›

If employees of the Department of Water and Power (DWP) surprise you with a visit, do not open your door. In fact, you might want to call the police. Two men posing as DWP workers ransacked an elderly man's home in the 800 block of North Robinson Street in Silver Lake last week. more ›

A man convicted this week of breaking into his mom's house with pruning shears and taking her Maltese could face six years in prison, The Orange County Register reports. Emanuel Reyes Marquez's mom and sister called 9-1-1 when they saw him breaking into their Buena Park home last year. Marquez and an unknown accomplice fled before the cops got there, but mom's Maltese "Lady" was nowhere to be found. more ›

Investigators arrived at the scene around 4:40am to find that a blue and white 1984 Chevrolet van had crashed into the front doors of the business. The van was reported stolen from Bellflower on Saturday evening, and deputies quickly ruled that the vehicle was used as a battering ram for an attempted firearms and ammunition burglary. more ›

After a string of burglaries at five southern California campusus, police have arrested a man and a woman tin Irvine in connection to the crimes, reports the OC Register. Karim Patrece Davis, 28, and Angie Latoya Gray, 25, were taken into custody on August 4, after officials allegedly tracked stolen credit cards that the pair had been using. more ›

A man was arrested by Sheriff's deputies after allegedly being seen on a surveillance video stealing "drugs, medical equipment and office supplies" from a veterinary center, according to KTLA. more ›

5,000 marijuana plants were discovered as area police investigated a reported burglary in progress on Saturday in El Monte. Officials are calling it "the biggest drug bust in the city's history," according to KTLA. more ›

Someone has been targeting the city of Burbank's businesses in a string of robberies. According to the Burbank Police Department, between May 24 and May 29 a number of businesses on South Victory Blvd. were burglarized between the early evening and early morning hours. Doors and windows were forced open, and property was stolen form inside. more ›

A family is pleading for help and offering a large reward to locate a pair of Yorkies stolen from their Woodland Hills home on Thursday, reports CBS Local. One of the pets is a 2-year-old registered therapy dog, the other is an 8-month-old puppy. more ›

Burglars have reportedly been targeting ATMs and stealing entire machines from outside of businesses on the Westside and Midtown in what the LA Times is calling "a mini-crime wave." more ›

An 18-year-old boy was shot and killed while attempting to rob a house, the Daily Breeze reports. The shooting happened in Lynwood at about 10 p.m. last night, according to police. The young man was shot by a resident of the home, which was in the 11000 block of Harris Avenue, and died at the scene. His name has not been released. more ›

47 Apple MacBook laptops valued at $61,000 and an LCD projector were stolen by burglars who reportedly broke into Cyrus J. Morris Elementary School in Walnut early Thursday. It's the second break-in at the school in recent weeks -- four LCD projectors, valued at $1,000, were stolen during spring break. more ›

Gentlemen, if you think you can just up and not pay for sexual services rendered, and then head off to church, a couple of San Diego-based ladies might want to teach you a lesson. Unfortunately for those ladies, however, their story takes a turn out of their favor, since the duo were arrested for stealing a man's laptop from his Glendale motel room, according to the News-Press. The motive for the theft: He didn't pay one of the gals for sex. more ›

Zsa Zsa Gabor's 28-room, 12,000-square-foot Bel Air home was burglarized around 3:00 a.m. on Saturday, claims husband Prince Frederic von Anhalt, reports KTLA. The intruders, whom Anhalt reportedly chased away with a bat, made off with artwork and other property that the Prince estimates be be worth $100,000, although he is not sure exactly what was stolen. more ›

Here's a tip, that we all should have learned from a certain fairy tale years ago: if you leave a trail of food, people will be able to follow it and find you. This might come in handy if you're two children lost in the woods, but maybe not so much if you're someone who's trying to rob a Domino's. more ›

A few hours after arriving in Palm Springs for a New Years trip on December 30, Silver Lake resident Matt Hartman and his wife received word from a neighbor the the back door of their second-floor duplex near Effie Street and Lucile Avenue was wide open. more ›

Like the bears in Yosemite, shopping center thieves in Los Angeles are especially prolific in their pursuit of stealing goodies from your car. Sometimes they steal the car itself. With this phenomenon on the rise at holiday time, CBS ranked 50 malls and shopping centers in Southern California for vehicle thefts and burglaries. more ›

Burglars broke into the home of Mary Jean Lynberg last Wednesday ransacking the bedroom, tearing out the closets looking for wall safes and taking off with valuables like jewelry, and her deceased husband. more ›

An armed gunman forced his way into a couple's Koreatown apartment on the 700 block of Kingsley Drive early Monday morning where he received $120 from the woman's wallet and two blunt force blows to the head from her golf club. Which subsequently broke in half. And caused brain swelling and bleeding that sent the burglar to the hospital. Koreatown is already on crime watch with 50 reported property crimes in the seven days ending Oct. 4. more ›

The man who was found naked under a child's bed in a Westminster home this weekend has been apprehended, reports the Pasadena Star-News. Edgar Antonio Lucha, 23, was "arrested Wednesday night at a Compton drug rehabilitation center," and "booked for investigation of burglary, indecent exposure and attempted lewd acts on a child." The homeowner had discovered the intruder hiding under his 10-year-old son's bed. Reports indicate Lucha allegedly "pulled on his pants and repeatedly apologized, saying he was on drugs." Investigators determined he had entered the premises by using a ladder to climb into a window. more ›

Two men apparently breaking into a Lancaster store on Wednesday afternoon came face to face with the store's armed owner, according to officials. Responding deputies to the 3:30 p.m. burglary call arrived to the shop on the 200 block of East Avenue K-8 to find a man outside suffering from a gunshot wound. 28-year-old Robert Summers of Lancaster was taken to the hospital where he died shortly after. Detectives found property from the store on him. A second suspect fled the scene, possibly with a gunshot wound. more ›

The group of women known as the "Knock Knock Burglars" have been caught, police believe, according to CBS2. On Friday morning, a Glendale resident apparently noticed three women knock on a door before trying to pry it open. Police nabbed them as they drove away and allegedly found tools in the car that can be used for burglaries. more ›

Councilmember Tom LaBonge got a taste of what its like to be burglarized, something local residents in the Silver Lake area have been worried about over the past couple of months. “There has been a surge in crime in the Los Feliz/Silver Lake/Franklin Hills area," he said in a statement this afternoon more ›