A former city commissioner, who at one point discussed running for a seat on the Los Angeles City Council, has been indicted by a federal grand jury on kiddie porn charges. Albert Abrams, 63, the former head of the neighborhood city commission, surrendered to FBI agents this morning after being named in an 8-count indictment. more ›

Your television, a couch, or some concert tickets are smart things to put up ads for on Craigslist. Crystal meth, not so much, even when you disguise your product using its ladylike nickname. Two SoCal men were busted recently "on suspicion of dealing large amounts of crystal methamphetamine and possession of drug paraphernalia," reports Temecula Patch. more ›

An international online "members only" child pornography network called "Dreamboard" has been raided by federal authorities, and of the more than 600 of the users targeted, 72 have been charged and 52 arrested, including 6 men from Southern California. more ›

A Department of Justice task force arrested two men in Riverside last Friday, July 15, and seized 28 pounds of methamphetamine, worth an estimated $1.27 million. Martin Pinedo Cedillo and Alfonso Gutierrez Ibarra of Mexico were busted while attempting to sell all 28 pounds to an undercover Bureau of Narcotic Enforcement (BNE) agent in Riverside. more ›

A 29-year-old man employed as a high school math teacher in the William S. Hart School District in Santa Clarita was busted for selling drugs during a sting operation held this weekend, according to L.A. Now. Ashraf Boulos Hindi was taken into custody after providing an undercover Ventura County Sheriff's deputy with drugs at a Motel 6 in Camarillo. more ›

Even if you sit on your pot and pretend to be disabled, those drug-sniffing dogs of the border patrol can still get wise to your plan. A 19-year-old man learned this lesson this weekend as he attempted to make it over the border from Mexico into the U.S. at San Ysidro,"the world's busiest land border crossing" (thanks, Wiki!) with five pounds of marijuna stuffed inside the seat of a wheelchair, according to KTLA. more ›

Up until Monday, Wally spent his days and nights guarding a large-scale marijuana grow operation at a home in the Hemet area. Who is Wally? Well, he is a four-foot long, 55-pound alligator who "worked" from inside a cement pond on the property, says NBC. Now Wally is calling Forever Wild Exotic Animal Sanctuary home, since both he, and the 2,285 pot plants he was keeping an eye on are illegal in California. more ›

Officials in Santa Ana are calling the marijuana growing operation they busted yesterday "the largest and most high-tech" they've ever encountered, according to the OC Register. In a facility of 6,000 square feet, the warehouse in the southeast part of the city had been "capable of producing more than $120,000 worth of marijuana every six weeks." more ›

Three men and one woman were arrested yesterday following the bust of two Downtown Los Angeles locations where hundreds of cartons of counterfeit cigarettes were being distributed. The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department executed the search warrants as a follow-up to previous arrests in East Los Angeles of people who were selling the smokes on the street. more ›

Rhode Island State Police said on Friday that a Hacienda Heights man arrested arrested during a Rhode Island drug bust on Jan. 30 may have acted as a West Coast connection for the largest operation in the state's history, reports the Pasadena Star-News. more ›

So let's say you've got some high-quality homegrown all bagged up and ready to go but no one to buy it--I mean, let's face it, the economy these days doesn't leave much room for luxury items--where can you go? Well, the internet, obviously. Since the goods have a pretty fixed street value, eBay might seem out of the question, so the next logical choice for online wheeling, and, in this case, dealing, is the mecca of the mundane, aka Craigslist. more ›

SDSU may as well stand for Sold Drugs to Some Undercover after 18 students were arrested today on drug charges. Nearly 100 people -- including 75 students -- have been stung in Operation Sudden Fall, a five-month DEA investigation on the San Diego campus.

Agents were involved in more than 130 drug purchases and seizures over five months, the DEA said. Among the drugs seized were 4 pounds of cocaine, 50 pounds of marijuana, 48 marijuana plants and 350 ecstasy pills. Police also confiscated one shotgun, three semi-automatic pistols, three sets of brass knuckles and $60,000. -- Bloomberg

What killed a 33-year-old woman discovered packed in dry ice in the Newport Beach hotel room of a cocaine dealer this past weekend? "Everything that happened was for religious reasons," Stephen David Royds told The Orange County Register on Sunday reports the AP. more ›

*UPDATE, Monday, March 10, 11:10 a.m.: The woman was on dry ice, apparently for 'religious reasons' and does not appear to be murdered. Full story can be found here.

LAFD responded to a fire in the 3200 block of Dos Palos Drive in Studio City Sunday morning. The blaze was confined to the patio of the residence but upon entering the home, firefighters saw what appeared to be weed. LAPD followed up and confiscated 382 marijuana plants -- approx. 48 pounds -- growing in the garage. 37-year-old Eric Porter of Studio City was later arrested and booked on suspicion of felony cultivation of marijuana,... more ›