An old man was arrested on suspicion of dealing coke in a Burbank parking lot yesterday morning. Police reported seeing a hand-to-hand deal go down in a parking lot on Riverside Drive. more ›

The Los Angeles Police Department have announced the arrest of one of their veteran detectives on suspicion of stealing money from a suspect's house. Detective II Ramon Alvarez, who has 25 years with the force and is assigned to Gang and Narcotics Division, was arrested January 27 for violation of Penal Code 487, Grand Theft. more ›

A Los Angeles Fire Department fire captain was busted last week for buying heroin during a sting operation conducted by Los Angeles Police Department Narcotics officers. Captain Matthew Phillpsen, 52, was arrested at around noon on Wednesday, November 9 in the Highland Park area. more ›

The second phase of Operation "Supernova" - a task force investigation of Ventura County's largest street gang - yielded three arrests on Tuesday. The arrests were made during an undercover operation in Camarillo when a Colonia Chiques gang member - Luis Manuel Tapia - agreed to sell undercover operatives ten pounds of methamphetamine and four kilograms of cocaine. His asking price? $200,000. more ›

An attorney visiting his client in jail could be facing time himself after a drug-sniffing dog caught him trying to sneak in 26 balloons full of heroin, meth, pot and syringes to the jail. more ›

A narcotics wiretap might have caught the voice of a Los Angeles Sheriff's Department Captain, reports the Los Angeles Times. Bernice Adams, who is in charge of the sheriff's Carson station, has been on leave from the sheriff's department from April, but the paper was only able to confirm with anonymous sources in today's paper that Adams has been on leave since her voice is suspected of being on a wiretap. 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 ›

Alfonso Cisneros of Pacoima chose the wrong route to transport 20 kilograms of cocaine in his black Chevy Monte Carlo on Tuesday night. His transfer may have succeeded had he steered clear of Magnolia and Orangethorpe Avenues in Fullerton. As he entered a routine traffic stop, Cisneros, 28, was stopped by Fullerton Police Officer Jonathon Miller. The officer uncovered Cisneros's current probation status for narcotics violations and invited Mueller, his police dog, to further investigate the vehicle. more ›

The LAPD, DEA, and ATF joined forces early this morning to conduct dozens of arrests of members of the 38th Street Gang gang, as part of a massive indictment against the criminal organization on federal charges, according to the Department of Justice. 800 officers arrested a total of 57 people, of which 37 are defendants named in the indictment. more ›

A Valencia warehouse was the stash site for over 100 pounds of cocaine and $2.5 million in cash that was linked to a pair of Canadian men now facing state drug charges, according to ABC7. The narcotics and money were seized Wednesday night by federal agents, who also arrested the two Torontonians, aged 19 and 32. The plan was allegedly for the men to conceal the coke in produce boxes and transport them back into Canada. more ›

A tip provided to narcotics detectives at the Los Angeles Police Department's Foothill division prompted officers to raid a Sylmar home early this morning, seizing weapons and stolen property, and busting a methamphetamine lab operation, according to LA Now. more ›

Thursday, a team of authorities from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Narcotics and Aero Bureaus, in a joint operation with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, and U.S. Forest Service removed 11,249 marijuana plants growing in the Angeles National Forest in the Knapp Ranch and Fish Canyon sections. The marijuana has an estimated street value of $22 million. more ›

An 8-year-old girl remains listed in stable condition at Children's Hospital today after she was "wounded in crossfire during a shootout between LAPD narcotics officers and three suspects," according to the Daily News. The child "was struck in the chest and suffered a bruised lung," when officers returned fire on suspects who shot at them from inside a black 1998 four-door Toyota police had followed into an alley in the North University Park area around 7 last night. Because the girl was "behind police officers during the altercation," early reports indicate she was "wounded by shots fired by the suspects toward police." The unnamed victim had reportedly asked her older sibling if she could play outside just a few more minutes when the incident took place. She is expected to survive. more ›

In January, the Los Angeles Police Commission agreed with an LAPD federal consent decree that said officers in specialized units dealing with narcotics and gangs must "disclose all of their sole and jointly owned assets, liabilities and income every two years. Refusal to disclose such information would bar officers from working in those units." more ›

A narcotics officer was shot and injured today when a suspect he was serving with a warrant fired shots at him and his partner just after 3 p.m. today in Boyle Heights. He was taken to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries. more ›