Percy Anderson

After 15 years on the run, a Highland Park gang member was sentenced to 20 years for the murder of a black man based solely on the color of his skin.

Federal prosecutors Monday urged an appeals panel to affirm former Los Angeles Sheriff Lee Baca’s conviction on charges of obstruction of justice and lying, crimes for which the ex-lawman is facing three years behind bars.

In the wake of a controversial pardon for convicted ex-Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio, will President Trump also pardon disgraced ex-Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca?

A nine-month prison term was handed down Monday for a retired sheriff’s captain who lied on the witness stand during the corruption trial of a former colleague, but later became a key government witness in the retrial of ex-Sheriff Lee Baca.

A federal judge repeatedly rebuked former Los Angeles Sheriff Lee Baca for bringing shame on his department as he sentenced him Friday to three years in prison for obstructing an FBI investigation into abuses at the jails he ran.

Prosecutors are seeking a two-year prison term for ex-Sheriff Lee Baca for conspiring to obstruct a federal grand jury investigation into civil rights abuses and corruption within Los Angeles County jails, but the defense is asking for a sentence of home detention, court papers obtained Tuesday show.

Former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca was convicted Wednesday of obstructing an FBI investigation into corrupt and violent guards who took bribes to smuggle contraband into the jails he ran and savagely beat inmates.

Jurors in the federal corruption retrial of former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca completed their first full day of deliberations Tuesday without reaching a verdict.

Former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca did nothing to thwart a federal investigation into wrongdoing by deputies in the jail system, but actually wanted to work alongside the FBI on the probe, his attorney told a jury Monday in closing arguments of the ex-lawman’s corruption retrial. But a prosecutor insisted Baca was not only guilty, but he is especially...

Testimony concluded Thursday in the federal obstruction of justice retrial of former Sheriff Lee Baca, who’s accused of orchestrating a scheme to thwart an FBI investigation into inmate mistreatment in the jails he ran and of lying to the bureau, without the retired lawman taking the stand in his own defense.

A jury was seated late Friday morning, clearing the way for opening statements this afternoon in the retrial of former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca on federal corruption charges.

An FBI agent who was illegally threatened with arrest by Los Angeles County sheriff’s sergeants who showed up at her home in September 2011 is scheduled to testify Wednesday in the federal corruption trial of former Sheriff Lee Baca.

Opening statements are scheduled Wednesday in the federal corruption trial of former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca.

Jury selection began Monday — and will continue Tuesday — in the corruption trial of Los Angeles County’s former sheriff, who is facing federal obstruction of justice charges that could bring as much as 15 years in prison.

A judge Thursday tentatively ruled that a former reporter for The Los Angeles Times must testify about a 2011 interview he conducted with the county’s now-retired sheriff, who is facing federal corruption charges in a trial set to start next week.

A judge Monday rejected a defense motion to move the corruption case against former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca out of the region, and turned down an attempt to have the lead prosecutor taken off the forthcoming trial.

A federal judge has thrown cold water on a lawsuit that claimed Starbucks defrauded customers by adding ice to its cold beverages.

Former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca was indicted Friday on federal charges of conspiring to obstruct justice, obstructing justice and lying to the federal government.

Former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca withdrew a guilty plea Monday and chose to go to trial on a charge of lying to federal authorities in an effort to thwart an FBI investigation into abuses at the jails he ran.

Former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca has failed to reach a new plea deal over his sentence for lying to federal investigators about a jail probe.