Lankford showed his LASD badge to further sell the act, prosecutors said. The victim's family was home at the time. The defendants allegedly forced the victim, his wife and their two children into ...

First reported in January by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a self-described online civil liberties organization, LASD deputies improperly used the California Law Enforcement ...

Eric Chase Saavedra, 41, a former LASD deputy and task force officer ... fabricated search warrant affidavits, and misused ...

He kept his badge, gun, county car and access to confidential law enforcement databases, which he used for Cozart’s assignment bankrolled by Liu in China. At the homicide bureau, Lankford said ...