Gang member-turned-writer held in LA
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An author who wrote a vivid book about gang life and is considered one of the city's most wanted gang members has been taken into custody, police announced Thursday.
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The former boss of Colombia's Cali  cocaine cartel was in a U.S. prison cell on Saturday after an  extradition that capped a 14-year investigation into his  multibillion dollar drug business.
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Oscar-winning "Pulp Fiction" screenwriter Roger Avary was arrested on Sunday after a fatal car crash northwest of Los Angeles, officials said.
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Police arrested O.J. Simpson on Sunday, saying he was part of an armed group who burst into a Las Vegas hotel room and snatched memorabilia that documented his own sports career, long ago eclipsed by scandal.
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Armed bandits raided Francis Ford Coppola's Argentine headquarters and stole a computer with the screenplay for the upcoming feature film "Tetro," according to local news media. The director of "The Godfather" apparently was not in Buenos Aires at the time of the robbery Wednesday night.
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LOS ANGELES - A man dressed as Chewbacca was arrested after police said the street performer head-butted a tour guide operator in front of Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood.
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Honduran police arrest a suspected member of a notorious youth gang over a massacre on a bus.
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Police say Paris Hilton has been arrested in Hollywood for investigation of driving under the influence.
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A former gang member convicted in a jewelry heist that resembled robberies he described in his memoir has been sentenced to 126 years in prison.
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Celebrity Paris Hilton was arrested in   Hollywood early on Thursday on suspicion of drunk driving, Los   Angeles police said.
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A rapper under house arrest can promote his new CD and novel but cannot talk about the second-degree murder charge against him, a state judge has ruled.
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After a 14-month investigation, law enforcement officers raided a high-level meeting at a rented club and arrested every known leader of the violent Latin Kings gang in Florida, authorities said Monday.
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A Los Angeles man was arrested on Thursday on charges of impersonating a federal agent in what
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SANTA ANA, California  - The inmate in the Orange County jail had been arrested before, but this time was different. After the first interview, he was led to a second, where he was told that if convicted he could be deported.
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Emilio Estevez has found one way to snag a headline: Give a ring   to a writer.
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Eleven members and associates of a notorious street gang have been indicted on federal racketeering charges of using threats and violence to control the drug trade near downtown Los Angeles.
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Grammy-nominated rapper Remy Ma was arrested Saturday on charges of attempted murder in a shooting outside a trendy Manhattan nightspot, police said.