A prolific identity theft suspect arrested in Santa Barbara prompted LAPD officers to search for additional victims to come forward. According to police, Maria Christina Johnson would use popular dating websites and home rental services to locate and lure in her victims. Once she was allowed into their home, she would search for the victims' [...]
In 2009, Cameron Thor, a Los Angeles acting coach and part-time actor sexually assaulted a 13-year-old girl who came to him for acting lessons. The contact between the two began in 2008 when the victim began taking acting lessons from Thor. After one of the lessons, Thor drove the victim to a secluded location and [...]
A suspect was recently arrested by the LAPD for allegedly scamming members of the deaf community out of nearly $500,000. Hussein Ibrahim Dheini, deaf himself, is alleged to have gained the trust of several other people through his use of American Sign Language. He then exploited that trust to scam his victims into lending him money [...]
