Tag: Criminals and Shady Characters

Dawn DaLuise is back in the news following the arrests of two L.A. men

Robbery is having its normcore moment

The criminal couple died in a shoot out with L.A. police in 1918

Did Sohrab Sahab ever cough up the $65 million he skimmed in city taxes?

A lone shooter turned Los Angeles International Airport’s Terminal 3 into a corridor of terror. Sue McCullough was there

Saddam had his spider hole. Manson had Barker Ranch. For James “Whitey” Bulger, the anonymity of advanced age provided ample cover for him to hide out 16 years in Santa Monica, a stash of blood money stuffed in the walls and guns at the ready. The last days of America’s most wanted mobster

In our October Issue (on newsstands now), writer Steve Mikulan dissects the story of notorious felon James Joseph "Whitey" Bulger. Here, we take a look at some of the criminal's local haunts

In June 1986, a group of men riding all-terrain vehicles slipped unseen into the city’s underground storm drain system, heading for the First Interstate Bank at Spaulding and Sunset.

For many, shoplifting is a crime of want, not need

It is perhaps the city’s most haunting armed confrontation—a botched robbery at a bank on Laurel Canyon Boulevard on February 28, 1997.