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April 3, 2013 | By Kate Mather and Richard Winton
The son of Hollywood great Clark Gable was free on bail Wednesday following his arrest for allegedly driving under the influence and hitting several cars in Malibu, jail records show. John Clark Gable, 52, was arrested about 3 p.m. Tuesday after he allegedly hit a vehicle near the Malibu Pier and eventually crashed his Ford Raptor into six parked cars in the 21300 block of Pacific Coast Highway, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said. There were no reported injuries. A witness told KTLA-TV that Gable fell as he exited the vehicle for police.
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April 2, 2013 | By Andrew Blankstein, Kate Mather and Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times
A man described as a secondary suspect in last week's kidnapping and sexual assault of a 10-year-old Northridge girl has been arrested, Los Angeles police said Monday. Daniel Martinez, 29, of West Hills was taken into custody in Northridge early Sunday and booked on suspicion of kidnapping. He was being held in lieu of $1-million bail. Even as the arrest was announced, LAPD Robbery-Homicide investigators continued to search for the prime suspect, identified over the weekend as Tobias Dustin Summers.
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March 11, 2013 | By Hailey Branson-Potts, Los Angeles Times
A Los Angeles Superior Court judge has denied a defense request to lower the $3-million bail for a Rowland Heights physician charged with second-degree murder in the overdose deaths of three patients. Hsiu-Ying "Lisa" Tseng, 43, has been in jail for a year awaiting trial on charges that she recklessly prescribed powerful painkillers to young patients seeking to abuse drugs. In a 23-page bail motion, Tseng's attorneys described the effects of her incarceration on her sons, one of whom started elementary school while his mother was in the county's lockup.
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March 8, 2013 | By Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles County Assessor John Noguez, who has been in jail since his October arrest on two dozen corruption charges, finally made bail on Friday. Noguez is accused of taking $185,000 in bribes from Ramin Salari, a prominent property tax consultant and generous Noguez campaign fundraiser. In return for the cash, Noguez is alleged to have lowered property tax bills for some of Salari's wealthy clients. Both Noguez and Salari pleaded not guilty following their Oct. 17 arrest, and have vigorously denied any wrongdoing.
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March 1, 2013 | By Steve Chawkins, Los Angeles Times
A Carpinteria youth pastor is accused of raping two teenage girls he met through his church work, authorities said Thursday. Louis Joseph Bristol, 28, is being held at Santa Barbara County Jail in lieu of $2-million bail, according to a news release from the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Office. Authorities said the girls, both juveniles, received "inappropriate" texts and photos from Bristol this year and in 2012. He raped each of them in vacant rooms at the Holiday Inn Express where he worked as an assistant manager, according to the release.
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February 22, 2013 | By Robyn Dixon, This post has been updated. See the note below for details.
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- After a roller-coaster four-day bail hearing, Olympic runner Oscar Pistorius was granted bail Friday ahead of his murder trial after Chief Magistrate Desmond Nair ruled there was no risk he would flee to escape justice. In a major victory for the Pistorius camp, Nair said that the state's case was not so watertight as to preclude releasing the athlete. The judge said the state also failed to show that Pistorius was a flight risk, and that while the athlete had a history of aggressive behavior, the state failed to show he was likely to commit violence or interfere with state witnesses if released.