Indictments

An Orange County chemical supply company linked to more than 100 illegal drug labs in Southern California, Arizona and Nevada has pleaded guilty to felony charges, and a judge authorized the sale of its assets to pay a $100,000 fine, federal prosecutors said Tuesday. ChemLab Supplies Inc. in Placentia, through its attorney, pleaded guilty Monday to knowingly distributing chemicals and glassware for manufacturing methamphetamine.

Relying heavily on a grainy, amateur video recording that provoked nationwide alarm, the San Bernardino County district attorney charged a sheriff's deputy Tuesday with attempted voluntary manslaughter for opening fire on an unarmed Air Force policeman after a high-speed pursuit. Deputy Ivory John Webb Jr., charged in the Jan. 29 shooting of Airman Elio Carrion, becomes the first law enforcement officer ever charged in an on-duty shooting in San Bernardino County. "Deputy Webb shot Mr.

A beefy stock clerk who served 10 years in a Texas prison for the beating death of his infant daughter was charged Tuesday with two of the 19 grisly killings of women that have haunted Riverside County since 1986. Detectives said that William Lester Suff, 41, of Colton is being investigated in the 17 other murders of women who were known prostitutes or drug users.

A San Bernardino County grand jury on Tuesday indicted the founder of a charter school network that was once the largest in California, charging him with grand theft and misappropriation of public school funds. A Hesperia city councilman was also indicted.

Federal prosecutors Tuesday unsealed a racketeering indictment against 26 suspected members of an 18th Street gang clique who are accused of controlling drug trafficking in the MacArthur Park area near downtown Los Angeles. The Columbia Li'l Cycos were described by law enforcement officials as one of the most violent and financially successful gang contingents in the city.

The alleged crime at the heart of the Martha Stewart case is that she sold stock based on information she wasn't supposed to have -- a classic incident of "insider trading." Yet that infraction wasn't one of the counts against Stewart in the criminal indictment filed Wednesday in New York. Instead, the government charged her with obstruction of justice and lying to investigators who were probing her trading in shares of biotech firm ImClone Systems Inc. in December 2001.

A federal grand jury on Thursday indicted five Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies and a Los Angeles Police Department detective on civil rights violations and conspiracy charges, accusing them of viciously beating suspected narcotics dealers, planting cocaine on drug suspects and falsifying police reports.

A federal grand jury in Los Angeles has indicted two men in separate cases on charges that they falsely accused associates of planning terrorist acts in the United States. Juan Peter Delgado, 33, of Los Angeles was arrested Thursday morning by FBI agents for allegedly making a false threat two years ago that methamphetamine had been placed in Arrowhead bottled water by an employee of the company. The hoax, according to the U.S.

A grand jury in Los Angeles on Thursday indicted former Glendale Fire Capt. John L. Orr, the arson investigator who turned arsonist, on charges he murdered four people in a 1984 fire he allegedly set at a hardware store in South Pasadena. The indictment replaces other murder and arson charges filed against Orr earlier this year, eliminating the need for a lengthy preliminary hearing in Municipal Court, Deputy Dist. Atty. Michael J. Cabral said.

Santa Barbara County officials charged two men Thursday with misdemeanors for allegedly sparking the destructive Jesusita fire in May by clearing a trail with gas-powered weed cutters. Craig Ilenstine, 50, and Dana Neil Larsen, 45, failed to obtain a so-called hot-work permit as required by county code before undertaking clearance on the Jesusita trail near Cathedral Peak, said Jerry Lulejian, a Santa Barbara County deputy district attorney. The fire erupted May 5 after the men used gas-fueled trimmers to clear brush and limbs from the trail, Lulejian said.