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An arrest warrant has been issued for New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez in connection with the shooting death Monday of a Massachusetts man, according to a Boston radio report.

Citing an unnamed law enforcement source, WBZ NewsRadio reported Friday that Hernandez faces a charge of obstruction of justice and that there’s a possibility that count could eventually be upgraded.
The station said it is not clear when and where Hernandez will be arrested.

The body of 27-year-old Odin Lloyd of Dorchester, Mass., was discovered Monday in an industrial park in North Attleborough, less than a mile from Hernandez’s home. WBZ reported that Lloyd had been shot in the head, but an unnamed law enforcement official told the Boston Globe that he had been shot “multiple times.”

ABC News reported Thursday that a video surveillance system in Hernandez’s home was intentionally smashed, and that a cellphone used by him was handed over to investigators “in pieces.” Also, a crew cleaned the player’s home Monday.

The Boston Globe reported Friday that video images taken early Monday morning appear to show Hernandez and Lloyd together on Fayston Street in Boston, and that a second video shows Hernandez later that morning in North Attleborough.

The newspaper, citing an unnamed law enforcement official, said Hernandez is not cooperating with police.

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Rob Kardashian Pleads Not Guilty To Misdemeanor Charges « CBS Los Angeles.

BEVERLY HILLS (CBSLA.com) — Reality star Rob Kardashian pleaded not guilty Wednesday to two misdemeanor counts stemming from an alleged altercation with a female paparazzo.

The 26-year-old, who is best known for his appearances on his family’s reality TV show and “Dancing With The Stars”, was charged with one count each of battery and petty theft in connection to the March 27 incident.

Kardashian reportedly grabbed the photographer’s camera and removed the memory card after she allegedly took a picture of him without his shirt on at a commercial parking structure in Beverly Hills.

The woman said he struck her in the face during the scuffle.

A pretrial hearing is scheduled for May 29

Kardashian was allowed to remain free on his own recognizance, which was objected by the prosecution who had asked for $21,000 bail to be set.

The photographer has since filed a civil lawsuit against Kardashian.

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Prison Realignment Drastically Changes Job, Probation Officers Say | NBC Southern California.

Nearly two dozen sex offenders were arrested during a three-week operation in LA County, in which investigators conducted compliance checks – going to the homes of sex offenders to make sure their ankle bracelets were working and they weren’t violating the terms of their probation.

Agents seized computers, hard-drives and phones, drugs and weapons during the sweep. And in one instance, children were found at a residence shared by a convicted sex offender.

Compliance checks are now part of the job description for probation officers because of the prison realignment program known as AB109.

“The individuals we checked on this past month had priors from robbery, kidnapping, attempted murder,” said Steve Howell, with the LA County Probation Department.

The federal order to reduce California’s prison population has put thousands of former state prisoners under the supervision of county probation departments. Probation officers say it has dramatically changed what they deal with. Instead of mostly passive, low-level offenders, they now see more aggressive and confrontational offenders.

“They have a different type of mentality where they want to challenge you right away,” LA County probation officer Jose Lopez said.

“A lot of these guys know they’re not going back to prison, so they’re going to put up a fight,” LA County probation officer Steven Munguia said.

Probation officers say their roles are slowly becoming less about transition and more about enforcement. California governor Jerry Brown is fighting a new order to reduce the population even further.

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Mother of 3 killed in Mission Viejo wrong-way collision | abc7.com.

MISSION VIEJO, Calif. (KABC) — A mother of three was killed in Mission Viejo when she was struck by a wrong-way driver suspected of driving under the influence of alcohol.

The crash occurred on Santa Margarita Parkway just north of Los Alisos Boulevard at about 11:40 p.m. Tuesday, according to authorities. Witnesses say a driver at the wheel of a Ford F-250 pickup truck was traveling south on northbound Santa Margarita Parkway and crashed head-on with a minivan.

The mother driving the minivan, identified as 36-year-old Ana Martinez of Trabuco Canyon, was pronounced dead at the scene. The wrong-way driver, identified as 42-year-old William Carroll of Mission Viejo, was taken to an area hospital in critical condition.

Martinez’s three children are between 7 and 14 years old.

Carroll has a prior conviction for driving under the influence. Orange County Sheriff’s Department spokesman Jim Amormino said formal tests are pending, but other evidence points to DUI.

“Based on objective symptoms and investigators did detect the odor of alcohol at the scene, the driver appeared to be impaired,” Amormino said.

Northbound Santa Margarita Boulevard was closed from Los Alisos Boulevard to El Toro Road for police investigation.

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San Bernardino family counselor charged with pimping girl, 15 – latimes.com.

A San Bernardino family counselor responsible for providing services to children and families also coerced a 15-year-old girl into prostitution and sold sexual services on the Internet, the San Bernardino County district attorney’s office said Thursday.

Daron Lamar Whitworth, 42, worked for EMQ FamiliesFirst, a nonprofit that provides social services, mental-health and foster care for young children and families in San Bernardino County, authorities said. He was arrested without incident Thursday and booked into Central Detention Center in San Bernardino.

Police have issued arrest warrants for two alleged accomplices: Whitworth’s uncle Jacory C. Williams, 30, and Charmaine Williams, 24, both of San Bernardino. Charmaine Williams is in Los Angeles County Jail for unrelated reasons.

Whitworth faces 44 charges, including felony counts of human trafficking, pimping and pandering a minor under 16, and unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor, according to court records.

Investigators from the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department began to gather evidence in August after the arrest of a juvenile for street prostitution in Hemet. The investigation gradually revealed that most of the unlawful activity had taken place in San Bernardino County, according to the release.

Anyone with additional information or who believes they have been a victim is encouraged to contact Sgt. John Sawyer with the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department at (951) 544-7000.

Man Arrested After Alleged Kidnap Attempt – Local News – Los Angeles, CA | NBC News.

A Santa Ana man who allegedly tried to grab a 10-year-old boy from soccer practice was arrested Thursday evening after a police search on foot and by helicopter.

Victor Joseph Espinoza, 55, was found hiding in a residential backyard near Delhi Park after he fled when the boy’s soccer coach tried to detain him, according to Santa Ana Police Department.

The victim was walking to soccer practice with his 19-year-old female cousin when the suspect “lured the victim close enough to grab him,” the department said in a press release.

When the boy was able to break free, he and his cousin ran to tell the soccer coach, who confronted the suspect. When Espinoza tried to flee, the coach tackled him, but was unable to detain the 425-pound man, police said.

Espinoza was arrested behind a home in the 500 block of East Central Avenue (map).

Espinoza was booked for false imprisonment, child annoying, and gang enhancements, as he was a documented gang member, police said.

Editors Note: The defendant in this case weighed 425 pounds which was a primary reason for his inability to escape.

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Parole for Charles Manson follower unacceptable, D.A.’s office says – latimes.com.

A child who is spanked, slapped, grabbed or shoved as a form of punishment runs a higher risk of becoming an adult who suffers from a wide range of mental and personality disorders, even when that harsh physical punishment was occasional and when the child experienced no more extreme form of violence or abuse at the hands of a parent or caregiver, says a new study.

Among adults who reported harsh physical punishment short of physical or sexual abuse, psychiatric disorders including depression, anxiety disorders, mania and drug or alcohol dependency were between 2% and 5% more common. And more complex psychiatric illnesses marked by paranoia, antisocial behavior, emotional dependency and narcissism were between 4% and 7% more likely, according to the study published in the journal Pediatrics.

The increase in mental disorders among those who were hit or physically punished as children was seen even in families where no family dysfunction or clear evidence of parental mental illness was reported, suggesting that the higher risk of psychiatric woes was not necessarily genetically inherited. Even those who reported harsh physical punishment on a “sometimes” basis were at elevated risk of developing psychiatric disease in adulthood. And boys and girls who experienced such physical punishment were equally likely to suffer mental illness as adults.

The Canadian authors of the report, which is based on data collected from nearly 35,000 adult Americans, said their findings underscore that spanking and other forms of harsh physical punishment are a matter not just of private behavior but of public health.

They concluded that the nation’s physicians should explicitly tell parents that physical punishment, including spanking, smacking and slapping, “should not be used on children of any age.”

Pediatricians would need to instruct some parents in the fundamentals of positive reinforcement and other positive parenting approaches to correcting unwanted behavior in children, the authors wrote. But discouraging harsh physical discipline — a response to child behavior practiced by close to half of American parents — could yield important payoffs, the authors wrote, concluding that “reducing physical punishment may help to decrease the prevalence of mental disorders in the general population.”

Among the adult mental illnesses most strongly linked to a history of harsh physical punishment in childhood were mania (an adult diagnosis 5.2% more likely in those who reported harsh physical punishment); alcohol abuse or dependence (3.4% more likely); and drug abuse or dependence (3% more likely).

Adults physically punished as children were even more likely to be diagnosed with personality disorders: Those who experienced such discipline were 7.2% more likely to be diagnosed as adults with schizotypal personality disorders, in which a strong pattern of odd or paranoid thinking results in job loss, relationship failures and other woes; they were 5.5% more likely to get a diagnosis of antisocial personality disorder, in which low levels of empathy and moral responsibility result in illegal behavior and hurtful relationships; they were 4.7% more likely to be diagnosed with narcissistic personality characterized by extreme egotism and self-regard; and 4.6% more likely to have a diagnosis of borderline personality disorder, in which unpredictable swings of neediness, narcissism and risk-taking often result in a string of failed relationships.

The latest study found that in all, only 6% of respondents reported they had been “pushed, grabbed, slapped, shoved or hit” by a parent or other adult in the home before the age of 18. That is far less than in another study, which reported that roughly 48% of adults said they were physically punished during childhood. The current study found that reports of harsh physical punishment were more common in African American homes than in Caucasian, Asian American or Pacific Islander households. But the researchers also found what they described as “a surprising finding”: that as an adult’s reported education and income levels increased, so did his or her likelihood of having experienced harsh physical punishment as a child.

The practice of spanking appears to be widespread in the United States, and a parent’s right to discipline a child physically — short of hits that leave bruises or worse — rarely brings legal repercussions. But in recent years, widely circulated videos of parents spanking or striking their children with repeated blows have sparked angry public debates about the practice.

The American Academy of Pediatricians already has adopted position statements that strongly oppose hitting a child for any reason. But the authors suggest that pediatricians may need to be more specific about what they oppose and more helpful in suggesting other parental strategies to induce desired child behavior.

Spanking linked to increased risk of mental health problems – latimes.com.

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ADELANTO, Calif. (KTLA) — Two brothers were arrested after a video surfaced online showing two young children kicking, choking and punching each other while a crowd of kids and an adult stood by and watched.

Authorities said they arrested Gabriel Gamboa, 23, and Agustin Gamboa, 24, of Adelanto and charged them with contributing to the delinquency of a minor.

Gamboa was transported to county jail after authorities said he admitted he was the person in the video and even laughed about it.

In the video, which first aired on KTLA News at 10 Thursday night, a man is seen moving other children out of the way of the fight so that it can continue.

San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department officials say Agustin recorded the fight while Gabriel allowed it to go uninterrupted.

The brothers’ nephew was one of the boys in the fight. Officials are still trying to identify the other boy, an African-American.

Sheriff’s Department initiated a criminal investigation after officials saw the video on KTLA on Thursday.

On Friday, deputies at the Adelanto station received an anonymous call from tenants who told them the fight was filmed in front of the Candlewick apartment complex at 11200 Chamberlaine Way in Adelanto.

Deputies made contact with Gamboa at the apartments, interviewing him as well as other tenants.

The Gamboa brothers were issued citations to appear in court regarding the incident.

Officials at the Sheriff’s Department said the boys in the video were five and six years old and the fight occurred at some point in the past two weeks.

Detectives said they determined from the interviews that physical altercations among children–some involving bullying–have been common at the apartment complex.

The video, which lasted for at least two minutes, was entitled “My nephew messed him up for picking on his home boy.” Gamboa had posted it to Facebook and it has since been removed.

The video shows Gamboa’s nephew pinning the other boy to the lawn and choking him at one point.

The two then move to a sandy part of a yard. There, the Hispanic boy gets pinned.

The children crowding around are seen cheering.

Adelanto Fight: Two Brothers Arrested In Case Of Fight Video Involving Young Boys – ktla.com.

Editor Opinion: Watching two 5 year olds fight and facilitating the fight is a violation of Felony Child Endangerment.   If you or a family member have been arrested for Child Endangerment, call Los Angeles Criminal Defense Lawyer Max Gorby at (310) 200-9651.