Will Bruzzo’s Blog

Donations and tips continue to stream in the case of San Francisco Giants’ fan Bryan Stow. As his medical bills increase donations are being sent to the family by various people. There was a fundraiser at Dodger Stadium this past Monday which brought in $60,000. Former Dodger manager Tommy Lasorda attended and gave $5,000 lamenting…

The FBI was scheduled to fly to Peru in order to investigate Joran van der Sloot’s laptop. They will be looking for any evidence connected to the Natalee Holloway case from 2005. Ms. Holloway was found murdered on the island of Aruba during her spring break; her killer has never been found but Mr. van…

A family dispute in Costa Mesa resulted in an arrest of the father of two sons. The mother of the two, who was not present at the scene, called police stating that her husband had hit the younger son. Police arrived and after speaking with the brothers, one a 28-year old and the other 17-years…

In Pennsylvania a juvenile court judge was convicted of racketeering, money laundering and conspiracy for a total of 12 counts. The crime involved receiving money from a detention center in exchange for sentencing juveniles to that particular facility. The judge, Michael Ciavarella allegedly worked to close the county juvenile facility then use a new private…

This year’s big rave concert, known as the Electric Daisy Carnival, will not be held at the L.A. Coliseum. The company in charge of the event, Insomniac Inc. will have the concert in Las Vegas instead. Unwanted attention had come to raves at the Coliseum after an incident last year when a teenager died from…

The husband of a missing woman has been arrested under suspicion of murder. David Viens was arrested as he recuperates from the injuries he received last week when he jumped off a cliff. He was trying to evade Sheriff’s deputies in Rancho Palos Verdes where the height of the cliff was 80 feet. Today officials…

A legal battle is under way over gang injunctions in Los Angeles. One attorney is taking the matter to federal court in a lawsuit against the broad terms of curfews imposed by the injunction. The argument is that the wording is too general and fails to specifically explain the aspects of the curfew. A past…

A federal indictment has resulted in 99 defendants with 72 of them taken into custody during the week of February 14, 2011. Some of the accused are believed to be members of the street gang Armenian Power. The charges include bank fraud, murder, extortion, robbery, illegal gambling, conspiracy to traffic drugs, kidnapping and identity theft. 29 of…

A recent trend with bath salts has some officials worried. The danger is in the effects the chemicals have on the senses. The ingredients affect the psychological state creating hallucinations and mental break downs like an LSD trip. The addictive tendencies are similar to crack. The Drug Enforcement Administration explained that the chemical stimulants create…

A fight at an Irvine home sent one man to the hospital with a stab wound to the chest back in April of 2009. The victim was Andre Murillo, and on February 8, 2011, a trauma surgeon, Dr. Nastanski, testified at the preliminary hearing of Defendant Abdullah Wahadi. The defendant is charged with attempted murder…