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Eric Halem, a former LAPD officer, and Gabby Ben, alleged by prosecutors to have 'ties to the Israeli mafia,' were denied bail Friday. The two men are accused of pretending to serve a police search warrant and using threats of violence to coerce a teenager into emptying a digital wallet full of cryptocurrency. Both have pleaded not guilty. Halem's attorney said her client faces danger in jail: 'He worries he is going to be killed because he was a cop.' One night last December, six men met at a home in the Hollywood Hills to plot a kidnapping, prosecutors say.

He described men dressed in all black wearing ski masks, and said one had a knife. They put the knife on me and they grabbed my bag and they took all of my stuff and all of my jewelry, he said.

Derek Rodriguez-Hernandez, 2, and older brother Jaden Hernandez left their foster home in the Westlake neighborhood about 1:30 a.m., police said. The boys' foster parents heard the door of their house opening and ran outside, they told KTLA, but the boys were already gone. The LAPD said they'd been taken by their biological mother, Jackeline Hernandez-Torres. An Amber Alert was issued for the trio.

The LAPD reported that around 30 people were injured early Saturday when a car rammed into a crowd outside The Vermont nightclub in Hollywood.

A woman could be seen walking down a sidewalk and faced with a wall of police officers blocking her from walking further.

The police response to immigration protests has intensified, with violence escalating amid tensions between law enforcement agencies and demonstrators, challenging their non-enforcement policies.

The California Department of Insurance accused Eric Halem of providing false information regarding a January 2023 accident, misrepresenting his brother's role in a fraudulent claim.

The man, who was about 65, was turning left from Cleon Avenue onto Saticoy Street when the collision occurred at 2 p.m. Saturday.

Five masked men broke into a West Los Angeles home, tied up the residents, and kidnapped a man, later releasing him near a gas station in Glendale.

The agency released photos of the three suspects Monday, hoping to identify the men linked to repeated hate crimes against a transgender woman.