Los Angeles County Inspector General Max Huntsman on Monday accused Sheriff Alex Villanueva of promoting a "code of silence'' around secret societies within his department. LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Los ...

As Americans find themselves grappling with intense divisions in the age of President Donald Trump, the Banditos, an Americana rock band from Birmingham, Alabama, have had a front-row seat in both ...

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LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Sheriff Alex Villanueva says he intends to fire or suspend 26 deputies for misconduct related to a 2018 attack by the "Banditos" deputy gang in East Los Angeles. "We are now ...

At least four “secret cliques or gangs” of sheriff’s deputies — with names like the Banditos and the Executioners — continue to operate and recruit within the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department, despite ...

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles County Inspector General Max Huntsman accused Sheriff Alex Villanueva Monday of promoting a “code of silence” around secret societies within his department. The IG’s report ...

BALTIMORE (WJZ) -- Banditos Bar and Kitchen, the Federal Hill bar where three people were stabbed on early Saturday morning has issued a statement on the incident, expressing their sympathy for ...

The Banditos walked around the East Los Angeles sheriff’s station handing trainees empty envelopes with a request: By the end of the day, fill them with money. They’d sometimes get up to $2,000 at a ...