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A 10-year-old in California decided to tell the police all about his mom’s To Live and Die in L.A. remake. (Are we the only one that remembers that movie? God, we’re old.)

On June 25, Jessie Reed’s son told a deputy that his mother used a computer to erase faces on identification cards and make fake money in her home, according to a search warrant. The boy does not live with his mother who resides in the 400 block of Crawford Street.

The son took copies of the money and gave them to a deputy, the search warrant said. He said Reed also has a machine that can identify if a driver’s license is legitimate.

A couple in Anaheim, California are being accused of torturing their two children.

Authorities say Kimberly Quebe, 48, and John Quebe, 47, were arrested last week on 62 felony charges, including false imprisonment by violence, child abuse and torture. They could be sentenced to life in prison if convicted.

The couple have a 15-year-old daughter and 11-year-old son.

Orange County district attorney spokeswoman Farrah Emani says the Quebes are accused of often tying up the children to punish them for minor issues. The children have been taken into protective custody.

A 13-year-old boy in Compton, California has pleaded not guilty in the shooting death of his 8-year-old cousin.

Prosecutors say the boy opened fire July 23 into an apartment courtyard in an apparent gang retaliation shooting. A stray bullet struck and killed Jasmine Sanders while she played with friends in South Los Angeles.

The boy’s mother, grandmother and an uncle were in court Wednesday but did not talk to reporters. The boy’s name has not been released because he is a minor.

A 911 tape has been released in the case of a 9-year-old girl who watched her mother stabbed to death with a sword.

Jesus Humberto Canales, 28, allegedly stabbed his live-in girlfriend, Lucy Preciado, 26, in front of the couple’s four young children Saturday at their Lancaster home, said Los Angeles County sheriff’s officials. Canales fled the scene and was still at large Monday.

The girl called 911 early Saturday, telling authorities, “My dad just stabbed my mom … with a sword. He’s leaving right now. Please hurry. I don’t want my mommy to die. I’m scared. I want to go to my grandma’s.”

Sheriff’s Department spokesman Steve Whitmore said the call was “so horrendous it made a couple of the homicide detectives cry.” He said detectives described the killing as the worst they had ever seen.

A mother in Oakland, California is being charged with child endangerment after she allegedly left her 4-year-old son home alone and he blew off 4 fingers with a large firecracker.

Adonneka Gilchrist, 26, is to appear in Alameda County Superior Court in Oakland in connection with last week’s incident.

The boy reportedly lost a thumb and three fingers on his right hand and suffered a shattered eardrum when he ignited a firecracker at his home on the 1100 block of 65th Avenue in East Oakland about 2 p.m. Thursday.

The boy was reported to be in fair condition today at Children’s Hospital Oakland.

Bakersfield, California are looking into the circumstances surrounding a one-month-old baby’s death.

Maryonna Wooten was rushed to the hospital around 2am Saturday morning from an east Bakersfield apartment complex.

Officials say the baby was found unconscious while in the care of her uncle Charles Wooten.

Wooten says he had been drinking and may have rolled over the infant while he was passed out.

He has not been arrested in connection to the infants death, but was booked for other charges.

Thank you, Mr. Scum of the Earth, for speeding up the process to lock your ass up for a long, long time.

A 23-year-old drugstore worker accused of keeping a young girl as a sex slave in the Daly City home he shared with his father and stepmother pleaded no contest Wednesday to 14 felonies.

John France Gonzales, who had faced than 140 felony counts ranging from lewd and lascivious acts with a child under 14 to sodomy, entered his pleas in a Redwood City courtroom to a reduced number of counts that included statutory rape, domestic violence and criminal threat charges.

Gonzales disputes that he kept the girl imprisoned and contends they had a consensual relationship, said his attorney, Paul De Meester.

We need more of these stories where missing children turn up safe…

Two girls, ages 12 and 8, reporting missing Monday from their foster home, along with their foster parents’ car, were found Tuesday in Oklahoma.

Authorities believe the pair may have been abducted, and are seeking the biological mother of one of the young girls.

San Dimas, Calif., sheriffs were calling the mother of 12-year-old Estephanie Flores a “person of interest” in the children’s disappearance, deputies told FOX News.

Ryan Ramos, who went missing after his father allegedly shot his mother and abducted him has turned up safe at a church in Mexico. Lonnie Ramos, his father, was killed in a car accident.

Ryan Ramos was found alone Sunday in a Mormon church in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, and was expected home in Orange County on Monday, sheriff’s spokesman Jim Amormino said. He had been missing since Wednesday, when his father, Lonnie Ramos, allegedly shot his estranged wife in the face during a custody exchange and took off with their child, authorities said.

On Monday, authorities announced that Lonnie Ramos, 46, had been killed in a car accident in Juarez, Amormino said. He did not have any other details.

The boy was in El Paso, Texas, across the border from Juarez, awaiting a private flight to Southern California, Amormino said.

A man who between the ages of 9 and 18 acted in such movies and shows like “Pee Wee’s Big Adventure” and “Trapper John, MD” is now wanted in the 2004 murder of his girlfriend and the abduction of their 3 year old son.

[Mark] Everett — whose real name is Manuel Benitez — moved to Miami and, according to the FBI, sold drugs to supplement the money he made doing odd jobs.

He would come to play a real-life role far bigger and more notorious than any of his on-screen personas: a fugitive wanted for killing his girlfriend and abducting their son.

In 1996, Benitez, 26, met Stephanie Spears, and he won her over with his sociable, grandiose way. But the man Stephanie and her family knew was Mark Everett. They didn’t know Benitez, or his drug-dealing past.

A California man allegedly shot his wife in the face and took off with their son. The woman is expected to survive.

An Amber Alert was in effect throughout California for Lonnie Ramos, 46. He was believed to be driving a rented 39-foot purple-and-gold Fleetwood Providence motor home with the license plate number 5EGW556, the Orange County Sheriff’s Department said.

Ramos was possibly in the San Diego area and Border Patrol agents were notified in case he tried to head for Mexico, sheriff’s spokesman Jim Amormino said.

Amormino said Ramos was considered “armed and extremely dangerous.”

A 7-year-old playing in a Sacramento park became a victim of a random shooting and now has a bullet lodged in her skull.

Yamilet Leon was with her uncle and brother near Robertson Park on Monday, when gunshots were fired, police said.

Seconds after hearing the gunfire, Leon said that her ear hurt, and that the pain felt like a needle.

The girl’s mother, Maria Calderon, noticed the bullet when she came home.

It’s unknown how the bullet came in contact with Leon, but police said with Fourth of July just around the corner, people may be randomly firing bullets into the air.

“Randomly firing bullets into the air”?! Stick with the smoke bombs and maybe a sparkler or two, people!

A Vista, California woman who has been charged on two counts of using a caustic chemical to poison her 23-month-old son has pleaded not guilty.

Christina Noel Howell, 21, faces more than 11 years in state prison if convicted, Deputy District Attorney Keith Watanabe said.

Watanabe told Vista Superior Court Judge Marshall Hockett that the boy, identified as Christian D., was first hospitalized May 25 for a report of accidental ingestion of Tilex Mold & Mildew Remover.

The child suffered caustic chemical burns to his throat and stomach and first-degree burns to his face, Watanabe said.

The boy was released from the hospital the next day, but was hospitalized again May 28 for severe vomiting, altered consciousness and seizures.

A Palm Desert, California man has been accused of stabbing his wife and the woman’s two sons, ages 6 and 14.

Jose Ramirez, 46, who was being treated for apparently self-inflicted wounds, was expected to be charged with attempted murder, said Palm Desert police Sgt. Jim Armstrong.

The attack at the Hovley Garden Apartments off Avenue 42 was reported at 2:49 a.m. Someone who called 911 reported seeing a man repeatedly stabbing a female, Armstrong said.

Arriving deputies found a woman and two boys with multiple stab wounds. They learned the suspect was the woman’s husband, and forced their way into the apartment.

Oh, silly teenagers, if the movie War Games taught us nothing else, it’s that nothing good comes out of hacking.

County prosecutors allege Omar Khan, 18, of Coto de Caza, and Tanvir Singh, 18, of Ladera Ranch, broke into Tesoro High School in Las Flores to steal tests and change their own and others’ grades on the school computer network.

While Singh allegedly only tried doing it once, Khan apparently did it several times.

Khan’s been charged with 69 felony counts and could get more than 38 years in prison. Singh faces four counts and could wind up with three years.