Tutor and Young Adult Ward Charged in Plot to Smuggle Xanax into Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall, Los Angeles County DA Reports ...

Alejandro Lopez, 21, of Downey and Orlando Cuevas, 18, of Long Beach each face felony charges after investigators with the ...

A tutor and a young man incarcerated at Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall in Downey have been charged with smuggling scores of Xanax pills into the facility. Downey resident Alejandro Lopez, 21, faces ...

The Probation Department has been struggling for years to stop the flow of drugs into its detention facilities.

Probation officials said youths and staff members were hospitalized after a "suspected overdose and possible exposure to an unidentified substance." ...

The Los Angeles County Probation Department today announced the arrest of a civilian contract worker for allegedly attempting ...

Authorities said they suspect Alejandro Lopez tried to bring 170 white pills, believed to be Xanax, into Los Padrinos ...

A Los Angeles County deputy probation officer faces felony charges for allegedly smuggling Xanax into Barry J. Nidorf Juvenile Hall and then working with a youth in custody to sell it.

The probation chief praised prosecutors and his own internal affairs investigators for their “swift and thorough work” in making the arrest.