A woman who said she was repeatedly stabbed by a Hollywood actor started her testimony in his attempted murder trial this week.

Shelley Malil, known for small roles on TV and in movies like "The 40-Year-Old Virgin," is accused of trying to kill his on-again, off-again 45-year-old girlfriend He is charged with premeditated attempted murder

Malil was arrested and bail was originally set at $2 million; raised to $10 million and reduced to $3 million.

Neighbor Chuck Lee came running and separated the two.

Malil left the scene. The trail has been delayed since 2008.

Malil's defense attorney said the actor was acting in self-defense. If convicted he could be sentences to 40-years in prison.

A Marion, Illinois defense lawyer is accused of smuggling drugs into an federal Indiana prison.

Officials were tipped off that Robert Drew was smuggling in drugs, so the next time he came in they searched him.

They discovered two ounces of heroin in condoms taped to his body. They also found marijuana on him.

Drew is charged with dealing in a schedule I controlled substance, possession of a schedule I controlled substance, and possession of marijuana.

He was taken to the Vigo County Jail on $100,000 bond.

Authorities say a California man jealous over a message on his girlfriend's Facebook page tortured and imprisoned her for four days while their children were in the house.

Kings County sheriff's deputies arrested the 36-year-old man at his Hanford home over the weekend on suspicion of false imprisonment, kidnapping, torture and other charges.

Reportedly the man accused the 23-year-old victim of having an affair after he saw the Facebook message.

Things got violent and he reportedly grabbed the woman's hair, dragging her and threatening to kill her before choking her with a rope and a towel.

The couple's child and another child belonging to the victim were in the house at the time.
The man is in jail on $725,000 bail.

A Yorba Linda man was stabbed several times with an ice pick by an ex-girlfriend, who had been hiding in the back seat of his car before attacking him as he pulled out of a church parking lot Tuesday.

The 48-year-old man, whose name was not released, was starting to pull out in when the 47-year-old woman, allegedly jumped from the back seat and began stabbing him in the head and shoulders with an ice pick.

Adding insult to injury he accidentally stepped on the gas and slammed his Mercedes-Benz convertible into a tree.

The guy had jilted the woman four months ago, but the pair continued to live together, officials said. He was treated at a hospital for non-life-threatening injuries.
“We’re still trying to figure out why she did what she did,” said the Brea, California Police Department.

The apparently unhappy Yorba Linda woman, allegedly ditched the ice pick and ran off but was caught by police shortly afterward. She was arrested for on suspicion of attempted homicide, felony domestic violence, assault with a deadly weapon and brandishing a weapon and is in jail in lieu of $500,000 bail.

A French daredevil climber who has scaled skyscrapers around the world was arrested in Sydney on Monday after climbing a 57-storey building and into the arms of waiting police.

Alain Robert, 48, who is also known as the French Spiderman, was taken into police custody when he reached the top of the 57-storey Lumiere Building in central Sydney on Monday morning.

Robert, 48, took 20 minutes to scale the 151 metre (495 feet) tall building using just his bare hands and without safety equipment, cheered on by a crowd of about 200 onlookers.
"It's a wonderful achievement," his agent Max Markson told reporters. "He's the best at what he does. I'm sad he's been arrested, but hopefully he'll get out soon and we can have some champagne." He was released after he posted a conditional bond of an undisclosed amount.

Robert has been arrested many times in various countries as authorities rarely give permission for his dangerous climbs.

In Australia he was last arrested last year and fined $750 (483.20 pounds) for illegally climbing the 41-storey Royal Bank of Scotland building in central Sydney.
In 2003, he scaled the Sydney Harbour Bridge.

A police statement said the French national was charged with risking the safety of another by climbing a building and entering enclosed land. He was granted conditional bail and is due to appear in court on September 3.

Robert first climbed a building at the age of 12 when he got locked out of his apartment and decided to mount the eight stories up to an open window.

He has since climbed more than 80 buildings around the world including Chicago's Sears Tower and Taipei 101 in Taiwan.

Robert says he jets around the world climbing building to fight global warming – rather irrational.

A former Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy has been charged with filing a false police report against her ex-husband and firing a weapon in her Westminster home that endangered nearby children.

The 43-year-old, is accused of falsely reporting to Huntington Beach police Nov. 18 that her ex-husband was sexually assaulting a 13-year-old female relative, the Orange County district attorney's office said.

She allegedly lied about the incident because she was upset over custody issues.

Bojorquez was a sheriff's deputy at the time of the alleged crimes but left the department.

Bojorquez is currently on probation for two DUI convictions in Orange County, the district attorney's office said.

Bojorquez is charged with firing a weapon in her home. The bullet shattered a window and hurtled toward a frontyard where children were playing, prosecutors said. They allege that Bojorquez showed disregard for the safety of the youngsters, who were directly in the line of fire. Her brother and fiance were in the home at the time of the shooting and called police.

She was charged Thursday with a felony count of discharging a firearm with gross negligence and a misdemeanor count of filing a false police report, prosecutors said.
She was released on her own recognizance.

She is scheduled to be arraigned Sept. 24 at the courthouse in Westminster.

A 15-year-old boy was shot to death in Lincoln Heights, a murder capitol even though he gave up his bicycle to a thief. An 11-year-old girl was wounded by a stray bullet, police said Sunday.

The boy and another friend were confronted by two other males around 7:30 p.m. Saturday near North Broadway and North Mission Road, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.
Even though he surrendered the bicycle he was shot anyway. He was struck in his upper torso and died at a hospital.

An 11-year-old girl who happened to be in the area was struck in the back by a stray bullet. She was in stable condition.

The killes fled and have not be found.

Since January 2007, at least five homicides have taken place within a mile of Saturday's fatal shooting.

A 25-year-old Lawndale gardener reportedly told a neighbor he was "probably gonna be going to jail" and then he hacked two of his roommates with a machete.

He was charged today with murder and attempted murder and was arraigned this afternoon at the Torrance courthouse.

One 23-year-old was hacked to death, and a 22-year-old was severely injured and remains hospitalized in critical condition.
The attacker faces single counts of murder, attempted murder and aggravated mayhem with the special allegations he used a deadly weapon and inflicted great bodily injury.

He is held on $3.05 million bail.

If convicted, he faces up to life in prison.

One of Orange County, California’s 10 Most Wanted men, who is accused of raping several women, on Friday was expected to be extradited to the United States from Austria.

Iinternational police tracked him down using an international DNA data base to make the arrest in what is believed to be the first time.

The 32-year-old man, formerly of Ladera Ranch, arrived at Los Angeles International Airport. From LAX, he was to be taken to Orange County, where he faces a slew of felony charges, including two counts of rape, two counts of sexual penetration with a foreign object, aggravated assault, intent to commit a sexual offense and enhancements for sexually assaulting more than one victim and causing great bodily injury.

He is being held on $1 million bail bond.

The man’s arrival in Southern California ends a months-long international manhunt, while locally police have been looking for him since 2004.

Prosecutors are charging him with assaulting three women in Southern California but are asking for the public's help in identifying other potential victims.

Paris Hilton was discovered with cocaine in her purse during a traffic stop and search in from of a Las Vergas Night spot.

The 29-year-old New York born socialite is frequently in the news, jail and court for her activities.

Last week a man allegedly tried to break into her LA area home carrying a knife. He was arrested, jailed and posted $50,000 bail. She was released on her own recognizance in Las Vegas.

Hilton now says it was not her purse.

A 22-year-old Lawndale, Ca. man wielding a toy, but very real-looking pistol, islucky to be alive Friday. Three officers surrounded him in Hermosa Beach and ordered him to drop the gun, and when he didn’t immediately do so came within a split-second of getting shot when officers confronted him.

The gun was a toy Beretta that shoots plastic pellets. An orange ring to indicate it was a replica had been painted black.

Hermosa Beach officers responded at 2 a.m. to a report of a man with a gun. When they arrived in 10 seconds, they saw the man standing in a crowd of people.

The man pulled what appeared to be a Beretta handgun from his waistband, racked the slide back, and wielded it at a citizen in a threatening manner.

Officers ordered him to drop the weapon, but he did not immediately comply. After repeated orders to drop it, he finally did and was arrested, Higgins said.

He was arrested on suspicion of exhibiting a replica firearm and booked at the Hermosa Beach jail. He was released after posting $15,000 bail.

Olswang is scheduled to appear in Torrance court on Sept. 28.

The 31-year-old Bellevue bride-to-be was racing home from her bachelorette party at 6AM on her Saturday morning wedding day.

The woman was doing 90 while weaving in and out of traffic when a Washington State Patrol officer pulled her over and discovered that the woman's blood alcohol level was twice the legal limit. The woman also had a confession: This wasn't the first time she'd been booked for a DUI.

After being taken to jail, the woman was compassionately released in time to take a taxi and make the ceremony. But she still faces drunken driving charges. And the reality that, while her friends were considerate enough to give her a party before she got hitched, they weren't smart enough to hide her keys.

A 36-year old Cincinnati woman was simultaneously masturbating with a sex toy and watching a pornographic video while driving last week, according to cops who arrested her on assorted charges.

Police interest peaked last Tuesday evening when cops noticed she was driving a 2008 Pontiac with overly tinted windows.

That’s when officers noticed that Hamilton’s pants were unbuttoned. And she had a vibrator in her lap. Questioned by cops, Hamilton admitted to engaging in auto erotic manipulation, and revealed that she had also been watching a porno movie that was playing on the laptop of a friend in the passenger seat,

The woman was booked into the Hamilton County jail on a misdemeanor count of driving with “impaired alertness.” Hamilton was also charged with possession of drug paraphernalia since cops found a “broken piece of crack pipe” in her purse.

She was not, however, accused of using the pipe while she was driving and masturbating and watching an X-rated film, the title of which was not released but the woman was on her own recognizance

An actor from the TV drama "Sons of Anarchy" was arrested after a bizarre altercation with a Glendale police officer who pulled him over for allegedly talking on a cellphone while driving and not wearing a seat belt.

Mark Hiedrich, 55, of Los Angeles, a.k.a. the actor Mark Boone Junior, was taken into custody on suspicion of misdemeanor resisting arrest and misdemeanor battery on a peace officer.

Hiedrich was pulled over for talking on a cellphone while driving and for not wearing a seatbelt.

An argument between the officer and Hiedrich intensified because he was in a rush to get to someplace and unfortunately it escalated.

As the officer tried to handcuff Hiedrich, a struggle broke out, during which the officer was knocked to the ground.

Hendrick was arrested, booked and released after posted a $20,000 bail bond.

A 40-year-old Canadian woman who is accused of slashing Leonardo DiCaprio’s face in 2005 with a broken beer bottle has been extradited from Canada was ordered to stand trial in LA on Thursday.

The attack left him with a bruised and bloodied face. The woman was recently extradited to the United States to face charges.

Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge found there was sufficient evidence for her to face a trial for assault.

The actor suffered injuries to his neck and face during the attack.

Earlier this year, a judge ordered the woman to stay 500 yards away away from DiCaprio and increased her bail bond from $150,000 from $600,000, stating concern about her "willingness and ability to come back to court."

The woman was on probation for a previous offense in Canada at the time of the attack, which was unprovoked and whose motive was unclear.