NBC4 Investigates

The dispute over Nick Reiner’s demand for access to a portion of a trust fund established by his parents, who he’s accused of murdering, may focus on the ‘Slayer Statute,’ a California law that bars a person from receiving the benefits of a trust – if that person intentionally kills another person who created the trust. Reiner pleaded not...

Two 65-year-old women were arrested in thefts at multiple Beverly Hills stores, police told NBC4 Investigates. Police responded Aug. 8 to a radio in the 400 block of North Rodeo Drive about a theft. The subjects had already left the location, but police used security cameras at the store and around Beverly Hills to locate a vehicle sought in connec...

Investigators used security camera video and automatic number-plate recognition to make an arrest in a jewelry theft in Burbank. On June 27, Burbank police responded to the area of Victory Boulevard and Elmwood Avenue after receiving a report of a robbery. When officers arrived, the victim told them that he was walking through an alley when he was ...

Local wildfire survivors and advocates are raising concerns about a proposal from Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office that they say could protect electric utilities from paying the full costs of future fires caused by their equipment.

A grand jury indictment was unsealed Wednesday charging Reiner with the murders of his parents.

About $150,000 worth of teeth whitening toothpaste, speakers, clothes and other items were recovered in one of several retail theft operations last week in Southern California. The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Organized Retail Crime Task Force operations carried out in early August included an investigation with detectives from the...

A woman came face-to-face with an intruder sipping an energy drink Thursday night in an unsettling encounter in the kitchen of her Playa Vista home. Authorities told NBC4 Investigates the woman heard a noise and found the man drinking a Monster Energy drink from her refrigerator. The woman locked herself in a room and called her husband, who was wa...

Los Angeles police responded late Sunday to a report of a possible intruder after residents heard unsettling sounds on the rooftop of their Encino home. Residents called 911 at about 10:30 p.m. after hearing what sounded like someone trying to break into the house through a skylight. Officers in a patrol car arrived at the residence with lights and...

An after-action report detailed the LAPD’s difficulties in managing the events, its uses of chemical agents and problems recording uses of force

A cause of death was released Friday for 29-year-old NBA player Brandon Clarke. Clarke, who died in May at his home in the San Fernando Valley, died from the effects of heroin and cocaine, the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner said. The manner of Clarke’s death was an accident. Clarke was found unresponsive at about 5 p.m. May 11 in…...

The medical examiner has released the cause of death of a 4-year-old girl who was left in a van in Valley Village in May after a school carpool drop-off. The cause of death was environmental hyperthermia — the body’s absorption of heat, causing a dangerous rise in core temperature — after the girl was left in an enclosed automobil...

A 3-year-old boy abducted in what police described as a custody dispute has been located in Northern California. The kidnapping was reported at about 8 a.m. Wednesday during a home invasion in the 7600 block of Van Nuys Boulevard. A man took the child and drove away westbound on Keswick Street, the LAPD said. The child was later found safe…...

The LA County District Attorney’s Office Friday filed more than a dozen felony charges that could lead to prison time for Officer Daniel Flores