43rd District

by Robert J. Lopez

U.S. Rep Maxine Waters (D-Los Angeles) said Thursday that she has asked the Department of Justice to investigate the disappearance of a woman who was released in September from the Malibu/Lost Hills Sheriff's Station.

Mitrice Richardson, 24, was arrested at Geoffrey's, a Malibu restaurant, for not paying an $89 dinner bill. Deputies who took the Cal State Fullerton graduate into custody described her as "coherent and rational," Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca told the Board of Supervisors in a letter.