January 10 – Operation Return to Sender: Over 60 U.S. Border Patrol agents in Kern County arrested 78 undocumented Migrants during a 3 day operation in Bakersfield.[4]
January 27 – Federal authorities arrest 8 individuals involved in a large-scale smuggling operation that illicitly imported counterfeit and illegal goods from China into the United States through the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.[7]
January 30 – A two-venue benefit concert called FireAid is held at the Kia Forum and Intuit Dome; proceeds are intended to help people impacted by the wildfires earlier in the month.[8]
June 6 – Federal immigration authorities conducted a series of coordinated raids across Los Angeles, resulting in the arrest of at least 500 individuals. The operations targeted multiple locations, including a clothing warehouse, Home Depot parking lots, and a doughnut shop.[22]Demonstrations erupt in response, leading to confrontations between protesters and law enforcement.[23]
June 7 – Border Czar Tom Homan announces the National Guard will be deployed in response to protests in Los Angeles.[24]
June 8:
The city of Glendale announces it will no longer allow ICE to hold federal detainees in its jail.[25]
More than 150 people are arrested during an anti-ICE protest in San Francisco.[26]
A small plane crashes off the coast of San Diego, killing all six occupants.[27]
June 20 – A panel of three federal judges in the Ninth Circuit rules that Trump is allowed to keep the California National Guard under federal control.[33]
June 21 – A boat with ten occupants capsizes on the California side of Lake Tahoe. Eight people are killed and two are rescued.[34]
June 28 – Governor Gavin Newsom sues Fox News for defamation, accusing the network of knowingly airing false information about a phone call he had with Trump over the National Guard being sent to Los Angeles.[35]
June 30 – The Trump administration sues the city of Los Angeles, claiming they refuse to cooperate with immigration enforcement.[37]
July
July 1 – A fireworks warehouse in Esparto is destroyed by explosions, killing seven people, damaging several nearby homes, and causing a vegetation fire.[38][39]
July 2:
Former WBC middleweight champion Julio César Chávez Jr. is arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at his home in Studio City, Los Angeles due to allegations of Chávez Jr's connections with the Sinaloa Cartel, which the U.S. has designated a Foreign Terrorist Organization.[40]
The University of California system says student governments are banned from boycotting foreign countries, including Israel.[41]
July 7 – Dozens of federal officers and about 90 members of the National Guard are deployed to a largely-empty MacArthur Park in Los Angeles.[42]
July 9 – Thirty-one workers are rescued when a Tunnel boring machine partially collapses an industrial tunnel in the Los Angeles Neighborhood of Wilmington.[43]
July 10 – 2025 Camarillo, California ICE raid: Immigration agents raid a farm near Camarillo, arresting around 200 people and sparking protests. During the raid, farmworker Jaime Garcia falls off a building and dies from his injuries.[44] During the subsequent protests, a man is filmed appearing to fire a weapon at federal agents.[45]
July 14 – American Idol producer Robin Kaye and her husband Thomas Deluca are killed in their Encino, Los Angeles home during a suspected burglary.[46]
July 19 – 36 people are injured when a car drives into pedestrians outside a club on Santa Monica Boulevard in East Hollywood. The driver of the vehicle is beaten and shot by bystanders.[48]
August 6 – Using a fake job offer, ICE lures 16 immigrants to a Westlake, Los AngelesHome Depot parking lot and arrests them. Penske, whose rental truck was used to transport ICE agents to the operation, releases a statement saying Penske guidelines prohibit using the back of their trucks to transport people and requesting DHS refrain from doing so.[53]
August 21 – Grammy-winning musician Lil Nas X is arrested in Los Angeles after being reported for walking on Ventura Boulevard in his underwear. He is later charged with battery on a police officer and resisting arrest.[57]
September
September 2 – A federal judge rules Trump's deployment of military troops to Los Angeles was unlawful and bars troops from aiding in immigration arrests.[58]
September 3 – Jasveen Sangha, a drug dealer known as the "Ketamine Queen", pleads guilty to selling ketamine to actor Matthew Perry, resulting in his death. She is the fifth and final defendant to plead guilty in relation to Perry's death.[59]
September 4 – The University of California, Berkeley gives federal authorities the names of 160 students and faculty named in an antisemitism probe.[60]
September 8 – The dismembered body of 15-year-old Celeste Rivas is found in the trunk of a Tesla car owned by musician d4vd. Her death is being investigated as a homicide.[61][62]
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