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PHOTOS: Hollywood producer, David Pearce, jailed until the year 2170 for r@ping and murd£ring two models
Disgraced Hollywood producer, David Pearce, has been jailed until 2171 after he r@ped and k!lled two models.
Hilda Marcela Cabrales-Arzola, 26, and her model friend Christy Giles, 24, from Alabama, were plied with fatal cocktail drugs by Pearce on November 13, 2021, at his Beverly Hills home after meeting at a warehouse party a few hours earlier.
The girls were then dumped and left for dead outside different hospitals in Los Angeles by two masked men.
Pearce, 42, was found guilty in February for k!lling the two women as well as a series of brutal s£x abuses and rapes on seven Jane Does he targeted between 2007 and 2021, who later came forward to share their horrific experiences.
On Wednesday, Judge Eleanor Hunter sentenced him to 146 years behind bars for the heinous crimes. The total included the maximum sentence of 25 years to life for each murder, plus additional sentences for the r@pe victims.
‘You’re the worst kind of criminal, Mr Pearce,’ Hunter told Pearce, adding that he thought he was a hotsh0t who had ‘the whole LA vibe thing going on’ with his ‘duck lips’ and ‘slicked back hair.’
‘You’re charming, you’re smart, you’re a manipulator, and you’re extremely goal-driven.
‘You fit the role … Not once have I seen a genuine issuance of some sort of remorse. No sense of compassion for Hilda and Christie or anyone else,’ Hunter added.
Cabrales-Arzola, a Mexican native, was revived by hospital staff but a lack of oxygen had left her brain de@d.
Her mother and sister rushed to her bedside from abroad, where she remained in a coma for nearly two weeks.
She died on November 24, just five days before her 27th birthday. Giles was already dead when she was dropped off at the hospital.
During the trial, it was revealed that Pearce told a friend ‘dead girls can’t talk’ which prosecutors said indicated he wanted the girls to perish so they couldn’t report him to police.
He allegedly recruited his actor friend Brandt Osborn, 42, to help him dispose of the bodies.
But the jury failed to reach a verdict on whether Osborn, who pleaded not guilty, should be convicted on two counts of being an accessory after the fact.
The jury heard how the two men waited 11 hours before they dumped the women’s lifeless bodies outside two different hospitals and fled.
As doctors tried in vain to resuscitate the women, the two men ate a meal at El Pollo Loco.
The Los Angeles Times reported that the LAPD presented r@pe allegations against Pearce at least three times between 2007 and 2020, each with twisted similarities to his murder case.
‘The criminal justice system failed. First, the women who came forward, then those who followed, and ultimately, my sister and Christy,’ she told the Daily Mail.
‘They paid the highest possible price for a failure that never should have happened. Had the system acted when it should have, he never would have crossed paths with them.’
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PHOTOS: N10 billion Cocaine, Loud, opioids intercepted at Lagos ports as NDLEA arrests kingpins
A 55-year-old businessman, Onuigbo Ndubisi Chinedu, who deals in clothing at the popular Balogun market, Lagos Island, has been arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) over an attempt to export 3.30 kilograms of cocaine concealed in the walls of cartons used to package foodstuffs going to the United Kingdom.
According to Femi Babafemi, spokesperson of the agency, Onuigbo was arrested on Thursday, 23rd July 2026, following the interception of his cocaine consignment at the export shed of the Lagos airport the previous day, Wednesday 22nd July by NDLEA operatives.
NDLEA arrests Lagos businessman, others over N10 billion cocaine trafficking; intercepts consignment of tramadol buried in containers of black soap
Babafemi said in the course of investigation, three cargo agents identified as Nkwor Onyekachukwu Justina; Adeleke Abiola Taoheed; and Ukanwa Grace Pilgrim, who handled the shipment, were initially arrested, leading to the arrest of Kenneth Okakpu who delivered the consignment to the cargo agents for shipment to the UK.
The NDLEA spokesperson said Okakpu’s arrest provided the lead to identifying Onuigbo as the kingpin behind the syndicate and his eventual arrest while attempting to send another consignment of cocaine to the UK.
NDLEA arrests Lagos businessman, others over N10 billion cocaine trafficking; intercepts consignment of tramadol buried in containers of black soap
He mentioned that a 31-year-old entrepreneur, Emmanuella Chukwu-Edo, also involved in illicit drug trafficking, was on Tuesday, 21st July, arrested at her Surulere, Lagos residence by NDLEA operatives following the seizure of her consignment of 2.80kg Loud, a synthetic strain of cannabis, which arrived from the United States aboard a United Airlines flight on Monday, 20th July.”
NDLEA arrests Lagos businessman, others over N10 billion cocaine trafficking; intercepts consignment of tramadol buried in containers of black soap
In a related development, NDLEA officials seized a consignment of tramadol buried in containers of black soap heading to the UK. The shipment was intercepted by NDLEA operatives at a courier firm in Lagos on Wednesday, 22nd July.
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A man accused of stealing cables was paraded in the Amarata area of Yenagoa, Bayelsa State.
The suspect was apprehended in the early hours of Sunday, 26th July, 2026 by a vigilante group at Ompadec, Amarata, while allegedly stealing electrical cables from a home.
According to residents, cable theft has become a recurring problem in the area, leaving them feeling vulnerable.
They expressed relief following his apprehension.
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