According to San Mateo County District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe's office, 37-year-old Isaiah Tone Repuena of Torrance received the maximum sentence for the killing of 30-year-old Melota Lasi of ...

Young did a "street investigation" into the killing, according to police, and incorrectly concluded that San Francisco Bay Area rap artist Melota Lasi — who performed under the name Cutty Banks ...

A Torrance woman has been arrested for allegedly investigating and misidentifying Melota Lasi, a local rapper known as Cutty Banks, as her boyfriend’s killer that resulted in Lasi’s Dec. 19 ...