The owner and artist behind DarkSeed Creations believes a Victorville customer may have ordered the piece for a prank.

A man in California has been arrested after police say he staged a "macabre teddy bear" made to look as if it were constructed from human flesh at a petrol station. Hector Corona Villanueva, 23, is accused of planting false evidence and causing an emergency by leaving the bizarre creation at an AMPM service station on Sunday afternoon in the city of Victorville.

A teddy bear stuffed in a lifelike skin casing was found outside a California gas station and is being investigated by a coroner's office.

Samuel Bond Haskell, 37, was arrested in November 2023 in connection with the murders of his wife, Mei Haskell, her mother, Yanxiang Wang, and her stepfather, Gaoshan Li. He had pleaded not guilty to the murder charges and was being held without bail pending trial.

A 37-year-old California man accused of murdering and dismembering his wife and her parents has died by suicide while in police custody, according to state prosecutors and authorities.

After a federal judge in Los Angeles barred 'roving patrols' by immigration agents in seven California counties, the Trump administration asked the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals to resume operations that lawyers for the state have argued are unconstitutional.