Law Enforcement

Crime alerts for Lake View Terrace, Bel-Air, 13 other L.A. areas
Crime reports are up significantly for the latest week in 15 L.A. neighborhoods, according to an analysis of LAPD data by the Los Angeles Times' Crime L.A. database. Eight neighborhoods reported a significant increase in violent crime. Lake View Terrace was the most unusual, recording four reports compared with a weekly average of 0.5 over the last three months. Bel-Air topped the list of seven neighborhoods with property crime alerts.
Los Angeles Times

LAPD rallies to support officer's 14-month-old son suffering from brain cancer
Max Hansen, the youngest son of Allison and Officer Grant Hansen of the LAPD's North Hollywood Division, was diagnosed with a cancerous brain tumor on May 6. Max is only 14 months old. It was completely removed by the Children's Hospital in Los Angeles, where he is currently undergoing several rounds of chemotherapy, according to an email sent out by the LAPD. On Saturday, Aug. 11, the Hansen's family and friends are throwing a fundraiser to help Max.
Northridge Chatsworth Patch

LAPD motorcycle officer hurt in hit-and-run identified
An off-duty LAPD motorcycle officer injured Sunday in a hit-and-run accident in Santa Clarita has been identified. Officer Anderson Boyce was injured on the 5 Freeway at Lyons Avenue. Boyce was on his way to a second job directing traffic at the Hollywood Bowl when he was side-swiped by a vehicle. He ended up near the center divider. His left leg bore the major impact of the crash. An officer on the scene told CBS2 and KCAL9 that Boyce was alert and conscious when paramedics arrived.
CBS2

LAPD looking for men who robbed marijuana clinic and shot security guard
Los Angeles police are asking for the public's help in catching three men who shot and wounded a security guard after robbing a medical marijuana clinic. It happened July 17 in the Rampart area near downtown L.A. Police say 25-year-old Cornell White of South L.A. and two other men attacked a security guard at gunpoint, held him down and continued to ransack the business near Olympic Boulevard and Albany Street.
Southern California Public Radio

Two convicted of North Hollywood murder stemming from insulting text message
Two Van Nuys men were convicted Friday of murder and conspiracy charges stemming from the November 2009 shooting death of a Granada Hills man over an insulting text message. Jurors deliberated about two days before finding Zarek Manjikian and Vahagn Jurian, both 25, guilty of first-degree murder in the Nov. 18, 2009, slaying of Gombert "Mike" Yepremyan. Jurors also found true an allegation that Manjikian had personally used a gun, according to Deputy District Attorney Edward Nison.
City News Service

Man fatally stabbed in South Los Angeles
A 50-year-old man was stabbed to death Saturday in the South Park neighborhood of South Los Angeles, authorities said. Los Angeles police officers responded to a residence in the 300 block of East 56th Street about 12:45 a.m., Lt. Rick Stabile said. The victim was found near the doorway of the house and pronounced dead at the scene, Stabile said. Authorities are searching for two male suspects.
Los Angeles Times

LAPD, local Sikh temples not increasing security after Wisconsin shootings
Los Angeles police and officials at one of L.A.'s four Sikh temples said they were not stepping up security in the wake of Sunday's mass killings at a Sikh temple in suburban Milwaukee that left at least six people and the gunman dead. At least three people were seriously wounded in the mass shooting at 8:25 a.m. Pacific time in Oak Creek, a suburb south of Milwaukee. Reports from the scene indicate the victims were women and children preparing a group meal, and one police officer was wounded in a shootout with the gunman.
City News Service

Freight train strikes, kills man on tracks in North Hollywood
A Union Pacific freight train fatally struck a man in North Hollywood just south of Bob Hope Airport, police said Sunday. The 59-year-old man was struck near where the tracks cross Vineland Avenue, just north of Vanowen Street, about 11:25 p.m. Saturday, Los Angeles Police Department Sgt. Don Kelly of the Valley Traffic Division said. According to an alert sent out by the LAPD, the man was "laying on the train tracks just west of Vineland Ave."
North Hollywood Toluca Lake Patch

Immigration

Deportation relief will cost eligible immigrants $465
It will cost young illegal immigrants $465 to benefit from a new Obama administration directive granting protection from deportation and temporary work permits, the nation's immigration chief said Friday. Alejandro Mayorkas, director of U.S. Immigration and Citizenship Services, revealed the fee and other new details about the unprecedented relief policy, which takes effect Aug. 15 and which President Barack Obama first announced in June.
San Jose Mercury News

State Budget

Victims fund had $29 million more
California's special fund for crime victims contained almost $29 million more than officials thought when they approved millions in cuts last year, according to a state review that concluded that a state parks money-hoarding scandal is a one-time case. The probe by Gov. Jerry Brown's Department of Finance looked into $3.7 billion in discrepancies between fund balances listed by the department and the State Controller's Office. It found no evidence that there were other efforts to squirrel away money.
Riverside Press-Enterprise