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Daily Local & Regional NewsWatch
Daily News Digest
from LA Police Protective League
March 8, 2016 |
NY police officers honor former colleague killed in Texas
Hundreds of New York City police officers lined Manhattan's Fifth Avenue in a farewell salute Monday to a former NYPD colleague who was gunned down in Texas. David Hofer, an officer in the Dallas suburb of Euless, was celebrated at a memorial Mass in St. Patrick's Cathedral. Mourners including NYPD officers in dress uniform and officers from several North Texas cities prayed before his cremated remains. A Euless police officer had carried the cherry wood box with Hofer's ashes bearing his name to the altar, near some daisies and a sign that read, "Blue Lives Matter." Hofer's fiancée, Marta Danylyk, a native of Ukraine, wept quietly, sitting close to his mother, Sonja, and his father, Helmut.
Associated Press
South LA apartment shooting leaves 1 dead
A 35-year-old man was shot and killed early Saturday while standing in front of an apartment building in South Los Angeles. A little after 1:50 a.m., a vehicle drove up to the apartment building in the area of San Pedro Street and 102nd Street, where a man got out of the vehicle and fired several shots at the victim, who was standing out front, said Officer Tony Im of the Los Angeles Police Department's Media Relations Section. The shooter got back in the vehicle and drove away. Paramedics arriving at the location pronounced the 35-year-old man dead at the scene, Im said. It was not immediately known if the shooting was gang-related, he said.
City News Service
Hit-and-run accidents spur effort to improve safety in Boyle Heights
There's been a spate of deadly hit-and-run crashes in Boyle Heights in recent months, sparking efforts by safety activists to highlight the problem. On Saturday, they are inviting pedestrians to take over a part of Cesar Chavez Avenue for a community fair aimed at raising awareness about street safety. Last month, a 24-year-old man was struck and killed while crossing Cesar Chavez. Just weeks earlier, a young mother was killed getting out of her car and, in December, a beloved neighborhood nun was fatally hit walking to church. "It's disappointing and it's saddening. There's been recent reminders that this is why we're doing the work," said Erick Huerta, a Boyle Heights resident and organizer with Multicultural Communities for Mobility.
89.3 KPPC
Porter Ranch man sentenced in live-in girlfriend's killing
A 45-year-old man who shot his live-in girlfriend twice in the head, then shot himself before retreating to the Porter Ranch home they shared, was sentenced Monday to 25 years to life in prison. Joseph Defalco pleaded no contest last week to second-degree murder. He also admitted that he used a firearm in the June 14, 2013, killing of 52-year-old Ann Risa Suggs. Defalco shot the victim, then himself, before retreating to their home in the 19000 block of Kenya Street. He was arrested after a standoff that lasted more than five hours, Deputy District Attorney Julie Kramer said. Defalco and Suggs had dated for about 20 years and had lived together for more than two years, according to court testimony.
Los Angeles Daily News
Man accused of LA ambush acted in self-defense, says lawyer
A man who fired 50 rounds at a Valley Village memorial gathering, killing four people and wounding two others, was acting in self-defense, his attorney argued Monday, while a prosecutor called it an ambush. “What happened on April 3, 2010, was an ambush … on an unsuspecting group of friends mourning the loss of a loved one,” Deputy District Attorney Thomas Trainor told the nine-man, three-woman jury during closing arguments. Nerses Galstyan, 32, is charged with four counts of murder, two counts of attempted murder and one count of mayhem for a victim who lost an eye. He is also facing gun allegations and a special circumstance allegation of multiple murders, making him eligible for a death sentence if he is convicted as charged.
MyNewsLA.com
Van Nuys credit-card skimming ring leader gets 51-month sentence, could be deported
A Van Nuys man was sentenced Monday to 51 months in federal prison for running a “skimming” scheme in which devices used to lift credit card data were secretly planted at gas pumps. Armen Bislamian, 34, was also ordered by U.S. District Judge Percy Anderson to pay $273,000 in restitution and serve five years of supervised release after he gets out of prison, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office. Bislamian pleaded guilty last year in downtown Los Angeles to a federal count of conspiracy to commit bank fraud. He admitted to manufacturing and obtaining skimming devices designed to intercept data from credit and debit cards swiped by unsuspecting customers at point-of-sale terminals.
City News Service
Ex-officer who waged gay rights battle against LAPD arrested in domestic violence case
A former Los Angeles police sergeant who had a protracted legal battle against the LAPD over its treatment of gay and lesbian officers was arrested last week after an hours-long standoff in West Hollywood, authorities said Monday. Mitchell Grobeson, 57, was taken into custody Friday in the 800 block of West Knoll Drive and booked on a charge of corporal injury on a spouse, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. The incident was initially reported about 10 a.m. as a barricaded suspect, according to the Sheriff's Department. About 2 p.m., after crisis negotiators persuaded Grobeson to surrender, he was arrested.
Los Angeles Times
Wife of Eagles Co-Founder Randy Meisner Killed in Accidental Shooting at North Hollywood Home, Police Say
The wife of Randy Meisner, a founding member of the Eagles, was fatally shot at their North Hollywood home Sunday when a rifle she was handling discharged, according to police. Lana Meisner was pronounced dead at the scene after officers responding to a report of a shooting arrived at 7 p.m. to find her suffering from a single gunshot wound, the Los Angeles Police Department said in a news release. Officers had also been called to the home in the 3700 block of Eureka Drive earlier in the day over a domestic violence incident.
NBC 4
'It appears that no one cares': Report slams Juvenile Hall for filthy conditions and poor leadership
A new county report on Los Angeles County's Central Juvenile Hall depicts it as a leaderless operation with "unacceptable" and "deplorable" conditions similar to a "Third World country prison." Some walls were covered in gang graffiti and filth that no one made an effort to wash away. Morale among staffers was at "dungeon lows from a workforce that claims to be victims." And young detainees were sent into isolation for reasons outside of department policy — in one case for exchanging food with another detainee, the report alleges. The report was written by Azael "Sal" Martinez, a volunteer probation department monitor who spent time incarcerated at juvenile hall as a teenager.
Los Angeles Times
With prosecutors' blessing, a jailhouse informant tied to the Mexican Mafia gets leniency
The snitch who helped federal authorities decapitate Mexican Mafia operations within the Orange County Jail, and who is at the heart of allegations that the district attorney's office misused informants, was rewarded Friday for his cooperation with a break on potential prison time. Under California's three-strikes law, Fernando Perez — a career criminal who went by the name "Wicked" as a member of the 18th Street gang and later as the mysterious "Inmate F" in court papers — was facing 40 years to life on a conviction of being a felon with a firearm. After state and federal prosecutors said they would not object to leniency, Orange County Superior Court Judge Gregg Prickett on Friday gave Perez 21 years. Counting more than 13 years of time served, Perez has a little more than seven years left on his sentence and could be out sooner with good behavior.
Los Angeles Times
Navy SEALs Tell Congressman There Is Combat Rifle Shortage
Navy SEAL teams don't have enough combat rifles to go around, even as these highly trained forces are relied on more than ever to carry out counterterrorism operations and other secretive missions, according to SEALs who have confided in Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif. After SEALs return from a deployment, their rifles are given to other commandos who are shipping out, said Hunter, a former Marine who served three combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. This weapons carousel undercuts the "train like you fight" ethos of the U.S. special operations forces, they said. Hunter said he's been contacted by several SEALs, but he declined to provide further information about the weapons they use in order to protect their identities.
NBC 4
Los Angeles city controller criticizes bidding process in airport contracts worth $593 million
Though city policy calls for three bidders per competitive contract, the Los Angeles airport department has been awarding hundreds of millions of dollars in work to companies based on only one or two bids, according to a new audit released Monday. The report by the city controller's office questions the effectiveness of competitive bidding practices at Los Angeles World Airports, the operator of Los Angeles International Airport, and calls for an overhaul of the agency's contracting procedures. “LAWA must scrutinize and reform its bidding processes,” Controller Ron Galperin said.
Los Angeles Times
LAX warned to address traffic, parking problems during $5B renovation
Los Angeles International Airport is ill-prepared to handle worsening auto congestion as the airport intensifies its $5 billion dollar ‘modernization' construction program, according to a report released by the city controller Monday. The city department running LAX lacks traffic engineering expertise and enough staffing to handle an increasing auto deluge, auditors found. Navigating the oblong central terminal area by car has been a perennially frustrating experience for many drivers, and it may be getting more complicated. Los Angeles World Airports, the city agency that runs LAX, plans to build a 2.2-mile automated people mover to connect to a new L.A. Metro light rail station, in addition to a new rental car facility.
Los Angeles Daily News |
Anthony Rendon, former Head Start leader, takes over California Assembly
The state Assembly inducted a new Assembly speaker on Monday, ushering in a new era for a body that could see its leader hold office longer than any since the 1990s. Assemblyman Anthony Rendon of Lakewood could remain in office until 2024 under extended term limits voters approved in 2012. If he hangs on to his leadership post, that could make him the longest-serving speaker since the era without term limits. “During the short term-limited era, I think a tremendous amount of power sort of receded from the Assembly, from the Legislature, and the executive branch became more powerful,” Rendon told reporters after the Capitol ceremony.
Associated Press |
How an emergency declaration over L.A.'s homeless became a game of 'hot-potato keep-away'
In November, as a forecast of severe winter weather seemed to threaten Los Angeles' homeless population, activists clamoring for Mayor Eric Garcetti to declare a citywide state of emergency had little luck. Garcetti resisted the idea of an emergency proclamation — a move that would enable him to assume broader executive and police powers in the fight against homelessness — describing it as a "rabbit hole" that risked distracting from long-term solutions to the plight of thousands who live on L.A.'s streets. Some homeless activists found the mayor's inaction galling.
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