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Daily Local & Regional NewsWatch
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Daily Local & Regional NewsWatch
Daily News Digest
from LA Police Protective League
March 24, 2016 |
California crime on the rise
After a decades-long decline in violent and property crime, early indications from cities across California point to a significant increase in lawbreaking. In California's 68 largest cities, violent crime jumped 11 percent in the first six months of 2015 compared to the same period in 2014. Among major U.S. cities, three California cities saw the largest increase in property crime in the country. Crime rates fluctuate year to year, and there has been no definitive research to date showing a relationship between crime trends and Proposition 47. But many law enforcement officials across the state have voiced concern that Proposition 47 may be to blame.
CALmatters.com
Transgender Woman Shot To Death In Skid Row Domestic Dispute
A transgender woman was shot to death during a domestic dispute on Skid Row Wednesday afternoon, Los Angeles police said. Officials said the shooting happened on East 5th Avenue and South San Pedro Street at about 1:20 p.m. The Los Angeles Police Department stated the shooting was during a domestic dispute. The suspected shooter ran from the scene, but was caught and held by a private security team until police could take him into custody.
ABC 7
Armed Man Barricaded in Vehicle in El Pollo Loco Parking Lot in Northridge
An armed man was barricaded in a van in a Northridge parking lot Wednesday before he apparently shot himself. LAPD officers responded to an El Pollo Loco parking lot at Balboa Boulevard and Nordhoff Street. Fire officials first responded to a report of a possible overdose. When they arrived, a man became uncooperative and had a gun, officials said. The shopping center was evacuated, and SWAT teams were called to assist at 5:30 p.m. After longer than an hour, the man apparently shot himself inside the vehicle.
NBC 4
Feuer secures injunction against alleged gang and narcotics den
Los Angeles City Attorney Mike Feuer's office has filed a narcotics and gang-related nuisance abatement lawsuit against the owner of a South Los Angeles apartment complex. The buildings allegedly had become a heavily-fortified gang stronghold for crack cocaine production and sales. “It's completely unacceptable that just down the street from a middle school, this allegedly gang-controlled apartment complex is a source of crime and drugs in this neighborhood,” Feuer said.
Beverly Press
How aerial surveillance has changed policing — and crime — in Los Angeles.
The air-support division of the Los Angeles Police Department operates out of a labyrinthine building on Ramirez Street in the city's downtown, near the Los Angeles River. A looming mass of utilitarian architecture tucked beside the 101 Freeway, the complex appears to have no real public face; here the view from the street matters little. Instead, like much of the city around it, the air-support division makes more sense when seen from above. The division began with a single helicopter in 1956, and it now has 19 in all, augmented by a King Air fixed-wing plane. The aircrews operate in a state of constant readiness, with at least two helicopters in flight at any given time for 21 hours of every day.
New York Times
Flight Attendant Accused of Ditching Cocaine Luggage Arrested
A flight attendant who fled a security check — allegedly leaving behind 68 pounds of cocaine and her Gucci shoes — was in custody Wednesday, NBC News reported. Marsha Gay Reynolds, 32, a former Jamaican beauty queen, surrendered in New York and was charged with possession of cocaine with intent to distribute in a federal criminal complaint. Court papers did not say what airline employed Reynolds, but a source told NBC News she worked for Jet Blue. The suspect went on the lam Friday night after she showed up for a flight out of Los Angeles International Airport and was selected for a random screening.
NBC 4
L.A. to pay nearly $6.9 million in police shooting that left man paralyzed
For years, Los Angeles had waged a legal battle that ultimately went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, trying to overturn a verdict to pay $5.7 million to a man who was shot by police. City attorneys argued that officers were justified in shooting Robert Contreras, who was fleeing a van that witnesses had linked to a drive-by shooting in South L.A. During that trial four years ago, a U.S. district judge did not allow city lawyers to tell jurors that Contreras was a known gang member and that another man in the van told investigators that Contreras had gotten out of the vehicle armed with a gun, according to records obtained earlier by The Times. An internal police inquiry had cleared the officers of wrongdoing.
Los Angeles Times
Construction worker's fatal fall from a downtown high-rise is ruled a suicide
The death of a man who fell from the 53rd floor of the downtown Los Angeles Wilshire Grand construction site last week has been ruled a suicide, the county coroner said Thursday. It was Joseph Sabbatino's second day on the job as an electrician at the construction site when he plunged to his death and landed on a moving car March 17. The driver of the car was uninjured. Sabbatino, 36, had been depressed and struggling to find a stable career, his father, Vance Sabbatino, told KABC.
Los Angeles Times
Man With Children Busted Delivering Suitcase Filled With Meth, Police Say
A man who had two children with him when he allegedly delivered a suitcase filled with methamphetamine was arrested during a sting operation in El Monte last week, law enforcement officials said Wednesday. Simi Valley Police Department officers working with DEA agents made the bust last Thursday, seizing 30 pounds from Antonio Morales of Los Angeles during an undercover operation, a news release from the SVPD said. Police say Morales had two children in the vehicle with him when the drug transaction took place. He was arrested and booked on drug and child endangerment charges.
NBC 4
L.A. County judge disciplined over treatment of defense attorney
A California agency overseeing judges' discipline censured a Los Angeles County judge Wednesday, saying he had abused his authority and mistreated a defense attorney. The Commission on Judicial Performance issued a six-page public admonishment of Judge Patrick E. Connolly of the Compton Courthouse. “Judge Connolly,” the commission wrote, “violated his duty to respect and comply with the law.” The discipline stemmed from a 2010 mayhem and assault trial, which Connolly presided over, according to a case summary included in the admonishment.
Los Angeles Times
Get an inside look at a secret TSA training exercise at LAX
Steve Gregory, a reporter from KFI in Los Angeles was recently granted exclusive access to a secret TSA explosives training exercise at LAX. The all day event was designed to train the LAPD and Camp Pendleton Bomb Squads how to deal with specific threats at an airport. Steve Gregory joined Bill Handel this morning to talk about his experience with the TSA explosives training exercise at LAX and how attacks like Brussels help the trainers refine their methods of detection.
KFI 640
Brussels attack: Man wanted in subway bombing
Five terrorists -- three dead, two whose fates are unknown. So far, that's how many people that authorities say played a part in Tuesday's terror attacks in Brussels, Belgium, that killed 31 people and injured 270. Two were allegedly involved in bombing a train near the Maelbeek metro station. Of them, one has been identified as Khalid El Bakraoui, who died in that suicide attack. And on Thursday, a senior Belgian security source told CNN that authorities believe a second, unnamed person was also involved in that blast.
CNN
Port of L.A. helped pay for cleaner China Shipping vessels--which later stopped docking in L.A.
The Port of Los Angeles paid a Chinese government-owned shipping company $5 million in 2005 to equip cargo vessels to plug into electric shore power while at dock to keep their massive diesel engines from polluting neighborhoods near the harbor. The company, China Shipping, used the money to upgrade 17 ships, but the city didn't get all the promised environmental benefits. Most of the vessels stopped traveling to Los Angeles in 2010, a Times review of shipping industry data showed.
Los Angeles Times
Huizar: More bike lanes, changes could come to downtown LA
Protected bike lanes, pedestrian-friendly upgrades and other changes could be coming to a two-mile stretch of Main and Spring streets in downtown Los Angeles, Los Angeles City Councilman Jose Huizar announced Wednesday. The city will hire a consultant to look into ways to reconfigure the two streets between Cesar Chavez Avenue and Olympic Boulevard, Huizar said. Huizar said the project is part of a series of measures catering to the needs of pedestrians and bicyclists that he hopes to launch under his DTLA Forward initiative in downtown. The protected bike lanes would feature physical barriers between bicyclists and vehicle traffic.
MyNewsLA.com |
LA City Hall weighs new taxes or fees to combat homelessness
Will voters agree to pay higher taxes to help Los Angeles' homeless? That's the question at Los Angeles City Hall, where politicians are considering a new tax to raise nearly $2 billion to help the homeless. At an LA City Council committee meeting Wednesday, more than a dozen ideas to raise revenue to curb homelessness were unveiled, including one that would increase fees on the wealthy who sell real estate property. Many council members at the meeting suggested they're willinging to seek out new taxes or fees, saying the public wants action. Homelessness has risen 12 percent in the last few years and sprawling encampments are visible from North Hollywood to San Pedro.
Los Angeles Daily News |
Republicans blast Democratic plan to earmark funds for potential L.A. Olympics
A proposal by Senate leader Kevin de León (D-Los Angeles) to provide up to $250 million in financial guarantees as part of Los Angeles' bid for the 2024 Summer Olympics drew strong opposition Wednesday from Republicans. A bill introduced by De León would create an Olympic Games trust fund to help cover up to $250 million in cost overruns if Los Angeles was selected to host the Games and then went over a proposed $6-billion budget. “Hosting the games in California is expected to generate billions of dollars for the state's economy,” states the text of De Leon's bill. It also notes the organizing committee “has developed a self-sufficient bid and plan for financing the games that is based on realistic and conservative revenue scenarios.”
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