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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 25, 2016 |
Police Investigate Case Of Possible Deadly Road Rage In South L.A.
Police are investigating a case of possible road rage that left a man dead in South Los Angeles on Thursday. A silver SUV was approaching the intersection of Raymond Avenue and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard when another vehicle pulled up along side it about 5:30 p.m. Someone inside the second vehicle then opened fire, according to police. Investigators said the shooter fired five rounds, and the car took off. The victim was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
CBS 2
Video Doorbells Become First Lines Of Defense For Home Security In Local Neighborhood
A Santa Monica-based company has partnered with the Los Angeles Police Department to reduce home burglaries in a local neighborhood. And police said it has been effective.Ring makes smart doorbells with security cameras that enable users to monitor and protect their property from anywhere via their mobile devices. After noticing a spike in home burglaries in the Wilshire Park community, Ring donated video doorbells to residents there to help them keep an eye on their homes as part of a pilot program called ‘Ring Neighborhoods.' Six months after the high-tech peepholes were installed, “That neighborhood had a significant reduction of burglaries, approximately 55 percent,” Los Angeles police Capt. Vito Palazzolo said.
KCAL 9
Transient stabbed during Boyle Heights dispute
A transient was stabbed Thursday night during an argument with another transient in Boyle Heights. The stabbing on Fourth Street near the northbound Hollywood (101) Freeway was reported at about 7 p.m., said Sgt. Michael Castaneda of the Los Angeles Police Department's Hollenbeck Station. A witness told police the two men might have been friends but they got into an argument before one man stabbed the other in the chest, Castaneda said. The victim was taken to County-USC Medical Center for treatment of serious wounds, Castaneda said. The suspect fled the scene, Castaneda said.
MyNewsLA.com
Long delay in identifying the flight attendant who fled LAX raises security concerns
After a flight attendant allegedly tried to smuggle 70 pounds of cocaine through Los Angeles International Airport, authorities were unable to identify her until the next day even though her airline crew member's badge had been scanned at a security checkpoint moments before she fled, federal officials said. The information from Marsha Gay Reynolds' scanned badge was accessible only through a national Transportation Security Administration passenger database and could not be retrieved by investigators in Los Angeles after she ran Friday, authorities said.
Los Angeles Times
Inmate Who Walked Away from LA Re-Entry Facility Back in Custody
A man who walked away from a re-entry facility in Los Angles this week is back in custody, authorities announced Thursday. Daniel Coronel, 38, was taken into custody in Commerce on Wednesday afternoon, one day after walking out of the Male Community Re-entry Program (MCRP), according to a press release by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. The re-entry facility is a voluntary program which allows eligible male offenders committed to state prison to serve the end of their sentences in the center. Offenders are provided with programs and tools to transition from custody to the community, according to the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
NBC 4
San Gabriel Valley doctor agrees to plead guilty to drug trafficking
A San Gabriel Valley doctor agreed to plead guilty to a federal drug trafficking charge after illegally distributing the painkiller best known by the brand name Oxycontin, authorities said Thursday. Daniel Cham of Covina agreed to plead guilty to one count of distribution of oxycodone and one count of money laundering, according to the U.S. attorney's office in Los Angeles. Cham admitted to illegally prescribing oxycodone to an undercover agent who posed as a patient in March 2014 in exchange for $300 in money orders, according to the plea agreement. He then deposited the money orders into a bank account held in another business' name, the agreement said.
Los Angeles Times
Long Island Man's Heroic Efforts On LA Metro Train Go Viral
The next time you ride a train, there's one passenger you might want at your side. He's the Good Samaritan who subdued an aggressive rider in Los Angeles. "You always hear these instances where someone creates a disturbance but it never really escalates to anything," train hero Adrian Kaczmarek said. But on Saturday night, a shirtless man made the riders on a Los Angeles metro train very uneasy. "He went up against the guy with the bicycle literally where the guy had to have the bicycle up as a guard when he was punching and pushing through the bicycle, the women got knocked over and pushed over," Kaczmarek said.
ABC 7
'Concealing The Crimes Of His Deputies': Opening Statements In Tanaka Corruption Trial
In the summer of 2011, then Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department Undersheriff Paul Tanaka "had a scandal on his hands," federal prosecutor Brandon Fox told jurors in a downtown Los Angeles courtroom Thursday afternoon. Opening statements got underway in the public corruption trial of Tanaka with the prosecution painting a picture of him as a ruthless leader who tolerated and even encouraged misconduct by his deputies. Fox called it a culture that "defendant Paul Tanaka fostered and created."
ABC 7
Suspicious packages found on Metrolink train, bomb squad responds
Metrolink train service through Norwalk was stored after authorities "rendered safe'' two suspicious packages found this morning, an official said. The packages were found about 7:25 a.m. as dogs were being used to inspect packages, according to sheriff's Lt. Rich Maradiaga. Metrolink's Norwalk/Santa Fe Springs station was closed and a sheriff's arson/explosive detail was dispatched to the scene, according to Ramon Montenegro, a public information officer with the sheriff's Transit Policing Division.
FOX 11
You may be in California's gang database and not even know it
One mild fall evening, two deputies with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department's gang unit headed into the streets of Carson, California, where palm trees are tagged with gang graffiti and street signs in some neighborhoods are turned around or removed to confuse outsiders. The deputies, Jon Boden and Alfredo Garcia, had a big job to do. As part of the Operation Safe Streets Bureau, they were expected to get a handle on gang violence in the cities of Carson and Compton.
Center for Investigative Reporting
After USA TODAY NETWORK investigation, rape-kit reforms flood state legislatures
At least 20 states are pursuing reforms to the inconsistent ways rape kits are handled by law enforcement agencies after a USA TODAY NETWORK investigation last year revealed tens of thousands of rape evidence kits went untested nationwide. Legislatures have been flooded with a total of about 50 different bills in recent months — most introduced since the beginning of this year as lawmakers returned to statehouses for 2016 sessions — dealing with various aspects of how rape kits are handled by the criminal justice system. The proposals range including new funding for testing rape kits, audits of long-stored evidence and reducing the discretion police departments or officers have in deciding whether to submit rape evidence for testing by standardizing requirements, including setting time limits for submission to crime labs.
USA Today
Brussels attacks: Suspect wounded, arrested in Belgian police operation
Explosions and gunfire rang out Friday afternoon around Brussels -- the focal point in Europe's fight against terrorism following the bloody attacks there just three days ago. A major police operation took place in the Brussels district of Schaerbeek, the same area from which a taxi driver on Tuesday picked up three men and brought them to Brussels Airport. There, two of those carried out suicide bombings while authorities think the other escaped; about an hour later, a fresh blast rocked a train near the Maelbeek metro station.
CNN
LA Parking Restrictions Apparently Just As Puzzling To LADOT Engineers
Amid the discussion about using smartphone apps for parking in Los Angeles, engineers admitted they did not have a “comprehensive database” of which parking restrictions correspond with a particular street. In order to create an app that would give motorists a way of looking up parking restrictions with their smartphones, the city would need to hire a contractor to go down each street to take pictures or record each sign's contents, Los Angeles Department of Transportation parking management engineer Ken Husting told the City Council's Transportation Committee.
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Advocates and county residents ask for changes to Metro's $120-billion transit plan
Los Angeles County residents on Thursday had their first chance to address transportation officials about their ambitious, $120-billion plan to raise taxes and dramatically expand mass transit in the region. Much of the two hours of public testimony at the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's downtown headquarters focused on how quickly the agency could build and open major projects if the tax proposal were approved. The rough plan, released earlier this month, calls for more than three dozen mass transit and highway improvements over the next four decades, including a rail tunnel through the Sepulveda Pass, the San Fernando Valley's first light-rail line, and a series of extensions of existing routes.
Los Angeles Times |
LAFD Knocks Down Fire at Sun Valley Homeless Encampment; 2 Dead Dogs Found
Two dead dogs were found after Los Angeles firefighters knocked down a fire at a homeless encampment that sent towering flames into the air in Sun Valley on Thursday afternoon. The blaze was reported about 4:30 p.m. at 9545 N. El Dorado Ave., according to Margaret Stewart of the Los Angeles Fire Department. Stewart described the blaze as a "rubbish fire." It was burning underneath a overpass for San Fernando Road, she said. The fire was knocked down in 46 minutes by three dozen firefighters.
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