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Daily Local & Regional NewsWatch
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Daily Local & Regional NewsWatch
Daily News Digest
from LA Police Protective League
April 8, 2016 |
Man Who Tried to Stab Officers, Leads Police on Chase After Carjacking: Officials
An armed man was taken into custody Thursday after allegedly attempting to stab firefighters and police officers before carjacking a vehicle and leading police on a brief pursuit in the San Fernando Valley, officials said. Paramedics responded to a call of a possible mentally disabled man threatening to hurt himself at about 10:15 a.m. in the 20000 of West Saticoy Street near Witnnetka, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. When fire crews arrived at the scene, the man, armed with a knife, allegedly attempted to stab firefighters, LAPD said. When police confronted the man, he also tried to stab officers, police said.
NBC 4
LA's Latest Chase Has Some Wondering Why Officers Didn't Aggressively Pursue Suspects On The Ground
Even by Los Angeles' standards, Thursday's pursuit was unusual. It involved the burglary suspects doing “donuts” on rain-soaked Hollywood Boulevard. They then dangerously weaved through traffic on narrow roads in the Hollywood Hills. The vehicle came back down and traveled on the 101 Freeway where it narrowly missed a TMZ tour bus, according to footage. During most of the chase, though, police cars weren't visible. Why? The LAPD says the law enforcement agency didn't aggressively chase the suspects on the ground for most of the pursuit due to multiple factors. “Weather, time of day, the traffic, the pedestrians,” said LAPD Capt. Andy Neiman. “So we do something that's called tracking where the airship actually will follow the vehicle, the suspect, and the officers can back-off to quite a distance where the suspect doesn't even see them anymore.”
CBS 2
Family Pleads For Public To Help Find Gunman Who Killed 25-Year-Old Basketball Star
T he family of Wendell Lee pleaded with the public to provide any information that could lead to the gunman who killed him last year. It remains a mystery to the Lee family why a gunman murdered the 25-year-old basketball player. The family said the Lakers were interested in the budding star before he was shot to death outside of a friend's house in Willowbrook last September. The gunman remains at large, and the Lees stay steadfast, demanding people in the neighborhood to overcome any fears they have to help police catch the killer.
ABC 7
LAPD's first 'volunteer citizen patrol' to hit San Fernando Valley streets to battle property crime
Los Angeles police on Thursday formally introduced the department's first "volunteer citizen patrol," a 15-person pilot program based in the San Fernando Valley that officials hope will eventually spread across the city. The volunteers will not carry guns and won't take enforcement action, Los Angeles Police Department officials said. Instead, they will drive two city cars -- complete with lights and a police badge printed on the side -- through neighborhoods, particularly those hit by property crimes. If the volunteers see anything, they have radios to relay the information directly to police.
Los Angeles Times
4 injured in LAPD cruiser-vs.-Mercedes crash
Two Los Angeles police officers and two passengers in another vehicle were injured when that car allegedly ran a stop sign and slammed into a police cruiser that was on routine patrol, a sergeant said today. The collision took place about 8:40 p.m. at Halldale and Gage avenues in South Los Angeles, LAPD spokesman Ricardo Hernandez said. According to LAPD Sgt. Norma Vargas, the Mercedes Benz involved in the crash was traveling south on Halldale Avenue and then ran a stop sign at the intersection with Gage Avenue, where the Mercedes slammed into the police cruiser that was on routine patrol along Gage. Two officers and two people in the Mercedes were injured, with one of the persons in the Mercedes suffering a broken arm, Hernandez said. All four were treated at a hospital and released.
Los Angeles Daily News
Social Workers Charged in Death of 8-Year-Old Gabriel Fernandez
Four Southern California social workers have been charged with child abuse and falsifying public records in the beating death of 8-year-old Gabriel Fernandez three years ago. Social workers Stefanie Rodriguez, 30, and Patricia Clement, 65, and supervisors Kevin Bom, 36, and Gregory Merritt, 60, were each charged March 28 with one felony count each of child abuse and falsifying public records, according to the District Attorney's Office. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Sergio C. Tapia II rejected a request by defense attorneys to release the four on their own recognizance, noting that the charges are "serious" and involve a "situation where there was the death of a child,'' while acknowledging the four defendants voluntarily came to court and none has a criminal record.
NBC 4
City Attorney sues owners of buildings allegedly used by drug gangs
City Attorney Mike Feuer sued the owners of three South Los Angeles apartment complexes allegedly used by street gangs for drug sales and other criminal activity, Feuer announced Thursday. The buildings are on West 82nd Street. Two of them are used by the 18th Street street gang, and the third is controlled by the Hoover gang, according to city attorneys. The lawsuits — filed Wednesday — ask the court to order the owners of the buildings to boost security, surveillance and screening on the premises in an effort to crack down on alleged gang activity there. Feuer said his office has filed 39 similar actions since he took office in 2013. He said the lawsuits are an attempt at “taking back this neighborhood from the gangs and returning it to the residents who live there.”
City News Service
Tanaka faces maximum sentence for going to trial, former prosecutor says
Paul Tanaka's position as former undersheriff of Los Angeles County could work against him when it comes to determining his prison sentence, according to a former federal prosecutor. “Federal sentencing guidelines advise that organizers or leaders of criminal activity and those who abuse positions of public trust be punished more severely than others, which suggests that Mr. Tanaka could be punished more severely than the deputies, sergeants and lieutenants previously convicted in this investigation,” former federal prosecutor Joseph N. Akrotirianakis, who prosecuted public corruption cases, said in an interview. Tanaka faces a maximum of 15 years in federal prison when he is sentenced on June 20 after a federal jury found him guilty of conspiracy and obstruction of justice Wednesday.
Los Angeles Daily News
CHP Catching Distracted Drivers From The Sky
The California Highway Patrol has been catching distracted drivers from the sky. The law enforcement agency Thursday allowed CBS2 inside one of its patrol planes as it flew 1,000 feet in the air over the 15 Freeway in search of speeding motorists and distracted drivers. “Most people don't, they don't event see us,” said CHP Officer David Sandidge. Once a driver is spotted, the pilot will radio-down to ground patrol, who will then locate the driver and pulled them over. The month of April is dedicated to Distracted Driving Awareness.
CBS 2
Criminal hackers now target hospitals, police stations and schools
Three weeks ago, a debilitating digital virus spread quickly in computer networks at three Southern California hospitals owned by Prime Healthcare Services. Using a pop-up window, hackers demanded about $17,000 in the hard-to-trace cybercurrency called Bitcoin to destroy the virus they had implanted. The virus had encrypted medical and other data so it was impossible to access. The company says it defeated the cyberattack without paying a ransom. But it acknowledged some cancer patients were temporarily prevented from receiving radiology treatments, and other operations were disrupted briefly while computer systems were down.
Los Angeles Times
California nonprofits barred from advising on prison savings
Legislators voted Thursday to try to change California law because a state board is discouraging nonprofits from helping decide how to spend millions of dollars saved by a recent reduction in penalties for some crimes. The Board of State and Community Corrections will distribute nearly two-thirds of the projected $29 million saved by reducing prison and jail sentences under Proposition 47. The initiative approved by nearly 60 percent of voters in 2014 lowered several property and drug crimes from felonies to misdemeanors.
Associated Press
New California marijuana czar on pot use: 'It appears there is a medical need'
Lori Ajax has two years to set up California's first system to license, regulate and tax medical marijuana. Gov. Jerry Brown recently appointed the Republican to become the first chief of the Bureau of Medical Marijuana Regulation. Ajax, 51, was previously chief deputy director at the California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control, where she worked in various positions since 1995. In her new role, she faces a moving target: California voters are likely to vote on an initiative in November that would legalize recreational use of marijuana.
Los Angeles Times
Rifles on campus: College security forces add firepower
Once a rarity on campuses, semi-automatic rifles are becoming a standard part of the arsenal for college security forces — firepower they say could make a difference the next time a gunman goes on a rampage. The weapons are rarely seen in public and often kept stashed in cruisers or department headquarters, and many schools won't talk about them. But federal data and Associated Press interviews and requests for records reveal that at least 100 U.S. college police forces, and probably many more, have added rifles over the past decade.
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Illegal dwellings could get amnesty under LA proposal
The Los Angeles City Council‘s Housing Committee backed a proposal Wednesday to grant amnesty to existing illegal dwelling units at multi-family complexes as long as certain affordability requirements are met. The proposed ordinance would give owners of multi-family complexes a path toward making their unapproved units legal through following a set of requirements, one of which is to make one additional unit on the property affordable for very low, low or moderate income households for at least 55 years. The measure is aimed at preserving housing units at risk of being taken off the market amid a housing crisis in Los Angeles, with city officials estimating that 400-500 units are eliminated each year following inspections of multi-family units.
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Homelessness
Housing Complex In MacArthur Park Opens For Homeless Veterans, The Disabled
A grand opening was held Thursday for an apartment complex in MacArthur Park that houses homeless veterans and the disabled. The 52-unit building at 811 South Carondelet Street is called The Six, inspired by an old military expression of “got your six,” which means “I've got your back.” It features solar panels and on-site support services catering to the tenants' health and wellness, according to the developer of Skid Row Housing Trust. “The light that comes into the interior building works to mitigate the effects of PTSD, which most homeless people experience at some point,” Trust CEO Mike Alvidrez said.
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