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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 11, 2016 |
LAPD & LA Sheriff's Department Command Staff Criticized for Handling of Wild LA Police Pursuit A nearly two hour police pursuit was allowed to occur last week. During the pursuit, two felony burglary suspects put thousands of lives in danger as they swerved recklessly through traffic, did doughnuts in intersections, posed for "selfies" and ended the pursuit in celebration in a residential neighborhood. Craig Lally, President of the Los Angeles Police Protective League, criticized the decisions of command staff from both the LAPD and the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Office in their timid pursuit and delayed arrests of the suspects. LAPPL (Video from KTLA 5)
Woman Found Stabbed To Death In South LA Apartment
Police are investigating the fatal stabbing of a woman in South Los Angeles, according to officers of the Los Angeles Police Department. Authorities responded to a call of a man causing trouble in the 1000 block of W. 83rd Street shortly after 2:45 p.m. Saturday afternoon. Upon arrival, officers found a woman, believed to be about 40 years old, stabbed to death in an apartment in the area, according to the LAPD. Investigators could not confirm whether both incidents were related. No suspect description was available as the investigation was ongoing.
ABC 7
Beloved Worker Found Bound And Fatally Shot Inside Laundromat In South Los Angeles
A laundromat manager was found bound and fatally shot Saturday inside the South Los Angeles business, authorities said. Paramedics were dispatched at 12:21 a.m. to the 7300 block of South Figueroa Street on a report of a person down, according to Margaret Stewart of the Los Angeles Fire Department. According to sources at the scene, the discovery of the body was made by an employee who had apparently lived at the business. The LAPD later confirmed the victim was an employee-manager of the laundromat, Darren Clark.
KCAL 9
4 shot in South L.A. while setting up for barbecue, police say
Four people who were setting up a barbecue in front of a South Los Angeles home were struck by gunfire Sunday morning, police said. Multiple gunmen approached a home near 84th Street and Towne Avenue and opened fire about 9:45 a.m., LAPD Sgt. Scott Blackman said. The four victims were taken to a hospital in serious condition, police said. The Florence neighborhood shooting was believed to be related to gang activity in the area, police said. None of the assailants have been taken into custody.
Los Angeles Times
Man With Gunshot Wounds Dies in Liquor Store
A 33-year-old father of two suffering from a gunshot wound stumbled into a liquor store and died Saturday in South Los Angeles in a possible gang-related shooting. "A clerk at a liquor store heard a gunshot and saw the victim come in," said Officer Mike Lopez of the LAPD's Media Relations Section. Police were notified about 11:30 a.m. of the shooting in the area of Vermont Avenue and 64th Street, Lopez said. The man was identified by the coroner's office as Charles Nevils of Los Angeles. "I would like for the world to know he was a very, very, very good person," said his sister Valerie Nevils. Added Quintivia Abner, his niece: "He was a good father. He was a good uncle. So for somebody to kill him like this out here in the street wasn't right. We need justice."
NBC 4
Man Fatally Shot by Police Was Allegedly Holding Elderly Victim at Knifepoint in Boyle Heights
A man who was allegedly holding an elderly victim at knifepoint was fatally shot by officers in Boyle Heights, police confirmed Monday. The incident took place in the 1400 block of Gabriel Carcia Marquez Street at about 8:20 p.m. Sunday night, said Lt. Alex Baez with the Los Angeles Police Department. Officers were responding to a burglary call when they confronted a man inside of an apartment, Baez said. An elderly man was being held at knifepoint by the alleged burglar and an officer opened fire, said Sgt. A. Aldegarie with the Police Department.
KTLA 5
Family ID's Body of Woman Found Off Freeway
The family of a 19-year-old woman whose body was found near the 110 Freeway just north of Vernon Avenue spoke out Friday night. The deceased young woman was identified by family members Friday as Evelyn Fajardo. Evelyn's body was found Tuesday under brush next to the 110 Freeway. "I don't want to believe it. I want to think that she's going to text me, tell me that she's gonna come," said Maria Fajardo, Evelyn's sister.Coroner's officials did not say how she died or reveal the condition of the body.
NBC 4
Police seek clues after driver shot in Van Nuys
Los Angeles detectives were searching for clues after a man driving a van was shot in the leg and wounded in the Van Nuys area early Sunday morning, authorities said. The man was driving a van at or near Saticoy Street and Gloria Avenue around 2:30 a.m. when “several rounds were fired” and he was hit by one of them, said Lt. Richard Tompkins of LAPD's West Valley Division. A Van Nuys Division officer noticed the damaged van driving erratically several blocks away. Officers then stopped the vehicle, detained the driver and discovered he had been shot, he said. West Valley Division officers also responded to the scene and is the primary entity handling the investigation, Tompkins said.
Los Angeles Daily News
Horse beaten, shot and left on Sylmar street, authorities say
The Los Angeles Police Department's Animal Cruelty Task Force was investigating the death of horse whose carcass was found beaten and shot in the middle of a public street near Sylmar in the San Fernando Valley. The dead animal was found about 10:30 a.m. Saturday laying in the 11700 block of Kagel Canyon Road, according to Detective Eric Bixler of the LAPD's Foothill Division. "Sometime between midnight and 7 a.m., someone beat and/or killed a horse and left it with its tail tied to a telephone pole with a rope,'' Bixler said. "This was done intentionally and maliciously. "It's very strange, this whole thing.''
FOX 11
Mexican Mafia, El Monte gang members guilty of federal racketeering charges
Two leaders of El Monte's primary street gang, one of whom is also a Mexican Mafia member, pleaded guilty to federal racketeering charges this week after admitting their roles in violently extorting “tax” payments from local drug and fraudulent document dealers, authorities announced Saturday. Mexican Mafia and El Monte Flores member James “Chemo” Gutierrez, 53, along with El Monte Flores “shotcaller” Kenneth Cofer, 36, both of El Monte, accepted plea deals Thursday in federal court in Los Angeles in connection with a 61-count indictment targeting 41 members of the El Monte Flores gang that was unsealed in July of 2014, U.S. Department of Justice officials said in a written statement.
Los Angeles Daily News
2 Women Sentenced in Shooting Death of Young Father Outside Church
Two women were sentenced to lengthy prison terms Friday in connection with the killing of a man outside a church in the Westlake district four years ago. A Los Angeles Superior Court judge sentenced Janeth Lopez, 25, to 40 years to life in prison and Ivy Navarrete, 34, to 60 years to life for their involvement in the 2012 shooting death of 25-year-old Andrez Ordonez. Both women were convicted last year of one count each of second-degree murder, attempted murder and vandalism. According to prosecutors, on Nov. 4, 2012, Lopez was spray-painting the walls of the Principe de Paz church in the 3000 block of West Beverly Boulevard at about 6:30 p.m. when Ordonez and another member of the church left services to ask what she was doing.
NBC 4
As Esteban Nuñez nears release from prison, victim's family remains outraged
The slain student's mother did the math a long time ago, so the news she recently received — that convicted killer Esteban Nuñez would soon go free after less than six years in prison — came as no real surprise. That makes it no easier, Kathy Santos said, to know that a high-level political favor is sending him home at age 27, as her son lies in a grave. “It makes you sick that something like this can happen, and you have no power,” said Santos, whose 22-year-old son, Luis, a San Diego Mesa College student, was killed by a knife to the heart.
Los Angeles Times
FBI's LA Chief Moving On With D.C. Promotion
The FBI's top man in Los Angeles is heading back to Washington, with a promotion after some challenging years dealing with terrorism and government corruption in Southern California. David Bowdich has been assistant director in charge of the FBI's Los Angeles Field Office since 2014, serving as the face of high-profile investigations like the San Bernardino terror attack and the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department corruption case. Now he's heading to FBI headquarters in D.C., with a promotion to associate deputy director.
ABC 7
What's the Impact of Local Gun Laws?
California voters could be asked this fall to approve new statewide gun restrictions if an initiative championed by Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom qualifies for the ballot. Some California cities aren't waiting to enact a key provision of the law — a ban on possessing magazines capable of holding more than 10 rounds. But it's hard to measure what, if any, difference these so-called high-capacity magazine bans make in curbing day-to-day gun violence common on the streets of major California cities. The state has banned the sale and import of such magazines since 2000, but any owned before that are grandfathered in. Newsom's initiative would ban their possession, and anyone who owns an 11-plus round magazine would be required to get rid of it within about nine months or be guilty of a crime.
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NFL News
How the Rams' Inglewood Stadium affects business at the Rose Bowl, LA Coliseum
You can thank the NFL for the three-day music festival coming to Pasadena next year. The nearly 100-year-old Rose Bowl Stadium, once sought as a possible home for an NFL team, passed on the league after voters and officials agreed that it wouldn't be a good fit. But now, the ramifications of that decision are playing out, as it will face an increasingly competitive market for concerts and special events when the $1.9?billion NFL stadium in Inglewood opens in 2019. “There will be very significant competition,” said Darryl Dunn, the general manager of the Rose Bowl. Pasadena officials hope the festival planned for June?2017 will make up for the potential loss of business.
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