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Daily Local & Regional NewsWatch
Daily News Digest
from LA Police Protective League
April 27, 2016 |
Reserve Officer Gives Airline Miles To Illinois Boy Whose Dad Dies During Their Vacation In LA
A reserve officer gave his airline reward miles to an Illinois boy whose father died Sunday while they were vacationing in Los Angeles. The Los Angeles Police Department said Juan Fernandez, 37, apparently died of natural causes about 12:15 p.m. Sunday. His 13-year-old son has no relatives in L.A. and had a problem flying back home to Illinois. “Officers contacted Southwest Airlines to reschedule the son's return flight, because he had missed his earlier flight due to his father's death and the investigation,” according to an LAPD statement. “Southwest Airlines was having difficulty rescheduling the return flight.”
CBS 2
Police to Announce $50,000 Reward in Fatal Westlake District Stabbing
A $50,000 reward will be offered Wednesday in the search for attackers in a fight last year in which a 23-year-old man was stabbed to death in the Westlake district of Los Angeles. Oscar Lazo, 23, was involved in a fight with other men at about 10 p.m. last June 23 in the area of Rockwood Street and Union Avenue and died at the scene, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. No weapon was recovered. It was not immediately clear how many people were involved in the fight or what led to the confrontation. Portions of surveillance video of the melee will be released at a news conference Wednesday at the LAPD's Rampart Station, where detectives will discuss the reward and appeal to the public for tips about the suspects.
NBC 4
Jane Doe Found Near Manson Killings Finally Identified
Los Angeles police have identified the body of a woman found stabbed 150 times in 1969 near the site of the Manson family killings as a 19-year-old from Montreal, People magazine reported Wednesday. Police have identified the woman as Reet Jurvetson, who moved to Los Angeles from Montreal the year she was killed, according to People. Los Angeles police Detective Luis Rivera told the magazine that investigators can't rule out that the Manson family was involved in the killing. He said the best lead police have is a man known as "John," whom Jurvetson met in Toronto before flying to Los Angeles to see him the summer of 1969.
Associated Press
Sex ad for teen girl was undercover fake; ‘Not guilty' expected
A San Pedro “daddy” who allegedly responded to an undercover fake Internet advertisement offering sex with a 13-year-old girl is expected to plead not guilty Wednesday to a federal sex trafficking charge. Special agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Homeland Security Investigations and other law enforcement agencies posted an online advertisement using coded language in a ruse offering sex with young girls, according to an affidavit filed in the case. When Crouch allegedly responded to the advertisement, he was told by an undercover law enforcement agent that one of the girls advertised was “Cassie,” a 13-year-old. Crouch sought to have oral sex with her in exchange for $60, prosecutors said.
MyNewsLA.com
Attorney: LA police captain deserves $5M in damages
A Los Angeles police captain deserves up to $5 million in damages because his promotion was delayed for complaining about Chief Charlie Beck‘s alleged expectation that all officers sent to Board of Rights hearings for serious misconduct should be fired, the captain's attorney told a jury Tuesday. However, Deputy City Attorney Douglas Lyon said no captain was ever urged to recommend an officer be fired unless the evidence supported it. Lyon said he believed the city had no liability in Capt. Byford “Peter” Whittingham's case, but that if the panel was inclined to award any money the maximum should be $50,000.
MyNewsLA.com
Los Angeles City Jail Where Al Capone Once Bunked Set for Makeover
A dingy former Los Angeles city jail, once home to Al Capone, the site of numerous film and TV shoots and the subject of urban legend, is set for a makeover as city officials are asking developers for ideas on how to revamp it. City officials published a notice seeking input for the Lincoln Heights Jail, a 24,000-square foot Art Deco-style building wedged between the LA River and West Avenue 19 north of downtown. Interested developers are expected to respond with ideas by May 13. Built for $5 million in 1927, it held thousands of scofflaws, drunks, petty thieves and murderers throughout its more than 34 years as a "gray bar motel."
NBC 4
Inmate Charged In Murder Of Huntington Beach Woman Found In Ice Chest
A man already serving prison time has been arrested and charged in connection to the murder of a 19-year-old woman whose body was found stuffed inside an ice chest in a stolen vehicle in unincorporated Whittier last year, authorities said. Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies say Anthony Moreno, 38, shot and killed Dawn McEveety at a residence in the 11900 block of 183rd Street in Artesia on Nov. 24, 2015. The Huntington Beach woman's body was found five days later in an abandoned 1991 Toyota Celica near the 8600 block of Bradwell Avenue in unincorporated Whittier.
ABC 7
What's wrong with our anti-gang battle? LA County readies overhaul
The Board of Supervisors Tuesday directed county staffers to re-evaluate anti-gang tactics employed over the last two decades under a partnership with the Los Angeles Police Department. Supervisors Hilda Solis and Sheila Kuehl proposed taking a second look at the Community Law Enforcement and Recovery program, known as CLEAR. “We need to have more inclusivity,” Solis said. Kuehl said she was reminded of outdated efforts to solve student truancy by handing out tickets to offenders, rather than looking at the underlying issues driving absences. Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas said the multi-agency program — aimed at “recovery of gang-infested communities” — was adopted in 1997, when he was a Los Angeles City Council member.
City News Service
At least a dozen people in the Sacramento area have fatally overdosed on a pill disguised to look like a popular painkiller, and now the drug has turned up in the San Francisco Bay Area
Fourteen people in the Sacramento, California, area have fatally overdosed on a pill disguised as a popular painkiller, and now the drug has turned up in the San Francisco Bay Area. Bay Area hospitals have treated seven patients who ingested what they thought was the painkiller Norco in recent weeks, according to a report released Tuesday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The patients all survived, though at least some experienced nausea, vomiting and difficulty breathing. The pills were adulterated with fentanyl, the powerful opioid. Sacramento County health officials have reported 52 Norco-connected poisonings since late March, with 12 of those cases resulting in deaths. Neighboring Yolo County reported another two deaths.
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City Government News
Studio City neighborhood election roiled by electioneering accusations
It is a job with scant power and no paycheck. Yet in Studio City, the question of who will win spots on its neighborhood council has become a bitter slugfest, a political drama that has gone all the way to the Los Angeles city attorney's office. Two candidates who edged out their rivals for spots on the San Fernando Valley neighborhood group are poised to be booted from the race over accusations of electioneering. The rare decision would upend the election, replacing winners Patrice Berlin and Eric Preven with two other candidates who got fewer votes — including an incumbent they had sharply criticized.
Los Angeles Times
Price of doing business: Developer pays $1.2M for Van Nuys park
It's the price of doing business in Los Angeles. One of the biggest home developers in the nation paid $1.2 million to build a one-third acre park in Van Nuys as part of a deal with the city of Los Angeles to construct nearby new housing – and it was finally time to cut the ribbon Tuesday on the new green space. City officials cut the ceremonial ribbon on the community park next to the new Greenwood Square housing development in Van Nuys. Greenwood Square Park, which includes a playground and walking path, is located near Hazeltine Avenue Elementary School. The builder of the housing development, KB Homes, set aside land and paid for improvements for the 0.33-acre park under an agreement with the city. Councilman Paul Krekorian, who represents the area, said he used a provision of the Quimby Act to request that KB Homes provide land and money to build the park.
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