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Daily Local & Regional NewsWatch
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Daily Local & Regional NewsWatch
Daily News Digest
from LA Police Protective League
May 3, 2016 |
2-Year-Old Stabbed to Death, Mother Critical After Savage Attack in South Los Angeles Home
Police were searching Monday night for the assailant who fatally stabbed a 2-year-old girl and left her mother in critical condition at a home in South Los Angeles. A call came in to police around 9:50 p.m. of stabbing victims inside a home in the 3500 block of Arlington Avenue, according to Sgt. Carlton Brown with the Los Angeles Police Department. The toddler was pronounced dead at the hospital, Brown said. Police had initially stated that the little girl had not been injured in the attack. Her mother, described as a black woman in her 30s, was transported in critical condition with multiple stab wounds, according to Brown. The assailant was still at large.
KTLA 5
2 Injured During Home Invasion Robbery In North Hills
Police Tuesday searched for at least four home invasion robbery suspects in the North Hills area. According to the Los Angeles Police Department, the incident took place around 12:30 a.m. at a home located in the 9900 block of Sepulveda Boulevard. The suspects pistol-whipped an adult man and woman inside of the home. Both victims subsequently sustained head injuries. Two other adults were inside of the residence when the robbery took place, but they managed to escape unharmed. Detectives described the suspects as African American men who were last seen wearing white T-shirts.
KCAL 9
Driver From Bizarre Hollywood Chase Arrested Again In Suspected Road Rage Incident
The driver who led authorities on a bizarre chase through Hollywood in a Mustang convertible last month is behind bars again for an alleged road rage incident. On surveillance video, a motorcycle rider is shown using the front wheel to push a man backward down a street on the UCLA campus. Suddenly the person hits the gas and the victim, spinning him around and knocking him to the ground. The incident happened on April 16. Campus police said the suspect, who was riding a Suzuki, ran into an SUV. When the victim tried to call police, the rider allegedly tried to take the victim's phone before a confrontation broke out.
ABC 7
Families Of Two Teenage Best Friends Who Drowned In L.A. River Share Stories And Tears
The two families gathered in a cramped apartment in Highland Park, sharing stories and tears about two boys whose bodies were pulled from a river that, even in drought, never stops running. Gustavo Ramirez, 15, and Carlos Daniel Jovel, 16, were best friends, Carlos' mother, Reina Ardon, said Monday from inside her home, where the walls are lined with photos of her smiling son, the youngest of her two children. Police said the pair may have ended up in the Los Angeles River after one fell in and his friend tried to save him, Los Angeles Police Sgt. Frank Preciado said Monday, based on accounts from two other teenagers who were with them at the time.
Los Angeles Times
11-Year-Old Girl Found After Going Missing in Granada Hills
An 11-year-old girl was found Monday afternoon after going missing earlier in the day in Granada Hills. Elizabeth "Lizzy" Peralejo was last seen about 6:45 a.m. in the 11400 block of Hayvenhurst Avenue, the Los Angeles Police Department reported. Foul play was not suspected, police said. More than two dozen civilian volunteers searched the area where she was last seen.
NBC/City News Service
Plastic-wrap murder mystery: Victim shot, then dumped in Burbank
Burbank Police detectives were looking Tuesday for whoever gunned down a 30-year-old North Hollywood man, then wrapped his body in plastic before dumping him in an open field near a Burbank lumber yard. The body of Nshan Balyan was found behind Stock Lumber at 640 N. Victory Blvd. at 12:35 p.m. Thursday, said Burbank police Sgt. Claudio Losacco. He was shot multiple times and was the victim of homicide, said Los Angeles County coroner's Lt. Larry Dietz. Officers responded and found the corpse with only the feet exposed, Losacco said. “The Burbank Police Department is handling this case as a homicide investigation,” Losacco said. “Detectives do not believe Balyan was killed at the location (where) he was found. We have not determined where Balyan died.”
City News Service
Burglars In Whittier Steal Little Boy's Only Way To Communicate With The World
Someone broke into a Whittier family's car and didn't take money in the cup holder or even the pricey radio. The thief stole an electronic device — it looks like a tablet — but it helps a boy with cerebral palsy communicate with the world. Zachary Bernal's family is naturally anxious and desperate to get the device back. They spoke to KCAL9's Andrea Fujii Monday evening. For most of Zachary's life his parents had to guess what he was trying to say. “He could get frustrated, he couldn't let us know what he wanted,” says his mother, Kristy. Born with cerebral palsy, communication has been hard for the 10-year-old. It was hard, until last October when his school loaned him a computer device that could speak for him.
CBS 2
FBI Asks For Help ID'ing 'Knuckles Bandit'
The FBI was asking for the public's help identifying a bank robber they've nicknamed the Knuckles Bandit because of the tattoos on his knuckles. The bank robber is wanted in a string of heists in the San Fernando Valley and Pasadena area stretching from November 2015 to January 2016, the FBI said on Monday. During the robberies, he showed the teller a note demanding cash, and in one of the heists threated to have a gun. The FBI says there could be more than one man behind the robberies. In surveillance images, the robber, or robbers, can be seen wearing hooded-sweatshirts along with hats or beanies.
NBC 4
Freeway Skateboarding Social Media Challenge 'Reckless': CHP
The California Highway Patrol is hoping a new potentially dangerous trend doesn't gain any more traction on social media after videos posted show people jumping out of cars on Southern California freeways and skateboarding in the middle of traffic. "I am hoping it's not a trend that picks up. We want to get ahead of it," Jose Nunez, sergeant with the CHP, said. Pro-skater Nakel Smith can be seen in one such video on the 110 freeway skating right behind another car in traffic. His manager told NBC4 Nakel absolutely is not encouraging anyone to do this. But it doesn't mean it's going unnoticed. "Are they endangering people? The answer is yes," Nunez said. The CHP said lives are at risk, whether it's the pranksters or drivers trying to avoid them.
NBC 4
Ex-FBI Agent Admits Stealing $136,000 for Sports Cars, Cosmetic Surgery
A former FBI agent on Monday admitted to stealing more than $136,000 in drug money which he used to pay for a pair of sports cars and his wife's cosmetic surgery, authorities said. Scott M. Bowman, once assigned to the bureau's Los Angeles field office, also admitted to filing false reports and to tampering with a witness in attempt to cover his tracks, according to federal prosecutors. Bowman, a 10-year-veteran of the FBI, stole money seized during the execution of search warrants in the summer of 2014 when he worked on a gang task force based in San Bernardino, east of Los Angeles, according to prosecutors. He spent more than $43,000 on a Dodge Challenger, $27,500 on a Scion FRS and another $26,612 to outfit the cars with new speakers, rims and tires. The surgery for his wife cost $15,000, according to prosecutors.
CNN Wire
Drug tunnelers often found, so smugglers cutting costs
In just a single month this spring, U.S. immigration officials uncovered three cross-border drug tunnels, the latest of more than 75 cross-border tunnels discovered in the past five years. What's different about the recent tunnels is that most are significantly smaller and don't boast the technological advances that officials saw just a few years ago. William Sherman, special agent in charge for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration in San Diego, said the drug cartels have moved toward tunnels that require a smaller investment because of the high risk of being discovered.
San Diego Union Tribune
Underage Mexican drug mules are in for a shock in one Arizona county
Mario Nieblas shuffled into the courtroom in ankle chains and mismatched jail scrubs: green-and-white pants worn by juvenile inmates, red-and-white top worn by adults. He was arrested on suspicion of smuggling nearly 90 pounds of marijuana from his native Mexico in March and turned 17 in a holding cell. Now he was in court trying to avoid being sent to an adult prison. "Mario will be housed and that's it," his lawyer, Xochitl Orozco, told the judge. "They are giving up on this individual before he started."
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L.A. ordered to pay $23.7 million in 'dangerous intersection' death
A jury on Monday found the city of Los Angeles primarily liable for a traffic collision that killed a scientist in San Pedro three years ago. The jury awarded $23.7 million to the widow and young son of Thomas Guilmette, a 59-year-old Northrop Grumman employee who died three years ago after his motorcycle struck a car that had inched into traffic on a busy avenue in northwest San Pedro. Attorneys for Guilmette's family argued that he would not have died if the intersection had been properly designed. The jury found the city 95% liable for his death, attorney Don Liddy said.
Los Angeles Times
City Of LA, LA County Add Residents In 2015
Los Angeles' population grew by 1.3 percent in 2015, pushing the number of residents over the 4 million mark for the first time, the state Department of Finance reported Monday. According to the agency's annual state population estimates, the city's population as of Jan. 1 was 4,030,904, up by roughly 50,000 people from Jan. 1, 2015. Long Beach, the seventh-largest city in the state, added about 3,000 residents last year, giving it a population of 484,958 as of Jan. 1, according to the state.
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