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Daily Local & Regional NewsWatch
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Daily Local & Regional NewsWatch
Daily News Digest
from LA Police Protective League
June 1, 2016 |
Fugitive's Fake ID, Nervousness Raised Suspicion at Mexican Border: Feds
A Los Angeles murder suspect on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted Fugitives list may have been staying in Tijuana for weeks before he nervously tried to slip back into the U.S. with a fake ID, federal authorities said Tuesday. Philip Patrick Policarpio, accused of gunning down his pregnant girlfriend in April, aroused suspicion when he tried to cross at the San Diego port of entry Sunday evening with a female companion whom he'd met at a "gentlemen's club" in Tijuana, said Deirdre Fike, the FBI Assistant Director in Charge. He was vague and inconsistent during an inspection with U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents, and grew anxious when asked to provide fingerprints, said Sidney Aki, CBP's port director at San Ysidro.
NBC 4
Three Men Arrested After Offloading Cocaine From Bus in Wilmington
Three men were arrested Tuesday after offloading 83 kilos of cocaine from a bus in Wilmington, officials said. Victor Fainz Miranda, Jaime Jimenez and Humberto Vazquez were taken into custody by the Los Angeles Interagency Metropolitan Police Apprehension Crime Task Force. Their ages and cities of residence were not immediately available.The cocaine has a wholesale value of $2.1 million and a street value of $10 million, LA IMPACT officials said. The task force is part of the California Department of Justice and includes state and federal law enforcement agencies.
KTLA 5
LAUSD special-ed assistant charged on suspicion of sexually abusing two boys
Los Angeles Unified School District special education assistant has been charged with sexually abusing two boys over a six-year period, and police say there may be more victims. Joaquin Diaz-Orgaz, 44, of Woodland Hills pleaded not guilty Friday to two counts of continuous sexual abuse and one count of kidnapping for child molesting involving minors who were both under the age of 14, according to the complaint filed by Los Angeles County prosecutors. Diaz-Orgaz, who is named as Joaquin Diaz in the complaint, was arrested at his home on May 25 on suspicion of having an inappropriate sexual relationship with a former student, Los Angeles police said. Detectives from the LAPD's Devonshire Division then learned that the Topanga Division was also investigating alleged misconduct involving the teacher's aide and another student.
Los Angeles Daily News
Who sells the most guns used in crimes? LA probe
As part of the observance of National Gun Violence Awareness Day, the Los Angeles City Council is expected Wednesday to consider a measure that would allow officials to identify the city's biggest dealers of guns that end up being used in crimes. The council will vote on a motion authored by Councilman Paul Krekorian that calls for the Los Angeles Police Department to work with the group Crime Gun Solutions to analyze the city's data on gun traces to determine which dealers have the highest frequency of selling guns used in crime. If approved, the study to identify such “bad apple” dealers will begin once the costs and administrative issues are worked out, according to Krekorian aide Ian Thompson.
City News Service
Plea in alleged date-rape drug try foiled by three women witnesses A Los Angeles man was charged Tuesday with two felony counts for allegedly trying to slip a drug into a woman's drink at a Santa Monica hotel bar, even tough the attempt was foiled by three women who alerted the intended victim. Michael Roe Chien Hsu, 24, pleaded not guilty to one count each of administering a drug and assault with intent to commit a sex crime. Hsu's bail, which was initially set at $1 million, was cut to $350,000. Three women saw Hsu allegedly trying to spike the drink of his female companion while she was in a rest room at the Fig restaurant inside the Fairmont Miramar Hotel on Wilshire Boulevard, one of the three wrote in a Facebook posting.
MyNewsLA.com
Officials Search for Person Who Set Illegal Animal Leg Trap
Animal Services officials were searching Tuesday for the person responsible for setting an illegal leg trap that captured a coyote's leg.Authorities received a call Friday about a trap with a coyote leg inside it. The report came three days after another person reported witnessing a coyote caught in a leg-hold trap, according to the Los Angeles Department of Animal Services. Animal control officers recovered the trap and looked for the injured animal.
NBC 4
2 San Fernando Valley residents sentenced in medicare scam
Two San Fernando Valley residents who submitted more than $1.8 million in fraudulent claims to Medicare — almost entirely for medically unnecessary power wheelchairs — were sentenced Tuesday — one to prison and the other to home detention. Abdul King Garba, 50, of Van Nuys, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Dolly Gee to 21 months in federal prison. His co-defendant, Queen Anieze-Smith, 54, of Woodland Hills, was sentenced to a probationary sentence of four years in home detention, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office. The defendants were ordered jointly liable for restitution of $814,445, prosecutors said. Garba and Anieze-Smith were each convicted last year of five counts of health care fraud following a nine-day trial.
City News Service
Woman Possibly Attacked By Man With A Hammer In East Los Angeles
A woman was hospitalized in a possible hammer attack in East Los Angeles early Wednesday morning. Authorities received a call around 2:50 a.m. regarding someone possibly being hit with a hammer in the 3700 block of Whiteside Street. A man and woman were involved in some sort of fight, authorities said, and the man is suspected of hitting the woman with a hammer. The man was taken into custody, but a few deputies suffered minor injuries as a struggle broke out during the arrest.
ABC 7
L.A. County Supervisors Approve $20K Reward For Taggers Who Vandalized Vietnam War Memorial
Los Angeles county supervisors Tuesday approved a $20,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and/or conviction of the vandals who defaced a Venice memorial dedicated to POWs and troops missing in action during the Vietnam War. The city of Los Angeles is expected next week to offer $10,000. “This disgusting display of disrespect is an insult to those individuals who sacrificed for our country and a slap in the face to their still grieving families,” said Supervisor Michael Antonovich, who co-authored the county reward motion with Supervisor Sheila Kuehl. “It is also an indirect attack on all of our veterans and currently serving military personnel.”
CBS 2
Bid to extend criminal reclassification under Proposition 47 passes Assembly
An effort to allow felons additional time to reduce their punishments under guidelines established by a 2014 ballot measure made it through the Assembly on Tuesday. Proposition 47, the 2014 ballot measure, changed some nonviolent property and drug crimes from felonies to misdemeanors and allowed those previously convicted under the old rules to ask the courts to lower their punishments. But that provision ends next year, and Assemblywoman Shirley Weber (D-San Diego) wants to give felons eligible for the relief five more years to reduce their punishments. "We're going to find a lot of cases where justice has been denied to individuals," Weber said during debate on the bill.
Los Angeles Times
San Francisco Reaches Agreement With Police Union on Body Cameras
San Francisco's long languishing effort to pin cameras on its police officers appeared close to completion Tuesday evening, with statements from the city's mayor and head of the police officers' union announcing a compromise. If the city Police Commission approves the new policy emerging from negotiations that for months appeared to be stalled, the first deployment of cameras could hit the streets by Aug. 1, according to the mayor's office. “We are making critical investments in funding police department reform, rebuilding community trust, and bringing a culture change in how we handle conflicts on our City streets,” Mayor Ed Lee said in a written statement announcing the agreement, noting that he's budgeted over $6 million to fund the roll out of some 1,800 body cameras over the next two years.
KQED
Government Report: Airports Need More Help Keeping Intruders Out
While intruders routinely breach the security fences protecting runways and planes at U.S. airports , the federal Transportation Security Administration is not keeping up with the threat or doing enough to help airports identify their vulnerabilities, according to a government report released Tuesday. Congress asked the U.S. Government Accountability Office to investigate how often people get past airport perimeter security, and whether the TSA could do more to help airports anticipate and prevent incidents. Using TSA data, the accountability office identified over 2,500 security incidents in each of the past three years at the nation's roughly 440 commercial airports.
Associated Press
US seeks to seize San Bernardino shooter's life insurance Federal prosecutors on Tuesday filed a lawsuit to seize payments on life insurance policies taken out by San Bernardino shooter Syed Rizwan Farook in the years before the December attacks. The U.S. attorney's office in Los Angeles filed the civil asset forfeiture lawsuit for the two policies worth a total of $275,000. Farook took out the two policies, one worth $25,000 in 2012 and the other, worth $250,000, in 2013, prosecutors said. His mother was named as beneficiary of both policies. Farook's wife, Tashfeen Malik, died with him in a shootout with authorities after the Dec. 2 attack during which they shot and killed 14 people. The U.S. attorney's office says that under federal law, assets derived from terrorism against the United States are subject to forfeiture. The lawsuit seeks to seize both the proceeds and the policies themselves.
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City Government News
City Officials Expected To End Construction Of Runyon Canyon Basketball Court
City officials are expected to bench a controversial basketball project Wednesday that was under construction in the city's popular Runyon Canyon Park. The Department of Parks and Recreation recently agreed to halt construction on the project following criticism and legal action from residents in the area. The project was funded by a $260,000 donation, which was contributed by the owner of a clothing company called Pink Dolphin. According to city officials, most of the money was used to fix a retaining wall next to the proposed court. The remainder of the money would have been used to affix the donor's logo to the pavement.
CBS 2
Construction starts on $172M facility to maintain light rail cars for LAX
Construction began Friday on a $172 million facility to maintain light rail cars that will be used on Metro's planned connection to Los Angeles International Airport. The Southwest Yard near LAX is set to be completed in 2019, in time for the planned 2020 opening of the Crenshaw line extension to the airport, and around the time that a people mover will be completed to connect LAX directly with the rail line.Los Angeles County Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas, who chairs the Metro board, said the Southwest Yard “will allow Metro to safely and efficiently maintain the vehicles that will finally connect the growing Metro rail network to LAX.”
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Homelessness News
Subsidized rent, but nowhere to go: Homeless vouchers go unused
Nine years after she lost her apartment in North Hollywood and began couch-surfing and living in her van, Laura Luevano received a federal rent voucher to return her to the world of the housed. Two months later — after calling 23 apartments for rent with no luck — the 65-year-old disabled woman is sleeping on a cramped couch on a back patio in Sylmar, one of at least 2,200 homeless people in Los Angeles County with a voucher but no place to use it. With more than 35,000 people sleeping on sidewalks and in alleys, underpasses and riverbeds, the city and county are leaning on rent subsidies for private landlords to bring quick relief to homeless people while elected officials struggle to fund a $1.87 billion construction program.
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