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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 2, 2016 |
Suspect in a standoff after 2 Northern Calif. officers are shot
A gunman suspected of shooting and wounding two Northern California police was holed up in a house early Thursday in an armed standoff with law officers, authorities said. The officers from the Fremont Police Department were shot Wednesday afternoon after a traffic stop turned violent, prompting a manhunt that involved a house-to-house search that lasted well into the night. The lone suspect was eventually tracked down to a home in the San Francisco Bay-area community of Fremont, where he was involved in the standoff, said Sgt. Ray Kelly of the Alameda County Sheriff's office.
Associated Press
Police Identify Shooter in UCLA Murder-Suicide Authorities on Thursday identified the shooter in a murder-suicide that led to a campus-wide lockdown at UCLA. LAPD Capt. Andrew Neiman identified the gunman as Mainak Sarkar. NBC News has learned that the shooter, an engineering graduate student, had an apparently strained relationship with the professor and may have believed the professor had misused the student's computer code. The shooting led to a SWAT search and a daylong campus closure, with panicked students seeking a safe place to hide. The gunman and 39-year-old William Scott Klug of El Segundo, a father of two and associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, were found dead in an office, according to police.
NBC 4
2 Dead in Murder-Suicide in Engineering Building on UCLA Campus A shooting at UCLA Wednesday morning that prompted an hours-long tactical search was determined to be a murder-suicide, LAPD Chief Charlie Beck said. He said many questions remain unanswered, but the campus is safe. Classes were canceled for the day and are expected to resume Thursday. No other injuries were reported at the school. The shooting occurred about 10 a.m. in a small office in the Engineering IV building where two men were found dead, Beck said. A firearm was recovered at the scene. The massive multi-agency response included personnel from the Los Angeles Fire Department, FBI, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. About 100 LAFD firefighters were on the scene, including Tactical Emergency Medical Support teams, according to the agency.
KTLA 5
LASD Says You Have 3 Options During An Active Shooter: Run, Hide Or Fight
It's almost impossible to imagine the paralyzing fear of being in the middle of an active shooter scenario. But if the situation were ever to present itself, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department has created a video to help you prepare for such a scenario. "You don't want to freeze. You want to be in a position where you've thought about this and you know what you are going to do," Los Angeles County Sheriff Jim McDonnell said. The sheriff's department produced a startling and graphic video titled "Surviving an Active Shooter" to help people prepare for active shooter situations.
ABC 7
Man Fatally Shot By Armed Robber At Gas Station In Hyde Park
A man in his 30s was shot and killed at a gas station in Hyde Park, police said Thursday. The deadly shooting unfolded around 7:00 p.m. Wednesday in the area of Florence Avenue and Crenshaw Boulevard, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. A preliminary investigation revealed the victim was trying to buy gas when an unknown man approached him and attempted to rob him at the gas station. The suspect fled from the location after firing rounds at the victim. Paramedics pronounced the victim dead at the scene. His identity is being withheld pending family notification. According to police, a person of interest has been detained.
CBS 2
Armed Robbery Suspect Arrested Following Pursuit In Westlake District
Police searched for an armed suspect Thursday who fled from officers after robbing a gas station in the Westlake District. According to the Los Angeles Police Department, the robbery took place at a 76 Gas Station located in the 2000 block of Sunset Boulevard. Upon their arrival, officers observed a vehicle with two suspects flee from the area. A brief pursuit ensued and terminated in the area of Temple and Coronado streets when the suspects crashed their vehicle into an empty building. Police arrested one suspect at the scene. A perimeter has been set up to search for the second suspect, who fled on foot from the area. Detectives recovered a handgun at the scene.
KCAL 9
LA Passes Measure To Go After 'Bad Apple' Gun Dealers
As police officers swarmed UCLA's campus on Wednesday, the Los Angeles City Council approved a measure to help city leaders identify "bad apple" gun dealers. Those are the gun sellers who have the highest frequency of guns sold that are later used in crimes. The council voted 13-0 to have the LAPD work with the organization Crime Gun Solutions. Together they will analyze crime data and work to trace guns used in crimes back to the original dealers. The meaning of the action was reinforced when, as the council was waiting to vote on the issue, Council President Herb Wesson informed the audience of the shooting at UCLA.
ABC 7
Man With a Gun Arrested After Appearing to Try to Scale Fence at LAX
An man with a gun who appeared to be trying to jump a perimeter fence at LAX was arrested Wednesday night after leading police on a brief car pursuit in an possible attempt to flee. At 7:40 p.m. a contract employee saw a man trying to scale the perimeter fence onto airport property and notified police, according to Los Angeles Airport Police spokesman Rob Pedregon. Responding officers saw the man throw a handgun before jumping into a Mazda sedan and fleeing from police. After a short chase, he was arrested near La Brea Avenue and Century Boulevard.
NBC 4
Woman Falls Off City Hall Balcony in Downtown Los Angeles A 25-year-old woman plunged off of an observation balcony near the top of the City Hall building in downtown Los Angeles Wednesday, landing on an air conditioning grate 30-40 feet below. The woman suffered some type of medical emergency before she fell off of theCity Hall observation deck, the Los Angeles County Fire Department said. Authorities at the scene said the woman was sitting on a ledge outside of the Tom Bradley Room on the 27th floor prior to the fall. Firefighters were working bring her down from the grate where she landed to rush her to the hospital at 6:10 p.m.
NBC 4
Ex-con to stand trial for alleged shooting spree in San Fernando Valley An ex-con from Sylmar was ordered Wednesday to stand trial for allegedly killing five people at random in the San Fernando Valley in 2014 — four of them within less than a week. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Stephen A. Marcus found sufficient evidence to require Alexander Hernandez, 36, to proceed to trial on 31 counts, including five counts of murder and 11 counts of attempted murder, according to Deputy District Attorney Michele Hanisee.Hernandez is charged with the killings of Sergio Sanchez on March 14, 2014; Gilardo Morales on Aug. 21, 2014; and Gloria Tovar, Michael Planells and Mariana Franco on Aug. 24, 2014, along with the 11 attempted murders — the bulk of which occurred between Aug. 20 and 24, 2014.
MyNewsLA.com
Addicts' pain-pill doc gets 18 months in fed prison
A former doctor at the center of a now-closed sham medical clinic that charged addicts up to $500 for painkiller prescriptions was sentenced Wednesday to 18 months in federal prison. Madhu Garg, 65, of Glendora, was also ordered by U.S. District Judge John A. Kronstadt to serve three years of supervised release after she is released from prison. In arguing for a three-year prison sentence, Assistant U.S. Attorney Ben Barron said that “corrupt doctors” like Garg “contribute to the impact these drugs make” on addicts and their families. “Issuing (illegal) prescriptions for these addictive and dangerous drugs is unacceptable,” the prosecutor said, adding that Garg was motivated by “greed.”
MyNewsLA.com
Rewards mounting in vandalism of Venice's Vietnam veterans memorial
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors has offered a $20,000 reward -- and the L.A. City Council is expected to offer $10,000 more -- to hasten the arrest of the vandals who defaced a Venice memorial dedicated to POWs and troops missing in action during the Vietnam War. The county would pay out the reward money for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for the vandalism. The city of Los Angeles is expected to offer $10,000 to be given to anyone with a tip that leads to a conviction. The City Council will likely vote on the proposal a week from today. “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.”
Los Angeles Daily News
Man Dies After Getting Caught In Middle Of Police Chase In Industry
A man was killed after a car with three suspected burglars inside slammed into his SUV during a police chase in the city of Industry Tuesday. The deadly crash was reported at 3:52 p.m. at the intersection of Gale Avenue and Johnson Drive, according Deputy Juanita Navarro-Suarez of the Sheriff's Information Bureau. Investigators said three men in a black Camaro broke into a house in Hacienda Heights before leading deputies on a short chase with speeds reaching 60 to 80 miles per hour. Lt. Joe Mendoza of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Homicide Bureau said right after they stopped chasing the car, “they tried to call off some of the units to minimize the risk to the public.”
CBS 2
Holiday hike in LA road deaths: Nine killed
Nine people were killed in traffic crashes over the Memorial Day weekend on Los Angeles County freeways and roads patrolled by the California Highway Patrol, far more than the two deaths during the same period last year. The reporting period began at 6:01 p.m. Friday and ended at 11:59 p.m. Monday, authorities said. During that same period last year, the CHP reported two traffic-related deaths on freeways and roads it patrols in Los Angeles County. There was no immediate speculation about causes of the increased number of deaths. Statewide, the CHP also reported an increase with 39 traffic-related deaths this year compared to 31 last year.
MyNewsLA.com
Friend of San Bernardino shooters had ties to 'jihadists' planning to fight with Al Qaeda, prosecutors say
Enrique Marquez Jr., who is awaiting trial on charges that he helped the San Bernardino shooters, was tied to a “group of jihadists” planning to move from California to Afghanistan to fight with Al Qaeda, federal prosecutors revealed in new court documents. Marquez is accused of providing the weapons used in the Dec. 2 attack that killed 14 people, the deadliest terrorist attack on U.S. soil since 9/11. Until this week, officials had not suggested that Marquez had known ties to other extremists. In the court documents, prosecutors say Marquez had connections to “California jihadists” who were arrested in 2012 when they attempted to go to Afghanistan to fight with Al Qaeda.
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City Government News
LA Mayor Eric Garcetti expected to sign $8.75B city budget
Mayor Eric Garcetti is scheduled Thursday to sign an $8.75 billion 2016-17 city budget that includes $138 million to address homelessness and $31 million to repair damaged sidewalks. Garcetti is set to be joined at the signing ceremony on City Hall's South Lawn by Councilmen Paul Krekorian and Marqueece Harris-Dawson and homelessness advocates. The budget for the fiscal year beginning July 1 was approved last month by the City Council and is the first to set aside a significant amount for addressing homelessness. The funds will be used to build 600 residential units for the homeless, as well as for shelter beds and job training.
City News Service
LA Activists Looking To Restrict Development
Major building projects approved by Los Angeles city leaders are under new attack. Activists are renewing a drive for the Neighborhood Integrity Initiative. The ballot measure seeks a shakeup in how developments are approved. "The City Council should not be making individual decisions behind closed doors as to what communities should become," said Jill Stewart, who heads the Coalition to Preserve L.A. "We are demanding in this ballot measure that they write community plans involving the community." The development foes gathered near the proposed Blake Avenue Riverfront Project.
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State Government News
Panel Approves Pay Raises For California Lawmakers, Governor
An appointed citizen panel voted Wednesday to give Gov. Jerry Brown and other top elected officials 4 percent pay raises, marking the fourth year in a row that their salaries have been increased after cuts were made at the height of the recession. The Citizens Compensation Commission approved the salary and benefit increases on a 4-0 vote after less than an hour of discussion, bringing Brown's pay to about $190,000 a year and the heads of the state Senate and Assembly to nearly $120,000. Commission Chairman Tom Dalzell says even with the increase, lawmakers' salaries are still below their rates at the start of the recession, when the panel voted to cut pay by about 18 percent.
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2024 Olympics News
Senate approves backup cash for L.A. Olympics bid
The state Senate on Wednesday approved a bill that would have the state cover up to $250 million in liabilities if Los Angeles' bid to host the Summer Olympics in 2024 is approved and the effort goes over budget. Sen. Kevin De León (D-Los Angeles) downplayed the likelihood the state would be required to write a check, noting that the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles were a financial success and boosted the California economy. “The $250 million appears to be a large sum of money, but the bid is structured in a way that ensures profitability in the 2024 Olympic Games,” De León said, noting no major new construction is planned and the city is first in line to cover $250 million in costs.
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