Man wanted for sexually assaulting two women in West LA, police say
Detectives from the Los Angeles Police Department West Division are asking for the public's help to identify a man allegedly responsible for two sexual assaults over the Independence Day weekend. The man is wearing a red baseball cap, a blue long sleeve shirt and khaki shorts. Both assaults happened along Westgate Avenue, near Santa Monica Boulevard, just half a mile apart, according to police. The most recent assault took place on the 4th of July when police said, the suspect attacked a woman in broad daylight while she was walking home from work around 4 p.m.
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Mother Hopes Community Will Break Silence in Son's Slaying
Delicia Ellis tearfully recounts the night her son, Deverick Matthis, was gunned down in South Los Angeles four years ago. "Losing my child was the worst and I feel it like it just happened today," she said. "All I have are pictures and a shirt." Matthis, then 20 years old, was in a car with a friend when the pair was approached by multiple people and gunned down, police said. Detectives with LAPD's Criminal Gang Homicide Bureau believe someone knows the killers and are offering a $50,000 reward for information leading to an arrest in the slaying.
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Man Charged in Sexual Assault, Attempted Murder of 80-Year-Old Woman in Her Hollywood Apartment
Prosecutors on Tuesday announced formal charges against a man accused of sexually assaulting and trying to kill an 80-year-old woman last month in her Hollywood apartment. Marcus Datwione Peete, 33, was charged with one count each of attempted murder, assault, sexual penetration by a foreign object, and first-degree burglary with a person present, according to a statement from the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office. The suspect is scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday. The incident happened June 18 in the 1700 block of Ivar Avenue, where the assailant was captured on two surveillance video systems in the apartment apartment building, according to a Los Angeles Police Department news release.
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Laptops Enabling Thieves To Steal Cars, Security Experts Warn
It used to be, if thieves wanted to steal your car, they needed a crowbar or Slim Jim. But now, all some need is a laptop. Police and car insurers tell the Wall Street Journal thieves are using laptops to hack into the electronic ignitions of late-model vehicles. In fact, in one instance, a man in Houston armed with a laptop is seen in a YouTube clip getting into someone's 2010 Jeep Wrangler. Police believe the suspect managed to disable the alarm's flashing lights and enable the ignition with his computer. He is then seen starting car and driving away. An auto-theft officer investigating the case said he believes the thief was tapping into the car's computer and marrying it with a key he may have already had, allowing him to start the car.
CBS 2
$1,000 Reward Offered In Shooting Of Coyote In Silver Lake
A nonprofit wildlife conservation organization offered a $1,000 reward Tuesday for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person who fatally shot a coyote in Silver Lake. “The shooting of this coyote in a residential Los Angeles neighborhood is not only illegal, but also an act of animal cruelty putting people and other animals in danger,” according to Camilla Fox, founder and executive director of Project Coyote. “Such reckless and dangerous behavior should not be tolerated.”
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How can street racing in LA be curbed? An investigation into street racing ended in death on Sunday when CHP officers shot and killed a 19-year-old driver in Fullerton. It's just the latest fatality linked to illegal racing. And it raises a question: What can be done to curb cars and drivers hell-bent on racing each other through our neighborhoods? James Queally has been covering this topic for the LA Times. He joined the show with more.
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ICE Agent Impersonator Threatens Woman With Deportation: Police
A man was has been arrested on suspicion of impersonating a federal agent and threatening to deport a woman to Mexico if she did not pay him a large amount of cash, officials said. Luis Flores-Mendoza, 26, of Santa Ana, was arrested on Saturday, according to a Placentia Police Department news release. He allegedly identified himself as a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent and tried to exhort a woman on June 6 at an Anaheim restaurant where she worked.
NBC 4
Decades of Budget Shortfalls Frustrate L.A. County Coroner
In a refrigerated crypt at the Los Angeles County Coroner-Medical Examiner's headquarters, the bodies lie awaiting examination on the shelves of metal racks, similar to what you might find in a Home Depot. The coroner's office is responsible for investigating violent and unusual death. With up to 80,000 deaths in Los Angeles County annually, about 20,000 are reported each year to the medical examiner's office. The department examines from 8,000 to 9,000 bodies a year, records show. Walking past the crypt's steel shelves, you glimpse a bullet-pocked leg. There, the distended, bruised-looking belly of a corpse that lay out in the sun too long. And so on, dead person after dead person, a 160-corpse backlog.
KQED
Court ruling in child-porn case stirs privacy fears
A court decision last month that permitted federal prosecutors to use evidence obtained through government hacking in a child pornography case has stirred fears about privacy. The explanation attempts to square rules written for our physical homes with the reality of networked computers — where the doors are not as easy to find, but can be much simpler to break down. The opinion, issued by a federal court in Virginia, stated that in some cases, defendants have “no reasonable expectation of privacy” on evidence gathered on their Internet-connected computers.
San Francisco Chronicle
House Democrats keep up gun control push as they return from recess
Several California members picked up right where they left off Tuesday morning, pushing the issue of gun control as soon as the House was gaveled into session after the holiday break. Protestors followed suit, and police arrested several people Tuesday. The House had recessed June 23, hours after Democrats sat on the House floor and demanded a vote on bills to expand background checks for gun purchases and prevent people on the FBI's watchlist from purchasing guns.
Los Angeles Times
Lawsuit: Slain officer's widow says vest failed to stop bullets
A Georgia police officer's body armor failed to stop bullets from piercing his back, killing him as he worked an off-duty security job, his widow alleges in a federal lawsuit. Tammy Jordan filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court, saying a vest from Michigan-based Armor Express failed to save the life of her husband, former Griffin Police Officer Kevin Jordan. Jordan was shot five times while intervening in a fight at a Waffle House in Griffin, Georgia, in 2014, according to the lawsuit. In court documents, Armor Express denied that one of its vests failed to meet standards. The company hasn't seen the vest, and hasn't been given specific information about it, such as how it was being worn, or exactly where Jordan was shot, lawyer John Dixon wrote in court documents.
Associated Press
System Forgives Sexual Abuse by Doctors Across US
Sexual abuse by doctors against patients is surprisingly widespread, yet the fragmented medical oversight system shrouds offenders' actions in secrecy and allows many to continue to treat patients, an investigation by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has found. The AJC obtained and analyzed more than 100,000 disciplinary orders against doctors since 1999. Among those, the newspaper identified more than 3,100 doctors sanctioned after being accused of sexual misconduct; more than 2,400 of the doctors had violations involving patients. Of those, half still have active medical licenses today, the newspaper found.
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