Crime in Los Angeles continues rising this year
For the second straight year, the Los Angeles Police Department is reporting an increase in overall crime at the year's midpoint, with the latest figures depicting a department still struggling to quell the rise after more than a decade of declines. Through July 16, violent crime increased 15.9% compared with the same period last year while property crime was up 3.8%, department records show. Overall crime rose 6.3%.
Los Angeles Times
Man Fatally Shot in South Los Angeles
A man died after he was shot multiple times early Friday morning in South Los Angeles, police said. The shooting was reported around 1:30 a.m. near 112th Street and Vermont Avenue, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. Officers arrived and found a man lying in the street with gunshot wounds. The victim was transported to a hospital where he died, police said.
NBC 4
Police Respond To Man With Gun Call In Harbor Gateway
Police responded to a 12-story office building in Harbor Gateway Thursday following reports of an unidentified man holding a heavy assault rifle. Police could not confirm to CBS2's Dave Lopez if they found a suspect but said no shots have been fired. SWAT evacuated the building as a precaution and executed a search of the premises. Around 1 p.m, the LAPD said they received a call that someone on the second floor of the Pacific Point building said someone was trying to rob them.
CBS 2
LAPD Tackles Pursuit Suspect After Chase on Surface Streets in Hawthorne
A pursuit suspect was tackled after leading officers with the Los Angeles Police Department on a chase in a stolen car from South L.A. to Hawthorne Wednesday night. The pursuit began when authorities spotted the stolen vehicle near the intersection of West 52nd Street and South Western Avenue in the Vermont Square neighborhood at about 9:20 p.m., said Officer Liliana Preciado with the Police Department. The vehicle was reported stolen by the car's owner, who told KTLA she knew the man who took her car.
KTLA 5
10-Month-Old Being Pushed In Stroller Fatally Struck By Pickup Truck
Authorities said a 10-month-old was killed Thursday when the toddler and mother were struck by a pickup truck in South Los Angeles. Los Angeles police said 36-year-old Juana Oxlaj was attempting to cross Broadway westbound at the north crosswalk at 59th Place with her child when the accident occurred about 7:10 a.m. The pickup truck driver was making a left onto Broadway, according to police.
KCAL 9
Man Charged in Series of Westside Sex Assaults
A homeless man was charged Thursday with attacking four women in Santa Monica, Beverly Hills and West Los Angeles, hitting one of them with a brick and sexually assaulting two others. Pablo Carlos Pineda, 32, appeared at the Airport Courthouse Thursday afternoon and pleaded not guilty to three counts of forcible rape, two counts each of assault with intent to commit a sex crime, kidnapping and second-degree robbery and one count each of assault likely to produce great bodily injury and assault with a deadly weapon.
NBC 4
Suspected gang member charged in throwing burning bottles at black families; Judge denies bail
A suspected gang member charged in a federal indictment with throwing Molotov cocktails through the windows of sleeping black families at the Ramona Gardens public housing complex in Boyle Heights two years ago in an alleged effort to drive them out of the area was denied bail Thursday. The defendants also were charged for their alleged roles in a racketeering enterprise that used violence and intimidation to control the perceived territory of the Big Hazard street gang.
MyNewsLA.com
Gangs, coke, meth alleged at East LA bar: City asks court to make it stop
Los Angeles City Attorney Mike Feuer said Thursday he is taking legal steps to halt alleged criminal activity centered around a bar in East Los Angeles. Feuer is requesting legal injunctions that include having a court- appointed receiver take over management of the El Troquero Bar at 2119 E. Cesar Chavez Ave. City attorneys allege the bar is frequented by gang members, and employees use the bar as a base for selling cocaine and methamphetamine.
MyNewsLA.com
Mexican who tried to kill a cop is among 112 ‘criminal aliens' nabbed by feds
A Mexican national convicted of the attempted murder of a peace officer was among 112 foreign nationals arrested in the Los Angeles area during a federal operation targeting “at-large criminal aliens,” officials said Thursday. The four-day operation, which ended Wednesday night, was conducted by personnel from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
City News Service
Person of Interest Sought After 9-Year-Old Boy Sexually Assaulted in Puente Hills Mall
Authorities asked the public for help Thursday after a young boy was sexually assaulted at the Puente Hills Mall in City of Industry earlier this month. A person of interest being sought after a boy was sexually assaulted at Puente Hills Mall is seen in an image provided by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department on July 21, 2016. The incident occurred just before 7 p.m. on July 8 inside the mall located at 1600 South Azusa Avenue, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department stated in a news release.
KTLA 5
Supervisors renew rewards for cop, football star, and man gunned down murders
LA County Supervisors renewed $10,000 rewards Tuesday in the unsolved murders of a Long Beach Police officer shot in 1975, a man gunned down in front of a Long Beach convenience store in 2012 and a Long Beach City College football player shot in Willowbrook last summer. Supervisor Don Knabe recommended renewing two of the rewards, each set to expire this week and now available for at least another 90 days.
MyNewsLA.com
What happens to thousands of firearms after Rancho Cucamonga steel mill melts them
Los Angeles County Sheriff Jim McDonnell stood nearby while more than 7,000 confiscated firearms became steel rebar Thursday morning. “For the second year in a row, I have the privilege of overseeing our annual gun destruction event,” McDonnell said. “Today, more than 7,000 firearms will be translated from their potential of destruction into the certainty of construction.”
Los Angeles Daily News Daughter of Reseda victims ‘terrified' as shooter's fate uncertain
Ann Hoang is haunted by the thought that the Marine Corps veteran who killed her father and wounded her mother in Reseda more than two years ago could one day go free. Ricardo Tapia, a decorated Iraqi War veteran, was found not guilty of the crimes by reason of insanity in May in light of the evaluations of three medical experts, according to attorneys on the case.
Los Angeles Daily News
Stolen Jewelry Discovered During Arrest; Owner Sought
Missing some jewelry? The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department may have it. The Walnut-Diamond Bar Station is looking for the owners of some stolen jewelry. They are mostly pearls, found in a vehicle that was stopped Thursday on a separate charge and arrest. The jewelry boxes have the manufacturer's name -- Jokoya -- on the inside.
ABC 7
Autopilot Technology Drives Teslas But Comes With Warnings
A Tesla in Autopilot mode can drive itself but it's not a “self-driving” vehicle, at least as far as safety regulators are concerned. So, instead of coming under heavy government scrutiny before being sold to the public, Tesla can mass-produce cars that automatically adjust speed with the flow of traffic, keep their lane and slam the brakes in an emergency. Tesla made sure of that before going to market with the technology in October, approaching the Department of Motor Vehicles in its home state of California to check whether officials would throw up any roadblocks.
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