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Daily Local & Regional NewsWatch
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Daily Local & Regional NewsWatch
Daily News Digest
from LA Police Protective League
August 10, 2016 |
Tennessee Bureau of Investigation agent killed
A Tennessee Bureau of Investigation special agent was shot to death Tuesday during an undercover drug investigation in West Tennessee, the agency said. Special Agent De'Greaun Frazier, 35, was working with other agents and narcotics officers on a drug investigation when he met a person for a controlled buy in a car in Jackson, TBI spokesman Josh DeVine said in a news release. The person that Frazier met Tuesday afternoon pulled out a firearm in an apparent robbery attempt and fired at least once, hitting the agent, TBI Director Mark Gwyn said.
Associated Press
Texas firefighters wear 'Back the Blue' shirts on duty
In the latest show of support for police, hundreds of firefighters and staff on Tuesday started wearing Back the Blue T-shirts on duty. “You have seen the negative publicity the media continues to air related to police departments across the nation. At the same time, our police brothers and sisters have been under attack and several have lost their life,” Fire Chief Robert Fite said in a statement released Tuesday. “I want us to show our support.”
The Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Chance Encounter With LAPD Officer Changes Life of Family Battling Illness, Separation and Financial Loss
An LAPD police officer came to the aid of a family in need after a chance meeting in June with a young man he found sitting in a car crying. Ken Lew, an officer with the Los Angeles Police Department's Pacific Division, was on patrol when he spotted Ariel Carmona visibly upset. Lew stopped and asked the 18-year-old what was wrong. What he heard was a tragic story of a family battling illness, separation and financial loss.
KTLA 5
Armed Man Fatally Shot by Police in Boyle Heights: LAPD
Los Angeles police on Tuesday shot and killed a man who was armed with a gun in Boyle Heights, the second time in one day that LAPD officers fired at a suspect, authorities said. LAPD detectives say two officers from the gang unit were chasing a man with a gun when the shooting occurred. Police said the gun was recovered at the scene. Detectives said the officers were wearing body cameras.
CBS 2 KTLA 5
Thousands of dollars worth of stolen baby formula recovered by the LAPD Los Angeles Police Department Commercial Crimes Division, Cargo-Hijack Unit detectives have arrested 27-year-old Joe Lopez and 22-year-old Nick Lopez on June 30, 2016. Detectives from the Los Angeles Police Department Commercial Crimes Division, Cargo-Hijack Unit, along with the Loss Prevention investigators, began investigating large scale thefts of infant baby formula from the store's distribution warehouse in Los Angeles, California.
FOX 11
Suspicious package clears three floors of Wilshire Boulevard high-rise A “suspicious parcel” delivered to a West Los Angeles high-rise today triggered the precautionary evacuation of at least three floors of the building and the closure of a stretch of Wilshire Boulevard while a bomb squad investigated. A police bomb squad was also dispatched to the scene, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. By 2:15 p.m. fire crews were “de-escalating” their presence and leaving the matter “to LAPD expertise,” according to fire department spokesman Brian Humphrey.
Los Angeles Daily News
Police Need Help Finding Shooter Who Killed Mother, Daughter In Long Beach
Police need your help finding the gunman who shot and killed a mother and her four-year-old daughter in Long Beach. The makeshift memorial at 9th Street and Locust Avenue, where the victims were ambushed Saturday night, continued to grow 48 hours after the double shooting. The victims have been identified as 26-year-old Carina Mancera and four-year-old Jennabel Anaya.
CBS 2
L.A. sheriff joins high-profile opponents fighting anti-death-penalty ballot measure
Top Los Angeles County officials including Sheriff Jim McDonnell and Dist. Atty. Jackie Lacey have joined a November election battle, announcing support for preserving California's death penalty and reforming the state's appeals process. The death penalty should be “for the worst of the worst,” McDonnell said Monday night at an event dubbed, "Mend, Don't End California's Death Penalty."
Los Angeles Times
‘Pillowcase Rapist' — who raped 26 women in LA County — taken into custody, says DA's office
A serial rapist who sparked an outcry from residents and elected officials from Palmdale to the Inland?Empire after he was released from a state psychiatric hospital and placed in a local home was taken into police custody Tuesday. Christopher Evans Hubbart, 65 — known as the “Pillowcase Rapist” because he used pillowcases to dampen the screams of dozens of victims, from Southern to Northern California, whom he attacked between 1971 and 1982 — was arrested Tuesday, but it was unclear why and by whom.
Los Angeles Daily News
‘Grim Sleeper' Serial Killer Expected to Be Sentenced to Death for String of Murders
The man known as the “Grim Sleeper” serial killer, who eluded capture while prowling South Los Angeles in search of victims for over two decades, is expected to be sentenced to death on Wednesday. The hearing in a downtown Los Angeles courtroom will give relatives of Lonnie David Franklin Jr.'s victims a chance to tell the court about the impact of the killings, which spanned from 1985 to 2007.
KTLA 5
Inmate recorded O.C. jail escape on his phone, lawyer says One of three inmates accused of breaking out of Orange County Jail this year had photos and video on an iPhone showing the planning and actual escape, his lawyer says in court records. Also recorded were activities during the eight days the defendants were on the run and footage of a taxi driver who allegedly was commandeered to drive them around, the attorney says in a four-page filing.
Orange County Register
San Diego police chaplain Henry Rodriguez dies at 61
The Rev. Henry Rodriguez left his sick bed and hurried to a crime scene. Then he drove to Mercy Hospital. Although he was battling pneumonia, Rodriguez wasn't there for his own health. He was there as a San Diego Police Department chaplain, comforting the family of slain Officer Jonathan De Guzman.
Los Angeles Times
PG&E guilty of safety violations, obstructing investigators in San Bruno pipeline explosion
A federal jury found California's largest utility guilty of violating pipeline safety regulations before a deadly natural gas pipelin explosion in the San Francisco Bay Area and then misleading investigators about how it was identifying high-risk pipelines. After deliberating for seven days, jurors convicted Pacific Gas & Electric Co. Tuesday of obstruction and five of 11 counts of pipeline safety violations, including failing to gather information to evaluate potential gas line threats and deliberately not classifying a gas line as high risk.
Associated Press
Judge criticized in Stanford assault case to make another sex-crime ruling
A judge is set to make his first key decision in a sex-crime case since receiving criticism for the light sentence given to a Stanford University swimmer who sexually assaulted a woman while she was passed out. Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Aaron Persky said last year that he would be receptive to Robert Chain's request to reduce his conviction for possessing child pornography from a felony to a misdemeanor if the San Jose plumber stayed sober and out of trouble. Los Angeles Times
Man grabs NY officer's gun, kills someone; cops wound him
New York City police say a suspect grabbed and repeatedly fired an officer's gun, killing another man. A second officer wounded the suspect. As they were escorting a man out of the store, he ripped the gun out of an officer's holster. He fired the officer's gun numerous times. One of the shots fatally struck a man who'd had a dispute with the suspect.
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State Government News
Trade group trying to kill bill making state-run retirement accounts a worker benefit
An investment industry trade group is trying to kill a California bill that would make retirement savings accounts an almost universal benefit for workers in the state, saying that plan will be more expensive than lawmakers anticipate and could ultimately cost taxpayers. Nationally, fewer than half of private-sector workers are offered a retirement savings account through work, and most workers who don't have an employer-sponsored plan don't go to the trouble of creating their own plans, according to the AARP and the National Institute on Retirement Security.
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Transportation News
Average commuter loses 80 hours, $1,711 to traffic a year: Kevin Smith
Few things are as annoying to us Southern Californians as the constant traffic gridlock we often face on freeways and surface streets. And it impacts business — big time. On any given day, scores of Southland employees arrive late for work because they're grappling with a traffic backup or a road construction project that always seems to be going on at the most inopportune time.
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County Government News
LA County Supervisors Approve First Stage of Major Planned Development in Koreatown
L.A. County supervisors voted Tuesday to approve the first stage of a major planned development in Koreatown, including a community center for which neighborhood activists had lobbied heavily. The so-called Vermont Corridor project will include three county-owned sites along South Vermont Avenue and will be built with a mix of public and private money.
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