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Daily Local & Regional NewsWatch
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Daily Local & Regional NewsWatch
Daily News Digest
from LA Police Protective League
September 15, 2016 |
Calif. cop killer gets life sentence in deadly pursuit
Durjan Germaine Gray was sentenced to life in prison Friday for the 2011 death of Cathedral City Police Officer Jermaine Gibson, who died when his patrol car caught fire while he was pursuing the suspect. Gray did not say anything at his sentencing hearing, but The Desert Sun reported he turned around and winked at his family as his sentence was read.
Police One
Boy, 11, found dead in Echo Park closet weighed just 34 pounds
The boy in the closet weighed 34 pounds. When police officers removed the mirrored doors behind which Yonatan Daniel Aguilar had died hours earlier, they found a crumpled blanket on the ground, obscuring his emaciated body — pale and stiff, curled in a fetal position, with cuts on his face.
Los Angeles Times
2 people shot inside North Hollywood liquor store
Two people were wounded Wednesday night in a North Hollywood shooting. The shooting was reported at 7:18 p.m. in the 7500 block of Laurel Canyon Boulevard, near Saticoy Street, said Officer Tony Im of Los Angeles Police Department Media Relations. The two shooting victims went into a liquor store and said they had been shot, Im said.
Los Angeles Daily News
Video Tape May Help Police Find Driver In Deadly South LA Hit-And-Run
A woman crossing the street was hit and left to die by a hit-and-run driver Wednesday, Los Angeles police said. The incident, captured by a security camera at Western Avenue and 79th Street shows the victim being dragged hundreds of feet to her death, police said. The video shows the driver stop for a moment, but never checks to see if the woman is okay.
CBS 2
Suspected DUI Driver in Custody After Bizarre Police Chase Ends in Watts
A woman suspected of DUI was taken into custody in Watts on Wednesday evening after leading LAPD officers on a bizarre and intermittent chase. The pursuit began shortly after 11 p.m. in the Los Angeles Police Department's Northeast Division, a spokesperson for the agency said, then made its way southbound on the 110 Freeway and into South L.A.
ABC 7
2 charged with hate crimes after black family's home is hit by Molotov cocktails and racist graffiti
In a crime that shocked a California Delta community, a man and woman were charged with hate crimes Tuesday in connection with launching Molotov cocktails into the home of a black family in Antioch and spray-painting the residence with a swastika and racial slurs, police said.
Los Angeles Times
San Pedro Chiropractor Arrested for Sexual Battery Against Patient; Additional Victims Sought: Police
A San Pedro chiropractor has been arrested for sexual battery, after a patient said he touched her inappropriately during treatment, the Los Angeles Police Department reported. Rustin Craig Wilson, 32, was arrested Monday around 10:50 a.m. on a felony sexual battery charge.
KTLA 5
More women come forward in ‘revenge porn' case
Two more women who could be victims of so-called “revenge porn” — allegedly committed by an Agoura Hills man — have come forward, Los Angeles police said Wednesday. Sergio Ortiz, 32, was arrested on Sept. 1 after he unlawfully uploaded a video to a porn site of himself engaging in a sex act with a San Fernando Valley woman, said Detective Eloy Navarro of the LAPD's West Valley Sex Crimes Unit.
Los Angeles Daily News
Death penalty urged in Halloween murder-for-hire of LA robbery witness
Jurors recommended the death penalty Wednesday for a man who arranged, from behind bars, the Beverly Grove murder of a witness against him in a robbery case.
Sentencing for Michael Thomas, 50, was set for Sept. 30. He was convicted last Thursday of murder for the killing of 42-year-old Erik Poltorak.
City News Service
Jury to Determine Whether Serial Arsonist Was Sane at Time of Crimes
The fate of a convicted serial arsonist on Wednesday was placed in the hands of a jury, which was asked to determine whether he was insane when he set 51 fires in Hollywood, West Hollywood and the San Fernando Valley in late December 2011 and early January 2012.
ABC 7
Brock Turner, Bill Cosby driving California sex-crime lawmaking
If you've sold your body, you deserve leniency. If your felony was low-level enough, you deserve to vote. If you sexually assaulted someone, you deserve to go to prison. Such was the message from Sacramento's Capitol this year, as a trend away from strict law-and-order policies came with a notable exception for sex crimes, prompted by public fury and demands for change.
Fresno Bee
On the death penalty, California voters face two stark choices
Four years after California voters decided narrowly to retain the death penalty, they face an even more dramatic choice: abolish executions or try to speed them up by setting tight time limits for state court rulings and limiting appeals. Competing initiatives — Proposition 62, to repeal the death penalty, and Prop. 66, to hasten it — will appear on the Nov. 8 ballot at a pivotal time for capital punishment in the United States.
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City Government News
DWP customers will have to keep waiting for refunds
L.A. Department of Water and Power officials announced more than a year ago that they would refund tens of millions of dollars to Angelenos who were overbilled because of a faulty computer system. But customers are still waiting and it will be 2017 before they see any money.
Los Angeles Times
Garcetti nominates Luz Rivas, founder of DIY Girls, to fill vacant Board of Public Works seat
Mayor Eric Garcetti today announced that he has nominated the founder of DIY Girls, a nonprofit that encourages girls to take up science and technology as interests, to fill a vacant seat on the Los Angeles Board of Public Works. If confirmed by the City Council, Luz Rivas would assume the seat left open by Monica Rodriguez, who stepped down in order to run for the Seventh District council seat.
LA West Media
As Venice booms, some residents wonder whether L.A. is holding them back
There are few places so ingrained in the identity of Los Angeles as Venice — the quirky artistic vibe, the bustling boardwalk and the designer real estate. Now, some Venice residents believe the connection to Los Angeles is holding the neighborhood back and are exploring a cityhood effort that would break free from L.A. government.
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Transportation News
LA City Council Endorses Measure M to Expand Rail System
The argument over a ballot measure that calls for a sales tax increase to fund an expansion of the Los Angeles County rail system has picked up steam. Los Angeles City councilmembers unanimously voted to endorse Measure M on Wednesday. The transit-related tax increase would fund the expansion of the L.A. County rail network, including the final stretch of the Gold Line from Azusa to Montclair.
ABC 7
City plans to get 100,000 cars off the road in five years
Can you imagine Los Angeles with 100,000 fewer cars on the streets? A transportation report released today envisions Los Angeles County as a place where residents use public or shared forms of transportation and are less reliant on private cars. The Shared Mobility Action Plan lays out ways transportation officials around the county could make "shared-use" forms of travel available to residents.
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