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Daily Local & Regional NewsWatch
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Daily Local & Regional NewsWatch
Daily News Digest
from LA Police Protective League
December 15, 2016 |
Law Enforcement News
LAPD Officers Give Away Shoes to Children at South L.A. Elementary School
Los Angeles Police officers gave away shoes to children at Holmes Elementary in the Central-Alameda area on Wednesday. Elizabeth Espinosa reports for the KTLA 5 News at 1 on Dec. 14, 2016.
KTLA 5
2 Suspects Sought In South LA Shooting; 1 Person Wounded
Police were searching for two suspects in a shooting in South Los Angeles Wednesday night. A man was found with three gunshot wounds to his lower body at about 9:15 p.m. in the area of 88th and Main streets, according to authorities from the LAPD. The unidentified victim was taken to a nearby hospital in critical but stable condition. Police said he was affiliated with a gang. No suspect description was given, but authorities said they were looking for two men seen running away from the scene.
ABC 7
Several Cars Burn in North Hills
Cindy Diaz struggled to choke back tears after seeing the damage done to a half dozen cars that burned outside an apartment complex in the San Fernando Valley. "This is awful," she said. "It's my daughter's car." Her daughter's Kia was among four vehicles burned in North Hills off Woodley Avenue Tuesday night, officials said. They were parked outside the Woodley Plaza apartments. Residents say there was another fire there last week. That time, a couch near a dumpster was burned.
NBC 4
Suspect Sought In Deadly Van Nuys Shooting
Detectives with the LAPD are on the hunt for the suspect in a deadly shooting in Van Nuys Tuesday evening. Just before midnight, Van Nuys Area Patrol Officers responded to a radio call of shots fired around the 13000 block of Victory Boulevard. According to witnesses, there were two vehicles parked in the lot near the 13000 block of Victory Boulevard. The witnesses heard arguing and then multiple gun shots.
CBS 2
Grieving Mother of Toddler Who Was Fatally Stabbed Speaks Out
The family of 3-year-old Ruby Vasquez, who was fatally stabbed in a downtown clothing factory, is speaking out for the first time since the tragedy. "She was the baby of the house," the victim's grieving mother, Maria Rodriguez, said in Spanish. "I feel dead inside." Vasquez was allegedly stabbed by Ricardo Utuy, 34, on Halloween after her parents, unable to find child care, took the toddler to work at a factory in the 800 block of McGarry Street.
NBC 4
Man Arrested in West Adams Fatal Hit-and-Run Crash That Occurred in November
A 23-year-old man has been arrested in connection with killing a woman in a West Adams hit-and-run crash last month, police said Wednesday. Iris Davis, 50, was crossing West Adams Boulevard outside the crosswalk on Nov. 12 with a friend, police said. She was struck and killed by a driver in a pickup truck who did not stop. Her friend was not injured in the crash. Zachary Labov was arrested after LAPD officials received an anonymous call about the suspect and the vehicle he was driving at the time of the crash.
KTLA 5
Suspect Charged With DUI In Crash That Injured Orange Police Officer
A woman accused of crashing her car into an Orange police officer, critically injuring him, has been charged with drunken driving and other felonies. Officer Sharif Muzayen suffered major trauma to his legs and pelvis and remained hospitalized Tuesday. Twenty-seven-year-old Ashley V. Bertolino is accused of having a bloodalcohol level of .13 percent and being under the influence of drugs.
CBS 2
USC grad student charged with unleashing cyberattack on Bay Area tech company
A USC graduate student from La Cañada Flintridge has been indicted on a charge that he waged a cyberattack on a San Francisco tech company. A grand jury handed down the indictment on Dec. 1, accusing Sean Sharma of carrying out a so-called distributed denial of service attack on the web servers belonging to Chatango, according to court papers filed in U.S. District Court. If convicted, Sharma, 26, faces up to 10 years in prison.
Los Angeles Times
Baca trial: Prosecutors call FBI agent who led investigation in LA county jails
The FBI agent who led the investigation into brutality inside Los Angeles County jails testified Wednesday that former Sheriff Lee Baca was well informed about his deputy's efforts to block that investigation. Agent Leah Tanner's testimony centered on events in August and September of 2011, when sheriff's deputies at Men's Central Jail discovered that the FBI was using an inmate as a secret informant to report on how deputies were beating people up. They had discovered the informant with a cell phone that contained a number for the FBI.
KPCC 89.3
Attorney general reverses direction on challenge to bail system
A legal challenge to the bail system in San Francisco courts will go forward without the active support of Attorney General Kamala Harris, who has changed her mind and declined to file a motion in its support, her office said Wednesday. Her decision, announced by spokeswoman Kristin Ford, reversed a decision last week to join the challenge to the cash-bail system, which requires a criminal defendant to post cash or other security in order to be released from custody before trial.
San Francisco Chronicle
Two years after Prop 47, addicts walk free with nowhere to go
Ruben Lopez, 57, a longtime addict, was serving a life sentence in prison for a third-strike methamphetamine conviction until last year, when he was released by Proposition 47, which downgraded drug possession and most small thefts to misdemeanors. Prop 47 felt like emancipation at first, Lopez said, but freedom has not gone as planned.
USA Today
Drug busts drop as cops question if they're worth it
Drug busts have been dramatically deprioritized by police since voters passed Proposition 47, which reduced the possession of hard drugs from a felony to a misdemeanor. Statewide, police made about 22,000 fewer drug arrests in 2015, a 9.5 percent decrease in the first full year under the new law. The sharp drop in drug arrests is the most significant impact Prop 47 has had on California crime, according to an analysis of decades of crime data by USA TODAY Network-California journalists.
USA Today
Lawyer: Man Charged In Officer Death Incompetent For Trial
A lawyer for a man accused of shooting a Detroit officer during a chase says a psychiatric review has found his client incompetent to stand trial. Twenty-one-year-old Marquise Cromer is charged with first-degree murder in the death of Sgt. Ken Steil. Steil died unexpectedly Sept. 17 of a blood clot, five days after being shot in the shoulder.
Associated Press
Entire Ind. police department resigns in protest
A local town is without a police department after the town marshal and four reserve deputies resigned Monday. The Effingham Daily News reported that officers cited mismanagement of the department and stated the town council asked officers to occasionally break the law. Town Marshal Michael Thomison stated the board allegedly asked officers to run background checks on other board members and requested confidential information.
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Local Government News
LA takes major step in reducing building energy consumption
The City Council Tuesday took action to reduce energy use in large, older buildings, which studies have found are responsible for a great deal of the city's energy consumption. The Existing Building Energy and Water Efficiency ordinance would require buildings 20,000 square feet or larger to report energy and water usage to the Department of Building and Safety each year. Every five years, these buildings, along with ones 15,000 square feet or larger, will be required to take action to reduce their consumption.
City News Service
LA approves NoHo West project for former Laurel Plaza site
A mixed-use project with offices, 600 apartments, a movie theater and stores at the former site of the Laurel Plaza shopping center in North Hollywood was approved by the Los Angeles City Council Wednesday. The NoHo West development, approved in a 14-0 vote, will take up 25 acres of a once-bustling retail destination built in the 1950s that suffered a decline starting in the ‘80s.
Los Angeles Daily News
Cities try to protect tenants while cracking down on illegal warehouse housing
As officials vow to crack down on illegally converted warehouses in the wake of the deadly Ghost Ship fire, there has been pushback from some tenants and housing rights activists who fear the effort will end up leaving low-income tenants on the streets. Soaring rents both in the Bay Area and Los Angeles area have pushed countless residents into substandard housing, including makeshift units built illegally in warehouses zoned for commercial uses. Officials in Oakland and Los Angeles said they are working to blunt the impact of a crackdown on illegal residences.
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