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Daily Local & Regional NewsWatch
LA Police Protective League
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Los Angeles
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the union that represents the
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Daily Local & Regional NewsWatch
Daily News Digest
from LA Police Protective League
November 2, 2017 |
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Law Enforcement News
Shootout Critically Wounds San Francisco Officer, Suspect
A San Francisco police officer and a suspect were both critically wounded in a Halloween night gunbattle in a popular neighborhood for holiday celebrations, officials said Wednesday. Shots erupted when the 41-year-old officer approached a parked car in the city's Castro neighborhood to check on reports of a suspicious vehicle, San Francisco police Sgt. Michael Andraychak said.
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Carjacking Suspect In Custody After Standoff In Sylmar Cul-De-Sac
Los Angeles police have taken into custody a carjacking suspect on a cul-de-sac in the area of Norris Avenue and Excelsior Street in Sylmar following a pursuit. No one was injured and the suspect is expected to be booked for grand theft auto, said Los Angeles Police Department Officer Mike Lopez.
Los Angeles Daily News |
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LAPD Says They're Preparing For Possible Violence At Saturday's Anti-Trump Protest
Anti-Trump protests planned in Los Angeles and around the country Saturday have heightened concern about the potential for clashes between leftist or anarchist demonstrators and far right counter-protesters in the post-Charlottesville era. RefuseFascism.org is hosting 18 protests across the country Saturday — including a 1 p.m. rally and march starting at L.A.'s historic Pershing Square — in an effort to drive President Donald Trump's administration from power.
Los Angeles Daily News
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Sexual Predator Prowling In South LA, 3 Women Attacked
Police Wednesday sought the public's help in identifying a suspect who sexually assaulted three women in separate attacks in South Los Angeles. The crimes occurred in May, August and September, after the suspect picked the victims up in his vehicle in the area of Western Avenue and 51st Street, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.
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Yasiel Puig's Home Reportedly Burglarized On Same Night As Dodgers' World Series Loss
An Encino home owned by Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder Yasiel Puig was burglarized Wednesday evening on the same night as the devastating World Series loss to the Houston Astros. Los Angeles police responded to the home after a burglary alarm went off and found a smashed window and items taken, authorities said.
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21-Year-Old Man Vanishes In Sun Valley, Family Makes Public Plee
?A family was seeking information Wednesday about a 21-year-old man who went missing last week from Sun Valley. Vincent Tyler Marcelo Babudro was last seen about 9 p.m. on Thursday in the 8900 block of Helen Avenue and hasn't been heard from since. Babudro is white, 6-feet tall, 130 pounds with brow hair and eyes.
MyNewsLA.com |
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Hit-And-Run Driver Hides After Fatal Crash, Surrenders At LAPD Station
A driver suspected of fatally injuring a pedestrian in South Los Angeles and then abandoning his vehicle and running away along with a young boy turned himself in to police Wednesday morning.
MyNewsLA.com |
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Reward Offered As LAPD Seeks Hit-And-Run Driver Who Killed Pedestrian In Chatsworth
Authorities are looking for a hit-and-run driver who allegedly struck and killed a pedestrian Tuesday night in Chatsworth before leaving the scene. The crime was reported at 9 p.m. Tuesday after a white sedan entered a driveway in the 20600 block of Lassen Street and struck a 66-year-old man from Chatsworth, the Los Angeles Police Department said.
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Man, 32, Pleads No Contest To Raping Woman Inside Van Nuys Beauty Salon
Authorities said a 32-year-old man pleaded no contest Wednesday to sexually assaulting a beauty salon worker as she closed up shop last year. The Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced Enrique Orozco entered his plea to one count each of assault with the intent to commit rape, forcible rape and dissuading a witness by threat of force. Orozco was immediately sentenced to 20 years to life in state prison.
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77-Year-Old Man Pleads Guilty To Murdering His Wife Inside Their San Pedro Home
A San Pedro man has pleaded guilty to murdering his wife inside their home two years ago, the Los Angeles District Attorney's Office said Wednesday. George Matsumoto, 77, pleaded guilty to one count of second-degree murder in the 2015 slaying of his wife, Mary, the DA's office said. He faces 19 years to life in state prison.
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A Quarter Of Chicago's Crime Guns Were Sold By Just Ten Dealers
A small number of gun stores located in suburban Illinois and neighboring states, like Indiana, are responsible for selling a disproportionate number of guns used to commit crimes in the city of Chicago, a report released on Sunday said. The city's second Gun Trace Report, based on trace data from 2013 to 2016, found that 10 gun stores accounted for almost 25 percent of the roughly 15,000 crime guns recovered by the Chicago Police Department (CPD).
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Judge Says California Can't Force Antiabortion Clinics To Publicize Abortion Access
California violates freedom of speech by requiring antiabortion “crisis pregnancy centers” to tell patients that the state makes abortions available at little or no cost, a Riverside County judge has ruled, reopening debate over a law that federal courts had upheld. The law, sponsored by Assemblyman David Chiu, D-San Francisco, took effect last year.
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Local Government News
Homeless Would Be Hired To Pick Up Trash In LA Under Proposed Program
The city of Los Angeles is looking at a pilot program that would employ homeless people to clean trash from streets, sidewalks and alleys. The city says it receives some 200 requests a day about dumping and trash nuisances. Sometimes city employees are diverted from more complex projects to respond to clean up trash, officials say.
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Safety Upgrades To LA City Hall Observation Deck To Be Explored
The City Council Wednesday directed the Los Angeles Police Department to study ways to improve safety measures for the observation deck at City Hall. On Sept. 11, a distraught man triggered a significant response from the city's police and fire departments when he climbed over the railing of the observation deck and sat on an edge of the building. MyNewsLA.com |
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World Series 2017
Dodgers Fans Are Feeling Blue
It was a crazy run, but in the only Game 7 of the World Series ever held at Dodger Stadium, the boys in blue did not rise to the occasion when the Houston Astros did. The 5-1 loss “will haunt the Dodgers,” Times reporter Andy McCullough writes. “During the long months before the next spring dawns, they will ruminate over how close they came, and how far they remained.”
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