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Police Protective League
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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 21, 2018 |
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Law Enforcement News
Police Salute Gardena Officer Killed In Crash On Way To Work
A procession was held Tuesday for a Gardena Police Department motorcycle officer who died of injuries he suffered in a collision in Harbor City. Tuesday afternoon, the body of Officer Toshio Hirai, 34, was moved in a procession from Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in Torrance to the Los Angeles County coroner's office near downtown Los Angeles, said Gardena police Lt. Steve Prendergast. Funeral services will be Nov. 30 at Green Hills Mortuary and Memorial Chapel, 27501 S. Western Ave., in Rancho Palos Verdes, Prendergast said.
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Meet The Women Of The LAPD Breaking The Glass Ceiling
A group of women are excelling to the highest ranks within the Los Angeles Police Department and leading the charge in the fight against crime. Across the U.S. there are 900,000 sworn law enforcement officers. Women make up just 12 percent. But in Los Angeles, one out of five officers in the LAPD are women. Sgt. Jennifer Grasso is the first and still the only woman to be on the LAPD SWAT team. "Most of my male counterparts always knew from the time they were little boys growing up, when they were young in the department, they declared openly and for everyone to hear that they were going to be a SWAT officer," Grasso said. "And it never crossed my mind because I had never seen a female SWAT officer. So in my subconscious, I didn't think I realized it was possible."
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Suspect With Criminal Record Arrested In Hit-And-Run That Killed Great-Grandmother In Exposition Park
A man who had just dropped his children off at school is accused of a hit-and-run that left a 77-year-old woman dead less than 10 days before Thanksgiving. A community is reeling from the death of Maria Reynoso, who was killed on her way to church near Budlong Avenue at 28th Street in Exposition Park on Nov. 13. “She was a good woman, she was a great mother, she was a great grandmother, she was an excellent great-grandmother,” Reynoso's granddaughter, Julia Stranges, said Tuesday at the site of the collision. Reynoso was the matriarch of the family – the mother of nine children, 16 grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren. Witnesses said the suspect, 25-year-old Brandon Rosendo Mazariego, knew he had hit Reynoso but didn't stop.
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LAPD Tells City What It Can Do About Street Racing And ‘Street Takeovers' In San Fernando Valley
The Los Angeles Police Department is scheduled to make a presentation to the City Council Tuesday on its efforts to combat illegal street racing following reports of dangerous “street takeovers” in the San Fernando Valley and some fatal crashes. The presentation comes after the City Council voted in June to have the LAPD report on all of the city's current ordinances, laws and fines related to street racing, anti-street racing programs in effect, as well as any suggestions to increase penalties or fines. Street racing is a decades-old problem in city, but particularly in the Valley, and in recent years has evolved into what are commonly referred to as street takeovers, where a large number of drivers close down a street or intersection while other motorists perform dangerous and reckless stunts.
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Family Speaks Out About 2 Sisters Murdered In Westchester Apartment
A double murder mystery in Westchester. Two sisters shot. Their apartment set on fire. “They took beautiful souls from our family. We are hurting. We are all hurting,” said Tierra Turner. Tierra Turner's two cousins were found by firefighters dead inside their burning Westchester apartment on Saturday, and family tells us they were shot. “My family will never be the same because of this,” said Turner. 16-year-old Sierra Brown and her 27-year-old sister Unique Souvinette just moved into the apartment a few weeks ago, with the help of their dad Kevin Brown.
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Felony Charges Filed In Skid Row Voter Fraud Case
Prosecutors filed felony charges against nine people suspected of paying homeless people on Skid Row to forge signatures on ballot initiative petitions and voter registration forms. The group is accused of offering cash and cigarettes in exchange for the signatures on documents that date back to 2016 and were first reported by NBC4 in May. The group was expected to make an initial appearance in court in downtown LA Tuesday, according to the LA County District Attorney's Office. Three of those charged were among a group arrested by LAPD Central Division vice and patrol officers in May.
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Sunland Man Pleads Not Guilty To Impersonating FBI, Smuggling Weapons Into Jail, Child Porn
A Sunland man who's accused of impersonating an FBI agent and trying to smuggle a hunting knife, two Tasers and handcuffs into the Men's Central Jail in downtown Los Angeles, and is also facing child pornography-related counts, pleaded not guilty Monday to charges in both cases. Greg Nickol Baghoomian, 28, faces a maximum possible sentence of one year and eight months if convicted of one felony count each of bringing a weapon into a jail and using a counterfeit seal and one misdemeanor count of unlawful use of a badge. He is due back in court on Feb. 4, when a date is expected to be set for a preliminary hearing to determine whether there is sufficient evidence to proceed to trial.
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Southland Neo-Nazi Group Associate Pleads Guilty To Federal Charge
A member of a militant Southern California white supremacist group pleaded guilty Tuesday to a federal charge in connection with a violent political rally in Orange County last year in which several journalists were attacked. Tyler Laube, 22, of Redondo Beach, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to violate the federal riots act. U.S. District Judge Cormac J. Carney scheduled sentencing for March 25 in downtown Los Angeles. Laube was ordered to remain in custody pending sentencing. He is expected to receive between one and three years in prison, according to court documents.
MyNewsLA.com |
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Bail bond industry moves to block sweeping California law, submitting signatures for a 2020 ballot referendum
A coalition of bail bond industry groups took a major step Tuesday toward blocking California's historic overhaul of the bail system, submitting more than enough signatures required for a statewide referendum on the law in 2020. If the signatures are verified by elections officials, the law signed by Gov. Jerry Brown in August would be suspended until voters decide whether to overturn it, allowing bail agents to continue doing business before the industry's future in California is decided.
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Public Safety News
Firefighters Make Quick Work Of Flames Burning Brush In Sylmar
Firefighters needed less than 20 minutes to knock down a fire that burned about 2 acres in Sylmar on the afternoon of Tuesday, Nov. 20, the Los Angeles Fire Department said. The fire burned near Stetson Ranch Park, to the northeast of the junction of the 5 and 210 freeways. Firefighters from Los Angeles city, Los Angeles County and the Angeles National Forest responded. No injuries were reported and no structures burned, the Fire Department said in announcing full containment about 4:30 p.m. The cause was under investigation.
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Rainy Season Brings Mudslide Danger To Southern California's Fire-Ravaged Neighborhoods
It didn't take long for Don Fauntleroy's relief to be overtaken by dread. After surviving the flames, his home is in danger again, this time from the rains. Like others across the 100,000-acre Woolsey fire burn area, the 65-year-old cinematographer has been rushing to fortify his Malibu property against what could come rushing down from the steep, charred hillside above. The fire has put Fauntleroy's home near the mouth of Trancas Canyon at high risk of debris flow, and he fears heavy rain could unleash a slurry of mud and rock to destroy what the wildfire spared.
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Health Officials Say Don't Eat Romaine Lettuce After E. Coli Outbreak Sickens 50, Including 10 Californians
Health officials in the U.S. and Canada told people Tuesday to stop eating romaine lettuce because of a new E. coli outbreak. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said it is working with officials in Canada on the outbreak, which has sickened 32 people in 11 states — including 10 cases in California — and 18 people in the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec. At least one of the California cases was from Orange County, according to Jessica Good with the O.C. Health Care Agency.
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Local Government News
New Wildfire Task Force Proposed By L.A. City Council Members
Several members of the Los Angeles City Council proposed Tuesday that a task force be formed to consider new solutions to fighting and preventing destructive wildfires. As outlined in a motion introduced by Councilman Mike Bonin and seconded by three other council members, the task force would examine street width requirements, parking restrictions, the effectiveness of emergency alert systems and evacuation plans, current building codes and standards, and the need for stricter enforcement of construction activities on narrow roads, among other issues.
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