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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
December 19, 2018 |
Law Enforcement News
North Carolina Officer Dies After Being Hit While Investigating Crash
A Lumberton police officer has died after being struck by a car while investigating a crash on I-95 early Saturday morning. WTVD reported that Officer Jason Quick was responding to a wreck on I-95 Northbound near Exit 22 just after 6 a.m. Officer Quick was hit by a car shortly before 7 a.m., according to authorities. Quick was taken to Southeastern Regional Medical Center where he died. The North Carolina Highway Patrol and the Investigator for the Robeson County District Attorney's Office are investigating the crash scene. “Our deepest condolences go out to the family and friends of Officer Jason Quick,” the Lumberton Police Department said on Facebook. WGHP-TV, Greensboro |
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LAPD Seeks Suspects After Man Shot Dead While Repairing Car In North Hollywood
Police are searching for leads after a man was fatally shot while working on his vehicle in a North Hollywood parking lot, officials said Tuesday. Sergio Mares, a 42-year-old Sun Valley resident, was repairing his car outside the Valley Plaza Recreation Center at the corner of Archwood Street and Laurel Grove Avenue when he was approached by two men shortly before 6 p.m. Monday, the Los Angeles Police Department said in a news release. One of the men pulled out a firearm and shot him, police said. Responding officers found Mares with multiple gunshot wounds, but the suspects had already fled north to Vanowen Street, according to LAPD. KTLA 5 |
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Police Offer Reward For Information Leading To Downtown Stabbing Suspect
Police Wednesday will offer a $50,000 reward and ask for the public's help in locating the suspect in a deadly stabbing in downtown Los Angeles last month. The incident occurred on Nov. 6 in the area of Ninth Street and Grand Avenue, according to a statement from the Los Angeles Police Department. Detectives will release images of the suspect and discuss details of the case Wednesday afternoon, the statement said. MyNewsLA.com |
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How George Tyndall Went From USC Gynecologist To The Center Of LAPD's Largest-Ever Sex Abuse Investigation
Dr. George Tyndall arrived on the USC campus in the summer of 1989. The university had advertised for a full-time gynecologist for the student health center, and Tyndall, then 42, was an enthusiastic candidate. “My mission will be to do everything I can to help Trojan women avoid the many preventable catastrophes that I have seen,” Tyndall declared during the job interview, according to a written account he provided to The Times. “And I will do so for as long as I am mentally and physically able, hopefully well into my 80s.” USC offered a salary that was a fraction of what Tyndall's peers elsewhere earned, but he saw rewards beyond money. The job, he would later say, allowed him to shepherd female students safely to womanhood, steering them around sexually transmitted diseases, unplanned pregnancies and other hazards. Many who encountered the physician, however, saw him as less a voice of medical authority than as an eccentric who bewildered and, over time, ultimately alarmed those around him. Los Angeles Times |
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Serial Groper Convicted Again After Touching Women, Girls On L.A. Metro Buses: City Attorney
A 27-year-old man with several previous convictions for groping public transit passengers in the Los Angeles area was again convicted for attacking more women and girls on buses, officials announced Tuesday. Ager Linder pleaded no contest to two counts of child molestation, three counts of sexual battery and one count of battery on a public transportation passenger, the L.A. City Attorney's Office said. He allegedly groped five women and three girls, between 15- to 27-years-old, while on Metro buses in the Mid-City area from May to August 2018. “At times he would pretend to be asleep and then grab a victim… In each of those incidents, Linder would approach the victims and grab their breasts, buttocks or other body parts,” a statement from the City Attorney said. KTLA 5 |
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L.A. Fashion District Business Owners Sentenced To Federal Prison In Money Laundering Scheme
The owners of a downtown Los Angeles Fashion District company were sentenced Tuesday to federal prison for hiding nearly $3.2 million that came from drug traffickers in a money laundering scheme. Morad and Hersel Neman, owners of Pacific Eurotex Corp., pleaded guilty in December 2017 to money laundering and failing to report millions in income as part of their participation in the “Black Market Peso Exchange,” a scheme that allows drug traffickers to convert U.S. dollars to pesos through American businesses. Morad Neman of Westwood was sentenced to two years of federal prison and his brother, Hersel Neman of Beverly Hills, was sentenced to 18 months, the U.S. attorney's office said. They were each also ordered to six months of home confinement. Los Angeles Times |
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Thousand Oaks Mass Shooting Gunman Had Drugs Illegally Prescribed By Tustin Doctor, Feds Say
Authorities accused an Orange County doctor Tuesday of illegally distributing prescription drugs to at least five people who died of overdoses, and to a man charged last month with being under the influence when his vehicle fatally struck a Costa Mesa fire captain out for a morning bike ride. Federal prosecutors also alleged that medications prescribed by Dzung Ahn Pham, of Tustin, were found in the possession of a man believed to have carried out the mass shooting at the Borderline Bar and Grill in Thousand Oaks that claimed the lives of 13 people. Pham, the owner of the Irvine Village Urgent Care, faces two federal counts of illegally distributing oxycodone. While he has not been criminally charged in connection to the Borderline shooting, the death of the Costa Mesa fire captain or the overdose deaths, authorities in a court filing alleged that he routinely gave out large quantities of powerful narcotics to dozens of patients. Los Angeles Daily News |
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California Police Union Seeks State Supreme Court Review Of New Law Disclosing Internal Investigation Records
A police union is asking the California Supreme Court to block the release of internal officer investigations before a new state law takes effect next year. The San Bernardino County Sheriff's Employees' Benefit Assn. filed a petition Tuesday asking justices to rule that only investigations of incidents that occur after Jan. 1 would be available under the law — and not those the department has on file from years prior. The litigation comes after this year's passage of Senate Bill 1421, which opens to the public for the first time internal investigations of officer shootings and other major uses of force, along with confirmed cases of sexual assault and lying while on duty. The law goes into effect Jan. 1, and the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department has told the union it intends to make available in response to public records requests all the information it has. Los Angeles Times |
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CHP Highlights 2019 California Traffic Safety Laws: Bicycle Hit-And-Run, Helmet Use, Exhaust Violations And More
With 2018 coming to a close, the California Highway Patrol on Monday sought to draw attention to several new road safety laws for the new year. The new laws touch on many different facets of traffic-related safety, from helmet use on bicycles and motorized scooters, to modified exhaust systems and hit-and-run on bicycle paths, according to a CHP news release. KTLA 5 |
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Justice Department Bans Bump Stocks, Devices Used In Deadly Las Vegas Shooting
The Trump administration is banning bump stocks, the firearm attachment that allows a semiautomatic weapon to shoot almost as fast as a machine gun. The devices, also known as slide fires, came under intense scrutiny after they were used by the gunman who opened fire on a country music concert in Las Vegas last year, killing 58 people. The massacre touched off a public outcry, including from some lawmakers, for the accessories to b e banned. Under a new federal rule announced Tuesday by the Justice Department, bump stocks will be redefined as "machine guns" and therefore outlawed under existing law. The new regulations, which were signed by acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker, will take effect 90 days after being published in the Federal Register. KPCC |
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Public Safety News
LA County Fire Department Hiring Paramedics
The Los Angeles County Fire Department put out a call Tuesday for experienced paramedics to apply. "We are pleased to officially begin the process of recruiting new team members who will join us in carrying out our daily mission of protecting lives and property in the communities we serve,'' Los Angeles County Fire Chief Daryl Osby said. Applicants must have a valid, non-probationary paramedic license issued by the California Emergency Medical Services Authority and 12 months of experience running 911 calls as a paramedic. The department will start accepting applications Jan. 7 for the qualifying exam. NBC 4 |
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Local Government News
Special Election Called To Fill Northwest Valley Seat On The LA City Council
A special election has been tentatively called for June 4, and if necessary, a runoff on Aug. 13, to pick someone to fill a vacancy opening up after Councilman Mitchell Englander steps down Jan. 1. The Los Angeles City Council approved an ordinance calling the election last week, and the request to hold the election has been submitted to the County Board of Supervisors and the county clerk, said City Clerk Holly Wolcott. The ordinance, which was awaiting the signature of Mayor Eric Garcetti, also calls for the filing period for declaring intention to be from Feb. 11 until Feb. 19. Los Angeles Daily News |
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LA Kicks Off Annual Tree Recycling Program
Los Angeles officials Tuesday announced the start of the city's Christmas tree recycling program that annually recycles up to 100,000 trees. Los Angeles City Councilwoman Nury Martinez, Board of Public Works Commissioner Aura Garcia, LA Sanitation and Environment Director and General Manager Enrique C. Zaldivar and Los Angeles Fire Capt. Cody Weireter were at the East Valley Sanitation District Yard in Sun Valley to discuss and demonstrate how to properly recycle Christmas trees and provide fire safety tips. The recycled trees are saved from ending up in a landfill and are turned into mulch and compost to be used by residents and city staff. NBC 4 |
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