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Daily Local & Regional NewsWatch
Daily News Digest
from LA Police Protective League
October 8, 2019 |
Law Enforcement News
Tennessee Special Agent's Killer Pleads Guilty
A convicted felon was sentenced to life in prison Monday for the 2016 killing of a Tennessee Bureau of Investigation agent. Brenden Burns pleaded guilty to felony murder and aggravated robbery in the shooting death of Special Agent De'Greaun Frazier, Madison County District Attorney Jody S. Pickens said. Frazier, 35, was killed during an undercover drug investigation in Jackson in August 2016. Burns, 24, received a sentence of life in prison without parole in a plea deal that resulted from discussions between prosecutors and defense attorneys in the run-up to a trial scheduled in November, Pickens said. Frazier was the first agent in the history of the state police agency to be killed in the line of duty.
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Transient Killed In Deadly Shooting On Skid Row
The Los Angeles Police Department was investigating a deadly shooting on Skid Row in downtown Los Angeles Thursday after a man reportedly shot a transient multiple times before leaving the scene. The shooting was reported around 3:10 a.m. in the 500 block of 5th Street, near the intersection of San Pedro Street. Arriving officers and firefighters found a man, believed to be in his 60s, suffering from multiple gunshot wounds, LAPD said. Paramedics attempted to resuscitate the victim but he was pronounced dead at the scene. The victim was identified Oct. 7 as 58-year-old Julio Martinez. His hometown remains unknown. The suspect was described as a black man about 6 feet 2, about 215 pounds, whose hair was in dreadlocks that reached his shoulders.
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Driver Sought In South L.A. Hit-And-Run That Killed 60-Year-Old Woman
Police are searching for a driver involved in a hit-and-run crash in South Los Angeles that left a 60-year-old woman dead, authorities said Saturday. Elvia Bercian was crossing the street southbound along Century Boulevard, just west of Baring Cross Street in the Vermont Vista neighborhood, when she was struck by a Toyota Corolla traveling eastbound on Century just after 7 p.m. Friday, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. She lied motionless in the road before being struck a second time by another vehicle — believed to be a white Chevy pickup truck — and was then hit a third time by a red KIA Soul, LAPD officials said. She was pronounced dead at the scene. The drivers of the Toyota Corolla and KIA Soul both remained at the scene but the driver of the pickup truck fled the area, police said.
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Man Wounded In Boyle Heights Gang Shooting
A man was wounded Monday in a shooting in the Boyle Heights area of Los Angeles, authorities said. It happened at 12:30 a.m. at Soto and Marengo streets, a dispatcher in the Los Angeles Police Department Operations Center said. The man was in the intersection when a suspect walked toward him and fired one shot that struck him, the dispatcher said. The man was hospitalized with stable vital signs, he said. The shooting was believed to have been gang-related, the dispatcher said.
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LAPD: Sexual Assault Suspect Posed As Driver, Picked Up Passengers At WeHo Club
Police have arrested a suspect they say sexually assaulted passengers while posing as a driver and offering rides outside a West Hollywood nightclub. LAPD officials would not state exactly where the passengers were picked up but said the location was in the 8000 block of Sunset Boulevard. Investigators are asking the public to take a look at the mugshot of 48-year-old Dayvid Sherman, who they claim posed as a driver-for-hire and approached women leaving a nightclub alone. In two cases, once in October 2018, another in September 2019, police say he drove into L.A. and after the drunk passenger lost consciousness during the ride, the suspect assaulted them. “He was targeting individuals coming out of nightclubs, possibly intoxicated, advised them, ‘Hey, I would take you home at a cheaper rate,'” said LAPD Officer Mike Lopez.
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Lyft Driver At Large After Robbing Passenger At Gunpoint In Westwood
Police are investigating after a man taking a ride home after a night out in West Hollywood was robbed by his Lyft driver at gunpoint this summer. Albert Sera says he called a ride to his home in the San Fernando Valley only to have his cellphone, wallet and other belongings stolen in an experience he describes as "horrifying." Sera was picked up around 1:45 a.m. Aug. 31 at the corner of Santa Monica and San Vicente boulevards, according to a crime report from the Los Angeles Police Department, which is investigating the robbery. During the route, the driver turned off Wilshire Boulevard into a dimly lit area of Comstock Avenue in Westwood, near the Los Angeles Country Club. He then stopped the vehicle, pointed a semiautomatic handgun at Sera and ordered him to, “Get out,” according to the report.
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Opening Statements In Penalty Phase Of ‘Hollywood Ripper' Trial
The convicted double-murderer dubbed the “Hollywood Ripper” is a ”sadistic, thrill-seeking psychopath” who deserves the death penalty, a prosecutor told jurors Monday, while a defense attorney countered that the killer would die in prison regardless of what punishment the panel recommends. Michael Gargiulo “has led a life of crime and violence that has left a swath of death, grief and destruction behind him,” Deputy Dist. Atty. Dan Akemon told the panel as the penalty phase of the trial got underway. ”He has earned and deserves the maximum penalty of death.” Defense attorney Dale Rubin said the jurors had already made the most important decision when they convicted his client Aug. 15 of first-degree murder for the slayings of 22-year-old Ashley Ellerin and 32-year-old Maria Bruno. “Mr. Gargiulo is going to die in prison. The question is when? Is it going to be in God's time or is it going to be in your time?” Rubin said.
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Federal Agents Raid 4 Southern California Addiction Treatment Centers
Federal agents raided four addiction treatment centers in Los Angeles and Orange counties last week seeking evidence in a criminal probe, officials said Monday. FBI spokeswoman Laura Eimiller said the reason for searches at four locations — contained in probable-cause affidavits — were filed under seal in federal court, and the FBI would not comment further on the nature of the investigation. Agents searched Malibu California Model Drug Treatment Center Inc., doing business as Inspire Malibu on Kanan Road in Agoura Hills; Progressive Recovery Solutions LLC, doing business as Victory Detox Center on Morse Avenue in North Hollywood; BLVD Centers Inc., doing business as BLVD-Sawtelle on Sawtelle Boulevard in Los Angeles; and Reflections Recovery LLC, doing business as Reflections Recovery on Bush Street in Santa Ana, according to Eimiller and data from the state Department of Health Care Services, which licenses and certifies addiction treatment centers.
Los Angeles Daily News |
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Inmate Is Most Prolific Serial Killer In US History: FBI
The inmate who claims to have killed more than 90 women across the country is now considered to be the most prolific serial killer in U.S. history, the Federal Bureau of Investigation said. Samuel Little, who has been behind bars since 2012, told investigators last year that he was responsible for about 90 killings nationwide between 1970 and 2005. In a news release on Sunday, the FBI announced that federal crime analysts believe all of his confessions are credible, and officials have been able to verify 50 confessions so far. Investigators also provided new information and details about five cases in Florida, Arkansas, Kentucky, Nevada and Louisiana. The 79-year-old Little is serving multiple life sentences in California. He says he strangled his 93 victims, nearly all of them women.
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Public Safety News
Fire Weather Watch Issued For L.A. And Ventura Counties Starting Thursday Morning
Meteorologists with the National Weather Service in Oxnard have issued a fire weather watch for Ventura and most of Los Angeles counties that will be in effect early Thursday through Friday evening. Moderate, possibly strong, Santa Ana winds are expected to develop in the mountains before sunrise Thursday. The winds are expected to be widespread and to peak Thursday before weakening slightly on Friday and then diminishing Saturday, according to the weather service's Monday evening update. The region could see a rapid onset of the Santa Anas in the valleys and along the coasts, with northeast winds of 20 to 30 mph with gusts up to 55 mph; in the foothills and mountains, winds of 25 to 40 mph with gusts of up to 70 mph are expected.
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California Introduces 1st Toll-Free Statewide Mental Health Line Ahead Of World Mental Health Day
California on Monday launched its first statewide mental health line to help those struggling with mental and emotional well-being, officials announced. The free service offers non-emergency emotional support and referrals to anyone who calls or messages the number 1-855-845-7415. It will be staffed 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. Monday through Friday, 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturdays, and 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. Sundays. The goal is to have 24/7 service by the end of the year. “When addressing issues surrounding health, the conversation must also include emotional wellness. This new state resource builds on our current mental health system by serving a population that is not in crisis but still in need of support,” Assembly Budget Committee Chair Phil Ting, D-San Francisco, said in a news release posted on his office's website.
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Local Government News
A New Look At LA's Homeless Count Numbers Has Some Wondering If There Will Be A Shift In Conversation Around Mental Illness, Drug Addiction
Officials with Los Angeles's homeless services agency on Monday stuck to the characterization that just under a third of the people counted as homeless struggle with a serious mental illness or drug addiction, but they added that a deeper conversation about the needs of this segment of the homeless population is warranted. That figure is frequently used by some advocates to deflect concerns from some members of the community who resist the idea of a permanent or temporary housing projects. Those who have worries about such projects often express fears that building them would attract people experiencing mental illness or struggling with drug addiction into their neighborhoods. But a Los Angeles Times analysis of the Los Angeles Homeless Services Agency's own homeless count data, that was released Monday, pegged the percentage at 67 percent of the population. The story's headline also stated that the figure supports “the public's perception.”
Los Angeles Daily News |
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LA City Council President To Propose City's First Public Bank
Los Angeles City Council President Herb Wesson said Monday that he will propose establishing the city's first public banking institution. Wesson said he'll file a motion this week calling for the council to authorize a search for a “banking expert” to help the city get a public bank up and running. The move comes several days after Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law AB 857, which allows statewide establishment of public banks. “I do believe that this is the way that government is supposed to work, where we partner with the people … together trying to affect change,” Wesson said. “Rarely do people have the chance to make history, and I just want to say to everyone standing beside me and behind me, that you folks have made history.” Public banks are intended to focus local investment by offering business loans and could be used to finance public supportive housing among other projects, according to proponents of the system.
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