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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
October 14, 2019 |
Law Enforcement News
Texas Deputy Killed, Police Chief Injured When Struck By Car
A sheriff's deputy was killed and a small-town police chief was injured when a car struck them as they aided a motorist on a Central Texas roadside. The incident happened about 2 p.m. Friday on Texas 6 near Riesel, about 20 miles southeast of Waco. The Texas Department of Public Safety reports Falls County sheriff's Deputy Matt Jones and Riesel Police Chief Danny Krumnow were helping a motorist when another car hydroplaned on the rain-slick highway and slid into them. DPS Sgt. Ryan Howard says Jones was dead at the scene of the crash, while Krumnow was airlifted to a Waco hospital in critical condition. The driver of the car involved also was taken to a hospital with minor injuries. Jones was a deputy for four years.
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5 Men Sentenced In Gang Murder Of NYPD Explorer
Five gang members convicted in the gruesome execution of a 15-year-old Bronx kid wrongly targeted as a rival gangbanger were slammed Friday with lengthy prison terms for the murder. Three of the murderous quintet were sentenced to 25 years to life, one was imprisoned for life without parole and the youngest killer was sentenced to 23 years to life at the Bronx Supreme Court hearing. Jonaiki Martinez Estrella, caught on a security video plunging a bread knife through the neck of outnumbered victim Lesando “Junior” Guzman-Feliz, was sentenced to life without parole in the June 20, 2018 killing by members of the Trinitarios gang. Co-defendant Jose Muniz was sentenced to 25 years to life for attacking the NYPD Explorer with a machete. Antonio Rodriguez Hernandez Santiago and Elvin Garcia received the same prison term. Manuel Rivera, 18, was sentenced to his lesser prison stay because of his age.
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LAPD Will Drastically Cut Back On Pulling Over Random Vehicles Over Racial Bias Concerns
In a major shift prompted by a Times investigation, the Los Angeles Police Department's elite Metropolitan Division will drastically cut back on pulling over random vehicles, a cornerstone of the city's crime-fighting strategy that has come under fire for its disproportionate impact on black and Latino drivers. LAPD Chief Michel Moore told The Times that Metro's vehicle stops have not proven effective, netting about one arrest for every 100 cars stopped, while coming at a tremendous cost to innocent drivers who felt they were being racially profiled. In a written statement, the Los Angeles Police Protective League said the LAPD has “cut and run away from the residents of South Los Angeles” based on “incomplete data, presented with minimal context, coupled with sensationalized cherry-picked racial information intended to inflame and divide.” “The Chief's decision to buckle to the demands of anti-police groups like the ACLU, who have zero interest in ensuring criminals are arrested, is deeply disappointing,” the union's board of directors said in the statement. “We do not support this reckless gamble that will lead to the further victimization of people of color by criminals and gang members.”
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Man Shot And Killed Inside Car Near Downtown L.A. Hotel; Police Searching For 2 Suspects
A man in his 20s was shot and killed in a car outside a downtown Los Angeles hotel near Staples Center Saturday night, the Los Angeles Police Department said. Officers responded to the area of Francisco Street and James M Wood Boulevard at about 9:45 p.m. and found the victim suffering from at least one gunshot wound, authorities said. Investigators believe that two people approached the man while he was sitting in his car and shots were fired, police said. The two then fled the scene, possibly in a black Dodge Charger. Authorities did not provide a description of the shooter or shooters. The victim was taken to a hospital where he was pronounced dead. LAPD said the incident remains under investigation and it's unknown whether the shooting was a robbery or if it was gang-related.
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Multiple Assault Suspects Barricaded In Broadway-Manchester Area Smoke Shop
A SWAT team was negotiating with several assault suspects Monday morning who barricaded themselves inside a smoke shop in the Broadway-Manchester neighborhood of South Los Angeles. The incident began about 11 p.m. Sunday when two people in the area to repossess a vehicle were assaulted and threatened by a large group of who then barricaded themselves inside the AG7 Smoke Shop in the 9700 block of South Main Street. Officials were not sure exactly how many suspects were inside the smoke shop, but the victims estimated between five and seven, Los Angeles Police Department Capt. Emada Tingrides said. A SWAT team has tried to coax the individuals out of the smoke shop as the hourslong standoff continued into Monday morning. The department has brought in a psychologist who has attempted to reach the suspects by cellphone.
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LAPD Escorts Saddleridge Fire Evacuees Home To Collect Possessions But Some Defy Orders And Stay
Some residents had the opportunity to be escorted back to their homes by the Los Angeles Police Department to retrieve personal items or pets that may have been left behind. While some took the allotted five minutes to gather as much as they could and leave again, others defied officers and stayed home despite the looming threat of the massive Saddleridge Fire. LAPD officers were taking families to their homes one by one, including Alex Henson and his wife. Henson said he didn't think his Porter Ranch home would stay intact amid the roaring flames and embers. "I wasn't expecting to go back. This is the second time that it's happened to us," he said, his voice thick with overwhelming emotion. The Hensons locked up their home after grabbing the essentials, but not everybody heeded the warnings from authorities. Some residents abused the escort opportunity to go home and stay there despite the mandatory evacuation orders. Chief Michael Moore said those residents were staying at their own risk.
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Van Nuys Man Agrees To Plead Guilty In Fentanyl Death Case
A Van Nuys man agreed Friday to plead guilty and serve 15 years in federal prison for selling the powerful synthetic opioid fentanyl to a 23-year-old man, who then suffered a fatal overdose and crashed his car in a restaurant parking lot on Ventura Boulevard. James Dorion Rodriguez, 28, will enter a guilty plea later this month to a single count of possession of fentanyl with intent to distribute, according to his plea agreement filed in Los Angeles federal court. Rodriguez was arrested a year ago at a motel in Mission Hills in connection with the first indictment brought under a then-new state-federal task force created to investigate fatal opioid overdoses. Rodriguez had intended to sell cocaine to Romelo Rice, but accidentally gave him fentanyl instead, according to an affidavit filed in the case. The fatal overdose was the result of the North Hollywood man snorting, not injecting, the white powder.
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Drawings Could Help ID Victims Of California Inmate Who Is America's Most Prolific Serial Killer
Most of the women in Samuel Little's hand-drawn portraits seem to be frowning. Their hair is short and curly or long and straight. They stare straight ahead or slightly off to the side. Some wear lipstick and jewelry. Little, whom the FBI identified this month as the most prolific serial killer in U.S. history, produced startlingly detailed likenesses of dozens of women he says he strangled over the course of more than three decades. Now the FBI is publicizing his portraits — hoping that someone, somewhere, will recognize the face of a long-lost loved one in an image drawn by the killer himself. “I'm not sure I have a better solution in terms of how to get the information out there and how to notify families,” said Claire Ponder Selib, interim executive director of the National Organization for Victim Assistance.
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California Adopts Broadest US Rules For Seizing Guns
California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday signed a law that will make the state the first to allow employers, co-workers and teachers to seek gun violence restraining orders against other people. The bill was vetoed twice by former governor Jerry Brown, a Democrat, and goes beyond a measure that he signed allowing only law enforcement officers and immediate family members to ask judges to temporarily take away peoples' guns when they are deemed a danger to themselves or others. Newsom is also a Democrat and signed a companion bill allowing the gun violence restraining orders to last one and five years, although the gun owners could petition to end those restrictions earlier. The new laws are were among 15 gun-related laws that Newsom approved as the state strengthens what the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence calls the nation's toughest restrictions.
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New Calif. Law Gives Child Sex Assault Victims More Time To Sue
California is giving childhood victims of sexual abuse more time to decide whether to file lawsuits, joining several states in expanding the statute of limitations for victims over warnings from school districts that the new rules could bankrupt them. The law signed Sunday by Gov. Gavin Newsom gives victims of childhood sexual abuse until age 40, or five years from discovery of the abuse, to file civil lawsuits. The previous limit had been 26, or within three years from discovery of the abuse. It also suspends the statute of limitations for three years -- beginning Jan. 1 -- giving victims of all ages time to bring lawsuits if they wish. California is at least the third state this year to take this step. Earlier this year, New York and New Jersey raised their statutes of limitations to age 55.
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Public Safety News
3 Deaths Connected To Fires That Swept Through Southern California
The fires that have hit Southern California have been linked to three deaths as officials on Sunday continue to gain ground. In the Saddleridge fire that swept across the San Fernando Valley foothills, a man in his late 50s died after suffering a heart attack while talking with firefighters early Friday. In the Sandalwood fire that burned dozens of mobile homes in Calimesa, two people died. Family members of Lois Arvickson confirmed the 89-year-old died in the fire. Don Turner, Arvickson's son, and his wife, Kimberly, spent Thursday night at an evacuation center, desperate to hear news of his mother, who lived alone at the Villa Calimesa Mobile Home Park. She was on the phone with her son when the blaze, dubbed the Sandalwood fire, reached the park.
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All Evacuation Orders Lifted In Saddleridge Fire; Containment At 42%
The Los Angeles Fire Department has lifted all of the evacuation orders for the Saddleridge Fire on Saturday. Community members are being allowed back into their homes. Law enforcement officers will stay in the fire areas for security and to offer up any questions residents or business owners may have. The brush fire that has burned 7,965 acres, damaged or destroyed 40 structures and forced about 100,000 people from their homes in parts of the San Fernando Valley was 42-percent contained as of Sunday evening. One fatality was confirmed Friday morning related to this fire that has torn a path of destruction across the northern San Fernando Valley. Additionally, all Los Angeles Unified School District schools previously closed by the fire will resume regular class schedules Monday morning, said LAUSD spokeswoman Barbara Jones.
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Local Government News
L.A. To Consider Emergency Measures To Prevent Evictions In Wake Of New State Law
Los Angeles City Council members are pushing for emergency provisions against evictions and large rent increases amid concerns landlords are aiming to remove their tenants before a new state law takes effect in January. Councilman Mitch O'Farrell, who represents neighborhoods from Echo Park to Atwater Village, said the city must act to prevent a spate of evictions that could force out tenants prior to a statewide cap on annual rent increases going into effect. “We just want to make sure that there's not price gouging by predatory landlords,” O'Farrell said. “We know that that could very well happen.” On Tuesday, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 1482, which limits annual rent increases across the state to 5% plus inflation for the next decade. The legislation also prevents tenants from being evicted without documented lease violations once they've lived in an apartment for a year. The law exempts apartments built within the last 15 years and single-family home rentals unless they're owned by corporate investors.
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