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Police Protective League
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Daily Local & Regional NewsWatch
Daily News Digest
from LA Police Protective League
November 22 |
Law Enforcement News
LEO, Teen Bystander Wounded In Chicago Shootout
A Chicago police officer was shot in the head during a shootout on the city's Northwest Side that left a suspect dead and a teenage bystander wounded. Police Supt. Eddie Johnson said at a press conference that the 46-year-old officer was wounded Tuesday evening as police responded to a vehicle pursuit involving a bank robbery suspect and officers from the suburb of Des Plaines. After the chase ended, Johnson said, the 32-year-old suspect exited his vehicle and entered a music store, where he was fatally shot by a Des Plaines police officer. Chicago police said a 15-year-old boy who was taking piano lessons at the music shop was shot in the arm and stomach. He was hospitalized in stable condition. While Johnson said the 17-year police veteran suffered graze wound to the head, Dr. Marius Katilius of Illinois Masonic Medical Center added the officer suffered a skull fracture and had blood on the brain.
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25-Year-Old Man Critically Injured In Pico-Union Hit-And-Run
A 25-year-old man was in critical condition early Friday morning after being struck by a car in Pico-Union Thursday night, and police were searching for the driver. According to police, the felony hit-and-run accident happened on Olympic Boulevard between Grand View and Lake streets while the man was walking across the road. It was not immediately clear whether the man was walking in a marked crosswalk. Police said the victim was taken to the hospital with major injuries and was in surgery. There were witnesses at the scene, but a description of the vehicle was not immediately available.
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LAPD Pursuit Suspect Ditches Car In Sun Valley
A stolen vehicle suspect who led police on a pursuit, then ditched the car was being sought Thursday morning in a Sun Valley neighborhood. The pursuit began about 4:40 a.m. and ended around 5 a.m. near Cantara Street and Beeman Avenue, south of Roscoe Boulevard and east of the 170 Freeway, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. The location where the pursuit began was unknown. A detailed description of the suspect was not immediately available. The location where the suspect bailed from the vehicle is a couple of blocks south of John H. Francis Polytechnic High School.
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Former Uber Driver Convicted Of Raping Female Passenger In North Hollywood
A North Hollywood man who worked as a driver for Uber faces a maximum of eight years in state prison and lifetime sex-offender registration after being convicted of raping a 24-year-old female passenger in June 2017. Jurors deliberated for two days before finding Alaric Spence, 49, guilty Wednesday of one count of rape of an intoxicated person, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office. The panel acquitted Spence of two other counts — kidnapping for rape and rape of an unconscious person. Spence picked up the heavily intoxicated woman in downtown Los Angeles on June 23, 2017, and drove her to a North Hollywood motel, where he raped her, according to Deputy District Attorney Paul Thompson.
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Organized Retail Store Theft Crew Busted In Hollywood Following Crime Spree
A crew of organized retail thieves has been caught by police after hitting over 58 stores in Southern and Central California, authorities said. The gang of thieves has been identified as 28-year-old Los Angeles resident Derrick Taylor, Andrew Clark, 29, Chantinaya McClelland, 29, and Antonisha Macknight, 27, all from the L.A. area. The Simi Valley Police Department launched an investigation in late August 2019 after an organized retail theft ring victimized a CVS store in the 3900 block of Cochran Street in Simi Valley. The suspects stole over $1,000 worth of makeup, hair products, and over-the-counter medications. Authorities say that through surveillance video and other investigative means, they discovered that the band of thieves stole merchandise from at least 58 different stores, targeting mostly Walgreens, CVS, and RiteAid.
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Venice Chiropractor Murder Remains Unsolved
More than seven years since a gruesome murder that left a Venice chiropractor dead and homicide detectives remain baffled over the who and why. Dr. Robert Rainey had arrived early for work inside Rainy Chiropractic at 9245 W. Venice Boulevard on May 31, 2012. Surveillance video from a nearby business shows him arriving, walking up the stairs and going into his office. Within an hour, another figure appears to do the same, but the video is too grainy for police to make out. "He was in his office, alone," says LAPD West Bureau Homicide Detective John Lamberti. "He was brutally beaten in his office by someone who to this day we still have no idea." Lamberti took over the cold case this year and says tips — even all these years later — continue to flow in.
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L.A. County Offers Rewards In New Case, Cold Case
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors Tuesday approved or re-established rewards in hopes of solving the fatal shootings of a young woman in the Vermont Vista area last month and a 71-year-old retired steel worker in East Los Angeles more than 12 years ago. Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas recommended the $10,000 reward for information leading to the gunman who killed 18-year-old Chloe Evans in a car-to-car shooting on Oct. 25, saying detectives believe there were neighborhood witnesses to the shooting. About 6 that morning, Evans was sitting in her tan Chevrolet Tahoe, parked in the 500 block of West 104th Street, when a white sedan with tinted windows approached and someone inside fired several shots, authorities said. A candlelight vigil was held the following night at the crime scene.
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More Than 2 Dozen Arrested, Weapons Seized During Search Warrant Sweep In 3 SoCal Counties
More than two dozen people were arrested and numerous weapons were seized Wednesday during a gang raid across multiple counties in Southern California. Authorities served search warrants at 65 locations from Banning to the Coachella Valley, Hemet and Menifee areas, as well as in San Bernardino and Los Angeles counties, according to the Riverside County District Attorney's office. Roughly half of those locations were targets of the 15-month effort by local, state and federal authorities, dubbed "Operation Pass Resolve." Six of the intended targets remain outstanding. The rest of the searches were for individuals in the areas who were on parole or probation, including a man with an outstanding warrant for murder and vehicular manslaughter who was arrested in Hemet.
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2 Men Convicted Of Providing Fraudulent Engineering Services Throughout Southern California
A Downey man and a Huntington Beach resident were convicted Wednesday, Nov. 20, of more than 200 felony counts each after falsifying documents and providing fraudulent engineering services for more than seven years, authorities said. The structural integrity of construction projects on hundreds of homes across 56 cities in Los Angeles, Ventura, San Bernardino and Riverside counties was called into question in April 2016 after a Rolling Hills Estates civil engineering firm contacted the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department with suspicions concerning two former employees. Wilfrido Rodriguez, 47, of Downey and Ruben Gutierrez, 45, of Huntington Beach were ultimately arrested in March 2018 after authorities served 65 search warrants and identified more than 735 potential victims, authorities said. Rodriguez, who was convicted of more than 250 felony counts, faces a possible sentence of more than 170 years behind bars.
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Teen Arrested On Suspicion Of Using Remote-Controlled Car To Smuggle Drugs Across Border
A 16-year-old boy was arrested early Sunday on suspicion of using a remote-controlled car to transport methamphetamine across the border near the Otay Mesa Port of Entry, authorities said. Border Patrol agents believe someone on the south side of the U.S.-Mexico border was able to slip the drug-laden car through a gap in the bollard-style fencing and then drive it to the teen waiting on the north side of the fence, said Border Patrol spokesman Theron Francisco. An agent spotted the boy hiding in thick brush near the border, about a mile north of the Otay Mesa Port of Entry, about 12:30 a.m. Sunday. The teen had two large duffel bags and a remote-controlled car with him, and agents found 50 packages of methamphetamine weighing more than 55 pounds in his bags. The boy was arrested on drug-smuggling charges and has been booked into juvenile hall. Francisco said he didn't know where the boy lived.
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Untraceable ‘Ghost Guns' Increasingly End Up At California Crime Scenes
Guns without serial numbers, built at home, are increasingly becoming the weapon of choice for criminals in California, experts say, and there's not much law enforcement can do to stop the trend. Called ghost guns, the weapons are impossible to trace. They start as just one part: an unfinished lower receiver, which houses the gun's firing mechanisms. Because they're incomplete, unfinished lower receivers don't need to be registered. The rest of the gun can then be assembled from parts bought online. On Thursday, sheriff's homicide detectives confirmed suspicions that the weapon used in the shooting at Saugus High School on Nov. 14 was a ghost gun. After his mother dropped him off at the campus, 16-year-old Nathan Berhow pulled the .45 caliber pistol from his backpack and opened fire, killing two students, wounding another three, then killing himself.
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Public Safety News
Firefighters Settle Into Van Nuys' New Station House, Leaving Behind 100-Year-Old Digs
Firefighters in Van Nuys are settling into new digs, swapping the Los Angeles Fire Department's oldest station for a state-of-the-art facility nearly a decade in the making. The new Station 39, at 14615 Oxnard St., replaces the previous one next to the Van Nuys Civic Center on Sylvan Street, a neoclassic structure built in 1919. That Station 39 was too small. Firefighters living and working there had little room to maneuver their vehicles in and out of the station and, they said, it was just too cramped with all of the modern equipment they need to fight fires. “Even though (the old Station 39) was loved by so many in the community, it simply did not meet the modern needs,” said Councilwoman Nury Martinez, who represents Van Nuys. The new, two-story station house can comfortably hold two fire engines, a ladder truck, two rescue ambulances and a battalion chief command vehicle. It also offers a living quarters for the 14 on-duty firefighters, a fitness center, offices, a conference room and an above-ground 4,000-gallon fuel tank.
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Local Government News
Dangerous L.A. apartments that could collapse in an earthquake are being fixed quickly
An earthquake safety revolution is spreading along the streets and back alleys of Los Angeles, as steel frames and strong walls appear inside the first-story parking garages of thousands of apartment buildings. The construction is designed to fix one of the most dangerous earthquake risks: Wood apartment buildings collapsing because the skinny poles propping up parking at the ground level are not strong enough to withstand the shaking.
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