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Daily Local & Regional NewsWatch
Daily News Digest
from LA Police Protective League
March 16, 2022 |
Law Enforcement News
Man Shot, Wounded In North Hollywood: LAPD
The Los Angeles Police Department is looking for the shooter after a man was shot and wounded in North Hollywood Monday night. The victim, whose age and name were not released, was shot at about 9:45 p.m. in the 5000 block of Tujunga Avenue, according to Officer Maldonado of the LAPD. Officers called an ambulance for the man, who was conscious and breathing, and police are looking for a man believed to be thin, about 5 feet, 10 inches tall and who was wearing a yellow and purple hat and a purple sweatshirt, Maldonado said. As of Monday night, there was nothing to release indicating that this was a follow-home robbery, Maldonado said. KTLA 5 |
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Ex-Convict Charged With Fatal Stabbing In Mid-City Area
An ex-convict was charged Tuesday with murder for allegedly fatally stabbing a 30-year-old man in the Mid-City area of Los Angeles. Rolando Alexander Maura, 61, is accused in the killing of Justin Dumas, of Oakland, before sunrise Friday in the area of Washington Boulevard and La Brea Avenue. The murder charge includes an allegation that Maura used a knife in the commission of the crime. Maura is also charged with one felony count of first-degree residential burglary with a person present involving a separate alleged victim and hit-and-run driving resulting in injury. The criminal complaint alleges that Maura has four prior convictions between 1982 and 1991 for crimes including robbery. Police were called to the area about 2:55 a.m. Friday in connection with reports of a hit-and-run collision, and officers found two vehicles in the street, according to a Los Angeles Police Department statement. MyNewsLA.com |
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High-Speed Pursuit Suspects Crash Into 2 Other Cars In Chatsworth
The high-speed pursuit of two suspects, ages 19 and 20, in a BMW came to a violent end early Wednesday morning in Chatsworth, officials said. Officers with the Los Angeles Police Department's West Valley Division were in pursuit of a suspected DUI driver around 12:30 a.m. The chase was called off a short time later as it was deemed too dangerous due to the fact that the suspect was going too fast and driving erratically. A short time later, authorities received multiple 911 calls reporting a speeding BMW driving down De Soto Avenue. The suspect then crashed the intersection of De Soto Ave. and Chatsworth Street into two other vehicles, including one that was driven by a senior citizen. The first victim had to be pulled out of his vehicle by firefighters and the second victim's vehicle was sideswiped in the collision, police said. Authorities located the two suspects outside the car at the scene, and they were taken into custody. The investigation is ongoing. FOX 11 |
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Assistant Chief Beatrice Girmala, LAPD's Highest Ranking Woman, To Retire This Month
Los Angeles Police Department Assistant Chief Beatrice Girmala, the highest ranking woman in the department who was once thought of as a potential candidate for chief of police, will retire at the end of March. The Los Angeles Police Commission announced Girmala's impending retirement after 37 years with the department at its Tuesday meeting, in which they also lauded her as a trailblazer for other women in law enforcement. Girmala currently serves as the chief in charge of LAPD's geographic patrol areas and community stations. Commissioner Eileen Decker said Girmala was the only woman in LAPD history to have held all three assistant chief positions during her career. “Being the first woman to achieve all these milestones requires tremendous strength,” Decker said. “Not easy, particularly when 80 percent of your colleagues are male.” In 2018, after then LAPD Chief Charlie Beck announced he would retire, Girmala was floated as his possible successor. However, Girmala chose not to apply. Mayor Eric Garcetti would go on to nominate current LAPD Chief Michel Moore. Los Angeles Daily News |
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LA County Increases Reward To $20,000 For Information In Mitrice Richardson Disappearance, Death
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors today increased and extended a reward offered for information leading to a conviction in the death of Mitrice Richardson, a woman who went missing after being released from the sheriff's Malibu-Lost Hills Station in 2009. Richardson was released Sept. 17, 2009, from the sheriff's station in Calabasas about 1 a.m. without transportation, a cell phone or her purse. The 24-year-old Cal State Fullerton graduate had been arrested the previous night when she was unable to pay her $89 bill at Geoffrey's, a Malibu restaurant. Deputies also found some marijuana in her car and impounded it. After her release, however, she disappeared. Neighbors reported seeing a woman who may have been Richardson sleeping on a porch later that morning, but she was gone by the time deputies arrived. Sheriff's deputies and volunteers mounted extensive air and ground searches, to no avail. She remained missing until August 2010, when skeletal remains were found by state rangers searching an abandoned marijuana farm in the unincorporated Monte Nido area, which is close to the sheriff's Lost Hills Station. The remains were identified as Richardson, using dental records. ABC 7 |
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Woman, 81, Reported Missing In Westlake District
A Silver Alert was issued Tuesday on behalf of a missing 81-year-old woman last seen in the Westlake district. Sonya Bayushkina was last seen about 9 a.m. Tuesday in the area of Witmer Street and Shatto Street, near the 110 Freeway, according to the California Highway Patrol, which issued the Silver Alert at the request of the Los Angeles Police Department. Bayushkina is white, 4 feet, 11 inches tall and weighs 150 pounds, with gray hair and brown eyes. She was last seen wearing a lavender shirt and lavender pants. Anyone who knows of Bayushkina's whereabouts was asked to call 911. The Silver Alert program was established by the CHP to issue and coordinate alerts involving the unexplained or suspicious disappearance of elderly, developmentally disabled, or cognitively impaired individuals. CBS 2 |
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DEA Seizes 3 Kilograms Of Fentanyl And Over $65,000 In Cash In L.A.
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration seized 3 kilograms of fentanyl powder and more than $65,000 in cash late last month in Los Angeles, the latest in a series of large-quantity busts in the region, agency officials said Tuesday. That amount could have produced up to 250,000 pills, each with about 2 milligrams of fentanyl, which is considered a lethal dose, the agency said. “In this case, 3 kilograms of fentanyl powder is quite a bit, and that could make a large number of pills,” said Bill Bodner, special agent in charge of the DEA's Los Angeles office. The seizure was not an outlier, Bodner said, as the agency has been finding more fentanyl in larger quantities during its operations. “The largest one we've had in the past two months is 65 kilos of fentanyl powder, which is tremendous,” he said. Bodner said he could not share many details about the seizure as it is part of an ongoing case. The seizure of the 3 kilograms in late February is “more along the lines of what is average now,” Bodner said. “One kilo, 3 kilos, 5 kilos, that's a pretty common amount of fentanyl to be trafficked now,” he said. “In 2016 or 2017, you would really never see that quantity of fentanyl in one place.” In 2021, the DEA's Los Angeles office seized more than 3 million counterfeit prescription pills made up of only fentanyl, more than double the amount seized in 2020, Bodner said. Los Angeles Times |
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Victim Of Antisemitic Attack Caught On Camera Sues Over Violence
The victim of a violent antisemitic attack captured on video in May outside a West Los Angeles eatery has sued two people charged with a hate crime in the assault. A lawsuit filed Monday against Xavier Pabon, 30, and Samer Jayylusi, 36, alleges the violation of Mher Hagopian's civil rights, conspiracy, battery, assault, negligence and intentional infliction of emotional distress. Jayylusi and Pabon already are facing criminal charges of assault, with a hate crime enhancement, in connection with the attack outside the Sushi Fumi restaurant on May 18, 2021. “We are bringing this civil action against the perpetrators of this vicious hate crime to seek redress for the harm suffered by plaintiff for his selfless and courageous acts,” said Patricia L. Glaser of Glaser Weil, who along with two other firms represents the people involved in the attack. Jayylusi and Pabon are accused of being part of a group of eight people who approached the restaurant in the 300 block of La Cienega Boulevard in Beverly Grove. A video of the attack shows diners being ambushed by a mob yelling antisemitic slurs and shouting “death to Jews” and “dirty Jews.” Los Angeles Times |
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66% Of AAPI Community In L.A. County Worried About Racial Attacks, Survey Finds
Cesar Echano was walking in a Cerritos park when a man started to yell at him. “That you don't belong here — go back to where you belong,” he recalled. While the confrontation began as just a man yelling, it quickly escalated to the man attacking Echano. By the time the man was done hitting Echano, his face and shirt were covered with blood. “He punched me very, very hard,” he said. “He's young and it was so hard that I almost lost [consciousness].” Many Asian Americans and Pacific Islands live in fear, hoping that they never experience what Echano endured. According to a survey by the Pat Brown Institute For Public Affairs, two-thirds of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the Los Angeles County area fear becoming the next victim of a hate crime and a quarter said that they were a target of a hate crime, just like Echano. “When we asked respondents if someone had verbally or physically abused them or had their property damaged because of their race and ethnicity,” said researcher Nathan Chen. “We found that one-fourth of AAPI said that they experienced this form of hate — and remember this poll is specifically to Los Angeles County.” CBS 2 |
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| Culver City Police Search For Two Suspects After Alleged Mall Parking Lot Robbery Police in Culver City are searching for two people they say robbed a couple in a mall parking lot earlier this week. According to police, on Monday afternoon, a man flagged officers down near Bristol Parkway and Hannum Avenue. The man told officers that two men had robbed him at gunpoint on the fourth level of the parking garage of the mall 6000 Sepulveda Blvd. In his report, the victim said that he and his girlfriend were leaving the mall when they were approached by two people. Those people then took out handguns and demanded the couple for their jewelry. The man allegedly handed over his gold chain necklaces, Rolex, ring and a gold chain bracelet. The suspected thieves made off with more than $3,600 in jewelry. Officers say they conducted a search for the suspects, but didn't find anyone. Culver City police say they're looking for two men between 20 and 30 years old, one approximately six feet tall and thin, who was wearing a green military hoodie, black pants and a black face covering. The other man stands around 5 feet 7 inches tall, and was wearing a black hoodie, grey sweatpants and a dark face covering. Anyone with any information about this case is asked to call the Culver City Police Department's Public Information Officer at (310)-253-6316. FOX 11 |
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Virginia Police Officer Among 3 Dead After Gas Station Shooting
Covington Police Officer Caleb Ogilvie, 35, was killed during a shooting at a Virginia gas station Monday, reported WSLS. The suspect and a third person were also killed. According to WHSV, the incident began as an altercation between the gunman, 42-year-old Toney Poulston, and a family member who worked at the gas station, 64-year-old Randall Lee Paxton. Police were met by Poulston, who was armed with a gun. Shots were fired, leading to the deaths of Ogilvie, Poulston , and Paxton, according to the report. Investigators found Ogilvie dead of a gunshot wound, according to the report. No others were injured. Ogilvie joined the Covington Police Department in 2021. He previously served as a Marine from 2006 to 2010 and later worked as an EMT, according to WAVY. He leaves behind a wife and four children. Covington Police shared a fundraiser to help support Ogilvie's family. The incident remains under investigation. PoliceOne |
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2 New Mexico Cops Among 5 Shot In Active Shooter Incident; Suspect Dead
A woman was killed and two other people — a man and a woman — were injured in what police called an active shooter situation in a Foothills area neighborhood Monday afternoon. The incident sparked a massive law enforcement response and ended with two officers sustaining minor gunshot wounds and multiple officers fatally shooting the armed suspect. At a news conference outside the perimeter Monday, Police Chief Harold Medina said the suspect died at the scene. Around 2:17 p.m. officers were called to Montgomery east of Tramway NE, near a police substation, because a woman in a vehicle had been shot. As officers were rendering aid to her they heard gunshots to the east and several officers "made their way up the street" to where they found a man had been shot in the leg. The man went to the hospital himself and is being treated. The woman was also taken to the hospital. Then, Medina said, the officers searching the neighborhood found a woman dead inside a vehicle. Police believe all three people were shot by the same person. Officers found a man they believed to be the suspect — he had entered a house and then come back out — and Medina said an altercation occurred that led to two officers getting superficial gunshot wounds. One was grazed above the eye and the other was struck with pellets below the vest. Albuquerque Journal, N.M. |
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Sheriff: 2 Washington Deputies Shot, Wounded During SWAT Arrest Attempt; Suspect Dead
Two sheriff's deputies were shot and wounded and a man was killed in an exchange of gunfire as the deputies tried to arrest the man south of Tacoma, Washington, authorities said. Pierce County Sheriff Ed Troyer said the shooting happened Tuesday near the community of Spanaway as members of a SWAT team tried to arrest a 40-year-old man for investigation of felony assault with a firearm. The man fired at deputies and deputies fired back, Troyer said in a media briefing Tuesday afternoon. The name of the man shot and killed hasn't been released. One of the deputies, a 35-year-old man who has worked for the sheriff's department for seven years, was in “grave condition," according to Troyer. “We're told that we need to prepare for the worst," Troyer said. “Everybody's praying for a miracle.” The other deputy, a 45-year-old man who has been with the sheriff's department for 21 years, was in surgery Tuesday afternoon and is expected to survive, according to Troyer. The Pierce County Sheriff's Department just after 12 p.m. Tuesday tweeted about heavy police activity and later said two deputies had been shot and taken to an area hospital. Associated Press |
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Video: Man Rams Patrol Cars In Shootout With Dallas Cops
Dallas police officers fired 24 rounds at a suspect who the department said opened fire at the officers after they tried to conduct a traffic stop on the man for a felony warrant, according to a Tuesday news release. No one was injured by the gunfire, but three officers were injured when the suspect rammed their patrol cars, police said. The man was found around 2:10 a.m. on March 12 at the Vina Game Room at 12809 Audelia Road, according to police. Seth Michael Anderson, 34, was known to police as a felon with a history of fleeing police, according to the department. The department said he ran from police and at one point hit multiple police vehicles and injured three officers before continuing to flee. He was eventually boxed in at an apartment complex at 9350 Skillman St., where he opened the driver side door and began shooting at police, according to the department. Police said officers took cover before returning fire. After exchanging fire, Anderson got out of the vehicle and raised his hands as if to surrender before taking off in an attempt to run from police on foot. He was tased and taken into custody, according to police. Fort Worth Star-Telegram |
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Mexico Deports Border Hit-Man Gang Leader To US
Mexico deported the alleged leader of a bloodthirsty gang of border hit men Tuesday, one day after his arrest caused retaliatory shooting and burnings that closed U.S. border crossings and a U.S. consulate. Ricardo Mejia, Mexico's assistant secretary of public safety, said suspected drug gang leader Juan Gerardo Treviño was in fact a U.S. citizen and not a Mexican, and said he was deported. If he had Mexican citizenship, he would have been subject to a lengthy extradition process, but Mejia said Treviño had no Mexican identity documents nor any record of them. It is not uncommon for Mexican families on the border try to have their children's birth registered in the U.S., but they usually claim dual citizenship. After his arrest Sunday, members of Treviño's gang shot up the border city of Nuevo Laredo, and even hit the U.S. consulate with gunfire. The consulate was closed until further notice and two U.S. border bridges leading to Laredo, Texas, were briefly closed because of the incident. U.S. Ambassador Ken Salazar said in a statement Monday that “I have raised our grave concerns about these incidents and the safety and security of our employees directly with the government of Mexico.” Treviño was handed over to U.S. at a border bridge in Tijuana, far to the west of Nuevo Laredo, presumably to avoid attempts to free him. Los Angeles Daily News |
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Public Safety News
Man Found Dead After Fire Rips Through Highland Park Home
Firefighters discovered a man's body after extinguishing a blaze that erupted late Monday night in the Highland Park neighborhood of Los Angeles. The fire was reported at the single-story home in the 200 block of South Avenue 52 at about 11 p.m., according to an alert from Los Angeles Fire Department spokesperson Nicholas Prange. A witness who was passing by when he first saw the fire managed to open a door but was unable to get inside. The structure was already heavily involved with fire when crews arrived and began a defensive attack from outside the home, Prange said. Video showed flames reaching high above the home's roof as firefighters approached with hoses. They were able to successfully defend three adjacent structures that were being threatened by flames, Prange said. It took 30 firefighters about 40 minutes to put the fire out. Once crews were able to make their way inside the home, they located the body of one person who perished in the blaze, Prange said. The person was later identified as 29-year-old Mark Olmedo by the Los Angeles County coroner's office. KTLA 5 |
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LAFD Responds To Encampment Fire At Westminster Dog Park
The Los Angeles Fire Department responded to an encampment fire at the Westminster Dog Park Tuesday night. Firefighters say crews responded to a call at the 1300 block of South Main Street. Neighbors say they saw an explosion at the encampment and called 911. They also say the person living in the encampment has been in the neighborhood for more than a year. This is the second time firefighters responded to a call at the same location in the past two weeks and the third fire in the neighborhood in months. Firefighters also responded to an encampment at the corner of Brooks and Hampton on Sunday. WestSide Current |
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