Topic Archive: Police beat
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Posted December 28, 2009 11:21 AM
Thirty-two Los Angeles intersections now have cameras installed to generate traffic tickets and, thus, revenue for the city and the company that runs the cameras. Contrary to the original intent,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 24, 2009 12:05 PM
The White House just announced that Andre Birotte Jr, the inspector general of the Los Angeles Police Department, has been nominated by President Barack Obama to be the U.S. Attorney... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 24, 2009 10:15 AM
That's City Councilmember Janice Hahn and former mayor James Hahn in the front row, flanking their parents at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, site of the county's free holiday concerts. This... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 20, 2009 11:39 PM
The body of 21-year-old James Wernke was found this morning near a creek bed in Fullerton. There was no immediate indication how he died. Wernke had been missing since taking... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 15, 2009 1:06 PM
The city of Burbank wants Debra Wong Yang, the Los Angeles police commissioner and former U.S. Attorney here, to help clean up whatever ails the Burbank Police Department. KPCC... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 10, 2009 4:11 PM
A federal judge dismissed the guilty plea by Broadcom co-founder Henry Samueli on charges that he lied to investigators in a stock options backdating probe. AP... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 9, 2009 5:07 PM
Lawyer and former state assemblyman Walter Karabian won't be charged by the DA over Saturday's incident in which a parking attendant was allegedly struck by Karabian's car at the USC... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 9, 2009 12:05 PM
Jeffrey Tidus, an attorney with Baute & Tidus in downtown Los Angeles, died this morning of his wounds. He was found shot on the lawn in front of his home... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 8, 2009 1:58 PM
The interviewer on Los Angeles Kings telecasts on Fox Sports West was stopped early Monday morning, allegedly for driving too slow on the 105 freeway. She was booked on suspicion... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 8, 2009 1:51 PM
Former state assemblyman Walter Karabian was booked on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon for allegedly running over a parking attendant at the Coliseum before today's USC game. He... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 5, 2009 8:52 PM
Today's segment, airing shortly at 4:44 p.m., talks about Phil Spector's visit to the dentist in Toluca Lake. I tie in Roman Polanski moving over to the mountain chalet in... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 4, 2009 4:29 PM
Officer Aragon was off-duty when his motorcycle crashed around 2:15 a.m. at Fletcher Drive and Larga Avenue, according to the L.A. Times and CBS 2. He was pronounced dead at... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 3, 2009 3:42 PM
Redondo Beach Police officer Ken Greenleaf had to make the tough call yesterday and put down his dog. Valor, a 5-year-old black-and-gray German shepherd, had been in the hospital with... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 3, 2009 12:29 PM
KFI's news Twitter feed says that convicted killer Phil Spector is at a dentist's office in Toluca Lake right now, escorted by prison correctional officers. Update: Yes, Spector was allowed... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 2, 2009 4:35 PM
I guess the media liked the Jerusalem Post story we posted this morning — on a LAPD deputy chief saying the two rabbis shot here in October were "kneecapped" in... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 2, 2009 3:05 PM
Israeli organized crime activity in Los Angeles has gotten "a little bit worse" recently, LAPD terrorism chief Michael P. Downing told the Jerusalem Post this week on a visit in... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 2, 2009 10:28 AM
New LAPD chief Charlie Beck sent officers in the field his latest round of promotions and reassignments tonight. Captains Blake Chow, Bob Green and Mike Moriarty make commander, Sharon Papa... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 30, 2009 8:56 PM
New LAPD chief Charlie Beck has made his first substantial personnel moves. "The new organization includes six Direct Reports and the renaming of two Offices. I have made several selections... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 23, 2009 5:39 PM
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Posted November 18, 2009 10:14 PM
New LAPD chief Charlie Beck lives in Walnut, the city that had resisted plans for an NFL stadium in nearby Industry. Walnut has made its peace with the stadium plan... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 17, 2009 5:21 PM
The City Council this morning unanimously confirmed Charlie Beck as chief of the LAPD. He was then sworn in by Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and received the badge from Council... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 17, 2009 12:57 PM
I have no idea what is really going on at the Burbank police department, only that things seem pretty messed up. This afternoon, Chief Tim Stehr announced he would retire,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 9, 2009 5:43 PM
Sacramento's withholding tax increase, a new hit on Nikki Finke and fare hikes at Metrolink, plus much more after the jump. From the weekend: Mark Lacter on the Toyota scandal... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 9, 2009 9:07 AM
I'm told the political chatter at Saturday night's big True Blue dinner at the new Police Administration Building — to raise about $2 million for the Police Foundation and honor... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 8, 2009 11:50 PM
My take on the Charlie Beck selection — I hope he's the guy to finish off the old, unprofessional LAPD culture once and for all — airs at 4:44 p.m.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 6, 2009 4:25 PM
More analysis of Charlie Beck, plus the state's big water deal, blacks and pot in Pasadena, Andrew Breitbart and more after the jump. Also see Mark Lacter's morning headlines at... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 5, 2009 9:11 AM
In the in-box, sent via the mayor's office email from "Chief Charlie Beck" with the subject line: I'm your new Chief and I want to hear from you. It's straight... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 4, 2009 1:31 PM
Barbara Walters maybe? Larry King? At least Jon Stewart? No, ex-LAPD chief William Bratton is Thursday's guest with Stephen Colbert on The Colbert Report.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 4, 2009 9:13 AM
Mayor Villaraigosa and police chief-nominee Charlie Beck came out of Getty House at 11:06 a.m. The police commission and other invited guests are gathered in front of the residence on... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 3, 2009 11:10 AM
All three live news shows on local TV — on chanels 2, 4 and 7 — are at the scene of an officer-involved shooting and LAPD standoff in South Los... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 3, 2009 11:01 AM
Mayor Villaraigosa at 10:16 sent out a Twitter post saying "Meet Charlie Beck, my choice to lead the LAPD," with a link to this bio. The Rev. Carr connection: Villaraigosa's... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 3, 2009 10:25 AM
KPCC News, KNBC and ABC7 have joined the L.A. Times in reporting they confirmed that Mayor Villaraigosa will name deputy chief Charlie Beck to run the LAPD. Beck was rumored... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 3, 2009 9:44 AM
More by Steve Greenberg... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 3, 2009 9:05 AM
Dr. Christopher Thompson was just convicted of assault with a deadly weapon, mayhem and other charges for stopping abruptly and causing injuries to bicyclists he had just passed on Mandeville... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 2, 2009 4:23 PM
Channel 5's Lynette Romero had a report at the top of the hour from Wilson High School in Long Beach, where the distraught parents of 16-year-old Melody Ross spoke to... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 2, 2009 1:29 PM
Clearing the decks for the new week: USC president Steven Sample announced that he would step down in August, after 19 years. Honors student Melody Ross, 16, was shot and... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 1, 2009 11:55 PM
District Attorney Steve Cooley's office announced today there was insufficient evidence of illegal actions by cops and commanders — merely "questionable tactics" — in the 2007 rampage by police in... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 30, 2009 2:35 PM
Former City Councilman Jack Weiss is the latest blogger finding a home on the Jewish Journal website. (There are 25 others.) His first (I think) post recalls when Gene Bartow... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 29, 2009 9:35 PM
The Los Angeles Police Department has issued an alert to all Jewish day schools and synagogues in the wake of this morning's attack in North Hollywood. The Jewish Journal has... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 29, 2009 10:16 AM
Police are investigating this morning's shooting at Adat Yeshurun Valley Sephardic synagogue on Sylvan Street in North Hollywood as a hate crime. Two Jewish men were shot inside the synagogue... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 29, 2009 8:36 AM
More by Steve Greenberg... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 27, 2009 9:25 AM
Pretty shocking numbers in the nationwide crackdown on child prostitution, Hollywood restaurateur booked in death of fetus, new political endorsements and Anderson Cooper's ratings in the tank — plus much... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 27, 2009 9:12 AM
Sunil Dutta has been promoted to LAPD lieutenant since we last heard about his writing and opposition to capital punishment. He has an opinion piece this weekend in the Ventura... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 25, 2009 11:17 PM
Sunday's L.A. Times carries a story by staffer Joe Mozingo going back over the evidence that Roman Polanski drugged and raped 13-year-old Samantha Gailey in 1977. The most detailed description... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 25, 2009 10:13 PM
Mitrice Richardson is the South L.A. substitute teacher who has been listed as missing since leaving the sheriff's station on the Valley side of Malibu Canyon on Sept. 17, following... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 25, 2009 6:30 PM
In today's radio commentary I argue we should all care about embarrassed cops obtaining the phone records of TMZ's Harvey Levin. The segment airs — as every Friday — at... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 23, 2009 4:20 PM
Jailed private eye Anthony Pellicano and his sidekick, Alexander Proctor, pleaded no contest today in that 2002 threat on reporter Anita Busch, who they thought was working on a story... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 23, 2009 3:32 PM
Following his toss-down of the gauntlet last night (reported first at LAO, I feel like saying), TMZ boss Harvey Levin guests tonight on "Which Way, L.A.?" to talk about the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 20, 2009 4:54 PM
Blogger offers three finalists for LAPD chief, Polanski staying put and more. After the jump.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 20, 2009 8:58 AM
Venting in depth for the first time about official prying into his personal phone records, TMZ editor Harvey Levin tonight called it an illegal abuse of power — "a brutal... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 19, 2009 9:05 PM
Rick Caruso, president of the Los Angeles Police Commission when William Bratton was hired to run the LAPD, argues in a Visiting Blogger post at LA Observed that now is... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 18, 2009 9:46 PM
Times op-ed columnist Tim Rutten wants LAPD chief William Bratton to stop offering his departing wisdom about the way Los Angeles works. From today's column: The flaw in Bratton's reform... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 17, 2009 12:18 PM
The real reason David Hockney relocated from Los Angeles to Yorkshire is that the U.S. wouldn't allow his partner back into the country, Tyler Green says in chiding the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 16, 2009 5:08 PM
Looks like the Police Protective League is going to meter out these pictures a little at a time.* Still, their point is valid: should LAPD confidential records really be stored... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 15, 2009 4:44 PM
Laurence Rittenband was the Superior Court judge who handled the original Roman Polanski case, and if the recent documentary is correct, was going to undo a plea deal with Polanski.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 15, 2009 11:18 AM
Police commissioner Robert Saltzman says the board is under pressure to let the Boy Scouts continue to run the LAPD's Explorer program, despite the group's violation of the city's policy... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 15, 2009 12:16 AM
The departing police chief rates at least one thing about Los Angeles higher than New York. After the jump.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 14, 2009 7:35 PM
The Los Angeles Police Protective League says these boxes stacked near the employee entrance of the LAPD's Northeast Station are confidential personnel complaints against officers, "including names, serial numbers and... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 13, 2009 8:43 PM
Sounds like a compromise to me: City council president Eric Garecetti says there are eight votes to keep hiring enough recruits to match attrition from the LAPD, and Mayor Villaraigosa... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 12, 2009 11:09 PM
Andrew Adelman, the former general manager of the city's Department of Building and Safety who was accused of raping a woman he met in a bar, won't be prosecuted, DA... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 9, 2009 9:57 PM
Did the Los Angeles County sheriff's department break the law by obtaining and poring over the phone records of TMZ editor Harvey Levin, looking for evidence that a deputy leaked... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 9, 2009 9:40 AM
Los Angeles magazine hosted one of its periodic breakfast gatherings with newsmakers this morning at The Foundry on Melrose, with LAPD chief William Bratton invited to give an exit interview... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 7, 2009 3:32 PM
Officers Richard Amio, Evan Samuel and Manuel Ortiz were accused by the DA's office of lying about evidence that led to the arrest of a drug suspect in Hollywood in... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 6, 2009 5:59 PM
Mayor Villaraigosa's most non-negotiable agenda has been his push to hire 1,000 more LAPD officers, even as crime rates fall. The City Council has been pushing back, a little, and... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 6, 2009 9:37 AM
Marina Zenovich, who made the documentary about fugitive director Roman Polanski, says she's pretty surprised to hear former assistant DA David Wells claim now that he lied in the film.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 1, 2009 12:32 PM
When USC freshman Adrianna Bachan was struck and killed by a hit-and-run driver at 3 a.m. last spring, the 18-year-old had a high level of alcohol in her system, according... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 30, 2009 5:46 PM
This could change some of the legal maneuvering in the Roman Polanski case. Retired prosecutor David Wells says now that he lied when he talks in the 2008 documentary, "Roman... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 30, 2009 5:25 PM
This is kind of amusing. Yahoo's pick-up from Associated Press on the Roman Polanski arrest in Switzerland seemed for awhile this morning to include some not-for-public-consumption, reporter-editor go-between. "no surprise,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 27, 2009 1:00 PM
Director Roman Polanski was arrested on Saturday as he arrived at the Zurich airport to receive an award at the Zurich Film Festival. Los Angeles District Attorney Steve Cooley's office... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 27, 2009 9:05 AM
Atkins, 61, becomes the first of the Charles Manson followers on life sentences to die while in California prisons. She died Thursday night as the longest-serving female inmate in the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 25, 2009 7:24 AM
Joe Francis, the legally challenged "Girls Gone Wild" impresario, accepted a plea offer from the feds today to avoid more jail time over back taxes. From his statement, via flack:... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 23, 2009 4:42 PM
Gary Leonard read about the approaching truck on LA Observed and headed out to take pictures of the arrival for the Downtown News. The truck from Kansas City rolled through... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 22, 2009 1:45 PM
Motor officers plan to meet the truck from Kansas City when it reaches Rosemead Boulevard on I-10 at 10:30 on Tuesday. The bikes will escort the truck to a mounting... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 21, 2009 5:35 PM
Prosecutors still insist that Bruce Lisker probably killed his mother, but the DA's office says a new trial is problematic given the passage of time. Lisker's conviction was overturned by... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 21, 2009 3:26 PM
On Friday in Kansas City, a memorial to fallen Los Angeles police officers was loaded onto a trailer for the trip west. Kansas City Police officers escorted the truck to... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 21, 2009 9:02 AM
Pang is the Newport Beach financier accused by federal regulators of a massive fraud in which millions of dollars were re-directed for his personal use. He had been taken from... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 12, 2009 5:09 PM
Two LAPD officers have been placed on paid leave as investigators figure out how a photo showing the singer's battered face wound up on TMZ. Both cops have been “assigned... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 11, 2009 10:17 AM
OK I'm biased, but I thought we had a fun 30 minutes with authors Richard Rayner and John Buntin talking about Los Angeles' dark and storied past. Here's the audio... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 8, 2009 9:37 PM
A media group was escorted Thursday through the new Los Angeles Police Department headquarters across Spring Street from the L.A. Times building. The new HQ, as yet unnamed, opens in... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 4, 2009 8:55 AM
At the morning shift change at the Hansen Dam command post, more than 1,000 firefighters paused to remember Capt. Tedmund Hall and Arnaldo Quinones, the County Fire veterans who died... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 4, 2009 8:42 AM
Register reporter Greg Hardesty got through to the aunt of kidnap victim Jaycee Dugard and gets a bunch of exclusive details about the family reunion after 18 years.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 3, 2009 1:39 PM
The former Charles Manson follower who murdered actress Sharon Tate in Benedict Canyon 40 years ago is reportedly dying of brain cancer and 85% paralyzed. Supporters want her to be... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 2, 2009 8:24 AM
That is the question explored by journalist John Buntin in a new piece for Governing magazine. Buntin comes at the subject with extensive background: he's the author of a new... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 1, 2009 10:09 AM
Dave Laut, the athletic director at Hueneme High School, was found shot to death last night in the yard of his Oxnard home. He was 52. Laut, a UCLA graduate,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 28, 2009 3:04 PM
The murder victim's missing Mercedes was recovered in the parking lot of the Trader Joe's on Santa Monica, according to law enforcement sources cited by the L.A. Times.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 26, 2009 4:10 PM
Michael Berkow, the former head of LAPD's internal affairs unit, has resigned as chief of police in Savannah, GA to join a division of the company that recently hired LAPD... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 25, 2009 11:56 PM
TMZ has the blow-by-blow, so to speak, of Rihanna's awful night in Hancock Park. If you didn't think Chris Brown had a violence problem before, you will after reading it.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 25, 2009 5:58 PM
TMZ says the manager of the motel in Canada where suspected killer Ryan Jenkins hanged himself identified Jenkins' former fiancee as the woman who dropped him off and paid for... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 24, 2009 12:36 PM
The coroner found a potentially lethal amount of the anesthetic propofol in Michael Jackson's body, according to a search warrant affidavit unsealed today in Houston. The L.A. Times has a... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 24, 2009 12:30 PM
The suspected killer of model Jasmine Fiore, Jenkins' ex-wife, apparently hanged himself in a motel room in Hope, British Columbia. CNN, LAT... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 23, 2009 7:38 PM
While crackdowns on counterfeit clothes and DVDs get more attention, Ed Fuentes reports at Blogdowntown that "the Fashion District's illegal animal trade continues unabated." The photo is by Fuentes. According... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 21, 2009 10:52 PM
Channel 4's new website is a real piece of work. The lead story up now is about model Jasmine Fiore being killed and left in a dumpster. Look how they... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 19, 2009 11:55 AM
For want of a permit that officially is easy to get but that nobody seems to know how to issue, Veronique de Turenne has three parking tickets — and a... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 18, 2009 11:56 AM
Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme is the woman who pointed a gun at President Gerald Ford in Sacramento in 1975. Before that, she was the Charles Manson follower who served as the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 14, 2009 8:58 AM
Photojournalist Jonathan Alcorn captured the conclusive moment when the suspect was shot with a Taser (or Taser-like) charge, bringing to a close today's lengthy standoff outside the Westwood federal building.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 13, 2009 10:00 PM
KFI's Eric Leonard is reporting online that Andrew Adelman, the general manager of the city's Department of Building and Safety, is being investigated by the LAPD as "the prime suspect"... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 11, 2009 4:53 PM
LA Observed contributor Nancy Rommelmann, at her blog up in Portland, steps back and considers the murder of 17-year-old Lily Burk, the way she and others have written about it,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 10, 2009 8:57 PM
Twenty five years after he was arrested as a 17-year-old for killing his mother in Sherman Oaks, Lisker must be retried or set free. The judge based her findings on... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 7, 2009 2:26 PM
In an interview with the New York Daily News, LAPD chief William Bratton said he would not run for elective office, but left open the possibility that he would return... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 7, 2009 8:54 AM
Steve Greenberg had a nice meeting with LAPD chief William Bratton in June about the LA Sketchbook cartoon on the naming controversy over the new police headquarters. I guess Steve... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 5, 2009 3:56 PM
More than three dozen journalists, nearly 20 cameras and city officials packed in the mayor's conference room for LAPD chief William Bratton's announcement that he's leaving for New York and... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 5, 2009 2:29 PM
Police chief William Bratton and Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa have a 12:15 p.m. media availability in the mayor's office. The Los Angeles Times' Joel Rubin reports "Bratton is expected to announce... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 5, 2009 9:43 AM
The story in tomorrow's Los Angeles Daily Journal, by reporters Ciaran McEvoy and Greg Katz, says the investigation involves payments by Voter Improvement Program Inc. Federal authorities are investigating Los... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 4, 2009 9:20 PM
A judge today threw out a lawsuit against the city by the mother of Suzie Peña, the 19-month-old toddler killed by an LAPD bullet during a 2005 SWAT action prompted... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 3, 2009 4:23 PM
The news magazine's Aug. 17 print issue gives the LA Weekly and reporter Christine Pelisek big props for diligent reporting on the serial murders in Los Angeles blamed on a... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 3, 2009 12:27 PM
My commentary today talks about the murder of 17-year-old Lily Burk and the strong reaction it has evoked in the city. The piece airs at 4:44 p.m., can be heard... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 31, 2009 4:38 PM
It's an unanswerable question probably, but the LA Weekly's Christine Pelisek says police are puzzled by an aspect of the Lily Burk murder. Surveillance video shows the 17-year-old walking with... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 30, 2009 10:46 AM
Another lawsuit has been filed against the city of Burbank by officers (or former officers) in the city's police department. This is the second suit alone by former detective Christopher... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 29, 2009 5:15 PM
This evening's Which Way, L.A.? on KCRW sets up the discussion this way: "The murder of 17-year-old Lily Burk has received saturation coverage. Does a brutal crime contain any lessons... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 29, 2009 5:08 PM
Police said today that they took transient Charlie Samuel into custody by 5:30 p.m. Friday on drug charges in Downtown. They now have a pretty horrific chronology of the events... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 27, 2009 1:20 PM
Police announced that a 50-year-old man named Charlie Samuel has been booked on suspicion of murder in Friday's killing of 17-year-old Lily Burk. A press conference is scheduled for 11... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 27, 2009 9:04 AM
The daughter of Los Angeles journalist Greg Burk and Southwestern Law adjunct professor Deborah Drooz was found slain this morning in her car near Alameda and Fourth Street downtown. A... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 25, 2009 11:50 PM
An unidentified man was shot dead in his black Lexus about 11 a.m. today in the parking lot of Allstate Insurance in Glendale. Police were searching for a man who... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 22, 2009 2:50 PM
That South Bay real estate broker whose body was found inside a home for sale in Westchester has the kind of checkered past that will certainly perk up the ears... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 21, 2009 12:01 PM
News item: LAPD consent decree lifted See more in the LA Sketchbook by editorial cartoonist Steve Greenberg.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 20, 2009 3:34 PM
U.S. District Court Judge Gary A. Feess freed the Los Angeles Police Department from most of the federal oversight that has been in place since the Rampart corruption scandals of... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 17, 2009 10:22 PM
Robert Korda's body was located by LAPD detectives Sunday in the county morgue. His death is under investigation. Korda disappeared on Wednesday and his son Noah had been seeking help... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 13, 2009 8:39 AM
Los Angeles and New York both make great settings for police dramas on TV. But why, over the last decade or more, are most of the better ones located in... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 13, 2009 8:27 AM
Korda, 69 and a veteran of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, has not been seen since Wednesday, the day before he was supposed to drive from home in Van Nuys to... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 12, 2009 11:39 PM
Channel 7 reported tonight that Michael Jackson's casket was removed from Staples Center after Tuesday's memorial while hidden in a SWAT van. Chief Bratton would neither confirm nor deny, saying... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 9, 2009 11:15 PM
Hmm, selling in a down market. Let the speculation begin. The Times' Hot Property column says that LAPD Chief William Bratton and his wife Rikki Klieman are asking 1.875 million... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 9, 2009 2:58 PM
The L.A. Times says its comparison of LAPD crime stats to the department's online maps that are supposed to show what's going on in neighborhoods found that 40% of serious... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 9, 2009 12:50 AM
The Times is reporting that the unidentified detective shot herself last night after walking into the Santa Clarita sheriff's station and speaking to a deputy. She placed a box of... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 7, 2009 8:34 AM
Dov Charney's L.A. firm today was "fingered by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for employing some 1,600 workers at its Los Angeles factories whose eligibility documentation is 'suspect and not... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 1, 2009 1:25 PM
"Minutes after our 10pm liveshot, FOX News Channel Correspondent Craig Boswell was the victim of a hit & run," Fox 11's Hal Eisner reported on Twitter about half an hour... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 29, 2009 11:25 PM
U.S. District Judge Gary Feess today extended the consent decree under which he oversees the Los Angeles Police Department until July 15, saying he needs more time to review filings... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 29, 2009 7:49 PM
Well, let's call it partly politics and partly law enforcement, with some union advocacy for seasoning. It's the new blog of the Los Angeles Police Protective League, which posts today... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 26, 2009 3:13 PM
A three-year federal investigation into the Mara Salvatrucha gang's activities near Lafayette Park produced a bunch of indictments unsealed today, including that of Alex Sanchez, executive director of Homies Unidos.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 24, 2009 12:25 PM
Convicted killer Phil Spector was moved Monday to the California Substance Abuse Treatment Facility and State Prison at Corcoran, in the San Joaquin Valley near Fresno. It's the state's largest... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 23, 2009 10:51 PM
After Steve Greenberg's LA Sketchbook cartoon suggested a Parker Center naming compromise last month, he heard from the LAPD headquarters that chief William Bratton would enjoy a copy. One thing... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 23, 2009 7:29 PM
Singer Chris Brown will have to do community labor and five years probation, stay away from Rihanna, give up a DNA sample and other steps in exchange for deal that... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 22, 2009 2:07 PM
Steve Greenberg was inspired by today's Los Angeles Times Poll story showing higher approval ratings for the LAPD. See more by Greenberg in LA Sketchbook.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 22, 2009 10:57 AM
A three-judge panel of the state Court of Appeal agreed with a lower court’s decision to throw out a lawsuit that argued the LAPD policy violated federal and state laws.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 17, 2009 5:16 PM
Attorneys for the city of Los Angeles and the U.S. Department of Justice jointly asked U.S. District Judge Gary A. Feess today to drop the requirement that the LAPD submit... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 15, 2009 2:36 PM
LAPD chief William Bratton, speaking just now on Fox 11, said officers are trying to clear out the last groups still hanging around Downtown. He says there have been five... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 14, 2009 10:42 PM
News reports of a Crips gang party in Studio City on Wednesday night made me smile, if only because of the location. The stories gave the club's name as Platinum... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 12, 2009 11:49 PM
Former music producer Phil Spector's new home is North Kern State Prison in Delano — known in prison system jargon as NKSP. His stay may be temporary, as NKSP... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 10, 2009 3:10 PM
When I played in a roller hockey league in the Valley, there was a team of deputy sheriffs that always started fights and played out of control — worst in... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 10, 2009 9:35 AM
The father of Sherri Rae Rasmussen, the victim of the 1986 murder that the LAPD now says was committed by one of its officers, says he told detectives repeatedly about... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 8, 2009 11:48 PM
Stephanie Ilene Lazarus, 49, was arrested this morning at Parker Center. Cold case investigation into the 1986 beating death of the wife of her ex-boyfriend led to Lazarus, and her... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 5, 2009 12:20 PM
Coming up on 40 years since the Sharon Tate murders in Benedict Canyon, any mention of the Charles Manson family still generates a predictable surge of traffic on this website... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 5, 2009 8:59 AM
Rachelle Spector, the wife of jailed killer Phil Spector, broke her media silence about the case over lunch at the Beverly Hills Hotel with L.A. Times celebrity justice reporter Harriet... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 5, 2009 8:46 AM
This time, the Queen of England is preparing to honor Los Angeles Police Department chief William Bratton with the title of "commander of the most excellent order of the British... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 4, 2009 2:57 PM
The only wall of sound Phil Spector will be hearing is the night howls of a state penitentiary. He got 15 years to life for his second degree murder conviction,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 29, 2009 11:37 AM
Natasha Vargas-Cooper, who is watching the murder trial of Jesse James Hollywood up in Santa Barbara for The Awl, grew up with killing victim Nick Markowitz in West Hills. The... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 27, 2009 3:55 PM
Anthony Pacheco unexpectedly announced his resignation as of July 1, saying in a letter to Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa that he needs to return full-time to his law firm job. Pacheco... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 26, 2009 1:53 PM
Federal court oversight of the LAPD that was agreed to in a consent decree nine years ago "has been a resounding success, and it should at last be allowed to... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 25, 2009 11:09 AM
That's what the U.S. Attorney's office here is calling this morning's raids on Latino gang members allegedly responsible for violence against law enforcement and racially motivated attacks against blacks. There... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 21, 2009 9:57 AM
Officer James Veenstra, who was wounded in the Feb. 2008 SWAT raid in the Valley in which officer Randal Simmons died, was honored at the White House Tuesday along with... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 12, 2009 11:58 PM
Sahl, who lives in Claremont, was reported missing by his wife on Friday, the San Gabriel Valley Tribune blogged this morning. An afternoon update says that Sahl, who turns 82... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 9, 2009 2:26 PM
Steve Greenberg is the editorial cartoonist for LA Observed. View his bio and cartoon archive. Click the cartoon to see it bigger.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 6, 2009 9:10 AM
Two California men were indicted today on federal charges that they illegally smuggled Asian songbirds into the country. One man was stopped at LAX upon return from Vietnam and found... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 5, 2009 4:08 PM
After OC money manager Danny Pang was released from federal custody in Santa Ana Wednesday and sent to home confinement on $1 million bail, he took exception to photographer Jonathan... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 30, 2009 10:26 PM
It was on April 29, 1992 that riots broke out at Florence and Normandie, and in the Civic Center downtown, after four white LAPD cops were acquitted in Simi Valley... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 29, 2009 10:36 PM
Times staffers Jessica Garrison and Kim Christensen went big on Sunday's page one with an expose on oft-accused L.A. slumlord Frank McHugh. Money grafs: For more than 50 years, McHugh,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 27, 2009 12:38 AM
Wave Newspapers contributing editor Betty Pleasant got hold of a letter that ex-LAPD chief Daryl Gates wrote ripping L.A. Times reporter Joel Rubin's coverage of the William Parker naming controversy.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 21, 2009 10:43 PM
The Numero Uno supermarket founder and president was convicted today on federal charges that include racketeering and solicitation of murder. Somewhat of a surprise to court watchers, apparently. Steven Mikulan... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 20, 2009 4:08 PM
Josue Luna, husband of the woman charged in the hit and run death of USC student Adrianna Bachan, was arrested Friday afternoon while entering the U.S. from Mexico at the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 18, 2009 4:27 PM
While director John McTiernan awaits a new indictment over his use of wiretapper Anthony Pellicano in a divorce case, he's pushing a new documentary that alleges the Pellicano prosecution was... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 15, 2009 5:05 PM
In tomorrow's Daily Journal, staff writer Don DeBenedictis writes that Orange County DA Tony Rackauckas has been dismissing felony drug charges if defendants submit their DNA samples. Upset judges and... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 14, 2009 8:43 PM
The jury came back today, after nearly 30 hours of deliberation, with a second-degree murder conviction for Phil Spector. He was taken into custody pending sentencing on May 29. The... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 13, 2009 6:10 PM
L.A. Times writer Thomas Curwen's and photographer Allen J. Schaben's series on Ana Rodarte, 3½ years in the making, has award contender all over it: "Ana Rodarte had given... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 5, 2009 11:28 PM
I wonder if the $235,000 reward helped? More details to come at afternoon news conference. Student Adrianna Bachan, 18, was killed in the weekend incident and Marcus Garfinkle 19, was... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 3, 2009 10:37 AM
The Hollenbeck station veteran who said he was shot in the shoulder by two men outside his home in East Los Angeles in January has left the LAPD after being... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 31, 2009 12:10 PM
Briggs was known around Los Angeles police headquarters at Parker Center as Dr. Dave, Minister of Leather. He shined shoes in the lobby for 21 years and on Monday he... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 20, 2009 11:20 PM
Kiran Alvi and Stuart McClave, student reporters at USC's NeonTommy, have a good story up — when sheriff's detectives claimed they didn't know how to reach a Compton shooting victim,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 13, 2009 4:20 PM
Mark Lacter at LA Biz Observed has been following today's jailing of Bernard Madoff in New York, the New York Times story on Rep. Maxine Waters' questionable involvement with OneUnited... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 12, 2009 5:21 PM
Former LAPD Sgt. Mark Arneson was handcuffed and led out of court today to begin a 10-year federal prison sentence for his conviction as an accomplice of private investigator Anthony... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 3, 2009 10:40 PM
A front-page story in the Wall Street Journal slipped by largely unnoticed on Saturday — who reads the Saturday Journal again? — but the yarn by Tamara Audi is a... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 2, 2009 2:28 PM
Nothing posted yet at the Los Angeles Police Department newsroom or blog, but the officers' union has issued a statement mourning the death at home this morning of South bureau... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 1, 2009 1:05 PM
Celeste Fremon writes at Witness LA that Ridgway, a supervising deputy probation officer for Los Angeles County, "changed—and in many cases, saved—more lives than anyone can adequately count." Ridgway died... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 27, 2009 8:38 PM
Officers from the LAPD met mayoral candidate David "Zuma Dogg" Saltsburg at tonight's campaign forum, took him to the Wilshire station and questioned him about an accusation that he directed... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 26, 2009 10:26 PM
TMZ posted last night a photo it says shows Rihanna with bruises from the alleged attack by singer Chris Brown the night before the Grammys. It appears to be an... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 20, 2009 8:51 AM
Court houses in Los Angeles County have metal detectors that screen for weapons. You know that, I know that, but apparently many people who come to court don't realize it... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 19, 2009 5:56 PM
CityBeat this week brings out-of-work classical music critic Alan Rich back into print, at the expense of freelance critic Donna Perlmutter, who wrote for CityBeat for five years (and was... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 19, 2009 8:35 AM
In a statement this afternoon through crisis managers Sitrick & Co., performer Chris Brown doesn't mention Rihanna but does mention God: Words cannot begin to express how sorry and saddened... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 15, 2009 1:45 PM
The Huffington Post says the L.A. Times was the first major media outlet to identify Rihanna as the victim of Sunday's early morning domestic violence, "despite the LAPD's refusal to... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 9, 2009 11:00 PM
TMZ reports that law enforcement sources tell the site Rihanna was found in Hancock Park with two "huge contusions" on her forehead, and a bloody lip and nose, from the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 9, 2009 4:15 PM
Both performers were supposed to appear this afternoon at the Grammy festivities at Staples Center, but instead Brown was being booked at the LAPD's Wilshire station and Rihanna's people were... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 8, 2009 10:20 PM
Marc Haefele's comparison of Thursday's Drew Street demolition to something out of the Middle Ages struck a nerve in the City Attorney's office, which sent over a response: The February... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 7, 2009 5:56 PM
The Los Angeles artist best known now for his Obama poster was taken into custody on his way to Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art for the opening of his first... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 7, 2009 11:53 AM
Residents of Culver City got robocalls on their home phones informing them that the city would be patrolled today by Santa Monica police, while Culver City police attended services for... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 6, 2009 3:54 PM
Anthony Razo, 49, was attacked as he left his home in City Terrace to play golf about 5 a.m. He is listed in serious condition with a gunshot wound to... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 31, 2009 12:32 PM
The Culver City Police Department is mourning the death of Sgt. Curt Massey in this morning's wrong-way crash on the Santa Monica Freeway. He was a 17-year veteran and recipient... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 28, 2009 5:33 PM
The Times and reporters Scott Glover and Jack Leonard say, based on "two law enforcement sources familiar with the case," that Cardinal Roger Mahony is under federal grand jury investigation... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 28, 2009 4:55 PM
Anonymous LAPD cop "Jack Dunphy" says that officers were told not to wear helmets while working the line at last Saturday's pro-Palestinian rally in Westwood — Dunphy says commanders thought... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 15, 2009 11:42 PM
Samantha Geimer, who was 13 when director Roman Polanski had his way with her in Jack Nicholson's hot tub back in 1977, filed a formal request today that the legal... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 12, 2009 6:58 PM
Last year at this time, Brent Hopkins was a reporter for the Los Angeles Daily News and the guild shop steward/blogger called upon to keep the staff informed through waves... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 8, 2009 3:29 PM
Henry Casas, deputy chief of staff for Councilman Jose Huizar, has been arrested on suspicion of felony domestic violence. Casas, 40, was booked in Van Nuys on New Year's Eve... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 5, 2009 5:33 PM
Roman Polanski's lawyers argue that the director's bid to have that pesky sex with a minor case from the 1970s dismissed should be moved because the entire Los Angeles Superior... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 5, 2009 4:13 PM
Andrew Blankstein reports at the Times: Over the weekend, the LAPD opened its emergency operations center in the wake of Hamas rocket attacks against Israel and the Jewish state's bombing... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 5, 2009 4:04 PM
Randal Simmons, LAPD SWAT "It wasn't until I saw the 10 o'clock news that I fully appreciated how many people lined Vermont and Slauson to greet the procession escorting... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 30, 2008 5:52 PM
Still no positive IDs released since the bodies were badly burned, but officials think that Bruce Pardo's ex-wife Sylvia and her parents perished in the house. Pardo had not worked... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 26, 2008 11:51 AM
The victims of Bruce Pardo found in the Covina home he set afire include his ex-wife and her parents, who owned the home. At least two children who were shot... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 25, 2008 10:18 PM
Bruce Pardo, 45, showed up dressed as Santa Claus at a Christmas Eve party of his estranged wife's family, opened fire with a handgun and set the house on fire.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 25, 2008 3:05 PM
He's in Pakistan, of course. Baca was reported to have met with officials in Karachi yesterday on a five-day visit in the country. From The News: Sheriff Baca heads the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 18, 2008 9:02 AM
California Editor David Lauter rebutted former reporter Anita Busch's comments yesterday in court tying the L.A. Times to convicted private eye Anthony Pellicano. Lauter, who emailed the response to Patterico,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 16, 2008 9:39 PM
The Jewish Journal, breaking new stuff on the local side of the Bernard Madoff story, is blogging developments at Swindler's List.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 16, 2008 4:29 PM
At today's sentencing of Anthony Pellicano, former Los Angeles Times Hollywood reporter Anita Busch — she's also the ex-editor of The Hollywood Reporter — accuses the Times of collaborating with... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 15, 2008 9:15 PM
Officer Sanders was killed this morning on the eastbound 60 Freeway in Hacienda Heights when struck by a car while he was tending to a traffic accident. Sanders leaves a... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 15, 2008 3:25 PM
That 15-year-old San Pedro High School girl who reported two men tried to drag her into a truck [see Morning Buzz] has admitted making up the story. "She said she... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 11, 2008 4:40 PM
Hollywood financier Ryan Kavanaugh's arraignment on fresh DUI and probation violation charges has been put over to Jan. 22. By then, Sheriff Lee Baca's charity hopes that Kavanaugh makes good... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 10, 2008 5:18 PM
When Danish fugitive Stein Bagger walked into the LAPD's Central Area station on Saturday to turn himself in, the cops were skeptical. Officer Jack Richter, in the LAT: "We've had... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 7, 2008 6:31 PM
The Hollywood financier was arrested again for drunk driving, speeding and driving on a suspended license — back in October, while still on probation for an earlier conviction, the New... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 5, 2008 2:33 PM
I think the actual range is 9 to 15 years, but it's kind of fun scanning the first page of Google News headlines: Simpson gets 18 years in prison for... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 5, 2008 10:33 AM
Esteban Armando Nuñez, the 19-year-old son of the former Assembly Speaker, was arrested Tuesday in connection with the stabbing death of a 22-year-old college student at a party in San... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 3, 2008 1:45 AM
SEIU President Andy Stern announced today that Tyrone Freeman, the politically connected head of the union's United Long-Term Care Workers local, would be banned for life and asked to repay... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 26, 2008 2:15 PM
It's not often you see Hollywood lawyers the prominence of Terry Christensen go to federal prison. He was sentenced today to three years, plus a $250,000 fine, for conspiring with... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 24, 2008 3:30 PM
Police say a security guard at the Scientology Celebrity Centre International in Hollywood shot and killed a man who brandished a sword in the parking lot about noon today. LAPD... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 23, 2008 2:58 PM
Sergeant Paul M. Weber takes over as president of the LAPD officers' union. He has been a VP and replaces Tim Sands, who will retire from the department next month... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 21, 2008 12:46 PM
Tomorrow's Daily Journal will report that the City Council did not approve the proposed settlement of legal claims for victims of the LAPD's misbehavior in MacArthur Park last year. The... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 19, 2008 7:44 PM
Actually, $10 million is just the reported amount of the settlement between victims and the city of Los Angeles that is being brought today to the City Council, says the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 19, 2008 12:28 PM
The depleted Los Angeles Times has suspended publication of the Homicide Report, which at this time last year was one of the breakout hits among the paper's blogs. Its success... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 18, 2008 11:52 PM
First more than a thousand anti-Prop 8 protesters gathered at the Mormon temple in Westwood. Now, after employees reported receiving an envelope filled with white powder, the temple has been... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 13, 2008 5:17 PM
Anand Jon, the Indian-born fashion designer who has dressed celebutante Paris Hilton and singer Janet Jackson (big photo gallery on his still-live web site) faced a jury on multiple charges... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 13, 2008 1:20 PM
The two anti-Proposition 8 demonstrators arrested in Westwood yesterday are employees of Buzznet.com. One of them, Mark Oshiro, blogs about his experience while in LAPD custody and his befuddlement at... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 7, 2008 3:35 PM
I enjoy Los Angeles history as much as the next guy, and probably more than the guy beside him. Yet I haven't felt motivated to read the L.A. Times' seven-part... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 31, 2008 1:58 AM
LAPD chief William Bratton has given another interview across the pond — to ITV's London Tonight program (pardon me, programme) — and his remarks about British justice caught the eye... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 28, 2008 3:52 PM
LAPD chief William Bratton's phone message for Barack Obama "challenged Republican John McCain's 'record on policing issues and extolled Obama's,'" he told the L.A. Times. Bratton said he got involved... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 23, 2008 10:45 PM
A slide show">slide show at the LA Weekly website displays the weapons, bikes and gang colors seized from the Mongols motorcycle gang after a multi-year investigation by several agencies. This... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 23, 2008 9:27 AM
LAPD chief William Bratton co-authored an Op-Ed piece in the New York Daily News that posits Osama Bin Laden wants to influence the Nov. 4 election: "If history is any... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 22, 2008 4:18 PM
Controller Laura Chick calls her audit finding a backlog of 7,000 unprocessed rape evidence kits "one of the most startling and important audits " since she was elected seven years... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 20, 2008 4:30 PM
In April of 2007, a release arrived from the Hermosa Beach Police Department announcing that longtime spokesman Paul Wolcott was leaving his post. He didn't, until now. Wolcott has an... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 17, 2008 8:23 PM
Russell Mecano, 40 and an eight-year-veteran of the Los Angeles Police Department, was taken into custody at the West L.A. station. From the LAT's Richard Winton: Two law enforcement sources... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 17, 2008 8:04 PM
The former City Hall power broker and commissioner was sentenced today to state prison in connection with the pay-to-play scandal during the Jim Hahn years. In particular, Wong carried water... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 10, 2008 4:31 PM
The City Council today approved $50,000 rewards for information on sexual assaults against two women near USC in September. And UCLA police announced the arrest of three suspects in a... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 8, 2008 3:44 PM
The Sun newspaper in the U.K. continues to call LAPD chief William Bratton "a leading contender to replace ousted Sir Ian Blair as London’s Metropolitan Police Commissioner." In a story... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 7, 2008 11:24 PM
LAPD chief William Bratton attended the London tabloid The Sun's "Broken Britain summit" on crime last week (in conjunction with the Conservative Party), got some attention from the papers, and... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 5, 2008 10:44 PM
O.J. Simpson was convicted tonight in Las Vegas of all charges — kidnapping, robbery, assault, 12 charges in all. Simpson was handcuffed and taken immediately into custody. Life in prison... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 3, 2008 11:10 PM
After being told that his wife was leaving him for a younger man, Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputy Robert McClain sexually tortured her and her lover for hours and left... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 1, 2008 2:59 PM
Tibby Rothman's Venice Paper picks up street talk that the murder of a young man Sunday night after the Abbot Kinney Festival was a targeted gang hit. Just talk at... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 30, 2008 12:25 PM
The city council of Bell Gardens has hired itself a new city manager — and it's Steve Simonian, the former chief of investigations for District Attorney Steve Cooley. What's intriguing... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 29, 2008 9:07 PM
Fox 11 crime reporter Chris Blatchford is out with "The Black Hand," which Dominick Dunne calls in a blurb, "A gripping, powerful, chilling inside look at a criminal organization that... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 27, 2008 1:46 AM
Why yes, I believe they did. Terry Christensen's law firm sent out a press release today (via Sitrick & Co.) that says he'll be "withdrawing" from the practice of law... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 18, 2008 10:33 PM
Signs have begun going up in Downtown advising commuters. A funeral procession for Officer Spree Desha will begin at Parker Center at 8:45 am Thursday and move to the Cathedral... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 16, 2008 1:32 PM
The LAPD has apparently decided to convene Board of Rights hearings for some of the officers who abused media and protesters in MacArthur Park on May 1, 2007. I know... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 16, 2008 12:57 PM
The Los Angeles Police Department officer who died in the Chatsworth train collision was identified by the LAPD as Spree Desha, a seven-year veteran who worked in the Office of... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 12, 2008 11:24 PM
Channel 7 says an unidentified Los Angeles Police Department officer has been confirmed dead in the Chatsworth Metrolink crash. Updates from media monitoring: * Rescue workers have been pulled out... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 12, 2008 8:56 PM
Poor Linda Deutsch. AP's legendary Los Angeles-based trial reporter is back on the O.J. Simpson beat. She is in Las Vegas for the start of Simpson's latest criminal trial —... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 10, 2008 12:24 AM
A couple of weeks back I was on a blogging panel with LAist editor Zach Behrens and came to appreciate that he makes more phone calls than most bloggers, often... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 4, 2008 6:37 PM
It's a long way from Beverly Hills High for disgraced former lobbyist Jack Abramoff. LAT story. Previously: Backhanded compliment... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 4, 2008 5:15 PM
As Mark picked up earlier at LA Biz Observed, prominent lawyer Terry Christensen and former private eye Anthony Pellicano were convicted today of conspiring to illegally wiretap the ex-wife of... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 29, 2008 5:33 PM
The L.A. Times says it omitted race from the descriptions of three Melrose-area serial robbers by mistake. From the Reader's Representative blog: At least a dozen readers sent a question... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 28, 2008 9:30 AM
For the eighth time in two weeks, a robber has hit the stretch of Melrose Avenue between Fairfax and La Brea. The latest, at 5:30 pm on Wednesday, occurred just... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 22, 2008 2:49 PM
Juan Alvarez is sentenced to eleven life terms in the Atwater Village Metrolink crash that killed eleven in 2005. LAT... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 20, 2008 2:30 PM
The perp is caught on tape at Metblogs.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 20, 2008 2:27 PM
The South L.A. activist pleaded guilty to attempting to bribe a witness in a criminal case involving his daughter, Jasmin Eskew. Ali's sentence was enhanced because of a 1992 robbery... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 18, 2008 9:46 PM
A hockey fan who posts at LetsGoKings.com as riseandfall9 describes being shot outside a club in Hollywood and having to call 911 himself even though a half-dozen other people looked... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 14, 2008 11:56 PM
The funeral for murdered Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy Juan Escalante will be held at 9 am downtown at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels. Burial follows at... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 8, 2008 8:17 AM
Teams from the FBI, LAPD and other agencies are up on the residence hill at UCLA this morning for a large-scale training drill set in Rieber Hall, an empty dorm.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 5, 2008 9:14 AM
Back in 2005 we told you about Gene Hughes, creator of the bible of police scanner frequencies. He also volunteered at the desk at the LAPD's Wilshire division. His real... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 4, 2008 12:23 PM
Juan Abel Escalante, a Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy assigned to the Men's Central Jail, was shot and killed outside his Cypress Park home as he left for work about... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 2, 2008 11:26 PM
The former City Hall power player was convicted on 14 counts of bribery, perjury and other charges stemming from influence peddling while he was a commissioner in the Jim Hahn... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 24, 2008 5:18 PM
Jill Leovy is turning her year as the Los Angeles Times' homicide blogger into a book for Spiegel & Grau. "The Homicide Report: Black Men, Murder and America’s Unseen Catastrophe"... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 15, 2008 11:06 PM
District Attorney Steve Cooley sent a letter to the chairman of the state Board of Parole Hearings strongly opposing the compassionate release from prison of Manson family killer Susan Atkins.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 14, 2008 11:10 AM
Christopher Thomas Thompson, who turns 59 today, has been charged with two felony counts each of reckless driving causing injury, battery with serious bodily injury and the special allegation of... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 11, 2008 2:23 PM
Former deputy mayor (to Hahn) Troy Edwards testified under immunity yesterday at the Leland Wong trial and detailed the gift of sexual favors linked to Wong at a Bonaventure Hotel... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 11, 2008 8:55 AM
Seventeen officers and two sergeants face department charges resulting from the mishandling of the May Day protest in MacArthur Park in 2007. No details were given, except that Cmdr. Rick... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 8, 2008 6:07 PM
The LAPD says that in a study it ran in the Valley, DNA samples collected at the scene of residential and commercial burglaries helped identify a suspect in 45 percent... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 2, 2008 9:55 AM
City Controller Laura Chick wants to audit the City Attorney’s Workers’ Compensation Program. City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo declined her request to turn over records, so she is using the subpoena... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 26, 2008 5:36 PM
Roosevelt Dorn is expected to be charged in connection with a low-income housing loan he reportedly received from the city of Inglewood, according to the Los Angeles Wave and contributing... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 25, 2008 10:14 PM
Anaheim Ducks co-owner Henry Samueli was suspended indefinitely by the National Hockey League after the co-founder of Broadcom pleaded guilty to one count of lying to the U.S. Securities and... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 24, 2008 11:20 PM
Today is the 50th anniversary of a story hitting the Los Angeles papers that would become iconic in local literature. On June 22, 1958, 10-year-old James Ellroy came home in... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 23, 2008 7:23 PM
Susan Atkins, center, did the stabbing of actress Sharon Tate during the August 1969 murders in Benedict Canyon that are popularly blamed on Charles Manson. Atkins was the killer who... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 12, 2008 11:41 PM
The toll is corrected upward after late killings in Los Angeles, Inglewood and Long Beach. Most are believed to be gang related. LAT Previously: 11-murder weekend in Los Angeles County... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 9, 2008 2:29 PM
At least eleven, says the Times roundup — nine of them in the city of Los Angeles, and four of those in the Valley. Ruben Vives gives some details on... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 8, 2008 9:58 PM
Did Henry T. Nicholas III, the co-founder of Broadcom, really spike the drinks of other tech executives with ecstasy? The feds say he did that, and a bunch of other... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 5, 2008 11:51 AM
Mandalit del Barco of National Public Radio wraps up a four-part series on Los Angeles street gangs with a seven-minute piece on All Things Considered about the feds' decade-long fight... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 3, 2008 5:42 PM
In an interview with Patterico blogger Patrick Frey, the victim of the dead-fish incident that helped spur the Anthony Pellicano prosecution voices concerns about ties between the convicted private eye... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 16, 2008 8:35 AM
Verdicts are still being read, but former Hollywood private eye and muscle Anthony Pellicano has been convicted of all but one count of racketeering and conspiracy. (So much for being... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 15, 2008 12:31 PM
NYT bureau chief Jennifer Steinhauer talks to the father of slain teenager Jamiel Shaw Jr. about the hole in his life and his crusade to amend Special Order 40: “I... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 15, 2008 12:14 AM
Vandals even got the tires on the local tow trucks, forcing delays in the Auto Club's response the next morning. Residents in several neighborhoods discovered they had all been victimized... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 13, 2008 10:25 AM
Jamiel Shaw, the high school athlete whose murder has provided a new rallying cry for the right in the immigration wars, may have been killed because of his association with... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 11, 2008 3:12 PM
Councilwoman Hahn responds on her blog to the Fox 11 report that sided with two cops suing the city and tied Hahn to the mother of a Grape Street gang... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 9, 2008 5:25 PM
Regarding yesterday's item from the Daily Mail about LAPD Chief William Bratton advising the mayor of London, Boris Johnson, Bratton says there has been no contact between them: I have... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 9, 2008 1:37 AM
Looks like LAPD chief William Bratton could be traveling out of the city more than ever. The mayor of London just announced that he has signed Bratton to help advise... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 8, 2008 9:18 AM
Film financier Ryan Kavanaugh's company, Relativity Media, backed Columbia Pictures’ “Catch and Release.” Today's NYT uses that connection to lead into a story about Kavanaugh's lawyer trying to use connections... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 5, 2008 8:59 AM
St. Bernardine of Siena Parish in Woodland Hills has donated nearly $1.5 million of its savings to the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles to help fund last year's multimillion-dollar... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 30, 2008 11:27 AM
The Huffington Post's Allison Hope Weiner means it sarcastically: Jettisoning the whole John Adams "fact is a stubborn thing" quote used by Mr. Saunders yesterday, Mr. Pellicano went with his... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 30, 2008 11:16 AM
Counts of all major crimes are improved compared to last year — except homicide, which at 132 so far is still up 10%. From the LAPD stats: Homicide 132 119... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 30, 2008 9:09 AM
Lt. Rick Banks introduces himself to readers as the officer in charge who manages the blog "by approving the postings and reading all of your comments and evaluating which ones... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 24, 2008 12:05 AM
Ex-private eye to the stars Anthony Pellicano told the judge at his trial that he won't be testifying after all. And the accused got a little testy when the judge... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 23, 2008 5:40 PM
Sheriff's deputies used tear gas to put down a riot that broke out Tuesday afternoon and involved 400 or so detainees at the Mira Loma immigration detention center in Lancaster,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 23, 2008 7:53 AM
Looks like Hollywood fix-it lawyer Bert Fields won't be testifying in the Pellicano trial after all. Huffington Post... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 17, 2008 4:29 PM
Fox 11 reporter John Schwada has posted quotes from a video where Sheriff Lee Baca tells a mostly black audience in Compton that some Latino youths are indeed killing African... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 15, 2008 2:29 PM
Veteran Fox 11 reporter Christina Gonzalez filed a civil rights lawsuit against the city and the police department, saying she suffered "shock and injuries to her nervous system" and "severe... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 14, 2008 10:06 PM
Nope, the image is not a scene from a movie. It's something better: real life. It's one in a great collection of 960,000 old LAPD crime scene shots that the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 14, 2008 12:35 AM
Former New York Times Hollywood correspondent Bernard Weinraub, who had teamed with Anita Busch at one point, also took the stand today in the Anthony Pellicano trial. Allison Hope Weiner's... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 9, 2008 6:19 PM
The reporter who started it all — by being threatend via Pellicano and associates to lay off a story about Steven Seagal — took the stand this afternoon. She recounted... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 9, 2008 2:50 PM
Allison Hope Weiner has more exclusive audio clips from the Anthony Pellicano case, of Michael Ovitz on the phone asking for a meeting with the felonious private investigator and Hollywood... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 9, 2008 11:18 AM
How many private cars, trucks and other vehicles would you guess are registered confidentially in California, able to escape parking tickets, toll road fees and those red light cameras? Would... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 9, 2008 12:27 AM
Times City Hall reporter David Zahniser cracks Column One for the first time with a first-person story about his 1989 Toyota Camry being stolen and recovered three times in six... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 31, 2008 12:21 AM
The Washington state 19-year-old who cracked the phone system and got Orange County dispatchers to sent a SWAT team to a home in Lake Forest was sentenced to three years... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 27, 2008 2:35 PM
Betty Pleasant, the Wave's Soulvine columnist, has been hammering away that there is a racial aspect to the gang murders sweeping South Los Angeles and the Eastside. LAPD chief Bill... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 27, 2008 9:25 AM
The firefighter who suffered fatal injuries today in Westchester was identified this evening as Brent A. Lovrien. He was a 10-year veteran assigned to the 'A' Platoon at Fire Station... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 26, 2008 10:37 PM
The Smoking Gun claims that the L.A. Times relied on FBI documents fabricated by con man James Sabatino for the paper's report last week that the 1994 shooting of Tupac... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 26, 2008 9:12 AM
A couple visiting from Colorado had their bikes stolen — and their vacation spoiled — by a "mid 30’s well-dressed white couple" in Santa Monica on St. Patrick's Day. They... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 25, 2008 11:26 PM
Talk about corrections. Months after finalizing Sara Jane Olson's prison release date, five days after letting her out — but two days after police groups started squawking — the California... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 23, 2008 11:23 PM
The former Kathleen Soliah was released this week from the Central California Women's Facility in Chowchilla after serving six years. Nabbed after two decades in hiding, she pleaded guilty in... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 20, 2008 11:58 PM
The body of Alexander Merman, 35, was found shot to death in his Montana Avenue apartment last night. Over the weekend, aspiring actress Juliana Maureen Redding, 21, was found in... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 20, 2008 1:23 PM
Chief Bratton gave his side of the SWAT report controversy, and talked about having women in the unit, this afternoon on "Patt Morrison" on KPCC. (Audio.) Mayor Villaraigosa was also... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 18, 2008 5:30 PM
The headline above is the first line of Dr. Mauricio Heilbron Jr.'s Op-Ed piece in today's Long Beach Press-Telegram. The boy is the 11-year-old who was cut down Sunday night... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 18, 2008 4:20 PM
Oscar Medrano Jr., 47, was picked up by sheriff's deputies at his Gardena jewelry store on suspicion of molesting a 14-year-old girl. No charges filed as yet. Worth noting, I... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 13, 2008 3:56 PM
Journalists turned out at the Beverly Hilton Hotel for a press conference where the Girls Gone Wild founder again ranted about being in jail for most of a year. "We... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 13, 2008 3:44 PM
That audio of O.J. Simpson hollering at sports memorabilia collectors in a Las Vegas hotel last year was worth $165,000 to TMZ.com, reports The Smoking Gun today. TMZ reportedly bought... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 10, 2008 5:13 PM
The former California insurance commissioner, who resigned in 2000 amid corruption allegations, is now a deputy sheriff in Florida. And he just shot somebody: a domestic violence suspect with a... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 29, 2008 3:05 PM
* Rewritten at 2:40 pm with better info Brent Hopkins, the Daily News reporter who has been keeping everybody informed about pending cuts via his blog, took the buyout and... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 29, 2008 12:35 PM
Kazuyoshi Miura never should have posted on his blog that he would be visiting the Pacific island of Saipan. That's where U.S. immigation officers grabbed him. They were tipped by... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 28, 2008 4:06 PM
OK, more loot than treasure. But when cops followed the map scrawled by burglar Roberto Caveda and dug where the X was marked near White Oak Avenue and the Reagan... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 27, 2008 12:02 PM
The L.A. Police Protective League took umbrage at Times columnist Tim Rutten's chiding of Mayor Villaraigosa for injecting a bit of politics into his TV time at the funeral of... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 23, 2008 9:53 AM
At the end of his monthly visit with Patt Morrison on KPCC today, LAPD chief William Bratton pooh-poohed the need for the paparazzi law proposed by Councilman Dennis Zine. He... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 20, 2008 9:15 PM
Crystal Dillard, a Los Angeles County probation officer, and her boyfriend — a reputed Crips leader &mdash were among 23 people indicted in a Pomona-based drug ring, authorities announced today.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 18, 2008 4:56 PM
It could be a prank, pulled by a teenager in another state. They call 911 with a report of hostages and guns, hiding their real phone number ID. The cops... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 18, 2008 10:20 AM
It wasn't until I saw the 10 o'clock news that I fully appreciated how many people lined Vermont and Slauson to greet the procession escorting the remains of Randal Simmons... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 15, 2008 10:44 PM
Motorcycle officers working the route of the Randy Simmons funeral procession have marked their helmets with the radio designation of his SWAT unit: 41-D. Holy Geography, Batman: Furnell Chatman, holding... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 15, 2008 10:30 AM
These didn't occur on Valentine's Day, but they hit the Homicide Report en masse. Got my attention. Athens: Antwan Cole, a 19-year-old young black man, was shot multiple times at... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 15, 2008 12:47 AM
Enough members of the City Council are attending this morning's services for slain LAPD officer Randal Simmons that the regular Friday session was cancelled. TV stations have agreed on pool... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 15, 2008 12:06 AM
The paralyzed former LAPD officer and her husband, officer Tim Pearce, welcomed Lucas Braedon Pearce into the world yesterday. All are doing well. Ripatti was shot in South L.A. in... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 14, 2008 9:19 AM
In his last piece left in the can for the LA Weekly before taking his keyboard to Mexico, Daniel Hernandez uses Elizabeth Palacios's troubles with the law to tell the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 12, 2008 11:18 PM
The LAT's Al Seib captures the memorable image of a sad day for the LAPD. It's posted on the Times website, along with a profile of slain officer Randal Simmons... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 7, 2008 6:06 PM
Robert Parry, a contributor to the Daily News' Friendly Fire blog, attended the SWAT team's annual social dinner at the LAPD academy ten days ago. He was struck that night... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 7, 2008 1:35 PM
SWAT team veteran Randal Simmons, left, was killed this morning during a shootout with a suspect in the Valley community of Winnetka. He is the first member of the Special... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 7, 2008 8:30 AM
Barack Obama and former president Bill Clinton both called in to El Cucuy de la Mañana's radio show this morning. A suspicious device ignited a fire at a home owned... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 5, 2008 3:32 PM
Police were stumped trying to solve a string of nine residential heists pulled off inside Downtown's Orsini complex, a previously impenetrable place dubbed the Tuscan Rock by Curbed LA. Then... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 4, 2008 10:58 PM
In the midst of a spree of retaliatory shootings that has left two three dead and two other victims injured, the gang situation in the San Gabriel Valley community of... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 30, 2008 3:15 PM
Celeste Fremon asks if the LAPD went too far in breaking up a USC block party over the weekend. There were thrown bottles, a tactical alert and Tasering: Did the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 29, 2008 9:15 AM
U.S. District Judge Dale Fischer denied today's latest moves to delay the trial for celebrity private investigator Anthony Pellicano and his co-defendants. It looks more than ever like the trial... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 28, 2008 3:33 PM
Search warrants were served on the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Pasadena's Pacific Asia Museum, the Bowers Museum in Santa Ana and the Mingei International Museum in San Diego... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 24, 2008 1:11 PM
Already in jail for having communication with a witness, O.J. Simpson had his bail doubled to $250,000 by an angry Las Vegas judge. Simpson is expected to post the bond.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 16, 2008 11:06 AM
The February issue of Playboy, on sale starting today, has a long feature by Joe Domanick on LAPD chief William Bratton, or Supercop as the headline calls him. The piece,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 15, 2008 1:16 AM
Dianne Ogden, a longtime music talent coordinator, was one of four women who testified in Phil Spector's murder trial (which ended in a mistrial) that he had threatened her with... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 7, 2008 10:57 PM
Curtis Bernard Harris had pleaded no contest to possessing a firearm after kidnapping his estranged wife, but was freed without bail on Dec. 21 pending his formal sentencing to 16... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 7, 2008 1:51 PM
Arthur magazine's columnist Dave Reeves is serving time in Men's Central Jail over a bike accident, and his friends aren't happy about it. "A series of bizarro events and idiocies... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 6, 2008 10:00 PM
A serial robbery suspect was killed in an early-morning gun battle on Sawtelle Avenue in West Los Angeles. The LAPD officer involved was not hurt. * Not much of a... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 4, 2008 10:52 AM
Unhappy with the LAPD's new financial disclosure rules for drug and gang cops, the L.A. Police Protective League has bought radio time on KFWB and KABC for an ad that... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 3, 2008 8:17 PM
Colin Brown headed to lunch at Clifton's Cafeteria today and encountered the remains of a robbery at the Bank of America on Broadway. That's red dye from the exploding pack... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 2, 2008 8:10 PM
Jill Leovy hinted in this month's profile of her in Los Angeles that she would stop writing the Times' homicide blog in the new year. It's one of the most-read... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 2, 2008 12:37 AM
Question: Where will Mayor Villaraigosa and Chief Bratton drag the media to announce the 2007 crime stats? AKA, a "historic reduction in homicides and violent crime." Presser is Wednesday at... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 1, 2008 2:59 PM
John Stodder, the former Fleishman-Hillard executive whose wire fraud and conspiracy conviction is on appeal, blogs about the pressure of facing Christmas with a prison sentence hanging over your head,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 31, 2007 6:02 PM
The mother of four who took a politically motivated shot at President Gerald Ford in San Francisco in 1975 got out of the low-security Federal Correctional Institution in Dublin this... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 31, 2007 4:16 PM
Five men aged 18 to 27 have been arrested in connection with the Thanksgiving weekend fire that burned 53 homes in Malibu. Authorities said the fire started as an illegal... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 13, 2007 7:52 PM
Remember the murder last year in Long Beach of off-duty Los Angeles County Sheriff's Deputy Maria Cecilia Rosa? She was apparently surprised by two guys on a morning crime spree... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 11, 2007 11:40 PM
The District's Rebecca Schoenkopf got to know Sheriff Mike Carona in her OC Weekly days — he once sent her a bottle of wine and chocolate for her son —... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 1, 2007 11:25 PM
The Times reports, apparently alone, that Orange County Sheriff Mike Carona has been indicted on federal corruption charges. Former Assistant Sheriff George Jaramillo already has pleaded guilty and is cooperating,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 30, 2007 12:16 AM
Times reporter Peter Hong sat through the whole first act of The People vs. Phil Spector, but he found a way to leave at intermission. He's transferring to the LAT's... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 16, 2007 1:39 PM
Based on the coverage, the department's long-awaited report blames bad command decisions, gaps in officer training and a small splinter group of trouble-making demonstrators for the May Day melee in... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 10, 2007 8:45 AM
Just for fun I checked Google News to see how many news websites used "the Juice is loose" in their reports on O.J. Simpson making bail. Surprisingly few: just Access... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 19, 2007 9:49 PM
Split is 7-5 (but we don't know which way) and the foreman tells the judge he doesn't think they can reach a verdict on Phil Spector's guilt or innocence. Judge... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 18, 2007 2:10 PM
Pedophile Jack McClellan is staying behind bars, charged with violating a court order to keep away from children. He pleaded not guilty and was ordered held on $150,000 bail. He's... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 14, 2007 5:31 PM
Reporter Chip Yost simply asked if the self-professed pedophile Jack McClellan wanted to talk after his release from UCLA custody last night — and he did, says Channel 5 executive... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 14, 2007 11:35 AM
Admitted pedophile Jack McClellan was arrested this afternoon lurking with a camera outside the Megan E. Daly Infant Development Program at UCLA. He is to be released by the UCLA... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 13, 2007 5:32 PM
The Times has added a whole bunch of filters and details to the new interactive map that goes with Jill Leovy's homicide blog. If you want to just see the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 9, 2007 10:28 PM
Man-Ling Williams, 27, was arrested late last night on suspicion of murdering her husband and two young sons in the family home. Neal Williams, 27, had been found yesterday morning... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 9, 2007 11:18 AM
The jury weighing Phil Spector's guilt or innocence will head out to Alhambra tomorrow to view the foyer where Lana Clarkson died. Special correspondent Linda Deutsch of the Associated Press... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 8, 2007 5:48 PM
How often do TV stations get to send their nightside crime-and-mayhem crews to a community meeting of angry, frightened citizens at the Hotel Bel-Air? Never! On Thursday night, the rich... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 6, 2007 10:25 PM
This has been a bad day for the Los Angeles Police Department. Detective George "Mike" Selleh of the Mission station was killed about 3:30 am while riding his motorcycle to... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 29, 2007 10:26 PM
George Miller, who is 69, was the subject of a legal tussle over access to files kept by the Los Angeles Archdiocese. The U.S. Supreme Court rejected Cardinal Roger Mahony's... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 24, 2007 3:08 PM
I'm guessing she won't get any rehab endorsement deals any time soon.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 24, 2007 11:14 AM
Lindsay Lohan, fresh off a second stint in rehab, was booked in Santa Monica this morning on suspicion of drunken driving and felony possession of cocaine. She also got nabbed... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 24, 2007 8:10 AM
Two or three men dressed in black and ski masks have targeted Bel-Air, Holmby Hills and Encino in the evenings and on weekends. Their take in the past year includes... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 19, 2007 1:47 PM
Hector Villalta, a rookie officer in the West L.A. station, was arrested Saturday on suspicion of sexual assault. A female companion complained the assault occurred after they came home from... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 10, 2007 4:22 PM
In response to the London bomb discovery, Mayor Villaraigosa wishes to reassure us all that Los Angeles is safe. His statement: Scotland Yard's immediate action to discover and dismantle a... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 29, 2007 11:17 AM
Now that the L.A. Times has given up on the idea of a readable and substantive Sunday magazine, Angelenos have to look elsewhere for deeper, well-written feature pieces out of... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 27, 2007 11:53 PM
Civil rights attorney Stephen Yagman was just convicted of tax evasion, money laundering and bankruptcy fraud. The possible tab for nineteen counts: 80 months in federal prison. I'll just assume... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 22, 2007 4:18 PM
LAPD Chief William Bratton was on the panel as KPCC reporter Patricia Nazario brought many in the audience to tears describing her encounter with a Metro Division officer (and his... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 21, 2007 8:49 AM
Word out of the Santa Monica courthouse is that Michelle Delgadillo came in this morning, pleaded no contest and received twelve months probation on top of paying fines. Stories forthcoming.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 20, 2007 2:38 PM
The Police Commission vote on a second term is unanimous. LAT, CBS2, DN... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 19, 2007 3:35 PM
A federal jury acquitted former LAPD sergeant and Fox News reporter Roderick Bernsen of inappropriate sexual contact in a cruise ship sauna. End of the case, though Bernsen said: "My... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 11, 2007 3:37 PM
Paris Hilton was dragged out the courtroom — weeping and screaming for her mother — and remanded back to the county jail in Lynwood. Unclear to me in all the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 8, 2007 1:24 PM
Paris Hilton can phone in this morning's court appearance after all. Superior Court spokesman Allan Parachini, who has been speaking for Judge Michael Sauer, gave no reason for the change.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 8, 2007 8:26 AM
You definitely get the feeling the Paris Hilton backlash is a lot bigger than Sheriff Baca gambled on — and the storm is just beginning. Judge Michael Sauer wants Hilton... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 7, 2007 5:31 PM
Cynthia Littleton reports on her Variety blog that the LAPD has closed off Wilshire Boulevard outside the Screen Actors Guild, meaning it's also right outside Variety, E!, KNX-KFWB and the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 7, 2007 2:42 PM
Paris Hilton was fitted with an ankle bracelet and released to house arrest after serving the four-plus days in county that are more typical for her kind of offense. The... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 7, 2007 8:08 AM
Paris Hilton turned herself in at the Men's Central Jail downtown on Sunday night — after attending the MTV Movie Awards — and was driven to her temporary new digs... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 4, 2007 8:02 AM
The former city comissioner, already waiting trial on bribery and other charges, will be arraigned tomorrow on a new conflict of interest felony that stems from his time on the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 31, 2007 4:21 PM
Veronique de Turenne at Here in Malibu says signs are posted everywhere about the year-old German shepherd taken by a 50-ish overweight woman with bleached blond hair who drove a... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 30, 2007 6:55 PM
The L.A. Police Protective League acknowledges "missteps" by the LAPD during the May 1 melee at MacArthur Park and yesterday proposed more and better training for offices and commanders —... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 29, 2007 1:11 AM
The LA Weekly's Steven Mikulan has been covering the Phil Spector trial like a theater performance, observing the development of characters and scenes. Hey, you may as well. I just... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 24, 2007 9:17 AM
Four Daily News reporters — Jason Kandel, Brent Hopkins, Rick Coca and Rachel Uranga — are contributing items to It's a Crime, with a Valley bias to the mix. Roll... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 23, 2007 8:40 AM
A suspicious item in checked baggage has closed part of the airport for the second time in less than 24 hours. The LAPD says its bomb squad is en route.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 17, 2007 12:45 PM
The L.A. County Sheriff's department now says Paris Hilton won't be treated any differently than other low-risk inmates when she turns herself in next month to begin a 45-day term.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 10, 2007 3:34 PM
It's Sergio Diaz, Assistant Commanding Officer of the Special Operations Bureau, says LA Weekly contributor Celeste Fremon at WitnessLA. She gives Diaz a strong personal endorsement: "One of the smartest,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 8, 2007 4:33 PM
Today's Daily Journal has a front page story by Sandra Hernandez reporting on the forcible drugging and botched deportation of two men by agents for the Department of Homeland Security.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 8, 2007 8:56 AM
Mayor Villaraigosa, Chief William Bratton and police commission president John Mack have called a 3:30 news conference that the mayor's office bills as "to discuss changes in LAPD command staff"... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 7, 2007 1:11 PM
Paris Hilton will get no work release, furloughs, cushy suburban jail or electronic monitoring and instead must spend a month and a half locked up at the Century Regional Detention... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 4, 2007 5:23 PM
With the LAPD yet again giving the city a black eye, Mayor Villaraigosa cut short his trip to Latin America and will return to Los Angeles Friday morning. He broke... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 3, 2007 10:42 PM
It was just a few months ago that LAPD chief William Bratton argued that the department had learned its lesson and no longer should operate under a consent decree or... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 3, 2007 1:03 AM
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's statement on the violence against the police, and by the police, during the May 1 rally in the park. Yesterday, across the country, we witnessed a day... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 3, 2007 12:19 AM
From the Los Angeles Press Club and SPJ after the jump, and the National Association of Hispanic Journalists at the link, in response to yesterdays injuries by journalists at the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 2, 2007 11:50 PM
Those are reporter Christina Gonzalez's words on Fox 11 after she was shoved and laughed at by LAPD riot cops while coming to the defense of the station's camera operator,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 2, 2007 11:22 AM
Yesterday's number of marchers was small compared to last year, perhaps 25,000 strong, and peaceful. But the day ended with police moving in to MacArthur Park after reporting that bottles... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 2, 2007 7:41 AM
Raul Gama, a 20-year veteran Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy on surveillance duty in North Hollywod, died this morning when a van smashed into his unmarked parked car. The... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 1, 2007 4:12 PM
The father with two kids who tried to stiff the Northridge Claim Jumper last Thursday night sure picked the wrong night at the wrong place to walk out on his... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 30, 2007 8:25 AM
City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo has charged Girls Gone Wild creator Joe Francis with one count of misdemeanor sexual battery for allegedly touching an 18-year-old woman on the breast, buttocks and... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 25, 2007 10:47 AM
The Los Angeles Korean community has been closely following the news out of Virginia Tech, and Radio Korea here is reporting rumors that the father and mother of Cho Seung... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 18, 2007 10:38 AM
LAPD chief William Bratton did the deed today and requested a second term. "It's been an honor and a privilege to serve as Los Angeles' chief of police," he said... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 2, 2007 6:17 PM
Good piece in the Sunday LAT that began as a post on Jill Leovy's Homicide Report blog: LAPD officers frequently assign the wrong name to Latino crime victims and arrestees.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 1, 2007 3:09 PM
KFI News' Eric Leonard reports on his blog that at least two California Highway Patrol officers assigned to the Newhall station were placed off-duty during an internal investigation of allegations... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 13, 2007 10:58 PM
Jill Leovy asks the question in her Homicide Report blog at LATimes.com: "Are Black-vs.-Brown Racial Tensions Driving Homicide in L.A.?" Her answer is no. Take the four most violent Los... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 1, 2007 11:41 PM
It's not quite O.J. Simpson-in-a-white Bronco, but it's still a premium-grade L.A. police chase tale. During yesterday's press conference to remember the 1997 North Hollywood police shootout, the cameras —... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 1, 2007 9:58 AM
Watching this YouTube video of new Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department hires reporting for training last July — assuming it's the real thing — made me wonder about claims that... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 22, 2007 6:30 PM
Former Orange County Superior Court judge Ronald C. Kline — who pleaded guilty to possessing child porn — heard that he was headed to federal prison for 27 months and... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 20, 2007 2:09 PM
Nemesis of Evil posted tonight at 9:01 pm that the bomb squad was outside the Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf at Weyburn and Gayley in Westwood Village. Then came the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 19, 2007 10:05 PM
Jill Leovy's LAT homicide blog now takes note of 99 killings across Los Angeles county so far this year, about three a day. That's lower than last year's daily average,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 13, 2007 12:29 PM
First there was "Jack Dunphy" opining anonymously at the National Review Online. Now there is Sgt. Sunil Dutta writing in the latest issue of The Nation, under his real name,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 12, 2007 1:38 AM
Police in riot gear arrived in force tonight at the Ramona Gardens housing project where tensions are running high over the death in custody of Mauricio Cornejo, a 31-year-old parolee... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 6, 2007 11:18 PM
The now-18-year-old girl got probation and community service like the others, but did not receive sixty days of house arrest. She told the judge she was "truly saddened" by the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 6, 2007 12:48 PM
Covering murder and mayhem in Los Angeles for the Times, Jill Leovy has been driven crazy knowing that for every homicide that captures the media eye there are others that... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 5, 2007 8:11 PM
Judge Gibson Lee gave four more girls convicted in the Halloween attack the same sentence as those juveniles he sent home last week: probation, 60 days house arrest, 250 hours... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 5, 2007 1:09 PM
The New York Times received a partial transcript of O.J. Simpson's never-televised Fox interview with Judith Regan describing how the 1994 murders of Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman might have... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 4, 2007 12:22 PM
Former USC gene therapy scientist William French Anderson, one of the world's most acclaimed scientists, received 14 years in prison today for sexually abusing the young daughter of his number... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 2, 2007 1:07 PM
Ahmed Rashed, a third-year resident at King/Drew Medical Center, pleaded guilty to stealing a hand from a cadaver at the University of Medicine and Dentistry in Newark. That's not the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 2, 2007 10:34 AM
Allegations of felony assault against nine juveniles are found to be true, not true for the youngest accused. The hate crime allegations are also found true against eight of the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 26, 2007 1:58 PM
Sheriff's deputies are "relatively sure" they have the guy who spilled mercury in the Pershing Square Metro station last month. Armando Bustamante Miranda, 27, was being held on an... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 23, 2007 4:43 PM
The suspect killed this morning by police was handcuffed at the time he was shot, but had managed to reach a gun in his pants and open fire on officer... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 22, 2007 9:20 PM
Authorities now are actively looking for the man shown in surveillance video pouring or spilling liquid mercury onto the platform of the Pershing Square Metro station the night of Dec.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 18, 2007 2:25 PM
Steven Garcia, the LAPD officer who shot and killed 13-year-old suspect Devin Brown, today released the finding of the confidential Board of Rights proceeding that cleared him of wrongdoing. The... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 12, 2007 1:43 PM
How times have changed. The FBI filled a room at the Westwood federal building yesterday with screenwriters invited in for a seminar on how to realistically portray anti-terrorist efforts. Special... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 11, 2007 1:42 AM
The suspect was reaching for his waistband as he exited a disturbance at a South Los Angeles Masonic lodge early this morning, the sergeant who shot him told investigators. After... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 10, 2007 12:48 PM
Times columnist Steve Lopez isn't the only one keeping a literal eye on construction of the new LAPD headquarters on the downtown block where a civic park should be instead.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 10, 2007 12:21 PM
They got their man. Jorge Arroyo-Garcia, better known as Armando “Chato” Garcia, was extradited from Mexico and turned over to Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department investigators before dawn at the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 9, 2007 4:22 PM
One of the traffic engineers being arraigned today for shutting down four intersections on the day that EAA went out on strike was featured last January in a Downtown News... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 8, 2007 10:24 AM
What a story. Two high-ranking city traffic engineers, Gabriel Murillo and Kartik Patel, were charged Friday with breaking into the city's automated traffic system and disabling the lights at four... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 6, 2007 9:32 AM
Noted, since it hasn't been included in the mentions here of Jim Lampley's arrest: "I am innocent of the charge of domestic abuse that has been leveled against me and... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 5, 2007 12:09 PM
Today's Wall Street Journal front page says that in breaking up an international car theft ring recently, the LAPD interrupted the flow of profits to terrorists in the Republic of... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 29, 2006 11:28 AM
Five more LAPD officers will hold a press conference Friday to allege misconduct by ex-deputy chief Michael Berkow, Eric Leonard reports at KFI.com. Berkow is the former head of internal... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 28, 2006 11:53 PM
James Mee, the Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy who arrested Mel Gibson in Malibu, claims through his lawyer that he's being harassed by supervisors. Mee's arrest report, you might remember,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 27, 2006 7:09 PM
Yeah, the former head of LAPD internal affairs cops to the affair with a sergeant under his command — but only for three years! Assemblyman Mervyn Dymally apologized (sort... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 19, 2006 5:55 PM
Harvey Levin, who covered the O.J. Simpson legal circus for CBS 2, has some observations over at TMZ.com on Brian (Kato) Kaelin, who lived in a guest house on Simpson's... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 15, 2006 12:42 AM
Chief William Bratton says in the LAT that the department is investigating the former deputy chief in charge of internal affairs over allegations that he exchanged preferential treatment and promotions... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 14, 2006 3:34 PM
Jill Leovy covers homicide and the police for the L.A. Times, often in South Los Angeles. She writes today at Salon.com that the recent uptick in murder stats and spreading... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 14, 2006 11:31 AM
Michael Buchanan, the security guard who stabbed an intruder at the Beverly Hills home of celebrity trainer Gunnar Peterson, is an ex-Rampart Area officer who was fired from the LAPD... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 12, 2006 4:13 PM
Records containing the names, Social Security numbers and birth dates of students, faculty, employees and some applicants since the early 1990s may have been accessed. The online intrusion went on... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 12, 2006 12:23 AM
One day after ABC featured LAPD officer Kristina Ripatti on Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, Chief William Bratton sent out an update on all the officers who are living with serious... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 11, 2006 11:21 AM
If you saw the SUV barreling the wrong way in the carpool lane on the 134 early this morning, first, congratulations for not getting killed. Second, the SUV driver who's... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 11, 2006 11:08 AM
Sean Joseph Meade, 41, was taken from home on order of Chief Bill Bratton after a videotape allegedly showed him choking a handcuffed sixteen-year-old suspect at the Central station. Meade... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 7, 2006 1:33 PM
Suspected gang members backed into and nearly totaled the car of a black woman who has been testifying for several days in the racially inflamed trial over assaults on white... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 6, 2006 2:11 AM
Warren Price had been on the run for almost nine years since the 1997 murders of a man and pregnant woman in Kansas City who were innocents in a bungled... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 30, 2006 4:52 PM
District Attorney Steve Cooley says no charges are warranted in the shooting death of toddler Suzie Peña since the SWAT officers who fired were defending themselves against her father. One... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 28, 2006 12:20 PM
Two more items today on the LAPD blog take issue with stories in the Daily News. First, a watch commander in the Valley continues the department's high-level bristling at Mariel... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 27, 2006 11:55 PM
Elderly driver George Weller was given five years probation, fined $20,000 and ordered to pay $24,000 in penalties plus restitution to the families of some of his victims for killing... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 20, 2006 11:13 AM
A Halloween night attack on three white women by 20 to 40 blacks (according to the Press-Telegram) is causing a lot of community upset in Long Beach. One woman suffered... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 17, 2006 12:31 AM
Columnist Mariel Garza's recent column about the LAPD prompted Chief William Bratton to reply on the department news and PR blog. Her column described the trouble Garza's Cal State Northridge... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 16, 2006 6:39 PM
A shouting student inside Powell Library at UCLA was shot with a stun gun at least twice last night, once after resisting police orders to "stop fighting us" when they... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 15, 2006 10:18 PM
This time it's not Vernon, B.C. but our own city of Vernon. Mayor Leonis Malburg, who has ruled the industrial city for fifty years — that's five-oh — was charged... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 15, 2006 4:05 PM
Former LAPD sergeant and Fox 11 reporter Rod Bernsen was arraigned today in federal court and said he will fight the charges that he touched two boys inappropriately on a... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 13, 2006 11:06 AM
Those sex charges against former FOX 11 reporter, KFI host and LAPD spokesman Rod Bernsen aren't going away. He was indicted Thursday on two federal felony counts of "abusive sexual... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 10, 2006 1:41 AM
The feds have an opened an investigation into the latest videotaped incident involving what looks to be excessive force by LAPD officers. The suspect, gang member William Cardenas, had run... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 9, 2006 6:38 PM
The last minutes aboard the yacht Well Deserved before Thomas and Jackie Hawks were tied to the anchor and tossed overboard alive makes for a chilling read. The testimony, from... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 9, 2006 11:26 AM
Jurors in the grand theft trial of Swedish bad boy Bo Stefan Eriksson could not reach a verdict and the judge just declared a mistrial. Prosecutors said they will try... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 3, 2006 1:26 PM
When the FBI and Santa Monica police served search warrants at the home of Animal Liberation Front supporters Jerry Vlasak and Pamelyn Ferdin this week, they gained entry through a... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 3, 2006 12:27 AM
That car allegedly stolen by Joel Campos of San Pedro? It belonged to Ramona Hahn, mother of the former mayor and the current city councilwoman. That LoJack system? It worked.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 2, 2006 9:16 AM
Chief William Bratton opens his latest newsletter with praise for the Glocks and Tasers that LAPD officers are starting to carry, and lists some of the more high-tech tools that... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 1, 2006 9:36 AM
A powdery substance found this evening sent everyone down to the lobby. A Los Angeles Police Department Hazardous Materials team is on the scene along with the health department. *... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 24, 2006 10:36 PM
The three-year veteran was killed Sunday morning during a routine traffic accident investigation at Riverside Drive and Hyperion Avenue. He was in the street when struck by a car traveling... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 23, 2006 1:47 AM
Remember the amazing news that newlywed James Woodson died from a bullet that came out of the air and struck him in the back while he gardened in Sherman Oaks?... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 20, 2006 1:56 AM
Agents from the FBI's foreign counterintelligence unit have searched the Valley Village home of Abraham Lesnik, a senior scientist on anti-missile systems, looking for evidence that high-security information in his... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 19, 2006 9:46 AM
ABC's "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" demolished the Redondo Beach home of paralyzed LAPD officer Kristina Ripatti last week — and now needs construction workers to finish the rebuild before she... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 16, 2006 7:51 PM
James Mee, the Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy in Malibu who booked Mel Gibson in July, had his home computer confiscated and other records seized last month, TMZ reported this... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 12, 2006 5:13 PM
Former Fox 11 reporter and KFI talk host Rod Bernsen appeared in federal court today and was ordered released on $850,000 bail. He has a November 13 court date for... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 10, 2006 5:59 PM
Former Fox 11 reporter and KFI fill-in host (as well as retired LAPD sergeant) Rod Bernsen will be charged in federal court Tuesday in connection with "an investigation into alleged... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 9, 2006 8:56 PM
Author and former Los Angeles cop Joseph Wambaugh, writing on the Times op-ed page, calls Rossmore Avenue his favorite L.A. street and only partly because James Ellroy lives on it.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 9, 2006 2:45 AM
LA Observed regulars may remember last year when Will Beall, a homicide investigator for the LAPD in 77th Street Division, sold a novel called L.A. Rex to Riverhead and the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 4, 2006 2:37 AM
Eighteen members of the big and notorious 18th Street Gang were indicted on federal charges of "selling" streets in Koreatown and the MacArthur Park district to drug dealers. The ring... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 12, 2006 3:05 PM
Authorities spent much of the night searching Pier 300 in the Port of Los Angeles after an anonymous bomb threat was called in. A man, reportedly with a Middle Eastern... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 11, 2006 9:09 AM
On Tuesday, News and Chatter noted that James Ellroy's copies of the Steve Hodel book, Black Dahlia Avenger, appear to be for sale on eBay. In today's CityBeat, Ellroy elaborates... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 7, 2006 2:22 PM
I haven't checked back to compare his past talk, but it feels like LAPD Chief William Bratton has been cranking up the rhetoric. In his latest monthly missive on the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 6, 2006 11:42 AM
The headline is LAPD-ese for "he's in trouble." According to the department news blog, Officer Chris Walker of Pacific Division was at home around midnight when he heard his wife... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 29, 2006 3:51 PM
Ca Del Sol in Toluca Lake was robbed at gunpoint about 10 pm last night. Two gunmen came in wearing masks and emptied the cash register. Sound familiar?... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 21, 2006 9:38 AM
TMZ reports that Mel Gibson's lawyer dropped in on Malibu's courthouse today and revealed a deal with prosecutors. He pleads no contest to misdemeanor drunk driving, but counts of driving... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 17, 2006 12:25 PM
LAPD officer Edward Beltran Zamora has been charged with filing a false police report and making false arrests. He surrendered at Parker Center then was released on $20,000 bail. The... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 11, 2006 11:24 AM
LAPDBlog.org gets about 2,000 visits a day. Chief William Bratton sees it as mainly a tool for the department to put out its version of events without media interference, as... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 9, 2006 11:22 AM
John Hatfield contends that Chief William Bratton unduly influenced the LAPD Board of Rights that fired him. Hatfield is the officer who applied a flashlight to the head of auto... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 7, 2006 1:11 PM
Former Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy Gabriel Gonzalez assaulted women he stopped while on patrol in the Compton area. He was convicted in federal court earlier this year.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 3, 2006 5:34 PM
The Valley Inn, just off the 405 freeway in Sherman Oaks, is about the 200th restaurant in the Valley to be hit during a spree that has been especially hard... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 3, 2006 12:31 PM
Until Mel Gibson's real arrest report leaked out, Steve Whitmore was not the most visible of law enforcement media handlers. Cindy Beavers with the San Bernardino County sheriff's and that... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 2, 2006 11:11 PM
So much for Mel Gibson wrapping himself in God. When he was arrested Friday on suspicion of DUI in Malibu, a very un-pious Gibson resisted the deputy and threatened repeatedly... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 29, 2006 6:37 PM
TMZ.com says that Mel Gibson was arrested this morning on suspicion of DUI by the Malibu sheriff's. He made the mistake of speeding in the dark on Pacific Coast Highway.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 28, 2006 2:25 PM
Sheriff's homicide detectives plan to ask for the public's help in locating 54 women (!) whose pictures were found in the home of multiple murderer William Bradford, who used to... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 25, 2006 11:47 AM
At gunpoint, no less. Channel 2 News says the actor's Thunderbird jumped the curb, sped into the parking lot of Nina's Kitchen Bath and Hardware at Wilshire and Saltair in... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 19, 2006 6:10 PM
We bloggers are not supposed to mention the ads that Google AdSense places on our sites, for fear that the mention will trigger click fraud. So I'm not suggesting you... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 19, 2006 5:29 PM
Back in June when the LA Weekly proclaimed that a serial killer had preyed on ten Los Angeles-area prostitutes, the paper fingered its favored suspect sitting in a Fresno jail.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 17, 2006 2:47 PM
News and observations from around town, mostly off the police beat today: Chief Bratton told KPCC's Patt Morrison that an internal investigation is looking into reports of overfly forceful LAPD... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 11, 2006 5:18 PM
KCRW music host Chris Douridas will NOT be charged with kidnapping or a sex crime in connection with his arrest on suspicion of drugging a 14-year-old girl at Santa Monica's... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 26, 2006 3:35 PM
Civil rights attorney—and long-time thorn in the side of local law enforcement officials—Stephen Yagman has been indicted on nineteen counts of income tax evasion. The indictment dated June 1 was... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 23, 2006 12:25 PM
Alvaro Luna-Jara, a member of the Dogtown street gang, is suspected of shooting and killing 12-year-old Steven Morales on Avenue 58 in 1998. Luna-Jara fled to Mexico and was nabbed... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 22, 2006 4:16 PM
An LAPD officer on his way to work at 2:30 am had stopped to help at a wreck near Disneyland when his motorcycle was rammed by an SUV. He's in... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 16, 2006 10:09 AM