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Topic Archive: Police beat
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...
Posted May 9, 2008 01:37 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...
Posted May 8, 2008 09:18 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...
Posted May 5, 2008 08:59 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...
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,...
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...
Posted April 30, 2008 09:09 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...
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...
Posted April 23, 2008 05:40 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...
Posted April 23, 2008 07:53 AM
Looks like Hollywood fix-it lawyer Bert Fields won't be testifying in the Pellicano trial after all. Huffington Post...
Posted April 17, 2008 04:29 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...
Posted April 15, 2008 02:29 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...
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...
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...
Posted April 9, 2008 06:19 PM
The reporter who started it all — by being threatend via Pellicano and associates to lay off a story about Steven Seagal — took the...
Posted April 9, 2008 02:50 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...
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...
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...
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...
Posted March 27, 2008 02:35 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...
Posted March 27, 2008 09:25 AM
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...
Posted March 26, 2008 09:12 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...
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...
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...
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...
Posted March 20, 2008 01:23 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....
Posted March 18, 2008 05:30 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...
Posted March 18, 2008 04:20 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...
Posted March 13, 2008 03:56 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...
Posted March 13, 2008 03:44 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...
Posted March 10, 2008 05:13 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...
Posted February 29, 2008 03:05 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...
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...
Posted February 28, 2008 04:06 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...
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...
Posted February 23, 2008 09:53 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...
Posted February 20, 2008 09:15 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...
Posted February 18, 2008 04:56 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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
Posted February 14, 2008 09:19 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...
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...
Posted February 7, 2008 06:06 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....
Posted February 7, 2008 01:35 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...
Posted February 7, 2008 08:30 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...
Posted February 5, 2008 03:32 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...
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...
Posted January 30, 2008 03:15 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...
Posted January 29, 2008 09:15 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...
Posted January 28, 2008 03:33 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...
Posted January 24, 2008 01:11 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...
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...
Posted January 15, 2008 01:16 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...
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...
Posted January 7, 2008 01:51 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...
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....
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...
Posted January 3, 2008 08:17 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...
Posted January 2, 2008 08:10 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....
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...
Posted January 1, 2008 02:59 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...
Posted December 31, 2007 06:02 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...
Posted December 31, 2007 04:16 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...
Posted December 13, 2007 07:52 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...
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...
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...
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....
Posted October 16, 2007 01:39 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...
Posted October 10, 2007 08:45 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...
Posted September 19, 2007 09:49 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...
Posted September 18, 2007 02:10 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...
Posted August 14, 2007 05:31 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...
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...
Posted August 13, 2007 05:32 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...
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,...
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...
Posted August 8, 2007 05:48 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!...
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...
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...
Posted July 24, 2007 03:08 PM
I'm guessing she won't get any rehab endorsement deals any time soon....
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...
Posted July 24, 2007 08:10 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...
Posted July 19, 2007 01:47 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...
Posted July 10, 2007 04:22 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...
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,...
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...
Posted June 22, 2007 04:18 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...
Posted June 21, 2007 08:49 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...
Posted June 20, 2007 02:38 PM
The Police Commission vote on a second term is unanimous. LAT, CBS2, DN...
Posted June 19, 2007 03:35 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...
Posted June 11, 2007 03:37 PM
Paris Hilton was dragged out the courtroom — weeping and screaming for her mother — and remanded back to the county jail in Lynwood. Unclear...
Posted June 8, 2007 01:24 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...
Posted June 8, 2007 08:26 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....
Posted June 7, 2007 05:31 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...
Posted June 7, 2007 02:42 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...
Posted June 7, 2007 08:08 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...
Posted June 4, 2007 08:02 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...
Posted May 31, 2007 04:21 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...
Posted May 30, 2007 06:55 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...
Posted May 29, 2007 01:11 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...
Posted May 24, 2007 09:17 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...
Posted May 23, 2007 08:40 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...
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...
Posted May 10, 2007 03:34 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...
Posted May 8, 2007 04:33 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...
Posted May 8, 2007 08:56 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...
Posted May 7, 2007 01:11 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...
Posted May 4, 2007 05:23 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...
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...
Posted May 3, 2007 01:03 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...
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...
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...
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...
Posted May 2, 2007 07:41 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...
Posted May 1, 2007 04:12 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...
Posted April 30, 2007 08:25 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...
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...
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'...
Posted April 2, 2007 06:17 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...
Posted April 1, 2007 03:09 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...
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...
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...
Posted March 1, 2007 09:58 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...
Posted February 22, 2007 06:30 PM
Former Orange County Superior Court judge Ronald C. Kline — who pleaded guilty to possessing child porn — heard that he was headed to federal...
Posted February 20, 2007 02:09 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...
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...
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...
Posted February 12, 2007 01:38 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...
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...
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...
Posted February 5, 2007 08:11 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...
Posted February 5, 2007 01:09 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...
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...
Posted February 2, 2007 01:07 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...
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...
Posted January 26, 2007 01:58 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,...
Posted January 23, 2007 04:43 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...
Posted January 22, 2007 09:20 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...
Posted January 18, 2007 02:25 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...
Posted January 12, 2007 01:43 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...
Posted January 11, 2007 01:42 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...
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...
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...
Posted January 9, 2007 04:22 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...
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...
Posted January 6, 2007 09:32 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...
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...
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...
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...
Posted December 27, 2006 07:09 PM
Yeah, the former head of LAPD internal affairs cops to the affair with a sergeant under his command — but only for three years!...
Posted December 19, 2006 05:55 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...
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...
Posted December 14, 2006 03:34 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...
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...
Posted December 12, 2006 04:13 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....
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...
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....
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...
Posted December 7, 2006 01:33 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...
Posted December 6, 2006 02:11 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...
Posted November 30, 2006 04:52 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Posted November 16, 2006 06:39 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...
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 —...
Posted November 15, 2006 04:05 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...
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...
Posted November 10, 2006 01:41 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...
Posted November 9, 2006 06:38 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...
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....
Posted November 3, 2006 01:26 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,...
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....
Posted November 2, 2006 09:16 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...
Posted November 1, 2006 09:36 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...
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...
Posted October 23, 2006 01:47 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...
Posted October 20, 2006 01:56 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...
Posted October 19, 2006 09:46 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...
Posted October 16, 2006 07:51 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...
Posted October 12, 2006 05:13 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...
Posted October 10, 2006 05:59 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...
Posted October 9, 2006 08:56 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...
Posted October 9, 2006 02:45 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....
Posted October 4, 2006 02:37 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...
Posted September 12, 2006 03:05 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,...
Posted September 11, 2006 09:09 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....
Posted September 7, 2006 02:22 PM
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...
Posted August 29, 2006 03:51 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...
Posted August 21, 2006 09:38 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...
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...
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...
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...
Posted August 7, 2006 01:11 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...
Posted August 3, 2006 05:34 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...
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...
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...
Posted July 29, 2006 06:37 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...
Posted July 28, 2006 02:25 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...
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...
Posted July 19, 2006 06:10 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....
Posted July 19, 2006 05:29 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...
Posted July 17, 2006 02:47 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...
Posted July 11, 2006 05:18 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...
Posted June 26, 2006 03:35 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...
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...
Posted June 22, 2006 04:16 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...
Posted June 16, 2006 10:09 AM
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