BREAKING: Police Investigate Shooting On UCLA Campus; 2 Killed
Posted: June 1, 2016 Filed under: Breaking News, Crime & Corruption | Tags: Crime Stoppers, Dodge Caravan, Dog, KCBS-TV, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Police Department, Shooting, UCLA Leave a commentPolice Wednesday investigated an active shooting incident on the UCLA campus in Westwood.
According to the Los Angeles Police Department, two people have been fatally shot on campus. Their identities are being withheld pending family notification.
At this time, it remains unclear how many shooters are being sought by police.
Shortly after 10:00 a.m., campus police sent out an alert notifying students and faculty of a possible “active shooter” in Boelter Hall located near the School of Engineering building.
Students have been told to shelter in a secure place.
The entire campus has been placed on lockdown…(read more)
Source: CBS Los Angeles
Saudi Prince Arrested in Gated L.A. Compound for Alleged Sexual Assault
Posted: September 25, 2015 Filed under: Crime & Corruption | Tags: Associated Press, Baseball bat, Crime, Drive-by shooting, Los Angeles Police Department, Los Angeles Times, Medical state, South Los Angeles, The Police, The Times Leave a commentMajed Abdulaziz Al-Saud, 28, was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of forced copulation with an adult.
Ryan Gajewski & Natalie Stone report: A Saudi prince was arrested at a gated Los Angeles compound after allegedly trying to coerce a worker in the home into performing a sex act on him, Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.
Majed Abdulaziz Al-Saud, 28, was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of forced copulation with an adult, a Los Angeles Police spokesperson told THR. The Los Angeles Times was first to report the news. Read the rest of this entry »
Thief Steals Andy Warhol Paintings And Replaces Them With Fakes
Posted: September 9, 2015 Filed under: Art & Culture, Crime & Corruption, Mediasphere | Tags: Albert Einstein, Andy Warhol, Franz Kafka, George Gershwin, Jeff Koons, Los Angeles Police Department, Louis Brandeis, Lynda Benglis, Martin Buber, Sigmund Freud, Silk Screen, Ten Portraits of Jews of the 20th Century Leave a commentLOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — Police are looking for the thief who stole most of a collection of Andy Warhol prints and switched them out with phonies.
The thefts were discovered recently when a member of the owner’s family took the silkscreens to be reframed, according to the entertainment website TMZ.
The stolen prints were part of a series Warhol called “Ten Portraits of Jews of the 20th Century.” The subjects were the Marx Brothers, George Gershwin, Golda Meir, Albert Einstein, Franz Kafka, Louis Brandeis, Gertrude Stein, Sarah Bernhardt, Martin Buber and Sigmund Freud.
Only 200 silkscreens of the series were made.
The Los Angeles Police Department’s website lists at least seven of the famous prints as stolen. Read the rest of this entry »
Former High School Teacher Michelle Yeh Accused of Having Sex with Underage Students, Taking One to Disneyland
Posted: August 11, 2015 Filed under: Crime & Corruption, Entertainment, Mediasphere, U.S. News | Tags: Academic term, California, Crime Stoppers, l substitute teacher was charged Tuesday with sex crimes involving multiple underage male students, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Police Department, Los Angeles Unified School District, Michelle Yeh, one of whom she a, San Pedro High School, Sexual abuse 1 CommentYeh was charged with four counts of unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor under 16, two counts of oral copulation of a minor under 16, and two counts of lewd act on a child 15 years of age.
LOS ANGELES — A former San Pedro High School substitute teacher was charged Tuesday with sex crimes involving multiple underage male students, one of whom she allegedly took to Disneyland, KTLA reported.
The news station said Michelle Yeh, 28, was set to be arraigned Wednesday in Long Beach, Calif., on multiple felony and misdemeanor charges.
Yeh became a “permanent substitute” teacher at the Los Angeles Unified School District campus in February, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office.
Police said last month that she was a science teacher who had “arranged private meetings” with her students at the end of the school year.
She bought gifts for students while pursuing relationships with them, taking one alleged victim to Disneyland and meeting another at a hotel, the DA’s office said.
In connection with two male victims, Yeh was charged with four counts of unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor under 16, two counts of oral copulation of a minor under 16, and two counts of lewd act on a child 15 years of age, the DA’s office said. Read the rest of this entry »
Three Arrested in Venice Pier Lifeguard Attack
Posted: August 1, 2015 Filed under: Crime & Corruption, Mediasphere, U.S. News | Tags: California, Federal Bureau of Investigation, KNBC, KTLA, Lifeguard, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, Los Angeles Police Department, sexual harassment, Venice 1 CommentA lit cigarette might have been the spark that ignited a beach brawl involving a lifeguard that was caught on camera Thursday afternoon at Venice Beach, according to police.
Video of the assault shows the lifeguard climb down from his tower before he was repeatedly hit and knocked to the ground as several passers-by crowded around. The altercation began after someone flicked a lit cigarette into the lifeguard tower, witnesses told police.
At least one man tried to break up the fight as another was heard shouting “police are coming.” Other lifeguards arrived at the scene during the struggle.
Two men and a woman were arrested in connection to the beating, according to Lt. Daniel Gonzalez of LAPD’s Pacific Division.
Caught on Camera: Venice Pier Lifeguard Attack
Video captured Thursday July 30, 2015 shows an altercation involving a lifeguard at Venice Pier. Three people were arrested in the attack. Audio has been edited due to strong language. Credit: Romy Dee (Published Friday, July 31, 2015)
“It’s just disgusting, really,” said surfer Kim Ternenyi. “It just makes it sad to come here because you’ve got a bunch of silly people doing things that just ruin it for everybody.”
Another witness called it a street brawl with “a bunch of drunken people.” Read the rest of this entry »
Los Angeles Times Fires Leftist Cartoonist Ted Rall For False Account About LAPD
Posted: July 28, 2015 Filed under: Comics, Mediasphere, Politics | Tags: California, Daily Kos, Left Wing, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Police Department, Los Angeles Times, Marxist, media, news, Police car, Police officer, Progressive, propaganda, South Los Angeles, Ted Rall, The Times 1 CommentFor Marxists like Ted Rall, Lying is as natural as breathing.
Matthew Balan Breitbart’s John Nolte reported on Tuesday that the LA Times discontinued its relationship with far-left cartoonist/writer Ted Rall, after he claimed in an May 2015 item that he was “thrown up against a wall, handcuffed and roughed up by an LAPD motorcycle policeman who also threw his driver’s license into the sewer.” The LAPD subsequently released records about the 2001 police encounter (where Rall was stopped for jaywalking), which included an audiotape that “does not back up Rall’s assertions.”
From John Nolte’s report:
Ted Rall, a noxious left-wing political cartoonist who has advocated violence against conservatives and on more than one occasion revealed himself as a racist, finally went too far, even for the same LA Times that champions those who threaten Jews with curb-stomping. According to the Times, in a May 11 article, Rall outright lied about a 2001 experience he had with the LAPD….(read more)
Maetenloch at AceofSpadesHQ has this:
You’ll be shocked, shocked to find out that Rall is a lying liar who lies. In fact as far back as 2003 Ted Rall was known as a long-time scumbag. The fact that he was ever employed by reputable publications after this cartoon is reason enough for the MSM to be destroyed in a cleansing fire of incandescent righteousness…(read more)
The liberal newspaper’s editorial page editor, Nicholas Goldberg, wrote a note to readers on Tuesday about Rall’s firing. Goldberg first summarized the cartoonist’s claims against the police officer, where he also contended that “dozens of onlookers shouted in protest at the officer’s conduct.” The editor continued that the newly-released audiotape “gives no indication that there was physical violence of any sort by the policeman or that Rall’s license was thrown into the sewer or that he was handcuffed. Nor is there any evidence on the recording of a crowd of shouting onlookers.”
Goldberg also pointed out that Rall filed a complaint with the LAPD which made no mention of the allegation of excessive force:
In Rall’s initial complaint to the LAPD, he describes the incident without mentioning any physical violence or handcuffing but says that the police officer was “belligerent and hostile” and that he threw Rall’s license into the “gutter.” The tape depicts a polite interaction.
In addition, Rall wrote in his blog post that the LAPD dismissed his complaint without ever contacting him. Department records show that internal affairs investigators made repeated attempts to contact Rall, without success. Read the rest of this entry »
Mystery Man Found Decomposing In Car Had More Than 1,200 Guns, Cash, Underwater Car
Posted: July 23, 2015 Filed under: U.S. News | Tags: Body, Detective, Harland Braun, Lawyer, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Police Department, Pacific Palisades, Southern California, Sport utility vehicle Leave a commentLOS ANGELES (AP) – An attorney said Wednesday that the body of a mystery man was decomposing in his car in the tony Pacific Palisades neighborhood in Southern California for nearly two weeks before he was found by authorities on July 17.
Inside his home, detectives discovered more than 1,200 guns, scopes, 6.5 tons of ammunition, bows and arrows, knives, machetes and $230,000 in cash.
They also found eight of the 14 vehicles registered to the man stashed across Los Angeles, including a Toyota SUV designed to drive underwater.
Who the man was and how he came to accumulate the arsenal and vehicles are questions authorities are still trying to answer.
Veteran defense attorney Harland Braun represents the man’s fiancée Catherine Nebron and identified him as Jeffrey Alan Lash.
That’s also the name coroner’s officials are working with and they’re in touch with a relative to try to officially identify the body, said Craig Harvey, chief of investigations for the coroner’s office.
Lash and Nebron were together for 17 years and she believed him when he told her that he worked as an undercover operative for multiple unnamed government agencies, Braun said.
“The story itself sounds totally crazy but then how do you explain all this?” Braun said. “There’s no evidence he was a drug dealer or he stole these weapons, or had any criminal source of income, no stolen property, all the stuff you’d look for.” Read the rest of this entry »
[VIDEO] Robert Holguin: Disruption at Board of Police Commissioners Panel to Vote on #EzellFord Shooting by #LAPD
Posted: June 9, 2015 Filed under: Breaking News, Crime & Corruption, Law & Justice, Mediasphere, Politics | Tags: ABC7, Board of Police Commissioners, California, Charlie Beck, Civilian Oversight, Ezell Ford, Glendale, LAPD, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Police Department, Mary O'Callaghan, Police car, Robert Holguin, Shooting Leave a comment
Some people at today’s Board of Police Commissioners start to sing. The panel to vote on #EzellFord shooting by #LAPD pic.twitter.com/nxzQMkgK0X
— Robert Holguin (@ABC7Robert) June 9, 2015
Tiny California Towns Have Big Asset Forfeiture Histories
Posted: April 22, 2015 Filed under: Crime & Corruption, Politics, U.S. News | Tags: 870 AM, Asset forfeiture, California, Law enforcement agency, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Police Department, Police, Police officer, Twitter, United States, United States Department of Justice Leave a commentNew report shows municipalities bolstering ailing budgets with seizures
Scott Shackford writes: The Drug Policy Alliance has a big new report out today showing how a pack of small cities in Southern California are using and abusing the federal civil asset forfeiture program to get more money for their departments in the wake of budget woes. The report, researched and written by drug policy journalist Jonah Engle, also shows how little oversight the Department of Justice actually demonstrates over municipal and law enforcement forfeiture behavior that appears to violate guidelines for participation in the program.
“The reason is pretty simple: California’s asset forfeiture law allows law enforcement agencies to keep only a maximum of 65 percent of the money they seize.”
What do the cities of Vernon, Baldwin Park, Beverly Hills, Gardena, Irwindale, La Verne, Pomona, and South Gate have in common? They’re all comparatively small cities in Los Angeles County ranging in population from just 112 (Vernon) to 149,058 (Pomona). Yet these cities, combined, have collected more than $43 million in asset forfeiture between 2006 and 2013, according to the report.
“The federal program allows law enforcement agencies to keep 80 percent. There’s just more money in turning to the feds and ignoring the state.”
That’s 60 percent more than the Los Angeles Police Department took in during that time frame, even though these combined municipalities still have only a fraction of the population of Los Angeles. The report breaks it down even further to help readers grasp the differences. Irwindale has a population of 1,422 people and has collected more than $800,000 in forfeited assets.
“Civil asset forfeiture was never intended to supplant law enforcement budgeting.”
Bakersfield has a population of 349,000 but collected only $571,796 during the same time. Vernon isn’t even so much a city as it is a large industrial hub with a history of corruption. Despite having almost no residents, it brought in nearly $1 million in federal asset forfeiture funds during this time. Read the rest of this entry »
Robert Holguin Reports: 14 Suspects in Sexual Assault Investigation at Venice High School – 9 in Custody – 2 Victims are Sudents
Posted: March 14, 2015 Filed under: Breaking News, Crime & Corruption | Tags: Arrest, Commander, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Police Department, Los Angeles Unified School District, News conference, Ramon C. Cortines, Sexual assault, Venice, Venice High School (Los Angeles) Leave a commentPer #LAPD: 14 suspects in sexual assault investigation @ #VeniceHighSchool – 9 in custody – 2 victims are students. pic.twitter.com/bDZJXlDm3K
— Robert Holguin (@ABC7Robert) March 13, 2015
Cop Smear Blowback: Civil Rights Leaders Demand that Actress Daniele Watts Apologize to LAPD for Claiming She was Racially Profiled
Posted: September 19, 2014 Filed under: Breaking News, Crime & Corruption, Mediasphere, U.S. News | Tags: Daniele Watts, Django Unchained, Facebook, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Police Department, Police, Police officer, Racial profiling Leave a commentCivil rights leaders demand that actress Daniele Watts apologize to #LAPD for claiming she was racially profiled. pic.twitter.com/C6NVfrtyn7
— Robert Holguin (@ABC7Robert) September 19, 2014
Democrat Deputy L.A. City Attorney Busted for Child Porn, Multiple Charges
Posted: September 6, 2014 Filed under: Breaking News, Crime & Corruption, U.S. News | Tags: Administrative leave, Child pornography, City attorney, Garcia, Los Angeles, Los Angeles City Attorney, Los Angeles Police Department, Los Angeles Times 2 CommentsA deputy Los Angeles city attorney was arrested at his home on Thursday on multiple charges of child pornography, according to the Los Angeles Times.
LAPD spokeswoman and Officer Liliana Peciado told the Times that Christopher Richard Garcia, 57, was booked on suspicion of possessing and distributing child pornography. Garcia posted $40,000 bail shortly after the arrest, court records show.
“Authorities executed a search warrant at Garcia’s house in November, where they found “some questionable images” after conducting a forensic search on one of Garcia’s computers.”
Garcia had apparently been under investigation since November, according to city attorney spokesman Rob Wilcox.
“When our office became aware of these allegations 10 months ago, Mr. Garcia was immediately placed on administrative leave, where he remains today,” Wilcox told the Times. “We cannot comment further on this ongoing criminal matter.” Read the rest of this entry »
James Garner 1928-2014
Posted: July 20, 2014 Filed under: Art & Culture, Entertainment, Mediasphere | Tags: Actor, Great Escape, Jame Garner, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Police Department, Maverick, Rockford Files, Television program 2 CommentsRIP James Garner 1928-2014
Publicity still, circa 1965
via Roger Wilkerson
LAPD on Tactical Alert as Mexico World Cup Fans Block Roads and Force Closure of Ramps on 5 Freeway in Pacoima
Posted: June 23, 2014 Filed under: Breaking News, U.S. News | Tags: Controlled-access highway, KTLA, Los Angeles Police Department, Pacoima, Pacoima Los Angeles, San Fernando Road 1 CommentMexico World Cup fans block roads and force closure of ramps on 5 Freeway in Pacoima. http://t.co/TmXj6bxeD9 pic.twitter.com/nOPJUEYhED
— KTLA (@KTLA) June 24, 2014
LAPD: Justin Bieber Accused of Attempted Robbery
Posted: May 13, 2014 Filed under: Breaking News, Entertainment | Tags: Justin Bieber, Los Angeles Clippers, Los Angeles Police Department, Oklahoma City, Rosario Herrera 3 CommentsLos Angeles police said Tuesday night that detectives were interviewing a victim of an alleged attempted robbery by Justin Bieber.
“He has been accused of attempted robbery.”
— Officer Rosario Herrera, Los Angeles Police Department
Officer Herrera said the incident allegedly took place around 10:30 p.m. Monday in the LAPDs Devonshire Division, which includes Northridge and other parts of the San Fernando Valley…(read more)

BREAKING: Shots Fired at Apartment Complex in Valley Village California
Posted: April 28, 2014 Filed under: Breaking News | Tags: KTLA, Law, Law Enforcement, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Police Department, Police, Rosario Herrera, United States 1 CommentAuthorities were sent to the 12400 block of Weddington St. (map) after the call came in reporting a shooting at about 10:30 a.m., according to Officer Rosario Herrera of the Los Angeles Police Department.
There was at least one victim in the incident, according to Herrera.
Three officers could be seen carrying what appeared to be a woman’s body out of the complex and into a carport area just after 11 a.m. The woman was placed on a gurney and into an ambulance.
State Power: Supreme Court Ruling Expands Police Authority in Home Searches
Posted: February 26, 2014 Filed under: Law & Justice, U.S. News | Tags: Fernandez, Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Police Department, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Samuel Alito, Supreme Court of the United States, Venice Boulevard 1 Comment
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote the dissent in the police search case. (Nikki Kahn / Getty Images / August 29, 2013)
The LA Times’ David Savage reports: Police officers may enter and search a home without a warrant as long as one occupant consents, even if another resident has previously objected, the Supreme Court ruled Tuesday in a Los Angeles case.
“Instead of adhering to the warrant requirement, today’s decision tells the police they may dodge it.”
— Justice Ginsburg
The 6-3 ruling, triggered by a Los Angeles Police Department arrest in 2009, gives authorities more leeway to search homes without obtaining a warrant, even when there is no emergency.
The majority, led by Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., said police need not take the time to get a magistrate’s approval before entering a home in such cases. But dissenters, led by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, warned that the decision would erode protections against warrantless home searches. The court had previously held that such protections were at the “very core” of the 4th Amendment and its ban on unreasonable searches and seizures.
[VIDEO]Actor Tim Daly Describes the Scene of LAX Shooting
Posted: November 1, 2013 Filed under: Breaking News, Crime & Corruption, U.S. News | Tags: Brooke Baldwin, CNN, LAX, Los Angeles, Los Angeles International Airport, Los Angeles Police Department, Transportation Security Administration, Virgin America 1 CommentDaly had been waiting in the first-class lounge for Virgin America at LAX when gunfire broke out. Following the shooting, he spoke to CNN’s Brooke Baldwin from a tunnel on his way to baggage claim.