Written by AARON CASTREJON CityWatch Editor REGION - County officials have ordered a curfew across Los Angeles County effective at 6 p.m. May 31.
The curfew will end at 6 a.m. Monday, June 1. Residents are asked to stay home and only to venture out to seek medical care, or to venture to an essential job, according to Los Angeles County Supervisor Janice Hahn. The curfew affects all incorporated and unincorporated areas of Los Angeles County. Foothill Transit services will end at 5:30 p.m. Sunday afternoon and resume operation at 7 a.m. Monday, according to Foothill Transit officials. After receiving very negative feedback on the hasty closure of late-night bus service in Los Angeles May 30, LA Metro will run regular its Sunday schedule until close of service at midnight, according to the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority. For light rail service, LA Metro A Line (Blue) service will run between Del Amo and Grand/LA Trade Tech College with no service to Downtown Long Beach or Downtown Los Angeles. The E Line (Expo) will run between 26th Street/Bergamot and LA Trade Tech College/Ortho with no service to Downtown Santa Monica and Downtown Los Angeles. For the B Line and D Line (Red and Purple Line) trains skip Civic Center/Grand Park, Pershing Square and 7th/Metro. Sunday brought chaos and looting nearly on par with Saturday night’s events. Roving bands of looters have continued to attack stores in Los Angeles, Beverly Hills, Santa Monica and more. Looters were seen fleeing with bags and boxes of merchandise into waiting high-end sports cars and luxury cars. Santa Monica Place and Third Street Promenade were particularly hit hard. Some looters continue to torch businesses once broken into. Protests over the May 25 killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota have devolved into looting, assault and outright destruction. Written by AARON CASTREJON CityWatch Editor REGION - The man found guilty of murdering a husband and wife during a burglary in the La Verne foothills was sentenced recently. Luke Fabela, 27, was sentenced to life in prison September 27 without the possibility of parole for the 2014 killing of Shirley Isom, 75, and her husband Armie Isom, 89. In May, jurors found Fabela guilty of two counts of first-degree murder and two counts of first-degree residential burglary. They also found true the special circumstance allegations of multiple murders and murder during the commission of a burglary, according to Greg Risling, assistant chief for the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office.
The Isoms were killed in their La Verne foothills home on Roughrider Road December 26, 2014. Both died from blunt force trauma. Shirley Isom additionally suffered sharp force trauma. Fabela also stole a cell phone from the home, prosecutors said. DNA evidence tied Favela to the scene. Written by AARON CASTREJON CityWatch Editor LOS ANGELES -The man accused of beating to death a 76-year-old woman during a burglary in her home April 9 pleaded not guilty Wednesday. Heber Enoc Diaz, from Pasadena, is charged with one count of murder with special circumstance allegations that the crime was committed during a robbery and a burglary. He also is charged with two felony counts of second-degree burglary and one felony count each of first-degree residential burglary, second-degree robbery and elder abuse, said Los Angeles County District Attorney’s public information officer Paul Eakins. Diaz, 27, is accused of causing great bodily harm when he used a hammer, a jab saw and a box cutter to kill Chyong Jen Tsai, according to the complaint. Diaz was previously employed by Tsai to renovate her home, but was not employed at the time Tsai stumbled upon the suspect burglarizing her garage. Diaz is also accused of burglarizing Tsai’s home March 19 while he was employed. Also charged in the case are Luis Alonso Cruz Gaitan, 33, of Altadena, who faces one felony count each of accessory after the fact and receiving stolen property exceeding $950 in value, and Isis Ondina Villalobos, 26, of Pasadena. She faces one felony count of accessory after the fact, Eakins said.
If convicted as charged, Diaz faces life in prison without the possibility of parole or death. Gaitan and Villalobos each face up to three years in county jail if convicted as charged. Diaz was scheduled to be arraigned in the Foltz Criminal Justice Center in Los Angeles. Gaitan and Villalobos are scheduled for a hearing June 28. BIG BUST: Los Angeles, Pasadena, Covina Men Taken Down During Burglary Ring Investigation8/29/2018 Written by AARON CASTREJON | CityWatch Editor REGION - Eight men linked to a local burglary crew were arrested as part of a multi-jurisdictional investigation into “knock knock” burglaries across Los Angeles and Ventura counties. The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Burglary/Robbery Task Force and the Ventura County Sheriff’s Office, along with local police agencies, worked to apprehend the men who belong to Pasadena and L.A. County-based street gangs accused of committing more than 20 burglaries across the two counties.
Authorities uncovered five more individuals linked to the burglaries in Los Angeles and Ventura counties, including seven more tied to the burglary crew.
“Additional arrests are anticipated over the next few weeks as those investigations are completed,” authorities said in a written statement. The burglary crew was likely tipped off by a cable provider employee, who revealed homeowner activities, items of high value located within the homes and where residential surveillance systems were located, authorities said. Multiple search warrants were served at location in Los Angeles and San Bernardino counties August 16 and evidence was seized, including six rifles, three handguns, a large quantity of ammunition, undisclosed stolen property, 1 pound of marijuana, several hundred Xanax pills and a large quantity of U.S. currency, authorities said. Arrested and booked at the Ventura County Jail were:
Smith was wanted for a 2016 burglary in Simi Valley. Brown is on probation for drug sales. Travers is on parole for robbery. Lee is on parole for robbery. World is on probation for burglary, authorities said. Leslie Hall was arrested for being a felon in possession of firearm after investigators found two firearms and ammunition in a vehicle he owned. Leslie Hall is a convicted felon and prohibited from possessing firearms and ammunition, authorities said.
Written by AARON CASTREJON | CityWatch Editor
WHITTIER – A masked man darted out of a pickup truck and made off with a family’s stroller left out on the front porch February 19.
The burglary was caught on camera, occurring around 2:30 a.m. in the 10800 block of Pounds Avenue. A thin man in a dark t-shirt and dark pants ran up to the front porch and took the stroller. He wore a surgical mask. Anyone with information on this theft, is urged to call Whittier Police Detective Bobadilla at 562-567-9283 or the Whittier Police crime tip line at 562-567-9299. |
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