 Written by AARON CASTREJON CityWatch Editor WEST COVINA - No crime was committed after police responded to a report of home burglars Tuesday afternoon. Administrators at schools near the 1200 block of East Herring Avenue put their campuses on lockdown as a precaution while officers investigated a possible home burglary in progress, according to Lt. Dennis Patton of the West Covina Police Department. West Covina High School and Merced Elementary were reportedly place on lockdown.
Police were called before 2 p.m. to the 1200 block of East Herring. A caller believed a residential burglary was occurring, but no crime occurred. No arrests were made, Patton said. “There was no compromise to any of the student population or the staff,” Patton said. Lockdown at the schools were lifted soon after.  PHOTO/West Covina Police. Written by AARON CASTREJON CityWatch Editor WEST COVINA - A hit and run collision April 19 left a child with unspecified injuries and police continue to seek a suspect. The outstanding suspect was backing out of a 7-Eleven parking stall at 2887 E. Valley Blvd. April 19 when he hit a child around 3:36 p.m. The suspect exited the vehicle to help the child, then drove away, according to the West Covina Police Department. The suspect, who purchased items inside 7-Eleven before the crash, drove a 2005 to 2010 silver Audi four-door with tinted windows.
Anyone with information on the suspect is urged to call the West Covina Police Department at 626-939-8688. Information can given anonymously by calling the recorded West Covina Police hotline at 626-939-8688.  Students line Cameron Avenue near West Covina High School Tuesday, April 23, for the Every 15 Minutes demonstration on DUI driving. PHOTO/West Covina Police. Written by AARON CASTREJON CityWatch Editor WEST COVINA - Two students were killed outside West Covina High School Tuesday in a drunk driving crash -- but the students will be just fine. The mock collision was planned as part of a two-day event with the Every 15 Minutes Program, which challenges high school juniors and seniors to consider the grave realities of DUI driving and its impact on the victims and their family and friends. The mock collision was conducted by the West Covina Police Department, California Highway Patrol, West Covina Fire Department, the Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner-Coroner and a host of volunteers, which includes Custer Christiansen Mortuary in Covina. The mock collision took place on Cameron Avenue near the high school. A mock procedure was conducted with the students being transported to a nearby hospital where they later died. The suspected DUI driver, a West Covina High student, was even jailed, according to Officer David Sifling of the West Covina Police Department. Organizers selected some students from West Covina High School to take part in the program, which will include drunk driving demonstrations and a slideshow delivered by a local trauma surgeon showing people injured and killed in DUI collisions, Sifling said. The students will be secluded at a hotel with little to no contact with family and friends. The students will write letters to their parents.
“The letter will start off ‘Every 15 minutes, someone loses their lives to DUI and today I lost mine and I never got to tell you’,” Sifling said. The juniors and seniors will meet again for an assembly at West Covina High School Wednesday, April 24 at 10:30 a.m. A casket will be rolled into the assembly, followed by “the living dead” students killed in the mock crash. A compilation video fo the two-day event will be shown, highlighting the major events from the crash to the arrest of the DUI driver. “A select few of them will read their letters in front of the students and that’s when the heartbreaking stuff starts happening,” Sifling said. Publicly expressing the shock and sorrow of going through a fatal DUI crash -- even a mock crash -- is still a reeling experience for the students, Sifling said. “The event makes a huge impact on everybody at the school,” Sifling said.  PHOTOS/Courtesy of West Covina Police. Written by AARON CASTREJON CityWatch Editor WEST COVINA - Police announced the arrest of the three suspects after weapons were found during three different traffic stops. The traffic stops were conducted April 5, 6 and 7. A driver was stopped April 5 on Amar Road at 3:43 a.m. for committing a vehicle code violation. an unregistered handgun was located near the driver seat. The suspect was booked on suspicion of carrying a concealed firearm, according to the West Covina Police Department.
An AK-47 and ammunition was discovered in a U-Haul truck during an April 6 traffic stop at 7:01 p.m. near Francisquito and Puente Avenue. The driver was initially stopped for a vehicle code violation, but was eventually booked on suspicion of being a gang member in possession of a firearm, carrying a concealed and loaded fire arm and grand theft of the firearm, West Covina Police said. Narcotics and a loaded firearm were discovered in a vehicle stopped in the area of Azusa Avenue and Badillo Street around 2:39 a.m. April 7. The driver, initially stopped for vehicle code violations, was booked on suspicion of being a felon in possession of a firearm, carrying a concealed loaded firearm and possession of a controlled substance, West Covina Police said. |
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