Written by AARON CASTREJON
CityWatch Editor

WEST COVINA - One person was hospitalized and a stabbing suspect was arrested July 22, according to the West Covina Police Department.

Few details are available on the stabbing.

Officers responded to the 600 block of North Azusa Avenue Saturday to a reported stabbing around 7 a.m. A victim was located and transported, according to Lt. Brian Daniels of the West Covina Police Department.

Investigators later identified a suspect who was taken into custody, Daniels told SGV CityWatch.

A CityWatch reader passed by the scene around 8 a.m. Saturday and saw that the parking lot at the now shuttered Big Lots store was taped off by police for an investigation.

It is not publicly clear if investigators have determined a motive for the stabbing. The severity of injuries is also not publicly known. The suspect’s name was not readily available.

Written by AARON CASTREJON
CityWatch Editor

WEST COVINA - No it’s not Thatherton, but a suspect on a bicycle stole eight propane tanks from a business July 2.

The suspect broke into a locked area at a business in the 500 block of East Vine Avenue around 3:23 a.m., according to the West Covina Police Department.

The suspect was captured on surveillance video is described as a Latino male with a red Phillies hat, green jacket and blue jean pants. He rode a bright purple bicycle.

Anyone with information on this theft is urged to call the West Covina Police Department at 626-939-8500.

Written by AARON CASTREJON
CityWatch Editor

WEST COVINA - A 39-year-old man was taken into custody after an hours-long barricade, accused of domestic violence against his girlfriend.

Brian Miranda resisted arrested and hunkered down inside a unit at The Colony at the Lakes, 301 S. Glendora Ave. The West Covina Police Special Problems Detail ultimately took Miranda in custody, according to the West Covina Police Department.

Officers were sent to the apartment complex around 3:43 a.m. Thursday, July 6, to a report of a disturbance and a man with a gun. Officers encounter a woman who was the apparent victim of domestic battery.

Many streets surrounding of The Colony were blocked during the entire ordeal.

Miranda was booked on suspicion of being a felon, in possession of a firearm, domestic battery, child endangerment, delaying and resisting a peace officer, trespassing and violating his probation, according to the West Covina Police Department.

Miranda is being held without bail in the Inmate Reception Center in Los Angeles, according to Los Angeles County booking records.

Written by AARON CASTREJON
CityWatch Editor

WEST COVINA - Illegal and dangerous fireworks were found near a quarter-acre brush fire that was extinguished in 20 minutes July 4, according to the West Covina Fire Department.

Firefighters spotted the flames at 10:33 p.m. while helping to close down the city’s July 4 event at the West Covina Sportsplex. The fire burned in the undeveloped parcels of land between two drainage ditches near Fairgrove Avenue and Aroma Drive, according to the West Covina Fire Department.

Police were called prior to the brush fire for separate reports of illegal fireworks being set off and for trespassers on the property where the fire occurred, according to the West Covina Fire Department.

incidentally, West Covina firefighters were conducting drills in the same area Friday, June 30.

Anyone with information on who started the Fire is urged to call the West Covina Fire Department at 626-939-8824.