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Daily Local & Regional NewsWatch
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  Daily Local & Regional NewsWatch

Daily News Digest
from LA Police Protective League

April 14, 2016

Law Enforcement

Mother Mourns Daughter Shot in Domestic Dispute
Jerilyn Olguin struggled Wednesday to come to terms with the shooting death of her only daughter, killed in a domestic dispute on Tuesday night in East Hollywood.  "I just can't understand," she said. "I can't understand someone doing something like that. She had people who cared about her and family."  Olguin said her daughter turned to drugs when she was just out of high school, was in and out of jail. Mother and daughter had not seen each other since 2011. The family tried to get her into drug treatment.  "Even though she had all those troubles we still loved her very much."  On Tuesday she got the call every parent fears. She learned her daughter had been killed. She thought maybe it was an overdose or an accident.
NBC 4

Houston Deputy Constable Shot 4 Times, Expected To Recover
A deputy constable is expected to recover after undergoing several hours of surgery after he was shot four times while talking to another constable after a traffic stop, authorities said Thursday.  Harris County Deputy Constable Alden Clopton was wearing a protective vest when he was shot at from behind about 11:20 p.m. Wednesday, Constable May Walker said during a Thursday morning news conference.  Asked if authorities believed the shooter was targeting law enforcement, Houston police spokesman Kese Smith told The Associated Press that both deputy constables were in uniform and had marked vehicles.  "I can't see how someone can mistake them for someone other than law enforcement," Smith said.
Associated Press

Leimert Park gun dealer under fire
Leimert Park gun dealer was convicted Wednesday of illegally selling large-capacity magazines and more than one handgun within a 30-day period to a civilian security officer. Barkochba Botach, who owns Botach Tactical at 3423 W. 43rd Place, was found guilty of one misdemeanor count each of selling large-capacity magazines and improperly exceeding the one-handgun per 30 days rule for gun sales, according to City Attorney Mike Feuer. The conviction came after a five-day trial in which city prosecutors presented evidence that Botach sold a pair of Smith & Wesson 9-millimeter pistols, each with 17-round magazines, to Amelia Suarez, a security officer at West Los Angeles College. As a civilian employee of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, Suarez was not authorized to make the purchases but was given an exemption reserved for sworn law enforcement officials, according to the City Attorney's Office.
MyNewsLA.com

Search Leads to Rooftop After Pursuit Crash
A pursuit ended in a crash and a search for at least two subjects who climbed onto a rooftop Wednesday in a Windsor Hills neighborhood.  Aerial video showed the two subjects on the roof of what appeared to be a residential building.  The men jumped over at least one fence and ran through a yard before climbing to the top of the building. They appeared to take pictures as a Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department helicopter circled overhead.  The two surrendered at about midday. The pursuit began after a report of a stolen vehicle in South Los Angeles. The driver crashed into a pole at South Verdun Avenue and West 61st Street before the occupants ran from the car. 
NBC 4

Hit-And-Run Suspect Sought After Man Dies In South LA Crash
A 40-year-old man was killed after being ejected from his car when he was hit by a hit-and-run driver in South Los Angeles Tuesday night.  The crash happened around 11 p.m. when the driver of a Volkswagen bug was making a left turn. He was broadsided by a Dodge car and thrown out of his car.  Emergency personnel transported the man to a nearby hospital where he succumbed to his injuries. The suspect in the Dodge fled the scene.  Authorities were looking for the suspect, but did not have a description or further information.
ABC 7

Movie Equipment Stores Suffer $1 Million Loss From Thefts
It's a crime straight out of the movies.  Joel Deutsch, owner of Evidence Camera Rental, said a man posing as a client rented over $300,000 worth of camera equipment last Thursday and never returned it.  "This must have been some sort of an inside job," said Deutsch. "This is someone who did their research. They knew to get the proper paperwork including to buy insurance."  According to Deutsch, the man claimed he was shooting a music video and needed cameras, lighting and lenses. However, the deposit check bounced, and the equipment was never returned.  "They stole about $1 million worth of equipment between the three companies," said Deutsch.
ABC 7

Homeless woman hanged herself from rings in LAPD jail, police chief says
Less than an hour after she was booked on suspicion of prostitution, 40-year-old Angela Slack was found hanging by her neck in a  Los Angeles police  cell, barely alive.  Now, months after the homeless woman died in a hospital from her self-inflicted injury, family members are demanding to know how she could have been allowed to die, and have accused the LAPD of negligence.  “We wrote to the LAPD for information and requested any videos, any photographs. They just didn't respond to us,” said James Morris, an attorney representing her family.  “The family is entitled to know how Angela died and why.”  In a recent report to the police commission, LAPD Chief  Charlie Beck  said investigators found that Slack used her shirt and a restraining ring in her cell to do herself harm.
Los Angeles Times

Judge bars city from seizing and destroying homeless people's property
A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction barring Los Angeles Police and sanitation officers from seizing and destroying homeless people's property without sufficient notice.  U.S. District Court Judge S. James Otero also ordered the city to segregate and store impounded belongings where they can be recovered, the Los Angeles Times reported Wednesday.  The city will be allowed to confiscate or destroy contraband, crime evidence and hazardous material or rat-infested property posing public health and safety issues, Otero ruled, according to The Times.  The injunction applies to skid row and “adjoining areas,” the Times reported.  The City Attorney's Office is evaluating the court's order, Rob Wilcox of the City Attorney's Office told City News Service.
City News Service

Conviction upheld for man who lured girl, 16, to become prostitute in Southland
A state appeals court panel Wednesday upheld the conviction of a man who lured a 16-year-old girl from Oakland to work as a prostitute in Los Angeles and two other counties.  A three-justice panel from California's 2nd District Court of Appeal rejected Rufus McNeely's claim that there were errors in his Los Angeles Superior Court trial.  The Oakland resident was found guilty in July 2014 of human trafficking of a minor for a sex act and pandering by procuring a minor over 16, as well as pimping another victim, a woman, in El Monte in 2012.
MyNewsLA.com

How did she do it? Woman walks onto LAX airfield
A woman who appeared to be a transient walked onto the airfield at Los Angeles International Airport Wednesday and was quickly taken into custody by police.  The woman walked through an access gate near Aviation Boulevard and 111th Street that was open to allow a vehicle in about 3:45 p.m., said Officer Rob Pedregon of the Los Angeles Airport Police.  The woman was arrested for suspicion of trespassing and taken to the Los Angeles Police Department's Pacific Division Jail.  “I'm proud of the quick actions of our LAX security personnel who were able to stop this woman,” said Los Angeles Airport Police Chief Patrick Gannon.“This is just another example of how our layered approach to security at LAX is working and keeping potential security threats from interrupting airport operations.”
City News Service

Ex-Reuters Journalist Gets 2 Years for LA Times Hack
A former Reuters journalist was sentenced to two years in prison on Wednesday for helping Anonymous hack the Los Angeles Times website, according to the Justice Department, NBC News reported.   Matthew Keys, 29, was accused in 2013 of providing hackers with login information to a Tribune server to “disrupt” the Times website, the Justice Department said in a statement. Keys worked for a Tribune-owned television station in Sacramento. In December 2010, an online Times story on tax cuts was briefly altered.   In a post on the website Medium on Wednesday, Keys said he was innocent. But the Justice Department described him as a “disgruntled former employee who used his technical skills to taunt and torment his former employer."
NBC 4

Judge rejects request to block passport marker law
A federal judge declined Wednesday to immediately block a law that requires a marker to be placed in the passports of people convicted of sex offenses against children.  Since the marker provision has not yet gone into effect, deciding whether to block it over constitutional issues would be premature, U.S. District Court Judge Phyllis Hamilton said.  "It is not clear, for example, what form the identifier will take, which citizens will be required to carry a passport with the identifier, or whether the identifier will appear on the face of the passport or will be readable only by a scanner," she said.  Opponents of the marker have called it a "Scarlet Letter" that would wrongly imply that passport holders had engaged in child sex trafficking or child sex tourism and subject them to danger.
Associated Press

City Government News

Mayor Garcetti to highlight year's key issues in State of City address
Following a year in which homelessness became the focus of attention and city leaders adopted a $15 per hour minimum wage, Mayor Eric Garcetti is expected to highlight the Los Angeles's growing job numbers in his State of the City address Thursday.  Garcetti will deliver his speech at the factory of LED maker Noribachi, a Los Angeles-based business that moved from New Mexico in 2012 and was recently named among the city's most promising companies by Forbes magazine.  The company's story was features in one of two videos about the economy and jobs posted recently on the mayor's Facebook page and billed as teasers to his state of the city address. The other video includes a testimonial from an 18-year-old Los Angeles resident who found a job through the city's youth employment program.
Los Angeles Times

L.A., planning for future growth, seeks a major update of its neighborhood plans
Facing a potentially bruising ballot fight over real estate development next year, Los Angeles' political leaders announced Wednesday that they will seek a sweeping update of the plans that govern the size and density of new buildings that go up in scores of neighborhoods.  Mayor  Eric Garcetti  and several council members said they want the Planning Department to revise nearly three dozen “community plans” by 2026, a task that will require the hiring of 28 new employees at a cost of $4.2 million a year.  Updating the plans, Garcetti said, will help communities focus on ways of making housing more affordable, improving commutes and protecting the character of residential neighborhoods.
Los Angeles Times

Clean Streets Initiative Aims To Clean Up Graffiti, Trash Across LA
Mattresses, tires, and a toilet are just a few of the items that were dumped in an alley near 74th Street in South Los Angeles. "Physically, it's an eyesore, it's a health hazard and it's a situation that is just not going to be tolerated," City Councilman Curren Price said.  The poorer areas of the city see more filth, trash, graffiti and illegal dumping, according to a new database that analyzes trash on L.A. streets and alleys.  "It's just been a failure to really properly clean and manage these areas," Price said.  About seven tons of trash will be taken out of the alley but what's frustrating, officials say, is that crews cleaned the same garbage-filled alley just six months ago.
ABC 7
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