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Police Protective League
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the union that represents the
rank and file LAPD officers
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Daily Local & Regional NewsWatch
Daily News Digest
from LA Police Protective League
November 15, 2018 |
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Law Enforcement News
Heroic California Cop Who Died In Bar Shooting Is Mourned
Sheriff's deputies knew him as a cop's cop, one who would “go to the ends of the earth” to solve a crime. To family and friends, Ron Helus was a devoted husband and father who loved to go fly fishing with his son. On Thursday, Helus will be hailed as a hero — a man who courageously sacrificed his own life to save others' when he raced into a Southern California bar crackling with gunfire and immediately engaged the shooter in a firefight. The act would take Helus' life when he was struck by several bullets, but it would also allow others a few precious moments to escape. In all, 13 people died, including the gunman, who killed himself. “There's no doubt that they saved lives by going in there,” former Ventura County Sheriff Geoff Dean, who retired last Friday, said of the actions of Helus and a California Highway Patrol officer who followed him through the door.
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Parolee Pleads Not Guilty In Sheriff's Sergeant's Killing
A parolee charged with gunning down a Los Angeles County sheriff's sergeant outside a Lancaster apartment complex two years ago and threatening the life of a deputy pleaded not guilty Wednesday to murder and other counts. Trenton Trevon Lovell, 29, of Lancaster, is charged with the execution-style killing of Sgt. Steve Owen, 53, who was shot five times on Oct. 5, 2016, in the 3200 block of West Avenue J-6. Lovell is also accused of pointing a weapon at sheriff's Deputy Zachary Anderson as he arrived at the scene, using Owen's patrol car to ram Anderson's vehicle and then fleeing to a nearby home occupied by a 19-year-old woman and her 17-year-old brother, where the suspect holed up for about an hour before fleeing.
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Policy For All-Civilian LAPD Review Panel Approved By City Council
The City Council Wednesday directed the city's attorneys to draft a proposed ordinance that would give Los Angeles police officers facing disciplinary hearings the option of appearing before an all-civilian review board. A measure calling for the changes was placed on the May 2017 ballot by the City Council with the support of Mayor Eric Garcetti and the Los Angeles Police Protective League, the union representing the department's rank-and-file officers. Charter Amendment C passed with 57.14 percent of the vote. The LAPPL has argued the current system is unfair because of the belief that the police chief has undue influence on sworn members of Board of Rights panels, which currently consist of two command-level officers and a civilian, while critics say the proposed changes would weaken the LAPD's disciplinary system.
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L.A. County Offers Rewards In 2015 South Gate, 2016 Palmdale Homicides
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors Tuesday approved rewards in the unrelated fatal shootings of a 22-year-old man ambushed at a bus stop in South Gate in 2015 and a high school student shot on a street in Palmdale in 2016. Supervisor Hilda Solis recommended a $20,000 reward for information on the gunman who fatally shot 22-year-old Isaiah Equihua. Around 11 p.m. on April 13, 2015, Equihua was sitting at a bus stop with his girlfriend on the corner of Michigan and California avenues in South Gate when someone came up from behind, said something to him and then opened fire at close range.
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Home Security Video Shows Alleged Burglar Who Broke Into Hollywood Hills Condo While Woman Was Home
A Hollywood Hills resident recounted on Wednesday a startling ordeal during which a suspected burglar climbed through one of her windows while she was home. Kacey Montoya reports for the KTLA 5 News at 10 on Nov. 14, 2018.
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Bond Set For L.A. Man Charged In $300K Theft From Dunbar Armored Truck Vault
A former Dunbar Armored employee accused of smuggling $300,000 in cash out of the armored truck company's storage facility in Vernon was granted bond Wednesday pending trial. Eric Miranda, 37, of East Los Angeles agreed to post a $150,000 bond — $50,000 in cash and a $100,000 property deed — and will be released under stringent pretrial conditions, including location monitoring, according to U.S. Magistrate Judge Rozella A. Oliver. The judge also restricted Miranda's travel to the Los Angeles area and ordered that he have no contact with former or current Dunbar employees, or any potential witnesses in the case.
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10 Of 12 Borderline Shooting Victims Died Of Multiple Gunshot Wounds, Officials Say
Most of the 12 victims killed by a gunman at the Borderline Bar and Grill in Thousand Oaks on Nov. 7 died of multiple gunshot wounds, according to the Ventura County Medical Examiner's Office. Among the 10 victims who died of more than one gunshot wound was Ventura County sheriff's Sgt. Ron Helus, 54, who was one of two responding officers to rush in and fire their weapons inside the bar, according to the agency. Justin Meek, 23, of Newbury Park died of a single gunshot wound to the chest, while Cody Gifford-Coffman, 22, of Camarillo, died of a single gunshot to the head. Gifford-Coffman's funeral was set to be held at 7 p.m. Wednesday in Camarillo.
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Police Think Alexa May Have Witnessed A Double Slaying. Now They Want Amazon To Turn Her Over.
Alexa might have been listening, as she almost always is, when Christine Sullivan was stabbed to death in the kitchen of the Farmington, N.H., home where she lived with her boyfriend on Jan. 27, 2017. But does Alexa remember any of it? That's the question state prosecutors are hoping will produce key evidence in the murder case against Timothy Verrill, who is accused of killing Sullivan and her friend, Jenna Pellegrini, over suspicions they were informing police about an alleged drug operation. Prosecutors say Alexa, the artificial woman who personifies the Amazon Echo smart device, was sitting on the kitchen counter the entire time.
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Where Cop Cars Double As Ambulances
Ian Hirst-Hermans lay on the ground bleeding from a gunshot wound to his chest. He had been shot after leaving a house party just after 2 a.m. Within seconds, as he remembers, a police car came racing down the one-way North Philadelphia street in the wrong direction. Two cops jumped out and, with the help of his friend, lifted Hirst-Hermans into the back. Blood pooled beneath the 20-year-old on the hard plastic backseat. He was sure he was going to die. Then from the front of the car came a calming voice. One of the officers was asking him questions about his college classes, telling him he was going to make it. Hirst-Hermans' last memory of the drive was the siren of an ambulance blaring past and one of the officers saying, “There goes your ride.”
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Public Safety News
Washington Firefighter Battling Woolsey Fire Suffering From Severe Chest Trauma After Being Hit By A Car
A firefighter battling the Woolsey Fire early Thursday morning suffered severe chest trauma after being hit by a vehicle. According to California Highway Patrol, the firefighter, a Washington male in his 40s, was hit by a vehicle near Deer Creek on Pacific Coast Highway. The firefighter was deployed to California from South Kitsap Fire and Rescue in Washington, to assist in battling the Woosley Fire. "Our focus at this time is on the firefighter, his family, our fire district and our community," said the South Kitsap Fire Department in a statement. The firefighter was airlifted to Los Robles Medical Center with non-life threatening injuries.
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Woolsey Containment Hits 52%; 3rd Death Reported As More Residents Return Home
Betsy Birdsall shouted with joy at the sight of a red fire truck barreling past on Sierra Canyon Road in the Agoura Hills area Wednesday. The 14-year resident of the historic community of Cornell was standing next to the charred remnants of Kristy's Roadhouse, a bar and grill destroyed in the disastrous Woolsey fire that began last Thursday. “Woo! Thank you!” she screamed, as one firefighter gave a small wave from the truck's window. Birdsall's own home — a 100-year-old original with a stone foundation, located right behind the famous Rock Store, which still stood despite rumors of its demise that spread last week — was spared from the blaze.
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Public Health Emergency Declared In California Due To Wildfires
A public health emergency was declared in California Wednesday as crews to the northern and southern regions of the state battle deadly fires. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar's announcement comes on the heals of President Donald Trump declaring the fires a federal disaster. The designations allow for health providers and services more flexibility in meeting the need for help following the fires. In addition, Ventura County declared the Woolsey blaze a local health emergency. The county would be coordinating with local and state officials to help residents with fire debris removal in the wake of the 97,000-acre blaze.
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Local Government News
LA Councilman Drops Plans To Pursue Sherman Oaks Homeless Housing Site
Los Angeles City Councilman David Ryu said Tuesday the city will no longer pursue affordable housing for people who are homeless at a Sherman Oaks parking lot on Dickens Street, but said there is another location under consideration. The decision came after top city staffers recommended against continuing to study the site at 15314 Dickens St. The lot is owned by a state agency, Caltrans, and leased to the Los Angeles Department of Transportation for operation as a city parking lot.
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$1.2-Billion Convention Center-Hotel Project Would Require Nearly $100-Million Public Subsidy, Report Says
Downtown Los Angeles' next proposed mega real estate development — a $1.2-billion project to add hundreds of hotel rooms at L.A. Live and substantially enlarge the Los Angeles Convention Center — would require nearly $100 million in public subsidies, according to a report to be considered Tuesday by a City Council committee. Anschutz Entertainment Group — the owner of Staples Center, L.A. Live and a hotel complex anchored by JW Marriott — wants the assistance to help close a $119.4-million “feasibility gap” calculated in the report, specifically stemming from the company's addition to its existing hotel consisting of a new tower with 850 luxury rooms and the city's largest ballroom.
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