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the union that represents the
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Daily Local & Regional NewsWatch
Daily News Digest
from LA Police Protective League
September 18, 2019 |
Law Enforcement News
2 Teens Get 30 Years In Murder Of Maryland Officer
Two of three teenage co-defendants were sentenced Monday to 30 years in prison for their roles in the murder of Baltimore County Police Officer Amy Caprio. A county judge handed down prison terms of 30 years and suspended life sentences for Derrick Matthews, 17, and Eugene Genius IV, 19, both of East Baltimore. The third teenage co-defendant, Darrell Ward, 17, is scheduled to be sentenced Sept. 30. The three young men pleaded guilty in June to the felony murder of the 29-year-old officer. Her killer, Dawnta Harris, 17, was convicted at trial and sentenced to life in prison. Harris had stepped on the gas of a stolen Jeep and run over Caprio on a cul-de-sac in Perry Hall. Harris was alone in the Jeep.
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New York Cop Shot, Gunman Killed In Shootout
An NYPD cop was shot in the hand in a struggle with a domestic violence suspect, who was later killed by an officer, on Staten Island Tuesday morning, Commissioner James O'Neill said. The female officer was one of four attempting to arrest the suspect after police received an 8:20 a.m. call from a woman reporting that she was the victim of a past domestic assault, O'Neill said. The woman had pointed the 39-year-old man out to officers when they responded. The suspect, who has a criminal history and previously served five years in prison for a shooting, became "combative" with the officers when they tried to place him under arrest near Prince Street and Mickardan Court in Clifton, the commissioner said. One officer deployed a Taser, hitting the man in the back, but the man then pulled out a gun.
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Investigation Underway After Body Discovered In Van Nuys Neighborhood
An investigation is underway after someone discovered a body in a Van Nuys neighborhood Tuesday morning. The Fire Department received a call just before 6 a.m. reporting a person down, Los Angeles Fire Department spokesperson Nicholas Prange said. Firefighters and police officers were sent to the 7300 block of Ranchito Avenue where they located the unidentified individual. The person was pronounced dead at the scene, Los Angeles Police Department Officer Lizeth Lomeli said. No age or gender has been released. Details on what caused the death were also unclear.
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Suspect Arrested On Suspicion Of Groping 4 Women At CSU
Northridge Police arrested a man on Thursday, Sept. 5 who admitted to groping at least four CSU Northridge students, officials said Monday. The suspect is not a CSUN student, campus police Capt. Scott Vanscoy said. He allegedly contacted his first victim at the Oviatt Library, which is near the center of campus between Lindley and Etiwanda, and asked her out on a date. When she declined, the suspect grabbed her crotch then ran off. She immediately reported the incident to police, who distributed a bulletin throughout campus. A second woman later contacted officers and said the suspect described in the bulletin had approached her inside Redwood Hall. He allegedly engaged her in conversation, then groped her buttocks and fled. Shortly after police received that report, a parking officer spotted the suspect in lot B4, VanScoy said. The suspect attempted to run away, but was taken into custody at about 11:15 a.m. on Sept. 5. He was identified as Mynor Tahaytzunum, 22, of Northridge.
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Man Who Scrawled Threatening Messages On Los Feliz Sikh Temple Gets 16 Months In Prison
A 29-year-old man who vandalized a Sikh temple in Los Feliz in 2017 will spend a little over a year in prison after admitting he defaced the religious building. Artyom Manukyan was sentenced to 16 months in prison Monday, according to the Los Angeles County district attorney's office. The sentence is concurrent with a penalty Manukyan faces under a prior arson case. Manukyan scrawled two hateful screeds on the outside of the Hollywood Sikh Temple on Vermont Avenue in Los Feliz in late August 2017, according to the LAPD. Police were considering hate crime charges against Manukyan, saying the messages were designed as a threat to the Sikh community. He pleaded no contest to felony vandalism of religious property in August 2018.
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Sylmar Man Pleads Not Guilty To Reporting False Threat At LA County Fair
A Sylmar man accused of making a bogus threat about a mass shooting at the Los Angeles County Fair pleaded not guilty Tuesday to a misdemeanor charge of making a false report of an emergency. Erik Jonathan Villasenor, 22, could face up to a year in jail and/or a $1,000 fine if convicted, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office. Villasenor allegedly emailed authorities last Friday to falsely warn of an online threat of a shooting on Sunday. Pomona Police Chief Michael Olivieri told reporters that the email sent to the fair association warned that “someone was planning on doing a mass shooting Sunday at the fairgrounds.” Villasenor subsequently admitted that it was a hoax, and that he had concocted the idea “as an excuse to his parents not to go to the fair,” according to the police chief.
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Man Pleads Guilty In L.A. To Using False Passport In TOEFL Cheating Ring
A 33-year-old man pleaded guilty Thursday in Los Angeles to his role in a scheme to help Chinese nationals obtain student visas by hiring people who used fake passports to take their English proficiency tests for them. Tuan Tran, who most recently lived in Taiwan, pleaded guilty in federal court to a single charge of use of a false passport, which carries a maximum sentence of 10 years, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office. Sentencing is set for Jan. 30. In his plea agreement, Tran admitting to having taken at least one Test of English as a Foreign Language exam using a counterfeit passport in the name of a Chinese national seeking to remain in the United States on a student visa. The fake passport bore Tran's photograph, he acknowledged. Tran also admitted he was paid $400 once the passing score on the exam was registered.
MyNewsLA.com |
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Democratic Donor Ed Buck Charged With Operating Drug House After 2 Men Found Dead In Home
Prominent Democratic donor and LGBTQ political activist Ed Buck was arrested Tuesday and charged with operating a drug house, with prosecutors calling him a violent sexual predator who preys on men struggling with addiction and homelessness. Buck was charged with one count each of battery causing serious injury, administering methamphetamine and maintaining a drug house, according to the Los Angeles County district attorney's office. Buck is accused of injecting a 37-year-old man, who overdosed but survived, with methamphetamine on Sept. 11. That latest incident comes after two men were found dead in his Laurel Avenue apartment in West Hollywood. In both cases, African American men — Gemmel Moore, 26, and Timothy Dean, 55 — had overdosed on methamphetamine inside. After the first death in 2017, authorities said there was insufficient evidence to file charges.
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Public Safety News
As Wildfires Worsen, U.S. Forest Service Seeks 1,500 Temporary Workers In California
With temperatures rising due to global climate change and millions of forest trees dying from heat and pest infestations every year, the potential for more wildfires is real. To combat this growing threat, the U.S. Forest Service on Monday, Sept. 16, began accepting applications for 1,500 temporary jobs to work in the 18 national forests across the state next spring and summer, said Brenda Kendrix, a USFS spokesperson for the Pacific Region in Vallejo. The need for temporary workers is well above last year's call for around 1,000 openings, Kendrix said, although many other factors besides fires are at play, she said. Nonetheless, last year 1.8 million acres of wild lands were scorched in California, more than any other state and far ahead of 2017's total of 1.3 million acres, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. “That's the worst in recorded history” for the state, said California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire) spokesman Scott McLean. In 2018, the destruction surpassed 2008 when 1.6 million acres burned. More than 100 people died in the state's wildfires in 2018.
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Local Government News
‘Fed Up' With Homeless Camps, L.A. County Joins Case To Restore Its Right To Clear Them
The Board of Supervisors has decided to throw its political weight behind an effort to overturn a court decision that has allowed homeless people to bed down overnight on sidewalks across California and the West. On Tuesday, the supervisors voted to direct lawyers for Los Angeles County to draft an amicus brief, urging the U.S. Supreme Court to take up a challenge to Martin vs. City of Boise. The case, decided by the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals last September, found that arresting or otherwise punishing homeless people for sleeping on the sidewalk when there are not enough shelter beds or housing was unconstitutional. Supervisor Kathryn Barger, who authored the county's motion, said the ruling had “tied our hands” and made serving homeless people more difficult. “We are grappling with a problem of unprecedented scale,” she said of the nearly 60,000 homeless people in Los Angeles County, many of them living outdoors. “Now, more than ever, it is critical that we have access to every tool at our disposal to combat homelessness.”
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LA County Unveils New Voting Machines, Holds Mock Election Leading Up To March Primaries
After 10 years and $100 million, Los Angeles County is ready to unveil its brand new voting system in hopes of bringing more voters to the polls. The new systems were on display Monday at the county office in Norwalk as a preview to the mock election the county will hold later this month to give voters a chance to get familiar with the 31,000 iPad-like devices the county purchased. “It's designed so voters can, to a certain extent, customize their voting experience,” Dean C. Logan, Los Angeles County registrar, said. “The voter can increase the size of the font and the contrast on the screen.” Voters can also choose from 13 languages. And, for security reasons, the devices are not connected to the internet or to a network. The devices are programmed individually as voters move from question to question on the touchscreen device until they are done.
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