Arrest made in connection with Taft High School threat

A suspect has been arrested in connection with a social media threat made towards Taft High School in Woodland Hills on Tuesday. According to a letter sent to parents from the Los Angeles School Police Department, law enforcement was able to identify the person responsible and determine that there was no indication that the they posed a credible threat to students and staff.The suspect was not identified, but police confirmed they are not a Taft High School student. 

KTLA 5

Driver leads undercover cop on dramatic police chase across LA's San Fernando Valley

The search is on for the driver who led an undercover cop on a high-speed car chase across Los Angeles' San Fernando Valley neighborhoods. Before ditching the car at the mall parking lot in Sherman Oaks, the suspect drove through parts of Lake Balboa and Encino. At one point during the chase, the suspect sideswiped other cars as they tried to avoid the undercover cop.

Fox LA

Police say car wedged under big rig in violent crash was being driven by catalytic converter thieves

A violent crash that left a stolen Dodge Charger wedged underneath a semi truck in Westlake last week was reportedly being driven by a group of catalytic converter thieves, according to police. The incident initially happened back on Friday, March 8 at around 4 a.m., when Los Angeles Police Department officers with the Rampart Division spotted the car. However, police say that they "didn't even have a chance to try and make a traffic stop" before the suspects fled from the scene, speeding through an intersection before slamming into the big rig on Wilshire Boulevard.

KCAL

Key fob signals possibly used to burglarize vehicle in parking lot of Gold's Gym in Northridge

A car burglary in Northridge is raising questions about how the suspect was able to pull it off, and it may have involved the use of a universal key fob. It happened last Thursday in the parking lot of Gold's Gym on Tampa Avenue and Nordhoff Street. Henry Curi, an ABC7 news writer, said he parked his Toyota RAV4 in the parking structure around 3:15 p.m. When he returned around 6 p.m., he noticed something was wrong.

ABC 7

LAPD report shows increase in Chevy Camaro thefts in LA and OC

Chevy Camaros appear to be an attractive target for car thieves in Los Angeles County and it's a trend law enforcement agencies in Orange County are now watching closely. The Los Angeles Police Department reports a 500% increase in stolen Camaros, particularly in the Newton area near South LA. Car thieves are using key clone devices to break into newer models, according to the LAPD.

NBC Los Angeles

Interim Police Chief Dominic Choi is ready to lead the LAPD

Dominic Choi was unanimously appointed interim police chief by the Los Angeles Police Commission following the resignation of longtime Chief Michael Moore. The 28-year LAPD veteran will oversee the effort to expand staffing as Mayor Karen Bass has set the goal of having 9,500 police officers in the department.

Spectrum News

16 SWAT members injured in explosion at FBI training facility in Orange County

At least sixteen SWAT team members were injured after an explosion at an FBI training facility on Wednesday. The incident happened at the Jerry Crowe Regional Tactical Training Facility in Irvine shortly before 1 p.m., according to the Orange County Sheriff’s Department. The explosion happened as the OCSD SWAT Team was conducting a joint training exercise with a bomb squad, authorities said.

KTLA

Criminal filings at LA County juvenile facilities

There have been dozens of new criminal filings at Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall since July 2023 when it re-opened through January of this year, according to a document from the Los Angeles County Probation Department sent to the Probation Oversight Commission. The document, obtained by the NBCLA I-Team, details 36 new cases for violations including assault and battery on a peace officer. The document states there were 13 assaults on detention officers by youth during that time period. 

NBC Los Angeles

Lancaster man convicted of murdering his 4 kids, their grandmother

A Lancaster man has been convicted of first-degree murder for the shooting deaths of his four young children and their grandmother as she was babysitting them. Jurors found Germarcus Lamar David, now 32, guilty of five counts of first-degree murder on Tuesday, March 12, for the Nov. 28, 2021, killings of his 11-year-old daughter, Namiyah, and his three sons, Germarcus Jr., 7, Kayden, 2, and Noah, 1, along with his mother-in-law, Ericka England, 51, who was babysitting the children while their mother was having dinner with friends.

Los Angeles Daily News

Man convicted of killing estranged wife’s 2 nephews in Arcadia

A man was convicted on Wednesday, March 13, of the bludgeoning deaths of his then-estranged wife’s two teenage nephews in the boys’ Arcadia home. The Alhambra jury — which was handed the case late Tuesday — found Deyun Shi guilty of two counts of first-degree murder for the Jan. 22, 2016, slayings of 15-year-old Anthony Lin, who was asleep when he was attacked with bolt cutters, and the teen’s 16-year-old brother, William, who was killed while studying in a separate room.

Los Angeles Daily News

‘We’re throwing the book at criminals’: O.C. aims anti-crime campaign at surrounding areas

Using bumper stickers, billboards and advertisements on public buses, Orange County prosecutors have launched an anti-crime campaign aimed at deterring people from committing theft there. The campaign, which has been underway for more than week, consists of ads on buses in Los Angeles, Long Beach, Norwalk and Glendale, along with digital marketing targeted at cellphones of people in Orange, Los Angeles, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego and Imperial counties. Billboards along freeways and near popular shopping areas feature the message “Crime doesn’t pay in Orange County” in large capital letters. Underneath, they offer those toying with the idea a warning: “If you steal, we prosecute.”

LA Times

‘A huge catastrophe waiting to happen’: Aryan Brotherhood drama spills into Northern California courtroom as lawyer joins in the name-calling

The Aryan Brotherhood RICO trial has hit a bit of a wrinkle three weeks in: two of the defendants apparently would like to murder one another, and haven’t been shy about expressing it. On the van ride from the Robert Matsui Federal Courthouse to New Folsom prison last week, Ronald Dean Yandell and Danny Troxell blew up at each other with a series of back-and-forth death threats that an officer described as “probably a 10 out of 10.” Earlier that day, in court, Troxell’s lawyer and Yandell taunted and jeered at each other outside the presence of the judge and jury, according to a court transcript.

Mercury News

San Diego federal judge strikes down California law limiting high-frequency gun purchases

In what is becoming a familiar pattern, a San Diego federal judge ruled Monday that a California gun law is unconstitutional because of the lack of any historically similar laws.The latest regulation to be overturned — though it will remain in effect for the time being, pending appeal — is the state’s ban on high-frequency firearms purchases, otherwise known as the one-gun-a-month law. It restricted California residents from buying more than one firearm within a 30-day period.

San Diego Union-Tribune

California bill would give families more information after police killings

California law enforcement investigators would have to change how they interview the families of people killed by police under legislation meant to stop officers from questioning relatives before revealing that their loved one is dead.The proposed law would require detectives and prosecutors investigating a police-related death to read to families of the deceased a list of declarations similar to Miranda rights, informing them that they have the right to know the status of their loved one, remain silent, retain an attorney, and know whether they are being recorded before answering questions.

LA Times

LA's budget crisis worsened by $60 million FEMA decision

Members of California's Congressional delegation asked FEMA this week to reconsider its decision to refuse to reimburse a number of local governments for a portion of the millions of dollars spent during the COVID-19 emergency to house some homeless people in hotels. Local governments were expecting about $300 million more in these reimbursements in California, including about $60-million for cash-strapped Los Angeles, which authorized the spending under the assumption the federal disaster money would arrive.

NBC Los Angeles

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