Thursday, May 17, 2012
Los Angeles County Deputies from Marina Del Rey substation responded to Tueday's 4:51 a.m. incident.
A 15-year-old boy with a baseball bat confronted a parolee allegedly caught burglarizing the teen's Windsor Hills home Tuesday, authorities said today. Responding to a burglary report at a home in the 5800 block of Mansfield Avenue, deputies from the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Marina del Rey substation arrived to find the boy and his father holding the man, according to a department statement. The boy told deputies he confronted the suspect with a baseball bat and yelled to alert his father, who helped him hold the suspect, who had a knife on him, deputies said. Reportedly no one was seriously injured. Deputies said they later discovered that another attempted burglary had occurred on the same block about three hours earlier. The suspect…
Monday, May 14, 2012
A map of Marina del Rey crimes that occurred from April 29 to May 15.
Map compiled from Los Angeles County Sheriff's Office data.
Saturday, May 12, 2012
Attack believed to be gang related.
A 27-year-old man was stabbed in the arm and abdomen by someone in a group of assailants in Del Rey, police said today. The victim, whose name police withheld, was stabbed about 11:50 p.m. near the intersection of Centinela Avenue and Braddock Drive, said Los Angeles police Sgt. Richard Parks of the Pacific Station. He was taken to a hospital with stable vital signs, Parks said. The victim was walking with another person when a group young adults and juveniles approached and asked where they were from, he said. Typically, that means what gang. A fight broke out, and the man was stabbed, Parks said. Police were questioning two people in the attack, he said. Follow us on twitter | Like us on Facebook | Sign up for our newsletter | Blog for us
Friday, May 11, 2012
The men face up to three years in jail for taking their children in Playa del Rey.
The second of two brothers who took their sons from Playa del Rey in 2008 on a two-year international odyssey without the mothers’ consent pleaded guilty on Tuesday to international parental kidnapping charges. The brothers, George and John Silah, were divorced from the boys’ mothers and had only partial legal custody. After traveling through Central America and Europe for two years, the FBI eventually apprehended them in the Netherlands in 2010, where the mothers were reunited with their children. John Silah, 51, was extradited to the U.S. in March, and pleaded guilty before a U.S. District Judge on one count of international parental kidnapping on Tuesday. He is scheduled to be sentenced on Aug. 6. George Silah, 49, returned to the U.S. …
A water main break near the Venice Canals is prompting authorities to close off a portion of eastbound South Venice Boulevard as crews work to minimize damage.
A water main break near the Venice Canals prompted authorities to close off a portion of South Venice Boulevard on Friday afternoon as firefighters worked to pump the water out of an underground parking structure. The water main burst about 12:45 p.m. near the intersection of Carroll Canal and Dell Avenue, officals said. It started flooding the underground parking garage of a two-story residential complex in the 200 block of South Venice Boulevard, said Capt. Milton Urquilla of the Los Angeles Fire Department's Venice-based Fire Station 63. A fire engine and several fire trucks were at the scene using pumps to create a draft to keep the water from rising in the garage until the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power could shut down the …
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
The conservative government watchdog group Judicial Watch is suing the Los Angeles Police Department over its new policy for impounding cars of unlicensed drivers.
The conservative government watchdog group Judicial Watch filed a lawsuit challenging the Los Angeles Police Department's new policy liberalizing procedures for impounding cars of unlicensed drivers, the group announced Wednesday. The suit filed Tuesday by the group based in Washington, D.C., is the third suit filed in as many months challenging the policy. The suit on behalf of Harold Sturgeon of Los Angeles asks a judge to rule that the department's impound policy is an unlawful use of taxpayer money specifically "to help unlicensed illegal aliens." In February, the Police Commission, which provides civilian oversight of the LAPD, approved the policy to allow a driver who is stopped for a moving violation, and who has valid …
Statistics on violent and property crime provided by the Sheriff's Department.
After a significant spike in burglaries in March, there was only one in April, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. Overall, there were fewer crimes committed in April compared to the two months prior. Every type of crime, with the exception of grand theft auto, saw a decline, according to data compiled by the sheriff's department. Please note these statistics only reflect those crimes reported to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department Marina del Rey station, which covers the harbor, the land immediately surrounding the harbor and a small island of territory about one mile inland. Follow us on twitter | Like us on Facebook | Sign up for our newsletter | Blog for us
Authorities have arrested three men allegedly involved in the thefts of area mountain bikes with an estimated total value of $250,000.
Authorities on Wednesday sought victims of a ring of thieves who stole nearly 200 expensive mountain bicycles with an estimated total value of $250,000. Sheriff's spokeswoman Nicole Nishida said authorities have arrested three men allegedly involved in the thefts: Julian Herrera, 23, and his brother Jamie Herrera, 21, both of Los Angeles; and Alberto Mejia, 34, of Colton. A news conference was planned this morning, when officials will display 20 recovered bicycles and 40 recovered wheels and ask victims to come forward and retrieve their property. The thieves allegedly used social media, including Craigslist, to target victims in Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Diego, San Bernardino and Ventura counties, Nishida said. Detectives …
Monday, May 7, 2012
Helicopter was dispatched after person fled the scene.
Two Marina del Rey sheriff deputies arrested an armed suspect during a routine traffic stop on La Tijera Boulevard and 59th Street on April 26. Police used a Taser and pepper sprayed Noel Vasquez, 24, after he threatened the officers, according to Detective Dion Batte. But Vasquez managed to flee the scene. Police dispatched a helicopter and located him a few blocks away where he was apprehended by a police dog. Police found a gun at the scene. Vasquez was on parole for drug possession. Follow us on twitter | Like us on Facebook | Sign up for our newsletter | Blog for us
Saturday, May 5, 2012
A 32-year-old man allegedly used fake bombs in robberies across Los Angeles, including at banks in Marina del Rey, Venice and Santa Monica.
A federal grand jury has indicted the so-called “Explosive Threat Bandit,” suspected in a string of robberies in Southern California, including Marina del Rey, Venice and Santa Monica, the FBI announced Saturday. William Joseph Allen, 32, was charged on eight counts of robbery and attempted robbery. Detectives in Santa Monica used forensic evidence from a March 29 bank heist to identify him. During bank robberies, Allen allegedly dropped off packages of electronic components and wiring as he told tellers that someone outside the bank would detonate the bomb if his flight was interrupted. On other occasions, he would brandish a gun and demand cash, handing notes such as “the establishment will not exist,” if the teller did not comply. The …
Bill George
10:33 am on Thursday, May 10, 2012
What is "valid identification"? Traditionally it has been a driver's license. During a recent radio interview I heard L.A. Police Chief Beck mention the metricula counsular card as acceptable identification (Do a key words search on FBI Metricula Consular Steven McCraw Consular Cards in a Post 9/11 World). From information I've read it seems the Matricula Consular card depends on the applicant's … more ›