Property crime is trending down, but homicides, robberies and burglaries have increased, Los Angeles Police Department Interim Chief Dominic Choi said Tuesday. As of April 20, property crime was down 4.1% and violent crimes decreased by 7% compared to the same period last year, according to Choi, who spoke at Tuesday’s Board of Police Commissioners …
A Los Angeles Police Department officer was arrested Thursday in connection with charges that he tampered with evidence and stole items during traffic and pedestrian stops last year, authorities said. Alan Carrillo — who joined the LAPD in 2018 and was assigned to the department’s Mission Area Gang Enforcement Detail — was allegedly discovered to …
The California Highway Patrol recovered more than $300,000 worth of stolen Lego toys, and arrested four people, authorities announced. On Tuesday, April 9, investigators with the CHP Organized Retail Crime Task Force arrested three women and one man after serving search warrants at four places in Los Angeles and Orange Counties, the CHP announced this …
LONG BEACH — A 48-year-old man suspected of committing a series of residential burglaries where he would knock on doors to see if no one was home has been arrested, the Long Beach Police Department announced Monday. Detectives have been investigating at least 25 circumstances in which Long Beach resident David Silver allegedly posed as …
LOS ANGELES — A 39-year-old Woodland Hills man was found guilty Tuesday of dozens of felonies for extorting Koreatown karaoke companies and sometimes violently attacking victims who refused to pay, including carjacking one of them after beating him with a baseball bat. Daekun Cho was found guilty in downtown Los Angeles of 55 federal counts …
A Michigan woman allegedly stole hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of designer clothes from rental companies and then resold them online, according to federal prosecutors. Brandalene Horn, 42, was arrested Wednesday in Freeland, Michigan, on charges of mail fraud, wire fraud and interstate transportation of stolen property. According to a criminal complaint, Horn defrauded …
A 37-year-old Tennessee man believed to be involved in a “huge” organized retail crime scheme was arrested after police recovered an estimated $5 million worth of stolen Nike products from a Hawthorne warehouse, the Los Angeles Police Department said. Authorities in a Monday statement said investigators executed a search warrant on Saturday, Jan. 27, at …
Three people were arrested after they were videotaped driving into a postal worker who was trying to thwart what police say was the theft of hundreds of pieces of mail from a Fullerton post office. Police were called to the post office at 1350 E. Chapman Ave. around 4:50 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 23, Fullerton …
Redlands police are hoping for the public’s help in identifying a burglar who stole two valuable, limited-edition Dr. Seuss prints from a children’s dentistry, a theft that left detectives with few clues. Someone smashed a glass front door on the morning of Jan. 7 at Pediatric Dentistry of Redlands on Ford Street and took the …
Three people from Los Angeles suspected of burglarizing a Chino Hills pharmacy led authorities on multiple pursuits before their arrests on Sunday, Jan. 14, authorities said. Just after 5 a.m., deputies arrived at the pharmacy in the 2100 block of Grand Avenue where the three suspects were in the middle of burglarizing the business, according …