By Edwin Folven, 5/17/2012
Detectives with the Los Angeles Police Department’s Olympic Division are searching for a suspect who robbed a jewelry store in Koreatown on April 16 and was caught on surveillance video. The incident occurred around 3:10 p.m. when an unknown Asian male suspect entered the jewelry store in the 3500 block of West 6th Street. Posing [...] [...more]
By Aaron Blevins, 5/17/2012
Around 1:30 p.m. on May 13, West Hollywood Sheriff’s Station deputies responded to the 1200 block of North Ogden Drive regarding a service call to check the welfare of a dog locked inside of a vehicle. Due to rising temperatures, deputies entered the vehicle to rescue the animal. In an effort to identify the animal’s [...] [...more]
By Aaron Blevins, 5/17/2012
The owner of a Los Angeles tax preparation service was sentenced to 15 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to charges that he prepared false federal income tax returns on behalf of clients causing losses to the Internal Revenue Service of approximately $358,000. Richard Allen Edgar, 72, operator of Phoenix Spirit Enterprises, a business [...] [...more]
By Aaron Blevins, 5/10/2012
A man suspected of being responsible for multiple bank robberies in Los Angeles County was indicted by a federal grand jury last week, law enforcement officials have announced. William Joseph Allen, 32, of Los Angeles, was charged in an eight-count indictment filed in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles with bank robbery and attempted bank [...] [...more]
By Aaron Blevins, 5/10/2012
LAPD West Los Angeles Division detectives are asking for the public’s help to provide information on the identity of three robbery suspects who are responsible for a smash and grab jewelry store robbery in West Los Angeles area. Around 8:30 p.m. on May 3, three male African-American suspects entered a mall located in the 10800 [...] [...more]
By Aaron Blevins, 5/10/2012
Prosecutors on May 4 filed assault charges against a 23-year-old transient suspected of hitting a female LAPD officer on the back of the head with a drum during a May Day demonstration on May 1. Brian German Mendoza pleaded not guilty, and will return to court on May 16 to set a date for his [...] [...more]
By Aaron Blevins, 5/10/2012
A Beverly Hills dentist was arrested on May 4 on a 101-count felony complaint alleging insurance fraud exceeding $300,000 in losses, the Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office announced. Tom K. Kalili, 57, has been charged with grand theft and tax evasion with an excessive-taking allegation. Kalili owns and operates Beverly Hills Medical Suites, a dental [...] [...more]
By Aaron Blevins, 5/03/2012
A Los Angeles County deputy sheriff accused of smuggling drugs into a courthouse jail in a burrito pleaded no contest on Monday, the District Attorney’s Office has announced. According to the deputy district attorney, Henry Marin, 27, pleaded to one count each of bringing drugs into a jail and conspiracy to commit a crime. The [...] [...more]
By Aaron Blevins, 5/03/2012
Los Angeles Police Department West Bureau Homicide detectives are asking for the public’s help in providing any information leading to the arrest of a suspect or suspects who killed 22-year-old Christian Solares, a resident of Inglewood. On April 27, around 11 p.m., officers responded to a radio call of a shooting in the 5200 block [...] [...more]
By Aaron Blevins, 5/03/2012
Actor Lane Garrison was charged on April 26 with one count of misdemeanor battery for allegedly hitting his ex-girlfriend in the lobby of her Beverly Hills apartment on April 21, the District Attorney’s Office announced. The arraignment for Garrison, 31, has been postponed to 9 a.m. on Friday at Beverly Hills Superior Court, as his [...] [...more]