Author: City News Service

LOS ANGELES – Detectives Sunday continued their investigation into the death of a 38-year-old man who was found shot to death in a Valley Village homeless encampment. The man was identified as Wesley Orso, according to the Los Angeles County Office of Medical Examiner. The agency had no place of residence for Orso. Officers dispatched at 8:05 a.m. Saturday to a “death investigation” call at Tujunga Avenue and Cumpston Street found a homeless encampment that encompassed the north sidewalk of Cumpston, the Los Angeles Police Department reported. Officers also found what appeared to be a deceased man inside a tent.…

PALMDALE, Calif. – Local officials are expressing remorse, and outrage, following the death of a third-generation Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputy, who was shot while in his patrol car in front of the department’s Palmdale station  — while a manhunt was underway for the suspect. “Words cannot describe my immense sorfor the tragic loss of a brave deputy’s life tonight,” Los Angeles County Supervisor Kathryn Barger said in a statement late Saturday after learning 30-year-old Deputy Ryan Clinkunbroomer had died after being shot earlier in the day. “My heart breaks for his family, his fellow officers, and the community at large.…

SEAL BEACH, Calif. – Seal Beach police have arrested a suspect in connection with the Aug. 31 theft of nearly $74,000 worth of jewelry from a Kohl’s department store on Seal Beach Boulevard, officials said. Brandon Libardo Bustos-Bermudez, 30, of Riverside was arrested Friday after being detained during a robbery investigation at a Kohl’s department store in Chino, Seal Beach police said in a statement late Saturday. Bustos-Bermudez was later transported to the Orange County Jail and booked on charges of burglary, grand theft, and conspiracy to a commit a crime. The Chino Police Department responded at 4:30 p.m. Friday…

LOS ANGELES – A man was shot to death in a Valley Village homeless encampment Saturday. Los Angeles Police Department patrol officers from the North Hollywood area responding to a death investigation report went to Cumpston Street at Tujunga Avenue, where they located an apparently dead man inside a tent at the encampment. Paramedics from the Los Angeles Fire Department pronounced the 38-year- old man dead. He was believed to have been a local man experiencing homelessness. His name was withheld pending notification of next of kin. Narcotic paraphernalia was found at the scene, leading preliminary investigators to believe the…

PALMDALE, Calif. – A sheriff’s deputy was transported to a hospital Saturday evening in has died after being shot in his patrol car in front of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s Palmdale station, according to the LASD. Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna confirmed the deputies death. “We need to get this guy off the street…He’s a public safety threat. He ambushed and killed murdered one of our deputies. We need your help to get him off the street,” said Luna. “Ryan was just engaged four days ago,” says Sheriff Luna of murdered deputy Ryan Clinkunbroomer Around 9:30 p.m.,…

LOS ANGELES – A motorist suffered critical injuries during a single-vehicle rollover crash Saturday on the outskirts of Baldwin Hills, authorities said. Firefighters and paramedics were dispatched at 11:46 a.m. to 3993 S. La Brea Ave., the Los Angeles Fire Department reported. “Firefighters deployed hydraulic rescue tools to free the patient from the wreckage,” the LAFD’s Nicholas Prange said. Paramedics rushed the critically injured motorist, the lone occupant inside the vehicle, to a hospital. There was no other immediate information.

FULLERTON, Calif. – A 28-year-old Fullerton man was fatally injured when the speeding Honda Civic he was driving swerved to avoid hitting another car and slammed head-on into a Nissan Pathfinder, police said Saturday. The accident took place at about 9 p.m. Friday near Richman Avenue and Orangethorpe Avenue, according to the Fullerton Police Department. Arriving officers found that a white 2006 Honda Civic and a grey 2016 Nissan Pathfinder had been involved in the collision, and both had significant front-end damage. Police said the initial investigation indicates that the Civic was traveling east on Orangethorpe approaching Richman “at a…

LONG BEACH, Calif. – A man and a woman suffered non-life-threatening wounds during a stabbing attack in Long Beach, authorities said Saturday. Officers dispatched at 11:36 p.m. Friday to the 3300 block of Pacific Place regarding a stabbing located a man and a woman with stab wounds to the upper body, the Long Beach Police Department reported. The couple told officers they were walking in the 3400 block of Long Beach Boulevard and were approached by a man who stabbed them. Officers went to that area and were unable to locate a crime scene. The suspect fled the location in…

LOS ANGELES – Authorities Saturday released the name of an allegedly armed man accused of impersonating a U.S. marshal at a National Hispanic Heritage Month event at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre where Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. spoke. Adrian Paul Aispuro, 44, was booked on a felony gun charge and was being held on $35,000 bail, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Inmate Information Center. Aispuro was arrested at 4:40 p.m. Friday by officers from the Los Angeles Police Department’s Wilshire station. Police received a call at around 4:30 p.m. regarding a disturbance at the theatre…

LOS ANGELES – A suspect in a home-invasion robbery at a South Los Angeles apartment Friday was shot by police and hospitalized in critical condition. The robbery occurred shortly after noon, when four people forced their way into an apartment near 32nd Street and Central Avenue and tied up a man inside, the Los Angeles Police Department reported. The man was able to free himself, escape from the apartment, and call 911, police said. He told the responding officer the assailants were still in his apartment. Police said they set up a perimeter to contain the area. Two suspects exited…

LOS ANGELES – A man was killed and a woman wounded in a shooting in South Los Angeles Friday evening. Officers who arrived at Broadway and Manchester Avenue around 7:30 p.m. Friday regarding a shots fired call found a man in his 30s unconscious and not breathing after being shot in the head and a woman in her 30s shot in a leg, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. The man was pronounced dead at the scene, police said. Two suspects were described as men wearing black hoodies.

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A 25-year-old man was sentenced Friday to 33 years to life in prison for sexually assaulting several girls in Santa Ana and Anaheim that he lured through Instagram with promises of money, alcohol and drugs. Brayan Padillagomez was convicted Aug. 24 of five counts of lewd or lascivious acts on a minor younger than 14, two counts of administering a drug, and contacting a minor with the intent to commit a sex offense, all felonies. Jurors did not reach verdicts on single felony counts each of harmful matter sent to a minor with the intent of…

PASADENA, Calif. – Four suspects were arrested for their alleged involvement in an organized retail theft at a Macy’s in Pasadena, then attempting to evade police, authorities said Friday. Officers responded to the 400 block of South Lake Avenue to a report regarding an organized retail theft on Sept. 8 at an unspecified time, according to Pasadena Police Department spokeswoman Lt. Monica Cuellar. Detectives observed the four suspects inside the store, scouting out high-valued clothing items and concealing the merchandise while hiding behind several accomplices before exiting the store without paying. Pasadena PD spokeswoman Lt. Carolyn Gordon said detectives tried…

LOS ANGELES – At least one person was injured in a shooting involving police in South Los Angeles Friday, but it was unclear what prompted the gunfire. Police said the shooting occurred around 1:45 p.m. near 32nd Street and Central Avenue, just blocks from the LAPD’s Newton Station. According to reports from the scene, one person was taken to a hospital in unknown condition, but was believed to be alive and undergoing surgery. There were no immediate details on how many officers were involved in the shooting, or what led to the gunfire. Video from the scene showed what appeared…

A Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy was acquitted this week of a felony count of workers’ compensation insurance fraud. Jurors deliberated about two hours before returning their verdict on Wednesday, Sept. 13, in the case of Kevin Adams, defense attorney Jacob Glucksman said. The prosecution alleged that Adams — who worked at the Twin Towers Correctional Facility — had filed a false workplace injury claim for which he received disability benefits, while the defense countered that there was an error in medical records about the cause of Adams’ March 2015 knee injury. Adams, now 50, was charged in 2020 and…