LOS ANGELES – A scheduled arraignment Tuesday was put over to Wednesday for a former Los Angeles Police Department officer who is facing charges of committing lewd acts on four young boys. Paul Razo, 46, was arrested May 10, five days after he was charged by prosecutors with eight counts of lewd acts on a child, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. Razo was scheduled to appear in court Monday, but his arraignment was delayed until Tuesday, then Wednesday. He remains jailed in lieu of $2.5 million bail. According to the District Attorney’s Office, Razo committed the lewd…
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SUN VALLEY – One person was killed Tuesday when a Metrolink train struck a vehicle in the Sun Valley area. The crash occurred around 3:20 p.m. near Coldwater Canyon Avenue and Raymer Street, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department. Responding crews found the mangled vehicle on the scene, and one person was reported to be trapped in the wreckage. Fire officials quickly determined the person in the vehicle had died at the scene. According to Metrolink, the train that struck the vehicle was heading from downtown Los Angeles to Moorpark on the Ventura County Line. The tracks were closed…
LOS ANGELES – Mayor Karen Bass Tuesday released an update on her plan to identify city-owned lands that could be used for interim and permanent housing, as well as “next steps and timelines” to scale up the plan. “Part of urgently addressing this crisis is identifying land to build housing in ways we haven’t before, which will bring the overall cost of housing (for) Angelenos down and it also allows us to act quicker,” Bass said in a statement. “Today’s report shows groundbreaking progress in our effort and I look forward to continuing collaboration with all levels of government as…
SAN FERNANDO – Two people were injured Tuesday when a work truck rear-ended a Los Angeles County Fire Department truck on the Golden State (5) Freeway in San Fernando. The crash occurred shortly after 3:30 p.m. on the southbound 5 Freeway near San Fernando Mission Boulevard, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department. Crews on the scene reported two people were injured, but there was no word on whether either person was taken to a hospital. The work truck sustained major damage in the crash, appearing partially crumpled. It was unclear if the fire truck sustained major damage. The crash…
SANTA ANA – A 60-year-old sex offender previously convicted of child annoyance and secretly recording someone without their consent was charged Tuesday with doing the same at a grocery store near UC Irvine. Roland Moreno was charged with burglary and child annoyance, both felonies, as well as a dozen misdemeanor counts of using a concealed recording device to record another without their consent, according to court records. Moreno pleaded guilty to child annoyance and using a concealed recording device to record another without their consent as well as failure to register as a sex offender at all residential addresses –…
SANTA ANA, Calif. – A former Orange County elementary school teacher and high school wrestling coach pleaded guilty today to possessing child sexual abuse material (CSAM), including at least one video portraying masochistic sexual conduct involving a child. Richard O’Connor, 45, of Anaheim, pleaded guilty to one count of possession of child pornography. O’Connor formerly was employed as a fourth-grade teacher at Crescent Elementary School in Anaheim and volunteered as a boys’ wrestling coach at Canyon High School, also located in Anaheim. He is not accused of victimizing students. According to his plea agreement, in October 2022, law enforcement served a…
LONG BEACH – A man who was fatally shot — allegedly by the ex- boyfriend of the woman he was living with in Long Beach — was identified Monday. The Los Angeles County Coroner’s office identified the 44-year-old victim as Mario Gallegos. The shooting was reported about 6:30 a.m. Wednesday in the 6200 block of California Avenue, about a block east of Houghton Park, according to the Long Beach Police Department. “Upon arrival, officers located a male adult victim with life- threatening injuries to his upper body,” police said in a statement. “The suspect fled the scene before officers arrived.”…
LOS ANGELES – Attorneys for a man suing the Dodgers for alleged lax security that caused him to be beaten by a pair of patrons inside Dodger Stadium in 2018 want to tell jurors about the 2011 beating of Bryan Stow, despite opposition from the Dodgers’ lawyers. Plaintiff Milton Flores alleges the team provided inadequate security and a lack of uniformed Los Angeles police officers the night he was assailed by two other men inside Dodger Stadium during an extra-inning playoff game. His Los Angeles Superior Court lawsuit names as defendants Los Angeles Dodgers LLC and the two alleged attackers,…
AGOURA HILLS – A man was found shot to death death at an apartment complex Saturday morning. Authorities are investigating after the man was found shot to death near the pool of the apartment community. The Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department responded to a call at 12:03 a.m at the complex in the 29600 block of Strawberry Hill to find a man in his 40’s in a walkway behind the pool with gunshot wounds to his head. A cause of death has yet to be established. The man’s identity is being withheld pending notification of next of kin.
ANAHEIM -Two pedestrians are dead after they were struck by a vehicle in Anaheim, police said Saturday. The collision was reported at approximately 8:30 p.m. Friday in the 1000 block of South Anaheim Boulevard, north of Lorraine Drive, KNBC 4 reported. The pedestrians – a man and a woman – died at the scene. The driver remained at the scene and cooperated with police and was not driving under the influence, authorities said. Anaheim Boulevard is expected to be closed for several hours while the investigation continues. Copyright 2023, City News Service, Inc.