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MONDAY, APRIL 16 - APRIL 22, 2018 - VOLUME 6, NO. 16
L.A. COUNTY HOUSING AUTHORITY AWARDED LARGEST VETERAN HOUSING VOUCHER ALLOCATION IN THE COUNTRY
600 Chronically Homeless Veterans Can Look Forward to Supportive Housing
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he U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) in collaboration with the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), has approved the Community Development Commission/Housing Authority of the County of Los Angeles (CDC/ HACoLA) to receive 600 of the 5,211 Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing (HUD-
VASH) vouchers available nationwide for Federal Fiscal Year (FFY) 2017. This HUD-VASH award represents the largest voucher allocation awarded to a Public Housing Agency (PHA) in the country during FFY 2017, and is also the largest HUD-VASH voucher allocation ever received by CDC/HACoLA.
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CITIZENS HELP ANAHEIM P.D. IDENTIFY BURGLAR On March 29th, Anaheim Police Department posted a video showing suspects attempting to burglarize vehicles in the 2200 block of S. Loara St in Anaheim. That neighborhood has had an increase in both auto burglaries & package thefts.
With the help of the community, one of the suspects was able to be identified and Detectives from the A.P.D have filed a case requesting a warrant for prosecution.
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DISTRACTED DRIVING ENFORCEMENT WILL CONTINUE THROUGH APRIL IN LONG BEACH Drivers are using their cell phones less often while driving, 10 years after “hands-free” became the law, but distracted driving remains a serious safety challenge in California. Observing April as Distracted Driving Awareness Month, safety advocates will focus on education and enforcement efforts statewide. The Long Beach Police Department will join law enforcement throughout the state to step
up enforcement along with awareness efforts by the California Office of Traffic Safety (OTS) to discourage distracted driving. Officers will have a special emphasis this month on enforcing all cell phone and distracted driving laws. The goal is to increase voluntary compliance by drivers, but sometimes citations are neces-
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Riverside Man Arrested For Threats Made To High School Officers responded to the Horizon High School in La Quinta concerning a student that had threatened to use explosives at Horizon High School. Investigators assigned to La Quinta PD assumed the investigation and arrested Christian Ayala (age 18 of Palm Desert). Investigators
searched Ayala’s residence and did not locate any explosive material. Ayala was arrested and booked into the Riverside County Jail, located in the city of Indio for criminal threats, and maliciously inform-
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Juvenile Detained For String Of Burglaries In San Bernardno San Bernardino Deputies responded to the 12000 block of Chief Joseph Road to investigate reports of a suspicious man removing a window screen from a home. Several Deputies were on scene within 4 minutes of the call and found an open front window. The suspect saw the deputies and fled from the residence into an alley. Deputy Thomas Bechtol contacted the
suspect and detained him. The suspect was found to be a 16-year-old juvenile recently released from Juvenile Hall and on probation for burglary and weapons charges. Deputy Trevor James noted the suspect matched the description in other recent burglaries he had investigated. James
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