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ARCADIA Jan. 30 At 3:28 a.m., an officer responded to the 100 block of West Naomi Avenue regarding a theft from vehicle incident. Surveillance footage captured the unidentified suspect entering the victim’s unlocked vehicle and fleeing with cash and documents. The suspect was wearing a light-colored hooded sweatshirt and jeans. The investigation is ongoing. At 4:09 p.m., an officer responded to an apartment complex in the 00 block of East Colorado Boulevard regarding a mail theft and tampering report. Sometime between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. on Jan. 29, someone tampered with the victim’s mailbox and stole mail. The suspect used a pry tool to enter the mailbox. Jan. 31 At 11:17 a.m., an officer responded a residence in the 1300 block of Mayflower Avenue regarding a vandalism report. The home was being fumigated when unknown suspect(s) smashed a window. It does not appear as thought the suspects entered. No loss was reported. At 6:10 p.m., an officer took a theft from vehicle report that occurred in the parking lot of LA Fitness, located at 1325 S. Baldwin Ave. The officer discovered someone stole the victim’s car keys while he was working out, used the keys to enter the victim’s vehicle, and stole the victim’s cash but left the car keys inside the car. No suspects were seen. Feb. 1 At 12:40 a.m., an officer responded to a residence in the 500 block of West Winnie Way regarding a vandalism report. The victim heard a loud bang and discovered someone had thrown an egg at her window, causing it to break. At 1:06 a.m., an officer responded to a residence in the 1000 block of South Tenth Avenue regarding a battery report. An investigation revealed an altercation turned physical between a couple resulting in one of the parties scratching and hitting the other. The victim declined medical attention for her minor injuries. The suspect,
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BLOTTERS a 34-year-old female from Arcadia, was arrested and transported to the Arcadia City Jail for booking. At 11:27 p.m., an officer responded to Arcadia Methodist Hospital, located at 300 W. Huntington Dr., regarding a battery report. The victim, an employee, was punched in the face by a patient while trying to administer care. The investigation is ongoing. Feb. 2 At 8:10 a.m., an officer took a report of a commercial burglary that occurred at Meet Fresh, located at 400 S. Baldwin Ave. The victim stated someone stole her purse from her locker while she was at work. Surveillance footage revealed the suspect is a male, possibly Hispanic, with a medium build, approximately 5-feet-5-inches tall, and wearing dark colored pants and jacket. The investigation is ongoing. At 4:24 p.m., an officer responded to the Arcadia Police Department front counter to take a fraud report. The officer determined the victim was lured into investing in a fraudulent investment company by the unidentified suspect. The suspect initially gained the victim’s trust by befriending him on WeChat.
MONROVIA Jan. 27 At 2:14 a.m., officers responded to the area of Duarte and Walker regarding a possible speeding vehicle and loud crashing sound. They located an overturned vehicle that had struck fencing belonging to Live Oak Cemetery. Officers were able to extract the subject from the vehicle and noticed that he displayed signs and symptoms of being under the influence of alcohol. He had sustained facial injuries and was transported to a local hospital for treatment. This investigation is continuing. At 8:32 a.m., an employee from Monrovia High School called to report a classroom was broken into sometime during the night. Officers arrived and collected evidence from the scene. This investigation is continuing.
At 9:01 a.m., a caller reported a resident in the 200 block of West Lemon used social media to express her desire to hurt herself. Officers responded and spoke with the subject in question. After a thorough investigation it was determined the individual needed to be evaluated by a mental health professional. She was transported to a local facility for treatment. At 11:34 a.m., a traffic collision was reported in the area of Almond and California. Officers and paramedics arrived and checked on the wellbeing of the drivers. One of the drivers complained of pain and was treated on scene. This investigation is continuing. At 1:07 p.m., a caller reported a downed electrical wire in the 100 block of West Duarte. The wire fell on an unoccupied parked vehicle and was arcing. Officers and the Fire Department arrived and evacuated civilians from the area. The vehicle that the wire was on caught fire and it was quickly extinguished. Sothern California Edison was notified, and they responded to replace the downed wire. At 1:57 p.m., while officers were on scene for the downed wire call, a female transient began yelling at another female who was sitting inside her parked vehicle. An officer standing close by heard the yelling and provided assistance. The transient lunged through one of the open vehicle windows and attempted to punch the female sitting inside. The officer quickly grabbed the suspect and handcuffed her. It was determined that she needed to be evaluated by a mental health professional. She was transported to a local facility for treatment. At 3:44 p.m., a victim came into to the lobby to report she had been involved in a road rage incident that happened in the 600 block of West Huntington. The driver of the other vehicle stopped, exited the vehicle and approached the victim. He reached inside the open driver's side window, grabbed the victim's cellphone from her hand and threw it over a fence. The suspect then entered his vehicle and drove away. This investigation is continuing.
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application and enforcement of the policy and wide variety from department to department." Villanueva, who has encouraged people to consider getting vaccinated, has spoken out against the county's vaccine mandate, saying it would decimate the ranks of what he calls an already depleted department. He said deputies should have the option of undergoing regular testing rather than being forced to get vaccinated. The sheriff spoke via telephone at the beginning of the Board of Supervisors' meeting Tuesday, and called the proposed shift in disciplinary authority a "death blow to public safety in Los Angeles County" that would have little impact. He said 9,881 department members are fully vaccinated, and in the last 30 days, 342 have tested
positive, for a 3.46% positivity rate. Among the 5,766 unvaccinated members, 221 tested positive in the last 30 days, for a 3.83% positivity rate. "Your motion is going to seek to basically cause us to actually lose 4,000 employees, for a grand total of 0.4% improvement in positivity rate," he said. "(That) is not exactly benefit to public safety. We're coming off two years of a historically high 94% increase in homicide rate, 64% increase in grand theft auto. And this is just not sustainable. The current situation is not sustainable. The hiring freeze is not sustainable. "... This is ill-advised, illogical and probably in the long run illegal," Villanueva said. "And by the time we figure out the legality of it, we're going to be past the pandemic, which will make the result irrelevant. I urge you to deescalate, dial back the rhetoric and find some common ground -- testing or vaccination, and we're
doing that right now." On Monday, an attorney for the Los Angeles County Professional Peace Officers Association sent a letter to the board objecting to the proposal, saying it would violate the county charter and amount to an overstepping of the board's authority. "Any attempt to take over the sheriff's ability to oversee the disciplinary process for his employees, it is submitted, would certainly not survive legal scrutiny by the courts who would likely fine the BOS exceeded their authority under well-established legal principals," attorney James Cunningham wrote. Citing a 1977 court ruling, Cunningham added, "Such supervisory control by the BOS would directly conflict with the admonition that `the board has no power to perform county officers' statutory duties for them or direct the manner in which duties are performed."'
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The complaint includes a previously reported on photo of Garcetti and Jacobs from 2017, in which Jacobs' hand is in front of another man's genital area. "A picture is worth a thousand words," the complaint alleges. Garcetti, the letter notes, denies having seen Jacobs' hand's placement during the photo. "The materials lay out in precise detail not just the extent of Rick Jacobs' misconduct, but also the repeated opportunities Eric Garcetti had to intervene and the specific instances in which he lied under oath about what he knew," said Whistleblower Aid founder and chief disclosure officer John Tye, who is representing Seligman. "Eric Garcetti knowingly allowed his top lieutenant to harass, assault and bully people in his orbit, not just once but repeat-
edly and flagrantly. Then he lied about it, under oath, repeatedly. We call on law enforcement to prosecute these crimes, and for Senators to block this nomination." Seligman claims Jacobs sexually assaulted her in City Hall in April 2016 when he allegedly "forcefully grabbed her lower back, pinned her arms down, pressed himself against her, and held and kissed her for an extended amount of time," according to the complaint. The document contends that Seligman notified the mayor's former chief of staff Ana Guerrero, who the complaint said "did not act surprised" and allegedly said that "no complaints would be tolerated because Mr. Jacobs was important to the mayor." According to the complaint, in July 2016 the mayor emailed his staff from a personal account
that Jacobs would be taking a leave of absence to work on civic and political matters, but that Jacobs "continues to be a dear friend, and one of (his) most trusted advisers." The complaint notes several allegations against Jacobs, including one in 2017 in which the mayor was allegedly present. According to Seligman, the mayor's then-chief counsel Julie Ciardullo was in an elevator with Jacobs and Garcetti when "Jacobs blocked her into a corner and started pushing into her, back and forth, and she was asking, begging Jacobs to stop, and just kept pushing into her, pushing into her, and finally, the mayor had to intervene and tell him to get off of her." That allegation was first reported in June 2021, when The Los Angeles Times obtained Ciardullo's deposition, which includes the allegation.
