Incident Report

11/13—LAPD Arrest

The Los Angeles Police Department followed the suspected driver of a stolen vehicle onto the Avenue of Champions at Pierce College on Friday.

The man was arrested at about 12:30 p.m., and a female passenger was taken away by ambulance.

11/12—Traffic Dispute

The Sheriff’s Department received a report of an argument between two students over a parking space in Parking Lot 7 at about 9:15 a.m. Thursday. Later, a traffic collision was reported in the same parking space.

Aman was arrested at gunpoint at Pierce College on Friday by the Los Angeles Police Department after the white Honda Accord he was driving was flagged as stolen. The man and a female passenger were driving the vehicle south on Winnetka Avenue when an LAPD squad car ordered them to pull over. The driver pulled into the campus on Brahma Drive, turned onto Avenue of Champions and stopped the car in front of the Sheriff’s Station. The car’s occupants complied when ordered out of the vehicle by officers with weapons drawn. The man was arrested, and the woman was transported to the hospital in unknown condition.

“Earlier in the day a couple of our officers did some random hotel checks because it’s common to find stolen property and stolen cars in some of these hotel lots,” said John Matassa, a sergeant with the LAPD. “They saw this vehicle behind us and it didn’t have a license plate, so they checked the VIN number, they ran it and it came up stolen.”

When the vehicle came up in the system as stolen, the officers waited for the driver to return to the car. They then followed him from the Rodeway Inn hotel on Winnetka Avenue and Runnymede Street, travelling south on Winnetka and proceeded to pull the car over. Though the driver did not pull over immediately, according to Matassa, the driver did not attempt to escape and pulled into the Pierce College parking lot. When the vehicle stopped, officers swarmed the vehicle with their weapons drawn.

“That’s standard procedure, because we don’t know if they’re armed,” Matassa said. “Usually people who commit grand theft felony type crimes of this nature,