Good Morning. Join us on Wednesday, March 11th for the George Bowens Fundraiser BBQ at 11 AM. Detective Bowens is fighting a long, hard battle with cancer. Funds from the donation-based event will help with the mounting cost of his treatment and support for his family. The event will be held at the West LA Station. Click here for more information.

An Alabama man convicted of killing three police officers in 2004 is set to be executed next month, state judges ordered. Nathaniel Woods is scheduled to be executed by injection on March 5 at a south Alabama prison, the court said Thursday. Woods and co-defendant Kerry Spencer were convicted of capital murder for the 2004 killings of Birmingham police officers Carlos Owen, Harley A. Chisolm III and Charles R. Bennett. Spencer was also sentenced to death for the killings. Prosecutors said the officers were gunned down in an ambush as they tried to serve a misdemeanor warrant on Woods at a home where he and Spencer sold crack cocaine. “By the time help arrived, the other three officers were dead. Officer Bennett was discovered with a smoking hole in his face, and Officers Owen and Chisolm were found in the apartment. Each had died from multiple gunshot wounds," the Alabama attorney general's office said in a request to schedule the execution date.

A person suspected of driving a stolen vehicle ran a red light while being chased by officers in South L.A.'s Florence neighborhood, striking a police vehicle that was not involved in the pursuit, officials said Saturday. The officers in the patrol vehicle were taken to the hospital in unknown condition after the collision, while the suspect was taken into custody, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. The agency did not specify how many officers were injured. Sky5 video at around 11 p.m. Friday showed a police SUV on San Pedro and 76th streets with significant damages to its front left corner. Nearby, two individuals lay facing the ground with their arms and legs stretched out as surrounding officers pointed their weapons at them. LAPD only confirmed one suspect in the incident. The agency did not say whether any civilians were injured.

Gang- and homeless-related crimes rose last year in the Harbor Area, making those a focus for allocating resources within the Los Angeles Police Department throughout 2020. That message was among those delivered Thursday night, Jan. 30, by commanding officers during a traveling meeting of the LAPD’s commission, held in San Pedro. The department’s 2019 crime stats showed an overall reduction in crime citywide, said Chief Michel Moore. But there were increases in aggravated assaults and gang crime in the Harbor Area. “Our goal this year is to make sure we target that,” said Deputy Chief Regina Scott of the South Bureau, which includes Harbor Division. “We definitely want to see a reduction in gang crime.” The department, she said, will increase the numbers of gang units in the Harbor Area in 2020, with a goal of identifying gang members. Resources to help young people resist or get out of gangs will be among the goals, according to Scott.

The meth addiction epidemic gripping the homeless community on the streets of Los Angeles is being fueled by Mexico’s Jaliso New Generation Cartel (CJNG), and is being enabled by California’s Prop 47, the DEA said in an explosive interview with FOX 11. And in a growing sign that the crisis is spiraling out of control, one prominent local homeless advocate tells FOX 11 he believes FEMA and the National Guard need to be called in to assist. “CJNG, probably the most prolific cartel in Mexico right now as far as perpetrating violence and trafficking and drugs, huge influence on those of us in California,” said Bill Bodner, Special Agent in Charge of DEA Los Angeles. “They’re pushing the drugs that are coming into the community here, they’re responsible for part of the homelessness.” Bodner is the top dog at DEA LA, responsible for overseeing operations at 14 different DEA offices, and capturing CJNG’s leader his office’s number one priority. His name is Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, also known as “El Mencho”, and the DEA has a $10 million reward for any information that leads to his arrest.

A Los Angeles police SWAT team surrounded a Boyle Heights house Saturday evening after a report of two people barricaded inside, including a woman with a gun, authorities said. The incident was reported just before 4:30 p.m. in the area of Grande Vista Avenue and Atlantic Street, according to a desk officer in the LAPD Operations Center. It was reported that someone ran into the house after the woman with the gun, he said. A man was seen on KNBC4 running out of the house and away from the scene. Both suspects were in custody by 9 p.m., Officer D. Orris in the Operations Center said. Details of their arrests were not available, neither were there identities.

A busy stretch of Hollywood Boulevard was shut down for hours overnight Friday as authorities tried to coax a man who was threatening to jump off a scaffolding outside of the Dolby Theater. The street was closed off between Highland Avenue and Orange Drive around 4:30 p.m. after the shirtless man was found about 30 feet above the ground, moving precariously along the scaffolding, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department. The sidewalks were also closed off for pedestrians. Rescue air cushions and several ladders were set up, but the man appeared to continue to evade authorities by moving away when they tried to approach him. It's unclear why he climbed up the structure. Believing that the might might jump, crisis negotiators were brought in to talk him down.

The Los Angeles Police Department arrested a man accused of leading officers on a pursuit through the San Fernando Valley at high-speeds. Officers say the chase began around 9:30 a.m. when officers tried to pull the vehicle over at Glenoaks Blvd. and Cabrini Dr. in Burbank. The suspect refused to pull over and a chase ensued. SkyFOX overhead captured the suspect driving up to 70 mph on surface streets in Reseda. The car being chased, a black Mercedes-Benz, was seen weaving in and out of traffic along surface streets in Encino, Van Nuys, and Sherman Oaks. The driver is believed to be a burglary suspect, it is not known if they are armed. It appears the pursuit came to a halt after the suspect pulled into a parking garage at the Sherman Oaks Galleria. A suspect was detained a few miles from the scene Friday afternoon and taken into custody. 

Police asked for the public’s help Saturday morning in finding a missing man. Garo Garabedian is possibly driving a blue 2018 Dodge Challenger, according to Officer Troy Pearson of the Los Angeles Police Department’s Devonshire Area Station. A detailed description of Garabedian, including his age, height, weight, eye and hair color and clothing, was not available. Anyone with information on the whereabouts of Garabedian was asked to call police at 1-888-275-5273.

The US Postal Service issued a warning about an email scam that could steal recipient's personal information. In the email, the scammer claims to be the Postmaster General. The scammer notifies the recipient about an failed attempt to deliver a package worth $100,000 and asks for personal information in order to deliver the package. USPS said this type of email is a scam and that USPS would not reach out directly to demand money. Other scams include emails asking for payment on unpaid online postage charges or requesting the recipient confirm their delivery information by downloading an attachment. The downloaded attachment can activate a virus and steal personal information like passwords, usernames and financial account information. USPS said the Postal Inspection Service is working to stop the emails and protect your personal information.

A 19-year-old man has died after being gravely injured in the Barrington Plaza Apartment fire, the Los Angeles Fire Department announced Friday night. The man, who CBS2 identified as Jeremy Bru, an exchange student from France, was inside the unit where the fire started Wednesday, along with another man who was taken to a hospital with critical injuries after being rescued from the side of the building. The apartment the men were in sustained “significant” damage, said LAFD Capt. Erik Scott. Nicholas Prange, an LAFD public service/information office, declined to answer questions related to the man who died Friday. In total, 13 people were injured in the fire, including three firefighters and a 3-month-old child who suffered injuries described as non- critical, according to Scott.

A woman was airlifted with potentially traumatic injuries after a 15-foot fall down a hillside near the Hollywood Sign Sunday morning, the Los Angeles Fire Department said. Firefighters responded to the area of 3400 Beachwood Drive about 9:34 a.m. and hoisted the injured hiker up to a helicopter. She was taken to a hospital in unknown condition. It was the third rescue in the Hollywood Hills area and the fourth for LAFD Sunday morning. About an hour before, firefighters airlifted another woman from Bronson Canyon to a hospital after she injured at least one of her legs while hiking and was unable to walk in the Hollywood Hills area. At around the same time, a man fell about 75 feet down the side of a hill while hiking in Brentwood near the 1700 block of Mulholland Drive. Firefighters used a two-line rope system to rescue the man who was hospitalized with unspecified trauma injuries.

As Chinese and world leaders continue efforts to contain the spread of the coronavirus, new travel restrictions went into effect Sunday at seven U.S. airports, including Los Angeles International Airport. The Department of Homeland Security is requiring that all U.S citizens returning home from China, or Americans who have been in the China within the last two weeks, must land at one of the designated airports. Flights with at least one person who meets the criteria will be automatically diverted. At LAX, stringent new health screenings will be conducted on those travelers. Returning U.S. citizens who have recently traveled to Wuhan, China - the epicenter of the virus outbreak - will be subject to a mandatory 14-day quarantine order. Additionally, most non-U.S. citizens who have recently traveled to China will be denied entry into the country, with the exception of immediate family members of U.S. citizens, permanent residents and flight crews.