Email from Los Angeles Police Protective League Daily News & Updates Law Enforcement News Los Angeles police officers find body after search in Oxnard The Los Angeles Police Department said its Robbery-Homicide Division took the lead Monday and developed information that led them to an area of Oxnard. Officers worked with the FBI to search and found a body during a foot search, according to a statement issued Wednesday night. LAPD officials said the family of 13-year-old Oscar Omar Hernandez reported him missing Sunday when he failed to return home after visiting an acquaintance in Lancaster. Ventura County Star Armed carjacking suspect arrested after nearly 7 hour standoff with officers in Sunland, police say An alleged carjacking suspect was finally arrested after a nearly seven hour-long standoff with officers after they barricaded inside a business in Sunland Wednesday afternoon, police said. Officers received a call from a victim who reported the carjacking and had tracked their car, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. An LAPD airship spotted the suspect, who ran into a laundromat located in the 8600 block of Foothill Boulevard and barricaded himself inside, police said. The suspect remained inside the building for hours, from just before 11 a.m. to 2:20 p.m., when LAPD said they were still refusing to come out of the building. At 2:30 p.m., at least 16 officers in tactical gear were seen outside a laundromat located at 8662 Foothill Blvd, in aerial footage of the scene. Five minutes later, officers were seen entering the laundromat while some remained outside near an armored vehicle. Later, just after 3 p.m., a robot was seen being deployed into the building while the situation appeared to remain ongoing. Police said that the incident came to an end with the suspect's arrest at around 6:30 p.m. CBS 2 Trashy Lingerie co-owner allegedly shoots and kills brother to save their mother in violent attack One of the owners of Trashy Lingerie, a Los Angeles lingerie and costume boutique, allegedly shot and killed his brother in order to save their mother. The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner ruled that Robert Shrier, 61, died on March 7 from a shotgun wound of the torso at a private residence. The manner of death is homicide. Randy Shrier, one of the co-owners of Trashy Lingerie, confirmed to The Times that Robert Shrier is his brother. Randy declined to comment on the case, saying that his family is still waiting for a final determination from the L.A. County District Attorney’s Office. He was told that no charges were filed and that it was ruled a justified homicide. The shooting occurred around 1:25 p.m. in the 400 block of North Alfred Street, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. The family dispute began when a 61-year-old man used a baseball bat to damage personal belongings and windows at his mother’s home and physically assaulted her. The woman called her 57-year-old son, who arrived to find his mother being choked by his older brother, police said. Los Angeles Times Homeless man killed in Venice Beach after reportedly intervening in couple’s argument Police are looking for a gunman who killed a homeless man in Venice Beach during an argument. Los Angeles police were alerted to a shooting at the Westminster Dog Park about 10:20 p.m. Wednesday. When they arrived, they found 28-year-old Zackery Melton dead. Melton, who was unhoused but staying in the area, witnessed a couple arguing and tried to step in, said a woman at the park Thursday who said she was Melton’s girlfriend. “[Zack] was such a protector,” said the woman, Cheyene, who only provided her first name to protect her privacy. “He got shot defending a homegirl.” After the shooting, the gunman ran into a nearby building that police surrounded, witnesses said. The scene was chaotic, said Kristen Schonert, a resident who watched the scene unfold the previous night. Though police eventually went into the building, they did not find the shooter. Police said the gunman is still outstanding. Since the shooting, a makeshift memorial for Melton has started to grow at the park. Flowers were splayed out on a parking spot where the altercation occurred. Los Angeles Times L.A. man accused of exploiting children to make violent and pornographic material A Los Angeles man was arrested Thursday on federal charges of targeting and sexual exploitation of children as part of an online counterculture movement that wants to bring about the collapse of society. Jose Henry Ayala Casamiro, 28, was taken into custody by federal agents on charges that he possessed child pornograhpy and belonged to an online group that encouraged and groomed minor children to engage in violent and sexual behavior. “Ayala caused minors to produce child sexual abuse material as well as other video content depicting themselves engaging in self-harm,” a release from the U.S. Department of Justice reads. Ayala is accused of being part of a global online group whose aim is to destabilize and destroy civilization by “corruption and exploitation of vulnerable populations, including minors.” The DOJ says this group is made up of “nihilistic violent extremists” who work together to groom and sexually exploit children, coercing them into creating child pornography and videos of them committing “sadistic sexual acts” and torture, including carving the names of their abusers into their skin. Sometimes the abuse elevates to the members urging the young girls to commit suicide, officials said. KTLA 5 Ex-boyfriend suspected of killing mom and daughter in Compton is on the run, LASD says A man who is suspected of killing his ex-girlfriend and her daughter in a drive-by shooting in Compton is on the run, and believed to be armed and dangerous, authorities said. The Los Angles County Sheriff’s Department is looking for Donte Lamont Brown, a 41-year-old resident of Compton who is suspected of killing his estranged girlfriend, La’von Hall, and her 22-year-old daughter, Ma’Laysia Martin, according to a department news release. Sheriff’s deputies responded to a call about a shooting at the intersection of Caldwell Street and South Central Avenue around 7 p.m. Tuesday and found Hall, 45, lying on the ground with gunshot wounds. Her daughter was discovered in the passenger seat of a car crashed nearby, also bleeding from gunshot wounds, according to the Sheriff’s Department. Deputies and Compton Fire Department personnel attempted to render lifesaving aid, but both victims were both pronounced dead at the scene. Investigators later learned that Brown drove up to the victims’ car while it was stopped at a light on Caldwell Street and unleashed several rounds of gunfire, hitting both the mother and daughter, according to the Sheriff’s Department. Los Angeles Times California man will plead guilty to trying to assassinate Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh A California man will plead guilty to trying to assassinate Supreme Court Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh at his home in a suburb of Washington, D.C., nearly three years ago, the defendant’s attorneys said in a court filing Wednesday. Nicholas John Roske of Simi Valley was arrested near Kavanaugh’s home in Chevy Chase, Md., in June 2022. Roske was armed with a gun and a knife, was carrying zip ties and was dressed in black when he arrived in the neighborhood by taxi just after 1 a.m., federal authorities said. Roske, who was 26 when he was arrested, intends to plead guilty to attempting to murder a justice of the United States without reaching a plea agreement with federal prosecutors, according to his lawyers. The charge carries a maximum sentence of life in prison. Roske’s attorneys asked a judge in Greenbelt, Md., to schedule a hearing next Monday or Tuesday for him to enter a guilty plea. They say prosecutors have consented to their request. After his arrest, Roske told a police detective that he was upset by a leaked draft opinion suggesting the Supreme Court intended to overrule Roe vs. Wade, the landmark abortion rights case, according to an FBI agent’s affidavit. Killing one jurist could change the decisions of the nine-member court “for decades to come,” authorities said that Roske wrote, adding, “I am shooting for three.” Los Angeles Times Shot multiple times, Florida deputy returns fire, kills gunman before succumbing to injuries A deputy picking up an extra shift on his day off was killed when he responded to a routine call about someone being disruptive at a discount store, according to investigators in the Florida Panhandle. Despite being hit multiple times, Deputy Will May returned fire, killing the shooter, Walton County Sheriff Michael Adkinson Jr. said at a news conference. The gunfight happened around 2 p.m. on Wednesday, April 2, outside the Dollar General store in Mossy Oak, and everything about the incident defies logic, Adkinson said. “This is an agency in shock and in disbelief that this happened, and certainly that it happened this way: At 2 p.m. on a Wednesday afternoon for something where an arrest was not going to be made,” Adkinson said. “The subject being dealt with was not even going to be arrested. They were simply asking him to leave. Twenty-five to 30 seconds after his arrival, (May) was mortally wounded. It does not make sense.” Adkinson declined to identify the suspect during the news conference, but reported he had a carry/conceal gun license, and did not have an arrest record in Walton County. He arrived at the store on a bike. Charlotte Observer 14-year-old to be federally charged as adult in shooting death of N.J. officer The 14-year-old charged with shooting and killing a Newark police officer will be charged as an adult, a federal prosecutor said Thursday. In a morning appearance on “Fox and Friends,” interim U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Alina Habba said the teen will be federally charged and that his case will be moved from state to federal court. If convicted at the federal level of the March 7 murder of Detective Joseph Azcona, the teen could face a longer prison sentence than allowed by state law for young offenders. “This is really the way it should be,” Habba said on the television show. “If you shoot a police officer, if you shoot anyone, I don’t care what your age is, and you’re part of a gang and you have a repeated history of crime you will be tried as an adult.” uveniles under age 15 cannot be tried as adults for any offense, according to New Jersey state law. The teen would face a maximum of 20 years in prison if convicted in family court in Essex County. “He was going to (be prosecuted by) the state which meant that he would have had a very low sentence if he was found guilty, which I’m sure he would be,” Habba added. PoliceOne Public Safety News Death toll from Los Angeles wildfires rises to 30 following discovery of human remains A new death has been confirmed in connection to the devastating Los Angeles wildfires after human remains were discovered Wednesday, raising the death toll to 30. Crews from the L.A. County Medical Examiner’s Office’s Special Operations Response Team investigated the remains found on the 900 block of Boston Street in Altadena on April 2. Following an investigation, the remains were determined to be human. Officials have not provided information on a possible identity. A total of 18 people were killed in the Eaton Fire and 12 people were killed in the Palisades Fire. The fires, which ignited on Jan. 7 just after 10 a.m. in Los Angeles County, remain one of the most deadly and destructive wildfires in Southern California history. The Palisades Fire, which ignited in the Pacific Palisades, burned a total of 23,707 acres and destroyed 6,833 structures, according to Cal Fire data. The Eaton Fire, which erupted in Altadena, scorched 14,021 acres and destroyed 9,413 structures. KTLA 5 Local Government News LA County defunds LA Homeless Services Authority to create its own department The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors Tuesday voted to effectively pull out of the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA), a massive agency that the city and county have been sending tax revenue to administer the effort to end homelessness. After audits indicated a lack of transparency in the financial accounting of services provided, the board voted 4-0 to set up the county’s own homeless services department, with Supervisor Holly Mitchell abstaining. “The status quo isn’t working,” Supervisor Lindsey Horvath said during a meeting Tuesday, saying the county’s own homeless agency would receive better oversight with improved efficiency and results. “All my cities are in favor of us going forward,” Supervisor Kathryn Barger said, echoing the need to break up with LAHSA. The decision was met by opposition from Los Angeles city officials with city councilmembers crossing the street from LA City Hall to speak up against the vote during the board meeting. While some councilmembers said they are no fans of the homeless agency with Councilmember Monica Rodriguez saying LAHSA “is really good at cashing (LA’s) checks,” others said the timing is not right for the county government to quit LAHSA. NBC 4 Fire at Westlake apartments under construction spreads to homes Two families have been displaced after a fire broke out at a neighboring building that spread to nearby homes. The fire began at around midnight in the 100 block of North Carondelet Street and destroyed a three-story apartment complex that was under construction, leaving the wooden frame charred. As embers flew in the air, one man said he began knocking on neighbors windows and doors to alert them. “The front bush started going on fire and I put it out with the hose,” Alex Rubio, a Westlake resident, said. The fire spread to a duplex next door where a family of four and a family of seven were living. One woman said she woke up to see a bright light. She thought it was morning already, but encountered a wall of flames. She rushed her family out of the home, including a baby, before the flames destroyed her bedroom and a neighbor’s car. 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