Email from Los Angeles Police Protective League Daily News & Updates Law Enforcement News Man dead in Boyle Heights after woman allegedly stabs him with pair of scissors A man is dead after a woman allegedly stabbed him with a pair of scissors during a physical altercation in Boyle Heights Thursday night. Officers from the Los Angeles Police Department responded to the 300 block of North Soto Street after receiving calls of an assault with a deadly weapon in progress. When police arrived, they found a woman attacking a man with a pair of scissors. The man was pronounced dead at the scene. The LAPD said the man and woman were involved in some sort of domestic dispute that turned into a physical altercation. CBS 2 North Hollywood father sentenced to 12+ years in prison for assaulting toddler son A North Hollywood man was sentenced to 12 years and eight months in state prison as he was convicted of violently assaulting his 14-month-old son, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office said Thursday. Cesar Daniel Cabrera, 24, assaulted the boy on March 22, 202, leaving the toddler with life-threatening injuries. “The level of violence inflicted on this defenseless child is nothing short of monstrous,” District Attorney Hochman said. “This office will continue to pursue maximum accountability for those who harm children.” Cabrera had pleaded no contest to one felony count of child abuse. In addition to receiving the high term of 12 years in state prison, the man was ordered to pay full restitution to the victim. Cabrera also pleaded no contest to two separate cases of second-degree burglary, adding eight months to his sentence, the DA's office said. NBC 4 Man shot by LAPD officers in Harvard Heights after allegedly pointing gun at vehicles passing by A man was shot by Los Angeles Police Department officers in the South Los Angeles neighborhood of Harvard Heights after he allegedly pointed a gun at vehicles passing by in the area Thursday morning. Olympic Division officers responded to a radio call of an assault with a deadly weapon suspect around 9:08 a.m. in the St. Andrews and 18th Street. Additional 911 callers said they allegedly saw a man with what appeared to be a "shotgun" pointing it at vehicles that were passing by, police said. A spokesperson for the LAPD said when officers arrived, they gave the man multiple verbal commands to surrender and he refused. The officers fired multiple non-lethal rounds, but they were not effective. At some point during the interaction, police said the man raised his weapon toward the officers and he was shot. Members of the LA City Fire Department also responded to the scene and helped transport the man to a nearby hospital for non-life-threatening injuries. The LAPD said body-worn camera footage and surveillance video will be reviewed during the investigation. The man's firearm was recovered at the scene and was booked as evidence. CBS 2 Package ‘discharges’ in back of UPS truck in Los Angeles A report of a package exploding in the back of a UPS truck in the San Fernando Valley was actually an accidental discharge from a fire extinguisher, officials said. Initially reported by authorities as an explosion, the incident happened around 10:15 a.m. Thursday morning in the Winnetka area, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. A delivery driver was near the intersection of Winnetka Avenue and Runnymede Street when a package, according to UPS, fell and discharged. The driver told paramedics on scene that he inhaled an unknown substance following the blast, which prompted the response of a hazmat crew. The Los Angeles Fire Department and paramedics responded to the scene. The driver was evaluated at the scene and declined transportation to the hospital. The public was urged to avoid the area while crews were on the scene. Hazmat crews later determined that it was a dry chemical fire extinguisher that caused the initial scare. KTLA 5 Copper wire thefts ‘worth it' for criminals due to weak penalties, LA officials warn As copper wire thefts continue to cripple Los Angeles’ infrastructure, causing telecommunication and utility outages and leaving behind thousands of dollars of damage for each incident, city and county leaders and law enforcement officials pleaded with the state to impose tougher penalties for criminals. Among 6,000 incidents of copper theft during the second half of 2024 across the country, about one third of the incidents happened in California, according to data from Attorney General Rob Bonta’s office. “Bad actors steal encased copper cables and cut them into short lengths before burning them to remove the sheathing to reveal the raw copper inside,” Bonta said. “That copper is then typically sold to scrap metal dealers, some of whom, in periods of high demand, are willing to accept the valuable commodity purportedly without knowing its origin.” Los Angeles' Sixth Street Bridge was repeatedly targeted with thieves stealing miles of copper wiring that powers its LED lighting system. In another incident, metal parts were ripped away from a Caltrans property, causing $150,000 loss in the city. NBC 4 Prison for Instagram posts? L.A. authorities target street racing influencer A man described by law enforcement as one of Southern California’s most prominent street racing influencers has been charged by Los Angeles County prosecutors with 16 counts of conspiracy for allegedly organizing a number of so-called street takeovers. Erick Romero Quintana, 22, pleaded not guilty to the charges of conspiracy to commit reckless driving during a brief court appearance Thursday in downtown L.A. He faces at least a decade in prison after authorities charged him with running the Instagram account @privatemeetz, which blasted out the locations of 16 takeover events across South L.A. to its more than 60,000 followers from December 2022 to November 2023, according to a criminal complaint filed last month. At one of those events, a 24-year-old girl died after a spinning car careened into the crowd. Street racing events have long proved to be a deadly part of Southern California’s broader car culture. A Times investigation found that at least 179 people were killed in street-racing-related incidents between 2000 and 2017. Although people often think of street races as the quarter-mile one-on-one speed contests highlighted by the early installments in the “Fast & Furious” film franchise, so-called sideshows or takeovers can often prove dangerous too. Los Angeles Times GirlsDoPorn boss, once one of FBI’s 10 most wanted, pleads guilty to sex trafficking After three years on the run and a stint on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list, the leader of GirlsDoPorn, Michael Pratt, pleaded guilty to sex trafficking charges in San Diego on Thursday, authorities said. Pratt used force, fraud and coercion to recruit hundreds of women, many of whom were in their late teens, to perform sex acts on camera, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. The women were often lured under the pretense of modeling gigs and were later told they would be filming adult videos, which Pratt and his business partners falsely promised would not appear online, prosecutors said. If the women refused to finish filming, Pratt would threaten to sue them, cancel flights home and post the videos publicly. The videos would then be uploaded to GirlsDoPorn.com, where Pratt made more than $17 million in profits from 2012 to 2019, prosecutors said. The consequences for the young victims were devastating. In court hearings, victims detailed how they had lost jobs, been evicted, dropped out of school or been disowned by friends and family. Some attempted suicide. Los Angeles Times Chicago officer shot, killed during foot pursuit of fleeing suspect A Chicago police officer was shot and killed during an armed confrontation in a Chatham apartment Thursday night, authorities said. The officer, part of a tactical team in the Gresham (6th) District, was trying to conduct an investigatory stop on a person believed to have a weapon around 9:50 p.m. near the intersection of East 82nd Street and South Drexel Avenue, police Superintendent Larry Snelling said. The person the team was trying to stop started to run away, he said, leading to a foot chase that ended inside an apartment. There, Snelling said, the team encountered a second person armed with a rifle. One of the officers fired a gun “at some point” during the confrontation, he said, and a second officer was shot. She later died of her injuries at University of Chicago Medical Center, Snelling said. A third officer hurt his wrist and was listed in fair condition, according to a CPD statement released around 4 a.m. Friday. The Cook County medical examiner’s office identified the slain officer as 36-year-old Krystal Rivera, who lived in the Irving Park neighborhood on the Northwest Side. Chicago Tribune Public Safety News Firefighters Put Out Duplex Fire in San Fernando A fire that started outside a duplex in San Fernando spread into the structure and an outside shed Thursday and threatened other buildings before it was put out. The fire was reported at 10:50 a.m. in the 1100 block of West Fifth Street, according to Lyndsey Lantz of the Los Angeles Fire Department, which serves San Fernando. “Firefighters coordinated roof and interior operations on the duplex (and) extinguished the fire and protected exposure,” Lantz said. It took crews 32 minutes to knock down the blaze and render safe some propane tanks that had been emitting gas, she said. The fire prompted the closure of the 600 block of Maclay Avenue, according to the city. Crews remained on scene mopping up Thursday afternoon, Lantz said. MyNewsLA LAX Metro Transit Center opens, connecting millions to the Los Angeles International Airport The long-awaited LAX Metro Transit Center station in Westchester opened Friday, marking a new era of transit in Los Angeles. After a decade of planning and four years of construction, the station promises to enhance connectivity for over a million daily Metro riders. The new transit hub provides direct access to the Los Angeles International Airport, one of the busiest airports in the country and the busiest in Southern California. Edna Stanley, deputy chief operations manager at Metro, highlighted the significance of the project, stating, "This is our new LAX Metro Transit Center station. It serves as a connection and traveling hub for Angelenos and travelers alike." The station connects the C and K Metro lines to the broader network, allowing travelers from Redondo Beach and Norwalk to reach the airport seamlessly. 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