Email from Los Angeles Police Protective League Daily News & Updates Law Enforcement News Man and woman fatally shot inside Encino home Authorities are investigating after a man and a woman were found shot to death inside an Encino home on Monday. The incident occurred on White Oak Place off of Ventura Boulevard where officers with the According to a spokesperson from the Los Angeles Police Department, received a call around 2:30 p.m. Monday afternoon for a welfare check. Officers found two people inside the home who had been shot and killed. Police are looking into what led up to the shooting and are searching for a shooter or shooters. No further details were immediately available. NBC 4 Scantily-clad man tries to rob donut shop in Los Angeles; Workers and police fight back A man, seen in a bikini, tried to rob a donut shop in Los Angeles. Back on May 30, 2025, the Los Angeles Police Department was told that a man – seen in surveillance photo wearing a bikini with pink clothing wrapped around him – tried to rob a Winchell's donut shop in the Harvard Heights area. In the incident, the donut shop workers fought back, throwing cash at him and then rammed the scantily-clad suspect with a cart. The man – later identified by LAPD as Christopher Hall – took off from the business. Fast-forward to July 2025, LAPD released body camera footage showing the moments officers spotted Hall after he ran away from the donut shop. In the video, LAPD said officers had ordered Hall to drop the weapon he was holding. Hall didn't, so one of the officers opened fire – and missed. Hall was eventually placed in custody after officers used a Taser to stop him. LAPD recovered an airsoft gun and a knife from the scene. FOX 11 Two Wounded in Broadway-Manchester Shooting Two men in their 30s were wounded in a drive-by shooting in the Broadway-Manchester neighborhood of South Los Angeles and an investigation is underway Monday, police said. Los Angeles Police Department officers responded at 87th and Figueroa streets at 10:30 p.m. Sunday to reports of two victims who were shot, an LAPD spokeswoman told City News Service. When they arrived, the officers learned a car drove up to the victims and fired several shots at them. The victims were taken to a hospital by Los Angeles Fire Department personnel in unknown conditions, police said. The suspects drove away in an unknown direction. MyNewsLA Sylmar man to serve life in prison for child exploitation A San Fernando Valley man who sought out boys and exploited them over a period of at least five years was sentenced to life in prison after pleading guilty to various counts of child exploitation. Edwin Bernard, 79, of Sylmar sought out boys online, groomed and engaged them romantically, and then induced them to engage in sexually explicit behavior from at least 2009 to 2014, according to an FBI news release. He pled guilty last week to four counts of child exploitation, including possession, distribution and production of child pornography, as well as coercion and enticement of a minor to engage in sex. The FBI believes there may be additional victims who have not been identified yet. Bernard screen-recorded at least two victims, capturing their written communications and sexual acts on video. According to the FBI, he sexually abused a third victim in person. He was found to have a collection of child abuse material, including more than 115,000 suspected files on his devices. Around 2009, Bernard served as a moderator with the usernames "netzoomer" and "netzoomer16" on websites where men seek to engage sexually with minor boys. Through this connection, Bernard met a 14-year-old victim and instructed the victim to perform sex acts and other harmful acts, which he recorded at least two times. CBS 2 Person in custody after allegedly starting fire in Hollywood Hills A person is in custody after police said they started a fire in the Hollywood Hills on Sunday. The brush fire was reported at about 12:25 p.m. adjacent to the Runyon Canyon Road Hiking Path in Runyon Canyon Park, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department. A response from about 53 firefighters quickly took care of the flames and extinguished the blaze. Meanwhile, a group of citizens held a man who allegedly started the fire until law enforcement officers arrived. The L.A. Police Department later confirmed to CBS News Los Angeles that a person was taken into custody. It wasn't yet clear as of Sunday evening what charges, if any, the person would be facing. Their identity was not immediately revealed. No additional details were immediately made available. CBS 2 Package thieves hit South Bay home; resident advises neighbors to be on lookout Footage sent in by a KTLA viewer shows package thieves hitting a home in L.A.’s South Bay region Saturday morning. Still images from the video shows a man exit the passenger side of a silver Ford Focus and run up to the front door of the home, grab a box and run back into the car around 8:30 a.m. Saturday. The unidentified suspect appeared to be wearing a hat, a pink shirt, dark-colored shorts and black and white shoes. The driver of the car did not leave the vehicle and was not captured on the footage. Per the viewer, the incident was reported to local authorities. They noted that they shared the footage in hopes of alerting fellow South Bay residents to the incident and to raise awareness should anyone have already fallen victim to these or other porch pirates. While thieves like these strike after mail is delivered, there have been other cases in SoCal where suspects intercept items before they arrive at their intended destination. KTLA 5 San Fernando Valley man pleads guilty in $16 million Medicare hospice fraud and laundering scheme A San Fernando Valley man has pleaded guilty to defrauding Medicare out of nearly $16 million through a network of sham hospice companies and laundering the proceeds to conceal the scheme, federal authorities announced Monday. Juan Carlos Esparza, 33, of Valley Village, admitted to healthcare fraud and transactional money laundering in a plea entered July 14, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. Esparza is one of several defendants charged in the scheme, which federal officials described as part of a broader effort to combat hospice fraud in the greater Los Angeles area. According to court documents, from July 2019 to January 2023, Esparza and co-defendants Petros Fichidzhyan and Karpis Srapyan operated four fraudulent hospices, billing Medicare for end-of-life care services that were neither necessary nor provided. Esparza owned one of the facilities, called House of Angels Hospice, and helped control the others through the use of foreign nationals listed as nominal owners. KTLA 5 Man sets California probation officer on fire during struggle, authorities say A Stockton man was charged with attempted murder Friday, accused of setting a probation officer on fire and leaving the official with significant burns, authorities said. At 2:10 p.m. Thursday, the suspect entered the San Joaquin County adult probation office in Stockton with a lighter and a gas can, authorities said. The department’s security guard activated an emergency alert upon the man’s arrival, but it’s unclear what exactly prompted the guard’s action. Triggering the alert brought probation officers to the office in response, according to officials. Once there, they confronted and tried to detain the suspect — who led them to a nearby parking lot, where a struggle ensued. During the tussle, the suspect was able to ignite the fuel, setting fire to one of the probation officers, the department wrote in a post on Facebook. The Probation Department did not respond to The Times’ request for comment on how many officers were involved in the encounter. Officials were able to extinguish the flames and handcuff the suspect, identified as Adam Lopez, 39. The Stockton Police Department was contacted and took Lopez into custody. Los Angeles Times Retired Detroit officer succumbs to injuries sustained in 1996 shooting A Detroit Police Department officer has succumbed to injuries from gunshot wounds he sustained in the line of duty in 1996, according to the Detroit Board of Police Commissioners. Officer Kelvin Patrick, 68, had served with the department for 19 years when he and his partner stopped their patrol car to speak with a pair of juveniles on May 24, 1996. Without warning, one or both of the youths produced a weapon and shot both Patrick and his partner. Patrick’s partner was wounded in the hand, while Patrick was shot several times in his torso and chest. One of the bullets pierced his spine, causing partial paralysis. Despite the injury, Patrick learned to drive with accessibility aids and continued to serve in the department for another 10 years before medically retiring in 2006. He succumbed to his injuries on February 6, 2025. “May his selfless sacrifice and commitment as a law enforcement professional forever be remembered,” the board meeting minutes state. PoliceOne Son of ‘El Chapo’ pleads guilty in U.S. drug trafficking case A son of notorious Mexican drug kingpin “El Chapo” pleaded guilty Friday to U.S. drug trafficking charges. He is the first of El Chapo’s sons to enter a plea deal. Prosecutors allege Ovidio Guzman Lopez and his brother, Joaquin Guzman Lopez, ran a faction of the Sinaloa cartel. They became known locally as the “Chapitos,” or “little Chapos,” and federal authorities in 2023 described the operation as a massive effort to send “staggering” quantities of fentanyl into the U.S. Ovidio Guzman Lopez pleaded guilty to drug trafficking, money laundering and firearms charges tied to his leadership role in the cartel. He agreed to postpone his sentencing to a later court date. As part of a plea agreement, Guzman Lopez admitted to helping oversee the production and smuggling of large quantities of cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine, marijuana and fentanyl into the United States, fueling a crisis that has contributed to tens of thousands of overdose deaths annually. Terms of the deal, including sentencing recommendations or cooperation agreements, were not immediately disclosed. 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