Email from Los Angeles Police Protective League Daily News & Updates   Law Enforcement News Disturbing new video emerges in death of 5-year-old boy found dumped in Panorama City A man facing charges for allegedly killing a 5-year-old boy whose body was found in Panorama City pleaded not guilty in a Van Nuys courtroom on Monday. Meanwhile, disturbing new video shows a man carrying something wrapped in a blanket the night of the crime. Bail for 20-year-old Brycson Malik Gaddis -- the ex-boyfriend of Elyjiah Hearn's mother -- is set at $2 million for charges of murder and assault on a child causing death. He's accused of killing the boy in July and disposing of his body in a dumpster. Elyjiah had suffered massive injuries. Gaddis appeared in court on Monday, and for the first time, we're seeing surveillance video from the night the boy's body was left in the parking lot. New surveillance video obtained by Eyewitness News shows a man and a woman on Titus Street in Panorama City the night the child was killed, the same street where he was found the next day. One person is seen holding something -- or someone -- wrapped in a blanket. ABC 7 Vermont Knolls Hit-and-Run Driver Kills Pedestrian Police Tuesday are investigating the circumstances surrounding a fatal hit and run collision in the Vermont Knolls neighborhood of South Los Angeles. Los Angeles Police Department officers responded at 9:57 p.m. Monday to the intersection of 74th and Figueroa Streets, and west of the Harbor (110) Freeway, regarding a collision between a vehicle and a pedestrian, an LAPD spokesman told City News Service. Officers at the scene reported the vehicle struck the man outside of a crosswalk and did not stop to assist the victim. Los Angeles Fire Department personnel responded to the scene, where they pronounced the victim dead. There was no vehicle or suspect information. MyNewsLA Hollywood's "Ketamine Queen" agrees to plead guilty to federal drug charges linked to Matthew Perry's death The North Hollywood woman known as the "Ketamine Queen" agreed to plead guilty to five federal criminal charges, including that she supplied the ketamine that caused Matthew Perry's 2023 death, federal prosecutors announced on Monday. Jasveen Sangha, 42, agreed to plead guilty to one count of maintaining a drug-involved premises, three counts of distribution of ketamine, and one count of distribution of ketamine resulting in death or serious bodily injury. Sangha is a dual citizen of the United States and the United Kingdom and has been in federal custody since August 2024. She is expected to formally enter a guilty plea in the coming weeks, prosecutors said. Five people are criminally charged in Perry's death, including two doctors, Sangha, her accomplice, and the actor's personal assistant, Kenneth Iwamasa. According to her plea agreement, Sangha worked with Erik Fleming, 55, of Hawthorne, to provide Perry with ketamine. Prosecutors said that leading up to Perry's death, Iwamasa repeatedly injected Perry with the ketamine that Sangha supplied to Fleming. CBS 2 Swing for the Officer Needs Help Fund! Join us for the 43rd Annual Chief Daryl F. Gates Golf Tournament on October 6, 2025 at the beautiful Porter Valley Country Club. This is your chance to tee off for a cause. Every swing helps support the Officer Needs Help Fund. Enjoy a day of friendly competition, scenic fairways, and great company while aiming for exciting prizes and bragging rights. Whether you’re a scratch golfer or just out for the fun, you’ll be part of something truly meaningful. Sponsorship opportunities are available, giving you a chance to showcase your support for our law enforcement family. Don’t miss your shot! Register today and help us drive change, one hole at a time! Register Now! California man sentenced to prison in nationwide shipping fraud scheme A Hacienda Heights man has been sentenced to nine months in federal prison for orchestrating a large-scale shipping fraud scheme that involved thousands of false claims, federal prosecutors said. On Aug. 14, 2025, Ting Hong Yeung, 43, pleaded guilty to one count of mail fraud and was sentenced by Chief U.S. District Judge Mark R. Hornak in Pittsburgh, according to Acting U.S. Attorney Troy Rivetti. Yeung will also serve three years of supervised release following his prison term. Prosecutors said that between August 2018 and June 2020, Yeung used various corporate entities to submit more than 6,000 fraudulent claims for lost or damaged ground shipments. The shipments, however, were not actually lost or damaged. Yeung collected settlement payments from the false claims, causing financial harm to the package delivery company, authorities said. KTLA 5 BWC: Knife-wielding man lunges at N.Y. officers who broke through door before fatal OIS Three Cheektowaga police officers stood outside a North Buffalo apartment looking for a man they were trying to arrest. They yelled that they had property of his they wanted to return. They knocked on the apartment door for several minutes and eventually noticed a center piece of the door was coming loose. A still frame from Cheektowaga police body-worn camera footage of last week’s fatal police shooting of a man in North Buffalo shows Hugh Davis Jr. lunging at officers. A few more knocks and that section of the door fell off. Behind it, there was a man with a knife who lunged at them. As officers yell at the man to drop the knife, the man swings at them. That’s when one of the police officers fired three shots at the shirtless man on the ground near the top of the stairs. That scene, captured on a police body-worn camera, was revealed Monday as Cheektowaga police publicly released footage from the cameras of three police officers involved in Wednesday’s fatal shooting on Sanders Road. The fatal shooting of Hugh Davis Jr., 60, remains under investigation by Buffalo police and the State Attorney General’s Office. All bodycam footage has been shared with those two agencies, Cheektowaga Police Chief Brian Coons said. The Buffalo News, N.Y. Former Sinaloa cartel kingpin Ismael ‘El Mayo’ Zambada set to plead guilty Mexican former cartel kingpin Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada is set to plead guilty next week in a drug trafficking case that accuses him of ordering torture, plotting murders and flooding the U.S. with cocaine, heroin and other illicit drugs. A Brooklyn federal judge on Monday scheduled an Aug. 25 change of plea hearing for Zambada, a longtime leader of Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel. The development comes two weeks after federal prosecutors said they wouldn’t seek the death penalty against him. Zambada, 77, pleaded not guilty last year to drug trafficking and related charges, including gun and money laundering offenses. Under Zambada and co-founder Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán’s leadership, prosecutors allege, the Sinaloa cartel evolved from a regional player into the largest drug trafficking organization in the world. Judge Brian M. Cogan’s order Monday didn’t provide details about Zambada’s guilty plea and didn’t list the charges he’s expected to plead guilty to. The same judge sentenced Guzmán to life behind bars after he was convicted of drug trafficking charges in 2019. Los Angeles Times Public Safety News Man critically injured as house fire erupts in L.A. neighborhood A man was rushed to the hospital in critical condition after a fire erupted at a triplex in the Pico-Union neighborhood of Los Angeles early Tuesday morning. The fire was reported shortly after 4 a.m. in the single-story structure located on the 1800 block of Arapahoe Street. Firefighters arrived and extinguished the flames in less than 15 minutes from the initial 911 call, the Los Angeles Fire Department stated in a news alert. One patient, described as a 32-year-old man, was found in critical condition and rushed to a local hospital. No further details regarding the patient or his identity have been released. The fire did not extend beyond the unit where it started, the Fire Department said. The cause of the fire remains under investigation. KTLA 5 L.A. General Medical Center Seeks Help Identifying Patient Social workers at L.A. General Medical Center Tuesday sought the public’s help identifying a patient who has been hospitalized since July 31. The man, who is about 35-years-old, was found “near the Torrance area,” according to the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services, which runs the hospital. He is described as 5 feet 7 inches tall, 166 pounds with dark brown hair and brown eyes. Anyone with information that could help identify the man was urged to call the clinical social worker on his case at 323-409-7779. The hospital’s Department of Social Work can be reached at 323-409-5253. MyNewsLA LA County warns against ocean water contact ahead of heat wave With a heat wave expected to begin Wednesday, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health warned people to avoid ocean waters at several beaches due to high bacteria levels. The affected beaches are: Mothers Beach in Marina Del Rey, entire swim area; Marie Canyon Storm Drain at Puerco Beach, 100 yards up and down the coast from the public access steps; Santa Monica Pier, 100 yards up and down the coast from the pier; and Ramirez Creek at Paradise Cove, 100 yards up and down the coast from the pier. Meanwhile, a previous warning was lifted for the following beach area where recent sample results identified water quality levels within state standards: Topanga Canyon Beach in Malibu.Recorded information on beach conditions is available 24 hours a day on the county's beach closure hotline, 1-800-525-662. A map of impacted locations and more information can be found at PublicHealth.LACounty.gov/Beach/. NBC 4 The summer’s most dangerous heat wave is set to broil SoCal, elevating fire and health risks The season’s most dangerous heat wave is expected to bake Southern California and much of the American Southwest this week, with triple-digit highs and elevated fire conditions set to begin Wednesday and last for several days. Extreme heat and fire weather advisories have been issued for much of inland Southern California, with peak temperatures expected Thursday and Friday. Downtown Los Angeles is forecast to reach 94 degrees, while Woodland Hills could hit 108. Los Angeles County valleys and the Inland Empire probably will heat up to 104 degrees. Palm Springs could hit above 113 and Death Valley is bracing for 120 degrees, according to the National Weather Service. “This is going to be the most significant heat wave of the season so far,” said Ariel Cohen, the meteorologist in charge at the weather service’s Oxnard office. “We’re going to be having a once-a-year, once-every-other-year-caliber heat wave. ... Everyone needs to be getting prepared now.” Although this is typically the hottest time of year, he said, highs at the end of the week will reach near records, 10 to 20 degrees above normal. People need to stay hydrated, make sure they have access to air conditioning and refrain from outside activities in the heat of the day in order to avoid heat-related illness, Cohen said. 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