Email from Los Angeles Police Protective League Daily News & Updates Law Enforcement News LAPD Looks to Quell `Misinformation’ in Death of Teen Found in Singer’s Tesla Los Angeles police sought again Tuesday to quell what it calls “misinformation” contained in recent media coverage of the investigation into the death of a teenage girl whose body was found in the trunk of a Tesla registered to singer D4vd. In a statement, the Los Angeles Police Department’s elite Robbery-Homicide Division also insisted that its recent move to obtain a court order placing the Medical Examiner’s Office investigation into Celeste Rivas Hernandez’s cause of death under seal was intended ensure detectives are provided with key information before it is publicly released. “The order was not sought to undermine transparency,” according to the statement. On Monday, county Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Odey Ukpo issued a statement criticizing the imposition of a “security hold” on the investigation, saying he is committed to ensuring “full transparency” about the office’s work. “Since becoming the department head, I’ve worked on eradicating the practice of placing security holds on Medical Examiner cases simply by law enforcement request,” Ukpo said. “The practice of security holds is virtually unheard of in other counties and has not been proven to improve outcomes in the legal system.” MyNewsLA Woman reportedly shot by husband following domestic dispute in Sun Valley An investigation is underway on a quiet street in Sun Valley following an alleged domestic dispute that ended in gunfire overnight. The incident happened Tuesday night on Lanark Street. According to the Los Angeles Police Department, someone reported that a father shot a mom. A 65-year-old woman was rushed to the hospital in unknown condition. A 65-year-old man was arrested at the scene. Additional details were not available. ABC 7 Man refuses to leave after showing up at Kendall Jenner's gated LA home, LAPD says Los Angeles police responded to the gated community home of Kendall Jenner late Monday night after a man who said he was there to meet the 30-year-old model and "Keeping Up with the Kardashians" star refused to leave, the LAPD told NBC4 Investigates. The man approached the guard gate just before midnight and told security personnel he was there to meet Jenner. The guards denied entry and told the man to leave, but he refused, police said. Officers responded and told the man he would be arrested for trespassing. After police identified the man, he eventually left and never passed the front gate of the San Fernando Valley residential community, the LAPD said. It was not immediately clear whether Jenner was home at the time. NBCLA has reached out of a representative of Jenner's for comment. Jenner, sister of Kylie Jenner and Kim and Khloe Kardashian, celebrated her 30th birthday earlier this month. NBC 4 LA County babysitter indicted with child sexual exploitation crimes A federal grand jury indicted a Los Angeles County babysitter with more than a dozen child sexual exploitation crimes. The U.S. Department of Justice said Miguel Adrian Gonzalez, 28, allegedly used his position as the CEO of the childcare company Let's Play LA to exploit at least six children he was babysitting. He has been charged with 16 counts, all related to child sexual abuse material. If convicted as charged, Gonzalez faces a mandatory minimum sentence of 30 years and a maximum of life in prison. The Justice Department said he has been in custody since Oct. 28, and a federal judge ordered him to jail without bond. His arraignment is scheduled for Dec. 4. Federal prosecutors said Gonzalez allegedly produced the child sexual abuse material from at least 2021 to 2025. He allegedly used social media platforms such as Snapchat and Telegram to share explicit images and videos, including material containing the children he babysat. The DOJ also said he allegedly used the programs to receive child sexual abuse material. CBS 2 Thanksgiving CHP Patrols to Target Unsafe Drivers California Highway Patrol officers Wednesday will ramp up operations to snare drunken and drug-impaired drivers, continuing the campaign for the duration of the Thanksgiving holiday period. The agency will initiate its annual Thanksgiving “maximum enforcement period” beginning at 6 p.m. Wednesday, when all available officers will deploy to catch DUI suspects, speeders and other traffic violators. The MEP will conclude Sunday night. “Thanksgiving is a time to be with family and friends, not to mourn a preventable tragedy,” Commissioner Sean Duryee said. “Seat belts remain one of the most effective tools for saving lives on our roadways. Taking just two seconds to buckle up could be the decision that saves your life, or the life of someone you love.” Officers from the Riverside, Blythe, Beaumont, Indio and Temecula CHP stations will be on inland freeways, highways and unincorporated roads, looking to nab scofflaws. During last year’s Thanksgiving MEP, the CHP arrested just over 1,100 people statewide on suspicion of drinking and driving, compared to 1,047 arrests during the previous Thanksgiving holiday period. MyNewsLA 81-year-old California man arrested in 1982 cold case murder of estranged wife An 81-year-old Bay Area man has been arrested in connection with the 1982 murder of his estranged wife, a moment his daughter, a celebrated professor at Yale University, has been campaigning decades for, according to multiple media reports. Alison Galvani was just 5 years old when a group of fishermen found her mother’s naked body wrapped in a sleeping bag as it floated under the San Mateo Bridge on Aug. 9, 1982. A 36-year-old social worker, Nancy Galvani’s body had been tied to a cinderblock secured at her ankles and tossed into the bay after she’d been strangled to death, SFGATE reported. She and her daughter had been living in a women’s shelter in San Francisco’s gritty Tenderloin neighborhood. Nancy had recently left her husband, a computer programmer named Patrick Galvani, accusing him of attempting to kill her by placing a pillowcase over her face and punching her, according to a 2014 Los Angeles Times report. After leaving the upscale Pacific Heights home she shared with her husband, she filed a restraining order against Patrick and planned to divorce him. While living in the women’s shelter, she and her husband were involved in a nasty custody dispute over Alison, who spent weekends with her father and weekdays with her mother. KTLA 5 Missouri judge sentences man to death in ‘cold-blooded execution’ of officer Joshua Rocha, who was convicted and sentenced last month to death for the July 2022 killing of North Kansas City police officer Daniel Vasquez, had his death sentence finalized by a judge on Monday in a Clay County courtroom. On Oct. 2, Rocha, 28, was found guilty of first-degree murder, advancing the trial to the sentencing stage, with life in prison without parole or death by lethal injection as the only outcomes. He was sentenced to death almost a week later, on Oct. 8, by a jury that had been sequestered for the trial, after being brought in from St. Charles County. In Monday’s approximate 15 minute-minute hearing, Clay County Circuit Court Judge David Chamberlain stated Rocha didn’t explain his “cold-blooded execution” of Vasquez before he handed down his sentence and expressed condolences to Vasquez’s loved ones. Rocha is the first person Clay County prosecutors have sought to execute since 1988. He is the eighth person currently sentenced in the state of Missouri to a death sentence, according to Missourians to Abolish the Death Penalty. Clay County prosecutors and Rocha’s public defenders declined to present new evidence, sticking to each side’s previous arguments. Prosecutors believed Chamberlain should uphold the jury’s verdict; Rocha’s public defender Stephen Reynolds asked Chamberlain to consider a life sentence, noting the jury deliberated for just 24 hours before delivering the death sentence. Kansas City Star Video: Driver stopped on highway pushes Michigan sheriff’s office cruiser into traffic A driver was arrested over the weekend after pushing a patrol vehicle into a lane of travel on Interstate 96, according to video released by police on Monday. A deputy with the Livingston County Sheriff’s Office responded to the report of a vehicle stopped on I-96 near Spencer Road late Friday, Nov. 21, in Brighton. According to a release on Monday, Nov. 24, the driver initially appeared to be passed out in the vehicle while stopped in a lane of travel with his foot on the brake and the car in drive. Upon waking up, police said he refused multiple commands to put the vehicle in park and exit. Video shared on Monday on the sheriff’s office Facebook page shows the driver instead accelerating, pushing the deputy’s vehicle into an adjacent lane of traffic. The deputy first pulled up behind the vehicle while stopped, and after local fire personnel appeared to pull along side the male subject’s car, the deputy maneuvered in front of the subject’s car. Screeching tires can be heard briefly through the video, captured by a rear-vehicle camera. PoliceOne Public Safety News Person sets self ablaze in Los Angeles, fire officials say A person apparently set themselves on fire in Sun Valley Tuesday morning. The blaze at Vineland Avenue and Saticoy Street was reported to the Los Angeles Fire Department just after 9:45 a.m., fire officials told KTLA. Initial reports indicate a person set themselves on fire near a 7-Eleven at that location. One person was taken to the hospital for treatment, though the extent of their injuries has not been released. The person’s name, age and gender have also not yet been released. KTLA 5 Firefighters contain cargo ship fire at Port of Los Angeles Crews have contained the cargo ship fire that prompted shelter-in-place orders at the Port of Los Angeles last Friday. The U.S. Coast Guard fully contained the fire on One Henry Hudson at about 9 a.m. on Tuesday. Crews implemented "mitigating measures" for the time being, as they could not access the containers to confirm that the fires were completely out. "Now that the fire is determined to be contained there will be a waiting period to ensure no re-flashes, or heat signatures are detected," U.S. Coast Guard Capt. Stacey Crecy said. "Following the waiting period, crews will conduct a stability analysis of the vessel to determine it's safe for transit back to the pier and the cargo can be offloaded." The Los Angeles Fire Department said an electrical fire started a little after 6:30 p.m. below deck of the container ship docked at the Port of LA. LAFD issued a shelter-in-place order for the area surrounding the fire, which was lifted on Saturday. CBS 2 Hospital seeking public’s help to identify patient A Los Angeles hospital is asking for help from the public to identify a man who has been receiving care for several days. The man was brought to California Hospital Medical Center on Saturday after he was found on the 1700 block of West 80th Street in the Manchester Square neighborhood of south L.A. “The hospital is seeking the public’s help in identifying this patient because he had no documentation or evidence of his identity with him,” a release from Dignity Health reads. The patient is described as an African American man in his mid- to late-60s with brown eyes, shaved head and a black and gray beard. He’s about 5 feet 7 inches tall and weighs roughly 162 pounds. Anyone who might recognize him is urged to contact Dignity Health staff at 213-605-1336. KTLA 5 Citing wildfires, LAFD requests 15% budget increase The Los Angeles Fire Department is requesting a budget of more than $1 billion for the coming year, arguing that the additional funding is necessary to be prepared for wildfires like the one that devastated Pacific Palisades in January. The request, which represents a more than 15% increase over this year’s budget, includes money for 179 new firefighting recruits and a second crew dedicated to fighting wildfires, as well as helitanker services to battle fires from the air. In the immediate aftermath of the Palisades fire, which killed 12 people and destroyed thousands of homes, top LAFD officials blamed a lack of resources and extraordinarily high winds for their failures in combating the flames. United Firefighters of Los Angeles City Local 112, the union that represents the city’s firefighters, has long argued that the department is severely underfunded and is pushing for a half-cent sales tax that, if approved by voters, would generate hundreds of millions of dollars annually. Los Angeles Times About the LAPPL: Formed in 1923, the Los Angeles Police Protective League (LAPPL) represents more than 8,700 dedicated and professional sworn members of the Los Angeles Police Department. 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