Email from Los Angeles Police Protective League Daily News & Updates Law Enforcement News LAPD set to announce arrests in two fatal hit-and-run incidents The Los Angeles Police Department is planning on releasing more details on arrests made in connection to two fatal hit-and-run crashes during a news conference Tuesday morning. The news conference is set for 10 a.m. where authorities will announce the arrests of those involved in the crash that killed a 4-year-old and a 25-year-old in 2025. According to LAPD, one of the incidents killed 4-year-old Ma’Cya Clark during a street race on March 18, and another hit-and-run incident killed 25-year-old Emerson Gonzalez on July 5. Aside from the two separate incidents, police are also set to release information on a third, unrelated hit-and-run investigation. Detectives are set to release new video in the incident that took place on Dec. 10 at Florence and Kansas avenues in Los Angeles. NBC 4 Los Angeles police ask for help identifying child found abandoned in car in Highland Park Los Angeles Police Department officers and Department of Children and Family Services personnel are seeking help from the public to identify a boy who was found inside of an abandoned car in Highland Park on Sunday morning. Police were called to the 300 block of N. Avenue 52 at around 10 a.m. after receiving reports of an attempted grand theft, said a news release from LAPD. The car's owner told them that he saw someone trying to steal his car before they ran from the area on foot. "The victim then observed that an approximately 2-year-old child and a dog were left behind in the victim's vehicle," the release said. Though they searched the area for the suspect, police did not find anyone. DCFS officials were called to the scene and took custody of the child, who hasn't yet been identified. Officers noted that the dog "appeared familiar" with the child, and it was placed in the care of Los Angeles County Animal Services. "Efforts to identify the child through all available means have been unsuccessful, and no custodial parent or family member has contacted the police to locate the child," the release said. CBS 2 LA man accused of throwing Molotov cocktail at federal building to be arraigned A Los Angeles man on Monday will be arraigned for allegedly attacking a federal building in downtown Los Angeles with Molotov cocktails. According to federal prosecutors, on Dec. 1, Jose Francisco Jovel, 54, arrived at the federal building at 300 N. Los Angeles St. on a bicycle carrying multiple shopping bags. He is accused of throwing a Molotov cocktail through an open employee entrance and a second device toward the public entrance, where people were waiting in line for security. Federal officers arrested Jovel at the scene and discovered five additional incendiary devices and a lighter in his possession. The building, which houses U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) offices, was partially evacuated while law enforcement and fire crews conducted an investigation. Prosecutors contend the attack was a motivated act of violence fueled by anti-illegal immigration enforcement sentiment and personal frustration following an eviction notice. FOX 11 CHP Begins Ramping Up Impaired Driving Operations for LACo, OC NYE California Highway Patrol officers will ramp up operations again in Los Angeles and Orange counties, and statewide, beginning Wednesday night to crack down on drunken and drug-impaired motorists as part of a New Year’s anti-DUI campaign. The CHP will initiate its New Year’s “Holiday Enforcement Period” at 6 p.m. Wednesday, when all available officers will deploy to catch impaired motorists, speeders and other traffic violators. The campaign, which replicates a 30-hour HEP that occurred during Christmas, will continue until late Thursday night. “We’re entering a New Year, but our message stays the same: Driving under the influence increases the risks on our roads, raises the chance of a crash and puts lives in danger,” CHP Commissioner Sean Duryee said Monday. “We encourage everyone to do their part in keeping our roads safe by making responsible choices behind the wheel.”The 2024-25 New Year’s HEP netted 481 arrests statewide, compared to 892 during the 2023-24 campaign, according to the CHP. MyNewsLA 600 new officers joined CHP in 2025, including largest academy class in years For all the talk of recruitment struggles at the Los Angeles Police Department and other law enforcement agencies nationwide, some local agencies are finding that hiring new officers has gotten easier. Take the California Highway Patrol, which in November graduated a class of 146 officers from its academy in West Sacramento. The statewide agency, which mainly polices traffic violations on freeways and oversees state property, has sworn in more than 600 new officers this year — a total that many departments would envy. While citing many of the same reasons that experts have given for why fewer people are going into law enforcement — continued scrutiny over officer misconduct, relatively low pay compared with other less dangerous professions, and a general lack of interest in long careers in government service — CHP Commissioner Robin Johnson said that some of the agency’s recruitment problems were internal. For instance, she said, the agency for many years resisted outsourcing its background check process, partly because of the cost, but also to avoid going against tradition that said the process should be handled in-house. As a result, the roles were filled by officers who had had to juggle “other duties besides background investigations” — thereby prolonging the time it took to review an applicant’s background, she said. Los Angeles Times BWC: Gun-wielding man fires shots at Arizona officers in Walmart parking lot before OIS A new video released by the multi-agency team that investigates police-involved shootings here shows new details from an October shooting outside a Tucson Walmart store. The shooting happened about 9:45 a.m. Oct. 25, when Tucson police officers went to the Walmart Neighborhood Market at 8640 E. Broadway for a reported armed robbery attempt that followed reports of gunshots being fired into apartments nearby, according to the Pima Regional Critical Incident Team video. Brandon Clifton Bryant, 45, who was armed with a handgun, was shot outside the store after he fired in the direction of two officers, the PRCIT said. Matthew Timpf, an 18-year Tucson police veteran, returned fire, striking the man in the arm, the video shows. Bryant remains jailed on suspicion of multiple felony charges, including aggravated assault on a peace officer with a firearm, aggravated assault with a firearm and armed robbery. The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson $40 million in motorcycles seized from Olympian turned drug lord A coalition of U.S., Canadian and Mexican authorities was able to seize $40 million worth of motorcycles belonging to Ryan James Wedding, an Olympic snowboarder turned drug kingpin who is now one of the FBI’s top criminal targets. The massive bust netted “a large number” of motorcycles believed to belong to Ryan James Wedding, the FBI announced on social media Monday. The bikes were discovered as a result of search warrants carried out by Mexican authorities with the help of the FBI, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the Los Angeles Police Department. Photos posted by the FBI’s Los Angeles office show dozens of motorcycles in what appears to be a warehouse. Wedding and 15 others were charged in October 2024 with running a transnational drug trafficking and murder ring that transported large quantities of cocaine from Colombia to Canada via Mexico and Southern California. Wedding and other co-conspirators also orchestrated four murders “in furtherance” of their crimes, federal officials said at a press conference announcing the charges. KTLA 5 Public Safety News Santa Ana winds send massive tree crashing onto Sylmar home Strong Santa Ana winds sent a large tree crashing onto a home in Sylmar on Monday afternoon. The home is on the 13900 block of Candlewood Drive, just below Pacoima Dam. It’s unclear how much damage occurred, but Sky5’s Gil Leyvas reports no one was injured. The National Weather Service issued an advisory early Monday, stating winds from the north to northeast would consistently hover around 25 to 35 mph across the Southland. Gusts could reach up to 50 mph in many areas, according to the forecast. Mountainous parts of the region — including the Santa Susana Mountains, the Interstate 5 and Highway 14 corridors, and the western portions of the San Gabriel and Santa Monica mountains — may experience “damaging” winds of 55 to 75 mph, the NWS said, with isolated gusts up to 85 mph. A high wind warning was in effect for those areas. Both the high wind warning and the wind advisory expired at 3 p.m. Monday. However, Santa Ana winds are expected to linger into Tuesday. KTLA 5 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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