Good Morning. Join us on Wednesday, November 11th for a Blood Drive in memory of LAPD Officer Val Martinez. Officer Martinez died on July 24th due to complications from COVID-19. The blood drive will be held from 1 - 7 p.m. at the LAPD Mission Area Community Room. Click here for more information. Law Enforcement News LAPD Officer Wounded In Gun Battle At Valley Grocery Store Is Out Of The Hospital A Los Angeles police officer whose hand was wounded during a gun battle inside a Granada Hills supermarket Sunday evening is recovering at home, and the suspect is expected to face criminal charges in connection with the shooting, authorities said Monday. Dozens of shoppers were inside the Ralphs supermarket when a shirtless man standing atop a freezer in one of the aisles began dancing and waving a gun, witnesses said. Video shows officers in plainclothes with bullet-resistant vests and a handheld shield entering the store about 6:30 p.m. after responding to the disturbance call and learning the man was armed. As officers moved in to detain the man, he fired a gun at them, Assistant Chief Horace Frank said. Officers returned fire, and one officer suffered a graze wound during the exchange, Frank said. The man then ran outside to an adjacent business at Devonshire and Balboa boulevards, briefly waving a gun at a person inside before being taken into custody. Los Angeles Times California Police, Merchants Prepare For Election Day Unrest Boarded-up storefronts. Private security guards. Canceled vacation days. Twelve-hour shifts. Across California, merchants are covering their doors and windows with plywood as police agencies promise a beefed-up presence on the street amid worries about the potential for demonstrations and violent responses to the general election. Both are preparing for the long haul, anticipating that it might be days or weeks of anxiety before a victor is declared in the presidential race. In cities like Los Angeles, it could be another round of unrest. Craig Lally, president of the union that represents rank-and-file Los Angeles police officers, said he’s telling his members to anticipate weeks of unrest. “Anything’s possible, no matter who wins,” he said. “Do what you’ve got to do to keep yourself safe, your partner safe and the citizens of LA safe.” Associated Press PPCC Urges LA Council To Continue LAPD Beach Detail Funding The Pacific Palisades Community Council (PPCC) urged the Los Angeles City Council to continue funding the Palisades’ LAPD Beach Detail patrol. The Pacific Palisades Task Force on Homelessness (PPTFH) joined the PPCC in a October 27 letter to the L.A. City Council. “Based upon conditions we encountered when PPTFH formed, the loss of the Beach Detail will result in more incidents of crime, including arson and illegal campfires that threaten our ‘Very High Fire Severity Zone’ community members which includes those with homes and those experiencing homelessness,” PPTFH Co-Chairs Sharon Browning and Sharon Kilbride said in the letter. Canyon News LAPD: Man In His 50s Shot And Killed In Canoga Park One person is dead after a shooting in the Canoga Park neighborhood over the weekend. The Los Angeles Police Department responded to a call at 9:15 p.m. near the intersection of Saticoy Street and Independence Avenue in Canoga Park. Upon arrival, officers found a 50-year-old Hispanic man with a gunshot wound. The man was later pronounced dead and LAPD was not able to identify him on the spot. Anyone with information on the deadly shooting is asked to call 323-846-6553. FOX 11 Arrest Made In Connection With Shooting Death Of Man, 35, In South L.A. A 24-year-old man was charged Monday in connection with the shooting death of a 35-year-old man in South Los Angeles. Officers responded to a shooting in the 2000 block of East 105th Street, near Wilmington Avenue, about 7:15 p.m. Sept. 16, and found the victim, Hugo Zuniga, 35, suffering from a gunshot wound, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. Zuniga was taken to a hospital where he died from his injuries, police said. Police arrested Daquan Hubbard, 24, on the Thursday and the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office filed one count of murder against him Monday. Hubbard is being held without bail. MyNewsLA.com Man Pleads Not Guilty To Killing 17-Year-Old Boyle Heights Girl In 1996 A man arrested on suspicion of killing a 17-year-old Boyle Heights girl in 1996 pleaded not guilty Monday to a murder charge. Jose Luis Garcia, 43, was arrested in September in Dallas, Texas on suspicion of killing Gladys Arellano, whose partially clothed body was discovered at the bottom on a ravine in Topanga Canyon Jan. 30, 1996. Evidence collected at the time of crime showed that Arellano had been sexually assaulted, beaten and strangled, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said. The DNA profile collected from the scene was uploaded to both state and federal databases, but a match was not immediately returned. On Nov. 10 of last year, Garcia was arrested by Los Angeles police officers on suspicion of domestic assault. His DNA was collected and a profile was run through the California database and appeared to be a match for the 1996 slaying, the sheriff’s department said. The DNA match was confirmed after detectives obtained an oral swab, the department said. CBS 2 LAPD To Begin Recording, Storing Helicopter Footage On Election Day The Los Angeles Police Department has added equipment and will begin recording helicopter footage of large-scale events as soon as Tuesday, Oct. 3 – just in time for Election Day and its aftermath when protests and political unrest could again break out. “It’s going to be available starting (Tuesday),” LAPD Assistant Chief Horace Frank said of a pair of recording devices that can capture and store live feeds from some of the department’s helicopters. “We’re testing it now.” In a letter to the Los Angeles Police Commission, LAPD commanders said the department needed the equipment so it could for the first time record its helicopters’ live feeds and preserve the footage. Los Angeles Daily News Northridge Woman Accused Of Insurance Fraud For Claiming Car Was Stolen After Husband Led Police On High Speed Chase A 24-year-old Northridge woman is facing multiple felony insurance fraud counts involving an allegedly false claim that her car -- which was involved in a high-speed police pursuit with her husband at the wheel -- was stolen, the state Department of Insurance announced Monday. DOI investigators and prosecutors allege that Ghosh filed the claim with Farmers Insurance to try and avoid criminal charges being filed against her husband. She allegedly told the insurance company she was celebrating at a nightclub in Costa Mesa and left with an unidentified man, who stole her 2012 Audi Q5 when she got out of the car. According to the DOI and CHP, the driver that led California Highway Patrol officers on a Jan. 13, 2019, chase through Orange County in the Audi at speeds over 120 mph was actually Ghosh's husband, 27-year-old Kumar Harsh of Norwalk, who was arrested for alleged reckless evading and driving on a suspended license. NBC 4 Van Nuys Man Sentenced To 15 Years For Fentanyl Deal Leading To Fatal Overdose A judge sentenced a Van Nuys man to 15 years in prison Monday, Nov. 2, after he admitted to selling drugs to a man who then suffered a fatal overdose and crashed his car in Sherman Oaks. James Dorion Rodriguez, 29, of Van Nuys, pleaded guilty in December to one count of distribution of fentanyl resulting in death, U.S. Attorney’s Office officials said in a news release. Authorities believe he meant to perform a cocaine deal in March 2018, but gave his customer the highly potent opioid fentanyl instead. The drug buyer, a 23-year-old man, snorted the drugs and drove away, then suffered a fatal overdose about 20 minutes later, officials said. He had crashed his vehicle in the parking lot of a restaurant on Ventura Boulevard. Rodriguez continued to sell drugs after his customer’s death, prosecutors said. He was arrested in September 2018 after investigators found about 7 grams of fentanyl and notebooks documenting narcotics sales during a search of his car. Los Angeles Daily News LA County Sheriff Villanueva Warns ‘Zero Tolerance’ Policy For Violence, Looting Due To Election Unrest The Sheriffs of Los Angeles, Orange, and San Bernardino Counties tell FOX 11 their departments are all prepared for any potential civil unrest as a result of the 2020 election, and all plan to take immediate action should any problems arise. As businesses all across the Southland begin to board up their windows in massive numbers, Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva told FOX 11 Monday night that he will have a ‘zero tolerance’ policy for any violence or looting that potentially breaks out due to election unrest. “An organized effort to create civil unrest, looting, arson, vandalism, everything we saw during the unrest at the end of May and beginning of June, that is always a concern and we’re prepared for that,” Villanueva said. Villaneuva told FOX 11 that all LASD patrol personnel are now on 12-hour shifts. Three mobile field forces, as well as multiple Sheriffs Response Teams (SRT), will be ready to respond anywhere in Los Angels County where there is a concern, with special attention being paid to downtown LA, Beverly Hills, retail corridors near West Hollywood and the Fairfax District, and Santa Monica, all areas that have been targeted by looters before. FOX 11 Authorities Seek Help Locating Woman Who Went Missing In Compton Authorities Monday circulated a photo in their continuing effort to locate a 25-year-old woman with depression, who went missing in Compton nearly two months ago. Shontel Aunyet Harris was last seen about 5 p.m. Sept. 13 near 124th and Alameda streets, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. Harris was wearing a black sweater over a colorful shirt and a black skirt, and was carrying a gray and black backpack. Harris is described as Black, 5 feet, 5 inches tall and 120 pounds, with black, short curly hair and brown eyes, Medrano said. Anyone with information about Harris' whereabouts was urged to call the sheriff's Missing Persons Unit at 323-890-5500. Those wishing to report anonymously can call 800-222-TIPS. FOX 11 Public Safety News LAFD Attacks And Contains Sylmar Brush Fire After a brush fire broke out Monday morning in Sylmar, a ground-and-air attack stopped the blaze at a half-acre in under an hour. The Los Angeles Fire Department sent 71 firefighters and a water-dropping helicopter to the 11800 block of Laurel Canyon Boulevard, where they found a fire burning in light to medium brush, said LAFD spokesman Brian Humphrey. Firefighters cut through an iron fence for better access to the blaze, said a photographer at the scene. After containing the fire, LAFD personnel planned to remain on scene to handle smouldering vegetation, Humphrey said. No structures were damaged, and there were no injuries, he added. The fire is under investigation. Los Angeles Daily News Climbing COVID-19 Cases Hurt Hope Of Faster Reopening In L.A. County Hopes that a wider reopening of Los Angeles County’s economy could come in time for the holidays appear to be fading, as the region continues to see a steady uptick in the average number of daily coronavirus infections. While the spike is nowhere near as severe as those in other parts of the country, L.A. County’s seven-day average has increased from 940 new cases a day in early October to more than 1,275 each day as of last week, health officials said. L.A. County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer announced 1,406 new COVID-19 cases Monday, following 1,590 on Sunday. The county’s total now tops 310,000. The county typically reports fewer new cases on Sunday and Monday because of reporting lags over the weekend, “so, if that trend holds true, we’re going to see higher numbers the rest of the week,” Ferrer said during a briefing. KTLA 5 Local Government News Low-Income L.A. Residents May Apply For Utility Assistance Starting Today Low-income Los Angeles residents may begin applying Monday for assistance with paying utility bills under a program that will provide federal financial relief amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The City Council last week voted to put a total of $50 million in federal COVID-19 relief funds toward helping low-income residents pay their Department of Water and Power bills. "Our low-wage workers continue to suffer in silence," said Council President Nury Martinez, who authored the motion to create the program. "They are the first to put themselves and their families at risk through their essential work. I am unapologetically dedicated during this pandemic to help them get whatever resources they need to hang on and stay in their homes." 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