Good Morning. Join us on Saturday, June 4th for LAPD's 19th Annual "Still Saving Lives" Car Show sponsored by Fusion Motor Company. The event will take place from 9am - 3pm at Warner Center Park in Woodland Hills. Click here for more information. Law Enforcement News Killings In L.A. Are On Pace To Top Last Year’s High People are being killed in Los Angeles so far this year at a slightly faster pace than 2021, when homicides hit a 15-year high, according to the latest data from Los Angeles police. While the newly released figures indicate the dramatic escalation in violence that the city experienced in 2020 and 2021 may be leveling off, they show violent deaths are still occurring far more frequently than a few years ago, experts said. “We certainly see instances of street violence that we tie into gangs, with a lot of ready and easy access to handguns and rifles,” LAPD Chief Michel Moore said in an interview with The Times. “It’s resulting in this loss of life and this high frequency of shootings.” Through April 30, there had been 122 homicides in L.A., six more than were recorded during the same time period in 2021, according to the data. Last year ended with 397 killings in the city, the largest annual total since 2006. The bloodshed remains far below that of the early 1990s, when the city had more than 1,000 homicides per year. But it nonetheless marked another uptick, however slight, in the troubling surge of gun violence that erupted in 2020 and has become a top concern among residents as well as a key issue in the race for the city’s next mayor. While up only marginally compared to 2021, this year’s homicide count represents about a 40% increase in killings over the same period in 2020, which included the final months before COVID-19 emerged in the U.S., protests over the Minneapolis police murder of George Floyd erupted and the crime landscape radically changed in cities across the nation. Los Angeles Times LAPD Officer Responding To Fight In South LA Street Injured An investigation is underway after a police officer was injured in South Los Angeles Monday. It happened in the area near 98th Street and Figueroa. According to police, LAPD officers were responding to the area on a call reporting people fighting in the streets. Authorities said an officer got into an altercation with one of the suspects; one person was taken into custody and was transported to the hospital for treatment. The officer was treated on scene and released. FOX 11 Man Set On Fire By Homeless Woman In Downtown LA: Police A disturbing crime is under investigation in downtown Los Angeles after a woman experiencing homelessness is accused of setting a man on fire overnight, officials said. The incident was reported at a bus stop near Olympic Boulevard and Flower Street around 1 a.m. The victim was walking down the street when suddenly he crossed paths with the suspect who threw a liquid substance at him and used a lighter to set him on fire, police said. She immediately left the scene while witnesses rushed in to help the victim. He was rushed to the hospital by ambulance with what has been described as second and third-degree burns. Investigators said the victim and the suspect did not know one another and witnesses added that the two did not exchange words prior to the attack. Authorities described the suspect as a white woman with blond hair, around 40 years old, 5 feet 7 inches tall, weighing 125 pounds. She was last seen wearing a white hoodie and blue jeans. Anyone with information is asked to contact the Los Angeles Police Department. FOX 11 The Los Angeles D.A.’s Office Is At War With Itself. How Does Anything Get Done? In normal times, the convicted sex offender’s request for leniency would have been met with a swift, emphatic “no” from the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office. But these aren’t normal times in the D.A.’s office. So when the felon earlier this year asked a judge to reconsider his 73-year sentence, the prosecutor assigned to the case didn’t object. He couldn’t, he explained in a court filing, because his boss, Dist. Atty. George Gascón, wouldn’t allow it, court records show. “The District Attorney believes that regardless of the number of charges committed or the number of victims that were harmed that a person should not serve a sentence that is greater than 15 years,” he wrote. That stance earned the prosecutor’s supervisor a reprimand from one of Gascón’s top aides, who told her the attorney had misrepresented one of the many dramatic changes the district attorney implemented on his first day in office, according to court records. And when the supervisor was demoted to a lowly position in a remote Torrance courthouse, she sued, claiming she had been retaliated against. The debacle was an example of how deep-seated discord over Gascón and his changes has complicated day-to-day operations within the nation’s largest prosecutor’s office, sometimes turning what should be mundane, routine business into messy affairs. Los Angeles Times $50,000 Reward Offered For Information On 2 Suspects Involved In Unsolved Murder Of Sylmar Man Alexander Aguirre, 40, was shot and killed six months ago, and now, detectives and the victim's family are making a new appeal to the public for information leading to the persons responsible. The city has now issued a $50,000 reward for information leading to the two suspects who shot and killed Aguirre. It isn't much, but new surveillance video provided by the family shows what they say are two suspects police are looking for moments before Aguirre was killed. The incident happened Nov. 21, 2021, at around 10 p.m. Police said that's when the two suspects approached Aguirre and his friend at a parking lot next to an apartment complex near the intersection of Maclay Street and Foothill Boulevard. Police don't know who shot Aguirre or why they shot him. At a recent news conference at the Los Angeles Police Department mission station, police and the family asked the community for help in finding the people responsible. ABC 7 Suspect Arrested In Early Morning Stabbing On Venice Boardwalk A suspect is in custody after an early morning stabbing on the Venice Boardwalk, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. Officers were called to Ocean Front Walk and Navy Street around 7:34 for a male, 34-years-old, who was stabbed in the neck. Police say the victim was conscious and breathing when they arrived. He was taken to the hospital and is believed to be stable. A suspect is in custody and has been charged with assault with a deadly weapon. This is believed to be a homeless-related crime. Monday morning's stabbing is just a few blocks from where another stabbing took place on April 16th. A 25-year-old victim was stabbed in the arm multiple times before they were taken to the hospital. No word on if the suspect in that case was arrested. WestSide Current LAPD Searching For Man Responsible For Two Burglaries At A Hollywood Apartment Complex Los Angeles Police Department officers are seeking public assistance in locating a man wanted in connection with a string of burglaries that took place at an apartment complex in Hollywood. Surveillance footage from one of the units shows the man walking through the hall back on April 3, when the first burglary occurred. In that instance, he reportedly entered an apartment while the victims were inside sleeping, stealing their property including credit cards, which he used "at several stores across Los Angeles." Police reported that on April 25 the man returned to the apartment complex and burglarized another unit in the complex. Apparently, he returned yet again just two days later, where he was "confronted by the victim of the prior incident and left without committing a burglary." Authorities have described him as a Black male between the ages of 18 and 30 years old, and that he frequents the areas of 54th Street and Crenshaw Boulevard and Slauson and Western avenues. Anyone with information on the case was urged to call detectives at (213) 972-2929. CBS 2 North Hollywood Woman's French Bulldog Stolen In Follow-Home Robbery A North Hollywood woman is pleading for help finding her French bulldog after the dog was reportedly stolen in a follow-home robbery at gunpoint. Kristina Rodriguez said her dog, Moolan, which is turning two in May, was stolen on Friday on Rodriguez' birthday at around 5:45 p.m. Rodriguez believes she was followed home after leaving work at 'Cookies,' a dispensary in the Melrose District. "I believe I was targeted because I had my French bulldog and my friend had a chain on, a pretty flashy chain," she said. She said the two of them got into her car with Moolan, and headed to her home in North Hollywood on Klump Avenue. "As soon as I pulled up to my house here, we didn't even get a chance to get out of the car when there were three people at [the side of] our car, two on my passenger side and one on my driver side and one of the first things they yelled was where's the weed?" said Rodriguez. Rodriguez said there were four suspects, three were men and one was a woman. She said at least two of the male suspects had guns. FOX 11 Police Seek Wrong-Way Driver Who Crashed Into Building Police sought the public's help Saturday in identifying and locating a motorist who struck a building while driving on the wrong side of the road in the Mount Washington community of Los Angeles. A dark-colored vehicle was traveling on the wrong side of the road at about 5 a.m. on March 30, going eastbound on Avenue 55 approaching the Figueroa Street intersection, the Los Angeles Police Department reported. The car continued through the intersection, drove onto the sidewalk and struck a building. The motorist then reversed the vehicle and fled southbound on Figueroa. No one inside the building was injured. Police had no further information about the vehicle or its motorist. LAPD Central Traffic Division detectives urged anyone with information regarding the crash to call them at 213-833-3713 or Crime Stoppers at 800- 222-8477. CBS 2 LAPD Pacific Offering E-Waste Event Residents on the Westside will have a little bit of help as they take part in spring cleaning. The Los Angeles Police Department Pacific Division is hosting an Electronics Waste Recycling Event on Saturday, May 14. Residents can clean out defunct, broken devices and cords that don’t work. Get rid of junk and clutter, and Pacific Division makes money with proceeds going to its leadership program for kids eight to eighteen--a win-win for everyone. Bring computers, laptops, cellphones, batteries, tablets, network devices (routers, modems, etc.), DVD players, scanners, fax machines, and more. No big appliances (like refrigerators). You can drop off your e-items at the Pacific Police Station, 12312 Culver Boulevard. WestSide Current Suspect Leads LAPD On Lengthy, Slow-Speed Chase In Mid-City A driver led police on a slow-speed chase on surface streets in the Mid-City area Friday night. There were several times in the chase when the driver would stop the car and get out to point at police officers and make hand gestures to simulate a gun being fired. Each time the driver would stop, he would get back into the car and continue driving at speeds that wouldn't exceed 40 mph. Multiple LAPD patrol vehicles were behind him as the driver, a possible assault suspect, kept driving and stopping. The man was possibly armed, police say. It appeared spike strips deployed by police were successful in flattening the tires of the suspect's vehicle. AIR7 HD was over the chase around 10:50 p.m. and the driver continued fleeing police past 12:30 a.m. Saturday. ABC 7 Armed Robbery Suspects Flee Nevada; Caught In LA Two men wanted in connection with armed robberies in Nevada led California Highway Patrol officers on a high-speed pursuit from San Bernardino County to downtown Los Angeles Saturday evening. San Bernardino County CHP officers were reported to have begun the chase in Barstow sometime after 8 p.m. The suspects had been linked to armed robberies in Henderson, Nevada, but the connection was not immediately made public. The pursuit entered Los Angeles County at 8:46 p.m. on the westbound Foothill (210) Freeway, where the suspect vehicle hit speeds of 90 mph and wound up with the two men bailing out of the car at 9:25 p.m. on the southbound Harbor (110) Freeway at Eighth Street, said CHP Officer Patrick Kimball. NBC4 showed the men running across lanes of traffic from the southbound to northbound side. Video showed one suspect taken into custody near a parking garage as the search continued for a suspect believed to have jumped off the freeway from a bridge. That man was located on the ground with at least one broken ankle and taken to a hospital, Kimball said. It was unclear if any weapons or stolen property was recovered. MyNewsLA.com Deputies Search For Cudahy Man Missing Since Thursday Deputies are searching for a 41-year-old Cudahy man who went missing on Thursday. Sergio San Juan, also known as Sergio Briseno, was last seen on April 29 at about 2:20 p.m. in the 4300 block of Clara Street in Cudahy. He was last seen wearing a blue and yellow rams zip-up jacket, gray shirt and blue shorts. San Juan is described as a 5-foot-7-inches and weighs 200 pounds. He has brown eyes, black hair and a tattoo of "San Juan" on one of his arms. CBS 2 Seaman Pleads Guilty To Fatal Stabbing Aboard LA-Bound Container Ship A Philippines national who fatally stabbed a fellow crewmember on a container ship en route from Shanghai to Los Angeles pleaded guilty Monday to a federal criminal charge. Michael Monegro, 43, entered his plea to one federal count of committing an act of violence against a person onboard a ship that is likely to endanger the vessel's safe navigation, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office. U.S. District Judge Dale S. Fischer scheduled a Sept. 12 sentencing hearing, at which time Monegro will face a sentence of up to life behind bars, prosecutors said. Monegro was working as a seaman aboard the MSC Ravenna, a 153,000 gross-ton Liberian-flagged container ship, on Sept. 20, 2020 -- when the ship was 80 nautical miles from Southern California, nearing the end of its two-week voyage from Shanghai to the Port of Los Angeles, according to the plea agreement. That morning, several crewmembers were in a dressing room on the ship's upper deck, preparing for their shift and waiting for their direct supervisor to provide their work assignments for the day. Shortly after Monegro saw his direct supervisor in the hallway outside the locker room, Monegro began stabbing him with a knife while they were both in the hallway in full view of several crewmembers. The victim grappled with Monegro and the two fell to the floor. NBC 4 Brother, Sister Plead Guilty In $6 Million Southern California Real Estate Scam A Southern California man, who worked with his sister to operate a $6 million real estate fraud scam in which homes were listed for sale without the owners’ consent and would-be buyers were bilked out of money, pleaded guilty Monday to a federal charge. Adolfo Schoneke, 44, of Torrance, entered his plea to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office. Schoneke faces up to 20 years in federal prison on Aug. 8, when he will be sentenced by U.S. District Judge R. Gary Klausner. Schoneke’s sister, 39-year-old Bianca Gonzalez — also known as Blanca Schoneke — of Walnut, pleaded guilty April 4 in L.A. federal court to the same charge. She is scheduled to be sentenced Oct. 3. Schoneke and Gonzalez, with the help of co-conspirators, operated real estate and escrow companies based in Cerritos, La Palma and Long Beach under various names, including MCR and West Coast, prosecutors said. They admitted finding properties that they would list for sale — even though many were not on the market, and the pair did not have authority to list them. Prosecutors said they would then market the properties as short sales, providing opportunities for purchases at below-market prices. Los Angeles Daily News San Antonio Officer Dies 19 Years After Being Shot On Duty Officer David Evans was laid to rest earlier this year after dying of complications from a gunshot wound he sustained 19 years earlier. Evans was one of four officers who were shot and wounded in 2003 while responding to a domestic incident, according to KENS 5. Evans was remembered as a dedicated and brave public servant at his funeral on March 22. “He was involved in the worst kind of incident that SAPD could have, to have that many officers struck down at one time was insurmountable, but he was also a dynamo though," retired officer Patrick Murnin told KENS 5. "He got back up. He never slowed down. He came back full force and gave it all he could.” In January 2003, Evans and a second officer were called to a Denny’s restaurant about a man who was angry at his girlfriend. The man punched and then shot the two officers. When two more officers arrived, the gunman shot them too. Police said more than 40 rounds were fired before the offender was killed, according to the report. At the funeral service, officers honored Evans’ memory and fighting spirit. PoliceOne Cops Jump Into River To Rescue Woman Trapped In Overturned Car Three police officers jumped into the Delaware River and pulled a woman from a car that plunged into the water Thursday in Gloucester City, authorities said. The vehicle ended up on its roof after the crash, reported shortly after 1 p.m. just south of the Freedom Pier, according to police. Detective Sgt. Carlos Depoder, Officer Sean Gartland and Officer John Bryszewski Jr. jumped into the river and freed the trapped victim, police said in a news release. Officers provided medical aid to the woman while in the water. Three good Samaritans soon joined the rescue effort, according to police. The group helped load the woman and officers onto a boat and brought them to a floating dock. Authorities did not have an immediate update on the woman’s condition. Police said divers did not find any additional occupants in the vehicle. It was unclear what caused the crash. PoliceOne Public Safety News Pedestrian Hit, Killed By Vehicle In Brentwood A man in his 30s died Monday morning after he was hit by a vehicle in Brentwood. The unidentified man was hit by a vehicle traveling westbound on San Vicente Boulevard around 8 a.m., according to the Los Angeles Fire Department. The man was pronounced dead at the scene by LAFD personnel. The driver remained at the scene and spoke to officers when they arrived, the Los Angeles Police Department said. The collision is under investigation. The victim’s identity has not yet been released. KTLA 5 Fire Damages Playa Del Rey House A fire that started in an attached garage spread through much of the second story of a Playa del Rey home and took firefighters more than an hour to put out. The fire was reported at 8:15 p.m. at 8232 S. Delgany Ave., according to the Los Angeles Fire Department’s Nathan Prange. Heavy flames were showing from the garage when firefighters arrived and burned through much of the second story and the entire attic of the two-story home before the flames were put out at 9:19 p.m., Prange said. One of the occupants was treated at the scene for minor burns and a firefighter was also treated at the scene for an injury caused by falling debris, he said. Firefighters rescued a cat from the house and were attempting to resuscitate it, Prange said. MyNewsLA.com LA County Urges Workplace Safety As COVID Spread Continues Los Angeles County health officials urged employers Monday to use "common sense strategie" to combat COVID-19 in light of increasing spread of the virus. The urging came as the county reported 5,920 new infections from the past three days, along with 13 new virus-related fatalities. The county no longer reports case and death numbers on weekends. On Monday, the county reported 1,368 new infections, along with 2,728 from Saturday and 1,824 from Sunday. The new cases gave the county a cumulative total from throughout the pandemic of 2,877,960. The 13 new fatalities lifted the county's overall death toll to 31,970. Health officials have been reporting elevated daily case numbers in recent weeks, attributable largely to the BA.2 subvariant of the virus. An offshoot of that variant -- known as BA.2.12.1 -- has also begun spreading locally, and health officials said it is believed to be 20% to 30% more infectious than BA.2. In light of the growing spread of the virus, county health officials on Monday urged employers to take steps to protect employees and customers from infections, such as providing well-fitting masks, improving ventilation, screening employees who may be experiencing symptoms and adhering to isolation/quarantine guidelines and reporting clusters of cases. 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