Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Deputies converged on the Bank of America branch on Atlantic Boulevard about 9 A.M. on Wednesday morning, responding apparently to a suspicious package incident which appears to have been a false alarm. Customers and employees were kept outside the East Los Angeles ... Read More »
Nearly a year has passed since Emmanuel Vargas was fatally wounded after the 29-year-old was shot several times near a Boyle Heights Street corner on a weekday afternoon. With police unable to identify suspects or a motive for the crime, the City Council on Tuesday approved ... Read More »
An LAPD helicopter is circling over the western edge of Echo Park tonight as officers investigate reports of shots fired near Mohawk and Reservoir streets in Echo Park, according to preliminary information. It’s not clear if anyone has been shot or if a shooting did take ... Read More »
A man walking around the Silver Lake reservoirs last night said he was grabbed from behind and thrown to the ground by three men who demanded his phone. The Silver Lake man refused, and the thieves made off with his headphones instead. Now, the man, who ... Read More »
A brush fire broke out in Glendale near the 2 and 134 freeways this afternoon, sending a thick tower of smoke into the sky above the hills north of Eagle Rock and prompting closure of some freeway lanes. Crews and helicopters from the Los Angeles Fire ... Read More »
Two separate shootings over night in East Los Angeles left two men dead and one injured, according to the L.A. Sheriffs Department. The first shooting took place Thursday at about 11:30 p.m. in the Nueva Maravilla public housing project, where one male victim was pronounced dead ... Read More »
The afternoon blaze burned about three acres of grass and brush in Ascot Hills Park in El Sereno before it was knocked down in about 45 minutes, according preliminary reports by the Los Angeles Fire Department. No one was injured or structures damaged, according to LAFD ... Read More »
A carjacking suspect was shot and killed by sheriff deputies earlier this morning after the man barricaded himself in a vacant Boyle Heights apartment, according to L.A. Now and other news reports. The stand off ended at about 4 a.m. after authorities entered the apartment building ... Read More »
Police have broken up a cockfighting ring that bused in spectators to a property on the border of El Sereno and Montecito Heights to watch the bloodsport in a fighting ring camouflaged with shrubbery and tarps. The City Attorney’s office announced earlier this month that it ... Read More »
A fire that broke out in an attic of an Echo Park home early this morning left two people, including a firefighter, injured, reports the Los Angeles Fire Department. One of the residents was injured when he jumped from a window, according to Patch. The firefighter’s ... Read More »