Keep Bailing

Nonviolent inmates who are currently in a Los Angeles County jail could serve only 80% of their jail terms.  And, according to department officials, that number could be knocked down to them serving only 50% of their sentences.

So what’s happening here?  LA County Sheriff Lee Baca stated that these early release sentences for inmates may be the future of what’s “inevitable” as the county’s budget crisis continues. The Department currently faces a $128 million budget gap.

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This past Sunday, a 39-year-old man, whose name has not yet been released, allegedly shot his girlfriend and then barricaded himself inside a Tarzana apartment. He was finally taken into custody after a standoff with police. The woman, 40, was rushed to a nearby hospital where she continues to remain in serious condition from multiple gunshot wounds.

Los Angeles Police Department officers responding to domestic violence dispute Read more »

Edwin Sunmin Lee, 39, retired from the Los Angeles Police Department in April 2005 after he confessed to a felony charge for filing a false police report.  (Not sure how he got his bail license, because you’re supposed to have a clean record.)

Surprise! – now he is allegedly in trouble once more.  The Hacienda Heights area ex-cop-turned-bail-bondsman has plead not guilty to charges that he illegally solicited bail from inmates in local jails.  County District Attorney’s officials have accused Lee of no less than six felony counts.  The incidents that led to his arrest supposedly took place at the Van Nuys jail on or about July 27, 2008 and Feb. 10, 2009.

Ironically, Lee does not have to be bailed out of jail himself (good thing, because Read more »

The LAPD may have launched the future of crime fighting when they recently cracked the case of alleged kidnapper, Daniel Merino, AKA the “spiky-hair suspect.”

By using the latest in high-tech policing methods, detectives on the case implemented the use of enhanced video from a security camera to determine the make, model, color and year of the suspects car. The new high-tech camera device  installed on a police car can detect and read every license plate it sees. This played Read more »

The grandson of the late President Ronald Reagan, Cameron Michael Reagan, 31 was arrested on Thursday morning  for misdemeanor resisting arrest and obstructing an officer.

According to a family member, he accidently tripped off a silent alarm in his own home which sent the Los Angeles Police Department to his location.

When the LAPD arrived on the scene, Cameron asked who they were. When they responded “who are you?” Cameron reached for his I.D.  That’s when officers reportedly tackled and arrested him believing he may be going for a gun.

In an interview with CNN Read more »

SANTA MONICA – Steven Burky, a potentially dangerous celebrity stalker, was arrested this Monday by Santa Monica police at the nursery school attended by Violet Affleck, one of actress Jennifer Garner’s two daughters with actor-husband Ben Affleck.  Burky allegedly violated a restraining order taken out by the former TV-star-turned-big-screen leading lady.  He is currently being held on $150,000 bail at the Santa Monica Jail.

Garner was granted her restraining order, which prevents Burky from coming within 100 yeards of her and her family, in November 2008.  Back then, she testified in court that she believed he posed a threat to her and that he had been stalking her since 2002.

Garner said he sent Read more »

Too much temptation at a church has led to the arrest of a former LAPD officer turned security guard. According to an Orange County Sheriff’s spokesperson, Charles Mottern of Irvine, age 45  was arrested on suspicion of burglary, possession of stolen property, and evading and resisting arrest. 

In August of 2008, Mottern worked at the Saddleback Church as a security guard, when church officials started to notice items like cash, cameras, computers and radios missing.

Thursday, security guards responded to a burglary Read more »

Senator John Kerry’s daughter, Alexandra Forbes Kerry, was pulled over in the wee-hours in Hollywood by Los Angeles Police Department  for a traffic violation.

Police reported having “detected signs and symptons” of her being under the influence. She was given a breathalyzer test and charged with a misdemeanor DUI at the LAPD Hollywood Station. Ms. Kerry, an indpendant filmmaker is known for her documentaries and short films.

She was released after Read more »

Another Saturday night’s all right for a reality show diva to bite the DUI arrest dust. This time, it comes by way of  Shayne Lamas (“Leave It to Lamas,” The ‘Bachelor’). The daughter of actor, Lorenzo Lamas was pulled over on November 15th and was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol in Los Angeles’ Venice district.

Feeling confident, Shayne diliberatly drove through an LAPD  Read more »

Typical Hollywood? It’s sounds like a scene from a movie as LAPD officers cuff a man dressed as Spiderman and place him in a squad car.

According to the Los Angeles Times, LAPD patrol officers received a call reporting an incident between a tourist and a a man in a Spiderman costume. When they arrived, they encountered four different people dressed Spidey.  

“They stopped one, it wasn’t him,” LAPD Lt. Beverly Lewis said. “They stopped the second, and it was the suspect.”

The victim, who said he was hit in the face and arms, refused to press charges. But Lewis said that when they discovered the warrants, he was booked at the LAPD Hollywood Station Jail. Christopher Loomis, 39, was being held on outstanding misdemeanor warrants in lieu of $5,500 bail.

I think this LA Times photo is priceless; look at the woman’s face: Read more »