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TARZANA >> Los Angeles police responded to Chris Brown’s residence in Tarzana Tuesday and later served a search warrant on the home as the singer took to social media to deny any wrongdoing and to condemn police. At a news conference Tuesday afteoon, LAPD Lt. Chris Ramirez said police were serving a search warrant on the home, and an unknown number of people were exiting the residence. The house is located in a posh, hillside neighborhood of one-and two-story homes that are nearly all protected by locked iron gates. A call initially came at 3:11 a.m. from the 5000 block of Corbin Avenue, police said earlier. “It came out as a female requesting help,” Officer Drake Madison of LAPD’s Media Rel...

Investigators are exploring a gang coection to a house party in Granadau2009Hills, where rapper Kid Cali was shot and killed, the Losu2009Angeles Police Department said Monday. “There is definitely some sort of gang coection to this case, but I don’t know if Kid Cali was involved, whether it was the party or the participants,” LAPD’s Operations-Valley Bureau Homicide Detective Richard Moakley said. • PHOTOS: Rapper Kid Cali — candids and crime scene pictures Investigators have seized what may be a key piece of evidence. “We have a grainy video and may be able to ... get a picture of the shooter,” Moakley said, noting that if they are able to pull a photo from the video, it will be released t...

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Police Protective League today demanded that Stan Kroenke, the billionaire owner of the Rams, pay the full cost for necessary police services to ensure public safety at the team’s home games as long as it plays at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. “The estimated cost to provide police protection at Ram games is approximately $2 million a year,” LAPPL spokesman Dustin DeRollo said. “Thus far the Rams have not agreed to pay their fair share of policing costs and this will drain police coverage in other areas of our city,” DeRollo said. “The LAPPL is also urging Mayor Eric Garcetti to reject any requests for sweetheart deals funded by the taxpayers for the NFL team.” ...

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Police Protective League today demanded today that Stan Kroenke, the billionaire owner of the Los Angeles Rams, pay the full cost for necessary police services to ensure public safety at L.A. Rams home games as long as the team plays in Los Angeles. “The estimated cost to provide police protection at Ram games is approximately $2 million a year,” LAPPL spokesman Dustin DeRollo said in a statement. “Thus far the Rams have not agreed to pay their fair share of policing costs, and this will drain police coverage in other areas of our city,” DeRollo said. “The LAPPL is also urging Mayor Eric Garcetti to reject any requests for sweetheart deals funded by the taxpayer...

LOS ANGELES — An investigation continued today into an exchange of gunfire in Watts that left an 18-year-old suspect dead and police officer wounded at the Nickerson Gardens public housing project. The shooting was reported about 11 p.m. Monday at 112th and Antwerp streets, according to Los Angeles Police Department Officer Norma Eisenman. Richard Risher, of the San Beardino County community of Apple Valley, died at the scene, said coroner’s Assistant Chief Ed Winter. Police described the confrontation as a ruing gun battle, but Risher’s mother said her son was unarmed and ruing away from officer when he was shot. “He didn’t have nothing,” Lisa Simpson told Fox11. “He was ruing and he put hi...

Lawyers for the city of Los Angeles won a round in court Friday when a judge ruled that a former Harbor Division training officer for LAPD Officer Christopher Doer is not entitled to view all of the investigative reports and persoel records involving the late rogue officer. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Michael Ste said the motion for the release of documents filed by attoeys for Sgt. Teresa Evans was supported by arguments that contained too much “hearsay, speculation, supposition and assumption.” The judge cited a swo declaration offered by one of Evans’ attoeys, Leila K. Al Faiz, which he said had more lines stating “upon information and belief’’ than he had ever seen in such a documen...

LAPD Detective Brent Hopkins was finishing up some reports late Thursday night, writing up why some of the suspects taken into custody should be exonerated and kept out of jail, when he could hear sniper fire and panicked voices. Inside the West LA Area police station where he works, he saw the images flash across a television screen. Officers were down in Dallas. Someone was purposely shooting at them. Just then, a call came into the station. A robbery. A bad person doing something to a good person, Hopkins thought. “When that robbery call went out, everyone still went out to that,” Hopkins, 37, said. “Even with this very heated atmosphere, I still see all of my coworkers showing up for wor...

West Coast rappers The Game and Snoop Dogg arrived in downtown Los Angeles Friday moing, expecting to simply hold a protest over the deaths of black men at the hands of police. But their day took an unexpected tu when the longtime friends were invited into LAPD headquarters by police Chief Charlie Beck and Mayor Eric Garcetti for an impromptu mini-summit on race and policing. What emerged was a new coalition focused on reducing violence. Compton native The Game, whose birth name is Jayceon Terrell Taylor, implored the public to “save each other’s lives” at an emotional press conference following the meeting. In an unlikely pairing, the city’s top officials -- both white -- and two of Southe ...

Longtime friends The Game and Snoop Dogg both woke up Friday moing deeply troubled by the recent deaths of black men at the hands of police officers. They headed downtown to lead a peaceful march outside Los Angeles Police Department headquarters. Then the day took an unexpected tu, when the famous rappers were invited to a small LAPD conference room for a mini-summit on race and policing with Los Angeles police Chief Charlie Beck and Mayor Eric Garcetti. • PHOTOS: Snoop Dogg and The Game march to LAPD headquarters in wake of police shootings, meet with mayor and police chief Emerging from the room after about 30 minutes, the foursome aounced plans for a new group focused on reducing violenc...

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LOS ANGELES >> Johy Depp’s estranged wife has given Los Angeles police a statement to support her account of an alleged domestic violence incident involving the actor, her lawyers said Tuesday. Attoeys Samantha Spector and Joseph P. Koenig wrote in a statement that model-actress Amber Heard had spoken to Los Angeles police. The statement did not indicate when Heard gave the statement, and the Los Angeles Police Department says it has no information about Heard speaking with officers. • PHOTOS: Amber Heard and Johy Depp -- together on the red carpet, her alone heading to and from court “With her statement Amber hopes to give the LAPD the opportunity to conduct an accurate and complete investi...

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles police investigators have developed a way to bypass security features and open the locked Apple iPhone 5S belonging to April Jace, the slain wife of “The Shield” actor Michael Jace, it was reported today. Jace is accused of killing his wife at their South L.A. home on May 19, 2014. The bypass occurred earlier this year, during the same period when the FBI was demanding that Apple unlock the iPhone 5C of San Beardino shooter Syed Rizwan Farook. The FBI eventually said it found another method for unlocking the phone. LAPD Detective Coie Zych wrote in a search warrant obtained by the Los Angeles Times that on March 18, the department found a “forensic cellphone expert ...

LOS ANGELES — Funeral services were pending today for Willie Williams, who became the first black chief of the Los Angeles Police Department in the aftermath of the L.A. riots. Williams, 72, died Tuesday night at his home in Fayetteville, Georgia. A relative said he had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Williams served as LAPD chief from June 30, 1992, to May 17, 1997. He became the city’s top cop following the resignation of Chief Daryl Gates in the aftermath of the 1992 Los Angeles riots. He came to Los Angeles after serving four years as Philadelphia’s police commissioner -- the first black person to hold that position. Williams was a Philadelphia police officer for more than 20 year...

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles police say SWAT officers serving search warrants in a narcotics sweep arrested 16 suspects including an alleged kingpin suspected of focusing his drug sales on Skid Row. KABC-TV reports the federal Drug Enforcement Administration assisted police in executing 20 warrants before dawn Wednesday in Cerritos. Police say Derek Tuer surrendered at his home and was arrested along with his wife, son and daughter. Tuer is suspected of leading an operation that sells cocaine, methamphetamine and heroin on Skid Row. It wasn’t immediately known if he has a lawyer. Investigators say they had been tracking Tuer for some time. Advertisement Let's block ads! بخوانید...

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles police say SWAT officers serving search warrants in a narcotics sweep arrested 16 suspects including an alleged kingpin suspected of focusing his drug sales on Skid Row. KABC-TV reports the federal Drug Enforcement Administration assisted police in executing 20 warrants before dawn Wednesday in Cerritos. Police say Derek Tuer surrendered at his home and was arrested along with his wife, son and daughter. Tuer is suspected of leading an operation that sells cocaine, methamphetamine and heroin on Skid Row. It wasn’t immediately known if he has a lawyer. Investigators say they had been tracking Tuer for some time. Advertisement Let's block ads! بخوانید...

The parents of a man knife-wielding man who shot to death by Los Angeles police in Wilmington last year filed a lawsuit against the city Monday. Meldardo and Leticia Solis’ wrongful death lawsuit also names LAPD Chief Charlie Beck as a defendant. They are seeking unspecified damages stemming from the death of their 35-year-old son. An LAPD spokesman declined to comment on the suit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court. Police previously said Adrian Solis was possibly suicidal and wielding a knife when he was shot about 9:30 a.m. on March 26, 2015, in his home in the 1500 block of Bayview Avenue. No officers were injured. The suit states that Solis “was not armed and not threatening anyone” tha...

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LOS ANGELES — The first openly gay Los Angeles police officer is due in court this moing to be arraigned on domestic violence charges. Retired Sgt. Mitchell Grobeson, 57, was arrested Friday after he allegedly holed up inside a West Hollywood home for nearly four hours before surrendering to a sheriff’s SWAT team. Grobeson is being held in lieu of $250,000 bail on suspicion of corporal injury to a spouse, according to a statement from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. He is due to appear in LAX Superior Court this moing to say how he pleads. The incident began about 10:10 a.m. Friday in the 800 block West Knoll Drive, according to the Sheriff’s Information Bureau. No evacuations w...

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Police Department said today that its detectives are conducting tests on a knife that was found on property once was owned by O.J. Simpson. But details of the investigation are not being officially released at this time, according to a police spokesman. The LAPD’s confirmation that it has retued to the O.J. Simpson case followed a report by the celebrity news website TMZ.com that a construction worker found the folding buck knife buried on the perimeter of the former O.J. Simpson estate years ago. • PHOTOS: The O.J. Simpson case Sources told TMZ that the construction worker took the knife to the street, where he gave it to an off-duty LAPD traffic officer who wa...

A Los Angeles Police Department booking van on Friday began transporting prisoners from the Harbor Division station in San Pedro to the 77th Division, relieving officers of the commute that took them off local streets at critical times. “Today we aounce the rollout of the jail transport team, which will allow our officers to focus on patrolling, rather than having to transport detainees up and down the Harbor Freeway,” Los Angeles City Councilman Joe Buscaino said in a statement released Friday. The van will be at the harbor station two days a week to start, but will soon expand to three days — Thursday, Friday and Saturday, typically the busiest days for arrests. “This is a direct result of...