| | | | Afternoon headlines for Thursday, March 11, 2021
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‘Evil, Diabolical’ Daddy’s Deadly Insurance Fraud: Helpless Disabled Sons Trapped In Car Seats Killed In Death Drive Off LA Pier  A South Bay man was sentenced Thursday to 212 years in federal prison for defrauding insurance companies after driving his two disabled children and ex-wife off a pier at the Port of Los Angeles to collect on accidental death policies, a scheme the judge called “evil and diabolical.” Ali Elmezayen was convicted in October 2019 […]
  
City Council’s Bad Report Card For LAPD In George Floyd Protests: Report Finds Misuse Of Non-Lethal Weapons, Lack Of Training, Illegal Detentions  A report commissioned by the City Council found that the Los Angeles Police Department mishandled various aspects of last spring’s mass demonstrations sparked by the May 25 killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. The 101-page report found that many officers were not properly trained in crowd control tactics, illegally detained people who committed infractions, used […]
Sad Life, Sad Death, Suicide Or Accident: Metrolink Train Kills Homeless Woman Walking On Van Nuys Tracks  Authorities Thursday identified a homeless woman who was struck by a Metrolink train and killed in Van Nuys. Erika Cruz Carranza 33, died at the scene of her injuries that occurred about 3 p.m. Wednesday near the 8100 block of North Woodley Avenue, according to the coroner’s office and the Los Angeles Fire Department. Carranza […]
Gay Woman Alleges Company Ignored Male Worker’s Sexual Harassment A gay woman who worked as a controller at a Westlake Village environmental consulting company is suing her former employer, alleging she was fired in 2020 in part for complaining about sexual harassment by a male colleague, but was told it was due to a company “restructuring.” The allegations in Manwarjit Kaur’s Los Angeles Superior […]
School Principal Pocketed Big Bucks From Illegal Schemes At His Pasadena, Ingelwood Schools, According to Prosecutors A former principal at schools in Inglewood and Pasadena pleaded not guilty Thursday to charges that he was “betraying students, their parents and school administrators” by pocketing tens of thousands of dollars in illegal schemes over the past four years. A prosecutor called the suspect’s alleged conduct “the ultimate failure.” Kyle Douglas, 50, was charged […]
Woman Whose Baby Died While in Jail at Birth Reaches Tentative Settlement An outside law firm representing Orange County has reached a tentative agreement to pay $1.5 million to a woman who gave birth to a baby who died while the mother was in custody in Orange County Jail. The tentative settlement was reached this week in the lawsuit filed by Ciera Stoetling, who was jailed on […]
LBPD: Man Arrested in Mexico for 2015 Killing in Long Beach A man who allegedly killed an 18-year-old man in Long Beach in 2015 was in custody Thursday following his arrest in Mexico. Albert Rodriguez, 25, was arrested on Wednesday in the death of Ruben Barrera, who was gunned down about 11:50 p.m. on June 5, 2015, in the 5400 block of Elm Avenue, the Long […]
Vehicle Hits, Kills Pedestrian on PCH in Malibu A pedestrian was fatally struck by a vehicle Thursday on Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu. The crash was reported about 3:15 a.m. near Puerco Canyon Road, according to the California Highway Patrol. Information on the identity of the fatally injured person, described only as a male, was not immediately available. PCH was closed in the […]
Orange County Continues March Toward Reopening More Businesses Orange County Thursday continued its declining trends in COVID-19 cases as it nears the less-restrictive red tier in the state’s coronavirus reopening system next week. The county reported 139 more coronavirus cases, raising the cumulative to 248,217. The county also reported 33 more COVID-19 fatalities Thursday, but those are often delayed for a variety of […]
LASD Searching For H&R Driver Who Hit And Killed Man In Palmdale A hit-and-run driver who struck and killed a 43-year-old man on the Palmdale/Lancaster border last weekend remains at large, and sheriff’s investigators Thursday renewed their call for witnesses to come forward. Deputies went to the 2300 block of West Avenue M at 10:10 p.m. Sunday, after the Palmdale Station received a call of a possible […]
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