| | | | | Afternoon headlines for Monday, May 24, 2021 |
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Ex-UCLA Gynecologist Arrested For Alleged Sex Assaults On Campus Patients: Surprise Indictment An obstetrician-gynecologist formerly employed by UCLA was taken into custody Monday in a Los Angeles courtroom on a 21-count indictment accusing him of sexually assaulting patients. The indictment was handed down by a grand jury last Thursday and announced on the day a preliminary hearing for Dr. James Mason Heaps was scheduled to begin. Heaps, […]
Deadly Roommate Argument Leads To Stabbing Murder Arrest Of Long Beach Suspect A man was in custody Monday for allegedly stabbing his roommate to death at their home in Long Beach, police reported. Eric Doore, 51, was booked on suspicion of murder in connection with the death, which was reported about 8:40 p.m. Sunday in the 2100 block of Williams Street, according to the Long Beach Police […]
Terror Of Vehicle Windows Blasted By BB Or Pellet Guns Won’t Stop: More Attacks On 91 Freeway A spate of unsolved attacks using BB or pellet guns continued Monday on the Riverside (91) Freeway in Riverside and Corona, where windows on four vehicles were blown out, according to the California Highway Patrol. Officer Ramon Duran told City News Service two cars were targeted within a 60-second span about 7:40 a.m. on the […]
Roommate Murdered In Bloody Stabbing Because Jurupa Valley Killer Didn’t Like Being Shouted At: Guilty Of Murder One A man who fatally stabbed his 66-year-old housemate in Jurupa Valley because he didn’t like the victim shouting at him was convicted Monday of first-degree murder. After roughly four days of deliberations, a Murrieta jury found 37- year-old Kyle Lee Gallardo guilty of the 2015 slaying of James Heckel, along with a sentence-enhancing allegation of […]
Mystery Of Dead Mom, Dead Son In Diamond Bar: Autopsies Offer Answers? Autopsies were pending Monday on the bodies of a woman and her son, who were found dead in Diamond Bar. Loretta Ho, 55, and Edward Kwan, 23, both lived in Diamond Bar, according to the coroner’s office. Deputies from the sheriff’s Walnut Station responded at 10 p.m. Friday to an assault with a deadly weapon […]
Man’s Body Found Near Northbound Harbor (110) Freeway in South L.A. Area A man was found dead Monday at the side of the northbound Harbor (110) Freeway in the south Los Angeles area. The body was discovered at 5:35 a.m. near the Glenn Anderson (105) Freeway, according to the California Highway Patrol. Authorities released no information on the identity of the man or his cause of death. […]
Prison For Palm Desert Suspect Who Tossed Molotov Cocktail Into GOP Women’s Headquarters A Palm Desert man was sentenced Monday in Los Angeles to five years behind bars for throwing a firebomb into a Republican group’s office last year in the Coachella Valley. Carlos Espriu, 24, who has been in federal custody since his arrest last September, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Percy Anderson, who also ordered […]
Desert School Cop Arrested in Domestic Extremism Probe Pleads Not Guilty: FBI Task Force In Palm Springs A Palm Springs Unified School District patrol officer arrested during an investigation into domestic extremism by an FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force pleaded not guilty Monday to a felony weapons charge. Alfredo Luna Jr., 41, was arrested on Inauguration Day, Jan. 20, stemming from a prior search of his home that turned up an unregistered […]
Jurors Hear Videotaped Testimony About Robert Durst’s `Homicidal Side’ Jurors heard testimony Monday that murder defendant Robert Durst’s wife Kathie, who disappeared in 1982, told her medical school professor that her husband had “a homicidal side to him” and shared her fear that he might kill her. Jurors were shown videotaped testimony by Dr. Peter Wilk, who gave his original account during Durst’s 2018 […]
LAUSD Will Offer Full-Day, On-Campus Instruction This Fall, With Online Option Los Angeles Unified will offer all students the choice of returning to full-time instruction on campus this fall, although distance learning will also be available, school district officials announced Monday. Superintendent Austin Beutner said he expects the vast majority of students, teachers and staff to be at school every day starting in August, but there […]
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