The Pasadena Branch of the NAACP served a lawsuit on City Manager Steve Mermell and Police Chief Phillip Sanchez during a packed Public Safety Committee meeting at City Hall on Monday, accusing the pair of acting improperly in connection with obtaining a feder... More »
Officers from the Pasadena Police Department’s DUI Enforcement Team will be deploying this week to stop and arrest alcohol and drug-impaired drivers in the Department’s ongoing traffic safety campaign. DUI Saturation Patrols will deploy on Wednesday,... More »
Pasadena firefighters were part of a team of Los Angeles county firefighters and rescue personnel who rescued four people stranded on an island in a flooded part of the Los Angeles River early Monday. The Los Angeles Fire Department said about 100 county firef... More »
Editor’s Note: In this report, Pasadena Chief of Police Phillip Sanchez reviews noteworthy incidents which occurred or were concluded in recent weeks in Pasadena. Critical Incidents: On October 15, at about 2:01 p.m., Pasadena Police officers investigated a co... More »
Pasadena Public Health Department inspectors closed down the popular Tibet Nepal House, a restaurant at 36 E. Holly Street in Old Pasadena, after they found live cockroaches and dead nymphs in various areas of the facility in an inspection Monday, November 14.... More »
The attorney representing survivors of a man who died in police custody last September 30 has provided this publication with a copy of a federal civil rights lawsuit she filed Friday against the City of Pasadena, Chief of Police Phillip Sanchez and 10 police o... More »
At about 1:10 p.m., SPPD officers were dispatched to a residential house fire in the 1000 block of Garfield Av. Upon their arrival, Corporal Craig Phillips and Officer Brian Wiley found the house to be partially engulfed in flames. After an attempt to verbally... More »
Pasadena Police officers succeeded in talking a 45-year-old man down from the dangerous outer ledge of the Colorado Street Bridge past midnight last night, preventing what could have been another tragic suicide. Lt. Pete Hettema said the police department rece... More »
More than six weeks after the death of a beloved local motorcyclist, friends and relatives of the victim are venting their frustration at the Pasadena Police Department as it pursues a complex investigation into the hit-and-run accident that took the life of t... More »
Pasadena firefighters and police officers responded to the location of Chris’ Korean BBQ at 2063 E. Colorado Blvd. Friday morning after receiving reports of a burglar alarm. The burglar intentionally open gas valves in the restaurant before fleeing the scene.... More »
The Pasadena Police Department reports that calls for service in October indicate a continuing decrease in crime in Pasadena over last year, highlighted by the 67% drop in homicides and 44% decrease in reported rapes but marred by a 32% jump in assaults with a... More »
Members of the Altadena Mountain Rescue Team assisted in the rescue of a 41-year-old Rancho Cucamonga resident who went missing last night while biking on a trail near the Arroyo-Windsor area just north of the debris basin in the Arroyo Seco. The man was rescu... More »
