The Pasadena Branch of the NAACP and community activist Michelle White are dropping their lawsuit against Pasadena City Manager Steve Mermell and Pasadena Police Chief Phillip Sanchez over the Police Department’s body camera policy, attorneys for the plaintiff... More »
Two members of the Altadena Mountain Rescue Team (AMRT) were attacked by a dog whose owner the rescue team was trying to help after getting injured while hiking on the Sam Merrill Trail in the Angeles National Forest Saturday. The first rescuer luckily had thi... More »
A serial armed robber who repeatedly struck Pasadena sandwich and pizza shops armed with a handgun has been arrested after a robbery in Temple City led to a vehicle description traced to a Pasadena man, police said. The man, Terry Wilson, 21, of Pasadena, is n... More »
Pasadena police officers are searching for man who robbed a 37-year-old woman of her cellphone in an incident that began inside a restroom at the Paseo Colorado Saturday afternoon. Pasadena Police Lt. Mark Goodman, Watch Commander, said the woman was in the re... More »
Only 46 hours after after a man hurled a pyrotechnic device into a crowd of diners in The Cheesecake Factory in Old Pasadena, the popular eatery was struck by a second, unrelated mishap when a careening car smashed into its exterior and nearly struck a famil... More »
Pasadena police officers are searching for at least two men in a black SUV armed with a handgun who went on a brazen armed robbery spree at three locations within an hour on Thursday night. Two of the robberies occurred a single block apart on one street, Nort... More »
The Pasadena Fire Department has named Dr. Roger Yang as its new Medical Director in an announcement today. In this position, Dr. Yang provides advice and coordinates the medical aspects of field care as defined by the Los Angeles County Department of Health S... More »
A Pasadena man who shot and killed his live-in girlfriend, her 91-year-old father and a Good Samaritan in a shooting rampage in Pasadena in 2014 was sentenced Wednesday to 181 years to life in prison, the District Attorney’s Office announced. John Izeal Smith... More »
On January 29, 2017, a Sierra Madre Police officer conducted a traffic stop on a vehicle for a vehicle code violation. Further investigation revealed the driver, who was the sole occupant of the vehicle driving with an expired driver’s license and the vehicle’... More »
Pasadena police officers arrested a 37-year-old homeless man Monday afternoon after he alleged blocked traffic with his bicycle and then struck at a vehicle with a machete. Luckily, the vehicle’s driver, a 48-year-old Pasadena woman, was able to drive away and... 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 September 8, 2016, Gerardo Gil Sanchez assaulted two co-works with a wood ... More »
A group of alleged gang members fought with Pasadena police and one gang member reportedly commanded his dog to attack officers in a confrontation this afternoon which sent one officer to a hospital and five suspects to jail. The incident quickly escalated whe... More »
