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On Thursday, January 11, 2018, Pasadena Police Detectives identified a career criminal suspected of preying on elderly victims, stealing their wallets and identity in three different counties. The suspect, dubbed the “Newspaper Pickpocket” due to his use of a ... More »
Pasadena police have asked the public to help them locate two suspects who are wanted in connection with a residential burglary that occurred on Saturday, January 20th between 1:20 p.m. and 2:00 p.m in the 1600 block of North Garfield Avenue in Pasadena. Pasad... More »
[Updated] Pasadena city officials conducted a media briefing Thursday afternoon at Pasadena Police headquarters to play a 911 recording and show police videos of the 2017 arrest and jailing of a black Altadena motorist whose attorney last weekend filed a feder... More »
Altadenans have increasingly become concerned over the presence of Pasadena police operating in their town since the videotaped violent arrest of Christopher Ballew inside Altadena by Pasadena officers on November 9, 2017. Ballew, who resides in Altadena, suff... More »
Authorities on Wednesday announced the arrest and arraignment of an arson suspect in multiple cases of intentionally-set fires in the West San Gabriel Valley late last year and this month. On the evening of January 13, both Pasadena and Arcadia experienced a s... More »
On Tuesday, South Pasadena police officers were investigating an allegation of child abuse and conducting interviews at the children’s residence in the 1100 block of Huntington Drive. While meeting with the father and three small children inside the residence,... More »
Four suspects led Pasadena police on a three minute high-speed pursuit Tuesday night which ended when the two men and two women bailed out of the car and ran. Police set up a containment area, said Lieutenant Pete Hettema, and captured all four. Shortly therea... More »
Pasadena police detectives use security video camera footage from nearby businesses Tuesday to determine that a man found hanging in an inner courtyard of an Old Pasadena building had committed suicide. The deceased middle-aged man was discovered by a passerby... More »
Lt. Pete Hettema of the Pasadena Police Department has reported a man was caught stealing a package from a home located in the 100 block of S. Oak Ave. at 7:55 p.m. on Sunday. The resident was alerted to the man on her porch by a Ring Video Doorbell system whi... More »
A woman who threatened to jump from the 210 overpass spanning San Gabriel Blvd. was pulled to safety by first responders with help from a good Samaritan. Pasadena Fire Department spokeswoman Lisa Derderian told the Pasadena Star-News that a person reported the... More »
The January 13 incident in which vandals spray-painted a stone statue and the sidewalk outside the 129-year-old Church of the Angels in West Pasadena was apparently not an isolated incident, according to a Los Angeles Times investigation. The Times reported Sa... More »
Pasadena Police Officer Donald Sevesind said he’d do it, and he was true to his word. When about 10,000 runners took off running Sunday morning at the start of the Pasadena Half Marathon, Officer Sevesind stood out from the aerodynamically-outfitted throng. ... More »
