A 14-year-old Pasadena girl was robbed and injured in a street attack by ski-masked bandits Tuesday afternoon. Pasadena Police Lt. John Luna said the girl was walking home from school along Allen Avenue just north of Orange Grove Boulevard about 4:35 p.m. when... More »
A young man apparently jumped from an office building and fell “multiple stories” to the roof of another building in an apparent attempt to kill himself Tuesday night. Pasadena Police Lieutenant John Luna said the 20-year-old man suffered major trauma to his l... More »
Deputies from the Altadena Sheriff’s Station responding to a residential fire in the 200 block of East Pentagon Street about 2:42 p.m. today discovered live ammunition in the back yard of the residence after Los Angeles County Fire Department extinguished the ... More »
Police arrested two armed men early Thursday morning who were ordering women into their truck, one of them saying he was a “a police officer.” “Fortunately, the victims refused and notified the police,” Chief of Police Phillip Sanchez said in a prelimiary emai... More »
A group of about seven trees were torches of fire when Pasadena Fire Department units arrived at the rear of apartments in the 400 block of West Washington Boulevard Thursday morning about 10:30 a.m. The 9-1-1 call had described a structure fire, but firefight... More »
He seems to be able to do it all – Patrol, Traffic enforcement, Community Services. Whatever the assignment, his record is exemplary. Born and raised in Southern California, Cristian Alexander Allen spent his early years in Compton and his high school years in... More »
South Pasadena Police have issued surveillance images of a bicycle bandit who stole credit cards, keys, a remote control device, and the vehicle registration from an unlocked car that was parked inside an open garage in the 800 block of Flores de Oro on April ... More »
A Los Angeles Superior Court judge sentenced a Pasadena man and two other to life in prison with no possibility of parole Wednesday for the 2013 shooting death of 21-year-old Zane Goldtein at Maple Avenue and Chester Street in Pasadena in Pasadena during a dru... More »
A security guard at the Pasadena Sears store in Hastings Ranch was stabbed with a Bowie knife Monday night shortly after 8 p.m. as he fought to detain a shoplifting suspect. The guard was pursuing two suspects, Pasadena police Sergeant Ernie Devis, when the st... More »
A man who has allegedly been involved in two volatile confrontations with Pasadena police recently was arrested again Sunday night during a traffic stop, police said. Patrol officers pulled over the suspect, Sanjay Kumar Varma, 33, about 10:10 p.m. near Greenh... More »
Pasadena police patrol officers squelched the activities of an alleged serial arsonist early Sunday morning when they detained him next to a trash receptacle ablaze in Central Park. Authorities say approximately dozen fires have been set in Pasadena over a two... More »
The Pasadena Police Department says it has received numerous inquires over the last few days regarding emails and phone calls from individuals fraudulently claiming to be IRS agents and demanding tax payment. These reports, along with queries from Pasadena Now... More »
