Saturday, January 7, 2017 | 5:03 am
Officers responding to a call of multiple shots fired in the 100 block of West Claremont Street at 11:33 p.m. Friday found a deceased 23-year old black man in the 70 block of nearby Pepper Street, and then within minutes located three other victims, one dead, ... More »
Friday, January 6, 2017 | 10:32 am
A gas station store on East Foothill Blvd. in Pasadena was robbed Thursday when a medium-built suspect in his 40s pointed a handgun at the store clerk and took the money in the cash register. This was the first of at least two apparently unrelated armed robber... More »
Friday, January 6, 2017 | 6:36 am
Pasadena Public Safety Committee Chair John J. Kennedy said he sees a positive direction in the Pasadena Police Department’s decision to revise sections of the policy that governs the use of body-worn cameras by the City’s police force and the videos that are ... More »
Thursday, January 5, 2017 | 12:25 pm
Pasadena firefighters responded to a fire alarm Thursday morning at the Huntington Memorial Hospital and found a smoldering fire in one of the rooms in the hospital’s Levina building. Firefighters first arrived on the scene at about 8:41 a.m. and saw no extern... More »
Thursday, January 5, 2017 | 6:53 am
. City officials said Wednesday that Pasadena Chief of Police Phillip Sanchez has revised key provisions of his Department’s body-worn camera policy in response to public reaction, including softening of the original policy’s “hardline stance” which favored ba... More »
Thursday, January 5, 2017 | 6:02 am
A Pasadena man arraigned Wednesday on one count of gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated pleaded not guilty after the collision of a car he was driving into a light pole killed a Pasadena woman on December 10. The man, 38-year-old Javier Placencia, is... More »
Wednesday, January 4, 2017 | 7:58 pm
Pasadena police officers arrested two people Tuesday on suspicion of identity theft, after bags of stolen mail were found in their possession. Investigators suspect the stolen mail could be connected to a rise in the number of burglaries in the City. Pasadena ... More »
Wednesday, January 4, 2017 | 10:51 am
Pasadena Police Chief Phillip Sanchez has issued and implemented changes to Police Policy 450 originally deployed on November 7, 2016 regarding the use of body-worn cameras by the City’s police officers. Lt. Vasken Gourdikian, police department spokesman, said... More »
Monday, January 2, 2017 | 5:32 am
On Sunday, at approximately 7:15 p.m., the commercial business owner at 1445 Huntington Drive, in South Pasadena, called the South Pasadena Police Department to report he had an alarm activation sent to his cellphone with live surveillance camera footage of a ... More »
Saturday, December 31, 2016 | 7:50 am
An early Sunday morning garage fire at home on the 500 block of Flower Street in Northwest Pasadena was knocked down quickly but not before it caused $100,000 in damage, authorities said. The 3:30 a.m. fire at the rear of the home brought Pasadena Fire Departm... More »
Friday, December 30, 2016 | 9:07 am
Editor’s Note: Story republished courtesy www.lacar.com When I was a child, old people (which, to me at that time was anyone over 30) used to say that the older you get, the faster the years pass. Well, they were right. 2016 has flown by and 2017 is upon us. G... More »
Friday, December 30, 2016 | 2:22 am
[Updated Friday, December 30, 2016 | 7:16 a.m.] Less than 12 hours after Altadena Mountain Rescue and Los Angeles County Fire rescued a hiker stranded atop of a waterfall in Eaton Canyon on Thursday, the same crews were back in the mountains north of Pasaden... More »