For the second time this week, a traffic stop originating from a stop sign violation led police to recover a loaded handgun on Friday night, officials said. Officers pulled over a car about 11:50 p.m. at Navarro Avenue and Howard Street after seeing it run a s... More »
Police sought an attacker who stabbed another man after rear-ending his car in an apparent incident of road rage in South Pasadena on Thursday night, authorities said. The attack took place about 9:50 p.m. at Monterey Road and Milan Avenue, the South Pasadena ... More »
Prosecutors on Thursday filed a murder charge against a homeless man who detectives say assaulted an elderly Pasadena couple out for their morning walk in a seemingly random attack, killing the woman. Oscar Villamil, 43, faces one count of murder and one count... More »
The identity of a man who died after being found suffering from severe burn injuries in the Arroyo Seco on New Year’s Day remained unidentified Thursday as police continued investigating the “suspicious death,” officials said. The man was discovered by a passe... More »
[UPDATED] A tip from the public helped authorities find and arrest a man Tuesday who was suspected of assaulting an elderly couple in a seemingly random attack in Old Pasadena last week, leaving one of them dead and the other injured, authorities said. Oscar V... More »
Pasadena’s Code Enforcement Commission will hear an appeal from the owners of four boxer dogs that have been determined to have attacked and injured at least two residents, and caused severe injuries on another dog that later died subsequent to the attack. An... More »
[Updated] A man in his 30s who was found by firefighters with severe burns all over his body Friday near the 700 block of Rockwood Road after a passerby called 911 has died in a local hospital, according to authorities. Pasadena Fire Dept. firefighters and par... More »
In an effort to lower the number of people in Los Angeles County courthouses during the coronavirus pandemic, the presiding judge- elect of the court system issued an order Thursday that allows emergency continuances in criminal trials and juvenile dependency ... More »
Police said a transient became agitated and started yelling at two women sitting on a park bench before throwing a beer bottle at them in Central Park, 275 S. Raymond Avenue, on Thursday afternoon just after 2 p.m. The bottle shattered at their feet. Neither w... More »
An irate boyfriend crashed a New Year’s Eve party where he threatened a woman with a knife, then snatched their 2-year-old baby from her and fled before being taken into custody moments later, police said. Neither the woman or the infant was injured, according... More »
Pasadena police expect to be spending a much less frenetic New Year’s Eve and Day in Pasadena without the Rose Parade and Rose Bowl game and its massive crowds, a department spokesperson said Thursday. The number of officers to be deployed both days is signifi... More »
Among the many challenges to emerge amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic are opportunistic con-artists hoping to take advantage of the public’s fear related to the virus to turn a quick buck, Pasadena police warned Wednesday. The Pasadena Police Department took ... More »
