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 »
Federal authorities said a Pasadena man along with a second man who is a part-time Los Angeles resident were arrested Friday on federal charges that allege a scheme to illegally obtain technology and integrated circuits with military applications that were exp... More »
The Altadena Mountain Rescue Team was called for the search of two hikers lost in the area of Fern Canyon and Brown Mountain in the Angeles National Forest Friday night at approximately 5:00 p.m. Altadena rescue units had text communication with the hikers, wh... More »
Pasadena Police Officer Donald Sevesind will run side-by-side with fellow runners in the full 13 mile-long Pasadena Half Marathon on Sunday not in aerodynamic athletic gear, but in his police cover, full uniform, Sam Browne belt with all of his the police equi... More »
