A Pasadena man accused of scamming numerous victims with fraudulent amusement park tickets was charged with grand theft and other counts today, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office announced. Brian Edward Anderton, 44, was expected to be arraign... More »
L.A. County Sheriff’s Homicide Bureau investigators made a public plea Thursday in front of the house on the 300 block of West Figueroa Dr. in Altadena where Salvador Esperanza III was killed, asking for help in locating the suspects who fatally shot and kil... More »
Reported crimes in Pasadena have dropped to the lowest levels in four years, according to a report released by the Pasadena Police Department. Calls for police service dropped by 14 percent in the first seven months of 2016 compared with calls last year at the... More »
A 30-year-old homeless man was arrested for armed robbery Tuesday afternoon after he brandished a knife at a Target employee in Pasadena, according to authorities. Christopher Matheny entered the Target store on 777 East Colorado Boulevard around noon and alle... More »
An assault took place in the back parking lot of the 1881 Club, a well-known bar in north Pasadena, at about 8:26 p.m. Monday, according to Lieutenant Vasken Gourdikian of the Pasadena Police Department. Gourdikian said the suspect approached the victim and wi... More »
To combat the ongoing Chimney Fire which has burned over 35,000 acres since August 13, the Pasadena Fire Department in collaboration with other California fire departments has dispatched a five-engine Brush Strike Team, which includes 22 firefighters and a bat... More »
Pasadena City Clerk Mark Jomsky led the swearing in of five new Pasadena police officers Monday afternoon during a ceremony in the Public Library’s Donald R. Wright Auditorium which also saw three current officers promoted to the rank of corporal. Chief of Pol... More »
Multiple reports of gunshots were received by the Pasadena Police Department on Sunday night, but no victims or suspects have been found, authorities said. Police found evidence of a shooting at 600 block of Earlham Street around 9:17 p.m., said Pasadena polic... More »
A 57-year-old San Marino woman was killed after she and her members of her family were struck by a car while dropping off her son at the University of Virginia for his first year of college. Bonnie Baha, head of Global Developed Credit at DoubleLine Capital LP... More »
Editor’s Note: In this report, Pasadena Chief of Police Phillip Sanchez reviews noteworthy incidents which occurred or were concluded in recent weeks in Pasadena. On June 24, at about 2:42 p.m., several male adult suspects illegally entered a residential ... More »
Someone in a dark-colored, late model black Hyundai fired multiple shots at a group of people in the northwest parking lot of the Community Arms housing complex about 7:30 p.m. Friday night, police said. The group scattered, Lt. Jason Clawson said, and apparen... More »
The Los Angeles Police Department in a Thursday press conference announced the arrest by Pasadena police of a suspect in a series of residential burglaries and assaults in Los Angeles that includes attempted rape, said Lt. Vasken Gourdikian of the Pasadena Pol... More »
