[Updated March 31, 2015 | 11:09 a.m.] Pasadena police said Tuesday that two of four suspects wanted in connection with the critical beating and robbery of an 87-year-old man near the Rose Bowl last Friday turned themselves in Monday. Following news coverage of the incident, one suspect walked into the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Walnut Station on Monday and surrendered. Late Monday night the a... More »
A house fire in the 1500 block Old House Road severely damaged a single story home about 9 p.m. Monday night, authorities said. The residents were away at the time of the blaze, reported Pasadena Fire Dept. spokesperson Lisa Derderian, and “when firefighters made entry dog escaped unharmed.” Firefighters and weather conditions worked together to prevent the spread of the blaze into a nearby “high ... More »
Pasadena police officers demonstrated at City Hall then appealed directly to the City Council Monday night, saying the department is underpaid, understaffed, suffers eroding morale and faces an “imminent” crisis as experienced personnel leave for better-paying jobs in other cities. About 150 officers, sergeants, lieutenants and their families paraded silently in a demonstration line back and forth... More »
Pasadena police officers in a patrol car equipped with automatic license plate reading equipment spotted a freshly-stolen car and arrested the alleged thief today. Lt. Kelly Evans said the car was reported stolen Sunday at 3:10 p.m. from a parking garage in the 300 block of Cordova Street. Shortly after midnight this morning, Evans said patrol officers got a hit on the license plate of a parked ca... More »
Pasadena police-oversight activist Michelle White unapologetically told a Court of Appeal this morning that she leaked the very document that the Court is trying to keep secret. In a declaration filed with Division 1 of the Second District of the California Court of Appeals, Pasadena resident Michelle White – a former President of the local chapter of the ACLU, a Board Member of the local League o... More »
At the culmination of a three-mile long Palm Sunday peace procession in Northwest Pasadena, the mother of an unarmed black youth who was killed by Pasadena police stood steps from where her son died and thanked the community for standing by her. Anya Slaughter, choking back tears at first, said she “has grown this past year” and “opened up” as she spoke to an almost reverential crowd gathered on... More »
The Pasadena Fire Department reported Sunday a rattlesnake sighting by a resident near the foothills of north east Pasadena and has warned the public to be on heightened alert for the dangerous snake during the prolonged warm weather we are experiencing. The rattlesnake is California’s only native venomous snake. Rattlesnakes can cause serious injury to humans on rare occasions. The California Poi... More »
Major national and state media weighed in to support the Los Angeles Times and Pasadena police-oversight activists in objecting to an appellate court order that attempts to retroactively seal comments in an official report about the actions of two Pasadena police officers who shot and killed an unarmed young black man in 2012. The critical comments were in the court files and open to the public fo... More »
Pasadena Police Detectives are seeking the public’s assistance in identifying suspects believed responsible for assaulting and robbing an 87-year-old Pasadena man as he was on a morning walk on Friday, March 27, 2015 just after 5:00 a.m. The robbery occurred near the Rose Bowl on West Drive, north of Salvia Canyon Road. Other pedestrians exercising in the area found the victim lying on the g... More »
Vice Mayor Jacque Robinson kicked off her runoff campaign in the 2015 race for Mayor of Pasadena with a rally Saturday at her campaign headquarters located at 1199 North Lake Avenue. Councilmember Steve Madison put in an appearance and told the gathering the choice is clear and he endorses Robinson for Mayor. Before the event, Robinson had said that she wanted “to thank the voters and all my suppo... More »
