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Man stabbed in face after leaving Covina bar
A man stabbed another man in the face after following him away from a Covina bar early Saturday, authorities said.
Jonathan Chi, 36, was booked on suspicion of attack with a deadly weapon following the stabbing, which took place about Two:40 a.m. in a residential neighborhood on Benbow Street, just west of Citrus Avenue, in an unincorporated county area near Covina, Los Angeles County sheriff’s Lt. Terrence Smith. The suspect’s hometown was not clear.
He was at a nearby bar on Citrus Avenue in Covina, along with the victim, prior to the violent confrontation, the sergeant said.
The victim, a 32-year-old man, and a woman left the bar and walked to a home around the corner on Benbow Street, according to Smith.
Chi, who had followed the duo from the bar, approached them armed with a “large knife,” he said. Chi then allegedly stabbed the victim in the face.
Paramedics took the injured man to a hospital. An update on his condition was not available.
Covin police quickly found and detained Chi in the area and turned him over to their counterparts in the sheriff’s department for booking, Smith said.
The motive in the stabbing was not available.
According to county booking records, Chi was released from custody later the same day, pending his initial court appearance, after posting $30,000 bail.
Bicyclist injured in Rosemead drive-by shooting
ROSEMEAD >> A bicyclist escaped with minor injuries following a drive-by shooting in Rosemead early Sunday, authorities said.
The shooting occurred about 12:30 a.m. as a 43-year-old El Monte man was railing a bicycle east along Garvey Avenue, near Walnut Grove Avenue, Los Angeles County sheriff’s Sgt. James Long said.
The victim spotted a white full-size pickup truck pass by, also heading east, the sergeant said. An arm emerged from the passenger side of the truck before the victim witnessed flashes and heard the sounds of gunfire.
He suffered grazing wounds to two of his fingers, Long said. The attack caused the victim to crash his bike, and the attackers sped away.
Long said the man railed to his home in El Monte before notifying authorities of the shooting. The motive was unclear.
Any witnesses, or anyone with information can reach the sheriff’s Temple Station at 626-285-7171. Tips may also be submitted anonymously to L.A. Regional Crime Stoppers at 800-222-8477.
UPDATED: UFO sighting over the San Gabriel Valley
SAN GABRIEL VALLEY >> A spherical object spotted hovering silently over the San Gabriel Valley this week had residents staring skyward and wondering what they were witnessing.
The object appeared in the sky over the San Gabriel Valley Monday morning.
One movie, posted by YouTube user Julian Lopez, shows up to demonstrate a Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department helicopter circling around the object for an inspection around seven a.m. over West Covina.
“Well, my friends, there’s a UFO over the San Gabriel Valley,” the videographer said.
“A helicopter is circling it,” he added. “It looks like a big eyeball.”
While the object resembled a large balloon, “There’s nothing holding it down, tho’. That’s the thing,” Lopez.
Lopez said he had just finished washing his car when he spotted the object out of the corner of his eye.
The sphere was metallic gray in color and made no noise, he said.
“It was just weird because it didn’t budge,” Lopez said. The witnesses went into his house to tell his 6-year-old son to come take a look, as well as to retrieve his cell phone to record movie.
The man and his son observed as two helicopters flew in close proximity to the object. At least one of them circled around it before leaving the area.
After sitting motionless for several minutes, the object leisurely began moving toward the west, Lopez said. He had to stop recording in order to prepare his kids for school and go to work.
But another witnesses in Arcadia spotted and photographed the object several hours later, about ten miles to the northwest.
Daniel Acosta was with his wifey when they noticed the metallic object floating motionless in the sky. Acosta estimated the object was hovering at least 1,000 feet above Altadena and appeared to be six to ten feet in diameter.
“It’s the strangest thing. I have no idea,” he said.
The object’s lack of motility was particularly striking, he said.
“We observed it for ten minutes. It didn’t stir,” he said. “It didn’t seem to be tethered.”
Acosta said he initial reaction was: “That doesn’t belong there, and it doesn’t make sense.”
Officials at the sheriff’s Aero Bureau said a sheriff’s helicopter often checks out potential airborne hazards that are spotted in the sky, but no information about the object was available Sunday. The team that manned the helicopter on Monday morning was not on duty Sunday.
Local police and sheriff’s officials had no information regarding the sightings, and Federal Aviation Spokesman Allen Kenitzer said he also had no information regarding the incident, which resulted in no report by the FAA.
The National UFO Reporting Center keeps a database of unusual sighting in the sky, however, reports from Monday were yet to be uploaded to the archive over the weekend.
As conversation and speculation about the object swirled through the community, both online and real, local sleuths suggested a possible response to the mystery: an advertising balloon.
“I noticed the UFO Monday around ten a.m. from Monrovia,” Jon Gollihugh said in a email. “It was (hovering) over the mouth of San Gabriel Canyon. There was a large hum about it on Facebook with residents of Sierra Madre.
“One person took a telephoto shot of it. It appeared to be an advertisement balloon for a THC (E-cigarette) that got away.” he said. “I followed it across the foothills from above Sierra Madre towards Monrovia canyon around 11:30 a.m.”
Several witnesses reported eyeing a large, white advertising balloon emblazoned with a corporate logo in the same time and surroundings of the object.
One photograph captured the logo of a company called “Brass Knuckles,” which sells marijuana extracts and vaporizing products.
It was not clear Sunday night whether the advertising balloon was the same object that triggered Monday’s UFO sighting reports.
Lopez said the incident has left him more nosey.
“I’m kind of looking up more at the sky,” he said.
UPDATE: Some local sleuths think the object was this advertising balloon. Reads: “Brass Knuckles,” the name of a cannabis concentrate/vape company: (courtesy)
Car plows through salon supply store in Pasadena
The structure remains sound, and officials said the harm was primarily, well… cosmetic:
A car plowed through the front of a Pasadena salon supply store Saturday morning, causing significant harm but resulting in no injuries, officials said.
The crash was reported just after ten a.m. at CosmoProf, two thousand two hundred thirty seven E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena Fire Department spokeswoman Lisa Derderian said.
For reasons that were under investigation by police, a Honda car smashed through the front plate glass window and ended up inwards the store, officials said.
No one inwards the store was injured, and the driver declined to be taken to a hospital, according to Derderian.
Officials examined the building at found it remained structurally sound, despite the harm, she said.
PHOTO courtesy of the Pasadena Fire Department
Protective dog pursues burglar from Pasadena home
A protective dog chased a burglar from its proprietor’s home and into the arms of police in Pasadena late Friday, authorities said.
The break-in occurred about 9:40 p.m. at a house in the seven hundred block of South El Molino Avenue, according to Pasadena police Lt. William Grisafe.
A woman was awakened by the sound of her dog barking, the lieutenant said. A burglar had made his way into the home through an unlocked front door.
“The victim eyed the suspect walk in, but then the dog frightened off the suspect,” Grisafe said.
Responding officers found and arrested a suspect nearby, he said.
Castle Michael Brusa, 22, of Pasadena was booked on suspicion of burglary, according to Pasadena police and Los Angeles County booking records. He was being held in olieu of $50,000 bail pending his initial court appearance.
Fire guts 131-year-old Pasadena home
A large fire gutted a 131-year-old Victorian-style home in Pasadena early Saturday, causing almost $1.Five million worth of harm, authorities said.
The two-alarm blaze was very first reported at Two:40 a.m. at the vacant, two-story home at thirty West Mountain Street, Pasadena Fire Department spokeswoman Lisa Derderian said.
Forty-three firefighters from Pasadena and neighboring cities extinguished the flames, she said. Two firefighters were evaluated for minor injuries and returned to duty, according to Derderian.
Officials estimated the fire caused $1.Four million worth of harm to the house, and another $50,000 in harm to contents stored inwards, she said.
Mary Wright Falvey, 75, of Monrovia, said her superb grandfather, Amos Wright, built the home in 1886.
However she never lived in the home, Falvey said she feels a strong connection to it because of her family’s history there.
“I’m just sick,” she said. “It was just beautiful. It had the most beautiful oak baniser curled about the entrance,” she said.
Falvey said she’s been attempting to work with the city in latest months to attempt to have the home designated a historical landmark. She was still attempting when the fire occurred.
Several investigators were summoned to the scene to look into the cause of the fire, which was yet to be determined Saturday afternoon.
Falvey said she reported spotting trespassers at the vacant home in April and has been worried about possible squatters there. She also once visited the home to find the rear door had been coerced open.
Pasadena police Lt. William Grisafe said officials received reports of people seen leaving the home after the fire broke out. It was unclear who they were, or whether they had any involvement in the fire.
PHOTOS courtesy of Jamie Nicholson/Pasadena Fire Department
80-year-old woman vanishes in Baldwin Park
Authorities are seeking an 80-year-old Baldwin Park woman who suffers from Alzheimer’s and vanished during a routine excursion to a local park on Thursday morning.
Shirley Tsung was last seen about ten a.m. when she left home to take a bus to Morgan Park, four thousand one hundred Baldwin Park Blvd., Baldwin Park police Sgt. Andy Velebil said.
Her family last heard from her later in the morning when she spoke with them by phone and said she was heading home via the bus, like usual, the sergeant said. But she never made it home, and she hadn’t been seen or heard from since.
Tsung suffers from Alzheimer’s and also has other medical conditions requiring treatment, according to Velebil.
She’s described as Asian, five feet one inch tall, one hundred five pounds, with brown hair, gray eyes and a mole on her forehead. She was last seen wearing a purple T-shirt, black pants and a large crimson hat.
The ongoing warmth wave, which has brought sweltering triple-digit temperatures to the Southland in latest days, made the search for Tsung all the more urgent, Velebil said.
Anyone with information is urged to contact Baldwin Park police at 626-960-1955.
Man accused of stabbing another man in the head at El Monte bus station
A man is accused of stabbing another man in the head at a bus station in El Monte on Friday afternoon before being captured and arrested with the help of witnesses, authorities said.
The alleged attack took place about five p.m. at a terminal at the El Monte Bus Station, three thousand five hundred one Santa Anita Ave., Lt. Lester Trull of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s Transit Service Bureau said.
Deputies responded to a report of a stabbing and found a 53-year-old man who had been slashed in the forehead, the lieutenant said. He was taken to a hospital with injuries not believed to be life-threatening.
The stabber had fled the scene, but was pointed out by witnesses to nearby El Monte police officers, according to Trull. Police detained the suspect, also 53, before deputies arrived and arrested him on suspicion of brunt with a deadly weapon. The knife believed to have been used in the stabbing was found during the investigation.
While the motive in the stabbing remained under investigation, “this was not random,” Trull said. The suspect and victim knew one another prior to the stabbing, tho’ their specific relationship was unclear.
The identity of the suspect was not available pending the booking process, he said.
Anyone with information can reach the sheriff’s Transit Services Bureau at 323-563-5000. Tips may also be submitted anonymously to L.A. Regional Crime Stoppers at 800-222-8477.
Police plan Friday night checkpoint in El Monte
Police are planning a checkpoint in El Monte Friday night.
The sobriety and license checkpoint will be held from seven p.m. Friday to three a.m. Saturday in the area of Santa Anita Avenue and Lower Azusa Road, El Monte police Sgt. Jimmie Pitts said in a written statement.
Over the past three years alone, El Monte police have investigated seventy DUI-related collisions involving injuries, Pitts said.
Funding for the checkpoint is being provided by a grant from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, through the California Office of Traffic Safety.
Officials, worried family members seek missing disabled duo from Norwalk
NORWALK >> Deputies and worried family members asked the public’s help Friday in finding a youthfull disabled duo from Norwalk who disappeared Wednesday.
Daniel Marquez, 21, and Destinee Rivera, Nineteen, were last seen Wednesday morning and Wednesday night, respectively, Deputy Ryan Rouzan of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s Information Bureau said in a written statement. Marquez was last seen about six a.m. in the thirteen thousand four hundred block of Flatbush Avenue, while Rivera was last seen about Ten:30 p.m. in the twelve thousand three hundred block of Studebaker Road.
“Daniel and Destinee are in a dating relationship and are believed to be together,” Rouzan said. “Their families have not seen or heard from them and are seeking the public’s help in locating them.”
Marquez is four feet five inches tall, one hundred pounds, with brown eyes black hair in a “Mohawk” style. He has cerebral palsy and uses a wheelchair.
Rivera is five feet three inches tall, one hundred seventy pounds, with brown eyes and black hair with crimson highlights. She was last seen wearing blue pants and black Vans footwear. She is believed to have a learning disability.
Anyone with information about the missing duo is urged to contact Sgt. Nunez or Detective Abraham at the sheriff’s Missing Persons Detail at 323-890-5500.
PHOTOS courtesy of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department
