BRIEFLY VALLEY PLANE CRASH PILOT IDENTIFIED.SHERMAN OAKS - The identity of a pilot who fatally crashed his vintage single-engine plane in Sherman Oaks last week was released Thursday by authorities. Steve J. Masket, 56, of Hollywood Hills The Hollywood Hills, an unofficial designation of part of the City of Los Angeles, California, are part of the eastern section of the low transverse range of the Santa Monica Mountains, which extends from the Los Feliz District and Hollywood, on the south side of the Valley, to was killed Saturday afternoon along with his female passenger when the T-28C Trojan he was flying sputtered and crashed just north of Mulholland Drive For the motion picture, see . Mulholland Drive is a very well-known road in Los Angeles, California named after engineer William Mulholland. A portion of it is also called Mulholland Highway. . Investigators are still trying to positively identify the woman. The crash site was just miles up the road from Masket's residence off Mulholland. Officials with the National Transportation Safety Board preliminarily identified engine failure aboard the 1956 military trainer aircraft as the cause of the crash. - Daily News Father to appear in child cruelty NORTH HILLS - A 34-year-old man arrested on suspicion of leaving his child inside a parked car in sweltering swel·ter·ing adj. 1. Oppressively hot and humid; sultry. 2. Suffering from oppressive heat. swel heat is scheduled to appear in court June 10. Rick Moreno was released from jail Thursday on his own recognizance own recognizance (O.R.) n. the basis for a judge allowing a person accused of a crime to be free while awaiting trial, without posting bail, on the defendant's own promise to appear and his/her reputation. after being booked on suspicion of cruelty to a child likely to produce gross bodily injury or death, a felony. Witnesses pulled the boy unharmed out of the car Tuesday about 2:30 p.m. in the 15000 block of Parthenia Street, where temperatures had reached 95 degrees, police said. Officers were summoned and attempted to locate the father. Moreno returned to the car and was taken into custody after identifying himself as the boy's father. - Daily News Three arrested in home burglary WINNETKA - Three Asian gang members were arrested Thursday on suspicion of burglary after police caught them trying to break through a window in a Winnetka home, Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. police said. Officers had been in the neighborhood of Sunny Brae brae n. Scots A hillside; a slope. [Middle English bra, from Old Norse br Avenue and Gault n. 1. (Geol.) A series of beds of clay and marl in the South of England, between the upper and lower greensand of the Cretaceous period. Street about 1:30 p.m. working a crime task force when they spotted four males trying to break into a home, said LAPD 1. LAPD - Link Access Procedure on the D channel. 2. LAPD - Los Angeles Police Department. Detective Mike Oliver See also: Michael Oliver Mike Oliver may be:
The three arrested were identified as Sophath Phao, 22, of San Fernando; Duc Bui, 19, of Panorama City; and Sevin Seng, 19, of Van Nuys. They were booked into the Van Nuys jail and held on bail amounts between $25,000 and $50,000. - Daily News Fare inspectors to aid ticket sales The Metropolitan Transportation Authority said Thursday that it has deployed 32 fare inspectors on the line and at the Seventh Street/Metro Center Blue Line transfer station to supplement sheriff's deputy patrols. ``By their very presence, fare inspectors encourage ticket purchases,'' said Capt. Dan Finkelstein, chief of the MTA (1) (Message Transfer Agent or Mail Transfer Agent) The store and forward part of a messaging system. See messaging system. (2) See M Technology Association. 1. (messaging) MTA - Message Transfer Agent. transit police. They have the authority to write citations for $70 to $240, depending on the number of offenses, Finkelstein said. Before the inspectors were deployed, the MTA relied mainly on the honor system when it came to ticket buying. But law enforcement officers sometimes checked to see whether riders had tickets. - City News Service Crane occupier, cops in standoff A man who commandeered a crane Thursday and began swinging its boom in downtown Los Angeles Downtown Los Angeles is the central business district of Los Angeles, California, located close to the geographic center of the metropolitan area. The sprawling, multi-centered megacity is such that its downtown core is often considered just another district like Hollywood or was refusing to give himself up to authorities late Thursday. The man climbed up the 300- to 400-foot-tall crane parked near First and Main streets about 7:30 p.m. and crawled into a control cab on top, said Los Angeles Police Department "LAPD" and "L.A.P.D." redirect here. For other uses, see LAPD (disambiguation).  This article or section is written like an . spokesman Officer Jason Lee.
The man swung the crane's boom about 180 degrees, then walked out on the boom and sat there for nearly 30 minutes, Lee said. He then went back into the control cab and swung the boom several more times before authorities shut the crane's power off. An officer in an LAPD helicopter told the man over a loudspeaker to come down, but by 10:30 p.m., he was refusing to do so. Search and rescue as well as Metropolitan Division officers were attempting to formulate a plan with the city Fire Department to get the man down peacefully, he said. - Daily News E-filing to help immigration immigration, entrance of a person (an alien) into a new country for the purpose of establishing permanent residence. Motives for immigration, like those for migration generally, are often economic, although religious or political factors may be very important. lines A new Web-based system for filing two of the most common immigration documents went online Thursday, which authorities said would shorten lines for people needing forms that allow them to work legally. Immigration officials said the new electronic filing system will allow people to apply for replacement green cards and employment authorization and might keep some applicants from having to take a day off work or show up before dawn to get their forms processed. The Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services said applicants who e-file must still make an appointment to visit an application support center to have their digital photograph, signature and fingerprints collected. The applications, which went online Thursday at www.bcis.gov, are currently available only in English. - City News Service |
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