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Trio in truck eyed in five muggings

WEST HOLLYWOOD West Hollywood

A community of southern California northeast of Beverly Hills. It is mainly residential. Population: 36,600.
 - Sheriff's deputies said they suspect a group of three people in a white Mazda pickup truck were responsible for five muggings early Sunday.

The victims were all males walking alone on side streets around the time the bars and nightclubs were closing, the Sheriff's Department said. The suspects, identified only as a white male, a Hispanic male and possibly a woman, stole the victims' wallets and whatever money they carried.

Anyone with information on the crimes is asked to call the sheriff's substation at (310) 855-8850.

- Daily News

Driver in custody in freeway crash

A motorist suspected of being drunk was in custody Sunday after a crash on the eastbound Santa Monica Freeway The Santa Monica Freeway is the westernmost segment of Interstate 10, beginning at the western terminus of I-10 at the Pacific Coast Highway in Santa Monica, California and ending southeast of downtown Los Angeles at the famous East Los Angeles Interchange.  in West Los Angeles
  • West Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, a neighborhood of Los Angeles
  • West Los Angeles (region), a popularly identified region of Los Angeles, incorporating the neighborhood above
 left his passenger with major injuries, reported the California Highway Patrol highway patrol
n.
A state law enforcement organization whose police officers patrol the public highways.
.

The motorist, 28-year-old La Habra resident Angel Wilfred Pineda, was transported to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Cedars-Sinai Medical Center is a world-renowned hospital located in Los Angeles, California. History
Cedars-Sinai is the result of a merger in 1961 between two major Los Angeles hospitals, Cedars of Lebanon and Mount Sinai Home for the Incurables, with Steve Broidy as
 with minor injuries, according to a CHP CHP Chapter
CHP Combined Heat and Power
CHP California Highway Patrol
CHP Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi (Turkish: Republican People's Party)
CHP Chemical Hygiene Plan (OSHA)
CHP Community Health Plan
 news statement.

The crash on eastbound freeway lanes, east of Motor Avenue, was reported to the CHP at 4:15 a.m. Pineda, driving a 1991 Acura, struck a guardrail east of Motor Avenue, overturning and coming to a rest on the embankment south of the road.

- City News Service

Two brothers shot outside nightclub

LOS FELIZ - Two brothers were hospitalized Sunday after being shot outside a nightclub in Los Feliz, Los Angeles police said.

The shooting occurred outside the Guadalinda nightclub at the corner of Edgemont Street and Hollywood Boulevard about 1 a.m., said Los Angeles police Sgt. J.J. Cerniglia of the Northeast station.

Both victims, whose names were withheld, were shot in the stomach and taken to Los Angeles County/USC Medical Center, where police said they had stable vital signs.

The incident did not appear to be gang-related, Cerniglia said.

No immediate arrests were made, he said.

- City News Service

Man found dead on Bell bike trail

Homicide detectives Sunday were investigating the shooting death of a man found on a bike trail in Bell, a deputy said.

The shooting occurred in the 6600 block of River Drive, adjacent to the Los Angeles River The Los Angeles River is an intermittent river flowing through Los Angeles County, California, from Canoga Park in the west end of the San Fernando Valley, 51 miles (82 km) southeast to its mouth in Long Beach. , about 11:05 p.m. Saturday, Deputy Alba Yates of the sheriff's headquarters bureau said.

The victim had been on foot, Deputy Colin Matsumoto said.

The dead man's name was unavailable from deputies early Sunday.

- City News Service

Felon An individual who commits a crime of a serious nature, such as Burglary or murder. A person who commits a felony.


felon n. a person who has been convicted of a felony, which is a crime punishable by death or a term in state or federal prison.
, 25, probed in bomb threats

BELLFLOWER - A man was being investigated in connection with bomb threats at local churches after illegal guns and books on bomb making were seized from his home Sunday, authorities said.

Christopher Lorin Wood, 25, was arrested about 11 a.m. as he was leaving his residence, according to the Sheriff's Department and news reports.

He was booked on suspicion of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.

Sheriff's officers got a search warrant after receiving a lead from a relative that explosives were in the house, said Deputy Tanya Plunkett of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department This article is about the Los Angeles County Sherriff's Department, not to be confused with the smaller Los Angeles County Police

The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department (LASD) is a local law enforcement agency that serves Los Angeles County, California.
 Lakewood station.

- City News Service
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