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The City Council offers $20,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and charging of the killer(s) of Arcadia resident Charlotte Cole. The City Council offers a $15,000 reward for information leading to the killer of two hit and run victims. The victims were an elderly man and his grandson.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: August 22, 2002

Pages: p. 1

Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: August 22, 2002

Pages: p. 1

Subjects: Cole, Charlotte; Murders - unsolved; Rewards

Item ID: 30700AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

The State Department of Finance estimates Arcadia's population as 54,200 as of January 1, 2001. The 2000 Census figured Arcadia's population as 53,054.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper29596

Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: May 17, 2001

Pages: p. 10

Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: May 17, 2001

Pages: p. 10

Subjects: Population-population estimates; State Department of Finance; Census-2000

Item ID: 29780AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

The Arcadia Police Department Explorer Post #101 has added two new explorers, Jeff Comaianni and Richard Castillo.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper29891

Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: June 21, 2001

Pages: p. 9

Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: June 21, 2001

Pages: p. 9

Subjects: Arcadia Police Department - Explorer Post #101; Castillo, Richard; Comaianni, Jeff

Item ID: 30077AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

Janet Sporleder has been appointed City Librarian effective July 1, 2001. She replaces Kent Ross, who is retiring.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper29739

Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: May 31, 2001

Pages: p. 8

Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: May 31, 2001

Pages: p. 8

Subjects: City Librarian; Arcadia Public Library -- 2001-2010; Librarians; Sporleder, Janet

Item ID: 29924AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

Arcadia Police Department confirms that James Allen Beck was a former police officer with the City of Arcadia. He is a suspect named as responsible in the death of Deputy Jake Kuredjian of the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: September 6, 2001

Pages: p. 8

Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: September 6, 2001

Pages: p. 8

Subjects: Beck, James Allen; Kuredjian, Jake; Shootings

Item ID: 30275AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

Rumor's bar owner Scott Hammond shot and killed a suspect trying to break into his bar located at 48 E. Huntington Drive. Separately, the merchant of AM Donuts on Las Tunas wounded one of two suspects trying to rob his store.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: May 9, 2002

Pages: p. 1, 25

Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: May 9, 2002

Pages: p. 1, 25

Subjects: AM Donuts; Crime and Criminals; Hammond, Scott; King, Chet; Robbery; Rumor's; Shootings

Item ID: 30492AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

The Arcadia City Council has voted to request that the Board of Supervisors designate Arcadia fire stations as Safe Surrender sites for newborn babies 72 hours old or younger.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31522

Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: May 29, 2003

Pages: p. 18

Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: May 29, 2003

Pages: p. 18

Subjects: Arcadia fire stations; Safe havens; Safe surrender

Item ID: 31718AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

The Feds (Secret Service, part of the U.S. Treasury Department) take over counterfeiting case from Arcadia Police Department. Five individuals were arrested on suspicion of passing counterfeit bills at Robinsons-May, Macy's and possibly JC Penney, at Westfield Shoppingtown in Arcadia.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: December 20, 2001

Pages: p. 1, 7

Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: December 20, 2001

Pages: p. 1, 7

Subjects: Counterfeit money; Crime and Criminals; Pena, Alfonso; Portillo, Juan

Item ID: 33611AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

Arcadia--City of Sin, part II by Charles A. Coulombe. Continued from November 1, 2001. Arcadia's early history from 1903-1914.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper33428

Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: November 8, 2001

Pages: p. 8

Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: November 8, 2001

Pages: p. 8

Subjects: Baldwin, Clara; Baldwin, Elias J. "Lucky"; City of Arcadia--history--incorporation; Clara Villa; Oakwood Inn--Fairyland Park; Stocker, Harold

Item ID: 33624AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

Arcadia police are calling this past holiday season quiet in terms of criminal activity. The one crime of note was the bank robbery of Citizen's Business Bank on First Avenue on December 31, 2001.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: January 3, 2002

Pages: p. 1

Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: January 3, 2002

Pages: p. 1

Subjects: Citizen's Business Bank; Bank robbery; Crime and Criminals

Item ID: 30340AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

The Insurance Services Office (ISO) recently evaluated the Arcadia Fire Department and reconfirmed its designation as a "Class 1" department. This is the second time Arcadia has been so honored. Only 41 fire agencies in the country have this elite distinction.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: May 10, 2001

Pages: p. 8

Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: May 10, 2001

Pages: p. 8

Subjects: Arcadia Fire Department - 2001-2010; Awards-honors-recognitions; Insurance Services Office (ISO)

Item ID: 29710AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

A group of Arcadia firefighters who had gone to New York City to help after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks were so profoundly affected that they organized a fundraiser to benefit widows and orphans of the New York Fire Department and Arcadia Fire Department. Those who went were Captain Hutcheson, Captain Trabbie, John Beveridge, Craig Stogner, Cody Cerwin and paramedic Mike MacGregor.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper30614

Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: October 3, 2002

Pages: p. 14

Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: October 3, 2002

Pages: p. 14

Subjects: Arcadia Fire Department - 2001-2010; Firefighters; Fundraisers; New York Fire Department; September 11 terrorist attacks, 2001

Item ID: 30802AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

The Arcadia Police Department has moved to a new police station building at 250 W. Huntington Drive, Arcadia, CA, 91007, that is 42,000 square feet and cost $16 million. The official opening ceremony will be October 3, 2003. The old building that was built around 1956 will be demolished in a few weeks. Dispatchers Rosemarie Espejo and Carol Hunter are shown in a photo.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31809

Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: August 14, 2003

Pages: p. 1

Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: August 14, 2003

Pages: p. 1

Subjects: Arcadia Police Department - police station - 2003; Civic buildings; Espejo, Rosemarie; Hunter, Carol

Item ID: 32006AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

Second grade student Austin Puertas of Holy Angels School in Arcadia organized a fundraiser to help victims of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States. He raised $1,153 to go to the New York Firefighters Fund. Austin Puertas and Captain Rick Sandona of Arcadia Police Department are shown in a photograph.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper30144

Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: October 25, 2001

Pages: p. 8

Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: October 25, 2001

Pages: p. 8

Subjects: Puertas, Austin; Firefighters; Fundraisers; September 11 terrorist attacks, 2001

Item ID: 30331AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

Duty rotations have brought personnel changes at the police department's PACE office at the mall.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper28986

Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: January 25, 2001

Pages: p. 1

Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: January 25, 2001

Pages: p. 1

Subjects: Crime; Westfield Santa Anita; Arcadia Police Department - PACE office; Harper, Ken; Goodman, Larry; Swearengin, Dave; Anderson, Bob

Item ID: 29174AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

Arcadia police pursued and arrested armed suspects after they robbed a Wells Fargo Bank at 211 East Foothill Boulevard. The suspects were Wilfredo Ramirez, Aaron Allen, Melonie Young, and Robert Burnham.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper30482

Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: July 11, 2002

Pages: p. 1

Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: July 11, 2002

Pages: p. 1

Subjects: Allen, Aaron; Bank robbery; Burnham, Robert; Crime and Criminals; Ramirez, Wilfredo; Young, Melonie

Item ID: 30669AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

Since the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on New York City and the Pentagon in Washington DC, Police Chief Dave Hinig said the Arcadia Police Department has evolved and is thinking beyond local crime enforcement. Officers are thinking more regionally and are more conscious of calling the bomb squad.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31847

Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: September 11, 2003

Pages: p. 1

Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: September 11, 2003

Pages: p. 1

Subjects: Arcadia Police Department - 2001-2010

Item ID: 32044AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

Four suspects involved in an Arcadia bank robbery had their original bail amounts increased from $35,000 to $280,000 and upwards of $300,000. The suspects were Wilfredo Ramirez, Aaron Allen, Melonie Young, and Robert Burnham.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper30498

Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: July 18, 2002

Pages: p. 1

Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: July 18, 2002

Pages: p. 1

Subjects: Allen, Aaron; Bank robbery; Burnham, Robert; Crime and Criminals; Ramirez, Wilfredo; Young, Melonie

Item ID: 30685AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

Ruth Gilb is the new president of Arcadia Welfare and Thrift Association. Other elected board officers are John Pape, Richard Cordano, and Jack Lamb.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper33290

Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: February 1, 2001

Pages: p. 8

Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: February 1, 2001

Pages: p. 8

Subjects: Arcadia Welfare and Thrift Association; Cordano, Richard; Gilb, Ruth; Lamb, Jack; Pape, John

Item ID: 33487AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

Arcadia Police Department Agent Bruce Smith was given the Arcadia Police Department Life Saving Medal for saving an unconscious man named Ben Noodleman.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: July 25, 2002

Pages: p. 8

Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: July 25, 2002

Pages: p. 8

Subjects: Awards - honors - recognitions; Smith, Bruce

Item ID: 31883AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

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The City Council offers $20,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and charging of the killer(s) of Arcadia resident Charlotte Cole. The City Council offers a $15,000 reward for information leading to the killer of two hit and run victims. The victims were an elderly man and his grandson.

The State Department of Finance estimates Arcadia's population as 54,200 as of January 1, 2001. The 2000 Census figured Arcadia's population as 53,054.

The Arcadia Police Department Explorer Post #101 has added two new explorers, Jeff Comaianni and Richard Castillo.

Janet Sporleder has been appointed City Librarian effective July 1, 2001. She replaces Kent Ross, who is retiring.

Arcadia Police Department confirms that James Allen Beck was a former police officer with the City of Arcadia. He is a suspect named as responsible in the death of Deputy Jake Kuredjian of the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department.

Rumor's bar owner Scott Hammond shot and killed a suspect trying to break into his bar located at 48 E. Huntington Drive. Separately, the merchant of AM Donuts on Las Tunas wounded one of two suspects trying to rob his store.

The Arcadia City Council has voted to request that the Board of Supervisors designate Arcadia fire stations as Safe Surrender sites for newborn babies 72 hours old or younger.

The Feds (Secret Service, part of the U.S. Treasury Department) take over counterfeiting case from Arcadia Police Department. Five individuals were arrested on suspicion of passing counterfeit bills at Robinsons-May, Macy's and possibly JC Penney, at Westfield Shoppingtown in Arcadia.

Arcadia--City of Sin, part II by Charles A. Coulombe. Continued from November 1, 2001. Arcadia's early history from 1903-1914.

Arcadia police are calling this past holiday season quiet in terms of criminal activity. The one crime of note was the bank robbery of Citizen's Business Bank on First Avenue on December 31, 2001.

The Insurance Services Office (ISO) recently evaluated the Arcadia Fire Department and reconfirmed its designation as a "Class 1" department. This is the second time Arcadia has been so honored. Only 41 fire agencies in the country have this elite distinction.

Duty rotations have brought personnel changes at the police department's PACE office at the mall.

Arcadia police pursued and arrested armed suspects after they robbed a Wells Fargo Bank at 211 East Foothill Boulevard. The suspects were Wilfredo Ramirez, Aaron Allen, Melonie Young, and Robert Burnham.

Four suspects involved in an Arcadia bank robbery had their original bail amounts increased from $35,000 to $280,000 and upwards of $300,000. The suspects were Wilfredo Ramirez, Aaron Allen, Melonie Young, and Robert Burnham.

Ruth Gilb is the new president of Arcadia Welfare and Thrift Association. Other elected board officers are John Pape, Richard Cordano, and Jack Lamb.

Arcadia Police Department Agent Bruce Smith was given the Arcadia Police Department Life Saving Medal for saving an unconscious man named Ben Noodleman.