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The husband and wife suspected of enslaving and torturing a 20-year old woman from mainland China allegedly kept a second slave and may have imported as many as a half dozen people into the United States. Dianji Zhai and Hua Jiang of Arcadia have been arrested.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper9558
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 19, 1997
Pages
p. A1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 19, 1997
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Item ID
9513AN
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Kianji Zhai and Hua Kiang of Arcadia were arrested and booked on charges of kidnapping, extortion, slavery and assault with a deadly weapon. They are accused of enslaving and torturing their 20 year old babysitter.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper9557
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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 18, 1997
Pages
p. A1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 18, 1997
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Item ID
9512AN
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A 20-year old baby sitter from mainland China testified about the events she said led to her enslavement by Arcadia couple Dianyi Zhia and Hua Jiang. See also Pasadena Star News, July 23, 1997, p. A1.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
July 22, 1997
Pages
P. A1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
July 22, 1997
Pages
P. A1
Subjects
Zhai, Dianyi
Jiang, Hua
Item ID
10042AN
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A 20-year-old Arcadia resident charged with murdering his father remained in custody. The son is charged with the strangulation death of 48-year-old Wenda Peter Liu in their Longden Avenue home.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper4908
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Pasadena Star News
Date
September 7, 1995
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p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
September 7, 1995
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Liu, Wenda Peter
Item ID
4784AN
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Isaac Campbell, a man charged in the murder of his former girlfriend Liya "Jessie" Lu, appeared in court for a pre-trial hearing and was ordered to return to court July 14. Campbell has pleaded not guilty and remains in custody on $1.2 million bail. Lu's body was found September 2007 at an Arcadia residence. Her body was wrapped in a plastic bag, placed in a blue trash bin and buried under 10 gallons of cat litter.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32087
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Pasadena Star News
Date
June 16, 2010
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p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
June 16, 2010
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Campbell, Isaac (also spelled Campbell, Issac)
Crime and Criminals
Homicide
Lu, Liya "Jessie"
Murder
Trials
Item ID
32284AN
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A 58-year-old woman was raped and her house robbed by two males in their 20's.

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Arcadia Tribune
Date
February 21, 1988
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p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
February 21, 1988
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Item ID
1382AN
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A 90-year-old woman was found dead in her Arcadia home, an apparent murder victim.

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Arcadia Tribune
Date
January 24, 1988
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p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
January 24, 1988
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Murder
Item ID
1379AN
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135 marijuana plants found in Arcadia home on the 500 block of West Huntington Drive. The suspect arrested is Tiv Ke Roeung, 40 year old Arcadia resident. He is being held without bail by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
June 19, 2014
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p. 1, 25
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
June 19, 2014
Pages
p. 1, 25
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Drugs
Marijuana
Roeung, Tiv Ke
Item ID
34070AN
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Deqiang Song, 26, of Monterey Park, gets life in prison without possibility of parole, for the crime of kidnapping for ransom, and a second sentence of life in prison plus four years, for the attempted murder of his then 21-year-old victim. Song met his victim through a mutual friend and took her to Westfield Santa Anita mall in Arcadia on September 8, 2010. Then he took her to a remote area of desert in San Bernardino County. He strangled the woman and slit her throat. He called her father for ransom. She survived.

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Pasadena Star News
Date
May 11, 2012
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p. A5
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Pasadena Star News
Date
May 11, 2012
Pages
p. A5
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Song, DeQiang
Trials
Item ID
33167AN
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Arcadia kidnapping, rape suspect Philippe Brian Lutete, 29, is charged with false imprisonment and sexual battery of a woman on November 26 in the 2900 block of Spruce Court. He was out on bail when he was also arrested on April 8, 2015 on suspicion of kidnapping and raping a woman over an 11-hour period.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper34150
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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 10, 2015
Pages
p. A1, A4
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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 10, 2015
Pages
p. A1, A4
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Lutete, Philippe Brian
Item ID
34344AN
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Police find woman’s body in Arcadia backyard in the 300 block of East Forest Avenue. A 76-year-old Arcadia woman was killed yesterday at her home and her vehicle was stolen. The coroner’s office has not yet identified the woman. Neighbors said she was a longtime resident with two daughters and a grandson. The motive behind the killing is unknown.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35417
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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 10, 2019
Pages
p. A3, A5
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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 10, 2019
Pages
p. A3, A5
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Deaths
Murders
Tsai, Chyong Jen
Item ID
35609AN
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Without a bone marrow transplant soon, the future looks bleak for 37 year old Santa Anita Park waitress Anita Capitumini. Her friends and co-workers have raised money to fund a search for a donor.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper4520
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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 30, 1995
Pages
p. A-1 photo
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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 30, 1995
Pages
p. A-1 photo
Subjects
Capitumini, Anita
Item ID
4396AN
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Cherry Liu, a Sierra Madre City employee was murdered August 1 in a tragic murder-suicide in the 800 block of Sunset Boulevard in Arcadia. Her estranged husband Mel Liu died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

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Mountain Views News
Date
August 4, 2018
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p. 1
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Mountain Views News
Date
August 4, 2018
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Liu, Cherry
Liu, Mel
Murder-suicide
Item ID
35435AN
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Police arrested two men who allegedly bilked five people of $20 to $100 with a phony bail scheme.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper1392
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
April 5, 1989
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p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
April 5, 1989
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Item ID
1391AN
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An assistant manager of a Blockbuster Video on South Baldwin was in custody Monday on suspicion of trying to engineer the robbery of his own store.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper16204
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Pasadena Star News
Date
December 22, 1998
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p. A1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
December 22, 1998
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Crime & criminals
Item ID
16950AN
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An Arcadia woman has been charged with federal tax violations for her alleged role in a Monterey Park insurance scam that is the largest ever uncovered. Catherine Huang is accused of conspiracy and filing a false tax return.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper14220
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 18, 1998
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p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
June 18, 1998
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Huang, Catherine
Item ID
14796AN
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Patsy Chang Kote, a live-in housekeeper, was arrested Monday at the Arcadia home of Ruth LeBerthon on suspicion of elder abuse and grand theft after she admitted tricking the 92 year old woman in her care into cashing pension checks and then taking the money.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper10852
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
November 12, 1997
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p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
November 12, 1997
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Kote, Patsy Chang
Item ID
11197AN
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Ali James Cooper of Palmdale was taken into custody for allegedly robbing a Wells Fargo Bank branch inside a Ralphs Supermarket on Foothill Boulevard.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper14941
Newspaper
Los Angeles Times
Date
August 30, 1998
Pages
p. B6
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Los Angeles Times
Date
August 30, 1998
Pages
p. B6
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Item ID
15503AN
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Pasadena man Heber Enoc Diaz charged with capital murder of 76-year-old Arcadia woman Chyong Jen Tsai. Also charged were Luis Alonso Cruz Gaitan of Altadena and Isis Ondina Villalobos of Pasadena as accessories after the fact.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35538
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
June 27, 2019
Pages
p. 12
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
June 27, 2019
Pages
p. 12
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Diaz, Heber Enoc
Gaitan, Luis Alonso Cruz
Murders
Tsai, Chyong Jen
Villalobos, Isis Ondina
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Los Angeles County Supervisor Kathryn Barger offers $20,000 reward in Arcadia investigation into heinous murder of Chyong Jen Tsai, a 76-year-old Arcadia woman, whose body was found on April 9, 2019 in her backyard in 300 block of East Forest Avenue. Her 2005 Lexus RX300 is believed to have been stolen from her home.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35447
Newspaper
Mountain Views News
Date
April 20, 2019
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p. 1
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Mountain Views News
Date
April 20, 2019
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Barger, Kathryn
Deaths
Murders
Rewards
Tsai, Chyong Jen
Item ID
35639AN
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