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The family of John Chan, the 44-year-old Arcadian who was killed by Lisa Welchert in a drunk driving traffic accident, filed a claim against the City because they feel the police officers left Welchert apparently passed out in her car and returned to their patrol cars, allowing her to escape from the police in her automobile.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper26975
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
July 29, 1999
Pages
p. 1
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
July 29, 1999
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
Chan, John
Welchert, Lisa
Automobile Accident
Drunk Driving
Lawsuits
Murder
Item ID
27174AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Arcadia police nab residential burgler suspect 18-year-old Hassan Deontrae Murphy after a high speed pursuit. The residential burglary happened on the 2000 block of Carolwood Drive.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35298
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
October 11, 2018
Pages
p. 1, 10
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
October 11, 2018
Pages
p. 1, 10
Subjects
Burglaries
Crime and Criminals
Murphy, Hassan Deontrae
Item ID
35487AN
Collection
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Two men arrested on suspicion of residential burglary and assault with a deadly weapon in the 200 block of East Colorado Blvd. The suspects were Kevin Gerald Kelly, 57, of Hollywood and Floyd Edward Broadnax, 52, of Long Beach.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper34200
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
June 11, 2015
Pages
p. 16
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
June 11, 2015
Pages
p. 16
Subjects
Burglary
Crime and Criminals
Broadnax, Floyd Edward
Kelly, Kevin Gerald
Item ID
34394AN
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Newspaper Index
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Local historian Daniel Hennessy talked about Arcadia police officer Albert Matthies, the only police officer killed in the line of duty and the trial of the suspects thereafter, at the Gilb Museum on October 21.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper34996
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
October 26, 2017
Pages
p. 1, 27
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
October 26, 2017
Pages
p. 1, 27
Subjects
Gilb Museum of Arcadia Heritage
Hennessy, Daniel
Matthies, Albert
Item ID
35186AN
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Bob Edgar, president of the Claremont School of Theology, has selected "Prayers for a New Millennium" for his address at the 25th annual Mayor's Prayer Breakfast.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper26881
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
March 18, 1999
Pages
p. 1
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
March 18, 1999
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
Mayor's Prayer Breakfast
Edgar, Bob
Item ID
27081AN
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Former Arcadia police officer Christian Blesch, 36, was arrested and charged with grand theft. He allegedly embezzled funds from the Arcadia Police Officers' Association over a period of several months. As of September 24, 2013, Blesch was no longer employed by Arcadia Police Department.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper33643
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
October 3, 2013
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p. 1
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
October 3, 2013
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
Arcadia Police Department--employees
Arcadia Police Officers' Association
Blesch, Christian
Crime and Criminals
Embezzlement
Item ID
33838AN
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Newspaper Index
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Attempted murder/suicide by trying to drive off Chantry Flat at Santa Anita Dam. Suspect holed up at the dam house, SWAT called. The suspect, a 21-year-old Los Angeles resident named Patrick Anthony Gonzalez, was arrested by Arcadia police.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper33364
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
January 31, 2013
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p. 1, 11
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
January 31, 2013
Pages
p. 1, 11
Subjects
Gonzalez, Patrick Anthony
Murder-suicide
Item ID
33560AN
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Arcadia Police Department and Monrovia Police Department catch vacuum thief who stole a $600 vacuum from a store on Huntington Drive, then he caught the 187 Foothill Transit Bus to get away. The police cited and released him on the promise to appear in court on the charge of theft.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper34634
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
July 28, 2016
Pages
p. 1
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
July 28, 2016
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Thieves
Item ID
34826AN
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Newspaper Index
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Monrovia man David King Brewster has been charged with attempted murder of a peace officer, as he became combative and began fighting with two Arcadia police officers for no apparent reason, on July 6, 2015 in the 400 block of East Huntington Drive. Brewster may have been under the influence of a controlled substance. He punched one officer in the face and choked the other officer in an attempt to use cause serious or fatal injury to him.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper34235
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
July 9, 2015
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p. 1, 14
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
July 9, 2015
Pages
p. 1, 14
Subjects
Brewster, David King
Crime and Criminals
Item ID
34429AN
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Former Arcadia police officer Christian Blesch (photo), 36, was arrested for embezzlement of Arcadia Police Officers' Association funds. As of September 24, 2013, Blesch was terminated. Blesch allegedly charegd more than $50,000 for personal items on a police association's credit card. He pleaded not guilty to a felony count of grand theft by embezzlement.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper33633
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
October 10, 2013
Pages
p. 1, 5
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
October 10, 2013
Pages
p. 1, 5
Subjects
Arcadia Police Department--Arcadia Police Officers' Association
Blesch, Christian
Crime and Criminals
Embezzlement
Item ID
33828AN
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The Arcadia Police Department has filed murder charges against Lisa Melinda Welchert, an alleged drunk driver involved in a fatal accident on Huntington Drive which killed John Chan.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper26882
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
February 18, 1999
March 18, 1999
Pages
p. 1
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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
February 18, 1999
March 18, 1999
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
Automobile accidents
Drunk Driving
Murder
Chan, John
Welchert, Lisa Melinda
Item ID
27082AN
Collection
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Receiving stolen property arrests aided by identification of items and social media. On February 21, Arcadia police arrested two female adults, Daijah D. Ellsworth and Rickeira T. Pearson, one juvenile female, and an adult male for stolen property in their car. Police connected the arrestees to a burglary in Palos Verdes using social media platform "Nextdoor."

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper34476
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
March 3, 2016
Pages
p. 1, 17
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
March 3, 2016
Pages
p. 1, 17
Subjects
Arcadia Police Department
Arrests
Crime and Criminals
Ellsworth, Daijah D.
Pearson, Rickeira T.
Item ID
34668AN
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A profile of Gloria Freire, who works for the Police Department and became a citizen on October 24, 1996.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper25779
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
November 7, 1996
Pages
p. 6
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
November 7, 1996
Pages
p. 6
Subjects
Freire, Gloria
Police Department
Item ID
25979AN
Collection
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For higher visibility and recognition, the Police Department is changing from all white police automobiles to the traditional black and white cars.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper25940
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
January 22, 1998
Pages
p. 1
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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
January 22, 1998
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
Police Department
Item ID
26140AN
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Newspaper Index
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Arcadia Police nab bicycle thief with GPS tracking device. Suspect is 46-year-old Edward Castillo of Pasadena.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper34727
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
December 1, 2016
Pages
p. 13
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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
December 1, 2016
Pages
p. 13
Subjects
Arcadia Police Department
Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) Technology
Castillo, Edward
Crime and Criminals
Thieves
Item ID
34919AN
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Newspaper Index
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Arcadia K9 officers on the job 24-7. Portraits of canine officers, police dogs Zoli and Kota.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper34983
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
November 16, 2017
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p. 6
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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
November 16, 2017
Pages
p. 6
Subjects
Arcadia Police Department--K9-dogs-canines
Item ID
35173AN
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Arcadia Police Department pursues stolen package to Pasadena. Suspect evades multiple law enforcement agencies. The package contained a GPS tracking device.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper34781
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
January 12, 2017
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p. 1, 10
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
January 12, 2017
Pages
p. 1, 10
Subjects
Arcadia Police Department
Crime and Criminals
Thefts
Item ID
34972AN
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20-year-old man Jason Scott Gustin found guilty of attempted murder of his ex-girlfriend in Arcadia. On August 22, 2016, according to testimony at trial, Gustin met near Arcadia and sat in his car to talk when he pulled out a knife and slashed her throat and then began strangling her. As the victim tried to escape, he stabbed her multiple times. She ran away to a nearby convalescent home. He was arrested a short time later after he showed up at his mother’s workplace in Arcadia.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35297
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
October 11, 2018
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p. 1, 11
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
October 11, 2018
Pages
p. 1, 11
Subjects
Gustin, Jason Scott
Crime and Criminals
Item ID
35486AN
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Monrovia man Gerardo Cortez, 26, was arrested for allegedly making telephone threats to shoot adults and children with an assault rifle at schools (including Arcadia High School), the Westfield Santa Anita mall, and a hospital in the San Gabriel Valley last week. He was booked at Monrovia Police Department for five counts of felony Making Criminal Threats and five counts of False Report of an Emergency. He is to be arraigned today. See also Mountain Views News, September 14, 2013, p. 1.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper33617
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
September 19, 2013
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p. 1, 4
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
September 19, 2013
Pages
p. 1, 4
Subjects
Arcadia High School
Arcadia Police Department
Cortez, Gerardo
Crime and Criminals
Guthrie, Robert (Chief of Arcadia Police Department)
Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department
Monrovia Police Department
Item ID
33812AN
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The arraignment of Gerardo Cortez, of Monrovia, has been postponed to October 25, 2013. He allegedly made a series of telephone threats to several San Gabriel Valley locations, including a shopping mall, a medical center, and several schools, including Arcadia High School. The caller said he had an AK-47 gun and threatened to shoot people. The joint police forces from Arcadia, Covina and Monrovia, the FBI, and the Los Angeles County Sheriffs had investigated.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper33634
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
October 10, 2013
Pages
p. 1, 11
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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
October 10, 2013
Pages
p. 1, 11
Subjects
Cortez, Gerardo
Crime and Criminals
Item ID
33829AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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