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Teen brothers, ages 15 and 16, beaten to death in their home on 400 block of Fairview Avenue, just west of Holly Avenue. The suspect is their uncle by marriage, who is believed to have fled to China. The FBI was working with Chinese authorities. The victims appeared to have suffered "blunt force trauma." The suspect was already being sought in an attack on his wife. His wife filed a restraining order against him and began divorce proceedings.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper34424
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 23, 2016
Pages
p. A1, A4
Announcement Type
Marriage
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Pasadena Star News
Date
January 23, 2016
Pages
p. A1, A4
Announcement Type
Marriage
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Deaths
Lin, Anthony
Lin, William
Murders
Shi, Deyun
Item ID
34616AN
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Newspaper Index
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Coco's Restaurant at 1150 W. Colorado Boulevard in Arcadia, was robbed by an armed gunman on January 4 at 10:31 PM. The gunman had a semi-automatic handgun, demanded cash, and locked two employees in the freezer before fleeing.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper34063
Newspaper
Mountain Views News
Date
January 10, 2015
Pages
p. 1
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Mountain Views News
Date
January 10, 2015
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
Coco's Restaurant
Crime and Criminals
Item ID
34257AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Arcadia High School students walk out Wednesday in solidarity with students around the country. Seventeen minutes to remember 17 victims of the school massacre in Parkland, Florida last month.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35117
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
March 15, 2018
Pages
p. 1, 6
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
March 15, 2018
Pages
p. 1, 6
Subjects
Arcadia High School students
Gun control
Protests
School shootings
Item ID
35305AN
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Newspaper Index
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Ex-supervisor convicted of raping mall workers.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35411
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 4, 2019
Pages
p. A1, A11
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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 4, 2019
Pages
p. A1, A11
Subjects
Westfield Santa Anita
Cervantes, Diego Briones
Crime and Criminals
Interstate Cleaning Corporation
Sexual assaults
Item ID
35603AN
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Newspaper Index
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Ex-boyfriend of Arcadia woman charged with kidnapping. The ex-boyfriend's name is Robert Michael Mendez, age 27. The woman was hospitalized. Doorbell camera footage showed a man dragging a woman.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35556
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
October 4, 2019
Pages
p. A6
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Pasadena Star News
Date
October 4, 2019
Pages
p. A6
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Kidnapping
Mendez, Robert Michael
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Newspaper Index
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An overnight break-in occurred at Burlington Coat Factory in Arcadia, at 1201 S. Baldwin Avenue. Employee found a jewelry display case had been smashed open. Arcadia police searched the store but no suspect was found. It was not clear what, if anything, had been stolen, other than the jewelry from the case.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper33648
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
October 17, 2013
Pages
p. A4
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Pasadena Star News
Date
October 17, 2013
Pages
p. A4
Subjects
Burglaries
Burlington Coat Factory
Castro, Mike
Crime and Criminals
Retail stores
Item ID
33843AN
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Newspaper Index
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The 2001 murder of grocer Adel Karas, a 48-year old Egyptian man from Arcadia, a few days after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, was initially thought to have been a hate crime. He was shot at his store International Market at 1381 E. Last Tunas in San Gabriel. Now police suspect Adel Karas was the victim of extortion. The suspects are two Latinos in their mid-20s.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32176
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
September 12, 2010
Pages
p. A1, A7
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Pasadena Star News
Date
September 12, 2010
Pages
p. A1, A7
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Karas, Adel
Murder
Item ID
32375AN
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A gunman posing as a delivery man bound a housekeeper during a home-invasion robbery in the 300 block of California Street at about 10:00 AM. He stole a safe, jewelry and watches. Police are seeking information from the public.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32233
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
November 21, 2010
Pages
p. A4
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Pasadena Star News
Date
November 21, 2010
Pages
p. A4
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Robbery
Item ID
32432AN
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Newspaper Index
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Three arrested for marijuana cultivation in the 1000 block of North First Avenue.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper33837
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
May 22, 2014
Pages
p. 1, 25
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
May 22, 2014
Pages
p. 1, 25
Subjects
Arcadia Police Department
Arrests
Crime and Criminals
Chu, Jessie Soi
Drugs
Marijuana
Rodriguez, Rodrigo Salas
Tran, Viet Van
Item ID
34031AN
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Holy Angels Elementary School was closed yesterday because its head pastor, Reverend Michael Evans, has a sister named Teresa Evans, who is a Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) sergeant, named by suspected killer Christopher Dorner (ex-LAPD), in his 11,000 word manifesto posted on Facebook last week. Dorner is suspected in the shooting deaths of three people--Monica Quan, daughter of Dorner's attorney during his review hearing, Quan's fiance, and a Riverside police officer. Dorner was terminated from LAPD and is believed to be on a killing rampage. Holy Angels School hopes to open tomorrow or Thursday. See also Arcadia Weekly, February 14, 2013.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper33371
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
February 12, 2013
Pages
p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
February 12, 2013
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Dorner, Christopher
Evans, Michael (Reverend)
Holy Angels Elementary School
Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD)
Item ID
33567AN
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Arcadia sexual assault suspect identified with DNA evidence on October 15. Warrant obtained for suspect’s arrest. The sexual assault occurred September 8 in the 2300 block of S. Santa Anita Avenue. Suspect has been identified as 27 year old El Monte resident Robert Anthony Padilla.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35310
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
October 18, 2018
Pages
p, 1, 11
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
October 18, 2018
Pages
p, 1, 11
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Sexual assaults
Padilla, Anthony
Item ID
35499AN
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Police are seeking three men who attacked, robbed and carjacked a mother and son in front of their home in the 200 block of West Lemon Avenue. The crime occurred on March 4, before 9:30 PM, as they pulled into their driveway. The suspects got away in the victims' blue 2006 Lexus.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31921
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 5, 2010
Pages
p. A4
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Pasadena Star News
Date
March 5, 2010
Pages
p. A4
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Robbery
Item ID
32118AN
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Newspaper Index
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Man charged with kidnapping, beating ex-girlfriend in Arcadia. Robert Michael Mendez faces one count each of kidnapping and criminal threats and three counts of injuring a girlfriend or child's parent.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35573
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
October 10, 2019
Pages
p. 3
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
October 10, 2019
Pages
p. 3
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Kidnapping
Mendez, Robert Michael
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Newspaper Index
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Armed robbery at Hilton Garden Inn in Arcadia. Tattooed suspect still at large.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper34156
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
April 23, 2015
Pages
p. 19
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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
April 23, 2015
Pages
p. 19
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Hilton Garden Inn
Hotels
Item ID
34350AN
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A high speed police chase that began in Pasadena, then went through Arcadia, Monrovia, Duarte and several other San Gabriel Valley cities, ended in the driving crashing into another car. The suspect was Edgar Angarita, 45, of Hollywood and the 21-year-old woman from Baldwin Park that he crashed into, are both being treated at the hospital. Police say Angarita was intoxicated. The chase occurred Monday, January 24. He is being held on suspicion of felony evading a police officer, but additional charges may be coming.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32305
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 26, 2011
Pages
p. A7
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Pasadena Star News
Date
January 26, 2011
Pages
p. A7
Subjects
Angarita, Edgar
Crime and Criminals
Drunk drivers
Item ID
32504AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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The trial of Isaac Campbell, a San Gabriel man accused of killing his ex-girlfriend Liya "Jessie" Lu and stuffing her body in a trash can at his friend Michael Darby's home in Arcadia, has begun at Alhambra Superior Court.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32653
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
November 8, 2011
Pages
p. A1, A4
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Pasadena Star News
Date
November 8, 2011
Pages
p. A1, A4
Subjects
Campbell, Isaac
Crime and Criminals
Darby, Michael
Homicide
Lu, Liya "Jessie"
Murder trials
Trials
Item ID
32850AN
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Newspaper Index
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Armed robbery at Santa Anita Inn, 130 West Huntington Drive. Suspect struck victim with gun, causing lacerations.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper34414
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
December 24, 2015
Pages
p. 17
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
December 24, 2015
Pages
p. 17
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Hotels and motels
Santa Anita Inn
Item ID
34606AN
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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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41-year-old female Xiaolin Li, a resident of Arcadia, was stabbed and murdered on January 7, 2014 at an apartment in the 900 block of Arcadia Avenue. The arrested suspect was identified as the victim's father-in-law Li Zhu, a 68-year-old resident of Arcadia. The motive appears to be related to an on-going dispute within the family. The victim and suspect resided together.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper33720
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
January 9, 2014
Pages
p. 1, 18
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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
January 9, 2014
Pages
p. 1, 18
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Deaths
Li, Xiaolin
Li, Zhu
Murders
Item ID
33916AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Witness apprehends hit-and-run suspect Rebeca Gonzalez, a 54 year-old Arcadia resident. She struck two pedestrians with her vehicle.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper34549
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
April 28, 2016
Pages
p. 1, 15
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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
April 28, 2016
Pages
p. 1, 15
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Gonzalez, Rebeca
Item ID
34741AN
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Newspaper Index
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