Skip header and navigation
Arcadia History Collection
  Revise Search

20 records – page 1 of 1.

Steven Wu of Arcadia was convicted on all 35 charges that he raped his unconscious sisters-in-law while capturing the events on videotape.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper1398
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
July 18, 1991
Pages
p. A-1 photo
More detail
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
July 18, 1991
Pages
p. A-1 photo
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Wu, Steven
Item ID
1397AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
Less detail

Richard Robert Russo, convicted in the murder of his wife Carmen, hanged himself with a bedsheet in his cell at Wasco State Prison. He died Sunday, October 15, 2006.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper30240
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
October 17, 2006
Pages
p. A1
More detail
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
October 17, 2006
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Russo, Carmen
Russo murder
Russo, Richard Robert
Suicide
Item ID
30427AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
Less detail

James Jason Stathum was sentenced to life in prison without parole for the videotaped fatal shooting of Arcadia resident Munther Farah Gharib. At the time of the shooting, Gharib was working in a La Puente convenience store.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper6703
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
August 2, 1996
Pages
p. A-5
More detail
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
August 2, 1996
Pages
p. A-5
Subjects
Gahrib, Munther Farah
Crime and Criminals
Stathum, James Jason
Item ID
6512AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
Less detail

The Arcadia Police Department is turning to the public for assistance with the homicide investigation of Mr. Shao-wu Yen, who was struck and killed one year ago by a small pickup while waiting to cross the street at the intersection of Holly and Fairview Avenues.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper4502
Newspaper
Sierra Madre News
Date
March 16, 1995
Pages
p. 15
More detail
Newspaper
Sierra Madre News
Date
March 16, 1995
Pages
p. 15
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Yen, Shao-wu
Item ID
4378AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
Less detail

70-year-old Mulji Patel of Arcadia was sentenced to 12 years in prison for hitting a workers' compensation attorney in the head with a hammer. The assault happened on January 31, 2006. Erwin A. Nepomuceno was the victim.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31469
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
May 13, 2009
Pages
p. A8
More detail
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
May 13, 2009
Pages
p. A8
Subjects
Assault
Crime and Criminals
Nepomuceno, Erwin
Patel, Mulji
Item ID
31662AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
Less detail

Juan Martin Aponte pleads no contest to five felony charges in the secret-videotaping case. He will be sentenced to five years in prison.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper28762
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News A1,6
Date
July 13, 2004
More detail
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News A1,6
Date
July 13, 2004
Subjects
Aponte, Juan Martin
Hooters Restaurant - West Covina
Sex crimes
Item ID
28950AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
Less detail

Nurses Susan Ricci, Hiedi Reed, Karen Schade and Sonya Smith are claiming in a lawsuit that Dr. Albert Peters sexually harassed and sexually battered them.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper1819
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 14, 1994
Pages
p. A-3
More detail
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 14, 1994
Pages
p. A-3
Subjects
Hospitals - Arcadia Methodist Hospital
Item ID
1818AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
Less detail

William Cottrell's (aka Billy Cottrell), a former Caltech physics student who was in prison for participating in firebombing 100 vehicles in the San Gabriel Valley (Duarte, Arcadia, West Covina) in 2003, will be resentenced. The federal court has dropped arson charges against him but he remains convicted on a conspiracy charge. He could be released or face more prison time.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31805
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
November 10, 2009
Pages
p. A1
More detail
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
November 10, 2009
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Arson
Automobile Dealerships
Cottrell, William Jensen (aka Cottrell, Billy)
Crime and Criminals
Earth Liberation Front (ELF)
Ecoterrorism and ecoterrorists
Sport Utility Vehicles (SUV)
Trials
Vandalism
Item ID
32002AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
Less detail

Edmund Wu of Arcadia, founder of AMAC Violin Center, donated two chinese-made violins and a viola to the University of Fine Arts in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper28031
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 12, 2004
Pages
p. A3
More detail
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 12, 2004
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Music Schools - AMAC Violin Center
Wu, Edmund
Phnom Penh -- University of Fine Arts
Item ID
28225AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
Less detail

Two men, including 22 year old Arcadian Jimmy Palma, were convicted of five counts of first-degree murder for shooting three adults and two children last year in El Monte.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper8017
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
December 5, 1996
Pages
p. A5
More detail
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
December 5, 1996
Pages
p. A5
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Palma, Jimmy
Item ID
7977AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
Less detail

Santa Anita Park is paying worker compensation benefits to settle a claim brought by 1 of 2 women who alleged their race track supervisors sexually harassed them and offered inducements to have sex.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper262
Newspaper
Star Tribune
Date
Santa Anita Park - 1990 -
Pages
p. A-1
More detail
Newspaper
Star Tribune
Date
Santa Anita Park - 1990 -
Pages
p. A-1
Item ID
262AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
Less detail

23 year old Arcadian Jimmy Palma was ambushed and stabbed to death October 13 in the exercise yard of San Quentin State Prison. A Superior Court judge sentenced him to die for killing two children and their mother in El Monte in 1995.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper11522
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
December 7, 1997
Pages
p. A1
More detail
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
December 7, 1997
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Palma, Jimmy
Crime and Criminals
Item ID
11720AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
Less detail

Police have arrested nine people who are believed to be members of a San Gabriel Valley Asian gang that has been under investigation in recent months for terrorizing local Asian youths. Four adults and five juveniles were taken into custody after police linked them with a February 15 kidnapping, attempted extortion and assault.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper1397
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
March 4, 1990
Pages
p. A-1
More detail
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
March 4, 1990
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Gangs see also Gang Activity
Item ID
1396AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
Less detail

Profile of Arcadia resident Steven Kutcher, an insect expert who shares his expertise with school children.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper23317
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
May 8, 2000
Pages
p. A3
More detail
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
May 8, 2000
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Kutcher, Steven
Item ID
23526AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
Less detail

73-year-old Jesus Plasencia Lopez from El Monte has been arrested for a fatal hit-and-run. He allegedly drove a Saturn that hit Guey-Ying Wu and her husband Chia Wu at Santa Anita Avenue and Camino Real Avenue in Arcadia. Lopez is being held at Los Angeles County Jail on $50,000 bail.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper29555
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 7, 2005
Pages
p. A3
More detail
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 7, 2005
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Fatal automobile accidents
Hit-and-run
Lopez, Jesus Plasencia
Wu, Guey-Ying
Wu, Chia
Arrests
Item ID
29739AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
Less detail

Arcadia resident David Frederick Thornton, charged with wire and mail fraud and embezzling money from the Thornton Kidney Research Foundation, was sentenced to eight years in federal prison.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper25645
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 17, 2003
Pages
p. A4
More detail
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 17, 2003
Pages
p. A4
Subjects
Thornton, David Frederick
Crime - Embezzlement
Crime - Fraud
Thornton Kidney Research Foundation
Item ID
25845AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
Less detail

Burglaries are on the rise in Arcadia. Police cite the economic downturn as a possible reason. Composite sketches of two men, who allegedly assaulted and robbed a man on March 7, 2009 in the 1100 block of Arcadia Avenue, are included. Police are seeking the public's help.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31409
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 13, 2009
Pages
p. A6
More detail
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 13, 2009
Pages
p. A6
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Residential burglaries
Item ID
31602AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
Less detail

Billy Cottrell, a Cal Tech graduate student who took part in a fire bombing spree that caused millions of dollars in damage to SUV dealerships in the San Gabriel Valley, was sentenced to more than 8 years in prison. See inset for chronology of ecoterror events.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper29501
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 19, 2005
Pages
p. A1, A6
More detail
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 19, 2005
Pages
p. A1, A6
Subjects
Automobile Dealerships
Cottrell, William Jensen (aka Cottrell, Billy)
Crime and Criminals
Earth Liberation Front (ELF)
Ecoterrorism and ecoterrorists
Sport Utility Vehicles (SUV)
Sentences
Trials
Item ID
29685AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
Less detail

Richard Lanill Johnson was convicted in 1976 of murdering Cathy LaCorte of Arcadia. His next parole hearing is set for October, 1996.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper6709
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
August 1, 1996
Pages
p. A-3 photo
More detail
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
August 1, 1996
Pages
p. A-3 photo
Subjects
LaCorte, Cathy
Crime and Criminals
Johnson, Richard Lanill
Item ID
6518AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
Less detail

Attorney Michael Mayock, representing convicted client Billy Cottrell, seeks a verdict reversal for the 2003 fire-bombing of sport utility vehicles (SUV) at a San Gabriel Valley automobile dealership. He says the jury did not know about Cottrell's Asperger's Syndrome, a neurological disorder. Cottrell's prison situation is 'nightmarish.'

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper30243
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
October 19, 2006
Pages
p. A1, A4
More detail
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
October 19, 2006
Pages
p. A1, A4
Subjects
Automobile Dealerships
Cottrell, William Jensen (aka Cottrell, Billy)
Crime and Criminals
Earth Liberation Front (ELF)
Ecoterrorism and ecoterrorists
Prison
Sport Utility Vehicles (SUV)
United States Court of Appeals
Vandalism
Item ID
30430AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
Less detail

20 records – page 1 of 1.