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Armed robbers barged into a home on the 700 block of West Lemon Avenue and stole jewelry, money and identification. The robbers wore masks.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31334
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
December 27, 2008
Pages
p. A3
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
December 27, 2008
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Chan, Winnie
Crime and Criminals
Robbery
Wu, Annie
Item ID
31529AN
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Four men were arrested Sunday on suspicion of passing funny money at an Arcadia department store.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper22455
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
December 17, 2001
Pages
p. A4
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Pasadena Star News
Date
December 17, 2001
Pages
p. A4
Subjects
Crime
Item ID
22671AN
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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
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 13, 2009
Pages
p. A6
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Residential burglaries
Item ID
31602AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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The reward money for information on the murder of Charlotte Cole outside a Coco's restaurant on September 1, 2001, has been increased to $70,000.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper28600
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 11, 2004
Pages
p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
June 11, 2004
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Crime and Criminals -Murder
Cole Charlotte
Reward
Arcadia Police Department
Los Angeles County Sheriffs Department
Restaurants - Coco's
Item ID
28795AN
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Newspaper Index
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Five teenageers from Arcadia are in custody after allegedly robbing an auto sound and security business on East Colorado in Pasadena.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper25962
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
July 29, 2003
Pages
p. A2
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
July 29, 2003
Pages
p. A2
Subjects
Robbery
Item ID
26163AN
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A possible transient allegedly robbed a Wells Fargo branch inside an Albertson's grocery store on Live Oak Avenue in Arcadia.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper22185
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
November 12, 2001
Pages
p. A4
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
November 12, 2001
Pages
p. A4
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Bank robbery
Item ID
22400AN
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Robert Mike Macardican allegedly stabbed a man and fled to a house on Don Pablo Drive. A SWAT team forced him out and he was arrested.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper29325
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
April 26, 2001
Pages
p.1
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
April 26, 2001
Pages
p.1
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Macardican, Robert Mike
Assault with a deadly weapon
Stabbings
SWAT
Item ID
29509AN
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Burglars stole computers, cash, and Viagra from a medical building at 612 Duarte Road on the night that Arcadia Police were occupied at the stand-off at Richard and Carmen Russo's house that ended in Carmen Russo's death.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper29675
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
September 3, 2005
Pages
p. A1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
September 3, 2005
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Thefts
Burglaries
Item ID
29860AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Marie Orpha Yoder will be 100 years old on Sunday.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper19471
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
August 26, 2000
Pages
p. D2 w/photo
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Pasadena Star News
Date
August 26, 2000
Pages
p. D2 w/photo
Subjects
Yoder, Orpha Marie
Item ID
19711AN
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Peter Phoenix and Marie Miguel were found guilty of committing "distraction burglaries." They targeted seniors in Arcadia, Azusa and Alhambra.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper30127
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
July 7, 2006
Pages
p. A1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
July 7, 2006
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Miguel, Marie
Phoenix, Peter
Burglaries
Crime and Criminals
Item ID
30314AN
Collection
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A purse snatcher wielding a gun allegedly robbed two women. No one was injured.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper29265
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
November 18, 2004
Pages
p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
November 18, 2004
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Purse snatchings
Robbery
Item ID
29450AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Isaac Campbell, an Alhambra man charged with the murder of Liya "Jessie" Lu, appeared in court for a hearing on Tuesday and was ordered to return to court December 3, 2009. He is being held on $1 million bail. He allegedly stuffed her body in a trash can in Arcadia.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31776
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
November 4, 2009
Pages
p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
November 4, 2009
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Campbell, Isaac
Crime and Criminals
Homicide
Lu, Liya "Jessie"
Murder trials
Item ID
31973AN
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County officials are offering a $20,000 reward for information in the slaying of Jason Wei, an Arcadia restaurant owner. He was held up and shot at his Osaka Ya Restaurant on November 25, 2007.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31490
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
May 27, 2009
Pages
p. A1, A6
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Pasadena Star News
Date
May 27, 2009
Pages
p. A1, A6
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Murder
Osaka Ya Restaurant
Wei, Jason
Item ID
31685AN
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Police are urging other possible victims to come forward in the case of Jose "Sonny" Baltazar, 36, an Arcadia-based medical technician arrested for allegedly committing sexual battery on a woman at a convalescent home.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper30954
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 19, 2008
Pages
p. Local 1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
March 19, 2008
Pages
p. Local 1
Subjects
Baltazar, Jose ("Sonny")
Crime and Criminals
Sex crimes
Item ID
31149AN
Collection
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Forty-nine year old Arcadia man Terchi Liao, aka Nelson Liao, was allegedly running a Ponzi scheme, conning people nationwide into investing in two firms he controlled, AOB Commerce Inc. and AOB Asia Fund I LLC. A federal judge has frozen Liao's assets.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper30617
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
July 14, 2007
Pages
p. News 7
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Pasadena Star News
Date
July 14, 2007
Pages
p. News 7
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Liao, Terchi aka Liao, Nelson
Ponzi schemes
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
Item ID
30805AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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John Anderson, 52, pleaded not guilty in Pasadena Superior Court to a probation violation related to a 2005 conviction for prowling, peeking, and trespassing in Arcadia. He allegedly shot a veteran Monrovia police sergeant too.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper30972
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 4, 2008
Pages
p. News 1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 4, 2008
Pages
p. News 1
Subjects
Anderson, John
Crime and Criminals
Sex offenders
Shootings
Item ID
31167AN
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Newspaper Index
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Police warn residents to protect themselves against a serial prowler who allegedly targets Asian homes in the summer months. Police believe he has struck 80 times in the past seven years. Suspect is described as an African-American in his mid-40s weighing 225 pounds.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper30060
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
May 31, 2006
Pages
p. A3
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
May 31, 2006
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Burglars
Item ID
30247AN
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Newspaper Index
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Brian Simpson was arrested by Arcadia Police Department after allegedly trying to defraud the Foothill Federal Credit Union of $59,000 through a fictitious car loan. It was a sting operation by the Arcadia Police Department.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper30074
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 13, 2006
Pages
p. A3
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 13, 2006
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Simpson, Brian
Arrests
Crime and Criminals
Foothill Federal Credit Union
Grand theft
Item ID
30260AN
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The Arcadia City Council matched a $20,000 reward offered by Los Angeles County, making a combined reward of $40,000, for information about the 2007 killing of restaurant owner Jason Wei.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31500
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 4, 2009
Pages
p. A4
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 4, 2009
Pages
p. A4
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Murder
Osaka Ya Restaurant
Wei, Jason
Item ID
31695AN
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Sushi restaurant owner James Wei, 42, was shot dead by a robber who can be seen in surveillance videotape. The restaurant named Osaka Ya is in the Pavilions Shopping Center. Police are seeking the public's help in identifying the gunman.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper30813
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
November 28, 2007
Pages
p. News 1
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
November 28, 2007
Pages
p. News 1
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Murder
Osaka Ya Restaurant
Robbery
Shootings
Wei, James
Item ID
31001AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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