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More details surface on the death of Arcadia man Richard Baisner, who died after Pasadena police shocked him with a Taser gun.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper30615
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
July 10, 2007
Pages
p. Local 1
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
July 10, 2007
Pages
p. Local 1
Subjects
Baisner, Richard
Deaths
Pasadena Police
Taser stun guns
Weapons
Item ID
30803AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Richard Baisner, an Arcadia man with a history of mental health issues, was shocked by Pasadena police with a Taser weapon during an arrest. He died about an hour later.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper30607
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
July 7, 2007
Pages
p. News 1
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
July 7, 2007
Pages
p. News 1
Subjects
Baisner, Richard
Deaths
Pasadena Police
Taser stun guns
Weapons
Item ID
30795AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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15-year-old Richard Ung was arrested at his parents' home in Arcadia, where sheriffs recovered nine guns, including an AK-47 assault rifle and an assault pistol. Ung is being investigated for alleged involvement in the stabbing death of Boo K. Lee.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper30707
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
September 5, 2007
Pages
p. Local 1
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
September 5, 2007
Pages
p. Local 1
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Guns
Lee, Boo K.
Murders - stabbings
Ung, Richard
Weapons
Item ID
30895AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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A 55-year-old Arcadia man was shot dead at Chantry Flat Campground on April 28, 2011. His name has not been released. He died at Huntington Hospital.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32387
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 30, 2011
Pages
p. A3
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 30, 2011
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Chantry Flat Campground
Crime and Criminals
Deaths
Shootings
Item ID
32585AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Arcadia police are investigating two separate incidents as possible homicides. One man was shot and killed during a robbery at a motel and a 35 year-old transient woman was found dead at Arcadia County Park.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper29195
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
October 12, 2004
Pages
p. A3
More detail
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
October 12, 2004
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Homicides
Murder
Deaths
Item ID
29380AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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The coroner's spokesperson Craig Harvey, says an autopsy has confirmed that Li Zhu died of asphyxia, and the death was ruled a suicide. Li Zhu was a 68-year-old Arcadia man found hanging in his jail cell on January 8. He was arrested on suspicion of fatally stabbing his daughter-in-law, Xiaolin Li, in the 900 block of Arcadia Avenue.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper33729
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 15, 2014
Pages
p. A5
More detail
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 15, 2014
Pages
p. A5
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Deaths
Li, Xiaolin
Li, Zhu
Murders
Suicides
Item ID
33925AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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A 3-year-old boy died when the car he was riding in was struck by a stolen vehicle being chased by Arcadia Police. The suspect that stole the car has been identified as Sara Bravo, 26, of La Puente.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper29819
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
December 12, 2005
Pages
p. A1, A6
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
December 12, 2005
Pages
p. A1, A6
Subjects
Moye, Talmin II (or Jr.)
Bravo, Sara
Arcadia Police Department
Car chases
Crime and Criminals
Deaths
Item ID
30004AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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A man with a stun gun shot and tried to kidnap two 16-year old girls walking down Golden West Avenue, but resident Dale Raine's yells scared the man away.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper3741
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
July 8, 1994
Pages
P. 3 photo
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
July 8, 1994
Pages
P. 3 photo
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Item ID
3609AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Li Zhu, a 68-year-old Arcadia man suspected in the death of his daughter-in-law, Xiaolin Li, was found dead in his jail cell at Twin Towers Correctional Facility at 450 Bauchett Street in Los Angeles. Deputies found him hanging in his cell, in an apparent suicide.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper33728
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 11, 2014
Pages
p. A5
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 11, 2014
Pages
p. A5
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Deaths
Li, Xiaolin
Li, Zhu
Murders
Suicides
Item ID
33924AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Sheriff's homicide detectives arrested Arcadia man, 72-year-old Richard Cole, in the 2001 fatal stabbing of his wife, Charlotte S. Cole, who was found slumped over the steering wheel of her minivan in an Arcadia parking lot. Although he was a person of interest initially, the case remained open and went cold for 10 years. Investigators gathered evidence in the last year, leading to his arrest on Sunday, November 4, 2012. This was his second arrest in the killing.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper33256
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
November 6, 2012
Pages
p. A1, A4
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
November 6, 2012
Pages
p. A1, A4
Subjects
Cole, Charlotte S.
Cole, Richard
Crime and Criminals
Homicide
Murders
Walton, Bill
Item ID
33453AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Authorities identify dead woman found slain at her home in Arcadia as 76-year-old Chyong Jen Tsai. Detectives are still looking for whoever killed the Arcadia grandmother and stole a white Lexus RX300 from the home in the 300 block of East Forest Avenue. Three weeks before the killing, her home had been burglarized. Detectives are not ruling out this connection to the homicide.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35419
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 11, 2019
Pages
p. A13
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 11, 2019
Pages
p. A13
Subjects
Biddle, Richard
Crime and Criminals
Deaths
Murders
Tsai, Chyong Jen
Item ID
35611AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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A passenger (name withheld pending notification to next of kin) in a stolen vehicle was killed and another hurt yesterday following a pursuit by Arcadia police. Richard John Villareal, 28, of Arcadia, and his male passenger led Arcadia police on a chase that ended about 11:40 AM on Lower Azusa Road and Arden Drive in Temple City when the stolen car crashed into two other vehicles. The passenger was dead at the scene. The driver sustained minor injuries and was arrested. See also Arcadia Weekly, p. 7, June 5, 2014.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper33847
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 3, 2014
Pages
p. A1, A5
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 3, 2014
Pages
p. A1, A5
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Deaths
Villareal, Richard John
Item ID
34041AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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A memorial fund was set up to help the family of 3-year-old Talmin Moye II (Jr.) who was killed in a car crash when Sara Bravo was driving a stolen Acura when being pursued by Arcadia Police.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper29821
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
December 14, 2005
Pages
p. A2
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
December 14, 2005
Pages
p. A2
Subjects
Moye, Talmin (II or Jr.)
Bravo, Sara
Arcadia Police Department
Car chases
Crime and Criminals
Deaths
Memorial funds
Item ID
30006AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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A middle-aged man tried to kidnap a 5-year-old school girl from the Westfield Shoppingtown Santa Anita mall on November 26. His composite sketch is shown and is described as an Asian male in his 50s, 5'8" with gray hair and a bald spot. Police are calling it an isolated incident but parents should be vigilant.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31315
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
December 12, 2008
Pages
p. A1, A14
More detail
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
December 12, 2008
Pages
p. A1, A14
Subjects
Abduction
Crime and Criminals
Kidnapping
Malls
Item ID
31510AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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A 22 year old Monterey Park man was shot and killed after leaving the Sportsrock Cafe about 1:30am and getting involved in an argument with 10-15 men in a nearby parking lot. He was shot with an illegal pen gun.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper253
Newspaper
Star-Tribune
Date
February 18, 1993
Pages
p. A-2
More detail
Newspaper
Star-Tribune
Date
February 18, 1993
Pages
p. A-2
Subjects
Crime and Criminals see also murder
Murder
Crime and Criminals
Item ID
253AN
Collection
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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Ryan Richard Swender, of Arcadia, along with two others, plead not guilty in the December 1 stabbing of a 17-year-old boy at Memorial Park in Sierra Madre.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper30422
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
February 28, 2007
Pages
p. Local 1
More detail
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
February 28, 2007
Pages
p. Local 1
Subjects
Chang, Marvin Joseph
Chang, Richfield Jia
Crime and Criminals
Stabbings
Swender, Ryan Richard
Item ID
30609AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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A woman shot to death, on 210 Freeway in Arcadia, was the target, CHP says. 35-year-old Bertha Hernandez was shot and killed on September 4, 2021. The suspected shooter, Sidney Terrance Johnson, is Hernandez's ex-boyfriend.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper36349
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
October 19, 2022
Pages
p. A3
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
October 19, 2022
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Deaths
Hernandez, Bertha
Johnson, Sidney Terrance
Shootings
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Sidney Terrance Johnson of Los Angeles arrested for the freeway shooting death of 35-year-old Bertha Hernandez of Monrovia, on the 210 Freeway in Arcadia, which occurred on Saturday, September 4, 2021. Johnson has been charged with murder.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper36101
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
November 12, 2021
Pages
p. A3
More detail
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
November 12, 2021
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Deaths
Hernandez, Bertha
Johnson, Sidney Terrance
Shootings
Collection
Newspaper Index
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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
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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
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