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Food company executives Feng Wu Lam, who owns South El Monte based Golden Food, Inc. and her husband Wei Wen Wu, the company's manager, face insurance fraud, wage theft charges. They are accused of underreporting their payroll to workers' compensation insurance carriers by about $4.5 million between 2015 and 2019. They are both Arcadia residents.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper36163
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 29, 2022
Pages
p. A3, A5
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Pasadena Star News
Date
January 29, 2022
Pages
p. A3, A5
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Insurance fraud
Lam, Feng Wu
Wage theft
Workers' compensation insurance
Wu, Wei Wen
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Woman killed; Pasadena man Alex Danilo Cerna, 51, is accused of vehicular manslaughter, felony hit and run and felony DUI at Baldwin Avenue and Arcadia Avenue.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper34736
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
December 16, 2016
Pages
p. A9
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Pasadena Star News
Date
December 16, 2016
Pages
p. A9
Subjects
Cerna, Alex Danilo
Crime and Criminals
Item ID
34928AN
Collection
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An Arcadia man, George Kobayashi, has been arrested and charged with helping students cheat on standardized exams for Graduate School.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper8031
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
October 29, 1996
Pages
p. A1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
October 29, 1996
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
American Test Center
Kobayashi, George
Item ID
7991AN
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George Torres, of Arcadia, was convicted of 55 felony counts, including racketeering, "honest services" mail fraud, and wire fraud, conspiring to harbor illegal immigrants and tax charges. The jury also found that Torres solicited the 1994 murder of a gang member who demanded a "tax" from a Numero Uno Market. George Torres owned eleven Numero Uno grocery stores in some of the region's poorest neighborhoods.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31440
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 21, 2009
Pages
p. A8
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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 21, 2009
Pages
p. A8
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Numero Uno Markets
Racketeering
Torres, George
Item ID
31633AN
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Joshua Parra-Davis, 23, of Arcadia, was allegedly found with a bomb after visiting Foothills Middle School on January 14, 2011. He will face four felony counts of possession of a destructive or explosive device. He is being held at Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department Pitchess Detention Center in Castaic, and due back at Pasadena Superior Court on June 15 to enter a plea. If convicted of all four felony counts, he could face up to 19 years in prison.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32304
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 1, 2011
Pages
p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
June 1, 2011
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Bombs
Crime and Criminals
Parra-Davis, Joshua
Item ID
32503AN
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Arcadia police arrest La Mirada man Christopher Cook for package robbery. The package had a GPS tracking device. Officers arrested him in South Gate.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper34876
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
May 13, 2017
Pages
p. A5
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Pasadena Star News
Date
May 13, 2017
Pages
p. A5
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Cook, Christopher
Item ID
35066AN
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Joshua Martin Parra-Davis, 23, of Arcadia, pleaded not guilty in Pasadena Superior Court, to charges of possessing and leaving an explosive device in a backpack near a bank on Foothill Boulevard in Arcadia, on Friday, January 14, 2011. He is charged with four felony counts, including possession of a destructive device near a school. Parra-Davis, a former Foothills Middle School student, was seen opening a classroom door last Friday and then later was seen dropping the backpack into some bushes. The bag contained what appeared to be a homemade explosive.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32301
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 20, 2011
Pages
p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
January 20, 2011
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Bombs
Crime and Criminals
Parra-Davis, Joshua Martin
Item ID
32500AN
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Sergeant Dean Caputo said Arcadia Police Department has arrested suspect Cathrino Antonio Gomez, 36, a transient, on charges of auto theft, child endangerment and felony evading arrest. He was arrested after crashing the stolen car while fleeing police.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper29886
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 26, 2006
Pages
p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
January 26, 2006
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Gomez, Cathrino Antonio
Caputo, Dean
Arcadia Police Department
Automobile theft
Car chases
Crime and Criminals
Item ID
30072AN
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Newspaper Index
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Jury finds Deyun Shi, guilty of killing nephews in their Arcadia home. Shi is convicted of two counts of first-degree murder in the 2016 'revenge' act against estranged wife. See also Pasadena Star News, p. A8, March 13, 2024- Jurors get case of man charged in killings of nephews in Arcadia.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper36649
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 14, 2024
Pages
p. A1, A8
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Pasadena Star News
Date
March 14, 2024
Pages
p. A1, A8
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Lin, Anthony
Lin, William
Shi, Deyun
Murders
Trials
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Former Arcadia man accused of lying, losing millions of investors' money. James Arthur McDonald, Jr. former CEO and Chief Investment Officer of Hercules Investments LLC and Index Strategy Advisors Inc. was charged with one count of securities fraud. Prosecutors claim McDonald lost clients of his Los Angeles-based firm Hercules millions of dollars in late 2020. He had been renting a home in Arcadia.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper36351
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
September 22, 2022
Pages
p. A8
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Pasadena Star News
Date
September 22, 2022
Pages
p. A8
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Fraud
McDonald, James Arthur
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Four people are arrested and two are charged in the slaying of Alberto Castillo at Arcadia Motel 6.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper29264
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
Robbery
Santisteven, Peter
Martinez, Carlos
Castillo, Alberto
Arcadia Motel 6
Shootings
Item ID
29449AN
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Former Arcadia Police Department lieutenant Kenneth Kuwahara, 41, who pleaded guilty last year to felony offenses of false personation and identity theft and four misdemeanor counts of soliciting prostitution, will have a sentencing hearing on June 28, 2007.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper30431
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 8, 2007
Pages
p. Local 2
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Pasadena Star News
Date
March 8, 2007
Pages
p. Local 2
Subjects
Arcadia Police Department
Crime and Criminals
Kuwahara, Kenneth
Item ID
30618AN
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Former Hooters restaurant manager Juan M. Aponte of Arcadia was arrested on suspicion of multiple felony accounts, including making secret video recordings of women being interviewed for jobs.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper28303
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
May 15, 2004
Pages
p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
May 15, 2004
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Aponte, Juan M.
Hooters Restaurant - West Covina
Crime & criminals
Item ID
28501AN
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Arcadia kidnapping, rape suspect Philippe Brian Lutete, 29, is charged with false imprisonment and sexual battery of a woman on November 26 in the 2900 block of Spruce Court. He was out on bail when he was also arrested on April 8, 2015 on suspicion of kidnapping and raping a woman over an 11-hour period.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper34150
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 10, 2015
Pages
p. A1, A4
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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 10, 2015
Pages
p. A1, A4
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Lutete, Philippe Brian
Item ID
34344AN
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An Arcadia man, David Frederick Thornton, pleaded guilty to two counts of mail fraud, two counts of wire fraud and one count of impersonating a federal officer. Charges included his defrauding donors to his Thornton Kidney Research Foundation.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper25304
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 18, 2003
Pages
p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
March 18, 2003
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Thornton, David Frederick
Fraud
Scams
Thornton Kidney Research Foundation
Item ID
25502AN
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Phillip Sutliff, 34, of Azusa, an Arcadia High School English teacher, has been arrested and charged with multiple sex crimes against a former student.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper30244
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
October 20, 2006
Pages
p. A1
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
October 20, 2006
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Arcadia High School teachers
Arrests
Crime and Criminals
Educators
Sutliff, Phillip
Item ID
30431AN
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Driver is arrested after 7-Eleven rammed. Monrovia man Sterling Williamson, 23, was arrested on suspicion of murder after he created a disturbance at a 7-Eleven store at 1003 South Baldwin Avenue on November 24, 2022, then allegedly crashed his car through the doors and tried to flee. There were no injuries.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper36379
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
November 26, 2022
Pages
p. A3
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
November 26, 2022
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Arrests
Convenience stores
Crime and Criminals
7-Eleven
Williamson, Sterling
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Amy Liang, her brother Alan Liang, and Benson Ip were indicted on five counts of mail fraud and eight counts of wire fraud.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper21456
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
August 1, 2001
Pages
p. A2
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Pasadena Star News
Date
August 1, 2001
Pages
p. A2
Subjects
Crime
Amy Liang
Alan Liang
Benson Ip
Item ID
21678AN
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29-year-old man Philippe Brian Lutete, is charged with kidnapping and raping of two women at his house in unincorporated Arcadia.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper34149
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 11, 2015
Pages
p. A3
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 11, 2015
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Lutete, Philippe Brian
Item ID
34343AN
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Newspaper Index
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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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Newspaper
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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