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Gerardo Cortez, 26, of Monrovia was arrested for allegedly making telephone threats to shoot adults and children with an AK-47 at schools (including Arcadia High School), a mall, and hospitals in the San Gabriel Valley last week. See also Mountain Views News, September 14, 2013, p. 1.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper33616
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
September 18, 2013
Pages
p. A1, A4
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Pasadena Star News
Date
September 18, 2013
Pages
p. A1, A4
Subjects
Arcadia High School
Arcadia Police Department
Cortez, Gerardo
Crime and Criminals
Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department
Monrovia Police Department
Item ID
33811AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Monrovia man Gerardo Cortez, 26, was arrested for allegedly making telephone threats to shoot adults and children with an assault rifle at schools (including Arcadia High School), the Westfield Santa Anita mall, and a hospital in the San Gabriel Valley last week. He was booked at Monrovia Police Department for five counts of felony Making Criminal Threats and five counts of False Report of an Emergency. He is to be arraigned today. See also Mountain Views News, September 14, 2013, p. 1.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper33617
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
September 19, 2013
Pages
p. 1, 4
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
September 19, 2013
Pages
p. 1, 4
Subjects
Arcadia High School
Arcadia Police Department
Cortez, Gerardo
Crime and Criminals
Guthrie, Robert (Chief of Arcadia Police Department)
Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department
Monrovia Police Department
Item ID
33812AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Gerardo Cortez, 26, of Monrovia, pleads not guilty in threats to shoot students in area schools. He is charged with 6 counts of making false criminal threats and 5 counts of falsely reporting an emergency.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper33664
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
October 31, 2013
Pages
p. 1, 9
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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
October 31, 2013
Pages
p. 1, 9
Subjects
Cortez, Gerardo
Crime and Criminals
Item ID
33860AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Gerardo Cortez arraignment postponed to October 4, 2013. He allegedly made a series of threats to several San Gabriel Valley locations. He has a history of making false bomb threats.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper33629
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
September 26, 2013
Pages
p. 1, 19
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
September 26, 2013
Pages
p. 1, 19
Subjects
Cortez, Gerardo
Crime and Criminals
Item ID
33824AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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The arraignment of Gerardo Cortez, of Monrovia, has been postponed to October 25, 2013. He allegedly made a series of telephone threats to several San Gabriel Valley locations, including a shopping mall, a medical center, and several schools, including Arcadia High School. The caller said he had an AK-47 gun and threatened to shoot people. The joint police forces from Arcadia, Covina and Monrovia, the FBI, and the Los Angeles County Sheriffs had investigated.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper33634
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
October 10, 2013
Pages
p. 1, 11
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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
October 10, 2013
Pages
p. 1, 11
Subjects
Cortez, Gerardo
Crime and Criminals
Item ID
33829AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Arcadia, Monrovia, and Duarte schools all forced to lock down this week due to phoned in threats of a gunman on 4 separate campuses. On Thursday, September 12, the caller contacted Arcadia Police Department, reporting "he was at Arcadia High School and that he was going to start shooting students with an assault rifle." A second call was received during the police search of the campus that told officers to back off or they would be shot. No suspects of weapons were found.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper33615
Newspaper
Mountain Views News
Date
September 14, 2013
Pages
p. 1
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Newspaper
Mountain Views News
Date
September 14, 2013
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
Arcadia High School
Arcadia Police Department
Item ID
33810AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Arcadia police warn of two armed robberies outside Westfield Santa Anita mall.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper34274
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News,
Date
August 21, 2015
Pages
p. A5
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News,
Date
August 21, 2015
Pages
p. A5
Subjects
Arcadia Police Department
Crime and Criminals
Robberies
Item ID
34468AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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A home invasion robbery on December 12 resulted in the shooting death of 35 year old Jose Antonio Parra, while his girlfriend and three small children were locked in a bedroom. It happened on the 11000 block of Kristi Court in unincorporated county area near Arcadia.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32684
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
December 14, 2011
Pages
p. A1, A4
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
December 14, 2011
Pages
p. A1, A4
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Deaths
Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department--Homicide Bureau
Murders
Parra, Jose Antonio
Robberies
Item ID
32881AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Arcadia Police Department pursues stolen package to Pasadena. Suspect evades multiple law enforcement agencies. The package contained a GPS tracking device.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper34781
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
January 12, 2017
Pages
p. 1, 10
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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
January 12, 2017
Pages
p. 1, 10
Subjects
Arcadia Police Department
Crime and Criminals
Thefts
Item ID
34972AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Arcadia Police Department (APD) successfully battles property crime, deploying bait packages with GPS trackers to foil package thieves, decoy bikes and other mysterious objects. With APD's time tested and evidence-based program, citizens can rest assured that police are actively combating robbers, burglars, and thieves.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35039
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
January 4, 2018
Pages
p. 1, 11
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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
January 4, 2018
Pages
p. 1, 11
Subjects
Arcadia Police Department (APD)
Crime and Criminals
Item ID
35230AN
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Receiving stolen property arrests aided by identification of items and social media. On February 21, Arcadia police arrested two female adults, Daijah D. Ellsworth and Rickeira T. Pearson, one juvenile female, and an adult male for stolen property in their car. Police connected the arrestees to a burglary in Palos Verdes using social media platform "Nextdoor."

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper34476
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
March 3, 2016
Pages
p. 1, 17
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
March 3, 2016
Pages
p. 1, 17
Subjects
Arcadia Police Department
Arrests
Crime and Criminals
Ellsworth, Daijah D.
Pearson, Rickeira T.
Item ID
34668AN
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Newspaper Index
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Former Arcadia Police Department officer Christian Blesch gets 180 days in jail for pilfering more than $40,000 from the Arcadia Police Officers Association. He has paid back the amount stolen and resigned.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper33977
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
October 2, 2014
Pages
p. 31
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
October 2, 2014
Pages
p. 31
Subjects
Arcadia Police Department
Arcadia Police Officers Association
Blesch, Christian
Crime and Criminals
Item ID
34171AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Why the Arcadia Police Department is reporting an overall crime decrease. This most recent quarter (May 1-July 31) has seen a reduction of 10.5% to 11% in residential burglaries compared to the same time period last year.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper34656
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
August 25, 2016
Pages
p. 1, 14
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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
August 25, 2016
Pages
p. 1, 14
Subjects
Guthrie, Robert
Arcadia Police Department
Crime statistics
Item ID
34848AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Arcadia police bust marijuana cultivation operation in the 500 block of East Longden Avenue on November 5, 2013 at approximately 7:00 AM.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper33674
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
November 7, 2013
Pages
p. 4
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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
November 7, 2013
Pages
p. 4
Subjects
Arcadia Police Department
Crime and Criminals
Drugs
Marijuana
Item ID
33870AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Arcadia Police Department investigates the death of a 16-year-old male cyclist who collided with a car driven by a 26-year-old male at 10:00 PM at Santa Anita Avenue and Duarte Road, on October 20, 2012.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper33196
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
October 25, 2012
Pages
p. 1, 6
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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
October 25, 2012
Pages
p. 1, 6
Subjects
Arcadia Police Department
Bicyclists
Deaths
Traffic Accidents
Item ID
33393AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Former Arcadia police officer Christian Blesch (photo), 36, was arrested for embezzlement of Arcadia Police Officers' Association funds. As of September 24, 2013, Blesch was terminated. Blesch allegedly charegd more than $50,000 for personal items on a police association's credit card. He pleaded not guilty to a felony count of grand theft by embezzlement.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper33633
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
October 10, 2013
Pages
p. 1, 5
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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
October 10, 2013
Pages
p. 1, 5
Subjects
Arcadia Police Department--Arcadia Police Officers' Association
Blesch, Christian
Crime and Criminals
Embezzlement
Item ID
33828AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Christian Eric Blesch, 36, a former Arcadia police officer and Arcadia Police Officers' Association treasurer, is accused of embezzling $50,000. He pleaded not guilty in Los Angeles Superior Court on the felony charges of grand theft by embezzlement. He was elected January 2011 to serve as treasurer. He resigned from Arcadia Police Department last month. A second police officer is being investigated.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper33635
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
October 3, 2013
Pages
p. A1, A4
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
October 3, 2013
Pages
p. A1, A4
Subjects
Arcadia Police Department--Arcadia Police Officers' Association
Blesch, Christian
Crime and Criminals
Embezzlement
Item ID
33830AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Home invasion robbery in unincorporated Arcadia leaves father of 3 dead. Police issue sketch of wanted subject. The dead man is Jose Antonio Parra and lived on the 11000 block of Kristi Court.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32683
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
December 15, 2011
Pages
p. 1, 16
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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
December 15, 2011
Pages
p. 1, 16
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Deaths
Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department--Homicide Bureau
Murders
Parra, Jose Antonio
Robberies
Item ID
32880AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Suspect in Arcadia burglary in the 200 block of Monte Place, Steve Gainer, was arrested following a high-speed chase. See also Arcadia Weekly, p. 1, 12, March 31, 2016.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper34504
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 27, 2016
Pages
p. A4
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 27, 2016
Pages
p. A4
Subjects
Arcadia Police Department
Burglaries
Crime and Criminals
Gainer, Steve
Item ID
34696AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Efrain R. Quezada of San Gabriel arrested for burglary after stealing tracker cash pack from an Arcadia business in the 1200 block of South Golden West Avenue.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35260
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
August 30, 2018
Pages
p. 1, 11
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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
August 30, 2018
Pages
p. 1, 11
Subjects
Arcadia Police Department
Crime and Criminals
Quezada, Efrain R.
Item ID
35449AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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