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Ex-coach Jonathan Robert Poyner gets a 17-year sentence for molesting nine middle school boys and attempting to molest another in 2005.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper30496
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 27, 2007
Pages
p. Local 1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 27, 2007
Pages
p. Local 1
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Molestation
Poyner, Jonathan Robert
Rio Hondo Preparatory School
Sex crimes
Item ID
30683AN
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Newspaper Index
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Peter Phoenix, 27, of Rosemead, was found guilty of four of seven counts of "distraction burglaries" targeting seniors in the San Gabriel Valley. His sentence is 144 years in prison.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper30130
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
July 12, 2006
Pages
p. A1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
July 12, 2006
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Phoenix, Peter
Burglaries
Crime and Criminals
Item ID
30317AN
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Newspaper Index
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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
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Pasadena Star News
Date
May 13, 2009
Pages
p. A8
Subjects
Assault
Crime and Criminals
Nepomuceno, Erwin
Patel, Mulji
Item ID
31662AN
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Newspaper Index
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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
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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
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Newspaper Index
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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
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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
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Newspaper Index
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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
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Pasadena Star News A1,6
Date
July 13, 2004
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Pasadena Star News A1,6
Date
July 13, 2004
Subjects
Aponte, Juan Martin
Hooters Restaurant - West Covina
Sex crimes
Item ID
28950AN
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Newspaper Index
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Jonathan Robert Poyner, a former volunteer coach at Rio Hondo Preparatory School in Arcadia, will serve 17 years in prison after pleading guilty to molesting 10 middle school boys.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper30470
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 13, 2007
Pages
p. News 1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 13, 2007
Pages
p. News 1
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Molestation
Poyner, Jonathan Robert
Rio Hondo Preparatory School
Item ID
30657AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Lisa Welchert, who crashed into a station wagon, killing John Chan, while driving drunk, was sentenced to 13 years in prison for gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper27513
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
May 25, 2000
Pages
p. 1
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
May 25, 2000
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
Automobile accidents
Drunk Driving
Lawsuits
Murder
Chan, John
Welchert, Lisa
Item ID
27711AN
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Newspaper Index
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Former Arcadia High School English teacher Phillip Morgan Sutliff was sentenced, under a plea bargain, to 12 years and 8 months in state prison for sex crimes against a female student. See also 30835AN.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper30764
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
October 27, 2007
Pages
p. News 1, 8
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Pasadena Star News
Date
October 27, 2007
Pages
p. News 1, 8
Subjects
Arcadia High School - teachers
Crime and Criminals
Sex crimes
Sutliff, Phillip Morgan
Item ID
30952AN
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Newspaper Index
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Marco Antonio Irigoyen of West Covina has been sentenced to seven years in state prison for lewd conduct with a minor. He was a fourth grade teacher at Rio Hondo Elementary School in Arcadia. He pleaded no contest.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper30597
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 26, 2007
Pages
p. News 1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
June 26, 2007
Pages
p. News 1
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Irigoyen, Marco Antonio
Lewd conduct
Rio Hondo Elementary School
Item ID
30785AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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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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Newspaper Index
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Former Caltech graduate student William "Billy" Cottrell was re-sentenced to serve at least 18 more months in prison for participating in a vandalism spree in the San Gabriel Valley in 2003.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31822
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
November 17, 2009
Pages
p. A1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
November 17, 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
32019AN
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Newspaper Index
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A 37-year old Los Angeles man died early Saturday morning after exiting the Foothill Freeway (210) at Baldwin Avenue driving through a perimeter fence and smashing into a concrete wall.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper30004
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 23, 2006
Pages
p. A4
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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 23, 2006
Pages
p. A4
Subjects
Deaths
Automobile crashes
Traffic Accidents
Hernandez, Edmundo, Jr.
Item ID
30191AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Ricardo Preciado, son of Arcadia resident Esther Preciado, along with Kenneth Bruce, was killed on December 10, 2001 in a hit-and-run crash. The truck driver, George Hoelker, was given a light sentence and the families are angered.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper24457
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
September 13, 2002
Pages
p. A5
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Pasadena Star News
Date
September 13, 2002
Pages
p. A5
Subjects
Hit-and-run
Preciado, Ricardo
Bruce, Kenneth
Item ID
24648AN
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Newspaper Index
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Arcadia stockbroker Richard Robert Russo was found guilty of first-degree murder for killing his wife Carmen one year ago. He faces 50 years to life in prison with the possibility of parole.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper30192
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
September 1, 2006
Pages
p. A1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
September 1, 2006
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Russo, Carmen
Russo, Richard Robert
Crime and Criminals
Murders
Russo murder
Trials
Item ID
30379AN
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Newspaper Index
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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
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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
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Newspaper Index
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Former Arcadia High School teacher Phillip Morgan Sutliff pleaded guilty to multiple sex crimes against a former student, accepting a plea bargain of 12 years and eight months in state prison.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper30646
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
August 4, 2007
Pages
p. News 1
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
August 4, 2007
Pages
p. News 1
Subjects
Arcadia High School - teachers
Crime and Criminals
Sex crimes
Sutliff, Phillip Morgan
Item ID
30835AN
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Newspaper Index
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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
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Newspaper Index
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A vintage toymaking program was part of the Ruth and Charles Gilb Arcadia Historical Museum exhibit on the history of toys.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper30281
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
November 19, 2006
Pages
p. News 3
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
November 19, 2006
Pages
p. News 3
Subjects
Exhibits
Museums
Ruth and Charles Gilb Arcadia Historical Museum
Item ID
30468AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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The man who died in a Pasadena police Taser gun incident was 36-year old Richard Baisner of Arcadia.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper30606
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
July 6, 2007
Pages
p. Local 1
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
July 6, 2007
Pages
p. Local 1
Subjects
Baisner, Richard
Deaths
Pasadena Police
Taser stun guns
Weapons
Item ID
30794AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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