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25-year-old Arcadia man Matthew Fay Echauri sentenced to 10 years and life in state prison with the possibility of parole for attempted murder, mayhem and domestic violence for stabbing his 18 year-old girlfriend in Temple City two years ago.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35435
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
March 14, 2019
Pages
p. 12
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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
March 14, 2019
Pages
p. 12
Subjects
Echauri, Matthew Fay
Crime and Criminals
Item ID
35627AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Decision 2018: Arcadia's April election is for three City Council seats, for Districts 2, 3 and 5, for 4-year terms. Candidates are Tom Beck, Roger Chandler, Robert Harbicht, Joyce Platt, Sho Tay, and Jolly Wu.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35061
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
January 18, 2018
Pages
p. 1, 10
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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
January 18, 2018
Pages
p. 1, 10
Subjects
Arcadia City Council 2010-2019
Arcadia City Council Elections-2018
Beck, Tom
Chandler, Roger
Harbicht, Robert
Platt, Joyce
Tay, Sho
Wu, Jolly
Item ID
35251AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Low voter turnout sends Tom Beck, Roger Chandler and Sho Tay to Arcadia City Council. Just over 20% of the 29,382 registered voters mailed in the ballot. See hard copy in VF City Council Elections 2014.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper33801
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
April 10, 2014
Pages
p. 1
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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
April 10, 2014
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
City Council Elections--2014
Beck, Tom
Chandler, Roger
Tay, Sho
Item ID
33996AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Arcadia incumbents appear to hold onto their seats. Semi-official results of City Council election. District 2-Tom Beck (northwest area, the neighborhoods surrounding Santa Anita Park on the north and west); District 5-Roger Chandler (the southeast area).

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35150
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 11, 2018
Pages
p. A3
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 11, 2018
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Arcadia City Council Elections-2018-results
Beck, Tom
Chandler, Roger
Item ID
35339AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Voters choose Tom Beck (District 2) over challenger Bob Harbicht, for City Council seat. Incumbent Roger Chandler (District 5) narrowly defeats challenger Joyce Platt. Preliminary numbers are in. This is the city's first district-based election.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35152
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 12, 2018
Pages
p. A3
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 12, 2018
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Arcadia City Council Elections-2018-results
Beck, Tom
Chandler, Roger
Harbicht, Bob
Platt, Joyce
Item ID
35341AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Man charged with kidnapping, beating ex-girlfriend in Arcadia. Robert Michael Mendez faces one count each of kidnapping and criminal threats and three counts of injuring a girlfriend or child's parent.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35573
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
October 10, 2019
Pages
p. 3
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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
October 10, 2019
Pages
p. 3
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Kidnapping
Mendez, Robert Michael
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Voters support incumbents. Turnout very low.* District 2 winner is Tom Beck with 982 votes out of 1857 votes cast and Roger Chandler won in District 5 with 704 votes out of 1627 cast. In District 3, Sho Tay ran unopposed so he was appointed. *semi-official results.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35154
Newspaper
Mountain Views News
Date
April 14, 2018
Pages
p. 6
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Newspaper
Mountain Views News
Date
April 14, 2018
Pages
p. 6
Subjects
Arcadia City Council Elections-2018-results
Beck, Tom
Chandler, Roger
Harbicht, Bob
Platt, Joyce
Item ID
35343AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Arcadia City Council members to submit nominees for John Wuo's vacant seat at next meeting October 20. Mayor Gary Kovacic and Councilman Tom Beck recommended former mayor Mickey Segal. Councilman Roger Chandler and Sho Tay wanted to take time to think of a few more nominees.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper34321
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
October 8, 2015
Pages
p. A3
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
October 8, 2015
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Arcadia City Council-2010-2019
Beck, Tom
Chandler, Roger
Kovacic, Gary
Segal, Mickey
Tay, Sho
Wuo, John
Item ID
34514AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Arcadia resident in the 700 block of Camino Grove Avenue finds the body of a stranger in his swimming pool. The dead man is 35-year old Greg Tser-Ming Chen of Arcadia. Foul play was not initially suspected in the death. Chen's dog, a golden retriever, which was not on a leash, was found in the backyard too. Chen leaves behind a wife Maggie, who is pregnant with the couple's second child, and a toddler-aged son. See also Pasadena Star News, p. A3, August 9, 2013.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper33584
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
August 10, 2013
Pages
p. A3
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
August 10, 2013
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Chen, Greg Tser-Ming
Deaths
Item ID
33779AN
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Newspaper Index
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Arcadia City Council has two new members and a former city councilman has returned, according to semi-official results of the all-mail ballot election. Tom Beck, a retired attorney, and Sho Tay, a retired businessman, are new. Roger Chandler is the returning councilman.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper33799
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 9, 2014
Pages
p. A1, A6
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 9, 2014
Pages
p. A1, A6
Subjects
City Council Elections--2014
Beck, Tom
Chandler, Roger
Tay, Sho
Item ID
33994AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Peter Amundson selected as mayor and Sho Tay is new mayor pro tem. Mayor Tom Beck had finished up his one year term.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper34859
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
April 20, 2017
Pages
p. 1, 10
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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
April 20, 2017
Pages
p. 1, 10
Subjects
Arcadia City Council-2010-2019
Amundson, Peter
Beck, Tom
Chandler, Roger
Tay, Sho
Verlato, April
Item ID
35049AN
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Newspaper Index
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Alhambra man Isaac Campbell was sentenced to the maximum of 11 years in prison for killing his girlfriend Liya "Jessie" Lu, 31, of San Gabriel, and then putting her body in a trash can full of kitty litter in the backyard of Campbell's friend in Arcadia.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper33108
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
July 17, 2012
Pages
p. A1, A4
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
July 17, 2012
Pages
p. A1, A4
Subjects
Campbell, Isaac
Crime and Criminals
Homicide
Lu, Liya "Jessie"
Murder
Trials
Item ID
33305AN
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Newspaper Index
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Sex offender Jaime Elvis Elizondo, 35, of San Gabriel, was sentenced this week to 30 years to life in prison for molesting a 5-year-old girl at a mall bookstore in Arcadia in 2008.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32162
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
September 4, 2010
Pages
p. A4
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
September 4, 2010
Pages
p. A4
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Elizondo, Jaime Elvis
Molestation
Sex offenders
Item ID
32359AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Brandon Landreth, a former John Muir High School (Pasadena) history teacher, was sentenced to 35 years to life, in state prison for killing Arcadia man Justo Cesar Morales, nearly 3 years ago. Authorities believed Landreth shot Morales because Morales was dating Landreth's ex-wife.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32338
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
February 23, 2011
Pages
p. A1, A4
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
February 23, 2011
Pages
p. A1, A4
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Landreth, Brandon
Morales, Justo Cesar
Murder
Item ID
32536AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Five running for three Arcadia City Council seats. The five are Tom Beck, a retired Pasadena attorney, Sho Tay, a retired businessman, Roger Chandler, a former Arcadia City Councilman, Paul Van Fleet, an insurance agent, and Burton L. Brink, a sergeant in Los Angeles County Sheriff's Crescenta Valley Station. The completely mail-in ballot election will be on April 8. See hard copy in VF City Council Elections (2014).

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper33772
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 11, 2014
Pages
p. A3
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 11, 2014
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Arcadia City Council Elections (2014)
Beck, Tom
Brink, Burton L.
Chandler, Roger
Tay, Sho
Van Fleet, Paul
Item ID
33967AN
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Newspaper Index
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Mayor Tom Beck recognizes Arcadia High School Advanced Theatre students at July 5 Arcadia City Council meeting for winning First Place Sweepstakes Trophy twice this year. Arcadia High School Theatre Director Steven Volpe in photo with his students.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
July 7, 2016
Pages
p. 1
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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
July 7, 2016
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
Arcadia High School Theatre Department
Beck, Tom (Mayor of Arcadia)
Volpe, Steven
Item ID
34797AN
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Newspaper Index
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Twenty-five year old Matthew Fay Echauri of Arcadia, has been found guilty of brutally stabbing his 18-year-old girlfriend in Temple City two years ago. He was found guilty of four felony counts: one count of attempted murder, one count of mayhem, two counts of dissuading a witness from reporting a crime with force and violence. He is scheduled to be sentenced March 12.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35479
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
February 14, 2019
Pages
p. 12
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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
February 14, 2019
Pages
p. 12
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Echauri, Matthew Fay
Item ID
35671AN
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Newspaper Index
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Arcadia election mailer pokes fun at opposition as election tactics run the gamut. Resident Deborah Priester, a resident of District 5, has had enough of the city council candidate attacks and put out a mailer that encourages voters to select anyone but Roger Chandler. It depicts him at the Monopoly Man.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35123
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
March 22, 2018
Pages
p. 1, 9
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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
March 22, 2018
Pages
p. 1, 9
Subjects
City Council Elections 2018
Chandler, Roger
Priester, Deborah
Item ID
35311AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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A 19-year-old man Matthew Zamora, could face a 25 year prison sentence for shooting and killing 24-year-old Joseph Romero of Arcadia, on June 16, 2012, on the 5200 block of Tyler Avenue in unincorporated county area near Arcadia and El Monte.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper34251
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
July 4, 2015
Pages
p. A3
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
July 4, 2015
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Romero, Joseph
Zamora, Matthew
Item ID
34445AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Bowen Du, 19, an Arcadia man who was charged with felony vehicular manslaughter in the death of 16-year-old Arcadia High School student Alice Zhang, has pleaded not guilty. Du faces up to 6 years in state prison for vehicular manslaughter and up to 3 more years for causing serious injury to Zhang's friend Priyanka Patel, 16, of Upland.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32438
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 29, 2011
Pages
p. A5
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 29, 2011
Pages
p. A5
Subjects
Deaths
Du, Bowen
Patel, Priyanka
Pedestrians--safety
Traffic Accidents
Zhang, Alice
Item ID
32635AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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