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Arcadia City Manager Dominic Lazzaretto has appointed Captain Roy Nakamura as the city's 30th police chief. He is a 28-year veteran of the Arcadia Police Department. He succeeds Chief Robert T. Guthrie, who is retiring. Nakamura is the first police chief of Japanese and Asian descent in a city that once temporarily incarcerated Japanese and Japanese-Americans at Santa Anita Park. Arcadia's population is currently 60.8% Asian.

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Arcadia Weekly
Date
October 29, 2020
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p. 2
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Arcadia Weekly
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October 29, 2020
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Mayor Robert Harbicht is optimistic in his "State of the City" address.

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Arcadia Weekly
Date
February 12, 1998
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p. 1
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
February 12, 1998
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p. 1
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Mayors - Harbicht, Robert
Speeches
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26148AN
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Reorganization of the City Council took place on April 15 with Robert Harbicht becoming Mayor and Gary Kovacic Mayor ProTem.

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Arcadia Weekly
Date
April 17, 1997
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p. 1
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
April 17, 1997
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p. 1
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City Council - 1990-1999
Mayors - Harbicht, Robert
Kovacic, Gary
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26016AN
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Mayor Robert Harbicht will host the first "State of the City" address and hopes this will improve communications between the City Council and the community.

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Arcadia Weekly
Date
January 29, 1998
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p. 1
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
January 29, 1998
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p. 1
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Mayors - Harbicht, Robert
Speeches
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Los Angeles County Court official says zero-bail policy working as intended. Risk is deciding factor in determining if suspect is released without payment. Zero bail eliminates the financial requirements for release from all but the most serious offenses prior to arraignment. Police will instead cite and release, or book and release, suspects for a majority of misdemeanors and some felonies. Serious and violent crimes (such as killing, kidnap, robbery, assault with deadly weapon), are not eligible and still retain previous bail amounts. More than a dozen LA County cities have joined a lawsuit attempting to reverse the policy. Attorneys for the cities, include Whittier, Downey, Beverly Hills, and Arcadia, argue the Superior Courts have balanced the system too heavily in favor of offenders, so much that "victims and public safety are given a zero value."

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Pasadena Star News
Date
October 15, 2023
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p. A1, A14
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Pasadena Star News
Date
October 15, 2023
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p. A1, A14
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Bail
Crime and Criminals
Criminal justice
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David Edward Foley of Duarte was discovered hanging by his own T-shirt from the bars of his cell in the Arcadia City jail.

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Pasadena Star News
Date
December 29, 1997
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p. A7
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Pasadena Star News
Date
December 29, 1997
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p. A7
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Item ID
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Arcadia woman Ruixue "Serena" Shi, 37, pleaded guilty to soliciting $22.8 million in funds for a condominium and hotel project scheme. The crime is one federal count of wire fraud, which has a sentence of up to 20 years in prison. See also Arcadia Weekly, p. 3, 7, October 28, 2021.

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Pasadena Star News
Date
October 27, 2021
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p. A1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
October 27, 2021
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p. A1
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Shi, Ruixue "Serena"
Wire fraud
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In his state of the city address, Mayor Gary Kovacic stated that the future for the city looks bright.

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Arcadia Weekly
Date
February 18, 1999
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p. 1
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
February 18, 1999
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
State of the City Address
Speeches
Mayors - Kovacic, Gary
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26915AN
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Former Arcadia and San Marino Police Chief Robert Stanley Seares died on June 15. He was 89.

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Pasadena Star News
Date
June 26, 1998
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p. A2
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Pasadena Star News
Date
June 26, 1998
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p. A2
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Seares, Robert
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15004AN
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The overall crime rate drops in Arcadia.

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Arcadia Weekly
Date
May 21, 1998
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p. 1
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
May 21, 1998
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p. 1
Subjects
Crime
Statistics
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26520AN
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Violent crime in most west San Gabriel Valley cities was down in 1991. Arcadia crime figures are included in the article.

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Arcadia Tribune
Date
February 6, 1992
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p. B-10
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
February 6, 1992
Pages
p. B-10
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
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23AN
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23 year old Arcadian Jimmy Palma was ambushed and stabbed to death October 13 in the exercise yard of San Quentin State Prison. A Superior Court judge sentenced him to die for killing two children and their mother in El Monte in 1995.

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Pasadena Star News
Date
December 7, 1997
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p. A1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
December 7, 1997
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p. A1
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Palma, Jimmy
Crime and Criminals
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Councilman Bob Harbicht was named mayor by a unanimous vote of the City Council. Councilman Gary Kovacic was named mayor pro-tem.

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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 17, 1997
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p. A2
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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 17, 1997
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p. A2
Subjects
Mayors- Harbicht, Robert
City Council - 1990-1999 - Kovacic, Gary
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Indictment implicates Baldwin Park's ex-city attorney Robert Tafoya in $70,000 bribery scheme to help secure cannabis permit from a vote by Councilman Ricardo Pacheco. Special agents with the FBI and IRS arrested former Compton Councilmember Isaac Galvan, 36, and another person, a 50-year-old Arcadia resident, who is the owner and operator of a cannabis grower that obtained a permit in Baldwin Park.

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Pasadena Star News
Date
September 24, 2023
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p. A1, A8
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Pasadena Star News
Date
September 24, 2023
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p. A1, A8
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Bribery
Baldwin Park, California
Cannabis
Crime and Criminals
Tafoya, Robert
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Arcadia man Robert Michael Mendez, 28, pleads no contest to beating ex-girlfriend, the mother of his two children, on September 29, 2019.

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Arcadia Weekly
Date
September 24, 2020
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p. 3
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
September 24, 2020
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p. 3
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Domestic violence
Mendez, Robert Michael
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Hate crimes in Los Angeles County rose by more than 25 percent last year. Two incidents of hate crime reportedly occurred in Arcadia.

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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 25, 1997
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p. A1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 25, 1997
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p. A1
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Item ID
9516AN
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At least 40 officers from five different agencies joined a massive search Thursday for a man suspected of robbing the California State Bank in Arcadia. Roosevelt Davis, 25, was arrested in an Arcadia neighborhood after the search.

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Pasadena Star News
Date
February 6, 1998
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p. A1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
February 6, 1998
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p. A1
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Crime and Criminals
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This week's City Council proceedings in Sierra Madre and Arcadia saw the appointment of Sierra Madre Mayor Doug Hayes (AHS Class of '68) and Arcadia Mayor Gary Kovacic (AHS Class of '69). Photos.

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Sierra Madre News
Date
April 23, 1998
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p. A1
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Sierra Madre News
Date
April 23, 1998
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p. A1
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Mayors - Kovacic, Gary
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Mayor Bob Harbicht is preparing for the first-ever "State of the City" address February 4.

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Pasadena Star News
Date
January 25, 1998
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p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
January 25, 1998
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
City Council, 1990-1999
Harbicht, Robert
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Mayor Bob Harbicht delivered his first "State of the City" address to about 100 invited guests.

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Pasadena Star News
Date
February 5, 1998
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p. A1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
February 5, 1998
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Mayors - Harbicht, Robert
City Council, 1990 - 1999
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