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Arcadia police are searching for a man in his 50s wanted in the attempted kidnapping of a 5-year-old school girl on a field trip to the Westfield Shoppingtown Santa Anita. He was described as Asian, with gray hair and a bald spot on top of his head. He was 5'8" tall, 170 pounds, with yellow teeth, blue pants, and white sneakers.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31314
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
December 11, 2008
Pages
p. A4
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
December 11, 2008
Pages
p. A4
Subjects
Abduction
Crime and Criminals
Kidnapping
Item ID
31509AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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A middle-aged man tried to kidnap a 5-year-old school girl from the Westfield Shoppingtown Santa Anita mall on November 26. His composite sketch is shown and is described as an Asian male in his 50s, 5'8" with gray hair and a bald spot. Police are calling it an isolated incident but parents should be vigilant.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31315
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
December 12, 2008
Pages
p. A1, A14
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Pasadena Star News
Date
December 12, 2008
Pages
p. A1, A14
Subjects
Abduction
Crime and Criminals
Kidnapping
Malls
Item ID
31510AN
Collection
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Ex-Muir High School teacher Brandon Michael Landreth, 30, of Pasadena, will be tried for murdering his his ex-wife's boyfriend Justo Cesar Morales. He pleaded not guilty. Ex-wife Tania Landreth claimed he had confessed to killing Morales

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31357
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 16, 2009
Pages
p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
January 16, 2009
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Landreth, Brandon Michael
Morales, Justo Cesar
Murders
Trials
Item ID
31552AN
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A suspect, described as a Chinese woman in her mid-50s, 5 feet tall and 100 pounds, may have attempted to kidnap a 7-year old girl from Holly Avenue Elementary School. She was unsuccessful and may have mental health issues.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper30398
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
February 15, 2007
Pages
p. Local 1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
February 15, 2007
Pages
p. Local 1
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Kidnap
Item ID
30585AN
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A woman shot to death, on 210 Freeway in Arcadia, was the target, CHP says. 35-year-old Bertha Hernandez was shot and killed on September 4, 2021. The suspected shooter, Sidney Terrance Johnson, is Hernandez's ex-boyfriend.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper36349
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
October 19, 2022
Pages
p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
October 19, 2022
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Deaths
Hernandez, Bertha
Johnson, Sidney Terrance
Shootings
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The trial of Isaac Campbell, a San Gabriel man accused of killing his ex-girlfriend Liya "Jessie" Lu and stuffing her body in a trash can at his friend Michael Darby's home in Arcadia, has begun at Alhambra Superior Court.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32653
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
November 8, 2011
Pages
p. A1, A4
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Pasadena Star News
Date
November 8, 2011
Pages
p. A1, A4
Subjects
Campbell, Isaac
Crime and Criminals
Darby, Michael
Homicide
Lu, Liya "Jessie"
Murder trials
Trials
Item ID
32850AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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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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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
Collection
Newspaper Index
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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
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Teacher Brandon Michael Landreth, 30, of Pasadena, pleaded not guilty at his arraignment in Pasadena Superior Court. He allegedly confessed to his ex-wife that he shot 25-year old Justo Cesar Morales to death at his parents' Canyon Road home in Northern Arcadia.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper30978
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 18, 2008
Pages
p. News 1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 18, 2008
Pages
p. News 1
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Landreth, Brandon Michael
Morales, Justo Cesar
Murders
Item ID
31173AN
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A man with a stun gun shot and tried to kidnap two 16-year old girls walking down Golden West Avenue, but resident Dale Raine's yells scared the man away.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper3741
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
July 8, 1994
Pages
P. 3 photo
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
July 8, 1994
Pages
P. 3 photo
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Item ID
3609AN
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Newspaper Index
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Holy Angels Elementary School was closed yesterday because its head pastor, Reverend Michael Evans, has a sister named Teresa Evans, who is a Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) sergeant, named by suspected killer Christopher Dorner (ex-LAPD), in his 11,000 word manifesto posted on Facebook last week. Dorner is suspected in the shooting deaths of three people--Monica Quan, daughter of Dorner's attorney during his review hearing, Quan's fiance, and a Riverside police officer. Dorner was terminated from LAPD and is believed to be on a killing rampage. Holy Angels School hopes to open tomorrow or Thursday. See also Arcadia Weekly, February 14, 2013.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper33371
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
February 12, 2013
Pages
p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
February 12, 2013
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Dorner, Christopher
Evans, Michael (Reverend)
Holy Angels Elementary School
Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD)
Item ID
33567AN
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Newspaper Index
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Detectives release more information about the murdered woman, Liya "Jessie" Lu. Her body was stuffed into a plastic trash container and covered with kitty litter to mask the odor. Police are still earching for suspect Isaac Campbell, boyfriend of the deceased.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper30737
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
September 27, 2007
Pages
p. Local 1
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
September 27, 2007
Pages
p. Local 1
Subjects
Campbell, Isaac J.
Crime and Criminals
Homicide
Lu, Liya "Jessie"
Murder
Item ID
30925AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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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.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper36548
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
September 24, 2023
Pages
p. A1, A8
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Pasadena Star News
Date
September 24, 2023
Pages
p. A1, A8
Subjects
Bribery
Baldwin Park, California
Cannabis
Crime and Criminals
Tafoya, Robert
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Renee Russo, 20, eldest daughter of Richard Robert Russo, a man accused of shooting his wife Carmen Russo to death, testifies that her father and stepmother had a troubled relationship.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper30182
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
August 22, 2006
Pages
p. A1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
August 22, 2006
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Russo, Carmen
Russo, Renee
Russo, Richard Robert
Crime and Criminals
Murders
Russo murder
Trials
Item ID
30368AN
Collection
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Kianji Zhai and Hua Kiang of Arcadia were arrested and booked on charges of kidnapping, extortion, slavery and assault with a deadly weapon. They are accused of enslaving and torturing their 20 year old babysitter.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper9557
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 18, 1997
Pages
p. A1
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 18, 1997
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Item ID
9512AN
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Newspaper Index
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DUI suspect Michael Frye, 25, of Ontario, arrested after he strikes a fire hydrant at Westfield Santa Anita mall early Friday.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32807
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 14, 2012
Pages
p. A4
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 14, 2012
Pages
p. A4
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Frye, Michael
Item ID
33004AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Dale Paul Raine, 30, received the Mayor's Certificate of Commendation for helping to stop the attempted kidnapping of two 16-year-old girls near his home on Golden West Avenue.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper4094
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
August 3, 1994
Pages
p. A-3 photo
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
August 3, 1994
Pages
p. A-3 photo
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Item ID
3970AN
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Newspaper Index
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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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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
December 16, 2016
Pages
p. A9
Subjects
Cerna, Alex Danilo
Crime and Criminals
Item ID
34928AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Arcadia police are investigating two separate incidents as possible homicides. One man was shot and killed during a robbery at a motel and a 35 year-old transient woman was found dead at Arcadia County Park.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper29195
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
October 12, 2004
Pages
p. A3
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
October 12, 2004
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Homicides
Murder
Deaths
Item ID
29380AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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