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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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Arcadia Weekly
Date
February 14, 2019
Pages
p. 12
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Echauri, Matthew Fay
Item ID
35671AN
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A jury hears defendant Richard Robert Russo's conversation with Arcadia policeman Bruce Smith as he says, "I killed my wife." Russo's wife Carmen had about 18 bullet holes in her body. Russo is charged with murder and two counts of child abuse. They lived in the exclusive Santa Anita Oaks neighborhood of Arcadia.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper30180
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
August 16, 2006
Pages
p. A1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
August 16, 2006
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Russo, Carmen
Russo, Richard Robert
Crime and Criminals
Murders
Russo murder
Trials
Item ID
30366AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Two teenage stabbing victims are expected to recover from injuries they sustained when they fought with unknown attackers outside the southeast side of the Westfield Shoppingtown Santa Anita mall.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 19, 2006
Pages
p. A2
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Pasadena Star News
Date
January 19, 2006
Pages
p. A2
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Stabbings
Westfield Shoppingtown Santa Anita
Item ID
30062AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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A South Korean fugitive named Bae Chang-kul was captured in Arcadia and has been returned to his native country, where he is accused of stealing $37 million from his company's account in January 2003. The 48-year-old has been living in Arcadia with a long-expired visa.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32232
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
November 21, 2010
Pages
p. A7
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Pasadena Star News
Date
November 21, 2010
Pages
p. A7
Subjects
Bae, Chang-kul
Crime and Criminals
Fugitives
Item ID
32431AN
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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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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
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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
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p. 1, 11
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
August 30, 2018
Pages
p. 1, 11
Subjects
Arcadia Police Department
Crime and Criminals
Quezada, Efrain R.
Item ID
35449AN
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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.

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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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Arcadia Police Department and Monrovia Police Department catch vacuum thief who stole a $600 vacuum from a store on Huntington Drive, then he caught the 187 Foothill Transit Bus to get away. The police cited and released him on the promise to appear in court on the charge of theft.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper34634
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
July 28, 2016
Pages
p. 1
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
July 28, 2016
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Thieves
Item ID
34826AN
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Amy Liang, her brother Alan Liang, and Benson Ip were indicted on five counts of mail fraud and eight counts of wire fraud.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper21456
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Pasadena Star News
Date
August 1, 2001
Pages
p. A2
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Pasadena Star News
Date
August 1, 2001
Pages
p. A2
Subjects
Crime
Amy Liang
Alan Liang
Benson Ip
Item ID
21678AN
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Former Arcadia police officer Christian Blesch, 36, was arrested and charged with grand theft. He allegedly embezzled funds from the Arcadia Police Officers' Association over a period of several months. As of September 24, 2013, Blesch was no longer employed by Arcadia Police Department.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper33643
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
October 3, 2013
Pages
p. 1
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
October 3, 2013
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
Arcadia Police Department--employees
Arcadia Police Officers' Association
Blesch, Christian
Crime and Criminals
Embezzlement
Item ID
33838AN
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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.

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Arcadia Weekly
Date
October 31, 2013
Pages
p. 1, 9
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
October 31, 2013
Pages
p. 1, 9
Subjects
Cortez, Gerardo
Crime and Criminals
Item ID
33860AN
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An Arcadia man, David Frederick Thornton, pleaded guilty to two counts of mail fraud, two counts of wire fraud and one count of impersonating a federal officer. Charges included his defrauding donors to his Thornton Kidney Research Foundation.

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Pasadena Star News
Date
March 18, 2003
Pages
p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
March 18, 2003
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Thornton, David Frederick
Fraud
Scams
Thornton Kidney Research Foundation
Item ID
25502AN
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The California Second District Court of Appeals rejected Mulji Patel's claim that the restitution awarded to Erwin Nepomuceno for $20,250 in lost earnings was excessive. Patel was convicted in March 2009 on two counts of assaults with a deadly weapon for the January 31, 2006 attack on Nepomuceno, a workers' compensation attorney. Patel was a Rockwell International employee and a jury found him sane at the time. Patel was sentenced in May 2009 to 12 years in state prison.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32229
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Pasadena Star News
Date
November 15, 2010
Pages
p. A4
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Pasadena Star News
Date
November 15, 2010
Pages
p. A4
Subjects
Assault
Crime and Criminals
Nepomuceno, Erwin
Patel, Mulji
Item ID
32428AN
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The 2001 murder of grocer Adel Karas, a 48-year old Egyptian man from Arcadia, a few days after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, was initially thought to have been a hate crime. He was shot at his store International Market at 1381 E. Last Tunas in San Gabriel. Now police suspect Adel Karas was the victim of extortion. The suspects are two Latinos in their mid-20s.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32176
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
September 12, 2010
Pages
p. A1, A7
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Pasadena Star News
Date
September 12, 2010
Pages
p. A1, A7
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Karas, Adel
Murder
Item ID
32375AN
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Ryan Richard Swender, of Arcadia, along with two others, plead not guilty in the December 1 stabbing of a 17-year-old boy at Memorial Park in Sierra Madre.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
February 28, 2007
Pages
p. Local 1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
February 28, 2007
Pages
p. Local 1
Subjects
Chang, Marvin Joseph
Chang, Richfield Jia
Crime and Criminals
Stabbings
Swender, Ryan Richard
Item ID
30609AN
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Jonathan Robert Poyner, 20, of Glendora, a part-time employee at Rio Hondo Prep School in Arcadia, is accused of lewd acts on a child under 14 and two counts of attempted molestation.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper29824
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
December 16, 2005
Pages
p. A1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
December 16, 2005
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Child molestation
Crime and Criminals
Lewd conduct
Poyner, Jonathan Robert
Rio Hondo Prep School
Item ID
30009AN
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Newspaper Index
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A federal jury found Cottrell guilty of conspiracy and seven counts of arson.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper29308
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
November 20, 2004
Pages
p. A1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
November 20, 2004
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Cottrell, William Jensen (aka Cottrell, Billy)
Crime and Criminals
Ecoterrorism and ecoterrorists
Trials
Item ID
29492AN
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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.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
October 10, 2019
Pages
p. 3
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
October 10, 2019
Pages
p. 3
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Kidnapping
Mendez, Robert Michael
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California Horse Racing Board suspends trainer Steven Jiro Miyadi's license after battery on jockey Alex Solis. Miyadi is a 59-year-old resident of Arcadia.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
September 29, 2016
Pages
p. 1, 10
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
September 29, 2016
Pages
p. 1, 10
Subjects
Horse trainers
Jockeys
Miyadi, Steven Jiro
Solis, Alex
Item ID
34875AN
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Newspaper Index
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Former Arcadia police lieutenant Kenneth Kuwahara, 40, entered his plea of guilty to false personation and identity theft, both felonies, and four misdemeanor counts of soliciting prostitution. The solicitations happened between January and May of 2005, while Kuwahara was on duty as watch commander. He faces up to 5 years in prison. The article includes Chief Bob Sanderson's comments.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper29944
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 7, 2006
Pages
p. A1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
March 7, 2006
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Kuwahara, Kenneth
Sanderson, Bob
Arcadia Police Department
Crime and Criminals
Item ID
30130AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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