County Supervisor Michael Antonovich offered a $5000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the hit and run driver who struck and killed Fuzhi Ji and his 2-year old grandson.
Arcadia resident Fuzhi Ji was struck and killed by a hit and run driver while carrying his 2-year old grandson across Santa Anita Avenue and Bonita Street.
Sheriff's homicide detectives arrested Arcadia man, 72-year-old Richard Cole, in the 2001 fatal stabbing of his wife, Charlotte S. Cole, who was found slumped over the steering wheel of her minivan in an Arcadia parking lot. Although he was a person of interest initially, the case remained open and went cold for 10 years. Investigators gathered evidence in the last year, leading to his arrest on Sunday, November 4, 2012. This was his second arrest in the killing.
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.
A prayer vigil will be held in memory of longtime school teacher, Charlotte Cole, who was slain in her minivan in the parking lot behind Coco's Restaurant on September 1, 2002. The case remains unsolved.
73-year-old Jesus Plasencia Lopez from El Monte has been arrested for a fatal hit-and-run. He allegedly drove a Saturn that hit Guey-Ying Wu and her husband Chia Wu at Santa Anita Avenue and Camino Real Avenue in Arcadia. Lopez is being held at Los Angeles County Jail on $50,000 bail.
The dead body of Lainie Cole, 38, of El Monte, was found floating in the lake at Peck Road Water Conservation Park at 5401 N. Peck Road. The community workers who found the body called in Arcadia Police Department but the case has been turned over to the Sheriff's Homicide Bureau.
Police arrested two men and are seeking two others in connection with a stabbing that occurred at the height of the holiday shopping season at the Santa Anita Fashion Park.
There are seven people running for two seats in the April 11 Arcadia City Council election: Sheng Chang, Charles "Chuck" Chivetta, Mary Dougherty, Vincent J. Foley, John S. MacDonnell, Gino Roncelli and Mark "Mickey" Segal.
The Arcadia City Council matched a $20,000 reward offered by Los Angeles County, making a combined reward of $40,000, for information about the 2007 killing of restaurant owner Jason Wei.
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.
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.
County officials are offering a $20,000 reward for information in the slaying of Jason Wei, an Arcadia restaurant owner. He was held up and shot at his Osaka Ya Restaurant on November 25, 2007.
Some local killings remain unsolved. Police say few people have come forth to testify about the homicide of Ryan Brock for fear of retaliation from suspects and their associates.
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.
The mysterious death of Lainie Cole, whose body was found in the lake at Peck Road Water Conservation Park, is still unsolved. Autopsy results are pending. She leaves behind a 12-year-old daughter, 15-year-old son, and a toddler.