A 20-year-old Arcadia resident charged with murdering his father remained in custody. The son is charged with the strangulation death of 48-year-old Wenda Peter Liu in their Longden Avenue home.
The body of Wenda Peter Liu was found lying in a hallway after police responded to a 911 call by one of his sons. The son, age 20, was arrested on suspicion of murder.
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.
As part of a plea agreement, Jack Howard Colnot II of Arcadia pleaded guilty to embezzling nearly $89,000 in soccer league funds. He will be sentenced to five years probation and ordered to repay the money.
Lisa Welchert, who crashed into a station wagon, killing John Chan, while driving drunk, was sentenced to 13 years in prison for gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated.
Peter Phoenix, 27, of Rosemead, was found guilty of four of seven counts of "distraction burglaries" targeting seniors in the San Gabriel Valley. His sentence is 144 years in prison.
A 22 year old Monterey Park man was shot and killed after leaving the Sportsrock Cafe about 1:30am and getting involved in an argument with 10-15 men in a nearby parking lot. He was shot with an illegal pen gun.
Arcadia stockbroker Richard Robert Russo was found guilty of first-degree murder for killing his wife Carmen one year ago. He faces 50 years to life in prison with the possibility of parole.
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.
70-year-old Mulji Patel of Arcadia was sentenced to 12 years in prison for hitting a workers' compensation attorney in the head with a hammer. The assault happened on January 31, 2006. Erwin A. Nepomuceno was the victim.
A panel discussion chaired by Assembly member Carol Liu, D-Pasadena, addressing the issue of Asian gang activity, was held in Arcadia City Council Chambers on Wednesday, November 14. It was a fact finding hearing intending to develop legislative and community oriented solutions to Asian organized crime in California.
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.
Sara Olivia Bravo, 28, of La Puente, is being charged in a pretrial hearing with second degree murder and vehicular manslaughter for the death of a 3-year-old boy, Talmin Moye II.
Ryan Brock, 29, of San Gabriel, was shot several times in the chest Wednesday, April 13, 2005 in the parking lot of 99 Ranch Market and later died. Police believe it was not a random robbery gone bad but there may have been a relationship between the suspect and the victim. The suspect appeared to be Latino, around age 20. Police are seeking help from witnesses.
A 30-year old man was shot in an apparent robbery in the parking lot of 99 Ranch Market on Wednesday, April 13, 2005. He was pronounced dead at Huntington Memorial Hospital. The suspect got away.