Arcadia Police Department pursues stolen package to Pasadena. Suspect evades multiple law enforcement agencies. The package contained a GPS tracking device.
Arcadia police fight holiday theft with "bait packages" with GPS tracking devices. Two suspects, Dandre Lagerman and Steve Lopez, have been arrested following this operation. See also Arcadia Weekly, p. 16, December 24, 2015.
GPS in bait package leads to arrest of two Canoga Park women who drove through Arcadia in a stolen car. The arrested women are Devon Ricco Menendez and Unique Rios. The GPS-equipped decoy package was left out in the southeast portion of the city. See also Mountain Views News, p. 7, March 26, 2016. See also Arcadia Weekly, p. 1, 12, March 31, 2016.
Arcadia Police Department (APD) successfully battles property crime, deploying bait packages with GPS trackers to foil package thieves, decoy bikes and other mysterious objects. With APD's time tested and evidence-based program, citizens can rest assured that police are actively combating robbers, burglars, and thieves.
Arcadia High School students and staff, Mr. Christopher Schultz (Track and Field coach), aid victims of Hurricane Harvey, a Category 4 storm that struck the coast of South Texas.
One robbery was foiled at Arcadia's Southland Bank, but earlier the same day another man got away with just over $1,000 from the First Interstate Bank on South Baldwin Ave.
Christopher Carl Eastland was killed when his disabled car was struck by a Jeep driven by an alleged drunk driver on the eastbound Foothill Freeway (210).
Arcadia man Ziwen Li, 30, arrested in attempted robbery of $50,000 from a man who arranged to meet Li to buy a used car, a Porsche Cayenne. See also Arcadia Weekly, May 4, 2017, p. 1, 13.
Arcadia Police Department's Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) team responded to a Home Invasion Robbery in progress at a residence on South Third Ave.
Ryan Michaelson, 20, of Temple City, and Andrew Hernandez, 32, of Rosemead were arrested by Arcadia police on Friday. Michaelson was booked on suspicion of transporting an explosive device. Hernandez allegedly pulled the pin on a hand grenade and held police at bay for 5 hours. A hostage negotiation team convinced him to surrender.
23-year-old Arcadia man Joshua Martin Parra-Davis was booked by Arcadia Police on suspicion of possessing an explosive device and leaving it in a backpack near a Bank of America on Foothill Boulevard on Friday, January 14, 2011. Witnesses said Parra-Davis first went to Foothills Middle School and may have been trying to open classrooms when he was confronted and ran off. The suspect was then seen dropping a backpack in bushes near the Bank of America and then running through the parking lot, where officers detained him. Arcadia Police called the bomb squad. The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department Bob Squad successfully detonated the device. Parra-Davis could be arranged in Pasadena Court today.