By Mary O’KEEFE Glendale police responded to a possible carjacking on Dec. 13 at 9:30 p.m. at La Crescenta and Montrose avenues. When the officer arrived he found a man, later identified as Trevon Lofton, 19, of Arcadia standing in a fighting position toward a witness. When Lofton saw the officer arrive, he walked eastbound […]
By Mary O’KEEFE On Dec. 13 at 12:55 p.m., Glendale police were called to the 2300 block of Honolulu Avenue in the Montrose Shopping Park concerning a man who had attempted to use a counterfeit bill to obtain change at Revelation Tops. The suspect, later identified as Ronald Golden, 46, of Hawthorne had allegedly gestured […]
By Mary O’KEEFE and Michael ARVIZU Really there is nothing to it. You simply slip into the harness, hook up the ropes, sit on the top of the bridge and go over. Yes, crawl over the top of the bridge and dangle from the end of one rope while you rappel down about 120 feet. […]
By Mary O’KEEFE Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputies from the Crescenta Valley Station responded to a 911 hang up call and discovered several marijuana plants in a home. The 911 call came into the station about 5:30 p.m. on Dec. 1. Deputies were sent to the residence where the call originated to make certain there […]
By Mary O’KEEFE The family of missing woman Megan (Ganajian) Dipiazza, 33, continues to search anywhere they think this mother, wife and daughter may be. Megan went missing on Nov. 11 after an argument with her husband Sal. The couple was having marital issues and had recently separated. Glendale police reported finding a note in […]
After four years in Sacramento, former Assemblymember Anthony Portantino returns to LCF. By Mary O’KEEFE The 2012 California Legislature was sworn in on Dec. 3. It was the largest Assembly class since 1966. For those legislators, both incumbents and newly elected, it was an exciting time. For former Assemblymember Anthony Portantino, though, it was bittersweet. […]
MSR team is at the ready no matter who – or what – needs a helping hand. By Mary O’KEEFE On Saturday as members of the Montrose Search and Rescue team were preparing to participate in the Montrose Glendale Christmas Parade, they received a call out to the Dark Canyon area of the Angeles National […]
By Mary O’KEEFE After four and a half years of being the “go to” cop for Montrose and far north Glendale, Officer Matt Zakarian will be moving downtown to a new position in the Glendale Police Dept. For over four years Zakarian has been the lead community officer for the North Command area of Glendale. […]
By Mary O’KEEFE A 14-year-old boy was struck by a vehicle and thrown about 20 feet as he was crossing northbound on Pennsylvania Avenue at about 8:20 p.m. on Tuesday. The boy was walking in a marked crosswalk at Honolulu Avenue at Pennsylvania, according to a Glendale police report. The driver was traveling northbound on […]
By Mary O’KEEFE A 17-year-old male who was a passenger in a vehicle died Saturday night after the driver, Arash Sanei, 19, of Montrose lost control of his 2005 Lexus on La Tuna Canyon Road about a mile from the Foothill (210) freeway. The vehicle spun out of control and slammed into a cement guardrail. […]