Free orientation offers crime prevention tips
For business owners, employees
Palmdale’s public safety and community relations department, in conjunction with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, will host a free Business Watch presentation for business owners and employees on Thursday, Feb. 23 at 8 a.m. in the City Council chamber, located at 38300 Sierra Highway in Palmdale.
Business owners and employees are invited to attend and learn about the program, a free service offered to all businesses in the city. Staff members from the public safety and community relations department and representatives from the Palmdale Sheriff’s Station will be in attendance.
Sheriff’s deputies in Palmdale asked the public’s help in locating 50 bags of fertilizer stolen from Pelona Vista Park.
The theft occurred at the park in the 37000 block of Tierra Subida Ave., possibly between late night on July 16 or early the next morning, said Lt. Cory Kennedy of the Palmdale Sheriff’s Station.
“We believe it may have taken some time to load all the bags into their vehicles, and hopefully someone may have seen the suspect or suspects or can identify the vehicle involved in the crime,” Kennedy said.
Sheriff’s deputies in Palmdale asked the public’s help in locating 50 bags of fertilizer stolen from Pelona Vista Park.
The theft occurred at the park in the 37000 block of Tierra Subida Ave., possibly between late night on July 16 or early the next morning, said Lt. Cory Kennedy of the Palmdale Sheriff’s Station.
“We believe it may have taken some time to load all the bags into their vehicles, and hopefully someone may have seen the suspect or suspects or can identify the vehicle involved in the crime,” Kennedy said.
The coroner’s office has determined that what appeared to be a set of lungs found on a sidewalk Sunday afternoon in the Compton area were from an animal.
A woman walking in an unincorporated area of the county made the discovery Sunday afternoon in the 13100 block of Avalon Boulevard, took a picture of what she found and in the evening contacted the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, said Lt. Jack DeMello of the sheriff’s Century Station. It was the only call the department received about the organs, he said.
Authorities were still seeking the killer of a U.S. Army veteran gunned down while sitting in a car parked in front of his brother’s home in Lancaster.
The man—identified in broadcast reports as 30-year-old Nathen Taylor—was shot about 12:10 a.m. Saturday in the 700 block of West Avenue H-7 and later succumbed at a hospital, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department reported.
A Los Angeles federal jury awarded $6 million in damages to a Compton bus driver who claimed he was racially profiled by sheriff’s deputies who beat him after a traffic stop.
Following a three-day civil trial, a jury last Thursday found Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department and Sgt. Pablo Partida and Deputy Robert Martinez liable for excessive force and malicious prosecution against 33-year-old Deon Dirks.
Sheriff’s spokesman Steve Whitmore said the award is “excessive” and the department will probably appeal.
