Good Morning. Los Angeles County residents, click here to register for a free COVID-19 test. Law Enforcement News Los Angeles County Officers Who Died in Line of Duty Honored in Whittier Ceremony The names of six Los Angeles County law enforcement officers who died in the line of duty were added Wednesday to the memorial wall at the Sheriff’s Training Academy and Regional Services Center in Whittier. The most recent officer’s death memorialized was 24-year-old Los Angeles Police Department Officer Juan Jose Diaz, who was shot to death around 1 a.m. on July 27 when he was off duty. Cristian Facundo and Francisco Talamantes III were arrested Aug. 2 by detectives from the LAPD’s Robbery-Homicide Division. They have been charged with murder, including the special circumstance allegation of murder by an active member of a street gang. MyNewsLA.com LAPD Reports 113 Employees Have Tested Positive For COVID-19 Since Pandemic Began, 70 Have Recovered The Los Angeles Police Department reported Wednesday that 113 employees have tested positive for COVID-19 since the pandemic began. As of Wednesday, 70 LAPD employees have recovered and returned to work, and one remains hospitalized, according to Emergency Operations Center’s Jessica Kellogg. All other individuals are self-isolating at home and recovering. The number of Los Angeles Fire Department employees who have tested positive for the virus remained at 28 Monday, Kellogg reported. Out of the LAFD employees, 23 have recovered and returned to work, and none are hospitalized. The remaining five employees are isolated and recovering at home. CBS 2 Body Of Former WWE Star Who Was Swept Out To Sea Found On Venice Beach The body of former WWE wrestling star Shad Gaspard was found ashore Venice Beach on Wednesday, after he was caught in a rip current while swimming with his son in the area last weekend. A statement from the Los Angeles Police Department says officers were flagged down during the early morning by a citizen reporting that a body had washed ashore. The department said he was identified as Gaspard and his family was notified, police said. The Los Angeles Fire Department responded to the area near Lifeguard Tower 26 at Venice Beach at about 1:46 a.m. Wednesday after being contacted by LAPD, the fire department said. The 39-year-old went missing last Sunday after he went swimming with his 10-year-old son, Aryeh. The boy was rescued and several other swimmers made it out of the water safely near the 4200 block of South Ocean Front Walk. ABC 7 LA Skid Row Shooting Kills Man, Wounds Woman A man was killed and a woman was wounded in a shooting in the Skid Row area of downtown Los Angeles, and the gunman was on the loose Thursday morning. Police responded to the area of San Pedro and Sixth streets about 10:50 p.m. Wednesday and found a woman in her 40s suffering from a gunshot wound, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. She was taken to a hospital in unknown condition, police said. About 11 p.m., a man in his 20s was found near San Pedro and Fifth streets with a gunshot wound. He was pronounced dead at the scene, according to the LAPD. A description of the suspect was not immediately available. Los Angeles Daily News Tattoo Artist Pleads Not Guilty In Crash That Killed YouTube Personality A tattoo artist pleaded not guilty Wednesday to a murder charge stemming from the crash of his McLaren sports car in Valley Village, which killed YouTube personality Corey La Barrie on his 25th birthday. Daniel Joseph Silva, 26, of North Hollywood, was behind the wheel of the luxury sports car when it crashed May 10, killing La Barrie, who was a passenger in the vehicle, according to police and prosecutors. Silva was allegedly driving the 2020 McLaren 600LT at high speed eastbound on Huston Street when he lost control of the car, which ran off the road and hit a stop sign and tree on the northeast corner of Huston and Carpenter Avenue, police said. Silva was hurt in the crash but did not suffer life-threatening injuries, according to TMZ. MyNewsLA.com LA Man Pleads Guilty To Producing Child Pornography A Koreatown man pleaded guilty Wednesday to two child exploitation charges for convincing teenage girls to send him sexually explicit images, then coercing victims to send more with threats of publishing the images he initially obtained. Francisco Sanchez, 31, pleaded guilty in Los Angeles federal court to two counts of production of child pornography, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office. Each charge carries a 15-year mandatory minimum penalty when he is sentenced Sept. 15. In a plea agreement, Sanchez admitted that he used websites and computer applications to meet minor girls online. From 2014 through September 2016, Sanchez used the fake name Eddie Nash to pose as a teenage boy and develop romantic relationships with his victims so that he could obtain sexually explicit images and videos from them. NBC 4 34-Year-Old Tujunga Man Arrested After Allegedly Shooting, Injuring Man In Burbank A 34-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after allegedly shooting a man in Burbank Monday, officials said Wednesday. Police responded to the area of Sunset Canyon Drive and Providencia Avenue on Monday around 6:15 p.m. and found a 39-year-old man in the front yard of a home, suffering from multiple gunshot wounds to his lower body, the Burbank Police Department said. The victim was taken to a local hospital, where he underwent surgery and is now in stable condition, officials said. Investigators identified Gevorg Hovhannisyan, 34, of Tujunga as the shooter, according to police. On Tuesday, a search warrant was served at Hovhannisyan’s residence on the 10600 block of Wilsey Avenue. The warrant included his vehicle, which was found in a nearby McDonald’s parking lot at 7950 Foothill Boulevard, police said. Hovhannisyan was found inside the vehicle and was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder, officials said. KTLA 5 Man Killed, Boy Wounded In Shooting At Glendale Taco Stand A search continues Thursday for a shooter who killed a man and wounded a young boy at a taco stand in Glendale. Officers were called to the intersection of San Fernando Road and Chevy Chase Drive at about 9 p.m. and found a man in his 20s who had been shot in the chest. He was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Police later learned that a young boy had been hit in the arm by a stray bullet. He is being treated for his wounds and is expected to be OK. He is not believed to have any connection to the victim. Police said surveillance video and other camera footage in the area is under review. The suspect was last seen fleeing in a dark colored Ford Fusion. Authorities said the suspect is a 6-foot man in his 20s who was wearing a black hoodie at the time of the attack. CBS 2 Alleged Identity Thief Arrested In West Los Angeles After Spending $250K On Convertible Bentley, Land Rover Police say they have arrested an identity thief who used a Moorpark man’s identity to buy almost $250,000 worth of high-end luxury vehicles. Andrew Knight, 27, was arrested Tuesday in West Los Angeles, where Ventura County sheriff’s investigators found him, Ventura County sheriff’s Detective Sgt. Kevin Lynch said. Knight allegedly used the identity of a Moorpark man to take out a credit card and buy two high-end luxury vehicles — including a white 2016 convertible Bentley and a black 2020 Land Rover — worth a total of about $250,000. The Bentley GTCV8 was recovered when Knight was arrested, Lynch said. The Land Rover, which has a paper license plate AY95B87, is still outstanding. Knight is being held on $200,000 bail and is scheduled to make his first court appearance Thursday. CBS 2 Public Safety News LAFD To Inspect Vape And Smoke Shops Following Downtown Explosion That Seriously Injured Several Firefighters The Los Angeles Fire Department will launch a citywide review of the way certain businesses store volatile materials after an explosion seriously injured several firefighters in a downtown corridor that some consider a haven for supplies used in the creation of unlicensed cannabis products. Fire Chief Ralph Terrazas said Tuesday that every fire station in Los Angeles will work to identify businesses similar to Smoke Tokes, an East 3rd Street wholesaler that went up in flames Saturday night. An explosion there left a dozen firefighters injured, including several who were severely burned. Carbon dioxide and butane canisters were found inside the building, though investigators have yet to determine the cause of the blaze, authorities said. “Those types of businesses pose a threat to the people who work there, the public that goes there, and firefighters if they have to respond there,” Terrazas said. KTLA 5 New Antibody Testing Results Offer Some Hope In LA County’s Coronavirus Fight The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Los Angeles County topped 40,000 Wednesday, while results of the latest antibody testing showed a drop in the percentage of residents believed to have been infected at some point, an indication the virus' spread is slowing. Health officials warned, however, that there could be an array of explanations for the drop in antibody-positive tests between the first survey in April and the second this month. The latest survey found 2.1% of the 1,014 adults who were tested had antibodies to COVID-19 in their systems, indicating they had been infected at some point. That was down from about 4.1% in the first round of testing in April, which involved 863 test subjects. The testing is aimed at painting a broader picture of how widespread coronavirus infections are in the community. NBC 4 Newsom Eases California Reopening Rules, Allowing More Counties To Restart Their Economies Acknowledging that more California communities are in a position to slowly reopen businesses, Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday loosened rules linking coronavirus infection rates to allowed activities — a change that could release most parts of the state from the tightest restrictions of his stay-at-home order. “We recognize the conditions across the state are unique and distinctive depending where you are,” Newsom said. “The bottom line is people can go at their own pace and we are empowering our local health directors and county officials that understand their local communities and conditions better than any of us.” The decision by Newsom comes less than two weeks after his administration first began transferring more decision-making power to local public health officials and was prompted, he said, by additional data suggesting steady rates of hospitalizations and COVID-19 patients treated in intensive care units as well as increased testing and more protective gear for healthcare workers. Los Angeles Times Local Government News Los Angeles Aims To Cap Restaurant Delivery Apps’ Service Fees The Los Angeles City Council Wednesday directed the city attorney to draft an ordinance that would limit delivery service apps from charging restaurants more than 15% of a total order. "... The pandemic has laid bare the vulnerabilities of restaurants having to rely on delivery app services,'' Councilman Mitch O'Farrell said. "Restaurants went from having a fraction of their sales for delivery to between 70% and 90% of their current sales per delivery, making them even more reliant on the services and completely at the mercy of these third party delivery apps." Currently, some restaurants are being charged up to 30% or more for each order, and customers must pay their own service charges, O'Farrell said. Other fees for services in addition to delivery, per O'Farrell's motion, would be capped at 5%. O'Farrell's proposal would also require all tips from customers be given to the drivers. NBC 4 L.A. City And County Fight Over How To Shelter Homeless People Living Near Freeways A hearing about the moving of homeless people living near freeways was canceled Wednesday after the city and county of Los Angeles couldn’t agree on a plan for how to comply with a federal judge’s order. Last week, U.S. District Judge David O. Carter ordered the relocation of up to 7,000 people living near overpasses, offramps and onramps, saying they face severe health risks from tailpipe emissions and car crashes. He directed the city and county to submit a plan for how to make that happen. Talks between the two sides broke down Tuesday night after a dispute over who would pay tens of millions of dollars for the services at shelters and other sites that would house homeless people who were moved, according to court documents. County officials proposed a “shared funding arrangement” but did not cite a specific breakdown of who would pay what. City officials said they could not agree to a plan without those specifics. Los Angeles Times ‌ ‌ ‌ Visit our website LA Police Protective League | 1308 West Eighth Street, Los Angeles, CA 90017 Unsubscribe [email protected] Update Profile | About Constant Contact Sent by [email protected] in collaboration with Try email marketing for free today!