Good Morning. Los Angeles County residents, click here to register for a free COVID-19 test. Law Enforcement News LAPD Reports 114 Employees Have Tested Positive For COVID-19 Since Pandemic Began, 73 Have Recovered The Los Angeles Police Department reported Thursday that 114 employees have tested positive for COVID-19 since the pandemic began. As of Thursday, 73 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 Authorities ID Man Stabbed To Death On Venice Boardwalk Authorities identified a man who was fatally stabbed on the Venice boardwalk over the weekend by a bicycle-riding assailant, who remains at large. Douglas Barnes, 54, was attacked about 8:50 p.m. Saturday near Westminster Avenue and Ocean Front Walk. Barnes, whose home town was not known, died at a hospital, according to the coroner’s office. The Los Angeles Police Department reported that Barnes was stabbed during a dispute with an unidentified suspect who fled on a bicycle. No description of the suspect was released. Anyone with information on the case was urged to call 877-LAPD-247. MyNewsLA.com Security Guard Faces Year In Prison After 5-Year-Old Uses Unlocked Gun To Fatally Shoot Himself In Leimert Park A security guard faces up to a year in prison for not locking up a loaded firearm that a 5-year-old boy accidentally shot and killed himself with last year in South Los Angeles, authorities said Thursday. The Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office charged Jaylin Burdette with criminal storage of a firearm, unlawful storage of a firearm and carrying a loaded firearm in a public place, City Attorney Mike Feuer said in a news release. On Nov. 13, 2019, Burdette had gone to celebrate his 26th birthday at his mother’s home in the 2000 block of 41st Drive in Leimert Park, where she fostered the young child. Burdette allegedly found a loaded gun in the alley behind the house and brought it inside, placing it in a container in a closet in the child’s bedroom, according to the City Attorney’s Office. Days later, the boy found the gun while playing and shot himself. He died at a hospital. KTLA 5 Online Child Sex Abuse Reports Surge As Kids Spend More Time On Computers Amid Coronavirus Law enforcement officials in Los Angeles and across the country have been overwhelmed in recent months by a surge in tips about online child sex abuse, with social media platforms and other service providers flagging explicit content and suspicious interactions at an alarming rate. With schools closed, youth activities canceled and kids spending more time online under stay-at-home orders related to the coronavirus pandemic, sexual predators have ramped up their efforts to solicit pictures and videos, officials say. The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, a global clearinghouse that disseminates tips to law enforcement, took in 4.1-million reports of child cyber abuse in April, a fourfold increase over April 2019, said John Shehan, head of the center’s exploited children division. In March, the center received more than 2-million reports, more than double what it received in March 2019. Los Angeles Times LAPD Detective Releases Mariachi Music Video, Sings About Growing Up In East LA Los Angeles Police Department Detective Chris Reza, who is a cop known for singing mariachi music, released his first music video in May. He expresses his two passions in the video, law enforcement and mariachi music. "It's a very personal project that I was able to complete, that speaks of my upbringings in East L.A. and everything that I have been through mixing mariachi music with a career in law enforcement, and everything that led me to that point," said Detective Reza. The music video is Detective Reza's new single 'El Servidor' or 'The Servant,' and focuses on his identity. "It goes back to we're basically civil servants. We're police officers with the L.A.P.D.. We are to protect and to serve. So, it's something that I thought resonated well with being the name of the song was 'El Servidor.'" Reza has been singing mariachi music for about 20 years and has released 11 songs since then. ABC 7 Court Orders Koreatown Business To Stop Advertising Radish Paste As Coronavirus Treatment A judge granted an injunction Wednesday that prohibits a nutritional supplement store in Koreatown from billing radish paste as a treatment capable of warding off the novel coronavirus. The Los Angeles city attorney’s office had sued Insan Healing and its founder, Angela K. Oh, alleging she violated state laws that prohibit false advertising. Insan Healing billed its radish paste — a blend of “white radish harvested during frost,” garlic and ginger — as an “immunity boost to your lungs” and a “must-have product for the protection and prevention of the COVID-19,” Frank Capetillo, an investigator for the city attorney’s office, said in an affidavit filed in court. The paste costs $99.95 per jar, according to Insan Healing’s website, which has since removed all mention of the coronavirus and the infection it causes. Los Angeles Times Pursuit Driver Reaches End Of The Line On Railroad Tracks A pursuit driver who rear-ended a car stopped at an intersection was arrested Thursday after running from the SUV and onto railroad tracks near downtown Los Angeles. Details about what led to the chase were not immediately available. The driver reached speeds around 100 mph on the 10 Freeway and blew through at least one stoplight on a street in the Boyle Heights area. He was on the wrong side of the street at one point, squeezing past traffic. Boxed in at an intersection, the driver nudged the car in front of him before reversing out of the right turn lane. The driver got out of the SUV on a dead-end street in a nearby neighborhood and ran onto railroad tracks until deputies caught up with him and took him into custody. NBC 4 Encino Man ‘Maserati Mike’ Sentenced To 9 Years In Prison For Opioid Conspiracy An Encino man who earlier pleaded guilty to leading a conspiracy that distributed opioids using fake clinics was sentenced to nine years in prison on Thursday, federal officials said. Minas Matosyan, 40, was one of 13 defendants charged in the scheme that also involved hiring “corrupt doctors who wrote fraudulent prescriptions to black market customers” for opioids such as hydrocodone and oxycodone, the Department of Justice said in a statement. Matosyan, also known as “Maserati Mike,” said in his plea agreement that he and the other defendants oversaw the scheme that diverted at least 2 million prescription pills for sale illegally. In the conspiracy, the defendants controlled the “doctors who allowed their names to be used on fraudulent prescriptions in exchange for kickbacks,” the Department of Justice said. Los Angeles Daily News Shooting At Texas Naval Base Was ‘Terrorism-Related,’ FBI Says A shooting at a Texas naval air station that injured a sailor and left the gunman dead Thursday was “terrorism-related,” the FBI said. The shooting began around 6:15 a.m. Thursday at Naval Air Station-Corpus Christi. The shooter tried to speed through a gate at the base in a vehicle, but security personnel put up a barrier in time to stop the shooting, U.S. officials told The Associated Press. The man then got out of the car and opened fire, striking and wounding a Navy sailor who is a member of the security force at the base. During the exchange of gunfire, the shooter was killed by security personnel, the officials said. The FBI is investigating the shooting as “terrorism-related,” FBI Special Agent Leah Greeves said at a news conference Thursday afternoon, and investigators were working to determine whether a second person of interest was at large in the community. CBS 21 Public Safety News South LA Commercial Building Goes Up In Flames The roof of a commercial building partially collapsed as two units burned in South LA early Friday. The fire broke out at 8810 Figueroa Street, near 88th Place, just before 1:30 a.m. Firefighters who were first on the scene found heavy fire through the roof of the building, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department. Firefighters got control of the flames in about 20 minutes. Flames were seen shooting through the roof, which partially collapsed. At least two units burned, but no injuries were reported. Inspectors with the Department of Building and Safety have been called to the scene to check the structure of the building.The cause of the fire is under investigation. CBS 2 As L.A. County Deaths Pass 2,000, A Warning That ‘The Virus Is Still Out There Waiting’ As large swaths of California began reopening shopping malls, restaurants and other businesses this week, the coronavirus threat in Los Angeles County remains high as the death toll surpassed 2,000 people on Thursday. More than 40 of California’s 58 counties have now been approved to expand retail operations as their virus conditions improved, with more expected to reopen their economies in the coming days. But officials expect the progress to be slower in Los Angeles County, which accounts for nearly 60% of the state’s total deaths and almost half of the more than 86,000 confirmed infections. The county’s death toll rose Thursday to 2,016, with more than 42,000 confirmed cases. “This is a very sad milestone for us,” county Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer said. 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