Neighbors Call Attention to Illegal Activity

By Mary O’KEEFE Alert local residents have helped Sheriff’s deputies  from Crescenta Valley Station conduct a drug arrest and reunite a custom bike with its owner. “We really appreciate what the neighbors have done,” said Sgt. Debra Herman. The neighbors referred to are residents who began to notice some unusual and suspicious activity at a […]

Meatball – Still a California Bear

Meatball – Still a California Bear

  By Mary O’KEEFE Meatball will not be moving to a wild life Colorado sanctuary as planned, said Andrew Hughan, spokesman for the California Department of Fish and Game. Meatball, the bear who received his name for his fondness for meatballs, had been a fixture in Crescenta Valley for several months. Though he had been […]

ARMED AND DANGEROUS

Attempted Murder On A Peace Officer Suspects and Getaway-Van Still At Large. Armed and Dangerous felony suspect, Darnell Washington, escaped from county jail in San Bernardino County with the aid of his wife Tania on Aug. 28, and is now wanted for shooting a deputy sheriff in Los Angeles County on Sunday as well as […]

Telephone Scam Warning

Members of the public are being tricked by jail inmates and others through a telephone scam. The increasing pattern was noticed by deputies with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, who have been receiving an increasing number of phone calls from people who have been scammed. Members of the public have been calling the Sheriff’s […]

Fire Heading Away from Crescenta Valley

By Mary O’KEEFE UPDATE MONDAY 10 a.m.: Over 500 personnel including six heavy air tankers, eight water dropping helicopters, 30 fire engines, two bulldozers and over 25 ground crews are fighting the Williams Fire in the San Gabriel Canyon area of the Angeles National Forest. As of 7:30 a.m. the fire has burned 4000 acres. […]

Public Help Needed for Missing Man

Crescenta Valley Sheriff Station is asking for the public’s help in locating a missing 96-year-old man. The elderly man who has Alzheimer’s walked away from the location in the 2000 block of Hilldale Drive. “He was reported missing at 2:05 p.m.,” said Lt. Fitch, CV Sheriff’s Station. He was wearing Khaki (tan) pants and a […]

Lessons Learned from NNO

By Jason KUROSU Two weeks after National Night Out, held this year on Aug. 7 as a nationwide event intended to bring together members of the community to coordinate with each other to prevent neighborhood crime, the Glendale Police Department held a meeting at GPD headquarters to thank those who organized NNO events in their […]

Saying Goodbye to an Astronaut

“We are heartbroken to share the news that Neil Armstrong has passed away following complications resulting from cardiovascular procedures. Neil was our loving husband, father, grandfather, brother and friend,” read a statement released from the family of Neil Armstrong at his passing on Aug. 25. The sign above was a makeshift memorial at the Jet […]

Brush Fire Ignites Jeep

By Mary O’KEEFE A brush fire along the eastbound Foothill (210) Freeway ignited a Jeep and set small fires in the brush in the 3000 block of Encinal Avenue shortly after noon on Tuesday. Los Angeles County Fire Department continues to investigate the cause of the fire that began in the dry vegetation along the […]