Authorities are looking into the death of actor Matthew Perry. Following
A Los Angeles police officer was injured early Sunday morning after a man stole her patrol vehicle while she was inside it and then was later ejected from the cruiser. The unnamed officer had been working a security detail at 12th and Figueroa streets around 3:30 a.m. when a man approached her vehicle and managed to get inside, according to the department. "The suspect drove off with the police vehicle and at some point the officer was ejected from the vehicle," according to the department's...
Authorities are investigating Matthew Perry's death more than six months after the "Friends" star died at his home from the "acute effects of ketamine." "LAPD has an open investigation," officials with the Los Angeles Police Department confirmed to Fox News Digital on Tuesday. In addition, the Drug Enforcement Administration has teamed up with the LAPD to launch a criminal investigation into how Perry died, according to The Hollywood Reporter. MATTHEW PERRY'S CAUSE OF DEATH LISTED AS ‘ACUTE...
Following Matthew Perry's death, the DEA and LAPD are launching a joint
Los Angeles police officials are seeking to fire a senior captain after an internal investigation determined he failed to disclose a romantic relationship with a civilian employee and then lied about it to internal affairs detectives, according to three department sources. The captain, Alejandro "Alex" Vargas, was summoned earlier this week to the office of Assistant Chief Daniel Randolph and told that he would be assigned home, according to the sources, who requested anonymity to discuss a...
In the continued fallout over the law enforcement response to Gaza war protests at USC, a vocal group of activists Tuesday demanded the removal of Los Angeles Police Commission President Erroll Southers, a senior security official at the university. The group gathered for a news conference before the commission's weekly meeting at Los Angeles Police Department headquarters, calling on Mayor Karen Bass to remove Southers from the civilian body charged with oversight of the department. Jody...
Family members of a woman who was shot to death inside her Van Nuys condominium in 1986 urged the state’s parole board Monday to revoke a decision recommending parole for a now-former Los Angeles Police Department detective who confessed at a parole hearing last year that she murdered her ex-lover’s new wife. Sherri Rasmussen’s widower, […]
Family members of a woman who was shot to death inside her Van Nuys condominium in 1986 urged the state’s parole board Monday to revoke a decision recommending parole for a now-former Los Angeles Police Department detective who confessed at a parole hearing last year that she murdered her ex-lover’s new wife. Sherri Rasmussen’s widower, […]
Over the weekend, a man seized the opportunity to steal a vehicle owned by the Los Angeles Police Department and took it on a short joyride that resulted in injuries to one cop and two civilians.Around 3:30 a.m. on Sunday, a female officer was working security detail at Oceanwide Plaza, about a mile and a half outside Downtown L.A. While the officer was either sitting inside or standing near her police-issued SUV, a man suddenly hopped inside and began driving, dragging the officer alongside as...
A Los Angeles protester whose testicle was injured when an LAPD officer shot him with a hard-foam projectile during a street demonstration in 2020 has received a $1.5 million settlement from the city, his attorneys announced Thursday. The payout is the largest yet to arise from lawsuits accusing the LAPD of excessive force during repeated crackdowns on protesters in the wake of George Floyd's murder by Minneapolis police, which spurred massive demonstrations across the nation during the early...
Testimony began Tuesday in the trial of a lawsuit brought by Black Lives Matter L.A. co-founder Melina Abdullah against the city of Los Angeles, with a Los Angeles police sergeant telling a jury that he ordered officers to approach the activist’s home in tactical gear even though he was "70%" certain they were responding to a fake hostage situation. The sergeant, James Mankey, one of the defendants in the case, told jurors he didn’t want to take the chance of not sending the officers if the the...
Before Yong Yang was fatally shot by Los Angeles police last week inside his parents' Koreatown home, his mother tried for two days in a row to get help from mental health officials. Her 40-year-old son was experiencing a severe bipolar episode, Myung Sook Yang said, and she purposely reached out to the county Department of Mental Health (DMH) before the shooting to avoid involving law enforcement. Within hours of making the call, her son was dead — killed in his family's living room while...