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Embezzlement Allegations Prompt Azusa Officials Los Angeles Firefighter to Oversee Little League Fundraiser Found Guilty Of Battery, Assault on Woman Feeding Stray Cats
by joe taglieri
The City Council on Monday directed staff to oversee the finances of the Azusa National Little League’s upcoming fireworks fundraiser pending the outcome of a police investigation into alleged embezzlement. “There have been serious allegations of embezzlement, and those allegations are being investigated by the Azusa Police Department diligently,” Chief of Police Sam Gonzalez said in an interview. “We hope to identify all those that are involved and exonerate all those that are not.” Council members voted 3-1 in favor of closely monitoring the league’s fireworks sales after City Manager Troy Butzlaff revoked
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a permit to conduct this year’s fundraiser. The league appealed the permit denial to the
council, which approved a compromise allowing Azusa National to conduct its reportedly lucrative annual
fireworks sale in early-July under the watchful eye of the city’s finance department.
Gonzalez said the investigation is focused on
Home was founded by the Daughters of the British SEE PG. 5
Two men and one woman have been charged with claiming to be part of a state-sanctioned police agency calling itself the Masonic Fraternal
Police Department, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office announced today. Deputy
Police arrested a man for allegedly molesting a young boy at the Arroyo Seco’s Rose Bowl Aquatics Center at , 360 N. Arroyo Blvd. last Monday. Police were notified around 7 p.m. Monday
about the incident and that staff members at the Center were detaining a suspect. Arriving officers took Leslie Ditter, 57, into cus-
The British are Coming to Sierra Madre June 6 by terry miller
I’ll ‘borrow’ the great line from Monty Python’s Flying Circus’ BBC Televison Show…’And now , for something completely different…’ because it describes, in one absolutely glorious albeit confusing senetnce, what the British Home’s June Faire is all about, something very different indeed. It’s atypical indeed, to every faire you might attend in these, the former British colonies. The British Home will be holding its 2015 June Faire on Saturday, June 6, from 10:00 am to 2:30 pm. Don’t miss it, or else. This family-friendly event celebrating “All Things British “ is held annually on the first Saturday in June at Sierra Madre’s non-profit
independent and assisted living facility for seniors. In 1920 The British
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Masonic Police Department Member to be Arraigned on Perjury and Impersonating Officer Charges
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Glendale Man Accused of Molesting Boy at Rose Bowl Aquatics Center
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A Los Angeles firefighter was found guilty today for the beating of a woman who cared for stray cats in their neighborhood, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office announced. Jurors deliberated for less than two hours before determining Ian Justin Eulian, 39, was guilty of one count each of battery with serious bodily injury and assault by means likely to produce great bodily injury in case BA416446. Deputy District Attorney Joshua Ritter said Eulian approached the woman, who was inside her parked car, on Sept. 14, 2013. Eulian leaned into the car and yelled at the woman who threw cat kibble at him. The defendant punched the victim twice, then pulled the victim out of her car and hit her again as she fell to the ground where she lay unconscious. Video was played at trial that showed the attack. Sentencing is set for June 30 when Eulian faces up to seven years in state prison. The case was investigated by the Los Angeles Police Department’s Southwest Division.
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