LASD SEEKING ARMED AND DANGEROUS HOMICIDE SUSPECT
GREG GOES TO HOTEL LAGUNA IN LAGUNA BEACH
MISSING GIRL FOUND IN SEX OFFENDER’S GARAGE
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MONDAY, JULY 20, 2015 - JULY 26, 2015 - VOLUME 4, NO. 29
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PETA Sues Pasadena Over Failure To Hand Over Records On Outed Seaworld ‘Spy’ BY TERRY MILLER PETA filed a lawsuit Thursday morning against the City of Pasadena and PPD Chief Phillip L. Sanchez challenging the city’s failure to comply with PETA’s Public Records Act requests for records relating to “Thomas Jones,” the Sea World protester who attempted to incite animal advocates to perform illegal acts and was recently exposed as SeaWorld employee Paul T. McComb. PETA says “other SeaWorld agents are expected to be revealed in time.” PETA submitted the requests in a move designed to uncover the scope of SeaWorld’s relationship with the PPD, given that “Jones” evidently informed the PPD of PETA’s plan to engage in a traditional, peaceful act of civil disobedience—sitting down in front of SeaWorld’s float—during the 2014 Rose Parade. The PPD and the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department (LACSD) clearly had knowledge of PETA’s plan (and seemingly an exaggerated version of it), as they sent more than a dozen PPD
officers and sheriff’s deputies in full riot gear to escort the SeaWorld float. “Jones” was the only one out of 16 adult protesters who was released with no charges after they were arrested. In response to PETA’s records requests, the PPD initially claimed that “Jones” had never been arrested, despite photographic evidence to the contrary, and that there were no records relating to him, but subsequently they simply stated that the PPD would not hand over the records. PETA wishes to examine the arresting officer’s notebook, which should contain details of any arrest. “SeaWorld continually covers up the suffering of orcas in its concrete tanks, and now we wonder if the Pasadena Police Department is covering up the extent to which it has been used by this particular SeaWorld spy,” says PETA’s general counsel, Jeffrey Kerr. “The State of California guarantees the right of access to government records, and that includes the documents that will tell PETA SEE PG. 4
Burbank detectives pursued a home invasion suspect on a brief car chase Wednesday until the suspect crashed into another car and was taken into custody in Pasadena. The pursuit was the result of a joint surveillance operation by Burbank and Pasadena police of a vehicle belonging to a Pasadena resident that was allegedly tied to a brutal home invasion robbery of an 89-year-old woman in Burbank on July 10. When a man got into
the car being watched and started to drive away about 5 p.m., Pasadena Police Corporal William Broghammer and Officer Rappuchi attempted to pull the vehicle over. The driver driver sped away and very soon afterwards collided with another vehicle at the intersection of Del Mar Boulevard and Madre Street as the officers chased in pursuit. The suspect is Eddie Baca, 40, a Pasadena resident. Baca was booked at the Burbank Police De-
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Suspect in Brutal Burbank Home Invasion Robbery arrested in Pasadena after Car Chase partment’s jail where he was being held in lieu of $75,000 bail. In Friday’s home invasion robbery, Baca allegedly forced his way into the elderly Burbank woman’s home. “A struggle ensued, and the victim received some injuries, including abrasions and lacerations,” Burbank police said in a written statement. The woman summoned help via her medical alert system, Burbank police said.
Governor Brown Appoints Two to San Bernardino County Superior Court
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Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the appointment of Corey G. Lee and Charles J. Umeda to judgeships in the San Bernardino County Superior Court. Lee, 43, of Claremont, has been deputy chief of the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Central District of California Riverside Branch Office since 2012, where she has served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney since 2008. She served as a deputy district attorney at the San Bernardino County
District Attorney’s Office from 2007 to 2008 and at the Riverside County District Attorney’s Office from 2004 to 2007. Lee served as a law clerk at the U.S. Department of Justice, Executive Office for Immigration Review from 2003 to 2004. She earned a Juris Doctor degree from Loyola Law School Los Angeles, a Master of Science degree from the Columbia University School of Social Work and a Bachelor of Arts deSEE PG. 4