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CHP: Truck Driver in Buellton Crash was High on Drugs
BUELLTON, Calif. (KTLA) -- overpass. The CHP nows says that the Her 10-week-old girl was big-rig driver who struck and "conscious and alert" at the forced a BMW, with a San Juan scene and sustained minor Capistrano family inside, injuries. Groves and her 10- into a bridge railing on the year-old daughter suffered 101 freeway was high on drugs. major injuries. Charles A. Allison, Jr., 48, The santamariatimes.com was under the influence of described the collision as a methamphetamine and violent one that blew out amphetamine when he rear- chunks of concrete guardrail ended the BMW on the on both sides of the bridge. northbound 101 at the Nojoqui The crash shut down both Creek Bridge near Buellton on directions of the 101 freeway. January 12, according to a The truck spilled toxicology report released by approximately 50 gallons of the California Highway Patrol. diesel fuel in the creek Allison was killed when the bottom, the fire department big-rig went through the said. bridge railing and into the The rescue effort was aided creek bed below and burst by a group of Navy Seabees into flames. who were stuck in southbound Kelli L. Groves, 36, and her traffic near the crash. They two daughters had to be used a forklift they were rescued from the BMW, which transporting to stop the BMW was dangling over the freeway from sliding off the bridge.
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Teacher Accused in Cockroach, Bondage Case Reported Decades Ago
SOUTH LOS ANGELES (KTLA) -- Wednesday. Two former students of an He is being held on $23 elementary school teacher million bail, $1 million for accused of gagging and each of the 23 felony counts blindfolding students, of lewd acts on a child putting cockroaches on their against him. faces and feeding them semen, If convicted, Berndt faces say they reported his bizarre life in prison. behavior two decades ago. He's due back in court Feb. Authorities have said no 21 when he is expected to complain were lodged against enter a plea. teacher Mark Berndt prior to Meantime, five more alleged 2010, but two women say victims have contacted school officials investigated sheriff's investigators since rumors about the third grade they announced Berndt's teacher's behavior back in arrest on Tuesday. 1990. The allegations must be In an interview with the L.A. verified to determine whether Times, Marlene Trujillo said any additional charges can be that she was a fourth-grader filed against Berdnt, in his class at the time, and authorities said. that she wasnt sure what to Berndt was arrested at his make of her teachers odd home in Torrance on Monday behavior. after a year-long She said Berndt often moved investigation. his hands under his desk, Police say the crimes near his lap, at the front of occurred between 2008 and the classroom. 2010, and involved boys and She and other students had girls between 6 and 10 years seen a jar of Vaseline in one old. of his desk compartments, she Berndt allegedly told the told the Times. children they would be Trujillo, a 30-year-old playing "a game." paralegal, said she was The investigation began in called before a school October 2010 when Berndt counselor with two other turned in a roll of 35-mm girls after one of them film to be processed at a CVS complained about Berndts in Redondo Beach, authorities alleged behavior. said. She said the counselor Employees at the store found chalked it up to the girl's more than 40 photographs of vivid imaginations and the kids in a school classroom, subject was dropped. with their eyes blindfolded Berndt, a former third grade and mouths covered with tape. teacher at Miramonte They notified police as Elementary School, made his required by California law. first court appearance
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Murder Charges Filed in Mother, Daughter Stabbings
TORRANCE, Calif. (KTLA) -- A custody, and was led out of 31-year-old man accused of the apartment complex naked fatally stabbing his and in handcuffs. girlfriend and her mother to Once inside the back room, death, and wounding a third deputies found a second woman man, was charged Tuesday with with multiple stab wounds. capital murder. Paramedics pronounced both Virgil Tyrone Tate is women dead at the scene. expected to be arraigned KTLA spoke exclusively with a tomorrow on two counts of relative of the two female murder and one count of victims, who said Tate was attempted murder. her sister's live-in The charges include a special boyfriend, and that the male circumstance allegation of victim was renting a bedroom. multiple murders. "I got a call from my mom's The victim were identified husband around 11:30 and he Tuesday as Tracie Ann Brooks, was in a panic and told me 32, and her mother Carol something happened," she said. Susan Brooks, 58. She also said she has no idea L.A. County sheriff's what might have happened. deputies received a call "I'm not sure," she said, about an assault with a when asked what police had deadly weapon around 8:15 p.m. told her. "I haven't heard Sunday at the Torrance Villa anything. I have no idea." Apartments, located in the Tate is being held on $1 21800 block of South Vermont million bail. Avenue. Anyone with information is When deputies arrived at the asked to call the Los Angeles scene, they found a man County Sheriff's Department's outside who had been stabbed Homicide Bureau at (323) 890- several times. 5500. He was taken to Harbor-UCLA If you prefer to provide Medical Center with non life- information anonymously, you threatening injuries. can call "Crime Stoppers" by The deputies made their way dialing (800) 222-TIPS (8477), inside the apartment and or texting the letters TIPLA found a woman lying on the plus your tip to CRIMES floor in a front room. (274637), or by using the Tate was found hiding in a website back room. http://lacrimestoppers. He was eventually taken into
Tags: charges, daughter, filed, Mother, murder, stabbings
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Husband Gives Wife $1 Million Lottery Ticket for Early Valentine’s Day
BURBANK (KTLA) - Tina D. of called his wife, whom he Burbank is California's wisely referred to as "the newest millionaire, thanks to boss." her husband and his The couple plans to buy a California Lottery's $10 home and a car with their Scratchers® ticket. winnings. Tina was given her big The lucky ticket was winning ticket by her husband, purchased at Vista Liquor at a long-time Lottery player. 2415 North San Fernando He bought the ticket, Boulevard in Burbank. The scratched it, and when he saw retailer will receive a $5, he was holding a million 000 bonus for selling the top dollar winner, he promptly prize-winning ticket.
Tags: early, gives, Husband, Lottery, Million, Ticket, Valentine, wife
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O.C. Puppy Thieves Off the Hook After Cash, Apology Note
STANTON, Calif. (KTLA) -- The store. two thieves who stole a chow The shopper walked into the puppy last week from a store and called the Stanton pet store are off the Sheriff's Department, hook after sending $600 in Amormino said. Detectives cash to the business along arrived and confiscated the with a written apology, money. officials said Saturday. A woman distracted store The two shoplifted the puppy employees Thursday while a from Pet City at 7041 Katella man took the puppy from a Ave., said Orange County locked cage. sheriff's spokesman Jim The stolen puppy is still Amormino. A shopper was missing, but the pet store approached by a woman Friday has decided to accept the evening offering $20 if the apology and not press charges, shopper would take the $600 Amormino said. and the apology note into the
Tags: after, apology, cash, Hook, note, Puppy, thieves
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Man Injured After Tree Branch Snaps on Sunset Boulevard
BRENTWOOD (KTLA) -- A man was driving about 25 miles per injured Saturday after a hour, was driving eastbound large branch broke off a tree on Sunset when the tree came and landed in the middle of down. moving traffic. "The branch just came down in The eucalyptus tree branch front of me and struck me snapped along the 12900 block like a concrete wall," of Sunset Boulevard around Martinez said. 3:20 p.m. Saturday, striking The car was totaled from the two cars and blocking traffic. damage. According to Los Angeles fire "Whats most important is that spokesman Erik Scott, one man I'm okay," Martinez said. suffered minor injuries but Both sides of the road were did not require hospital closed as crews worked to transport. clean up the branch. Milo Martinez, who was
Tags: after, Boulevard, branch, injured, Snaps, Sunset, tree
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California Approves New Clean Air Rules
LOS ANGELES, Calif. (KTLA) -- consumers thousands of The Golden State continues to dollars at the pump," said lead the nation for stringent ARB Chairman Mary D. Nichols. vehicle emissions rules by "The Board's action today passing a new set of will create thousands of new regulations requiring cars to jobs, transforming California be even cleaner. into the advanced car capital The California Air Resources of the world. California is Board, today, unanimously now in pole position in the approved a package of new race to provide next- emissions rules for cars and generation ultra-clean cars light trucks through 2025. to the global car market." Topics Hybrid Proponents say the Advanced Vehicles Clean Cars program will clean Fuel-efficient Vehicles up gasoline and diesel- Passenger Cars powered cars, and deliver See more topics »X increasing numbers of zero- Automotive Equipment emission technologies, such Manufacturing and Engineering as full battery electric cars, The new regulations mean that newly emerging plug-in hybrid automakers must offer an electric vehicles and increased number of zero or hydrogen fuel cell cars. very low emission cars California is a huge market starting with model year 2018. for automakers, who have been One in seven cars sold in the resistant to the changes. state needs to be pollution- The new rules are expected to free by 2025. add nearly $2,000.00 to the "The California Advanced price of a new car. But Clean Car rules will clean officials say that cost be our air, fight climate change mitigated by the savings on and provide cars that save fuel.
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2 Shot in The Head at La Habra Home
LA HABRA, Calif. (KTLA) -- An victims to a nearby hospital. unknown gunman shot two It happened about 8 p.m. in people in the head Thursday the 500 block of Clifton evening at a home in La Habra. Street. La Habra police and Police have released few Los Angeles County details about the shooting. firefighters responded to the According to reports, the scene. victims were males. Their Check back at www.ktla.com medical conditions are not for more on this developing yet known but police said story. paramedics rushed the two
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Police: Violent Rapist May Have Many Victims
SANTA ANA, Calif. (KTLA) -- when he made the mistake that Police have arrested a man led to his arrest. they call a violent rapist "His mistake was when he did and they believe he may have that, there was a piece of many victims scattered across key evidence that was bound Orange County. up inside of her clothes, Jose Luis Capacete, 39, which was what led us to allegedly snatched a woman identify him as the suspect off South Harbor Boulevard in in this case," Bertagna said. Santa Ana on Christmas Eve. Police did not disclose what He threatened her, tied her that evidence was. up and raped her, said Santa Capacete -- who works as a Ana police Cpl. Anthony security guard for an armored Bertagna. truck company -- had Related aspirations of becoming a law
Jose Luis Capacete, 39 enforcement officer and even
VIDEO: Suspected OC Serial trained at Orange County Rapist Arrested - Chip Yost academy, police officials reports said. He was also applying
Suspect Sought in Attempted for jobs with local police Rape in InglewoodTopics departments at the time of Witnesses his arrest. Prosecution Police arrested Capacete on Police Arrests suspicion of rape and "He comes up from behind her, kidnapping with intent to he grabs her, pulls her into rape. He was booked at the the van and displays a gun Santa Ana Jail. His bail was and a Taser and threatens her set at $1,000,000. with (them)," Bertagna said. Investigators believe "He then drives her to a Capacete has committed business on North Harbor similar violent acts for at (Boulevard), where he binds least a year and hope her and sexually assaults her. additional victims or " witnesses will come forward Capacete then drove the woman with more information. away from the business and Anyone with information is threw her naked from the urged to contact Santa Ana green mini-van police say he Police Department detectives drove. He then threw her M. Judson at 714-245-8378 or clothes out of the van, R. Perez 714-245-8379. Bertagna said, and that's
Tags: have, many, police, Rapist, victims, violent
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Double Shooting in Torrance Leaves 1 Dead
TORRANCE, Calif. (KTLA) -- released about the shooting, Homicide investigators are on but footage shot by KTLA's the scene of a shooting that Sky 5 helicopter clearly left one man dead and sent showed the dead body of a man one other person to the in the driveway. hospital. Police officials said one The shooting broke out about other person was wounded in 3:30 p.m. in the driveway of the shooting and is expected a home near the intersection to survive. of W. 206th Street and S. No information about the Harvard Boulevard in Torrance. victims or a possible suspect Few details have been has been released.
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