SAN JACINTO, Calif. (KTLA) -- arrest warrant Friday at Sheriff's deputies arrested a Gonzalez's home in the 300 man Friday they say broke block of S. State Street. into a home in April and Deputies searched the home tried to sexually assault a and found Gonzalez hiding teenage girl. beneath the bedroom flooring, Deputies responded about 3:55 according to the news release. a.m. on April 28 to a report He allegedly fought with the of the alleged attempted deputies as they tried to sexual assault at a home in arrest him. the 1800 block of Estero The deputies used a Taser to Court in San Jacinto. The 16- subdue Gonzalez, according to year-old victim told the a news release. Paramedics deputies that a man broke took him to a nearby hospital, into the home and tried to where he was treated for sexually assault her, injuries he sustained during according to a news release his struggle with the issued by the Riverside deputies. County Sheriff's Department. He was later arrested on The girl resisted the man and suspicion of assault with he fled but she told deputies intent to commit sexual she recognized him as a battery, criminal battery and handyman named "Juan" who had a parole violation. worked at her home in the Deputies booked Gonzalez at past. the Larry Smith Correctional Investigators collected Facility in Banning. His bail evidence at the scene that was set at $1 million. led them to believe the man Anyone with information about was Juan Pablo Gonzalez, 30, this incident is asked to of San Jacinto. contact Investigator Burden A sheriff's special at 951-791-3400. enforcement team served an
BEVERLY GROVE, Calif. (KTLA) - down. - Amanda Bynes has been Officials say was unaware she involved in a second hit and had hit the other driver and run accident in Hollywood. was cooperative with police The "All That" actress and the driver. reportedly sideswiped another The damage was reportedly so car Saturday night near the small on her car that she may intersection of Crescent not have felt the hit. Heights Blvd. and Melrose Ave. No charges are scheduled to before driving away. be filed. According to TMZ, the driver Bynes was arrested for a DUI called police and followed after clipping a police car her Range Rover until in West Hollywood last month. officers could track Bynes
SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (KTLA) flames. -- A man trying to steal Police and firefighters found copper wiring Saturday the man inside the fenced morning from a Southern substation, according to a California Edison substation news release issued by the received a shock that left San Bernardino Police him in critical condition and Department. Paramedics rushed knocked out power for the man to Arrowhead Regional thousands of San Bernardino Medical Center in Colton residents, police officials where he is now listed in said. extremely grave condition. Officers responded just The man was shocked by as before 2:05 a.m. to the many as 33,000 volts while he substation near the tried to steal the wiring, intersection of Rialto and according to the news release. Stoddard avenues. A witness -- Officials have not yet Porario Velasquez -- told released the man's name, police dispatchers that a man saying his family has not yet in his 20s tried to steal been notified of his wiring and was set on fire. condition. "I heard a banging and all of The shock also resulted in a a sudden an explosion that power outage to more than 2, was like lightning," 300 Edison customers, Velasquez told KTLA. according to the news release. He then saw the suspected By 2 p.m., power was restored copper thief flailing his to all customers, Edison arms, which were covered in officials said.
TRABUCO CANYON (KTLA) -- One Fire Authority Capt. Marc horse died and three more Stone said. were trapped in a ravine in The horses were part of an Orange County's Trabuco annual ride from south Orange Canyon on Friday. County to Corona that is Rescue workers airlifted one organized by the Norco of the surviving horses out Outriders, the Orange County of the canyon on Friday Register reported. afternoon. One organizer said the riders The horses appeared to have weren't seriously injured, fallen down the ravine. according to the newspaper. The Orange County Fire No other details were Authority sent a helicopter immediately available. to the scene, Orange County
ALTADENA, Calif. -- Keith The bears were spotted at Miller and his wife woke up about 8 a.m. in the 1400 to see three uninvited guests block of Edgecliff Lane in in their front yard near unincorporated Kinneloa Mesa. Altadena on Thursday morning. Fish and Game officers were They spotted a mother bear on scene monitoring the and two cubs that likely came animals.. from the nearby hills. Officials say neighborhood Then bears, which might have trash cans may have lured the felt threatened, then climbed female bear and her two cubs up a tree. into the neighborhood. "I came out of my garage and After spending hours in the it ran and I ran," Miller Miller's tree, the bears told KTLA. "My wife was climbed down and relocated. yanking me back in the house. Check out additional photos She said, "You idiot!.'" at Altadena Patch.
SAN DIEGO -- The Drug headquarters, the agency said. Enforcement Administration All of the suspects were has apologized to a San Diego fingerprinted, photographed college student who said he and interviewed individually, drank his own urine to as agents moved them among survive after being left in a the five cells at the DEA holding cell for five days post. without food, water or access After processing, seven of to a toilet. the nine were taken to a The man, identified by news county detention facility, outlets as 23-year-old UC San one was released and Chong Diego engineering student was accidentally left in one Daniel Chong, was of the cells, the DEA said, accidentally left in the without elaborating. holding cell after he and As days went by, Chong told eight other people were NBC San Diego, he kicked the detained for questioning door many, many times, in a following an April 21 raid in futile attempt to get agents which agents found guns, attention. He eventually ammunition and an array of drank his urine to survive, drugs, including 18,000 he said, began hallucinating ecstasy pills, the DEA said. and tried to kill himself by Topics Los breaking his glasses and Angeles Times cutting his wrist. Methamphetamine (drug) I didnt care if I died, he I am deeply troubled by the told the station. I was incident that occurred here completely insane. last week, William R. When agents finally Sherman, acting special agent discovered Chong, he was in charge of DEA's San Diego taken to a hospital and Division, said in a statement admitted to an intensive-care Wednesday. unit for several days, the I extend my deepest station said. apologies [to] the young man The DEA said Chong told and want to express that this agents he had been at the event is not indicative of house that was raided to get the high standards that I high with his friends and hold my employees to, that he later admitted using Sherman said, adding he has a white powdery substance ordered an extensive review found in his cell that tested of DEA policies and positive for methamphetamine. procedures. He has not been charged. Identified by the DEA only as The individual is not the individual in question, currently under arrest, the Chong and the others were DEA said in a statement, and swept up during a raid of a we plan to thoroughly review suspected ecstasy both the events and the distribution operation and detention procedures on April taken to DEA area 21st and after.
LA MIRADA, Calif. (KTLA) -- found each other on Facebook, Sheriff's investigators sheriff's officials said. A arrested a substitute teacher friendship blossomed between Tuesday, accusing him of the two, allegedly leading to having a sexually-charged the illegal exchange of relationship with a 13-year- sexually-graphic photos, live old girl over the Internet. video feeds and sexually- Taylor Welch, 22, was charged text messages. arrested at his La Mirada The two shared inappropriate home on suspicion of personal contact in a conducting lewd acts with the classroom after class, girl and sending her explicit according to the news release. material. The girl is a The girl showed some of the student at Arlie F. photos of Welch to a friend, Hutchinson Middle School in sheriff's officials said. The La Mirada, where Welch worked friend told a parent, who as a substitute beginning in reported the situation to September 2011, according to school officials. a news release issued by the Welch's bail was set at $140, Los Angeles County Sheriff's 000. Department. Welch is the second Detectives began substitute teacher in the investigating Welch when they Norwalk-La Mirada Unified were alerted by school School District to be officials about the arrested this year. Ted possibility of inappropriate Nishihara was arrested in contact between the teacher March on suspicion of and the girl. molesting a student in a Welch met the girl in his classroom at Los Coyotes classroom and they later Middle School.
SANTA ANA, Calif. (KTLA) -- A members at the time of the judge on Monday sentenced a shooting, the Times reported. gang member convicted of a All six pleaded guilty to fatal shooting at a Cypress involuntary manslaughter and cafe to life in prison. testified against him. Venus Hyun, 22, died after Co-defendants Robin Kim, 29, Stephenson Choi Kim, 31, Christopher Ung, 28, Wilson opened fire and several Sun, 29. Chakris others were wounded. A jury Kanchanapoomi, 28, Ashil convicted him of Hyun's Manek Nair, 27, and Glenn murder and six counts of Lamuel Watkins, 25, received attempted murder for the sentences between six and 11 March 2004 shooting. years in state prison. Kim was accused of firing at Prosecutors said Kim and the a table where Hyun sat with other gang members piled into six of her friends. She was several cars with guns, shot in the back. Four other looking for rival gang people suffered gunshot members to fight when they wounds in the attack. ended up at 5th Wave Cafe in Prosecutors sought the death Cypress, where Hyun was penalty against Kim but killed, the Times reported. jurors deadlocked during the Nair and Watkins when into trial's penalty phase, the the cafe and asked Hyun and Los Angeles Times reported. her friends if they had They were shown a confession connections to a rival gang. found on Kim's computer and a A man at the table said he, jailhouse note he wrote about "didn't bang anymore." making sure "the witness Kim then entered the cafe and don't testify." shot at the people sitting at In the end, the jurors were Hyun's table before fleeing split seven to five in favor thourgh a back door, the of the death penalty. Times reported. Kim was with six other gang
MALIBU (KTLA) -- Deputies are cause of death is currently investigating the death of a under investigation. woman whose body was found in In an interview with KTLA the garage of a home in News, Wilkins' brother Steve Malibu. speculated that perhaps she According to sheriff's had been with another person officials, 25-year-old Katie who fled the scene. Wilkins' Wilkins' body was found at a car was missing, suggesting home in the 23400 block of that it had been stolen by Moon Shadows Drive, a small that other person. cul-de-sac near Saddle Peak. Wilkins had reportedly been She was pronounced dead at preparing for a weekend party the scene by paramedics. The at the time of her death.
LONG BEACH (KTLA) -- The body Police declined to give more of a 9-year-old girl was details. found in Long Beach on Witnesses told KTLA that the Saturday. adult was the victim's father Police said a young girl was and that he stabbed her to found dead with lacerations death. to her chest. A man with self- The two were found lying next inflicted lacerations was to each other near a church, transported to a nearby witnesses said. hospital. The body was found near the The two people involved were intersection of Woodruff and a parent and a child, police Willow, according to the Long said. They were believed to Beach Fire Department. be residents of Long Beach.