I wish the police report was full of things like that “receiving stolen property” thing. And needing to take a restraining order out against a transient? That sounds unfun. Full police report after the jump. Read more »

This week’s police report comes with a back-to-school reminder from the South Pasadena Police Department: “With school starting next week, we would like to remind parents not to double park when dropping off and picking up your children. This is illegal and dangerous!  Officers will be out the first weeks of school issuing citations to violators.” Amen. Full report after the jump.

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Some stuff I’ve neglected after the jump. It’s worth it for the last item. Read more »

Officers pull over to talk to some suspicious guys sitting in a car, and someone else pulls up and says, “Hey! That’s my car!” Beautiful. But hands down, the chilling rug store robbery is the crime of the week. Full police report after the jump. Read more »

South Pas Reserve Officer Joe Payne and former Maywood Police Chief Frank Hauptmann both confirmed they’re finalists to fill Dan Watson’s shoes. There’s plenty about Payne here, but I haven’t mentioned Hauptmann before. Besides the video above, here are a couple stories floating around:

• Four Maywood officers allege retaliation for exposing departmental misconduct.
• The L.A. Times was also there when the Maywood Police Department disbanded. ”On behalf of Maywood police employees, this will be our last transmission. Maywood police will now be 10-7, End of Watch. June 30th the year 2010. God bless all of you.”

An agenda for the executive session was labeled “performance evaluation of the city manager,” which an open government expert said violates California’s Brown Act.

Anyone else kind of freaked out to notice how many people are getting pulled over for fake registration tabs? One person wouldn’t surprise me, but this seems like a burgeoning cottage industry. Full police report after the jump. Read more »

An Alhambra man has been arrested in connection with a South Pasadena hot prowl. Police say fingerprints found at the scene match those of the suspect, a parolee. Also, SPPD is looking for a guy with a stupid shirt. There’s a link to the pdf in the police report, after the jump. Oh, one last thing, a guy complains to police that he hasn’t received the gun he ordered on the Internet. Read more »

The Pasadena Star-News points out that Bell City Attorney Edward Lee, who signed off on the outrageous city salaries we’ve all been hearing about, once worked for South Pasadena. Via the story:

Lee has worked in the San Gabriel Valley for several years. From 1990 to 1996 he was the city attorney in South Pasadena until the City Council fired him over concerns about his billing practices.

The city had become embroiled in a wide-ranging scandal that brought down the Police Department.

In 1995, South Pasadena spent $245,000 on Lee’s services even though the city had only budgeted $178,000, then-City Attorney Linda Holmes said.

Lee served as city attorney in multiple area cities, but it looks like in the past week he was canned by Downey, and resigned from Covina and Maywood. He also resigned from his law firm. He remains city attorney for Bell.

There was a checkpoint on Fair Oaks that resulted in four DUI arrests. And it looks like a high-speed pursuit ended with an arrest farther down the 110. There was also that big chase/crash on Orange Grove last week. According to the Star-News, the car landed on the roof of a house. The driver, who was arrested, was driving the car of a man suspected in a homicide case. Full police report after the jump. Read more »

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That’s where it happened. This is reportedly what happened around midnight.