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 [...]

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

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. Tweet

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 [...]

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. Tweet

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 [...]

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 [...]