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 [...]

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 [...]

View Larger Map That’s where it happened. This is reportedly what happened around midnight. Tweet

I kind of thought I was alone in dubbing Rick Ordonez, 33, the “kitty-cat tagger.” Guess not. Per the LA Weekly, the guy got sentenced to 90 days in county jail, three years probation, 300 hours of graffiti-removal work and has to fork over $8,675.38. Unrelated, but hot prowls are creepy. Full police report after the [...]

Someone broke into your car and stole your art supplies and your arrows? Bummer. Full report after the jump. Tweet

Slow week for the police report. In other crime news: Via the Star-News: “Police learned Friday that the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office plans to charge (18-year-old Nancy) Diaz with a misdemeanor count of furnishing alcohol to a minor in connection with the Dec. 12, 2009 party, the detective said.” That’s the party where [...]

Not mentioned in here, but I’m a little sad to see police say they nabbed the kitty-cat tagger. The suspect is from Alhambra. In South Pasadena crime, the Saxophone Bandit strikes. Full report after the jump. Tweet

A much calmer week. But, per Mister Earl, here’s what you can probably expect to see mentioned next week: I arrived at TJ’s about 4:15 today just as what seemed like the entire SPPD was also arriving.  They had a teenage girl in handcuffs. Apparently three juveniles snatched one or more purses and ran. At [...]