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.

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.

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.

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 [...]

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.

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 the [...]

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 [...]

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