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 [...]

Two pervy events in one week, and one robbery that’s flat-out scary. Also, I’m curious as to how common it is for someone to make a private person’s arrest. Full police report after the jump.

A few open gigs around town listed after the jump.

It find it strangely heartening that we can have tractor-related crime in South Pasadena. And the ass of the week is whoever stole a motorized wheelchair.
Full report after the jump.

SATURDAY
SOPA Studios is having an artists’ reception Saturday from 7 to 9:30 p.m.
Also, Ken Kulhken will be at BOOK’em Mysteries on Saturday at 3 p.m. to sign copies of “The Biggest Liar in Los Angeles.” What it’s about:

In 1926, when musician Tom Hickey reads in a broadside about a lynching the Los Angeles newspapers failed [...]

Behold the moa. Per Wikipedia, this bad bird from New Zealand was 12 feet tall and about 510 pounds. The species is guessed to have become extinct from Maori hunting, around 1500 AD.
The moa is also my awkward ostrich-related segue. The past month has included trips to New Zealand and Oregon, not to mention my [...]

A lot of these entries are written like essays this week. There’s a pretty brazen robbery on Mission. Full police report after the jump.

Mt. Waterman is finally open. They got a ton of snow this year, but the rain and mudslides have kept the roads closed until now. There is a slight catch: You have to take a pretty big detour to get there. But the drive is pretty amazing as you wind your way through the Station [...]

This has nothing to do with South Pas, but as a giddy new cabin owner I’m sure it won’t be the last time Big Santa Anita Canyon news trickles onto this blog. The Pack Station at Chantry Flat was originally built in 1936, and a general store was added in 1953. Deb and Sue Burgess purchased [...]

A few of the South Pas-related items floating around in the news:

In an obit for Frisbee inventor Walter Frederick Morrison, the San Gabriel Valley Tribune mentions in passing that WHAM-O began in a South Pasadena garage. Maybe you already knew that but, well, I didn’t.
The L.A. Times says, “Today, Stargate (Studios) generates $15 million in [...]