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by | December 4, 2012

Long Beach Police Looking for Bicycle Molester

Check the local meth heads. Sounds like their kind of work. In Long Beach CA. a bicyclist is riding around groping women from his bicycle.

Long Beach police today were warning women about a man who has been groping women while riding past them on a bicycle.

Video released by police on Monday show the suspect riding his bicycle and groping one of his victims.
At least a dozen crimes were reported from September through

November, with the female victims ranging in age from 12 to the mid-60s. All of them were walking on a sidewalk when the assailant rode up behind them on a bicycle and
grabbed either their buttocks or breasts as he passed by.

Most of the assaults occurred either on or near Fourth Street between Chestnut and Junipero avenues. The man is said to be Hispanic and is varyingly described as being between 25 and 50 years old, 5 feet 6 to 6 feet tall, and 180 to 240 pounds, with gray and black hair.

He was wearing a large oversize white T-shirt, gray or blue hooded sweatshirt, or black-and-white flannel shirt, with either dark shorts or jeans, and black skate-style sneakers, police said.
The bicycle was described as a dark or silver colored mountain bike.

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by | June 19, 2010

Jimmy Schlager shoots 4, self in Del Taco Restaurant in San Bernardino CA

A man opened fire on his stepdaughter’s family inside a California restaurant Saturday, killing her husband and 6-year-old son, critically wounding her and another child, and then fatally shooting himself, police said.

Jimmy Schlager, 56, arrived at the Del Taco restaurant in San Bernardino on a bike at about 1 p.m., walked over to a table and fired several shots at his 29-year-old stepdaughter, her 33-year-old husband, and their sons, ages 5 and 6, San Bernardino police Lt. Jarrod Burguan said.

“There was a very brief exchange of words, then he opened fire on them at near point-blank range,” Burguan said.

The woman’s husband was declared dead at the restaurant and the 6-year-old died at a hospital, San Bernardino Fire Department spokesman Steve Tracey said.

The woman and the 5-year-old boy were in critical condition at Loma Linda University Medical Center, Tracey said. The names of the victims were not released.

The woman’s mother who was married to Schlager died several years ago, and investigators were probing what ties Schlager and his stepdaughter may still have had as they sought a motive for the shooting, Burguan said.

Police said between five and seven employees and several other customers were in the fast food restaurant, but the gunman clearly walked in seeking the four victims and no one else was injured.

Bullet holes marked the walls and glass covered the floor.

Owners of nearby businesses said horrified patrons streamed out of the restaurant after the shots were fired.

“I saw some people yelling and all of a sudden I heard ‘boom, boom, boom, boom’,” Jorge Garcia, who works at a recycling trailer in the same parking lot as the restaurant, told the Riverside Press-Enterprise. “I saw two employees run out of the employee door and then I saw eight or 10 people run out of the restaurant and across the street.”

Schlager, who is from Lancaster in northern Los Angeles County, had an extensive criminal record dating back to 1972 that included assault with a deadly weapon and a restraining order taken out by a co-worker.

Despite living an hour’s drive away, Schlager had many ties to San Bernardino and once lived just a few blocks from the restaurant, Burguan said.

Burguan said the attack on the family was one of the worst crime scenes he could remember in San Bernardino, a city of about 200,000 people some 60 miles east of Los Angeles.

“This was something else,” he said.

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by | March 11, 2010

Girlicious band member Natalie Mejia arrested for Cocaine Possesion

GLENDALE, CA – Police say a member of the pop group Girlicious was arrested after Glendale officers found more than a dozen plastic bags of cocaine in her Gucci purse during a traffic stop.

Police Sgt. Tom Lorenz says 21-year-old Natalie Mejia was being held Wednesday in jail in the Los Angeles suburb on suspicion of cocaine for sale or distribution, the Los Angeles Times reported.

Lorenz says Mejia was a passenger in a car driven by 28-year-old Peter Asencio Tuesday night when Asencio was pulled over for speeding.

Police say Mejia had just dined at a restaurant in Burbank and was heading to the airport and late for a flight. Lorenz says Asencio was arrested on the same drug charge. Police determined that Asencio also was driving with a suspended license.

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by | February 6, 2010

San Dimas plans to save $1 million on City Hall project

As a resident of San Dimas, I am sort of wondering what is wrong with the old city hall. Why does it need to be renovated? I have been bringing my children there for summer activities since they were infants. With the exception of needing new floors and paint, I can’t seem to find anything wrong with the existing structure. JD

City officials think they can save $1 million in loan costs on the $13 million City Hall renovation project.

All five city councilmen and city staff met last week to discuss the final details of the project, including a temporary City Hall move and the type of loan used to pay for the project.

“I am against the rebuilding of City Hall,” Councilman Denis Bertone said. “But the financing mechanism that the city is going to use is probably good.”

The project includes three portions: a City Hall renovation and expansion estimated at $9.2 million, an expansion of the Plummer Building near City Hall at $2.6 million and a revamp of the plaza at $1.1 million.

The projects together are estimated to cost slightly more than $13 million, City Manager Blaine Michaelis said.

The current City Hall has been in use since 1969.

The City Council voted 4 to 1 in favor of the renovation, with Bertone the dissenting vote.

“I understand where Denis is coming from. There are lots of things we could do with the money we are spending,” Councilman John Bonier said. “However, the City Hall is over 40 years old, and while it is not an ancient building, it is outdated in a lot of respects.”

The city plans to borrow $7.5 million for the project and pay an additional $5.5 million from its general fund. The city has about $17 million in its reserves.

Final approval on project bids will be Feb. 23, when the council
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can approve either the City Hall renovation or all three projects, Michaelis said.

At Tuesday’s meeting, a majority of the council appeared to agree on a leasing option through the League of California Cities for 15 years that put the estimated full cost of the loan at $11,126,087, after interest rates are assessed.

Alternative options included 20-year loans costing $12.2 million, $12.8 million and $14.3 million respectively.

The more popular choice now on the table saves the city more than $1 million over the long term versus other options presented Tuesday, but the city will have to make payments of $741,739 a year to pay down the debt.

That total is $100,000 more than two other options considered for approval.

“It saves money in the long run,” Bertone said. “We can afford to do the higher payments.”

Mayor Curt Morris requested to see how the lease would play out if variable interest rates were used instead of a fixed rate, but he was still in favor of the 15-year loan until he saw something that swayed him, he said at Tuesday’s meeting.

Management and construction of the project have been awarded to Griffin Structures Inc., but bidding for various subcontracts – including plumbing and 34 others – begins Thursday.

If bids come under budget, the city would spend less from the general fund but still borrow the $7.5 million, Michaelis said.

Now the city must prepare to move its operation to the old Levity Building while construction begins at City Hall.

City Hall will move to the temporary site at 130 Village Court on March 5, and the move will cost the city about $300,000, officials said.

The temporary offices will be fully operational, and at 48,000 square feet will house every employee and still have room for storage space, officials said.

City officials hope City Hall is only closed to the public for that Friday due to the move, Assistant City Manager Ken Duran said.

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by | December 27, 2009

Woman slashes man’s throat in Fontana after trash-talking at basketball game

FONTANA – A Rialto woman has been charged with attempted murder for allegedly slicing a man’s throat for trash-talking while he watched a pick-up basketball game.

Nicole Renee Roberson, 38, allegedly attacked the 24-year-old victim with a box cutter Aug. 22 after he persisted in trash-talking at Seville Park in Fontana despite repeated demands to stop.

Roberson pleaded not guilty to criminal charges in Fontana Superior Court following her Dec. 16 arrest in connection with the incident.

She remained jailed in lieu of $1.2 million bail last week at West Valley Detention Center in Rancho Cucamonga.

Roberson could face a prison sentence of 16 years to life if convicted on all charges. She is next due in court Monday.

The alleged victim told police after the stabbing that he and Roberson were friends, and they had developed a relationship where they often jokingly argued with each other, according to investigative reports attached to Roberson’s court file.

The day of the stabbing, the victim and Roberson were socializing and drinking alcohol at a friend’s apartment near Seville Park, the alleged victim told police.

The victim told police he was “playing and talking trash” with Roberson, and he persisted despite her demands to stop because he believed she was playing along.

The victim told police he hit Roberson lightly on the shoulder in a playful manner, and she pulled put a box cutter and threatened to cut him
if he didn’t stop.

“(The victim) stated that he laughed and told her to stop and put the razor away,” wrote Fontana police Detective Cliff Ohler.

Three or four hours later, the victim said he went to Seville Park at Juniper and Seville avenues, and he saw a group of kids playing basketball.

Witnesses told police the alleged victim continually taunted the kids, ridiculing their basketball skills and telling them to stop playing.

Roberson was also in the park when the alleged victim began taunting the kids, and she told him to stop, witnesses told police.

“An argument ensued as (the victim) tried to explain that he was only playing and told (Roberson) to mind her own business,” Ohler wrote. “(The victim) stated he turned to walk away from (Roberson) and she cut his throat with a box cutter.”

When police arrived at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center that evening to interview the victim, they saw a slash wound that began at the front of his throat and ended on the left side of his neck near his ear.

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