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LONG BEACH, CA – Eric Arroyo, 31, of Long Beach will face a judge to determine whether or not there is enough evidence to move forward with a trial today. Arroyo is charged with two felony counts each of attempted murder of a peace officer and assault with a firearm upon a peace officer after a shootout he allegedly initiated with police, in which a Long Beach police officer was struck by gunfire from a fellow officer .. The criminal complaint alleges that Arroyo personally and intentionally discharged a firearm. He allegedly fired at a uniformed police officer in the courtyard of a Long Beach apartment complex in June of last year. Three officers returned fire , according to police, and the injured officer and Arroyo suffered what were described by police as “non-life-threatening” wounds in the shootout. The injured officer underwent surgery and is expected to recover. Police announced last year that the bullet recovered from the injured officer came from another officer who w...

UPPER EAST SIDE — A woman claiming to be a psychic stole nearly $10,000 in jewelry from an Upper East Sider as part of a scam to "cleanse" the valuables of evil spirits, police said. The victim contacted the suspect July 28 and asked her to come to her East 83rd Street apartment . When the so-called psychic arrived around 1:40 p.m., she told the victim to give her jewelry so that she could cleanse the items of evil spirits, promising to return the goods a week later, police said. The psychic never returned with the jewelry, which totaled $9,950 and included a $5, 000 gold necklace , a $3,000 pair of white gold earrings , five bangles worth $200, a Gucci sterling silver watch worth $500, an $800 amethyst ring, one sterling silver crystal hoop earring worth $175, and various earrings totaling $275, according to the NYPD. Police are still investigating the theft, they said. The scam has claimed other victims, including a Columbia student who was swindled out of $2,500 earlier ...

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Buy Photo Police vehicles on the scene at 2424 Tharpe St. (Photo: Michael Shwarz/Democrat) Buy Photo CLOSE TPD gives update on Wednesday's officer involved shooting Karl Etters Update 5:34 p.m. A burglary suspect died of his injuries Thursday after being shot by a Tallahassee Police Officer . Jeremy Lett, 28, was shot by TPD officer David Stith , who was responding to reports of a burglary at the Shadow Ridge Apartments on West Tharpe Street around 8 p.m. Wednesday. After Stith spotted and confronted a man matching the burglary suspect's description, the two men were involved in a physical altercation during which Stith shot Lett , according to TPD spokesman David Northway . The burglary was reported at the complex, but Northway did not know which apartment. Stith, who was not injured, has been placed on administrative leave with pay following the incident, which is protocol when an officer fires his weapon in the line of duty. Leon County court records show Lett was a res...

CHICAGO -- At least 33 people were wounded, 6 fatally, within 13 hours from Saturday to Sunday across the city in separate shootings, which includes an attack in the West Pullman neighborhood that left one man dead and wounded six other people. In the West Pullman neighborhood on the city's Far South Side, a man was killed and six other people were wounded in a single attack about 2:30 a.m. Sunday in the parking lot of a banquet hall used as a nightclub, police said. They were all in a large parking lot in the 11900 block of South Loomis Street when a man inside a black SUV opened fire at the crowd, police said. The shooter then drove off. A man, whose age and identity was not yet known, was pronounced dead at the scene. A white sheet covered the man's body on the pavement near the entrance of the hall's door. A white BMW sports car , with one of its door still open, was next to the body. Six other people were shot during the attack. Police did not immediately have in...

Jesse Collings The following are excerpts from the Bedford police log for the period of Aug. 11 to Aug. 17. The log is public record and available to review. All persons are presumed innocent unless found guilty in a court of law. Friday, Aug. 11 3:47 p.m.: Police were called by an employee from a company on Wiggins Avenue who was reporting that a former employee that had been terminated was making threats to the employer. Police arrived on the scene and spoke with the employer about filing a no trespassing order. 9:22 p.m.: The Lexington Police Department placed a call to Bedford that a MBTA bus was seen traveling towards Bedford on Great Road, with green lights activated and the message "call police" on the board that typically displays the bus route number . Police were dispatched but could not locate the bus. Saturday, Aug. 12 2:33 p.m.: Police reported a motorcyclist on the bike path with a four-year-old child on the front of the bike. The motorcyclist was descri...

Local News LUBBOCK, TX - Lubbock Police said that another gunshot victim came forward on Tuesday related to a shooting incident on Monday afternoon. At about 2:30 Monday afternoon, the Lubbock Police Department received a call about gunshots in the area of 2100 Avenue O.  An officer was nearby and heard another gunshot near 24th Place and Avenue N. The officer found a 35-year-old woman who had been shot in the arm.  Police said she had “moderate injuries.” Police said Abrean Watkins , 22, was arrested on an unrelated charge of unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon. Police said, “On Tuesday at approximately 1:20 p.m., nearly 24 hours after the original call of shots fired, the Lubbock Police Department received a call that another gunshot victim had just arrived at the hospital.” “The male victim had moderate injuries on his hand,” police said. Investigators believed he was possibly struck by a stray bullet in the area of 1900 Avenue O during Monday’s incident. A copy of the p...

Captain's Mast The following is from the journals of the Seward Police Department . Those who have been arrested or summoned are presumed innocent until found guilty in a court of law. Aug. 9 0121 - The night auditor from the Hotel Seward reported AK/LIC JDV548 with its lights on across the street and wanted to make sure that the vehicle owner was not having a problem. Officer found no one in the car. 0131 - RP reported that subject died at Fifth Avenue. Officer responded and notified the Medical Examiner as there was not a comfort one or advanced directive in place. The medical examiner released the body to the family. Aug. 12 1604 - RP found a wallet containing debit cards, from different people, a social security card and a driver’s license near the Chamber of Commerce. Debit cards belonging to a previous case were logged into that case. 1604 - Items found belonging to a previous lost and found case were logged into safe keeping under that case. 1622 - RP reported subject s...

Four armed men stormed into a Valencia Park home early Thursday , beat up the resident and stole his wife’s Lexus with a gun in it, San Diego police said. Hours later, officers got into a pursuit behind the stolen car and arrested the driver in the Webster neighborhood. The robbers wore bandanna masks and carried a pistol, a baseball bat and a golf club when they turned up at the home on Cervantes Avenue, east of Euclid Avenue, police Lt. Eric Hays said. home invasion robbery stopped on Home Avenue after a police pursui" class="trb_em_ic_img" title="A black Lexus stolen in a violent home invasion robbery stopped on Home Avenue after a police pursui" src="src" /> They first knocked on the door or made some other noise on the front porch. The sounds woke the 32-year-old resident and he opened the front door, Hays said. That’s when the men barged inside . They repeatedly asked where to find the victim’s 19-year-old stepson and a house safe. The v...

HAYWARD, Calif. -- A Hayward police officer shot a woman Tuesday night and she later died from her injuries. It happened on Foothill Boulevard and Grove Way at the Summerwood apartments . The Hayward police were called by another police agency to conduct a welfare check on a woman around 7 p.m. According to the Hayward police , the 62-year-old woman had made several 911 calls before they arrived. They went to the woman's second story apartment , spoke with her at her apartment and displayed a handgun in a threatening manner. The police say that's when officers retreated to the parking lot of the complex, while telling the woman to drop the weapon. They say she advanced towards officers and that's when one officer fired his weapon. Neighbors we spoke with say they heard a woman yelling and then they saw a Hayward police officer take cover behind a car and fire at least four to five shots at the woman. She tumbled halfway down the stairs and that's when more neigh...

Five persons suspected of ramming a van into people in Cambrils in Spain have been shot dead, police said hours after 13 people were killed in a similar incident in Barcelona. 7-year-old Sydney boy Julian Cadman is missing after the Barcelona terror attack . SUSPECTS in Spain’s twin terror attacks had been planning an even bigger assault than the deadly car rampages they carried out, police said, as distressing details emerged of families torn apart in the horror. Police said they shot dead five “suspected terrorists” who had knocked pedestrians down in the Catalan seaside resort of Cambrils in a second attack in the early hours of Friday, and arrested four others as Spain reeled from the deadly violence . Catalonia’s regional police identified three of the suspects who were killed as Moroccan nationals. They were Moussa Oukabir, 17, Said Aallaa, 18, and Mohamed Hychami, 24. Police said they suspect 12 people of involvement in the attacks: the five who were killed, four who wer...