| | | | Afternoon headlines for Friday, April 16, 2021
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Underage Transgender Hooker Forced Into Orange County Prostitution: Charges Of Pimping A Minor, Human Trafficking A Minor With Force  A 20-year-old esthetician was charged Friday with pimping an underage transgender victim in Orange County. Daniel Eldair Bautista, who will turn 21 on Tuesday, is charged with one count each of human trafficking of an underage victim, pimping a minor older than 16 and pandering a minor older than 16, all felonies. He also faces […]
  
Homeless Horror Stabbing Murder In Long Beach: Cops Hunt Killer  A man was fatally stabbed near a homeless encampment in Long Beach, and his killer was at large Friday. Officers sent to the 6700 block of Cherry Avenue about 6 p.m. Thursday found the injured man behind a retail store, the Long Beach Police Department reported. “The victim was unresponsive with stab wounds to the […]
Donald Ducks Bottle Swing In Nightclub Melee: Attorney Says Rams Star Aaron Donald Never Assaulted Anyone In Pittsburgh  An attorney for Los Angeles Rams defensive tackle Aaron Donald said Friday video evidence and witness accounts clearly refute a man’s claim that the NFL star assaulted him outside a Pittsburgh nightclub. Attorney Casey White told ESPN that the accuser, De’Vincent Spriggs, swung a bottle at Donald’s head outside the establishment. Donald ducked but was […]
Three Men Arrested in Fatal Shooting Last Summer Three suspects were behind bars Friday on suspicion of a gang-related shooting in Anaheim that left one man dead and another injured last summer. Fullerton residents Dominick Sanchez, 27, Jacob Antunez, 24, and Jorge Nolasco, 27, were booked Thursday on suspicion of murder, attempted murder and assault with a deadly weapon, with gang enhancements, and […]
Battling Anti- #StopAsianHate Billboards Go Up In Los Angeles To Spread Peace and Solidarity The Korean Youth and Community Center teamed with Amazon Studios and the Korean American Federation of Los Angeles to create three billboards in Los Angeles to raise awareness about the #StopAsianHate campaign. The billboards went on display Wednesday — and will remain up through May 9 — at Venice Boulevard and Shelbourne Drive in Mid-City; […]
LAPD Sergeant Dies of COVID-19 Complications The Los Angeles Police Department announced Friday that a 31-year-veteran of the force died of COVID-19 complications, becoming the department’s seventh sworn employee to die of the virus. Sgt. Anthony White, who had worked for the LAPD since 1990, died on Thursday, according to the LAPD. His most recent assignment was at the Transit Services […]
Wanted Felon Accused in 2018 Fatal Banning Shooting Captured in Mexico A wanted felon facing murder and attempted murder charges for allegedly gunning down two cousins in front of a Banning liquor store in 2018 was arrested in Mexico and is now awaiting extradition to Riverside County. Brody Joseph Baca, 22, was arrested Wednesday in Puerto Peñasco, a Mexican fishing and resort city on the Gulf […]
Universal Studios Hollywood Reopens To General Public One day after offering a preview to its annual and season pass holders, Universal Studios Hollywood Friday swung open its gates for the general public, but with limited capacity and other COVID-19 health restrictions. With Los Angeles County in the orange tier of the state’s COVID economic blueprint, capacity is limited to 25%. Arriving guests […]
County’s Jobless Rate Falls for Third Straight Month Riverside County’s jobless rate dropped below 8% last month, on the heels of gains in almost every sector of the regional economy, according to figures released Friday by the California Employment Development Department. The unemployment rate in March, based on preliminary estimates, was 7.7%, compared to 8% in February, the EDD reported. The March rate […]
Orange County COVID-19 Trends Continue in Encouraging Direction Orange County Friday reported 112 new COVID-19 cases as hospitalization numbers creeped up by 10 patients. Friday’s new cases upped the county’s cumulative count from throughout the pandemic to 252,804. The county also logged 17 new fatalities Friday, boosting the death toll to 4,886, but four of those fatalities occurred in December due to common […]
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