$7,000 Worth of Labubu Dolls Stolen From Los Angeles Store, Authorities Say
The incident took place early Wednesday morning at a store in La Puente, a city about 18 miles (29 kilometers) east of Los Angeles, the LA County Sheriff's Department said. The department said the suspects used a stolen Toyota Tacoma in the incident, which was recovered shortly afterward. The agency said it was investigating the case and did not have additional information.
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Los Angeles-area high school student detained by immigration agents, LAUSD officials say
A high school student was allegedly detained by Department of Homeland Seceurity agents in Arleta on Monday, according to Los Angeles Unified School District officials. "Today, unidentified immigration agents handcuffed, detained, and drew their guns on a BD6 student outside Arleta High School in an alleged case of mistaken identity," said a statement from LAUSD Board Member Kelly Gonez. "Such actions — violently detaining a child just outside a public school — are absolutely reprehensible and should have no place in our country." LAUSD Superintendent Alberto Carvalho said that the incident occurred when federal agents approached the family of a female student who was registering at Arleta High School. They allegedly pulled her family member, a 15-year-old boy, from a vehicle and placed him in handcuffs. "It is disturbing, it is heartbreaking, it is reprehensible, it is unacceptable," Carvalho said during a news conference on Monday. "An individual was pulled from the vehicle, who was riding with his grandmother. ... This young man was placed in handcuffs, presumably based on mistaken identity. He was not an adult, he's a 15-year-old boy with significant disabilities. This cannot happen." Ultimately, the boy was released at the scene. LAUSD officials are not sharing his identity publicly and his citizenship and immigration status remain unclear CBS News Los Angeles has learned that he actually attends San Fernando High School and was only there for his family member's registration. The school is located in LAUSD's Board District 6, which represents the eastern San Fernando Valley and is overseen by Board Member Gonez. Carvalho touched on the incident during Monday's scheduled news conference, where school officials were joined by Los Angeles police as they addressed the concerns of immigrant students and their families heading into the new school year. The district planned the news conference after noticing a sharp decrease in attendance towards the end of the 2024-25 school year, when immigration enforcement operations began taking place across the county. LAUSD officials say that there is surveillance footage of the incident, but that they will not be releasing it in order to preserve the student's identity and privacy. Carvalho alleges that the agents said that they weren't there to enforce immigration action. CBS News Los Angeles has reached out to the Department of Homeland Security for comment but has not yet heard back.
Yahoo
3 hours ago
- Yahoo
Agents detain student at gunpoint near school; safe zones to be expanded around LAUSD campuses
Los Angeles Unified school police, staff and community volunteers will form protective perimeters around at least 100 schools when classes begin on Thursday to help ensure the safe passage of children — an announcement that came on a day that immigration agents reportedly handcuffed, detained and drew their guns on a student outside Arleta High School in a case of mistaken identity, officials said. The 15-year-old boy, a student with disabilities, was visiting Arleta High School with family members when federal agents detained him, L.A. Unified officials said. Family members intervened and, after a few tense moments, the agents released the boy. The school's principal also came out to assess the situation. Agents left behind some bullets on the sidewalk, apparently by mistake, which were collected by school police. "Such actions — violently detaining a child just outside a public school — are absolutely reprehensible and should have no place in our country," school board member Kelly Gonez, who represents Arleta High, said in a social media post. A spokesperson from the Department of Homeland Security could not immediately be reached for comment. Across Los Angeles Unified, parents, teachers and staff have expressed deep fears about school safety amid immigration raids. Citywide, leaders are concerned that children whose parents are living in the country without legal status will be kept home as families grapple with the climate of fear. L.A. schools Supt. Alberto Carvalho spoke Monday at a news conference near district headquarters, saying that the district is doubling down on efforts to protect students and families by creating and expanding "safe zones" around campuses, before and after school, with the help of community workers, school police and local police departments. Bass was not specific about what role the Los Angeles Police Department would play. "The school police and the Los Angeles Police Department have a strong working relationship and will continue to share information as appropriate as needed," Bass said. "But neither police departments assist with immigration enforcement, and have not for many, many years. There will be adults in the community who will serve as eyes and ears on the street." At least two mayors from smaller cities pledged direct police assistance in patrolling areas around schools. Although local police are not legally allowed to stop or interfere with federal law enforcement actions, authorities will alert parents along walking routes if agents are in the area. Also, they will trigger a communication chain to alert all nearby campuses of raids so that schools can take lockdown actions as necessary. The public commitment was intended to reassure families that school will be a safe place and that officials also will do what they can to protect families on their way to and from campuses. In a string of recent appearances, Carvalho has reviewed a list of measures taken by the nation's second-largest school system. These included home visits and calls in recent weeks to more than 10,000 families considered at risk of immigration enforcement or at risk of not coming to schools. The school system also is distributing family preparedness packets, "all the information in one single form, in a multitude of languages," said Carvalho, with the goal of "explaining the rights of our children and their parents, but also providing easy access to the resources that we have available to all of them." The district also has created a "compassion fund" to provide general help for families, including legal assistance. In addition to students from immigrant families, the school system also more than 350 employees who are working legally but who could have their legal status revoked. "They continue to be the valiant, productive workers they are with us," Carvalho said last week. The district is working to re-route buses to make transportation more accessible to families. For the most part, the busing system is used by students with disabilities — for whom transportation is legally required — and students attending magnet programs at campuses far from where they live. But this could change when the parameter for riding a bus is safety. In this light, neighborhood proximity to bus stops matters a lot, because families can be exposed to immigration enforcement while traveling to and from a stop. The buses themselves will be a considered an extension of the campus environment and federal agents will not be permitted to board them. The Monday news conference took place at Roybal Learning Center, just west of downtown, which also is the headquarters of the L.A. Unified School Police Department, which is expected to have a role in monitoring immigration enforcement and potentially confronting it. Others in attendance included members of the L.A. Board of Education as well as South Gate Mayor Maria Davila. West Hollywood Mayor Chelsea Lee Byers and City of Bell Mayor Mayor Ali Saleh. Los Angeles Unified covers an area totaling 710 square miles, which, along with the City of Los Angeles, includes all or portions of 25 cities and some unincorporated areas of Los Angeles County. Approximately 4.8 million people live within school-district boundaries. Sign up for Essential California for news, features and recommendations from the L.A. Times and beyond in your inbox six days a week. This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times.
CBS News
6 hours ago
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DA Hochman says "enough is enough" on Los Angeles street takeovers, pleads for harsher penalties for attendees
Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman says he wants the Board of Supervisors to "keep ratcheting up the penalties" for participants in dangerous street takeovers. During a news conference on Monday, Hochman said that "enough is enough" when it comes to the takeovers, which he claimed is an increasingly growing problem in the county. The takeovers, as Hochman described, are when as many as hundreds of people gather at an intersection for an unofficial car show, in which drivers perform stunts like donuts and drifting while surrounded by spectators. "[These drivers] will engage in highly dangerous and often destructive and even potentially deadly actions, gearing their cars around these intersections," Hochman said. These takeovers are often organized through promoters on social media, according to the DA. He said that in some instances, promoters have two or three locations planned for takeovers on a particular night, in case their first attempts at an event are broken up by police. "If you're a promoter, don't even think for a second you can't hide anymore," Hochman said. "We're coming after you." During Monday's news conference, Hochman called for harsher penalties to be put in place against drivers, promoters and spectators. Current law in L.A. County says that spectators can be hit with $500 fines or 180 days in county jail for spectating such events, or enter a diversion program. Hochman called for the Board of Supervisors to add additional penalties for more than one offense. "I would ask the Board of Supervisors to keep ratcheting up the penalties," he said. "[The second conviction's penalty] shouldn't be $1,000, it should be $2,500 ... If we keep ratcheting up those penalties, hopefully that will finally dissuade people."
