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Yahoo
19-05-2025
- Yahoo
Fairfax District business owners saddened, on edge and forced to close after burglary uptick
Multiple businesses in L.A.'s Fairfax District have fallen victim to smash-and-grab burglaries in recent times, and now business owners are having to make tough decisions on whether they want to operate in the area. One of the businesses most recently hit is Solestage, located at 455 North Fairfax Avenue. According to Los Angeles Police Department Officer Miller, a group of thieves used a blue Toyota Camry to smash into the storefront and steal merchandise before fleeing in a different vehicle before 5 a.m. on May 16. The suspects were gone by the time police arrived, Officer Miller said. Solestage sells high-end streetwear and merchandise, and according to store owner Robert McClenton, that's exactly what the thieves took. Celebrity-owned pot shop in Los Angeles burglarized 'I went to the surveillance cameras, looked and saw the car [had been driven] in, and when I got here, the car was still there running,' McClenton said of the Friday morning burglary. 'It's crazy because I get up every morning to get here to make sure I'm available for people to come out here and see these items…it's heartbreaking.' Neither LAPD nor McClenton were able to elaborate on how much was taken from the store. McClenton told KTLA that it will likely cost 'tens of thousands of dollars' to repair the storefront and security gate that were damaged in the burglary and that he is still unsure of how much insurance will cover. Los Angeles barbershop blasts 'Baby Shark' to ward off homeless Another nearby store owner spoke with KTLA on Monday about the rise in burglaries. While he declined to go on camera, he provided surveillance video that shows a similar tactic being employed by the thieves that hit his establishment: using a vehicle to ram right through the storefront. In fact, similar crimes have already happened at his store twice this year, once in February and again in April, he said. He also noted that he is aware of at least three other businesses in the area that have been targeted. The assistant manager of another Fairfax District business – one that has not been burglarized – told KTLA that he's 'always wondering if we're next.' Chipotle is giving out $1 million in free burritos this summer: Here's how to get one 'Nobody's really doing anything about it,' Milton Hernandez said. '[There needs to be] more security and more patrolling.' In the meantime, most businesses appear to be staying open, except for Solestage; owner McClenton says he is moving his entire inventory out of the store because he is forced to shut down for the next couple of weeks, meaning that on top of all the products lost, he is also losing business. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
20-03-2025
- Yahoo
Wyandotte County man charged in 2 rape cases could spend life behind bars
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A Wyandotte County man accused of raping a woman in September 2020 is charged four-and-a-half years later in Jackson County Court. If convicted, he could receive a life sentence. Peytrien Lavelle McClenton, 35, is charged with first-degree rape, second-degree assault and two counts of first-degree sodomy nearly five years after he offered to drive a woman home from the liquor store. The victim told police that she had never met McClenton before that night but that she needed a ride home. Court documents said when the two arrived at the victim's home, she came across her father and his friend. Former student sentenced in 2022 Olathe East High School shooting An argument ensued between the victim and her father, so she kicked him and his friend out of the house. The victim told police that McClenton got angry with her because he thought her father was trying to take advantage of him in some way. From there, court documents said McClenton hit the victim in the head repeatedly with a handgun. He then told her to remove her clothes and proceeded to sexually assault her. Later, when the victim asked McClenton if she could get a drink of water, he told her to 'get a drink from the bathtub so that he could keep her in sight while he kept ahold of the gun.' The suspect then told the victim to go upstairs and wait 30 minutes before coming back down. She did, and when she finally went back downstairs McClenton was gone. The victim went to a gas station and called the police. Court documents said she had scratches on her back and a cut on the top of her head where she had been pistol-whipped. Despite positively identifying McClenton using his Facebook page, police did not arrest him. Court documents said that detectives later verified McClenton's identity through further investigation. While at the hospital, the victim had a sexual assault examination done but only a minimal amount of DNA was found. Court documents said detectives tried to contact McClenton by calling him and visiting his home but that they 'were met with negative results.' Less than two years later in 2022, McClenton was named the prime suspect in a separate KCPD rape report via evidence collected from a sexual assault exam on the victim. Two months later on June 30, 2022, a notification confirmed the male DNA profiles in both cases matched one another but that there was no profile for McClenton to compare them to. Three KC men accused of committing series of burglaries in 7 states A different court filing shows that the KCPD Career Criminal Squad was conducting surveillance on McClenton in June 2024. Investigators knew he had two Active Stop Orders for Rape issued by Kansas City, Missouri police and two Kansas City, Missouri city warrants for assault. The rapes for which he was wanted happened in September 2020 and April 2022 while the two city warrants for assault were issued in October 2018 and August 2019. Officers followed McClenton and received instructions from the tactical team to pull him over and arrest him for the two STOP orders and municipal arrest warrants. They turned on their sirens to pull him over to conduct a traffic stop. However, court documents said McClenton sped off and got up to 100 miles per hour on 71 Highway. Officers eventually arrested him and charged him with resisting arrest. He was due in court on December 18, 2024, which is when investigators took a buccal swab. Court documents then showed that the lab results from that swab showed him to be a one-in-one-billion match to the DNA at the September 2020 rape scene. He has not been charged in the 2022 case. McClenton is due in court Thursday for the rape, sodomy, and assault charges. His bond is set at $500,000. He's currently on house arrest, according to court records. If convicted of first-degree rape, he could receive up to a life sentence. Layfayette County middle school janitor facing child sex crime charges Meanwhile, he was in court the previous day, Wednesday, for the resisting arrest charge. If convicted, he could spend up to four years in prison. FOX4 contacted Kansas City Police and the Jackson County Prosecutor's Office to ask why it took so long to arrest McClenton and if there's possibly more victims. KCPD deferred us to the Prosecutor's Office, who did not respond. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
