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Authorities are pursuing a suspect in a stolen vehicle in Los Angeles County Friday night. Patrol units from the Bell Police Department are trailing the vehicle in the West Hollywood area closely as the driver traveled on the wrong side of the road, nearly missing several cars while speeding and weaving dangerously through surface streets. At one point, the driver nearly crashed head-on into a vehicle at an intersection. A Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department helicopter is also tracking the vehicle. Sky5 is overhead. This developing story will be updated.

A corporate landlord that owns apartment complexes in Southern California was accused of illegally withholding security deposits from tenants and ordered to pay back funds in a settlement. The case involved Arnel Management Company which owns 19 apartment complexes throughout Los Angeles and Orange counties, according to the California Attorney General’s Office. The company is accused of automatically deducting preset cleaning charges from renters’ security deposits which violates California law, officials said. An investigation revealed that the fees were being deducted regardless of the apartment’s condition. Tenants could only avoid the preset cleaning fees by having their units professionally cleaned when they moved out. Under the settlement agreement announced Friday, Arnel will pay over $1 million for refunds to tenants as well as: $500,000 in additional civil penalties $650,000 that will go to tenant rights-related legal aid organizations in Orange and L.A. counties Be prohibited from requiring a tenant to repair any damages or defective conditions that preexisted the tenancy or that resulted from ordinary wear and tear Be prohibited from imposing any pre-set or predetermined deductions, or treating any portion of a security deposit

Fullerton police Friday released more information about the death of a 50-year-old Buena Park man who authorities say resisted officers as they attempted to subdue him with a stun gun and bean-bag rounds earlier this month. Police released body-worn camera video and police dispatch calls regarding the disturbance with Alejandro Campos Rios. According to police, officers were called just before 3 a.m. March 6 by a McDonald’s manager, who was concerned about Rios and another man who were in front of the restaurant at 1341 S. Brookhurst Road. One of the men ran away before officers arrived. The manager was concerned about the safety of her co-workers before they arrived for the morning shift, she told a dispatcher. The manager said there were two “homeless men” in front of the restaurant and “it looks like they’re, like, actively on drugs.” She did not confront the men because, “I’m scared to tell them anything. … They don’t look like they’ll respond well to me,” she told the dispatcher. As officers arrived, they saw Rios singing and swinging a belt around, shouting out epithets, police said. He

A 53-year-old man already facing charges related to the Jan. 6 Capitol riot was ordered Friday to stand trial on charges of assaulting two people at a “Stop the Steal” rally and counterprotest outside Santa Ana College three years ago. Kim Michael Sorgente was bound over for trial following a preliminary hearing by Orange County Superior Court Judge Robert Knox. He was scheduled to be arraigned April 9. Sorgente, who is representing himself, argued he was acting in self-defense when he allegedly slammed a megaphone over the head of one man at the Dec. 6, 2020, protest. Sorgente, who says he lived in his car, has listed Dublin, California, as his mailing address. Sorgente attempted to have the alleged victim in the case — Trinidad Molina — subpoenaed to testify at the preliminary hearing. During a March 22, Knox was skeptical of the relevance of Sorgente’s claims that Molina had “aggressively come at me brandishing brass knuckles and a knife.” Sorgente is accused of hitting Molina in the head with a bullhorn. Knox said assuming Sorgente was accurate in his description, “How would that be

As soon as Dodgers third base coach Dino Ebel descended the dugout steps at the end of the first inning Thursday afternoon, Shohei Ohtani and Will Ireton were waiting for him. Ireton, Ohtani’s acting interpreter, told Ebel that the two-way star wanted to discuss what had just happened on the bases — when Ohtani was tagged out trying to turn a double into a triple after failing to see Ebel hold up Mookie Betts at third in front of him. It’s hardly unusual for players and coaches to debrief after such miscommunication on the field. Sometimes it will happen in the moment. Other times, in private conversations after the game. But for Ebel, who like many with the Dodgers is still getting to learn Ohtani (or, in Ebel’s case, re-learn after being an Angels coach during Ohtani’s rookie MLB season in 2018), the fact the $700 million signing wanted to immediately clear up any confusion was music to the veteran coach’s ears. “He was like, ‘I gotta learn from this,’” Ebel recounted Friday; explaining that, since there were no outs in the inning and Freddie

INDIANAPOLIS —  Maybe any other month of the NBA season, any other moment, and a night like Friday could be written off as an unavoidable occurrence. When you have 82 games on the schedule — or in the case of the Lakers and the Indiana Pacers, 83 games thanks to the in-season tournament — there are going to be nights when your legs are too heavy, your brain is too foggy and the rims are too tight. It happens on nights like this for teams, the third game in four nights, the travel miles and the on-court minutes piling up. But when you’re where the Lakers were entering Friday, that stuff can’t get in the way. Needing wins to try to climb out of the No. 9 spot in the Western Conference standings, the Lakers found themselves trying to fight through “one of those nights.” They missed too many shots, their communication faltered, and their frustration — the Lakers fully aware of the stakes — was obvious. Austin Reaves balled up a towel and fired it off the bench after a careless turnover led to a

A corporate landlord that owns apartment complexes in Southern California was accused of illegally withholding security deposits from tenants and ordered to pay back funds in a settlement. The case involved Arnel Management Company which owns 19 apartment complexes throughout Los Angeles and Orange counties, according to the California Attorney General’s Office. The company is accused of automatically deducting preset cleaning charges from renters’ security deposits which violates California law, officials said. An investigation revealed that the fees were being deducted regardless of the apartment’s condition. Tenants could only avoid the preset cleaning fees by having their units professionally cleaned when they moved out. Under the settlement agreement announced Friday, Arnel will pay over $1 million for refunds to tenants as well as: $500,000 in additional civil penalties $650,000 that will go to tenant rights-related legal aid organizations in Orange and L.A. counties Be prohibited from requiring a tenant to repair any damages or defective conditions that preexisted the tenancy or that resulted from ordinary wear and tear Be prohibited from imposing any pre-set or predetermined deductions, or treating any portion of a security deposit

San Bernardino County sheriff’s deputies were captured on video kneeling on a man and striking him in the head during an arrest, an incident that has sparked public outrage and prompted authorities to place one deputy on leave and launch an internal investigation. According to the Sheriff’s Department, deputies from the Hesperia station responded to a reported armed robbery in the 16000 block of Main Street on Sunday. They later identified Christian Cardenas Alonso, 36, of Adelanto, as a suspect in the case. At 4:51 p.m. Tuesday, investigators located and pulled over Alonso at the intersection of Main Street and E Avenue. Authorities say they attempted to arrest Alonso, but he resisted and “a use of force occurred.” In bystander video posted to social media, four sheriff’s deputies can be seen kneeling on top of a man who is lying face down on the gravel outside a car. At one point, a plainclothes officer knees the man in the head multiple times. Jesse Vega, a local car enthusiast and smog technician who took the video, happened to be filming Alonso’s vehicle — a 1964 Chevrolet