Chp Officers

The use of one officer per California Highway Patrol car proves dangerous both to the officer and possible lawbreakers. He has little protection against a felon who has predetermined the action he will take. As for an officer stopping violators, today, he has no back-up to assist about legal procedures or wrong doings. In 1984, George Michael Gwaltney of the California Highway Police was convicted of raping and killing a young woman near Barstow. Cara Evelyn Knott of El Cajon was strangled to death on Dec. 22, 1986, near Interstate 15. Officer Craig Alan Peyer, a 13-year veteran, has been charged with the offense.

A driver police say was speeding tried to avoid a ticket by jumping into the ocean in Monterey County and swimming away. Authorities say the unidentified man led California Highway Patrol officers on a high-speed chase in the city of Marina, where he ended up at a beach, ran across the sand dunes and got into the water. Marina Police Cmdr. Bob Nolan told KTVU-TV the man was driving on U.S. 101 through the city Tuesday afternoon when CHP officers tried to pull him over. After accelerating to 100 mph, the man eventually stopped his car and ran to Marina State Beach with CHP officers, Marina police and California State Parks police in pursuit, Nolan said.

A California Highway Patrol officer was killed Friday during a high-speed pursuit in Redlands when his motorcycle slammed into a big-rig truck. The accident occurred during a wild chase on surface streets near the 10 Freeway that reached speeds of 100 mph. Tom Coleman, a seven-year CHP veteran, died instantly in the morning collision, which occurred two days after another highway patrol motorcycle officer was seriously hurt during a...

The Fontana police chief and San Bernardino County's chief probation officer said a convicted felon who allegedly stabbed a woman to death at a Fontana park-and-ride exposed flaws in Gov. Jerry Brown's controversial plan to give local governments responsibility for nonviolent prisoners. David Mulder, 43, a transient with a long history of drug-related convictions, was shot and killed Sunday night by a California Highway Patrol officer responding to a report of a woman being attacked in a car near the San Bernardino Freeway.  The woman, Elisa VanCleve, 49, of Rialto, was in the car with Mulder and died of multiple stab wounds.

The California Highway Patrol honored one of its own Monday at a dedication ceremony designating the interchange of the 101, 134 and 170 freeways as the Bruce T. Hinman Memorial Interchange. Hinman was critically injured on Sept. 26, 1994, when a drunk driver missed an offramp and slammed into a stalled car that he was assisting. The motorcycle officer slipped into a coma and died one week later.

A California Highway Patrol officer was shot in the shoulder early Friday after he and two other officers stopped to help what appeared to be a stranded motorist in the Mojave Desert, authorities said. The 36-year-old officer, a 10-year CHP veteran, was in serious but stable condition at University Medical Center in Las Vegas, a nursing supervisor said.

A 52-year-old woman was fatally shot by a California Highway Patrol officer late Tuesday after brandishing what appeared to be a handgun during a traffic stop in Alhambra, a Los Angeles County sheriff's spokesman said. The woman was identified by the county coroner as Ilda Ebe Grasso of Los Angeles. CHP officers told investigators they saw the woman speeding in a red car on the San Bernardino Freeway about 11 p.m.

Two California Highway Patrol officers walked in on a robbery in progress at a Subway restaurant near USC early Sunday morning, authorities said. The suspected robbers opened fire on the two officers as they approached the store near Figueroa and 28th streets, said CHP Officer Rick Quintero. The officers returned fire, critically injuring one of the suspects. The second suspect fled on foot and was arrested nearby, Quintero said. The CHP officers were not injured, Quintero said.

Re: Commendation of (California Highway Patrol) Officer Matt Clark (Officer 9876) and his partner. Officer Clark and his partner (name unknown) are to be commended for their special assistance given to me Oct. 3 at about 8:15 p.m. Just after making the transition from the Santa Ana Freeway north to the Orange Freeway north, I had a tire blowout and had to make an emergency stop in the far left lane. While attempting to make the tire change, the two CHP officers stopped to assist me and did not simply look to see what the situation was and depart quickly.

A driver was killed Monday after leading police on a freeway chase that ended when she drove off an embankment and crashed her car in a field, the California Highway Patrol said. Shortly before noon, CHP officers tried to stop a white car on westbound California 60, but the driver sped off, authorities said. The chase reached speeds of 95 mph before ending on the southbound Interstate 15.

The case of a convicted felon who allegedly stabbed a woman to death at a Fontana park-and-ride has exposed flaws in Gov. Jerry Brown's controversial plan to give local governments responsibility for nonviolent prisoners, San Bernardino County authorities said Tuesday. David Mulder, 43, a transient with a history of drug-related convictions, was shot and killed Sunday night by a California Highway Patrol officer responding to a report of a woman being attacked in a car near the San Bernardino Freeway.

A pregnant woman who was pulled over for talking on her cellphone - and then hurled to the ground and hogtied by CHP officers on the shoulder of the busy Harbor Freeway - has been paid $250,000 in damages. The 30-year-old woman was charged with resisting arrest and driving with a suspended license, but the charges were dropped after a judge was shown a video of the incident, captured on a camera mounted on the dashboard of a California Highway Patrol cruiser. "The conduct here is outrageous.

The first posthumous attack on John Pedro was a simple, senseless theft. At the roadside shrine that popped up where the California Highway Patrol officer was killed near Watsonville in 2002, someone stole a flag. "Some people hate the police," said Colleen Gilmartin, Pedro's widow and a former CHP officer herself. "I thought it was some kind of statement. " But the statements have grown more assertive and more bizarre in the 10 years since Pedro's cruiser slammed into a tree as he was pursuing a speeder.

A granite slab marking the grave of a California Highway Patrol officer has disappeared from a Santa Cruz cemetery, the fourth attack on his memorials in the 10 years since he died in the line of duty. The plaque commemorating Officer John Pedro went missing from Oakwood Memorial Park over the weekend, authorities said. A solar light illuminating his grave also was stolen, but there was no damage elsewhere. "To have his grave desecrated like this is beyond belief," said CHP Officer Rich Valdez, a colleague of Pedro's at the agency's office in Aptos.

A California Highway Patrol officer died Wednesday night, a day after he was gravely wounded in a freeway shootout in Contra Costa County, the agency said in a statement. Officer Kenyon M. Youngstrom, 37, a seven-year CHP veteran and father of four who lived in Cordelia, was wounded Tuesday morning moments after he pulled over a motorist in a green Jeep Wrangler on Interstate 680 just south of Walnut Creek. The driver quickly pulled out a gun and opened fire on the officer, authorities said.

Phyllis Thaxter Veteran actress played Clark Kent's mother Phyllis Thaxter, 92, an actress who had an active film career in the 1940s and '50s and capped it with her portrayal of Clark Kent's mother in the 1978 version of "Superman," died Tuesday at her home in Orlando, Fla., said her daughter, actress Skye Aubrey. She hadAlzheimer's disease. After watching her screen test, MGM executives chose Thaxter, a stage actress, to play opposite Van Johnson in the World War II drama "Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo" (1944)

California Highway Patrol officers fatally shot an 18-year-old man Tuesday after he led them on an hourlong chase at up to 100 mph. The chase began when a Merced County sheriff's deputy in an unmarked car tried to pull over a Ford Expedition being driven recklessly, said CHP officer Mike Arrigale. The pursuit moved from surface roads north onto California 99. Ultimately the man, whose name was not released, made a U-turn to avoid an accident that blocked northbound lanes.

California Highway Patrol officers shot and killed a man suspected of shooting two people at a rural Yolo County party on Sunday. The man, whose name was not released, fled the party west of Woodland and was chased by officers until he crashed his truck, CHP officials said. He then ran into a barn, set it on fire, shot some horses and began shooting at the officers, CHP Officer Reid Thompson said. Officers returned fire, killing him. The motive for the attack is unknown, Thompson said.

Singer Justin Bieber was stopped and cited Friday for driving in a "reckless manner" on the busy 101 Freeway, the California Highway Patrol said. Bieber was pulled over in a Fisker Karma sports car about 10:45 a.m. by CHP officers on the 101 at Vineland Avenue and Ventura Boulevard. The 18-year-old was allegedly weaving in and out of traffic. CHP Officer Ming Hsu said the entertainer was driving in excess of 65 mph, but said his precise speed was not available. According to Los Angeles City Councilman Dennis Zine, who called 911 to report the incident, paparazzi were pursuing Bieber on the 101 Freeway in the San Fernando Valley.

A former California Highway Patrol officer fell to the floor overcome by emotion in a downtown Los Angeles courtroom Monday as a jury convicted her of murder in the shooting death of her husband. In a case filled with allegations of anger management and domestic violence, the verdict in the rare prosecution of a law enforcement officer on murder charges proved to be dramatic. As the guilty verdict was read, veteran CHP Officer Tomiekia Johnson shook, then slid under the table where she had been seated alongside her attorneys.