Parole Officer

A parolee suspected of shooting and seriously wounding a parole officer was arrested Wednesday evening after an hours-long manhunt that forced authorities to shut down a section of the busy 210 Freeway and lock down two schools in Lake View Terrace. The shooting, which occurred about 1:30 p.m., forced the authorities to close the 210 Freeway between the 118 Freeway and Sunland Boulevard, creating a traffic nightmare for thousands of commuters traversing the east-west corridor in the San Fernando Valley.

On the night before he released 56 exotic animals from their cages on his Ohio farm and killed himself with a bullet to the head, Terry Thompson reportedly turned to the man who worked with him and said he "had a plan. " He was determined to "find out" about the things that were bothering him, including questions about his marriage and how he would face his impending confinement over a criminal conviction, according to a report released Wednesday. The report, by investigators with the Muskingum County Sheriff's Office, doesn't explain why Thompson decided to free the animals, but it does offer the clearest picture to date of the events leading up to the tragedy.

A parole officer who used his badge to sneak a gun past metal detectors at a courthouse opened fire Friday and killed his estranged wife in a crowded waiting room, police said. Two bystanders were wounded and others scrambled for safety before the gunman let an unarmed court officer take his weapon. He then waited quietly on a bench for police to arrive.

A parolee suspected of shooting and seriously wounding a parole officer was arrested Wednesday evening after an hours-long manhunt that forced authorities to shut down a section of the busy 210 Freeway and lock down two schools in Lake View Terrace. The shooting, which occurred about 1:30 p.m., forced the authorities to close the 210 Freeway between the 118 Freeway and Sunland Boulevard, creating a traffic nightmare for thousands of commuters traversing the east-west corridor in the San Fernando Valley.

Rodney G. King was ordered to visit his parole officer weekly instead of twice a month because of his latest arrest for investigation of drunken driving, officials said. It was the third time King had been arrested after being beaten on March 3, 1991, by police in a videotaped clubbing that stunned the country and led to a nationwide review of police brutality. King, 27, was on parole for armed robbery at the time he was beaten and was being required to see his parole officer twice a month.

Charles Rothenberg, who set his son afire at a Buena Park motel nine years ago, fled his round-the-clock parole officer for four hours in the San Francisco area before surrendering Thursday night. State Department of Corrections officials said Bay Area law enforcement agencies were notified that Rothenberg was at large and a search was started before he arranged to turn himself in at 8:18 p.m. at an undisclosed location.

Ralph Pinckney jumped out of the 1977 Mercury Cougar for a word on the street with a man he knows. He told the man he would probably drop by his house later. It was not a social conversation. Pinckney is a New York state parole officer. The man he talked to is a parolee, out of jail after serving eight years for manslaughter and armed robbery. Pinckney and Pam Dickerson were in the field on that cold winter's day, making house calls in the Bedford-Stuyvesant-Crown Heights sections of Brooklyn.

A Los Angeles man recently arrested for posing as a state parole officer was identified by police Tuesday as the so-called Koreatown rapist wanted in more than a dozen sexual assaults and robberies. Tyreese Lamar Reed, 29, is believed to be responsible for 13 sexual assaults and related robberies in Koreatown, Beverly Hills and Glendale between Aug. 26, 2004, and June 15, 2005, Los Angeles Police Chief William J. Bratton said.

The state Supreme Court was asked Monday to allow a parole officer to be sued for allegedly assuring a woman she was in no danger just before she was killed by a paroled murderer who had threatened her life. The lawyer for survivors of a San Jose woman told the justices that the parole agent's "grossly negligent" assurances had lulled the victim into a false sense of security.

Every time Luis Moncada blinks, he curses, thanks to the unprintable expletive tattooed onto his eyelids at age 18. A gang member at the time, he was convinced he wouldn't make it to 21 and wanted to deliver this angry message to the world when he was gone. Fourteen years later, Moncada is telling a different kind of story with his eyes. He and his brother Daniel have recurring roles on AMC's "Breaking Bad," where they've spent much of this third season playing silent-assassin types — cartel members from Mexico who've come to kill Walter White ( Bryan Cranston)

Had it gone according to plan, Adam Culvey and his fiancee, Chere Osmanhodzic, would be spending the next week and a half counting down the days to their Sept. 24 wedding. The couple were to exchange vows on the sprawling grounds of the McCormick Home Ranch in Camarillo and then set off to the Caribbean for their honeymoon. But fate intervened in the cruelest way possible. On July 24, Culvey returned to the couple's Valley Village home from the store, put his key in the door and began to push it open.

Every time Luis Moncada blinks, he curses, thanks to the unprintable expletive tattooed onto his eyelids at age 18. A gang member at the time, he was convinced he wouldn't make it to 21 and wanted to deliver this angry message to the world when he was gone. Fourteen years later, Moncada is telling a different kind of story with his eyes. He and his brother Daniel have recurring roles on AMC's "Breaking Bad," where they've spent much of this third season playing silent-assassin types — cartel members from Mexico who've come to kill Walter White ( Bryan Cranston)

Every time Luis Moncada blinks, he curses, thanks to the unprintable expletive tattooed onto his eyelids at age 18. A gang member at the time, he was convinced he wouldn't make it to 21 and wanted to deliver this angry message to the world when he was gone. Fourteen years later, Moncada is telling a different kind of story with his eyes. He and his brother Daniel have recurring roles on AMC's "Breaking Bad," where they've spent much of this third season playing silent-assassin types — cartel members from Mexico who've come to kill Walter White (Bryan Cranston)

For years, neighbors knew something was off about Phillip Garrido, the registered sex offender now accused of abducting an 11-year-old girl and holding her for 18 years, much of the time in an overgrown backyard filled with sheds and tents. One neighbor even called 911, worried about children living in the yard. Authorities regularly visited Garrido's home in Antioch, northeast of Oakland, but never detected the presence of Jaycee Lee Dugard, whom Garrido allegedly kidnapped in 1991, or the two blond, blue-eyed girls officials say she bore him during her captivity.

Prosecutors on Tuesday said they would seek the death penalty against a parolee charged with fatally shooting the manager of a Home Depot store during a robbery last year. Jason Russell Richardson, 37, of Oceanside is accused of entering the store in the 2700 block of El Camino Real in Tustin on Feb. 9, 2007, demanding cash from a clerk and then shooting Thomas Egan, the father of two girls, before fleeing. He was arrested about two weeks later during a meeting with his parole officer.

A convicted sex offender wanted for parole violations has been arrested on suspicion of breaking into a Wilshire-area home and raping a woman. Authorities said Wednesday that fingerprints and DNA evidence connected Damicii D. Brown to the New Year's Day crime. Brown, 35, was arrested late Tuesday during an LAPD stakeout, after he was spotted in an allegedly stolen car pulling up to a relative's home in the 2500 block of South Bronson Avenue, police said. Brown spent 14 years in prison for a rape and kidnapping and was a registered sex offender.

On the night before he released 56 exotic animals from their cages on his Ohio farm and killed himself with a bullet to the head, Terry Thompson reportedly turned to the man who worked with him and said he "had a plan. " He was determined to "find out" about the things that were bothering him, including questions about his marriage and how he would face his impending confinement over a criminal conviction, according to a report released Wednesday. The report, by investigators with the Muskingum County Sheriff's Office, doesn't explain why Thompson decided to free the animals, but it does offer the clearest picture to date of the events leading up to the tragedy.

Every time Luis Moncada blinks, he curses, thanks to the unprintable expletive tattooed onto his eyelids at age 18. A gang member at the time, he was convinced he wouldn't make it to 21 and wanted to deliver this angry message to the world when he was gone. Fourteen years later, Moncada is telling a different kind of story with his eyes. He and his brother Daniel have recurring roles on AMC's "Breaking Bad," where they've spent much of this third season playing silent-assassin types — cartel members from Mexico who've come to kill Walter White (Bryan Cranston)

SAN DIEGO -- A convicted arsonist is back in prison after he was discovered working as a volunteer firefighter during last month's Witch fire, which burned 198,000 acres and destroyed more than 1,100 homes in northern San Diego County.

Tustin police have arrested a parolee with a long criminal record in this month's shooting death of a local Home Depot store manager during a $500 robbery. Jason Russell Richardson, 36, was taken into custody Thursday night in Oceanside during a visit with his parole officer, police said. He was being held Friday without bail in Orange County Jail. He is accused of shooting Tom Egan, 40, a former Marine and the father of 3-year-old twin daughters, on Feb. 9.