Robberies

A man was fatally stabbed and another was wounded when they were confronted by three men after leaving a party Saturday night, police said. Haik Oganyan, 20, of Los Angeles and the other victim, who was not identified, were each stabbed multiple times in the 8800 block of Corbin Avenue about 11:45 p.m. Saturday, said Los Angeles Police Department Officer Sara Faden. Faden said Oganyan and the other victim were leaving a birthday and graduation party when they were confronted by three men with shaved heads who apparently attempted to rob them.

Three brothers, two of them juveniles, were arrested on suspicion of breaking into a Pasadena elementary school, police said Sunday. Police say someone saw Oscar Comparan, 18, and his brothers, 14 and 12, jumping a fence and entering a building at James Madison Elementary School in the 500 block of Ashtabula Street about 11 p.m. Saturday. Authorities found the three nearby. They confessed to two previous break-ins at the school, Pasadena Police Lt. Chris Russ said. Police recovered two guitars and a violin that the young men said they had stolen from the school, Russ said.

His position as the state's top law enforcement authority did not protect Jerry Brown -- or his car -- when thieves made off with two of the attorney general's tires last week. While Brown was in Sacramento on business last Friday, someone swiped the passenger-side tires off his Toyota Camry Hybrid, which was parked in front of his home. Brown spokesman Scott Gerber said the attorney general filed a police report and that no suspects had been identified. In a posting on his Facebook page, the attorney general said, "Even though I am California's 'top cop,' 2 of my tires were stolen.

A life-sized fiberglass cow has been stolen from a sidewalk in La Jolla, organizers of an art auction said Thursday. The cow was part of CowParade La Jolla, an art exhibit and fundraiser for Rady Children's Hospital San Diego and the San Diego Zoo. Forty cows designed and painted by local artists are featured in the exhibit, which started March 15 and will continue until June 15. An auction is scheduled for July 11. The swiped cow is thought to...

Police were looking for two armed thieves who set up camp in an empty business on Broadway, then broke through a wall into an adjacent jewelry store and robbed the owner of more than $500,000 in gold chains and earrings. The heist was reported at B. Lewis Jewelry Manufacturing at 610 S. Broadway on Friday afternoon, about the same time as the May Day protest downtown, said LAPD Lt. Paul Vernon. It was not immediately clear if the robbery was timed to coincide with the protest, but Vernon said the thieves took unusual steps, including staying in the business overnight and employing a listening device to monitor employees.

A parolee from South Los Angeles has been arrested in connection with a series of "hot prowl" break-ins and home-invasion robberies at the Oakwood apartments on Barham Boulevard in the San Fernando Valley, police said Monday. Norris Denton, 27, of Los Angeles and an unidentified 17-year-old accomplice were arrested Saturday afternoon in connection with at least seven crimes reported over the last month at the housing complex near Universal Studios, said Los Angeles Police Lt. Alan Hamilton.

A 21-year-old man wanted in connection with a series of taco truck robberies in the area surrendered to authorities Friday. Nery Perez walked into the sheriff's East Los Angeles station with relatives about 5 p.m. and was taken into custody by deputies. Perez will be booked on suspicion of robbery, said Sgt. Thomas Looney of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. Perez's surrender comes just a day after sheriff's detectives announced him as a fifth suspect in an investigation of a series of taco truck robberies.

Taco truck robberies: An article in Friday's Section A about four men arrested in connection with a string of taco truck robberies misspelled the last name of Los Angeles County Sheriff's Sgt. Ruben Nava as Rava.

Two armed robbers stole a painting by Belgian artist Rene Magritte from a small museum in Brussels on Thursday, police said. Brussels police spokesman Johan Berckmans said the men escaped by car with the 1948 "Olympia" oil painting. The nude portrait of the surrealist's wife, Georgette, is valued at $1.1 million. The painting hung at Magritte's former house, which has been turned into a small museum. Entry is by appointment only. It is separate from a larger Magritte museum that opened this year.

This holiday season has seen an explosion in thefts of expensive, platinum-laced catalytic converters from parked cars, and authorities report that high-clearance sport utility vehicles are the targets of choice for thieves. With a common socket wrench and 90 seconds, they leave drivers stuck with cars that sound like Harley-Davidson motorcycles, and facing repair bills topping $1,000. "It's an epidemic. It's everywhere," said Lt. Bob Turnbull of the El Segundo Police Department.