Stevenson Ranch

One person was stabbed to death and another wounded outside a Stevenson Ranch condominium complex early Saturday morning, authorities said. Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies responding to a disturbance call about 12:30 a.m. found the victims on the ground outside the complex on the 25000 block of Steinbeck Avenue. A large group of people in front of the complex were yelling and causing a "large disturbance," said Lt. Larry Gump.

Several guns and other equipment were stolen from a California Highway Patrol vehicle this week, officials confirmed Wednesday. The weapons were stolen while CHP officers conducted a training exercise Monday afternoon at Stevenson Ranch in Santa Clarita, said CHP spokesman Saul Gomez. The thief or thieves made off with two AR-15 semiautomatic rifles, two shotguns and two Smith & Wesson .40 caliber handguns, the Santa Clarita Valley News reported. A bulletproof vest, handcuff keys and an officer's ID badge were also taken.

A 19-year-old man convicted of raping and assaulting a woman during a burglary at her Stevenson Ranch home was sentenced Monday to 43 years to life in state prison. Jerry Moon was sentenced in San Fernando by Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Lloyd Nash as part of a plea deal agreed upon in December, said Deputy Dist. Atty Julie Kramer. The woman was assaulted after Moon, who lived in Stevenson Ranch, broke into her home on Jan. 8, 2012. Los Angeles County sheriff's detectives arrested Moon about a month afterward and he has remained in custody.

More than 200 firefighters and half a dozen aircraft were battling a fast-spreading fire near Six Flags Magic Mountain in Valencia on Tuesday afternoon. The fire started west of the amusement park before 11:30 a.m. and by 1 p.m. had burned 35 acres and was 25% contained. “We've done really quick work today,” Los Angeles County fire inspector Scott Miller said. Officials triggered a three-alarm call for the blaze, which pulled in 228 firefighters, three helicopters and four fixed-wing planes to douse the flames before it got out of control.

Michelle Suter-Unthank had never heard her son sound so poised, so mature. On a Friday evening in May, Marine Pfc. Jake Suter,18, called his mother and stepfather at their Stevenson Ranch home. For about six months, Suter had been stationed at the Marine Corps base at Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii. Two days later, he would be deployed to Afghanistan. That night, he spoke to his parents for 2 1/2 hours. "We had a work-up on the Afghani people, and they're really nice people, they're very respectful people," his mother quoted him as saying.

Army Sgt. Ian T.D. Gelig was so popular in his Stevenson Ranch neighborhood that whenever the paratrooper returned home on leave, his two sisters would keep his visits secret for a while. "We wouldn't tell people he was here because we wanted to hang out with him," said his younger sister, Vanessa, 21, who was sitting in the family living room, photographs of her brother adorning the walls and tabletops. "Otherwise, everybody would be coming over. He had this way with people.

A Los Angeles Superior Court judge on Monday approved a $1.3-million settlement between a group of homeowners and builders of their Stevenson Ranch complex near Valencia. The settlement money will be used for mending roofs, electrical wiring and plumbing fixtures, as well as paving an unfinished street and building a swimming pool that was promised to the 56 homeowners in the Marblehead development.

Family members, fellow officers and residents gathered Thursday to dedicate a Stevenson Ranch park to Los Angeles County Sheriff's Deputy Hagop "Jake" Kuredjian, who was killed in an August shootout a few blocks away. Sheriff Lee Baca and other officials unveiled a plaque in Kuredjian's memory at the small, grassy park at Stevenson Ranch and Poe parkways. Kuredjian, a 17-year department veteran, was shot in the head during an Aug.

While the eyes of the nation on Jan. 17 were on the destruction in the San Fernando Valley, the community of Stevenson Ranch was also mobilizing itself to deal with the earthquake. Stevenson Ranch is an area of 1,200 families near Magic Mountain in the western Santa Clarita Valley. It is about four miles from the quake's epicenter. What happened there demonstrates the value of a grass-roots community organization when a disaster occurs.

A group of homeowners has accepted a $1.3-million settlement from the developer who built their Stevenson Ranch complex near Valencia, saying they need the money for repairs and for improvements they were promised when they bought their homes, attorneys said Monday.

A 19-year-old man convicted of raping and assaulting a woman during a burglary at her Stevenson Ranch home was sentenced Monday to 43 years to life in state prison. Jerry Moon was sentenced in San Fernando by Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Lloyd Nash as part of a plea deal agreed upon in December, said Deputy Dist. Atty Julie Kramer. The woman was assaulted after Moon, who lived in Stevenson Ranch, broke into her home on Jan. 8, 2012. Los Angeles County sheriff's detectives arrested Moon about a month afterward and he has remained in custody.

The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department watchdog released a report Thursday cataloging several serious examples of deputy misconduct, including one case in which a deputy shot at a motorist who bumped his car at a fast-food restaurant and another in which a deputy covered up a shooting that occurred during a foot pursuit. The Office of Independent Review compiles the list each year. Officials said that they have not detected an increase in misconduct cases but that it was important to publicize the wrongdoing of officers in hopes of reducing such incidents.

Army Sgt. Ian T.D. Gelig was so popular in his Stevenson Ranch neighborhood that whenever the paratrooper returned home on leave, his two sisters would keep his visits secret for a while. "We wouldn't tell people he was here because we wanted to hang out with him," said his younger sister, Vanessa, 21, who was sitting in the family living room, photographs of her brother adorning the walls and tabletops. "Otherwise, everybody would be coming over. He had this way with people.

Michelle Suter-Unthank had never heard her son sound so poised, so mature. On a Friday evening in May, Marine Pfc. Jake Suter,18, called his mother and stepfather at their Stevenson Ranch home. For about six months, Suter had been stationed at the Marine Corps base at Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii. Two days later, he would be deployed to Afghanistan. That night, he spoke to his parents for 2 1/2 hours. "We had a work-up on the Afghani people, and they're really nice people, they're very respectful people," his mother quoted him as saying.

A Canyon Country man was arrested on suspicion of murder, hit-and-run and driving under the influence after his pickup truck allegedly struck three bicyclists in the Angeles National Forest, killing one of them, authorities said. Joseph Novotny, 43, of Stevenson Ranch was struck on Bouquet Canyon Road while riding with the Santa Clarita Velo club, California Highway Patrol Officer Jose Nunez said. The two other cyclists were taken to Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Hospital.

I've been a big fan of Christian Bale since I saw him in "American Psycho," in which he delivered a very deep and intense performance. Then I heard his inexcusable and demeaning tirade a couple of days ago ["Tinseltown's a Tirade Town," by Patrick Goldstein, Feb. 5]. I'd really like to know if he apologized to the director of photography and to everyone who witnessed this outburst. I feel for the person at whom his tirade was aimed, as well as those who witnessed it. There are definitely better ways to get a point across to people who make mistakes in a more respectful way than with a vulgar, expletive-laced and really long tirade.

Michael Klastorin watched the wind near his Saugus home catch some small flames. Within a minute, the fire had reduced a 100-yard slope of chaparral to soot and withered sticks. Then from behind a ridge closer to his home, black smoke poured into the air, followed by loud pops and cracks as wood exploded, and then flames roared into view. "Just that fast," Klastorin, 50, who lives on Celestial Lane, said late Monday. "It comes that fast."

When Stevenson Ranch grabs headlines, it's for the subdivision's award-winning but crowded schools, the quick turnover of its comfortable homes and the safety of its curving streets, where so many big-city cops have chosen to live. On Friday, Stevenson Ranch's Blue Ribbon school was evacuated, a $340,000 house was in ashes and a sheriff's deputy was dead.

Regarding David Lazarus' column "Madoff warnings fell on deaf ears," Dec. 21: I think the suggested punishment, "a night or two in the box," is far too lenient. Megalomaniacal, narcissistic madman Bernard L. Madoff ought to be sent to an institution for the criminally insane, where for good behavior he might get to share a cell with Charles Manson or some other creature of his ilk. Karen Shapiro Stevenson Ranch -- My dad told me years ago, "Steal a hundred dollars and you are a thief; steal a million and you are a financier."

I want to personally thank Frank McCourt and his staff for messing with the Los Angeles Marathon. Mr. McCourt, please stick to overseeing the Dodgers, because with the two date changes, it proves you know nothing about marathon running. Keep the race in early March when the weather is cooler. Margaret Reilly-Bates Stevenson Ranch -- In May, the heat and the air quality will rival Beijing's. The new owners should take a year off to think about it. Make it mean something when the starting gun triggers "I Love L.A."