Checkpoints net more than 100 arrests throughout the San Gabriel Valley; stolen van, mail, other items recovered in Pasadena

February 24, 2014

West San Gabriel Valley news from Alhambra, San Gabriel, Rosemead, Monterey Park, South Pasadena, and Pasadena:

Police: Stolen van, mail, other items recovered in Pasadena (Pasadena Star-News)
Pasadena Radio Shack robbed (Pasadena Star-News)
Checkpoints net more than 100 arrests throughout the San Gabriel Valley (San Gabriel Valley Tribune)
El Segundo schools superintendent Geoff Yantz expected to take top job in South Pasadena (Pasadena Star-News)
Pasadena Unified School District won’t release superintendent evaluations (Pasadena Star-News)
Los Angeles County Metro restructuring could endanger 710 Freeway extension, activists say (Pasadena Star-News)
John Scott wants to reform the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department (Pasadena Star-News)
Bruce Kalman's Union, Cali-Italian cuisine in Pasadena (Eater)
Pigs ears and vampiros: Jonathan Gold finds 7 good tacos in Los Angeles and the San Gabriel Valley with a surprise inside (Los Angeles Times)

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