SANTA MONICA (CBSLA) — Several Southern California schools are taking precautions Monday due to threats made on social media. At least two students have been either removed from campus or taken into custody in Santa Monica and Buena Park, respectively, according to police. The most recent incident surfaced Monday morning in Santa Monica, where police say they were made aware of a possible threat to St. Monica’s High School. While that threat turned out to be originally aimed at Elk Grove High School in Northern California, a student at Santa Monica High School who allegedly made a threatening ..read more

LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) — A suspect behind the wheel of a stolen car was taken into custody Friday after leading authorities on a long and dangerous chase across the Southland. A pursuit with a stolen car came to a standstill on the 5 Freeway in Buena Park, Calif. Nov. 19, 2021. (CBSLA) The pursuit involving the stolen vehicle began sometime before 12:30 p.m. in the Downey area. With Los Angeles police officers giving the chase, the pursuit wound its way north into downtown L.A. and then into East L.A., before traversing surface streets in Commerce. The suspect then jumped onto the southbound 5 ..read more

BUENA PARK (CBSLA) – Police in Buena Park released dash and body-cam footage Friday of a Sept. 3 incident where a man intentionally rammed a school bus with his silver SUV, exited his vehicle and began shooting at the bus while a 6-year-old boy was inside. “He’s trying to run over a school bus,” an officer can be heard saying in the video. 60-year-old Cedric Baxter. (credit: Buena Park PD) Police say the suspect was 60-year-old Cedric Baxter. “The investigation revealed that this was not a random act, but the school bus driver was Mr. Baxter’s wife and he intended to murder her,” Sgt. Chad W ..read more

BUENA PARK (CBSLA) – Detectives with the Buena Park Police Department have identified a motive in the Sept. 3 shooting of a Buena Park school bus that lead to a fatal officer-involved-shooting. Authorities said Thursday, in a press release, that Cedric Baxter attempted to murder his estranged wife who was the school bus driver. Police on the scene of the Sept. 3 shooting of a Buena Park School bus that lead to a fatal officer-involved-shooting. (credit: CBS) The incident occurred just before 2 p.m. A BPPD officer witnessed Baxter firing at the school bus. When the officer attempted to stop B ..read more

BUENA PARK (CBSLA) — A suspect accused of shooting at a school bus was shot and killed by police officers outside of a school district building in Buena Park Friday afternoon. At approximately 1:59 p.m., a Buena Park Police Department officer observed a male subject shooting a firearm at a school bus, the department said. The bus driver and a student were said to be inside the bus but neither were injured. It was unknown if any shots actually made contact with the bus. A pursuit ensued after the officer attempted to stop the vehicle, police said. The vehicle then pulled into the Buena Park Sch ..read more

BUENA PARK (CBSLA) — New images of the suspects and vehicle involved in a drive-by shooting outside of Knott’s Berry Farm were released this week by Buena Park police. (credit: Buena Park Police Department) The shooting happened July 9 near the front entrance of Knott’s Berry Farm. Two people were shot – a teenage boy who was found with multiple gunshot wounds at the scene, and another person who police later learned was being treated at a hospital. But inside the theme park, several people were hurt as they ran for their lives. The shooter was identified as a Hispanic male in his late teens ..read more

BUENA PARK (CBSLA) — A caregiver working at a Buena Park residential care facility was arrested on suspicion of using a stun-gun on three patients he was tasked with caring for, and police believe he may have more victims. (credit: Buena Park Police Department) Timothy Jay Tovera was arrested Monday after admitting to detectives that he had used an electrical stun-gun on three women he had been caring for, according to the Buena Park police. Police say they were called to Steadfast Residential Care Facility, 6052 Western Ave., on Aug. 4 for an assault investigation. At the facility, the offi ..read more

CYPRESS (CBSLA) – Thousands of Southern California Edison customers in Cypress and Buena Park were without power Monday morning because of an outage. Aug. 9, 2021. (CBSLA) At its height, the outage, which was first reported at around 5 a.m., left more than 18,250 customers without electricity. According to SCE’s outage map, the cause was centered near Morris Elementary School in the 9900 block of Graham Street. As of 8 a.m., over 11,200 customers were still without power. It was unclear what may have sparked the outage. There was no estimate on when power would be fully restored ..read more

BUENA PARK (CBSLA) — Knott’s Berry Farm officials announced Friday the theme park will end its reservation system beginning Monday, Aug. 2. According to officials, the theme park and the Soak City water park are ending the system put in place when the park reopened in May. FILE — A view of Knott’s Berry Farm on Oct. 20, 2020 in Buena Park, Calif. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times/Getty Images) The theme park reopened to season passholders on Thursday, May 6, two weeks ahead of its grand reopening to the entire public on May 21. Meanwhile, Knott’s Soak City Waterpark reopened on May 29. P ..read more

ANAHEIM (CBSLA) – Anaheim Police were involved in a not-so-high-speed pursuit of someone driving a tractor in a Buena Park neighborhood. Someone in the area reported the tractor, calling police with reports of erratic driving. When police responded in the area of Orangethorpe Avenue and Valley View Street in Buena Park, the driver refused to stop for a time, but eventually surrendered. No injuries were reported as a result of the chase. It is unclear where the driver stole the tractor from ..read more