A suspect remains at large after allegedly robbing a woman near a Glendora hiking trail. Officers responded to reports of a robbery near the Colby Trail in the area of Glendora Mountain Road and Big Dalton Canyon Road around 7 a.m. The victim, a female hiker, told Glendora police she was robbed at knifepoint by a male suspect. The suspect then fled the scene before police arrived. Ground crews along with air units from Pasadena Police Department searched the area but were not able to locate the robber. The suspect is described as a white male standing around 5 feet 8 inches tall with a blonde ..read more

Three robbery suspects were arrested after leading officers on a pursuit and barricading inside a home in La Verne on Wednesday. The suspects were identified as Anissa Virgen, 19, Erica Mireles, 29, and Victor Hugo Benitez, 30, according to the Glendora Police Department. Police responded to reports of the trio stealing from a Kohl’s store in Glendora where Benitez was allegedly taunting an employee while armed with brass knuckles and a taser. When officers arrived, the suspects fled the scene in a stolen vehicle, leading police on a pursuit that ended in La Verne. All three suspects jumped ou ..read more

An SUV slammed into a home in Glendora Wednesday afternoon, causing a fire and significant damage to the building, but surprisingly no injuries. The crash happened around 4:40 p.m. on the 2400 block of Curtis Court. When firefighters arrived, they found the SUV had crashed into the garage of the two-story home, according to the Los Angeles County Fire Department. The SUV struck a gas line, which sparked a large fire. Video from Sky5 showed multiple fire engines at the scene as firefighters doused the burning vehicle and garage with water. Images show the aftermath of an SUV slamming into the ..read more

Police and deputies are investigating after a man was found shot to death in a car in Glendora Thursday morning. The Glendora Police Department responded to reports of gunshots in the 600 block of West Bridwell Street around 8:10 a.m., where they found the unidentified man sitting in a vehicle with "apparent gunshot wounds," according to a news release from the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, which is helping with the investigation. The man was pronounced dead at the scene, and no information about the shooter was available. Anyone with information is encouraged to contact the LASD at ..read more

A Glendora man is facing an attempted homicide charge after a Pasadena woman was brought to Huntington Memorial Hospital to be treated for a gunshot wound, according to the Pasadena Police Department. The May 4 shooting, which was reported shortly after 1 a.m., left 50-year-old Kisha Berkley in critical condition, police said in a news release. Police responded to the scene of the shooting, the 1100 block of Lincoln Avenue in Pasadena, and identified 44-year-old Derick Paige, who is "connected to a local criminal street gang," as a suspect. Paige was arrested in Redlands on Monday, and he was ..read more

A 21-year-old Glendora man pleaded guilty Friday to felony destruction of government property in connection with his involvement in the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. Hunter Ehmke was part of a large crowd that gathered around 2:15 p.m. that day outside the Rotunda door on the east side of the Capitol building, according to the U.S. attorney’s office for the District of Columbia. According to a criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Washington, an officer in riot gear who was trying to hold back the crowd saw Ehmke summoning others toward a window. The officer ..read more

A man has been charged in the fatal shooting of a person who tried to intervene while the suspect was allegedly breaking into a car in Covina, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office said. Trevor Howard Thompson, 34, of Glendora, has been charged with murder, attempted murder, assault with a semiautomatic firearm — described as a Colt 45 — attempted carjacking, second-degree burglary of a vehicle, resisting an officer, vandalism and possession of a firearm by a felon. The incident occurred about 11 p.m. Dec. 21 along the 1100 block of North Charter Drive. Covina police officers respo ..read more

Sandburg Middle School in Glendora was vandalized by students this week as part of a viral TikTok trend called "devious licks" — slang for theft. Kids across the U.S. are posting TikTok videos of themselves vandalizing school bathrooms and stealing soap dispensers and even turf from football fields, bedeviling school administrators seeking to contain the viral internet trend. Sandburg is among two schools in the Glendora Unified School District that have faced destruction due to the social media challenge, with soap dispensers ripped off and bathrooms covered in some sort of red liquid. The “d ..read more

A Los Angeles motorcycle officer was taken to a local hospital with major injuries following a crash on the 210 Freeway in Glendora Wednesday morning. The incident was reported shortly before 5:30 a.m. on the westbound side of the freeway near Grand Avenue, according to the California Highway Patrol’s traffic incident log. The injured Los Angeles Police Department officer was later identified as 42-year-old Jeremy Hollings in a CHP news release. Investigators said Hollings was riding to work on a 2015 LAPD BMW motorcycle when contact was made between the right side of his motorcycle and the le ..read more

A domestic violence suspect was fatally shot by Azusa police after he pointed a gun at an officer and tried to carjack two victims in Glendora early Wednesday morning, officials said. The incident unfolded after the suspect's girlfriend called police to a home in the 400 block of Myrtle Street in Glendora around 12:30 a.m. to report that her boyfriend assaulted her and that he was armed, according to Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Lt. Brandon Dean. Glendora Police Department officers responded to the scene. "As soon as Glendora PD officers arrived on scene, the suspect in the dom ..read more