Man suspected of posing as photographer to lure teens

Coopy Boyer, 42, of San Jose, was arrested on suspicion of contacting a minor with the intent to commit a sexual offense, according to the Fullerton Police Department. His bail was set at $100,000, according to sheriff’s arrest records.
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FULLERTON – A 42-year-old San Jose man is in custody after Fullerton police arrested him on suspicion of posing as a photographer to lure two teenage girls into taking sexy photos.

Coopy Boyer was arrested on suspicion of contacting a minor with the intent to commit a sexual offense, according to the Fullerton Police Department. His bail was set at $100,000, according to sheriff’s arrest records.

On Saturday, two teenage girls told Fullerton police they were approached by a man, who identified himself as James Keong, in the area of Warner Avenue and Goldenwest Street in Huntington Beach. Police said he claimed to be a photographer with Zoom Exposure Photography and told the girls he wanted to take their photos.

The girls gave him their phone numbers and over the next several days, the man sent dozens of texts, each time becoming more suggestive about the types of photographs he wanted to take, police said.

He suggested he bring alcohol and photograph the girls playing dress-up while their parents were away, police added.

When the girls proposed having parents present, the man said there was no need for their parents to sign any waivers for him to shoot photos, police said. He offered to go to their house and pick them up.

According to police, a Nov. 24 meeting was set up in Fullerton where the man was to pick up the girls. Instead, the police were waiting. The man attempted to flee and tossed his cell phone out the car window before being blocked by police.

Police determined the arrested man’s real identity is Coopy Boyer and believe there may be other victims.

Anyone who may have been approached is urged to call Detective Ron Bair at 714-738-6762.

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Pair arrested in chase that injured 4, closed freeway

A crew cab truck involved in a car chase that began in Anaheim on Friday evening sits in lanes on the south bound lanes of the I-5 freeway just just south of the Estrella overpass in San Clemente.
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ANAHEIM – Police have arrested a man and a woman suspected of leading officers on a freeway pursuit that ended with a crash that injured four people and forced the closure of the southbound I-5 for about eight hours.

Ricardo Perez, 28, and Andrea Shanelle Brandon, 18, both of Anaheim, have been booked into jail on suspicion of possession of a stolen vehicle, possession of stolen property and felony evasion, Anaheim police Sgt. Bob Dunn said.

Officers tipped that a white Ford F-250 would be near South Sunkist Street and East Wagner Avenue saw the vehicle about 4 p.m. Friday, Dunn said. The driver of the pickup, who police later identified as Perez, reportedly refused to stop, leading to a high-speed pursuit on the 57 and 5 freeways.

The chase ended about 16 minutes later on the southbound I-5 at Camino de Estrella, where the pickup collided with a Kia Optima, struck a divider, then flipped and rolled several times.

Perez, who was thrown from the vehicle during the crash, was taken to a hospital in critical condition. He was arrested after being released from the hospital Monday, Dunn said.

Brandon and another occupant of the pickup were taken to a hospital with lesser injuries.

Brandon was arrested after her release from the hospital Friday night, Dunn said. The third occupant of the pickup, who authorities identified only as an adult male, was not arrested.

The driver of the Optima with was taken to a hospital with minor injuries.

The southbound lanes of the I-5 were closed for eight hours after the crash, leading to significant delays during the commute hours a day after the Thanksgiving holiday and angering many motorists.

CHP officials Sunday said the closure was needed to allow investigators from outside the area to be called in to preserve evidence that could be used to prosecute the driver of the pickup or defend the agency against litigation.

Staff writer Thomas Martinez contributed to this report.

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RIALTO: Man convicted in bus driver’s killing

Larry Kester, 47, of Fontana was fatally stabbed May 7, 2010 while driving an Omnitrans bus in Rialto.

A jury that convicted a Rialto man of murdering a 2010 Fontana bus driver in 2010 will next have to decide whether he is insane.

Robert Darrell Johnson, 36, was found guilty of murder Tuesday, Nov. 27, for stabbing an Omnitrans driver on board a bus near a busy Rialto intersection in May 2010. The stabbing caused the bus to crash into a tree.

The jury also found a special allegation true that he used a knife.

Lawrence Kester, 47, was the father of eight and driving his normal route on Base Line from San Bernardino to Fontana when Johnson attacked him on the bus, which was carrying four other passengers. Authorities said the attack was without warning or provocation. No other passengers were injured.

Police said Johnson ran through a bank, where he dropped a knife, and into a supermarket, where he was arrested.

Johnson pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to the murder charge. A jury is set to return Wednesday to begin hearing evidence in the sanity phase of the trial.

Leading up to the trial, a judge had initially ruled Johnson incompetent to stand trial, based on two doctor’s reports on his mental fitness. Johnson was ordered placed in a psychiatric facility and to undergo medication.

He was reevaluated in May, where doctors reported he was stabilized on medication and the judge found him fit to stand trial, according to court records. He had no prior criminal record in Riverside or San Bernardino counties.

Johnson could face up to a life sentence for the murder charge.

BY JOHN ASBURY

STAFF WRITER

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CORONA: Police officer trial postponed

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The misdemeanor case trial of Corona Police Cpl. Margaret Bell has been delayed until Dec. 5.

The misdemeanor case against Corona Police Cpl. Margaret Bell is being delayed until Dec. 5.

Riverside County District Attorney’s officials said new developments in the case are requiring additional investigation, which caused a delay in the start of the trial that was expected to begin this week. They are not releasing details about the new developments.

Bell is accused of failing to report suspected child abuse by her pastor and two parishioners against a 13-year-old boy in the Heart of Worship Community Church in Corona that she attended. If convicted, she faces up to a year in jail, a $1,000 fine, or both.

BY LESLIE PARRILLA

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Man stabbed in altercation at cocktail bar

ANAHEIM – A man was in critical condition after being stabbed at 15s Cocktails bar on Saturday night in unincorporated Anaheim near Stanton, Orange County Sheriff Lt. Roland Chacon said.

Police responding to a report of a disturbance at the bar just before midnight arrived to find the man bleeding from multiple stab wounds. The incident started inside the bar and escalated with the stabbing outside the venue, Chacon said.

The victim was taken to UC Irvine Medical Center in Orange and a 39-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon, Chacon said.

15s Cocktails bills itself on Facebook as “O.C.’s best neighborhood bar.” Its address is 8901 Katella Ave.

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Brothers stabbed in Costa Mesa fight

COSTA MESA – Two brothers were stabbed during a fight at an apartment complex Sunday night.

Costa Mesa Police officers were called to an apartment building at 1760 Pomona Ave. at 11:40 p.m. after receiving reports of a fight with a knife.

“When we got there, we didn’t find anything,” said Sgt. Cling Dieball.

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Officers were then notified by employees at Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian that two men had been taken there with stab wounds. One of the men suffered life-threatening injuries, and was taken to Western Medical Center in Santa Ana, Dieball said.

He was in critical condition Monday morning. The second man suffered a stab wound to his arm.

Officers went to the hospital to interview the brothers, but the information they have received has been vague and not helpful, officials said.

“We don’t know who the suspect is or why the fight started,” Dieball said. “Either (the victims) don’t know or they are being uncooperative.”

Detectives are continuing to follow several leads, he said.

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SWAT team responds to Stanton gas station

STANTON – A man called police early Saturday morning to report a Chevron gas station robbery, then locked himself in the station’s inside bathroom and claimed he had an assault weapon, Sheriff’s authorities said.

Neither was true, sheriff’s discovered, after a SWAT team busted into the bathroom after a three-hour standoff.

Officers received the robbery report around 3:30 a.m. and upon arriving at 10961 Beach Boulevard followed a suspicious car out of the station believed to have been connected to the call, investigators said.

Officers found a concealed handgun on a 23-year-old male in the vehicle and two other unarmed female passengers. The man was arrested.

Deputies went back to the Chevron after they were unable to connect the passengers to a robbery, Sheriff’s Lt. Jim England said.

The gas station’s owners told deputies that no robbery had occurred.

Officers then discovered that a 25-year-old man had locked himself inside the station’s bathroom and claimed that he had an assault rifle, England said.

The man, who Sheriff’s authorities believe made the call claiming that a robbery was in progress, refused to unlock the bathroom door.

The Orange County Sheriff’s Department SWAT team was called around 4 a.m., investigators said.

Negotiators and officers stayed at the Chevron until 7 a.m., when SWAT officers entered the bathroom, England said.

Sheriff’s found that the man did not have a weapon.

He was arrested on suspicion of a misdemeanor offence of reporting a false crime, a felony vandalism charge for causing more than $400 of damage to the bathroom, and resisting arrest.

The man has a history of medical issues and was taken to the hospital before booking, England said.

His identity will not be released until after he has been booked, England said.

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Police arrest suspect in ‘desperate bandit’ robberies

INDIO – Law-enforcement authorities believe they have caught the “desperate bandit,” wanted in connection with numerous bank robberies in Orange County.

Indio police arrested Michael Patrick Downing, 47, of Chino Hills after a bank robbery in that city Friday.

A FirstBank branch at 82900 Avenue 42 was robbed after a man approached the teller with a note demanding money, Indio police said in a written statement.

The man drove from the bank parking lot in a white Toyota Corolla with an undisclosed amount of money, investigators said.

Police radioed the car’s description and an officer spotted a vehicle matching that description on westbound I-10 about a mile west of the bank, Indio police spokesman Benjamin Guitron said.

A patrol car followed the vehicle another three to four miles until back-up units arrived and then pulled the car over, Guitron said.

The driver, Downing, was arrested.

A two-liter plastic bottle filled with clear liquid and suspicious wiring was found by investigators during a search of Downing’s car; the Riverside Sheriff’s Department sent out its Hazardous Device Team.

“We were not going to take any chances so we called them out,” Guitron said. “He made a device to look like (a bomb) but turns out it wasn’t.”

Police procedure requires that officers report bank robberies to the FBI.

Police said after the report Friday that FBI officials suspected Downing might be connected to the nine desperate bandit robberies that occurred over the past year in Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino counties because of the nature of the crime and Downing’s physical description.

In Orange County, the desperate bandit has been blamed for bank robberies in Tustin, La Habra, Anaheim Hills, Fullerton and Placentia.

The robber was given the nickname after describing himself as desperate in one of the notes passed to a bank teller.

Downing admitted that he committed several other bank robberies in Southern California, Guitron said.

“It’s 99.99 percent that it is probably our bank robber,” Guitron said.

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OAK GLEN: Beaumont police capture escaped inmate

An inmate who walked away from a minimum-security conservation camp in Oak Glen overnight Saturday was later captured in Beaumont, state corrections officials said.

Shaun Perkins, 22, was seen at an inmate count at the Oak Glen Conservation Camp at 11 p.m. Saturday night, Nov. 24. He was later discovered missing and corrections officials notified the California Highway Patrol and area law enforcement agencies, a news release from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation stated.

Beaumont police captured Perkins near Brookside and Beaumont avenues at 1:10 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 25.

Perkins was sentenced to more than seven years for burglary and stolen vehicle violations. The San Joaquin Valley resident was scheduled to be released in October 2014.

BY DAVID KECK

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RIVERSIDE: UC officials dispute “Most Dangerous” tag

UC Riverside has been ranked No. 24 out of 25 college campuses that the Business Insider web site called “The 25 Most Dangerous Colleges In America.” UCLA ranked No. 1 in the article. A UC Riverside spokeswoman called the headline “intentionally inflammatory” and said the research for the story was “inaccurate.”

Business Insider said in its Nov. 20 story that it averaged crime data per capita from 2008 to 2011 for schools with enrollment over 10,000 and used the FBI’s Unified Crime Report, which in turn gets its information from law enforcement agencies.

UC Riverside spokeswoman Kris Lovekin said in a Monday, Nov. 26 phone call that not all universities have more than 10,000 students, and not all universities have their own police departments. The story headline, she said, “implies they are comparing all universities, but it’s a much smaller group. It’s large universities with police departments.”

The headline “Most Dangerous Colleges in America,” she said, was misleading and “I do think that is the way of online media. People do try to make the most sensational headline possible.”

Lovekin said she did not believe UC Riverside had been contacted by Business Insider before publication of the story. She said her only contact with the web site was by e-mail, with her sending them a statement and the web site responding they would use some of it online.

She also noted that Business Insider used the FBI’s Unified Crime Report, but appears not to have used the federally-mandated Clery Act reports on campus safety.

The 1991 act “requires colleges and universities to disclose their security policies, keep a public crime log, publish an annual crime report and provide timely warnings to students and campus employees about a crime posing an immediate or ongoing threat to students and campus employees,” according to the Clery Center For Security on Campus web site.

Having a campus police department, Lovekin said, brings more active reporting of crime and dealing with safety issues on campus.

“We have a campus police department because we do want our students to be safe,” Lovekin said. “Having a police department means you are doing the right thing for campus safety.”

Both UC Riverside and UCLA issued statements, some of which the Business Insider ran in later versions of its online story.

“A 20,000 student campus will obviously have more crime than a 10,000 student campus. A more responsible report would include a ratio of crime per 1,000 students that would show relative to size, how many crimes are committed on the campus,” Lovekin said in her statement.

Business Insider had Lovekin’s critical comments about its report, but did not include information about the Clery Act in their most recent version of the story online. It also did not repeat online Lovekin’s suggestion that the Clery Act reports would have given a better picture of safety on college campuses.

UCLA director of media relations Phil Hampton said, “To conclude that UCLA somehow is dangerous is a reckless mischaracterization of data” according to the Business Insider web site.

“As you can see, this is a controversial list, but we think it offers a useful perspective on crime on and around campuses,” Business Insider said in the latest version of the story.

BY RICHARD K. De ATLEY

STAFF WRITER

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