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Los Angeles Laker forward Luke Walton, who lives in Manhattan Beach where he owns a 

restaurant, had a nutjob stalking him.

"I'll be going somewhere, and she'll be following me everywhere I go. I'll start really driving nuts, and she's right behind me, staying with me.

 It sucks, because you figure you just go out and play basketball and you have your personal life, but then you have to start worrying about stuff like, 'I don't want to drive to my teammates' houses if she's following me, because I don't want her to know where my teammates live.'"

He told Orange County Register beat writer Kevin Ding all about it. Manhattan Beach police interceded.

The FBI has released stats showing crime is down in 2007, but check out this clock that's within the press release. It shows how often crimes occur across the country:

 

 

 Nathaniel Dwayne Hale, better known as Nate Dogg, made his initial appearance in Compton Superior Court today. He was arraigned on charges that he threatened and stalked a woman.

07-10-08 (Thursday):
300 block of North Pacific Coast Highway (between Diamond/Carnelian intersections on State Route 1:
Approximately 8:00 p.m., a pedestrian, crossing mid block (east to west), across North Pacific Coast Highway, was struck by an oncoming vehicle traveling north in the number two (2) lane of travel. The pedestrian (unidentified male adult) suffered serious head injury and trauma. The pedestrian was transported to County Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. As of this report date, he remains in a coma.

2300 block of Artesia Boulevard:
Approximately 9:30 p.m., officers observed an adult with an eighteen-month year old child. The child was dirty and chewing on what appeared to be a tobacco cigarette. An uninvolved party reported the same. Officers contacted the adult and ascertained the subject did not possess the means or sustenance to properly care for the child. The subject was subsequently arrested for the investigation of child endangerment. The child was transferred to the custody and care of the Department of Children Family Services (DCFS).

1800 block of South Pacific Coast Highway:
Approximately 11:40 p.m., officers responded to the vicinity regarding a "check the welfare." The officers' tenacious and caring efforts resulted in the location of a subject, who was on the ground, shivering, with little or no movement. Quick thinking on the officers' part netted recognition of medication problems. Paramedics were summoned, and the subject was transported to Little Company of Mary Hospital. Subject was treated without lasting complications.

I've posted a number of comments about the murder-suicide that occurred Sunday at the McDonald's on Central Avenue in Carson. Stephen Meriwether shot Krystina Reed and then killed himself.

I've received comments that included disparaging remarks about both           Reed and Meriwether.

Keisha Oguynn, Meriwether's first cousin, has had enough of it and sent this today. I am posting it in its entirety. I tried to say this in a blog entry the other day, but Keisha did a much better job:

"This has gone extremely too far. Has everyone forgotten that two people died? It's not about who was right vs. who was wrong. Six children are left without a parent. Two families are grieving the exact same way. Name calling and finger-pointing aren't going to bring neither Stephen or Krystina back.

I am a first cousin of Stephen, and I'm saddened and heart-broken by this tragedy. The facts are irrelevant at this point; it happened and we can't change that.
 
The two people who are now dead are the ONLY people who knew the "truth" about their relationship. Stephen told his version of their relationship, and Krystina told her version. We on the outside looking in, don't really know what led to this tragedy. So everyone please stop passing judgment, and let them rest in peace. It's not solving anything, and it's not going to bring them back.

I would like to send my apologies and deepest sympathy to the family of Krystina. Let's please move on and put an end to this for once and for all."

Ryan Castillo, who videotaped a co-worker using the restroom, pleaded no contest today in an "open" plea - meaning no plea deal was in place, he was just throwing himself at the mercy of the judge. Torrance Superior Court Mark Arnold put off sentencing until Castillo spends 90 days in county jail, beginning June 24. This ensures he doesn't get released early since his case is still open.

Castillo, 30, will also be sentenced to two years in state prison, which will be stayed pending successful completion of five years probation. Terms of his probation includes 30 days of work for the California Dept. of Transportation, 52 weeks of sex offender counseling and no contact with the victim or the Gardena company where they worked.

He pleaded to one felony count of unauthorized access to computers and three misdemeanors of invasion of privacy by secret filming.

The Creep Factor turned up a notch today in the case against a 30-year-old former Gardena aerospace parts manufacturing worker accused of videotaping a colleague while she used the restroom. We already knew that Ryan Castillo had a crush on the woman, and would allegedly switch on remote cameras aimed at the toilet everytime she headed to the facilities.

But during a preliminary hearing today, we also learned that he asked her out over e-mail and in person, had her bank statements, credit card statements, a copy of her driver's license, taped-up checks she had shredded and, get this, a spreadsheet documenting what she wore everyday.

Castillo, who looks younger than his age and has quarter-sized holes in earlobes where those piercing discs used to hang, was married and apparently still is - based on the kiss he gave to the young woman at the back of the courtroom at the conclusion of the hearing.

A full story on the hearing will be in tomorrow's Daily Breeze.