Making those round o calls this morning, the Whittier watch commander had this to say about whether anything was going on.

We have crime on the run. If you give us a day, crime will be completely eradicated in our area and you can take us off your phone list.

My response:
Is your refrigerator running too?

Busy week for Baldwin Park police and the sheriff’s detectives who are handling two cases out of the 80,000-population city this week.

Aside from the triple homicide Monday, authorities this morning are investigating an officer-involved shooting involving BP officers and a man. It happened about 5 a.m. in the 5000 block of Maine Street. The man’s condition is unknown at this point, though preliminary wire reports say he is “critically” wounded.

Sheriff’s deputies are still out at the scene, and one deputy told me the officers were conducting a search warrant when it happened.

Here’s what I just put up on our Web site:

BALDWIN PARK – Police officers conducting a search warrant shot and wounded a man this morning in Baldwin Park, authorities said.
The incident occurred about 5:10 a.m. in the 5000 block of Maine Avenue, said Ed Hernandez, a deputy with the Los Angeles County Sheriffs Department.
No officers were injured.
Hernandez did not know the condition of the man and had no details as to what prompted the shooting, except that officers had been serving a search warrant.
The sheriffs department was at the scene this morning investigating.
When something like this happens, Hernandez said, its probably because the officers fear they are in safety of their life.

Trib Photographer Leo Jarzomb was out at the Baldwin Park crime scene this morning. He got photos of the coroner taking the victims away.

Our question here in the newsroom: We understand the nature of crime scenes, but doesn’t 15 hours for the coroner to arrive on scene at a triple homicide seem like a long delay? I can’t even imagine what that must have been like for family, friends and neighbors overnight.

Two very different sides of the story about an incident that happened Saturday evening at a church in Walnut, where the East San Gabriel Valley Coalition for the Homeless was hosting a shelter.

Officials with the advocacy group claim two of their staff members were attacked by a man who came in demanding services, but refusing to give his name.
Colleen Castellano, director of the East San Gabriel Valley Coalition for the Homeless, said the man attacked the staff members with an unknown substance that caused them burns and “mutilation.”

Two deputies with the Los Angeles County Sheriffs Department responded to the incident. Their log tells a very different story.

They claim the man was intoxicated, was arguing with staff members, and was combative, according to Sgt. Randy Lascurain. But deputies Jimmy Osorio and Jesus Hernandez said the guy eventually became cooperative and left the shelter on his own. No police report was filed because staff members at the shelter did not want to make an arrest, Lascurain said.

Castellano said her staff members DID want the man arrested, but the deputies didn’t want to help.

“When they arrived, the officer told us we asked for it because we bring these people in, we’re enablers,” she said. “They escorted the man off the premises and that’s it. They didn’t do anything.”

Guess we’ll never know what really happened. The coalition said they won’t be filing any sort of complaint because that’s not part of “what they do.”

Surfing my alma mater’s Web site today, I stumbled upon this bit of news about two brothers – one from Pasadena, the other from Glendale – accused of trying to bribe a San Bernardino County Supervisor in a development project.

Here’s a quick write-up of what I’ve been able to gather from police and Azusa Pacific University officials about Tuesday’s trolley crash.

AZUSA The driver of an Azusa Pacific University campus trolley will not faces charges in a collision Tuesday that has left a student in critical condition, according to police.
Azusa traffic investigators said they found no fault on part of the driver, the trolley or the university in the accident, which occurred about 11:15 a.m. in the 800 block of Foothill Boulevard between the universitys two campuses.

A 19-year-old Costa Mesa student who police say either lives on campus or nearby was riding her bicycle along the north curb line, weaving in and out of parked cars when she collided with the trolley, said Azusa Cpl. Dean Brewer, the lead investigator on the case.
The student, who police have not identified, was not wearing a helmet or any other safety gear at the time of the crash, Brewer said. She suffered head injuries and is in critical condition after having undergone surgery, he said.
Its looks better than it did (Tuesday), Brewer said of her condition.

This is the first time a campus trolley has been in a collision of this kind in its nearly 10 years of existence, university spokeswoman Allison Oster said.
The trolleys were in operation Wednesday.
It was such an upsetting incident, Oster said, Obviously for all of our campus yesterday. Our prayers go out to students family.

Check out this blog post from Leftovers about BP’s police chief.

An interesting article from City News Service ran in our paper this morning about a former Covina cop and alleged drug user who won’t be getting his job back.

Victor Lupu petitioned in 2006 to have a judge overturn an earlier decision by Covina City Manager Paul Phillips to have him fired amid allegations Lupu was using methamphetamine and having an affair with a drug user. But a judge Tuesday said he found the initial firing was justified, despite Lupu’s claims that the termination was ungrounded and illegal.

Hey, you gotta give it to Lupu for trying.

Its a familiar tale with cops: Anytime theres bad weather, the rain has stopped everything, they say, or nothings going on but the rain.

Regardless, I was able to get a few interesting things out of police this morning, namely an alleged drunken driver who led sheriffs deputies on a freeway chase in Norwalk about 12:40 a.m. today. The vehicle of choice? A U-Haul truck. In the end, the suspect who has only been identified as a 42-year-old man from Pico Rivera stopped the truck but then refused to get out. Sheriffs deputies had to break a window to detain him.

No updates on the condition of a Bassett man who was shot in the behind Tuesday night in the 300 block of Siesta Avenue. Authorities dont seem to think the injuries are life-threatening.