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#BreakingBad season 4 finale: "Face Off"

By Frank Girardot on October 10, 2011 9:03 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) |

Wow!

Don't read past the jump if you haven't seen it yet.

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Crime's down ... just not around here

By Frank Girardot on September 22, 2009 9:05 AM | Permalink | Comments (2) |

Call this a round-up of sorts...

Sheriff Lee Baca says crime is down county-wide, except near Industry where homicides are up.

Here's a snippet:

Despite the mostly good news, there remain problems in some areas patrolled by the Sheriff's Department. Most notably in the communities serviced by the Industry Station, violent crime is on the rise.

Moving on... Women have been targeted by robbers in Azusa and Baldwin Park.

Authorities said the same car was used in a robbery of an ice cream vendor in West Valinda and a 16-year-old boy in Rosemead on Monday.

The notorious Avenues gang gets hit again in a federal raid.

Pico Rivera's fifth homicide is a whodunnit ...just like the other four this year.

And, finally DNA catches a man suspected of raping a blind Norwalk woman in May. Here's how he was caught:

DNA led to the arrest of a suspect in the May 1 rape of an 82-year-old legally blind woman, authorities said Monday.

Antonio Durell Freeman, 31, of Norwalk was booked Friday on suspicion of rape, kidnapping and burglary. He is being held at the sheriff's Century Station in lieu of $1 million bail. He has a court appearance today at Bellflower Superior Court.

Freeman appeared in the DNA database after Long Beach Police arrested him July 11 on suspicion of spousal assault and took a DNA sample from him, according to Maxwell.

Cops and doughnuts

By Frank Girardot on March 10, 2009 7:31 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) |

My friend Dean Norris created this video for AMC, where he plays Hank on AMC's Breaking Bad:

Puente 13 members tied to meth ring by Feds

By Frank Girardot on March 13, 2008 5:26 PM | Permalink | Comments (7) |

The feds are rounding up Puente 13 members in connection with a methamphetamine distribution ring, according to the FBI.

Already arrested are:

John Antonio Dacosta, 28, Steven Mark Mancha, 34, Ernest George Mancha, 34, and Lenny Robert Casas, 18, all of Whittier; Lorraine Christina Lopez, 34, Josue Deloen, 26, Rene Valdez, 39, Rafael Munoz Gonzalez, 38,
Steven Burgan, 25, Noel Gonzalez, 56, Noel Gonzalez III, 35, Michael Anthony Ortega, 35, Henry Collao, 20, and Joventino Garcia III, 18, all of La Puente; Andy Villa, 27, of Glendora; Hoia Thanh Nguyen, 32, of El Monte; Wayne Arthur Goik, 59, of West Covina; and Antonio Torres, 20, of Phoenix, who was arrested
in Arizona.

From the wire services and an FBI Press Release:

Last December, the Sheriff’s Department created a task force along with the U.S. Attorney’s
Office, DEA and the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and Explosives, to
investigate the drug and firearms trafficking operations of Puente 13, prosecutors
said.

Puente 13 distributed large quantities of methamphetamine, a portion of which was produced
locally in clandestine laboratories, prosecutors said.

Puente 13 members also allegedly sold cocaine, marijuana and oxycodine in Los Angeles,
Seattle, Arizona, Alaska and North Carolina.

Authorities executed 35 federal search warrants, which yielded one pound of suspected
methamphetamine, 20 pounds of marijuana and 16 firearms, prosecutors said.

“Today’s arrests will severely disrupt firearms and methamphetamine trafficking operations
in the San Gabriel Valley,” said DEA Special Agent Timothy Landrum in a
statement.

Flash (player) Friday

By Frank Girardot on February 8, 2008 4:06 PM | Permalink | Comments (3) |

My friend Dean Norris, plays a DEA agent in the AMC television series "Breaking Bad." I 'm pretty sure it runs Sunday nights.

The show's about a high school chem teacher who learns he has terminal cancer and decides to leave a legacy behind for his family by manufacturing and selling methamphetamine.

Brian Cranston, the dad from "Malcom in the Middle" stars in the show, you've probably seen ads with him standing in the middle of the desert wearing only briefs (not boxers.)

Anyway, Dean sent me this video, that's sort of an outtake from the show. I promised to share it here.

A few months ago I posted YouTube version of the same video, but AMC pulled it before it got too widely viewed. So we've finally got it back.

Hollywood trains, while the writers strike

By Frank Girardot on November 3, 2007 12:20 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) |

My friend Dean Norris has been filming a show for AMC called "Breaking Bad." It's about a guy who learns he has terminal cancer and decides to get into the meth manufacturing business. Dean plays a DEA agent.
Here's a snippet of his training regimen.