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LA mayoral candidate Rep. Karen Bass has guns stolen from home

California congresswoman Karen Bass, who is also running for mayor of Los Angeles, said on Saturday that two guns were stolen from the home.

Rep. Bass, 68, released a statement that said she came home Friday to find her home in Baldwin Vista burglarized. The guns — which had been “safely and securely stored” — were missing.

The crook or crooks left behind cash, electronics and other valuables, according to the LA Times.

“It’s unnerving and, unfortunately, it’s something that far too many Angelenos have faced,” the Democrat added.

The lawmaker did not specify what type of firearms were missing. A spokeswoman told the paper they had been secured in a lockbox.

Bass reportedly learned how to handle weapons in the ’70s when she led the Venceremos Brigade, a group that stood in solidarity with Cuban revolutionaries. She was accused by the LAPD at the time of going to Cuba to “learn guerrilla warfare.”

“No one ever came in contact with the Cuban military or received any type of military training,” Bass told The Times in 1983. “The person who taught me how to shoot was Officer Jon Dial…He encouraged many different folks who had leadership responsibilities in the L.A. progressive community to learn how to use weapons.”

Bass is leading her opponent Rick Caruso in the polls. Both have pledged to crack down on crime if elected. According to the outlet, burglaries in LA were up 15% in 2022.

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NYC superintendent’s son Jared Magana caught masturbating in woman’s apartment

The teenage son of an Upper East Side apartment superintendent allegedly snuck into a tenant’s bedroom — then masturbated using her underwear while sniffing another pair.

Jared Magana, 19, was arraigned in Manhattan Criminal Court Saturday night on charges of second-degree burglary as a sexually motivated felony.

Magana allegedly entered the victim’s bedroom while she was not home Thursday and rummaged through her underwear drawer unaware he was being filmed on a home-security video, according to Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office.

He returned about a half hour later and pleasured himself using one pair of underwear while holding another pair “up to his nose and face,” according to prosecutors.

A roommate who noticed the apartment was in disarray checked the footage with the super and the super identified Magana as his son, the court heard.

Magana — who does not have a prior criminal record — was arraigned and held on $15,000 cash bail by Judge Michael Gaffey. Prosecutors had requested a bail of $100,000.

“The defendant also lives in the same building as the complainant and as the son of the super, has a concerning amount of access to the victim’s home,” Assistant District Attorney Katherine Sullivan stated in a bail application.

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Ezra Miller charged with felony burglary in Vermont

Embattled actor Ezra Miller is in legal trouble again — this time for allegedly stealing booze from a home in Vermont.

Miller, 29, was charged with felony burglary and is accused of stealing several bottles of alcohol from a house in Stamford earlier this year, according to a newly released police report.

“The Flash” star was charged after the homeowners — who weren’t home at the time of the alleged burglary — reported the missing bottles to police on May 1. A subsequent investigation, in which police reviewed surveillance videos, led cops to charge Miller.

Police caught up to Miller — who uses they/them pronouns — more than three months later on Aug. 7 and issued them a citation to appear in Vermont Superior Court on Sept. 26 to be arraigned on the charge.

The charge is the latest allegation the “Perks of Being a Wallflower” actor has racked up over the past year.

In late June, Rolling Stone reported that Miller was housing a mother and her three young children in their allegedly drug-and-gun-filled Vermont farmhouse.

Miller was arrested on two separate incidents in Hawaii earlier this year.
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Police reviewed footage and tracked down Miller three months after the alleged theft.
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Miller has also been accused of grooming young girls.
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They were also arrested in Hawaii in March for disorderly conduct and in April for second-degree assault. They were accused of being the subject of 10 calls to 911 in less than a month during their stay in the Aloha State.

The actor has also been accused of grooming young girls in a cult-like situation.

At the end of June, multiple victims of Miller’s alleged abuse broke their silence on their interactions with the troubled actor.

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Former NBA player Vince Carter’s Atlanta home burglarized, nearly $100K stolen

Armed burglars broke into the Atlanta home of retired NBA player Vince Carter while his wife and kids were inside and stole nearly $100,000 in cash over the weekend, police said.

Carter’s wife, Sondi Carter, and the couple’s two sons hid in a closet Sunday night while burglars smashed in a first-floor window and ransacked the 10,000-square-foot home in Atlanta’s affluent Buckhead neighborhood, according to an incident report released Wednesday by the Atlanta Police Department.

Sondi Carter told police she was in bed with her two sons when she heard loud noises coming from out front at 11:50 p.m., according to the report. She grabbed her sons and together the three hid in their bedroom closet while listening to the suspects run upstairs and rummage through the family’s belongings in various rooms.

The retired Atlanta basketball star played 22 seasons with the NBA and now works as an analyst for ESPN.
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Sondi Carter said she called 911 from inside the closet and texted the neighborhood patrol.

An off-duty Atlanta PD officer with the neighborhood patrol responded and chased a suspect wearing all black clothing and a mask down the road until he hopped into a black SUV that sped off.

Police officers arrived at the home shortly after and found $16,100 worth of $100 bills spilled onto the ground outside the gated home.

The recovered money, however, was just a sliver of the $100,000 that was missing from a brown bag Vince Carter kept in the master bedroom closet, the former Hawks player who retired in 2020 told police.

Carter’s wife, Sondi Carter, hid herself and their two sons in a bedroom closet as the armed thieves ransacked the family’s home.
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Police also found a gold Desert Eagle firearm still in its gun case, belonging to Vince Carter, and a black Glock 26 with an extended magazine outside the home, according to the report.

Police believe the Glock was left behind by the burglars.

Inside the home, officers found a first-floor window completely smashed in, multiple rooms in disarray and a gate at the top of the stairs broken off its hinges, the report states.

Police were only able to recover a sliver of the cash that was stolen from Carter’s home, but the investigation is still ongoing.
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Police officers photographed the scene and lifted a fingerprint from a side door that the suspects may have used to flee the home. They also collected surveillance video from cameras on the property.

Sondi Carter and her sons were unscathed during the break-in.

According to property records, Vince Carter, who played 22 seasons with the NBA and now works as an NBA analyst for ESPN, bought the home and the almost acre and a half of property it sits on for nearly $7 million in August 2020.

The investigation is ongoing.

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Illinois Governor JB Pritzker signs retail theft crackdown bill into law to crack down on smash-and-grab burglaries

CHICAGO (WLS) — After multiple smash-and-grabs at malls in the suburbs and at many high-end shops along Michigan Avenue, Gov. JB Pritzker signed a bill into law Friday imposing harsher punishments on those who commit retail crimes.

“This is about the safety of our communities,” Pritzker said. “It’s about preventing militarized storefronts and empty commercial.”

The governor put pen to paper to sign the Inform Act into law, which enforces the new crime of organized retail theft.

It’s the latest step in Illinois’ effort to fight a crime that has been plaguing big and small businesses around the state.

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Surveillance videos captured several incidents showing mobs of people rushing into stores to steal goods from luxury goods to convenience stores, even while employees or customers are inside. Macy’s, Nordstrom, Burberry, and LensCrafters along the Mag Mile have all been hit.

Last December alone, Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul’s organized crime task force retrieved one million dollars’ worth of stolen items from storage units.

Also in December, a group of 14 people ransacked the Louis Vuitton in Oak Brook, making off with $120,000 in merchandise.

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The new law cracks down on the ring leaders organizing these crimes who are profiting and using it to fund other illegal activities.

“This is not aimed at a low-income parent desperate to feed their child,” Governor Pritzker said. “It’s not about a kid making a short-sighted mistake. This is about a multi-billion dollar industry of organized criminals carrying out sophisticated theft operations to turn a profit on the resale market.”

As part of the new law, those who knowingly engage with others in a theft valued at $300 or more would be guilty of a Class Three felony. Those who engage in a retail theft from one or more establishments would be guilty of a Class Two felony, which would carry more jail time.

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The law allows prosecutors to bring perpetrators to justice even if the conspiracy, theft and/or selling crosses county boundaries. They are now able to prosecute the whole crime.

The Illinois Retail Merchants Association partnered with several lawmakers to make the law a reality.

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San Fernando Valley burglary suspect captured in Shadow Hills after weeks-long manhunt

SHADOW HILLS, LOS ANGELES (KABC) — The suspect wanted for nearly a dozen recent burglaries in the San Fernando Valley was taken into custody in a hillside area of Shadow Hills Wednesday night, bringing an end to a weeks-long manhunt.

The man is accused of terrorizing the neighborhoods of Shadow Hills and Sunland-Tujunga for weeks starting in late October and has been captured on home surveillance video armed with a rifle in the middle of the night.

He is tied to nearly a dozen break-ins at homes or businesses, according to Los Angeles police.

AIR7 HD was over the Shadow Hills neighborhood around 7:40 p.m. and captured the suspect running along properties, careening down a long hill and then making his way down an embankment. He started to hide in thick brush.

He was taken into custody around 10:40 p.m. after police used a K-9 to track him down. The dog began dragging the suspect by the arm before officers arrived to take him into custody.

An ambulance later transported the suspect to a hospital in unknown condition.

LAPD had two helicopters circling the area for hours and dozens of officers responded to the scene.

Police searched extensively Tuesday at a property owned by LADWP near the 210 Freeway after the suspect was spotted, but he was able to escape.

The suspect had not injured anyone during the alleged burglaries but police were worried about the possibility that he could become violent due to the fact that he was often seen carrying guns and rifles.

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City News Service contributed to this report.

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