Intellectually Diminished “Bank Robber” Released
Joshua Locateil is now a free man after a strange set of circumstances led the mentally disabled individual into the spotlight after a supposed bank robbery attempt in Monrovia.
Sierra Madre resident Joshua Locateil, 24, was arrested last Wednesday and charged with attempted robbery after a four hour stand-off with police at Citizens Business Bank on [...]
Century 21 Village’s Linda Johnson Earns SFR Certification
Andy Bencosme, Managing Broker at CENTURY 21 Village Inc. recently congratulated Linda Johnson, veteran real estate agent for her new certification of SFR (Short sales And Foreclosure Resource.) Johnson has been with Village her entire career with Village has helped buyers & sellers not only in the foothill communities but also the outlying areas. [...]
Paul Neiby Passes Away Just Before Citizen of the Year Award Dinner
Dr Paul Neiby was always lending a hand – like teaching kids how to make apple cider during one of the many festivals in town a few years ago. – Photo by Terry Miller
One of the two recently selected Sierra Madre Citizens of the Year, Dr. Paul Neiby, passed away last week. Dr. [...]
Police Blotters January 4 – 11
Monrovia PD
During the last seven day period, the Police Department handled 568 service events, resulting in 148 investigations. Following are the last week’s highlighted issues and events:
Robbery / Assault with a Deadly Weapon
On January 7 at 12:02 p.m., officers responded to a business in the 1600 block of South [...]
Searching for Gray Whales in Oxnard
By Greg Aragon
It’s that time of the year again; time to gather the pod and head south from the cold waters of Alaska to the warm lagoons of Mexico for better food and spawning. This is of course, if you are a California Gray Whale. But since I’m not, I’ll just stick [...]
Sierra Madre Weekly – January 28th, 2010
Arcadia Public Library Concert Combines History and Music – Dissonance of War Shows up in Shostakovich Work
Paul Stein, the director of the Classical Kaleidoscope concert series at the Arcadia Public Library, explained to the full house in the Cay Mortensen Auditorium, that the music to be performed by the quintet would be Dmitri Shostakovich’s Piano Quintet for Piano and Strings in G-minor. He explained that the music would be dissonant, [...]
Monrovia Man Arrested Following Monrovia Bank Robbery Attempt – Bomb Threat Apparently False
FEST (Foothill Special Enforcement Team) which includes members of Monrovia, Arcadia, Glendora and West Covina SWAT, arrest Joshua Locateil , 24, who allegedly barricaded himself inside the Citizens Business Bank in the 100 block of East Huntington Drive in Monrovia on Wednesday morning. The suspect was ordered to strip down to his [...]
Monrovia Bomb Scare Ends, Suspect Detained
A bank robbery this morning at the Citizens Bank branch in Monrovia at the corner of Huntington Drive and Myrtle Avenue that turned into a bomb threat, with bank employees an patrons having been evacuated, has ended with the suspect being apprehended by Glendora and West Covina SWAT units.
According to police, the suspect wrote a [...]
Monrovia Bank Robbery Suspect Threatens Bomb Explosion
A bank robbery this morning at the Citizen Bank branch in Monrovia at the corner of Huntington Drive and Myrtle Avenue has turned into a bomb threat, with bank employees an patrons having been evacuated. At this point, it is believed that only the suspect, who is believed to be armed, is still held up [...]
