July 25, 2025 • 30 mins
Encino community is on high alert after another home break-in. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals struck down California's ammunition background check law, ruling it unconstitutional. Altadena: Still Finding Victims.
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A little later this hour, we're going to talk more
about the big federal appeals court ruling about ammunition sales
in California. There was a law that you'd have to
have a background check every time you bought ammunition, and
they said that that.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Is not legal. So we'll talk about that coming up.
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Speaker 3 (01:43):
The crime waven Encino continues, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
I feel like burglars are saying we see you and
we don't care. This after neighborhood Watch has been activated
long before that couple was murdered last week or the
week before.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
I will say, I don't think the people who are
trucking into Encino to Rob Holmes are listening to this show.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
Yeah, I know they're not aware.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Perhaps that the DA and the LAPD had a meeting
on Monday night to describe how they're going to increase patrols,
et cetera.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
And that the neighborhood people have hired private security. On
top of that, not only is the LAPD hyper aware
of this neighborhood, they brought in private guards. Yet here
we go another break in, this one in the middle
of the day. This was yesterday afternoon. It happened twelve
to fifty five pm. This was on the forty three
(02:38):
hundred block of Valley Meadow Road. It involved five to
six men to your point, being trucked in. Essentially five
to six men wearing masks and driving a black Mercedes.
Black Mercedes went raised eyebrows in the neighborhood. It was
you're talking about mounted patrols as well. By the way,
(02:58):
I believe that's the case. Imagine horses in my neighborhood,
horses in Encino. I wonder what the bears and how
about the bears respond to the horses.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
I think they would not want anything to do with it.
I don't think they would be friends. I don't know
how it would work.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
But anyway, on Wednesday, it was that LAPD announces crime
suppression strategy and Encino, which just means we're looking at you.
Comprehensive deployment. Deployment plan must be where you're mounted. Your
mounted force comes in several break ins in the neighborhood.
(03:34):
We reported to you that the couple that was murdered
in their own home with their own gun by a
guy who called nine one one and reported himself. Yet
the bodies weren't discovered for another four days that their
home had been the scene of a break in back
in May, which is why the couple was on a
heightened alert, which is why they were involved with their
neighborhood watch.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
I'm I'm fascinated by the target specifically of Encino and
most of what we're talking about. The homes that have
been broken into are the ones that are south of Ventura,
So those neighborhoods are all over the place. The roads
aren't square like, there's no perpendicular intersections. There's just a
(04:17):
lot of crazy ins and outs and cul de sacs
and things like that.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
How do you how do you plan that? Do you
go in?
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Are you targeting a specific house or you are you
casing these places to see.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
When people are home or when they're not.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
And once you get in there, how can you guarantee
that you're going to get out safely and get onto
Ventura bulvor.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
On the one on one or whatever and get out
of there.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
It's obviously a well orchestrated crime ring that are doing
some of these home break ins, which means to me,
I mean, which kind of they should know that the
laped has stepped up presence there and if they don't,
the mounted patrols will be an obvious sign.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Well, that and the helicopters that are flying overhead.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Those are not usual in Encinos, so that might be
an issue or that would cause a tiny bit of
consternation in the bad guy's minds.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
It almost feels like, are these inside jobs. Are these
people that know the neighborhood or have you know, interior
knowledge of the neighborhood. I mean, the guy that got
into the couple's home got in through an unlocked door
and he lives nearby.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Despite the fact that there's a gate around, I mean
in security fencing around the entire house.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Now, I think that that is a different situation. Apples
and Orange is there because he seems like somebody who
has a mental illness problem that the family was letting
slide by his life twenty two years old, had issues
with family members. Charges dropped because while conservatorship and the
family saying, hey, we'll take care of our own hair,
he wasn't a burghlar. No, this is a separate thing,
(05:57):
a separate thing.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Now, the LAPD did say crime in Encino is actually
down year over year, and we talked before about this.
The idea that Crime statistics tell you one thing, but
public sentiment will tell you something very different. It's one
thing to say crime statistics are down, the number of
break ins are down, but when something like this gathers momentum,
(06:22):
it's it's hard to ignore public sentiment or public fear,
if that's the right term to use. There was also
a story out of Encino. A fourteen year old boy.
Fourteen year old boy is being held on suspicion of
burglarizing a home in Encino. Why because of the bullet
hole in the kid. This fourteen year old was shot
(06:44):
and wounded by the homeowner during an early morning confrontation.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
They're in Encino.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
The teenager was picked up by police after mom reported
that the fourteen year old had been shot and wounded
in a drive by shooting in South la on the seventeenth.
Detectives said they were a little bit suspicious of the story.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
Oh, they also.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Happened to find a stolen car nearby with a bunch
of blood inside that matched the description of the getaway
car from the Encino case. From the home invasion, which
had happened less than an hour earlier about five in
the morning. This homeowner and Encino woke up to the
sound of something breaking downstairs from his bedroom, moved his
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family into a safe room, armed himself with a handgun,
shouted a warning, fired two shots when he saw the
figure wearing dark clothes advance upstairs holding what he described
as a samurai sword, and Mom said, the kid was
shot in a drive bar.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
I'm a big fan of samurai swords making their way
into news items.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
It happens.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
It's rare, but it does happen, to which we said, yes,
we've had this conversation before because you and years ago
when we were doing our show from the other room
said how does this happen? How do people lose up
samurai swords? Because it was the same thought process. I
love it when a sword makes its way into a
news story. And Nick, our producer at the time, says,
(08:14):
I have one in my car, and he went down
and he got his samurai sword that he keeps in
his car.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
So this is something.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
That people do have and from time to time they
travel with it, and sometimes it makes its way into the.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
Police blotter and sometimes they travel Oh wait, was it
Nick or was it Oscar? It was I'm pretty sure
it was Nick. Remember he cut himself with.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
It, right, But Nick would cut himself with a spoon.
That kid was so disaster inclined up.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Next Ninth Circuit, which is tough for your six'. Four
that's a long way to. Fall that's a long way to.
Fall The Ninth circus it has ruled in favor of
The Second amendment and against The state Of. California we'll
tell you about this ruling for ammunition sales when we come.
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hour we're going to be talking about the Fire aid.
Concert it remembers after the fires In altadena And. Palisades
there's a lot of money there and the people whose
homes burned are asking the question of where did all
(11:53):
of that?
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BOTTOM a blow To california's pushback when it comes to
gun control restrictions are. Yeah both The Ninth Circuit court
Of appeals and THE Us Supreme court have significantly restricted
gun control measures in the last, decade And california has
obviously been trying to push Back they did so with
(12:18):
a twenty sixteen ballot measure that was meant to Strengthen
california's already very stringent gun. Laws, well, today The Ninth
Circuit court Of appeals says That california's policy of background
checks for bullet buyers violates The, constitution violates That Second.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
Amendment it's a. Blow it is definitely a blow To.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
California, Listen it's not a giant hurdle in terms of
time or. Anything The department Of justice for The State
bureau Of firearms says that the background check FROM ammo
purchase not almost ninety percent of the, time takes less
than three. Minutes that's not the. Issue the time of
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processing is not the. Issue the question is IF, i
as a lawful resident of The state Of, california lawful gun,
Owner Federal firearms certificate, holder purchased the weapon, officially, legally.
Etc you can't just have a gun like this without
(13:25):
having the appropriate stuff that goes with, it which is.
Ammunition so why does the process have to continue for
purchase of ammunition If i've already gone through the background
checks to have the weapon in the first.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
Place The.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Ninth Circuit court basically looked at the twenty twenty two
decision from The Supreme court that limits gun control measures
passed by individual states and said that those laws have
to be consistent with the nation's historical tradition when it
comes to firearm. Regulation and they said that there was
a among other, things The reconstruction, era the loyalty oaths
(14:05):
That americans had to go through before they were required
to buy.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
Guns and the judge.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Disagreed judge, said the vast majority of checks cost a
dollar imposed less than a minute of. Delay the majority
has broken with our precedent and flouted The Supreme court's.
Guidance that was from the dissent on this. Again it's
a three judge. Panel two judges in favor and won.
Against all three of them were appointed By republican, presidents
(14:33):
which is unusual for a three judge panel to be
picked at random out of The Ninth circuit and to
have three conservative justices.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
There the State Gavin newsom had come out.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
And said that this is a bad idea basically that
they have been that was imposed in the first place
to try to prevent gun, violence and it was born
out of if you remember the attack on that holiday
party in Sam. Bernadine but there's nothing that this law
(15:05):
would have prevented them from. Doing that's WHAT i don't
quite understand about knee jerk reaction laws when it comes
to when it comes to, weapons specifically. Guns In, california
you can pass a law that sets. It, clearly we
did passed a law that sets up a background check
for ammunition. Purchases but if it's borne out of something
(15:25):
that you say it would have, prevented when it wouldn't
have prevented. It they could have gone through the same
background checks and purchased all the ammunition that they wanted
and done the same.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
Thing throw up another another, layer another, hurdle.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Right which is what the court is saying is you
can't just do that to throw up another. Hurdle it
goes against The Supreme court decisions and.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Precedent coming up, next they are still discovering bodies In.
Altadena what that fire was six months? Ago also one
hundred million raised for fire. Recovery where is that money going?
Still as? Well thank The Lord. Jesus gentle parenting is
going away. Now it's f round and find out.
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Com Katherine olcintara was one of the people evacuated from
her home In altadena during the firestorm that erupted there In,
january And catherine says she remembers seeing her longtime neighbor
returning home across the street as she was. Leaving she
assumed he'd come back to grab the, pets grab some, documents,
pictures what have, you and then get the hell out of.
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There and she, SAYS i remember hearing the dogs barking.
Hysterically did he try to save the? House did he pass?
OUT i can't believe they just found his body, now
like six months. Later, yes they are still discovering bodies In.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
Alta. Dina part of the issue was that.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
One Francisco espinosa's house was one of the uncleared. Lots
there had been a lot that had been, cleared and
obviously that's going to allow first responders to find human.
Remains but this was one of the few that had
not been cleared too.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
Well and it hadn't been cleared that.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Night this neighborhood received the most delayed evacuation. Orders electronic
alerts went out to his section Of West altadena just
before six am On january, eighth almost twelve hours after
the fire.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Started, NOW i live in this.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Area this happened a couple canyons over from WHERE i,
live and my power was out that. Night it went
out at ABOUT i want to say six pm ish
the night of the. Fire when the fire, STARTED i
had No, TWITTER i had no, nothing, nothing No Wi,
(19:07):
fi so no. ALERTS i didn't know there was a
fire In. ALTADENA i got a text message from a
friend In Orange county said are you close to this
fire In? Altadena AND i said? WHAT i had been
watching something streaming THAT i had. DOWNLOADED i had no.
Idea there was no way to let people know that
their fire had started in that it was eating up
(19:28):
homes and it was moving crazy, fast and in the
neighborhood where that, happened it was the same. Situation there
was just no way to know by the time the
evacuation orders went. Out by the TIME i saw there
were evacuation. ORDERS i was In Orange. COUNTY i mean
it was the next, day same thing with this neighborhood
where the homes were actually.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
Burning there are, PEOPLE i mean the idea of a
delayed evacuation. Orders there are people who said that they
didn't have enough time to get out when the evacuation
order did. Come, literally according to Al, kantara her roof
was already on.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
Fire, see we.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
Don't have landlines. Anymore if the powers, out we don't
have these phones were so attached to getting all our
information from at least not Through Wi. Fi we don't
have the old fire departments running around the block with
the sirens.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
On they're. Busy you don't talk to your.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
NEIGHBORS i, mean, really we're kind of in a blackout
when there's a.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
Blackout, YEAH i don't.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
Know this is not an indictment that the people who
are going to look at Whether La county needed to
do more to warn people that. NIGHT i mean that
kind of investigation still in the. Process it looks pretty
clear that that should have happened to it somehow much
faster than it.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Did we talk about sirens in places Like hawaii or
what have, you a tsunami sirens we're going to need
sirens for wildfire interface, neighborhoods wild land interface, neighborhoods because
we when the parent goes, out how are we supposed
to know that the place is? Evacuated, yeah and if
(21:08):
you have AN am, radio, great but who's, listened who's
gathered around THE am?
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Radio this is also this specifically One Francisco espinosa and
his body being, found or at least the body that
was found in his property seems to be one of
those very rare occasions where outside of somebody seeing going
him going back into the, home nobody knew what happened to,
him and he didn't have any living family, members they,
Believe so it took Until may until a neighbor actually
(21:35):
filed a missing person's, report and that prompted that prompted
first responders to go.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Back in and to actually look for the.
Speaker 4 (21:43):
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Forty we do have some parenting to get to sans justin,
unfortunately but gentle parenting seems to be on the way
out and f.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
Around and find out has.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
ARRIVED i feel like f round and find out is passe,
now just much like the word passe is. PASSE i
feel like there's probably some sort of new term for
f around and find out that we don't even know about.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
Yet we're not cool. Enough we are, NOT i, mean
we are.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
NOT i know you've heard this story about the guy
here In burbank who was the sex.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
Offender, yeah but do you know what he was? Doing?
NO i meant to click on, it and THEN i.
Didn't let me be the one who shares this information With,
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Speaker 2 (22:40):
Down officers Arrested Calise crowder thirty eight years old just this.
Week he's a registered sex. Offender he's on. Parole he
has a history of arrests for lude conduct Throughout glendale
And burbank over the.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
Last four or five.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
YEARS a few years, ago he was arrested In glendale
after he allegedly peeped into a family's. Home and, now
but in this, case he was crouching down behind women and,
sniffing sniffing where right there on the double hands the?
Speaker 1 (23:15):
Butt, yep crouch there's a joke, here crouching something, hidden
some hidden.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
Smell. CROUCHING i don't. KNOW i gotta workshop at.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
You.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
Know conway lives. Here what does that? MEAN i don't.
Speaker 6 (23:29):
Know every time there's some bad that happens In, BURBANK
i think of it happening To. Conway like this, Guy
Like conway's just like outliving his, life and this guy's like,
crouching Like conway's at the grocery stories.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
Picking up some ho hose or, something and like this
guy is there crouching Behind conway sniffing his.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
Bum but you're doing Bub, yeah what's going on back? There? Bob, Hey?
Bob what's going on back? There how's the weather back?
Speaker 1 (23:54):
There like literally anything could happen that makes the news In,
burbank AND i see it happening To.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
Conway that's. Funny that's a good way to look at.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
IT i suppose we were talking about this fire aid
concert that took place back In January Stevie wonder.
Speaker 7 (24:09):
And sting one of the musical matchups that they had
on stage and raised about one hundred million, dollars and
a lot of the people who lost homes in The
palisades or In altadena had been asking.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
Where did all of that money? Go and it's a legitimate.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
Question the fire aid, benefit they, said raised about one
hundred million dollars for wildlife. Relief and six months after the,
fires The La times has gone through and other organizations
are asking. Questions but The Other times did contact some
of the organizations that got those, funds nonprofits in food
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aid and housing and mental, health childcare and things like
ecological resistance or, resilience and how fire aid became a
lifeline for some of the people but not all of
the P and in this building we have people who
lost homes or whose homes were severely damaged in some,
(25:10):
cases or just lost the homes outright as a result of,
this and even they are asking where the hell is
all this money? Now The La Regional Food bank got
a million dollars right off the first tranch of grants
that went, out and then they got about a quarter
million dollars in the second. One some of that money
went to pay extra drivers and forklift operators and warehouse
(25:32):
workers to help process and distribute donations after a. Fire
after the, FIRES i should, say another, Group Inclusive, action
distributed money to landscapers and street vendors and other outdoor
workers who lost jobs or homes in the. Fire The Change,
reaction a direct aid, group got two million dollars from
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the first round of grants and said that the funds
gave out twenty five hundred recipients that got to fifteen
thousand dollars for immediate things like rent and transportation. Needs,
now the quick math on, this if you just looked
at the number of homes that were lost eighteen thousand
(26:16):
and divided that into one hundred, million you'd come up
with about fifty five hundred dollars per household if the
money went.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
Directly to those people who just lost.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
Homes, obviously there are more people than that that were
impacted by all of, this because you talk about the businesses.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
That were, lost the.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
Jobs that were lost as a results of those homes
that no longer. Stand so it's hard to figure out
exactly how much people should have. Gotten but there are
people who have not seen a dime of all of
that money that was supposed to go to help.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
Them is it because you have to reach out through
these various different organizations that partnered with Fire.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
Aid, yes you have to, know oh where to.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Look and that's one of the problems is they're saying
that the next some of that original money went to
outreach to try to be able to connect those people
who needed the services with the, services.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
Right because in you'd think that places like especially The,
palisades there's such a good information tree that exists there
with people talking to each other about what's what and
how you got to do this and what you're going
through and it's a very small town feel. There like
you Mentioned Change, reaction that direct aid group got two.
(27:37):
Million Elizabeth jackson is the owner was the owner Of White,
lotus a workout studio in The. Palisades she had fourteen.
Employees she lost both her home and her. Business she,
said we lost every single client at the studio because
our clients lost their.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
Homes they're all starting their lives.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
Over through a, client A White lotus. Regular elizabeth got
in touch With Change, reaction which use some of its
fire aids to give her money to give to all
the staffers one thousand dollars to each staffer and replace
some fire damaged equipment so she could reopen her business
in a smaller space. Nearby and that's exactly what it's
(28:16):
supposed to.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
Do right?
Speaker 2 (28:18):
There are you ask you know is connecting with the
service as part of the. Problem Jewish Family services got
a quarter million dollar grant From Fire aidle most of,
IT i should say not, solely but most of it
for comprehensive disaster case, management which is helping people deal
with the bureaucracy of municipal, government emergency management from the,
(28:42):
state The Federal Emergency Management, agency BECAUSE i mean taking
this on by, yourself or if you have a small,
family or if your family has never had to deal
with anything like this, before it can be pretty. Overwhelming
so there are services in, place but there are. Questions Kevin,
kylie congressman A Northern, california is asking how come more
(29:03):
of this money hasn't directly gone to some of the
people affected by the, fires AND i think, nothing there's
no evidence that it's, nefarious but it is you that
much money going through nonprofits first is frustrating for a
lot of.
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The crime waven Encino continues, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
I feel like burglars are saying we see you and
we don't care. This after neighborhood Watch has been activated
long before that couple was murdered last week or the
week before.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
I will say, I don't think the people who are
trucking into Encino to Rob Holmes are listening to this show.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
Yeah, I know they're not aware.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Perhaps that the DA and the LAPD had a meeting
on Monday night to describe how they're going to increase patrols,
et cetera.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
And that the neighborhood people have hired private security. On
top of that, not only is the LAPD hyper aware
of this neighborhood, they brought in private guards. Yet here
we go another break in, this one in the middle
of the day. This was yesterday afternoon. It happened twelve
to fifty five pm. This was on the forty three
(02:38):
hundred block of Valley Meadow Road. It involved five to
six men to your point, being trucked in. Essentially five
to six men wearing masks and driving a black Mercedes.
Black Mercedes went raised eyebrows in the neighborhood. It was
you're talking about mounted patrols as well. By the way,
(02:58):
I believe that's the case. Imagine horses in my neighborhood,
horses in Encino. I wonder what the bears and how
about the bears respond to the horses.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
I think they would not want anything to do with it.
I don't think they would be friends. I don't know
how it would work.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
But anyway, on Wednesday, it was that LAPD announces crime
suppression strategy and Encino, which just means we're looking at you.
Comprehensive deployment. Deployment plan must be where you're mounted. Your
mounted force comes in several break ins in the neighborhood.
(03:34):
We reported to you that the couple that was murdered
in their own home with their own gun by a
guy who called nine one one and reported himself. Yet
the bodies weren't discovered for another four days that their
home had been the scene of a break in back
in May, which is why the couple was on a
heightened alert, which is why they were involved with their
neighborhood watch.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
I'm I'm fascinated by the target specifically of Encino and
most of what we're talking about. The homes that have
been broken into are the ones that are south of Ventura,
So those neighborhoods are all over the place. The roads
aren't square like, there's no perpendicular intersections. There's just a
(04:17):
lot of crazy ins and outs and cul de sacs
and things like that.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
How do you how do you plan that? Do you
go in?
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Are you targeting a specific house or you are you
casing these places to see.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
When people are home or when they're not.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
And once you get in there, how can you guarantee
that you're going to get out safely and get onto
Ventura bulvor.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
On the one on one or whatever and get out
of there.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
It's obviously a well orchestrated crime ring that are doing
some of these home break ins, which means to me,
I mean, which kind of they should know that the
laped has stepped up presence there and if they don't,
the mounted patrols will be an obvious sign.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Well, that and the helicopters that are flying overhead.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Those are not usual in Encinos, so that might be
an issue or that would cause a tiny bit of
consternation in the bad guy's minds.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
It almost feels like, are these inside jobs. Are these
people that know the neighborhood or have you know, interior
knowledge of the neighborhood. I mean, the guy that got
into the couple's home got in through an unlocked door
and he lives nearby.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Despite the fact that there's a gate around, I mean
in security fencing around the entire house.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Now, I think that that is a different situation. Apples
and Orange is there because he seems like somebody who
has a mental illness problem that the family was letting
slide by his life twenty two years old, had issues
with family members. Charges dropped because while conservatorship and the
family saying, hey, we'll take care of our own hair,
he wasn't a burghlar. No, this is a separate thing,
(05:57):
a separate thing.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Now, the LAPD did say crime in Encino is actually
down year over year, and we talked before about this.
The idea that Crime statistics tell you one thing, but
public sentiment will tell you something very different. It's one
thing to say crime statistics are down, the number of
break ins are down, but when something like this gathers momentum,
(06:22):
it's it's hard to ignore public sentiment or public fear,
if that's the right term to use. There was also
a story out of Encino. A fourteen year old boy.
Fourteen year old boy is being held on suspicion of
burglarizing a home in Encino. Why because of the bullet
hole in the kid. This fourteen year old was shot
(06:44):
and wounded by the homeowner during an early morning confrontation.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
They're in Encino.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
The teenager was picked up by police after mom reported
that the fourteen year old had been shot and wounded
in a drive by shooting in South la on the seventeenth.
Detectives said they were a little bit suspicious of the story.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
Oh, they also.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Happened to find a stolen car nearby with a bunch
of blood inside that matched the description of the getaway
car from the Encino case. From the home invasion, which
had happened less than an hour earlier about five in
the morning. This homeowner and Encino woke up to the
sound of something breaking downstairs from his bedroom, moved his
(07:26):
family into a safe room, armed himself with a handgun,
shouted a warning, fired two shots when he saw the
figure wearing dark clothes advance upstairs holding what he described
as a samurai sword, and Mom said, the kid was
shot in a drive bar.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
I'm a big fan of samurai swords making their way
into news items.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
It happens.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
It's rare, but it does happen, to which we said, yes,
we've had this conversation before because you and years ago
when we were doing our show from the other room
said how does this happen? How do people lose up
samurai swords? Because it was the same thought process. I
love it when a sword makes its way into a
news story. And Nick, our producer at the time, says,
(08:14):
I have one in my car, and he went down
and he got his samurai sword that he keeps in
his car.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
So this is something.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
That people do have and from time to time they
travel with it, and sometimes it makes its way into the.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
Police blotter and sometimes they travel Oh wait, was it
Nick or was it Oscar? It was I'm pretty sure
it was Nick. Remember he cut himself with.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
It, right, But Nick would cut himself with a spoon.
That kid was so disaster inclined up.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
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that's a long way to. Fall that's a long way to.
Fall The Ninth circus it has ruled in favor of
The Second amendment and against The state Of. California we'll
tell you about this ruling for ammunition sales when we come.
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there's a lot of money there and the people whose
homes burned are asking the question of where did all
(11:53):
of that?
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Speaker 1 (11:55):
BOTTOM a blow To california's pushback when it comes to
gun control restrictions are. Yeah both The Ninth Circuit court
Of appeals and THE Us Supreme court have significantly restricted
gun control measures in the last, decade And california has
obviously been trying to push Back they did so with
(12:18):
a twenty sixteen ballot measure that was meant to Strengthen
california's already very stringent gun. Laws, well, today The Ninth
Circuit court Of appeals says That california's policy of background
checks for bullet buyers violates The, constitution violates That Second.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
Amendment it's a. Blow it is definitely a blow To.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
California, Listen it's not a giant hurdle in terms of
time or. Anything The department Of justice for The State
bureau Of firearms says that the background check FROM ammo
purchase not almost ninety percent of the, time takes less
than three. Minutes that's not the. Issue the time of
(13:01):
processing is not the. Issue the question is IF, i
as a lawful resident of The state Of, california lawful gun,
Owner Federal firearms certificate, holder purchased the weapon, officially, legally.
Etc you can't just have a gun like this without
(13:25):
having the appropriate stuff that goes with, it which is.
Ammunition so why does the process have to continue for
purchase of ammunition If i've already gone through the background
checks to have the weapon in the first.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
Place The.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Ninth Circuit court basically looked at the twenty twenty two
decision from The Supreme court that limits gun control measures
passed by individual states and said that those laws have
to be consistent with the nation's historical tradition when it
comes to firearm. Regulation and they said that there was
a among other, things The reconstruction, era the loyalty oaths
(14:05):
That americans had to go through before they were required
to buy.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
Guns and the judge.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Disagreed judge, said the vast majority of checks cost a
dollar imposed less than a minute of. Delay the majority
has broken with our precedent and flouted The Supreme court's.
Guidance that was from the dissent on this. Again it's
a three judge. Panel two judges in favor and won.
Against all three of them were appointed By republican, presidents
(14:33):
which is unusual for a three judge panel to be
picked at random out of The Ninth circuit and to
have three conservative justices.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
There the State Gavin newsom had come out.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
And said that this is a bad idea basically that
they have been that was imposed in the first place
to try to prevent gun, violence and it was born
out of if you remember the attack on that holiday
party in Sam. Bernadine but there's nothing that this law
(15:05):
would have prevented them from. Doing that's WHAT i don't
quite understand about knee jerk reaction laws when it comes
to when it comes to, weapons specifically. Guns In, california
you can pass a law that sets. It, clearly we
did passed a law that sets up a background check
for ammunition. Purchases but if it's borne out of something
(15:25):
that you say it would have, prevented when it wouldn't
have prevented. It they could have gone through the same
background checks and purchased all the ammunition that they wanted
and done the same.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
Thing throw up another another, layer another, hurdle.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Right which is what the court is saying is you
can't just do that to throw up another. Hurdle it
goes against The Supreme court decisions and.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Precedent coming up, next they are still discovering bodies In.
Altadena what that fire was six months? Ago also one
hundred million raised for fire. Recovery where is that money going?
Still as? Well thank The Lord. Jesus gentle parenting is
going away. Now it's f round and find out.
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Night about fifty people got pushed out of the.
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Area some veterans In florida are speaking out against the
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There two hundred veterans signed an open letter that opposed
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Com Katherine olcintara was one of the people evacuated from
her home In altadena during the firestorm that erupted there In,
january And catherine says she remembers seeing her longtime neighbor
returning home across the street as she was. Leaving she
assumed he'd come back to grab the, pets grab some, documents,
pictures what have, you and then get the hell out of.
(17:54):
There and she, SAYS i remember hearing the dogs barking.
Hysterically did he try to save the? House did he pass?
OUT i can't believe they just found his body, now
like six months. Later, yes they are still discovering bodies In.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
Alta. Dina part of the issue was that.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
One Francisco espinosa's house was one of the uncleared. Lots
there had been a lot that had been, cleared and
obviously that's going to allow first responders to find human.
Remains but this was one of the few that had
not been cleared too.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
Well and it hadn't been cleared that.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Night this neighborhood received the most delayed evacuation. Orders electronic
alerts went out to his section Of West altadena just
before six am On january, eighth almost twelve hours after
the fire.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Started, NOW i live in this.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Area this happened a couple canyons over from WHERE i,
live and my power was out that. Night it went
out at ABOUT i want to say six pm ish
the night of the. Fire when the fire, STARTED i
had No, TWITTER i had no, nothing, nothing No Wi,
(19:07):
fi so no. ALERTS i didn't know there was a
fire In. ALTADENA i got a text message from a
friend In Orange county said are you close to this
fire In? Altadena AND i said? WHAT i had been
watching something streaming THAT i had. DOWNLOADED i had no.
Idea there was no way to let people know that
their fire had started in that it was eating up
(19:28):
homes and it was moving crazy, fast and in the
neighborhood where that, happened it was the same. Situation there
was just no way to know by the time the
evacuation orders went. Out by the TIME i saw there
were evacuation. ORDERS i was In Orange. COUNTY i mean
it was the next, day same thing with this neighborhood
where the homes were actually.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
Burning there are, PEOPLE i mean the idea of a
delayed evacuation. Orders there are people who said that they
didn't have enough time to get out when the evacuation
order did. Come, literally according to Al, kantara her roof
was already on.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
Fire, see we.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
Don't have landlines. Anymore if the powers, out we don't
have these phones were so attached to getting all our
information from at least not Through Wi. Fi we don't
have the old fire departments running around the block with
the sirens.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
On they're. Busy you don't talk to your.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
NEIGHBORS i, mean, really we're kind of in a blackout
when there's a.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
Blackout, YEAH i don't.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
Know this is not an indictment that the people who
are going to look at Whether La county needed to
do more to warn people that. NIGHT i mean that
kind of investigation still in the. Process it looks pretty
clear that that should have happened to it somehow much
faster than it.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Did we talk about sirens in places Like hawaii or
what have, you a tsunami sirens we're going to need
sirens for wildfire interface, neighborhoods wild land interface, neighborhoods because
we when the parent goes, out how are we supposed
to know that the place is? Evacuated, yeah and if
(21:08):
you have AN am, radio, great but who's, listened who's
gathered around THE am?
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Radio this is also this specifically One Francisco espinosa and
his body being, found or at least the body that
was found in his property seems to be one of
those very rare occasions where outside of somebody seeing going
him going back into the, home nobody knew what happened to,
him and he didn't have any living family, members they,
Believe so it took Until may until a neighbor actually
(21:35):
filed a missing person's, report and that prompted that prompted
first responders to go.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Back in and to actually look for the.
Speaker 4 (21:43):
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Speaker 1 (21:49):
Forty we do have some parenting to get to sans justin,
unfortunately but gentle parenting seems to be on the way
out and f.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
Around and find out has.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
ARRIVED i feel like f round and find out is passe,
now just much like the word passe is. PASSE i
feel like there's probably some sort of new term for
f around and find out that we don't even know about.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
Yet we're not cool. Enough we are, NOT i, mean
we are.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
NOT i know you've heard this story about the guy
here In burbank who was the sex.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
Offender, yeah but do you know what he was? Doing?
NO i meant to click on, it and THEN i.
Didn't let me be the one who shares this information With,
okay SHOULD i sit?
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Down officers Arrested Calise crowder thirty eight years old just this.
Week he's a registered sex. Offender he's on. Parole he
has a history of arrests for lude conduct Throughout glendale
And burbank over the.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
Last four or five.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
YEARS a few years, ago he was arrested In glendale
after he allegedly peeped into a family's. Home and, now
but in this, case he was crouching down behind women and,
sniffing sniffing where right there on the double hands the?
Speaker 1 (23:15):
Butt, yep crouch there's a joke, here crouching something, hidden
some hidden.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
Smell. CROUCHING i don't. KNOW i gotta workshop at.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
You.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
Know conway lives. Here what does that? MEAN i don't.
Speaker 6 (23:29):
Know every time there's some bad that happens In, BURBANK
i think of it happening To. Conway like this, Guy
Like conway's just like outliving his, life and this guy's like,
crouching Like conway's at the grocery stories.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
Picking up some ho hose or, something and like this
guy is there crouching Behind conway sniffing his.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
Bum but you're doing Bub, yeah what's going on back? There? Bob, Hey?
Bob what's going on back? There how's the weather back?
Speaker 1 (23:54):
There like literally anything could happen that makes the news In,
burbank AND i see it happening To.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
Conway that's. Funny that's a good way to look at.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
IT i suppose we were talking about this fire aid
concert that took place back In January Stevie wonder.
Speaker 7 (24:09):
And sting one of the musical matchups that they had
on stage and raised about one hundred million, dollars and
a lot of the people who lost homes in The
palisades or In altadena had been asking.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
Where did all of that money? Go and it's a legitimate.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
Question the fire aid, benefit they, said raised about one
hundred million dollars for wildlife. Relief and six months after the,
fires The La times has gone through and other organizations
are asking. Questions but The Other times did contact some
of the organizations that got those, funds nonprofits in food
(24:46):
aid and housing and mental, health childcare and things like
ecological resistance or, resilience and how fire aid became a
lifeline for some of the people but not all of
the P and in this building we have people who
lost homes or whose homes were severely damaged in some,
(25:10):
cases or just lost the homes outright as a result of,
this and even they are asking where the hell is
all this money? Now The La Regional Food bank got
a million dollars right off the first tranch of grants
that went, out and then they got about a quarter
million dollars in the second. One some of that money
went to pay extra drivers and forklift operators and warehouse
(25:32):
workers to help process and distribute donations after a. Fire
after the, FIRES i should, say another, Group Inclusive, action
distributed money to landscapers and street vendors and other outdoor
workers who lost jobs or homes in the. Fire The Change,
reaction a direct aid, group got two million dollars from
(25:55):
the first round of grants and said that the funds
gave out twenty five hundred recipients that got to fifteen
thousand dollars for immediate things like rent and transportation. Needs,
now the quick math on, this if you just looked
at the number of homes that were lost eighteen thousand
(26:16):
and divided that into one hundred, million you'd come up
with about fifty five hundred dollars per household if the
money went.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
Directly to those people who just lost.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
Homes, obviously there are more people than that that were
impacted by all of, this because you talk about the businesses.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
That were, lost the.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
Jobs that were lost as a results of those homes
that no longer. Stand so it's hard to figure out
exactly how much people should have. Gotten but there are
people who have not seen a dime of all of
that money that was supposed to go to help.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
Them is it because you have to reach out through
these various different organizations that partnered with Fire.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
Aid, yes you have to, know oh where to.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Look and that's one of the problems is they're saying
that the next some of that original money went to
outreach to try to be able to connect those people
who needed the services with the, services.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
Right because in you'd think that places like especially The,
palisades there's such a good information tree that exists there
with people talking to each other about what's what and
how you got to do this and what you're going
through and it's a very small town feel. There like
you Mentioned Change, reaction that direct aid group got two.
(27:37):
Million Elizabeth jackson is the owner was the owner Of White,
lotus a workout studio in The. Palisades she had fourteen.
Employees she lost both her home and her. Business she,
said we lost every single client at the studio because
our clients lost their.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
Homes they're all starting their lives.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
Over through a, client A White lotus. Regular elizabeth got
in touch With Change, reaction which use some of its
fire aids to give her money to give to all
the staffers one thousand dollars to each staffer and replace
some fire damaged equipment so she could reopen her business
in a smaller space. Nearby and that's exactly what it's
(28:16):
supposed to.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
Do right?
Speaker 2 (28:18):
There are you ask you know is connecting with the
service as part of the. Problem Jewish Family services got
a quarter million dollar grant From Fire aidle most of,
IT i should say not, solely but most of it
for comprehensive disaster case, management which is helping people deal
with the bureaucracy of municipal, government emergency management from the,
(28:42):
state The Federal Emergency Management, agency BECAUSE i mean taking
this on by, yourself or if you have a small,
family or if your family has never had to deal
with anything like this, before it can be pretty. Overwhelming
so there are services in, place but there are. Questions Kevin,
kylie congressman A Northern, california is asking how come more
(29:03):
of this money hasn't directly gone to some of the
people affected by the, fires AND i think, nothing there's
no evidence that it's, nefarious but it is you that
much money going through nonprofits first is frustrating for a
lot of.
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