🌱 Mystery Safe News + W 5th St Home Invasion Robbery Suspect Arrested

Thanks for hanging out with us at the Los Angeles Daily during what turns out to be a very newsy National Potato Day. (No summer doldrums here!) Here’s what’s on the menu:

• 🗄️ More head scratching as officials open the safes they found lying around
• 🚓 A home invasion robber who was caught in record time by the PD
• 🏨 A previously vetoed Fashion District project that’s being looked at again

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📰 Here are the top stories in Los Angeles today:

1) Mulholland Drive Safe Update: We learned on Thursday that there were actually two “large steel safes found near a scenic overlook off Mulholland Drive in the Hollywood Hills.” According to the LAPD, they are gun safes that appeared to have been tampered with. The smaller safe turned out to be empty. The “larger 600-pound safe” contained an empty gun rack. The PD is now looking for the owners. (NBC)

2) There was a home invasion robbery on Wednesday around 2:30 p.m. in the 6600 block of West 5th Street. A 71-year-old woman was pistol-whipped. A few short hours later, we learned that the police arrested a 31-year-old suspect “in the 1200 block of Meadowbrook Avenue.” Residents are calling “for change in a city where violent crime is skyrocketing and spreading to neighborhoods that rarely had a problem with serious crime in the past.” (Patch)

3) The Fashion District’s City Market project is on again. We learned on Thursday that the project, which was announced a decade ago, approved in 2018, and vetoed in 2020 by Mayor Eric Garcetti, is once again moving forward. It “would transform a former produce wholesale center bounded by 9th, 11th, San Pedro, and San Julian Streets into a mixed-use, high-rise complex” with “up to 948 residential units, a 210-room hotel, a 300,000-square-foot educational institution, and 225,000 square feet of commercial space.” Now, Kevin de Leon says that the project will “help the city of Los Angeles meet its targets under the Regional Housing Needs Assessment.” That said, there is no timeline in play for a project that was to take 25 years to realize. (Urbanize)

4) On May 26, we first discussed dancers at the Star Garden Topless Dive Bar forming a union. On Wednesday, we learned that they “submitted a petition with the federal government, beginning a process that could see them represented by performers union Actors' Equity.” While dancers assert they like what they do, they “want health insurance and other benefits, like workers' compensation. They need protection from sexual harassment, discrimination and unjust terminations.” (Patch, Yahoo!)

5) Mark your calendars! It’s chicken Tenderfest on Saturday at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts. Organizers “collaborated with the world's best chicken spots like Willie Mae's, Raising Canes, Howlin’ Rays, Delilah, Original Dinos Famous Chicken, Daring, and LA’s Go Go Bird.” There’ll also be plant-based tenders. Doors open at noon. (Bucket Listers)

📆 Today in Los Angeles:

• Yoga & Meditation with Master John at the Memorial Branch Library (10 a.m.)
• FREE Summer Of Salsa Concert with La Obsesión and DJ Jimmy Rumba at 501 N Main St (6 p.m.)
• DTLA Whiskey Festival at The Bloc (7 p.m.)
• You're A Good Man Charlie Brown plays at the Los Angeles Music and Art School Courtyard Theater (8 p.m.)
• Peaches And Cream w/Special Guest Ray J at the Globe Theatre (10 p.m.)

📓 From my notebook:

• ⚠️🔥Quail Fire ⚠️🔥 2nd Alarm Brush Fire on Aug. 17. LACoFD water dropping helicopters are on scene of a second alarm brush fire burning near Tapia/Charlie Canyons south of Castaic. The brush fire has burned approximately 20 acres. (Los Angeles County Fire Department via Facebook)
• Although the monkeypox vaccine supply remains low, LA County will begin administering second doses. Residents who received their first dose more than 28 days ago can contact their provider. (County of Los Angeles via Instagram)
• Free Rec Swim is a fun way to practice new skills, be active all while also providing an opportunity to make new friends. Every Body Swims starts September 3, Saturdays from 12:30 - 2 p.m. and 2:30 to 4 p.m. (County of Los Angeles Department of Parks & Recreation via Facebook)
• There is a food distribution even at Elysian Valley Recreation Center on Friday, August 26 at 10 a.m. Register CD 13 residents by calling 213-480-1052 or text 213-805-8012. Help is needed to spread the word (Nextdoor)
• Our Little Holmby-Westwood CA neighbor highly recommends Kameron’s private car service to and from LAX! They have been using him for a while now and just had him pick up their parents from LAX. They had some large suitcases and no way they could use the Uber or Lyft. (Nextdoor)

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You're all caught up for today. See you all tomorrow for another update!

— Sylvia Cochran

About me: Sylvia Cochran works out of sunny Southern California and has been freelance writing full-time since 2005. She loves dogs, cats, books, plays Best Fiends (don't judge), embraces social justice, and tries to live out Micah 6:8.

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