California Briefs
Authorities say a Southern California youth pastor has been arrested on suspicion of sexually assaulting children over nearly two decades.
The Press-Enterprise reports Malo Victor Monteiro was arrested Friday in Riverside County, east of Los Angeles. The 45-year-old could face charges including intent to commit rape, mayhem or sodomy, lewd and lascivious acts on a child and sexual penetration by force. It wasn’t immediately known if he has an attorney.
The sheriff’s department says deputies were alerted in June to alleged lewd acts by Monteiro. Officials say detectives determined that several juveniles were allegedly sexually assaulted between 1999 and 2017.
The name of the church where Monteiro worked was not disclosed.
The sheriff’s department spelled his name as Montiero, but jail records listed him as Monteiro. Los AnGeLes
A property touted as the finest undeveloped plot of land in all of Los Angeles is hitting the market with the most expensive listing in the history of the city: $1 billion.
The Los Angeles Times reports the parcel, branded as “The Mountain,” sits at the highest point in the 90210 ZIP code.
Listing agent Aaron Kirman calls it “the crown jewel of Beverly Hills.” Views stretch from downtown Los Angeles to Catalina Island, and the closest neighbor is half a mile away. Disneyland, at roughly 0.13 square miles (0.34 square kilometers), is a little more than half the size of the property.
The current owner of the mountaintop is Secured Capital Property, according to Ronald Richards, an attorney and spokesman for the company.
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A store worker struck and killed by an officer’s bullet during a police gunbattle with a suspect outside a Trader Joe’s supermarket has been memorialized in Los Angeles.
Family, friends and hundreds of community members turned out Sunday for the funeral of Melyda Corado.
Mourners remembered the 27-year-old for her strong work ethic and sharp sense of humor.
Corado’s brother, Albert, said on Twitter the family is heartbroken but grateful for the public’s support.
Corado was killed July 21 as police traded gunfire with a suspect who then took hostages inside the store. Police say Gene Atkins previously shot his grandmother and kidnapped his girlfriend.
Atkins is charged with murder and attempted murder.
Trader Joe’s workers around the country wore red shirts and ribbons Saturday in remembrance of Corado.
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Jonah Hill and Emma Stone are starring in a new TV series that tackles sensitive issues of mental illness and the pharmaceutical industry.
The Netflix series, a black comedy titled “Maniac,” follows two participants of a murky latestage pharmaceutical drug trial.
Hill plays a man diagnosed with schizophrenia, while Stone plays a woman fixated on broken relationships.
Both sign up to test a mysterious pill believed to cure anything about the mind, but things do not go as planned.
Cindy Holland, vice president of Netflix original series, announced its debut date, Sept. 21, during a panel at the Television Critics Association’s summer meeting.
Holland called “Maniac” a “thought-provoking, fever dream of a show.”
The actors starred opposite each other in the 2007 teen comedy “Superbad.”
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Authorities say a man was killed when the car he was driving plunged more than 275 feet (84 meters) over a coastal California cliff.
Officials tell KEYT-TV it appears the sedan failed to negotiate a sharp turn along Highway 1 near Big Sur on Saturday.
The California Highway Patrol says a helicopter was called to assist in the initial search but it was canceled because of heavy fog. Crews were able to reach the wreckage from the beach below.
The coroner’s office will identify the victim.
The news station says the crash happened just a few miles from the area where an Oregon woman survived for nearly a week after her car went over the cliff earlier this month. coronA
Authorities say the body of an infant has been found along a Southern California highway.
Police were called after someone made the gruesome discovery Friday afternoon near Interstate 15 in Corona, east of Los Angeles.
Officers determined the baby was dead and called coroner’s investigators. The cause of death is under investigation. It wasn’t immediately clear how old the child was.
KABC-TV reports Sunday that detectives are asking for the public’s help as they investigate who the baby belonged to. Los AnGeLes
AP) — Sheriff’s officials say two people were killed and four others wounded in a shooting outside a South Los Angeles liquor store. Investigators are searching for three suspects who fled in a dark-colored sedan Saturday night.
Deputy Tracy Koerner says two men were hit by gunfire as they exited the store. One died at the scene and other at a hospital.
City News Service reports Sunday that the condition of those wounded wasn’t immediately known. cAMArILLo
The average price of regular-grade gasoline in the U.S. fell 3 cents over the past two weeks to $2.91.
Industry analyst Trilby Lundberg of the Lundberg Survey said Sunday that the average price is 59 cents higher than it was one year ago.
Lundberg says the drop comes mostly from lower crude oil prices and generally weak demand for gas across the U.S.
The highest average price in the contiguous 48 states was $3.71 in the San Francisco Bay Area. The lowest was $2.50 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
The U.S. average diesel price is $3.17, also down 3 cents.
—The Associated Press