“What we know right now is that the incident occurred here and about 20-30 minutes later, a suspect was detained by citizens,” said Sean Dinse of LAPD’s Topanga Division said. Dinse was ...

L.A. County District Attorney Nathan Hochman Monday will join with local and federal law enforcement officials to announce charges against “a group of people” in a residential looting in Pacific ...

A large, fast-moving and growing brush fire broke out Tuesday afternoon in Pacific Palisades ... other buildings so far with no injury, Los Angeles Police Chief Jim McDonnell told reporters ...

A Pacific Palisades resident on Friday ... someone was arrested at about 4:30 p.m. in the Topanga division of LA, however the LAPD would not confirm the person was arrested for starting the ...

Coverage of the fires ravaging Altadena, Malibu, Pacific Palisades and Pasadena, including stories about the devastation, issues firefighters faced and the weather.

Sean Dinse of the LAPD’s Topanga Division told KTLA 5. The suspect, believed to be in his mid-20s, was armed with a “propane tank, or a… it was a big yellow tank, like a flame-thrower ...

Authorities said there was not enough probable cause to arrest the man on suspicion of arson, but he has been charged with a ...