Detectives got a tip from a victim. While they were watching the suspect, he allegedly stole a package from a home.
A look at a few of this week's most interesting police, fire and courtroom incidents near Palos Verdes.
DNA evidence linked the registered offender to a long-unsolved killing that happened in Palos Verdes Estates more than 37 years ago.
The man was sentenced to 28 years to life in prison for the murder of a victim whose body was found in a flaming SUV.
A look at a few of this week's most interesting police, fire and courtroom incidents across the Palos Verdes area.
The San Pedro man left a voicemail "laced with expletives and epithets" and used the words "dead" & "kill," the U.S. Attorney's Office said.
The flames briefly threatened a nearby house.
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Firefighters found the man in critical condition aboard a 70-foot yacht that had caught fire.
The suspect allegedly drove up to the victim as she walked to school, exited his vehicle and pointed a gun at the victim, prosecutors said.
The suspect was allegedly holding a handgun at the time of the attempted abduction of a middle school student
He believed his wife was having an affair, the prosecutor said.
The former reverend had already been named in a 2015 child sexual abuse lawsuit, according to reports.
The alleged incident occurred Monday morning at a location near a Rancho Palos Verdes school.
The 19-year-old went outside to meet up with friends when he was shot, police said.
Forty firefighters knocked down the flames at the vacant commercial building.
The quarter-acre brush fire briefly threatened homes in the area.
The father was convicted of murder after the young girl took a plunge over a 120-foot cliff nearly 17 years ago.
The three-vehicle Torrance collision led to an arrest.
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The defendant allegedly shot and killed five people near an off ramp of the 405 Freeway in Long Beach.
The 65-year-old was charged with capital murder for the killing of a pregnant 20-year-old woman found on a beach in Palos Verdes Estates.
The defendant allegedly used that key to break into the family's house and burglarize it along with his accomplice.
He was barricaded in a residence for more than six hours before being arrested by a sheriff's SWAT team.
The victim remains hospitalized and in critical condition from the August 30 collision.
The pilot was injured and taken to the hospital.
After allegedly jotting a nasty expletive, the Pieology employee is now out of a job.
The victim was walking down the street when an unknown number of suspects got out of a vehicle and attacked him, police said.
The 73-year-old was found tethered while aloft to a sailboat's rigging at a Wilmington marina boat slip, authorities said.
While attempting to lower the man to the boat's deck, firefighters determined he was dead, authorities said.
Authorities are offering a $25,000 reward for anyone who has information that leads to an arrest.
The suit alleges that the South LA residence has been a "seat of lawlessness" involving drug transactions & violent crimes for two decades.
One of the two suspects was taken into custody.
The junior varsity baseball player was beaten unconscious with bottles and choked, according to sheriff's Capt. Dan Beringer.
Torrance police have set up a perimeter in the area of 182nd Street and Kingsdale Avenue, following a pursuit of a stolen vehicle.
Three children were hospitalized with burn injuries that they suffered in a fire set intentionally at the Wilmington duplex where they live