EL SEGUNDO HERALD March 17, 2016 Page 3 Police Alert Auto Burglary Suspects Arrested held on $20,000 bail. The El Segundo Police Department is asking all residents and businesses that have video surveillance systems to register their cameras through the El Segundo Police Department’s “SAFECAM” (private cameras for public safety) program. You can access this program through www.elsegundopd.org. If anyone has information related to these arrests or know of similar crimes, please contact Paul Saldana at (310) 524-2284 or psaldana@elsegundo.org • School Spotlight City of El Segundo is now hiring for part-time positions Drivers starting at $15.93/hour Lifeguards starting at $12.45/hour Visit www.elsegundo.org and click on City Jobs, Part-Time Opportunities for more information or call (310) 524-2700 An Art Experience for the Entire El Segundo Family to Enjoy By Cece Jane Stewart, a junior at El Segundo High School On a recent Sunday afternoon, my mom and I were enjoying a stroll down Main Street when we had the pleasure of coming across Family Day at ESMoA, a contemporary art museum and art laboratory. As we entered the museum, a cluster of excited children were gathered around a live and colorful art creation. They were creating their utopian city as part of ESMoA’s current “experience” entitled PLAN, which will run until May 22. PLAN, was created in collaboration with The Wende Museum and is co-curated by Bernhard Zünkeler and Dr. Joes Segal, Chief Curator. A swirl of colors greeted us from the children’s PLAN, as excited chatter echoed through the high ceilings. As we wandered past the children and into the stark white space, the walls were filled with a fascinating array of art installments, which the docent explained were meant to represent “how an artist plans versus how an administrator plans.” Or as ESMOA’s literature phrases it “what is the point of making plans if the future is uncertain? By what process do we lay out a day’s, a month’s, or a year’s agenda even while knowing that mere coincidence may blow it apart like dandelion seeds in the breeze?” PLAN juxtaposes artworks and artifacts from the West and Eastern Europe. On display is art by: Egon Schiele, Odilon Redon, Stephan Balkenhol, Camille Pissaro, Gajin Fujita, Cornelius Voelker and others. Each piece represents the idea of calculated planning versus the creative reality that seldom coincides with the original plans. I particularly enjoyed the original entrance lettering to the London headquarters of now closed Lehman Brothers; the two-foot high letters are meant to illustrate “the makings of eternity, but history shows that eternity proves all future plans wrong.” The back wall with sky high ceilings display a huge angel entitled Unity which symbolizes Los Angeles, by artists Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid. This artwork was formerly displayed in the lobby of the US Bank Tower in Downtown Los Angeles, one Dani Alnasir Surveillance Video Credited For Assisting Police In Arrests December of 2015 and January of 2016, close to twenty auto burglaries were committed by Dani Alnasir and Christina Lagrassa in the residential areas of El Segundo. These crimes were recently solved with the assistance of video surveillance cameras that were installed at an apartment complex. During one of their burglaries, surveillance video captured the pair breaking into a car. Police were able to obtain the video and capture screenshots that were sent to surrounding law enforcement agencies to assist us with identification. On February 9, 2016, El Segundo Detectives served a search warrant at Lagrassa’s home in Lawndale after receiving information from the Culver City Police Department. This information along with the surveillance video led to her arrest along with recovering stolen property inside her home connected to several El Segundo auto burglaries. Lagrassa was booked into the El Segundo Police jail for 459 PC- Burglary and held on $20,000 bail. Nine days later, El Segundo Detectives developed information on the identity of the male suspect. After comparing this information to the surveillance video footage, detectives identified the suspect as Dani Alnasir. Detectives connected Lagrassa and Alnasir through additional video surveillance footage while they were buying clothing at a local retail store using a stolen credit card taken during an El Segundo auto burglary. Detectives linked this fraudulent purchase to a separate series of auto burglaries that also occurred in January. On March 8, 2016, Detectives located and arrested Alnasir outside his home in Lawndale. He was booked into the El Segundo Police jail for 459 PC- Burglary and was held on $20,000 bail. On the same day, Detectives revisited Lagrassa at her home in Lawndale who was currently out of custody awaiting trial. After questioning, Lagrassa was arrested and booked into the El Segundo Police jail for 484e (A) PC-Fraudulently using an access card and was See Spotlight, page 15 Christina LaGrassa
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