AND lAwNDAle News The Weekly Newspaper of Lawndale Herald Publications - Inglewood, Hawthorne, Lawndale, El Segundo, Torrance & Manhattan Beach Community Newspapers Since 1911 - Circulation 30,000 - Readership 60,000 (310) 322-1830 - July 11, 2013 Inside Hosts Students for Bradley West TourLAX Community Relations Division This Issue Calendar...............................2 Classifieds ...........................2 Food.......................................5 Hawthorne Happenings......3 Legals ................................6,8 One week after the public LAX Appreciation Day Preview of the New Tom Bradley International Terminal, LAX Community Relations hosted 32 students to a special architectural tour of the facility. Principal Public Relations Representative Harold Johnson invited the Zeta Rho Foundation, to bring its students to LAX. The foundation has an eight-month science, technology, engineering, and math disciplines and careers mentoring program for middle school students. During the month of June the program focused on architecture. Johnson introduced the group to Architect Kevin Handley of Fentress Architects who gave an introduction to the features of the building. At the Bradley West construction site, Michael Gloria, assistant safety manager for Walsh Austin Joint Venture took the students and chaperones for a tour through the site pointing out the architectural features. Seen here: Michael Gloria, assistant safety manager for Walsh Austin Joint Venture wearing hard hat. Photo courtesy of the Los Angeles World Airports. Police Report......................3 Police Officer Killed in Motorcycle Accident Courtesy of involving law enforcement agencies from At this difficult time, the Hawthorne Police Politically Speaking...........7 Hawthorne across the region. Anyone close to Leonard Department is doing everything in its power Police knew about his enthusiasm for motorcycles. to comfort and support Sergeant Luna’s Department The appointment to the Traffic Bureau was family and friends. We are supported in The Hawthorne a highlight for him, as it offered him the this endeavor by our partnering Los Angeles Sports ...................................4 Police Department opportunity to attend a police motorcycle County police and fire agencies, all who have is saddened to training course, where he finished at the extended their resources to our Department confirm that Sgt. top of his class. at this difficult time. We are grateful and Leonard Luna passed In addition to his primary assignments, appreciative for their assistance and support, away following a Sergeant Luna also served as a member of and ask that the community keep Leonard’s motorcycle accident the Department’s SWAT team for two and family and friends in their thoughts. Funeral on Monday, July 8. The accident occurred a half years, beginning in October of 2007. services are pending. • on the 105 Freeway, near the Long Beach Boulevard off ramp, and is under investigation Weekend family, and friends. The family has requested A Letter to the Communityby the California Highway Patrol. Sgt. Lunais survived by his parents, a brother, extended Forecast privacy at this time. our Community actions. Unfortunately, in the midst of thislegitimate findings and conduct appropriateTo All the Members ofSergeant Luna grew up in the South Bay, graduating from high school in the City of A video-taped event captured this past social media response, fallacies are being Torrance. He worked in the hotel industry weekend, depicting an arrest and subsequent perpetuated and outright criminal threats while pursuing his wish to become a police shooting of the arrestee’s dog by a Police are being made. In the public forum of Friday officer. He was hired by the Hawthorne Officer, has drawn significant notoriety. various websites, Department employees Partly police recruit, and graduated from the Los the Rottweiler dog “Max” and for those shot. This has led to criminal threats ofhave been mis-identified as the officer whoThis Department truly feels in the loss ofPolice Department in April of 2003 as a Cloudy Angeles County Sheriff’s Academy in August impacted by such. We, as a Department, as harm directed not only at City employees, that same year. animal owners ourselves, and the Officer but also at similarly-named public citizens 72˚/65˚ Sergeant Luna worked as a police officer directly involved himself, all relate and who just happen to live and work in our in the Department’s Patrol Bureau until empathize in this. This connection is surrounding region. This is intrinsically January of 2006. He tested for the position equally rooted in our own canine programs wrong in every way and unfairly detracts Saturday of detective, and based on his skill level and our Department maintains in bolstering from the others who have professionally Partly position. As a detective, Sergeant Luna was diverse uses range from not only patrol communicated with us.I wish to reassure all that this matter ispublic service and outreach. Our owndedication to duty, earned appointment to that Cloudy assigned to juvenile investigations, where and detection dogs, but one of the only being addressed in the most appropriate 73˚/65˚ and juvenile related crimes on a daily basis. in the country. all to look no farther than into our ownLaw Enforcement-hosted “Service” dogsmanner demanded and afforded. I ask forhe dealt with child abuse, child predators, In January of 2010, Leonard tested and In turn, social media responses have Community for the true reality of our Sunday He was immediately assigned to the Patrol unfortunately some have been direct threats daily in safeguarding our citizens. Thenot only contained writer opinion butpartnerships and efforts that we applysuccessfully promoted to the rank of sergeant. Partly 2013, Sergeant Luna was appointed as the is that our current investigation, and the accountable to its constituents and to ourHawthorne Police Department will beof harm to our employees. The realityBureau as a field sergeant. In January of Cloudy Department’s Traffic Bureau commander. inherent rights afforded to respective parties, actions please allow us to fulfill such. We 76˚/66˚ directing the daily traffic enforcement activities publish or expound upon. Information and impact suffered by all who have witnessedtruly sympathize with the feelings andprudently govern what we can and cannotThere, he assumed the responsibilities of of the Department, and took an active role evidence is continuously being garnered this incident. in the California Office of Traffic Safety’s in order to allow us to properly determine - Robert Fager, Chief Of Police Avoid program, a DUI enforcement detail
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