A man has been arrested for allegedly vandalizing City Hall on New Year\u2019s Day, police said Saturday.<\/p>\n
Officers from the Los Angeles Police Department\u2019s Security Services Division responded at approximately 6:30 p.m. Thursday to reports of extensive damage to both the interior and exterior of City Hall, according to an LAPD statement.<\/p>\n
Police said the suspect gained entry through the First Street entrance by breaking a locked glass door, \u201cand proceeded to the third floor, where multiple areas \u2014 including the hallway and rotunda \u2014 were vandalized.\u201d<\/p>\n
The suspect, identified as Jose Gonzalez Chavez, then left the facility and was taken into custody without incident, police added.<\/p>\n
Chavez was arrested on suspicion of felony vandalism.<\/p>\n
Anyone with information regarding the alleged crime was urged to call LAPD Central Station detectives at 213-833-3750 or, during non-business hours or weekends, at 877-527-3247. Callers who wish to remain anonymous may call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 or visit lacrimestoppers.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been arrested for allegedly vandalizing City Hall on New Year\u2019s Day, police said Saturday. Officers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31138,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[1051,683,2040,1409,24771,48,52,51,47,50,49,2131,63054],"class_list":["post-119031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-allegedly","tag-angeles","tag-arrested","tag-city","tag-hall","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-suspect","tag-vandalizing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}