Altadena Town Council meetings<\/a> over the crime trends law enforcement has observed in the fire area.<\/p>\nLast week, Marquez urged residents to call 911 for emergencies or to call the Sheriff\u2019s Department to report a crime. He also warned residents to watch out for attempted fraud.<\/p>\n
Marquez said legitimate companies are never going to demand payment via Venmo or Zelle.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you have any suspicions you are welcome to call us and you can talk to a deputy to make sure that this is a legitimate business,\u201d Marquez said.<\/p>\n
He said the department had seen \u201ca number of those incidents happen recently.\u201d<\/p>\n
In addition, Marquez said he met with contractors with multiple builds in Altadena who reported minor thefts on a job site of items including building materials and tools. Contractors are not always reporting these thefts, Marquez said, after weighing the hassle of reporting versus moving on with their work.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd the problem with all of that is that if we don\u2019t have the crime stats that we need, we\u2019re fighting for resources, and if my crime stats just look wonderful all the time, then I don\u2019t have the extra resources that I need to solve the problems that we have here,\u201d Marquez said.<\/p>\n
The Altadena Sheriff\u2019s Station has an online tool to report minor crimes<\/a> such as construction material or equipment theft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pasadena NAACP and the Los Angeles County District Attorney\u2019s Office Tuesday, Sept. 22, will be hosting a town…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":471300,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[5759,7,4300,48,52,51,47,137,50,49,100,1977,5760,5761,136],"class_list":["post-471299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-altadena","tag-california","tag-eaton-fire","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-county","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-news","tag-pasadena","tag-san-gabriel-valley","tag-sierra-madre","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471299","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=471299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}