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International Business Times
10-06-2025
- Politics
- International Business Times
Lucia and Antonia Aguilar: Twin Daughters of Senior LA Official Rick Cole Arrested During ICE Riots for Assaulting Police Office with Deadly Weapon
A senior Los Angeles official has revealed that his daughters were arrested for attacking a police officer with a deadly weapon during the ongoing riots. Rick Cole, the chief deputy controller of Los Angeles, announced at a rally that his twin daughters, Lucia Aguilar and Antonia, both 26 years old, were arrested on Sunday. "I've just seen pictures of my two daughters on a curb in downtown Los Angeles in handcuffs. So I'm going to be figuring out where they are so I can go bail them out," Cole, a former Pasadena mayor, told protesters outside a hotel in the city where there had been ICE raids earlier that day. Arrested for Attacking Cops Lucia and Antonia Aguilar were arrested after violence that saw rocks and other things thrown from a bridge into police vehicles on the 101 Freeway below, according to LA Sheriff's Department records obtained by the Daily Mail. They were taken into custody at around 7 p.m. on Sunday. No details on why the twin sisters were arrested have yet been released. Meanwhile, disturbing footage has surfaced showing an anti-ICE activist in Los Angeles blatantly handing out tactical gear to masked protesters as the violence escalates. On Monday afternoon, the unidentified man was seen on camera distributing what appeared to be gas masks and riot shields to the throng from the rear of a pickup truck, which was only a short distance from federal buildings in the downtown area. The video captured by Fox11 showed scores of rioters rushing towards the truck to grab the masks, which were marked with the brand name "bionic shield." "This is a worrying sight," Fox11 anchor Elex Michaelson reacted to the clip. "This is troublemakers. You don't put on a mask unless you have a plan of not wanting somebody to see your face. This is concerning." LA Riots Escalate President Donald Trump has dispatched about 700 Marines and an additional 2,000 members of the National Guard to keep the peace in Los Angeles as the disturbance enters its fifth day. Anti-ICE agitators were seen throwing rocks and cement at federal agents, setting cars on fire, and storming highways. The FBI claimed to be searching for a masked brute in one especially unsettling scenario. The man was identified as 40-year-old Elpidio Reyna, who was seen on camera throwing bricks at federal law enforcement officers as they passed. "WANTED: Elpidio Reyna can run, but he can't hide. He threw rocks at federal officers leaving a command post in Paramount on Saturday, a brazen attack caught on film and that could have resulted in deaths," Essayli, the top prosecutor in the Central District of California, wrote on X. The suspect was reportedly seen wearing a green and orange Los Angeles Lakers cap and a face mask while being filmed smashing cinder blocks into smaller chunks and throwing them at law enforcement officers. This was just one of many disturbing scenes during the protest, where thousands were captured on video torching self-driving WAYMO vehicles, damaging property, wielding hammers, and waving Mexican flags. The U.S. attorney said that Reyna has been charged with assaulting a federal officer and could be sentenced to up to eight years in prison if found guilty. An FBI spokesperson from the Los Angeles field office confirmed that Reyna remains at large and has not been arrested yet. "We're actively seeking his whereabouts," the spokesperson told The Post. "Our investigation is ongoing." "If you assault a police officer, if you rob a store, if you loot, if you spit on a police officer, we're coming after you."
Yahoo
21-05-2025
- Yahoo
LA County Deputies Burn Out as Overtime Spending Soars
LA County sheriff's deputies are stretched thin, and the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department is on track to spend over $500 million in overtime this year. In the last fiscal year alone, the LA Sheriff's Department spent $458 million on overtime. With $131 million already spent in just the first three months of 2025, the department is on pace to break its own record. County data shows that more deputies are leaving the force than being hired, due in large part to the plummet in recruitment during the Covid-19 pandemic – a decline that the agency has yet to recover from. There are currently 1,530 unfilled deputy positions, in addition to a significant number of deputies out on leave. Despite the decrease in filled deputy positions, the job's demands persist. The remaining deputies are picking up the slack, shouldering the workload of the thousands of vacant positions. "I have seen firsthand the physical and mental fatigue our deputy sheriffs are experiencing due to excessive overtime," Rosemead Mayor Margaret Clark said in a concerned letter to the Board of deputies work up to 100 hours of overtime each month–a grueling pace that raises serious safety concerns. The physical exhaustion and mental strain can leave them ill-equipped to make the split-second, life-or-death decisions the job demands. Even those who benefit financially from the overtime admit the toll is too high, and they would rather have a break."It is almost like Los Angeles County is running an experiment to see how far they can push their first responders without catastrophic consequences," Richard Pippin, president of the deputy union, told ABC News. The issue is not primarily about money–deputies got a raise last year and the funds to train new deputies have been approved–but rather a matter of staffing and time. There simply are not enough people or hours in a day to expect peak performance from the existing force.
