Speaker 1: Something's not right here. Crime is up all over the state,
Speaker 1: the homelessness and the city is out of control.
Speaker 2: The economy is sick, axes.
Speaker 3: Are high, housing is expensive, and businesses are leaving.
Speaker 4: Leaving California means fixing, and John Phillips is just the
Speaker 4: man to leave the charge. It's The Fix California Hour
Speaker 4: with John Phillips and Randy.
Speaker 5: Way and we continue at one oh five in the
Speaker 5: afternoon on The John Phillips Show. Mister Randy Weggs in
Speaker 5: Culver City.
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Speaker 5: It is our pleasure to welcome our next guest to
Speaker 5: the program. He is a candidate for the United States
Speaker 5: House of Representatives to replace Laura Friedman. The seat includes Hollywood, Burbank, Glendale,
Speaker 5: and mid Wilshire. You can follow him on x at
Speaker 5: Scott A. Myers La Scott Alan Myers.
Speaker 1: Welcome.
Speaker 7: Thank you guys, Thank you for having me. That's what
Speaker 7: you look like.
Speaker 5: Huh well, thank you so much for stopping by.
Speaker 1: We appreciate it.
Speaker 5: So let's start out with the new homeless numbers that
Speaker 5: came out that show that the number of people living
Speaker 5: on the streets in Los Angeles is going up, not down,
Speaker 5: despite the fact that we're spending millions and millions and
Speaker 5: millions of dollars on these homeless services and Goos. The
Speaker 5: same thing is happening in Long Beach, the next biggest
Speaker 5: city south of Los Angeles. And you look at other
Speaker 5: parts of the country that see their homeless populations going down.
Speaker 5: If it's going down around the country, one would assume
Speaker 5: that it should be going down here in California. But
Speaker 5: it's not. It's going up. And we spend more on
Speaker 5: the homeless than any other state in the Union. And
Speaker 5: despite the fact that Mayor Bass understands that these numbers
Speaker 5: are going up, as do others on the council and elsewhere,
Speaker 5: instead of saying maybe we should try something different, maybe
Speaker 5: what we're doing isn't working, they say they're going to
Speaker 5: double and triple down on their policies that are failing us.
Speaker 5: Your thoughts.
Speaker 7: I think it was Daniel Patrick moynihan that said, if
Speaker 7: you want to make something worse, throw money at it.
Speaker 7: And this is what we're doing. The other cities aren't
Speaker 7: doing this. What does it matter whether it's forty three
Speaker 7: thousand or forty five thousand or fifty thousand. I mean,
Speaker 7: first of all, the numbers are not reliable anyway. It's
Speaker 7: taken over. They're counted over three nights every February from
Speaker 7: six o'clock to nine o'clock, when people are huddled on
Speaker 7: trains and maybe in underpasses not to be seen. What
Speaker 7: would the count be if it happened today at six o'clock.
Speaker 7: I think we'd be well well over fifty five thousand.
Speaker 7: But it really doesn't matter what the numbers are. Clearly
Speaker 7: it's failing. And what we're doing is we're modifying prior
Speaker 7: policies thinking we're going to get it right. We're going
Speaker 7: to get this this concoction just right, and we're not.
Speaker 7: It's it's clearly, whether it's whether it's ninety five percent
Speaker 7: or ninety eight percent or sixty percent, it's mostly a
Speaker 7: drug problem and a drug tolerance problem. I'm here in Burbank.
Speaker 7: There's not a single encampment in sight why you can't
Speaker 7: dangle a bag of myth from the corner of all
Speaker 7: of an Alameda. If you're hunched over in a fentanyl
Speaker 7: fold outside my office building, the cops are going to
Speaker 7: pick you up and take you somewhere. Mayor Bass drives
Speaker 7: right by these people every single day, every single day,
Speaker 7: she's passing out needles, making it easier passing out meth pipes.
Speaker 7: Making it easier. The word on the street is our
Speaker 7: myth is breaking bad quality math. It's the myth in
Speaker 7: the country, and it's really cheap. And fentanyl is a
Speaker 7: dollar and it's three dollars in Santa Monica and it's
Speaker 7: only about an hour and a half high. So it's
Speaker 7: a drug tolerance problem. Why are we not interdicting the
Speaker 7: drug dealing gangs? You know, that's anyone's guess. You're smart guys.
Speaker 7: I'm a smart guy. We're trying to figure out why
Speaker 7: is she tolerant of this? Why is Nithia? And Nythia
Speaker 7: would be far worse, but why is there such tolerance?
Speaker 7: And all I can think of is it's a system
Speaker 7: of corruption, money laundering in a back door to get
Speaker 7: out the vote, because these people are voting and we
Speaker 7: know how they're voting.
Speaker 5: It seems to me as if and I've lived here
Speaker 5: my entire life, there's always been homeless people in California.
Speaker 5: Our weather is better than other states, and I understand
Speaker 5: that you're just always going to have a certain number
Speaker 5: of people who are dealing with problems and living on
Speaker 5: the streets. But to my eye, it really got worse
Speaker 5: and it really started exploding the moment we started taking
Speaker 5: a permissive attitude about drugs, the moment we said it's
Speaker 5: okay to do drugs in public, it's okay to have
Speaker 5: paraphernalia everywhere. We're not going to put you in jail
Speaker 5: if we catch you with drugs. We're not going to
Speaker 5: force you to go clean and sober. We're not going
Speaker 5: to do all the things that we used to do
Speaker 5: in this state when we would catch someone with drugs.
Speaker 5: We just allowed it to happen, and we convinced ourselves
Speaker 5: that that was the compassionate response to it. The moment
Speaker 5: we decided we were going to move in that direction,
Speaker 5: that's when it started growing exponentially. And that's when we
Speaker 5: lost control of it. And instead of acknowledging the obvious
Speaker 5: what's in front of our faces on a daily basis,
Speaker 5: our elected officials say it's a housing problem, which it's
Speaker 5: clearly not.
Speaker 7: Yeah, well I don't I don't think the public agreed
Speaker 7: to all of this. Of this, Uh, this lacks of
Speaker 7: daisical approach to to drugs. It was it was the
Speaker 7: leaders and this and we the average moderate person. The
Speaker 7: majority of people don't want to see this on their streets.
Speaker 7: They don't want to see it in their neighborhoods. They
Speaker 7: don't want to see it on their playgrounds. It's the
Speaker 7: leaders and the one of the problems in this city,
Speaker 7: this especially this city, is we can't get people like
Speaker 7: Karen Bass, Nathia raman unsses Hugo to stand for for
Speaker 7: five minutes before the press. There's no requirement, there's not
Speaker 7: a requirement for any elective leader in this state to
Speaker 7: meet with the press at any time or the public.
Speaker 7: They can hide, they can play the basement strategy all
Speaker 7: through their all through their tenure, and the press is
Speaker 7: not aggressive. The press s would be knocking on the
Speaker 7: doors of these people. The press should just schedule a
Speaker 7: press conference, but and and see if they show up.
Speaker 7: They don't show up, well that tells you something. But
Speaker 7: we don't have a functional press in this city where
Speaker 7: the La Press Club whatever happened to that. It's now
Speaker 7: just a banquet, an awards dinner, exchanging, you know, exchanging
Speaker 7: certificates and plaques every every year at some dinner. So
Speaker 7: we don't have an aggressive press. We can't get answers
Speaker 7: from Karen Bass if we if she was really required
Speaker 7: to answer the answer questions and the city council was
Speaker 7: required to answer questions we would they would have to
Speaker 7: stand for these policies, and I think people would vote differently,
Speaker 7: and I think it would be just enough to overcome
Speaker 7: our problems. For example, when Ethan Weaver ran against Nathia
Speaker 7: Ramon in twenty twenty four, well, he was leading that night,
Speaker 7: but she eventually won. How much did she win by?
Speaker 7: She won by exactly three hundred and fifty votes, over
Speaker 7: over fifty percent. So it's access to these people. It's
Speaker 7: a weak journalist who don't really know how to ask
Speaker 7: a question, don't know how to follow up, and don't
Speaker 7: realize that they've been head faked until the next morning
Speaker 7: when they wake up and say, gee, I didn't get
Speaker 7: really an answer to that question that I asked.
Speaker 5: We're speaking with Scott Allen Myers, who is a candidate
Speaker 5: for the United States Congress in the Burbank Hollywood area. Scott,
Speaker 5: you're running against incumbent Congresswoman Laura Friedman, who comes from
Speaker 5: the state legislature and the Glendale City Council before that,
Speaker 5: where throughout her entire career she has prided herself on
Speaker 5: being an environmentalist. You look at other elected officials in California,
Speaker 5: from Karen Bass all the way up to Gavin Newsom,
Speaker 5: all of them regard themselves as environmentalists. We now have
Speaker 5: an environmental disaster going on in Boyle Heights that is
Speaker 5: also a public health disaster where we had a fire
Speaker 5: that burned for over a week, dangerous smoke and chemicals
Speaker 5: were being pumped into the air, and the government, led
Speaker 5: by Barbara Ferrer at the La County Department of Public Health,
Speaker 5: went into that neighborhood and told those people that it
Speaker 5: was safe.
Speaker 1: To breathe in those fumes.
Speaker 5: They stayed there because of the advice that the government
Speaker 5: gave them, and now they're all sick. Their lungs are
Speaker 5: filled with fluids, they're bleeding from the nose, they have headaches,
Speaker 5: they have rashes.
Speaker 1: It's a whole situation.
Speaker 5: And you look at Newsom and you look at Bissera,
Speaker 5: who's running for governor, who used to represent that area
Speaker 5: in both the state legislature and the Congress.
Speaker 1: Neither one of them has been there.
Speaker 5: Neither one of them has shown up and taken their
Speaker 5: lumps at those community meetings like they're supposed to. It's
Speaker 5: part of the job when you're the governor, or you're
Speaker 5: the next prospective governor. They just pretend like it's not happening.
Speaker 5: If you are a legitimate environmentalist, if you're legitimately concerned
Speaker 5: about the health and well being of your constituents, wouldn't
Speaker 5: you be at ground zero. Wouldn't that be a stop
Speaker 5: that you have to take instead of ignoring it and
Speaker 5: hoping that the problem will go away.
Speaker 7: Absolutely, But you know, everybody is an environmentalist. You cannot
Speaker 7: find somebody who wouldn't care about the environment, Republican, Democrat, whatever, whatever.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 7: I made a strange request of some friends on line
Speaker 7: last weekend, and no one took me up on the offer.
Speaker 7: I even offered freeom munch. I went down. I went
Speaker 7: down the Lineage fire area the middle of the day,
Speaker 7: about four o'clock actually, and I thought i'd walk up
Speaker 7: to the building, maybe see some people protesting and talk
Speaker 7: to some locals. And I got to a street called
Speaker 7: Prado and I got out of my car, and the
Speaker 7: moment I stepped out of my car, I couldn't believe
Speaker 7: what I was smelling. But I continue to walk toward it, thinking, Okay,
Speaker 7: it's going to get better. No, it got worse. I
Speaker 7: couldn't get near the building. I didn't have a mask,
Speaker 7: I couldn't get near the building. So I abandoned that idea.
Speaker 7: I wanted to get some pictures for the campaign. I thought, Okay,
Speaker 7: I'm gonna go to King Taco. I've never been to
Speaker 7: King Taco. It's about a mile away. When I'm waiting
Speaker 7: in line, I see that there's only outdoor dining, and
Speaker 7: I'm thinking, I can smell that. I can smell that
Speaker 7: almost almost as badly as as when I got out
Speaker 7: of my car block away and there's no way I'm
Speaker 7: going to eat. I got in my car and left.
Speaker 7: Buta Besarah's going to use the basement strategy too. I mean,
Speaker 7: the numbers are with him, the mathematics are with him,
Speaker 7: so he doesn't need to go and be seen there.
Speaker 7: Newsom doesn't care. What benefit is is it going to
Speaker 7: be for him? Karen Bass needs to find some federal
Speaker 7: impact and ask, you know, ask the White House, ask
Speaker 7: the evil man Donald Trump, the Orange man, orange man
Speaker 7: bad ask him for FEMA help because this is it
Speaker 7: is so unfair. And there were people in their front
Speaker 7: yard who are living there, like maybe four or five
Speaker 7: six houses away. I saw them on the front in
Speaker 7: the front yard, there's still people are living right next
Speaker 7: to that, that lineage fire building. So yes they should,
Speaker 7: of course they should. But it's all about politics and
Speaker 7: there's no benefit to Bessarah, there's no benefit to new
Speaker 7: Some and Karen Bassa, as you know, got got boot out.
Speaker 7: But she needs to she needs to emerge and eat some.
Speaker 1: Oh did we lose him?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 3: Did we lose Scott?
Speaker 1: I think we might have lost him.
Speaker 6: Well, let me see if I could bring him back.
Speaker 6: Let's let's just see what happens. Let's see if he can. Oh, wait,
Speaker 6: he's coming back. Are we ready?
Speaker 5: I'm so sorry, that's okay, Yeah, go ahead, are we there? Yeah,
Speaker 5: you're back. Guys, Yeah, you're back. Could you hear me?
Speaker 1: All right? I don't think he can hear us.
Speaker 6: Well, Scott Allen Myers was just trying to make sure
Speaker 6: that we got to break on time. That's the first
Speaker 6: time I had to hit the dump button since we
Speaker 6: went live. Wait, Randy Economy didn't swear. I don't think
Speaker 6: he did. Maybe he did. He did drop the phone
Speaker 6: a lot. We want to thank Scott Allen Myers for
Speaker 6: joining us on the show.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and you can follow him on X at Scott A.
Speaker 5: Myers LA.
Speaker 1: All Right, I.
Speaker 5: Want to talk to you, Randy, about what my next
Speaker 5: question was going to be for Scott Allen Myers, because
Speaker 5: I think it's an important one. Scott Allen Myers is
Speaker 5: running in a district that was drawn to be a
Speaker 5: Democratic district, where the Democratic candidate has a voter registration
Speaker 5: advantage over the Republican and the mathematics should really create
Speaker 5: a situation where the Democrat can sail to reelection without
Speaker 5: sweating too much. And you say, okay, well, why is
Speaker 5: it that you even bother to run against them? And
Speaker 5: the answer is, the voters deserve to have a conversation
Speaker 5: about the future of their state, about the future of
Speaker 5: their community. And if these people run unopposed and they
Speaker 5: don't have anyone saying, now, what you're doing isn't working,
Speaker 5: this is a better idea. Let's consider this. If voters
Speaker 5: don't have that opportunity to express themselves on that ballot,
Speaker 5: even if it's not enough to get to fifty plus one,
Speaker 5: there's got to be some way for people to register
Speaker 5: their outrage, for people to register the fact that they
Speaker 5: do not believe in what's going on right now in
Speaker 5: this city, in this state and what's destroying our quality
Speaker 5: of life. I think it's important for people like Scott
Speaker 5: to put their name on the ballot and to do
Speaker 5: what he's doing, because you look right now at the
Speaker 5: mayoral election and in the general election, we're left with
Speaker 5: an awful.
Speaker 1: Choice where we have Nithia or Karen.
Speaker 5: We don't have a viable option or any other option,
Speaker 5: I guess because no writings are allowed in a top
Speaker 5: two system, and we're stuck picking between worse and worser.
Speaker 1: And it's just.
Speaker 5: It makes people feel totally depressed when you don't have
Speaker 5: the ability to register your outrage.
Speaker 6: People deserve to have that conversation. And even when you
Speaker 6: were facing odds that look that they're impossible, that doesn't
Speaker 6: mean you give up. These races are very hard to
Speaker 6: win until they aren't. And part of what you do
Speaker 6: is every single time you put up the best possible candidate,
Speaker 6: not somebody that is going to compete heavily in the
Speaker 6: primary and then just give up. In June, we've seen
Speaker 6: plenty of that, Steve Garvey. You give it your all,
Speaker 6: You make every possible opportunity to get your message heard,
Speaker 6: and maybe you move the needle a few more points
Speaker 6: this year. Maybe you move the needle a few more
Speaker 6: points next year. You you have to always try to
Speaker 6: put your best effort out there, because we've seen what
Speaker 6: happens when the minority gives up in one party role,
Speaker 6: where sometimes you have races that aren't even contested. We
Speaker 6: cannot have that. There needs to be some balance in
Speaker 6: this state. And part of what you got to do
Speaker 6: is you got to, no matter what the seat is,
Speaker 6: have somebody that wants to give an alternative voice out there.
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Speaker 5: All right, it's try to open up the California Crime Blodder.
Speaker 2: It's happened yet again.
Speaker 4: Nice see time for the California crime Blodder.
Speaker 1: And this edition of The Blotterer takes us to Silver Lake.
Speaker 6: We started this week with a crime blodder story at
Speaker 6: a pet shop, and we're ending this week with a
Speaker 6: crime blodder story at a pet shop. And it was
Speaker 6: probably the same guy for mar Here is ktla.
Speaker 8: Now at ten thirty eight. Popular pet store is targeted
Speaker 8: by thieves twice in less than a week. Burglar smashing
Speaker 8: through the front window, getting away with cash, and the
Speaker 8: company say, those thieves rolled the safe out in a
Speaker 8: shopping cart. They didn't even cover their faces.
Speaker 1: And it was all caught on camera.
Speaker 4: KTLA's Hailey Winslow live in Silver Lake with the latest Hailey.
Speaker 9: In the first smashing Grab you guys, the crooks went
Speaker 9: into a jungle gym of wires and new exact which
Speaker 9: one to pull to turn off the Wi Fi and
Speaker 9: the surveillance cameras and this one. They took their sweet time,
Speaker 9: seemingly unfazed by the alarm going off, the sun streaming in,
Speaker 9: and the people walking by.
Speaker 1: Boy, they just slithered like a snake.
Speaker 10: We'll see. There's no sense of urgency, more of a
Speaker 10: smash and stroll.
Speaker 9: Criminals leisurely roll a safe and a shopping cart through
Speaker 9: a pet store.
Speaker 6: We've said it before and we'll say it again. Safes
Speaker 6: aren't safe.
Speaker 1: Not even a little bit. Kids.
Speaker 4: It's fine.
Speaker 6: If you want to know how safe safe are, ask
Speaker 6: Karen Bass where her guns are.
Speaker 9: At forty five Thursday morning at the Urban Pet and
Speaker 9: Silver Lake on surveillance, this guy smashes the glass of
Speaker 9: the front door and slides in under the handlebar behind
Speaker 9: him his partner in crime on a lime scooter. The
Speaker 9: lookout then follow them.
Speaker 6: Well, this is a very silver leg hipster kind of crime.
Speaker 1: They got robbed by opie.
Speaker 9: Him in with no masks or gloves. The bad guys
Speaker 9: go straight to the safe and even look right into
Speaker 9: the security camera before they duck out the back door.
Speaker 9: This is their second strike in a week, first burglarizing
Speaker 9: the Urban Pet Beverley location Saturday at four thirty am,
Speaker 9: taking the cash from that safe as well.
Speaker 10: The stature and the look of the first person who
Speaker 10: comes in the store is a mirror image of the
Speaker 10: person that was in the Beverly location.
Speaker 9: Tim Percy is director of operations for the Urban Pets
Speaker 9: four locations. Owner Zach Gray, who's out of town, started
Speaker 9: this business twenty years ago.
Speaker 10: I had ninety five dollars to his name. He first
Speaker 10: started by having a dog obedience company.
Speaker 9: Do you have any idea who this could be?
Speaker 10: They don't look familiar to us, but because of their
Speaker 10: comfort level and how articulate they are and going through
Speaker 10: the store, it's clear that one way or another is
Speaker 10: an inside job.
Speaker 6: So it might not be a former employee or a
Speaker 6: current employee, I guess, but it could be a disgruntled
Speaker 6: former or current employee telling somebody, hey, here's how to
Speaker 6: get to the safe, or just think about the number
Speaker 6: of people who are regulars inside a business like that.
Speaker 6: It could be someone who's a delivery driver. It could
Speaker 6: be someone who is I don't know, an ac repair man.
Speaker 6: It could be someone who's a plumber. It could be
Speaker 6: a handyman. It could be someone who delivers things to
Speaker 6: the shop. Someone who's in there on a regular basis
Speaker 6: might pick certain things up.
Speaker 1: I guess. I don't know.
Speaker 10: Whether it's information passed to them from someone who knows
Speaker 10: the stores, or whether it's from them frequenting the stores
Speaker 10: themselves during the day as customers. But I don't think
Speaker 10: that they're after large sums of money, because that's not
Speaker 10: what they're getting. I think it's just.
Speaker 6: How much money could you be getting from a pet shop?
Speaker 1: What are they selling?
Speaker 5: Are they selling some of those really desirable dogs that
Speaker 5: everyone wants, you know, the allergy free ones.
Speaker 6: No, you're not allowed to sell those in a store anymore.
Speaker 6: You're only allowed to sell those illegally on skid row.
Speaker 10: Anything a value because typically.
Speaker 6: What they're selling is like designer dog bags, crates, treats.
Speaker 6: Looks like they're doing a photography studio.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I didn't know they had that where it's like
Speaker 5: the Seeries photography center.
Speaker 3: But for pets, i'd probably buy it.
Speaker 9: Pet stores wouldn't be the first place on my listener.
Speaker 6: In fact, when I had a photographer come to my
Speaker 6: house earlier this year to do my photo shoot, we
Speaker 6: included the dogs in some shots, because yes, I'm that
Speaker 6: kind of person.
Speaker 8: To break into.
Speaker 10: Precisely, the tools to get it open are going to
Speaker 10: be worth more cost way more than what's in.
Speaker 9: It, and for the urban pet more costly than the
Speaker 9: lost cash.
Speaker 6: Well, and we all know what happens when they steal
Speaker 6: a safe or an ATM machine. At some point they
Speaker 6: get inside, they steal the bunny, and then they dump
Speaker 6: the piece of equipment off of the side of a
Speaker 6: bridge on the one eighteen freeway, and there's just like
Speaker 6: this land of the dead of broken ATM machines under
Speaker 6: the one eighteen.
Speaker 9: It's fixing the damage these criminals caused getting to the safe.
Speaker 10: They've taken advantage of the idea that they have so
Speaker 10: much time before anyone can arrive, or that there's been
Speaker 10: so much leniency in theft.
Speaker 6: See right there, that's a doggy show Heyo Tani shirt.
Speaker 1: Someone's got that.
Speaker 6: Someone's gonna buy that, and the dog's not gonna like it.
Speaker 6: Some dogs like it.
Speaker 1: That doesn't really, the dog's an angel fan.
Speaker 6: You don't have enough human fans to fill up that stadium.
Speaker 10: That's all I can speculate, because why wouldn't you have
Speaker 10: your faces covered?
Speaker 9: Percy says he understands that LAPD is understaffed and underfunded
Speaker 9: and doing the best they can. The officer who responded,
Speaker 9: in fact, told him that they go to about forty
Speaker 9: to fifty alarms that go off a.
Speaker 5: Night, and my goodness, what is going on in this city,
Speaker 5: Free rain?
Speaker 9: The vast majority are false alarms, So that's what they're expecting.
Speaker 9: When they pulled up here and saw the broken glass.
Speaker 9: LAPD did take the Lime scooter with them, operable by
Speaker 9: a credit card, hoping if that credit card is not stolen,
Speaker 9: it'll trace them back to the culprit reporting live in
Speaker 9: Silver Lake. I'm Hailey Winslow KTLA five News.
Speaker 3: So there you go.
Speaker 6: For the second time in a week, a pet store
Speaker 6: got burglarized.
Speaker 5: I'll tell you, we hear nothing but stories from the
Speaker 5: elected official about how crime is actually going down in
Speaker 5: this state, and yet we're never at a loss of
Speaker 5: stories to fill the blotter.
Speaker 6: There's never a lull that's always out there. And yet
Speaker 6: maybe if you look at some specific statistics, although some
Speaker 6: of those numbers are juked because they've changed the definitions
Speaker 6: of these crimes. But you also have to remember this
Speaker 6: statistic specifically when you talk about burglaries, whether we're talking
Speaker 6: about home burglaries or we're talking about commercial burglaries, eighty
Speaker 6: five percent of the time, the perpetrators don't get caught,
Speaker 6: so they have a very likely chance that they're going
Speaker 6: to get away with it, and they're all into this.
Speaker 6: I mean, we saw so many different burglaries in the
Speaker 6: San Fernando Valley over the summer, and how many arrest
Speaker 6: did we end up actually getting maybe one, maybe two.
Speaker 6: For the most part, it just does not happen, and
Speaker 6: so people know they can get away with this. That
Speaker 6: is why not only do you have locals committing these crimes,
Speaker 6: but you also have people committing these crimes from international
Speaker 6: gangs actually from Chile that come up here and they
Speaker 6: decide they're going to visit the United States and come
Speaker 6: to southern California because they can commit their crimes and
Speaker 6: they're most likely not going to get caught. Crime tourism,
Speaker 6: that's what they call it.
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Speaker 4: If Cash's dummy, we couldn't make this stuff up if
Speaker 4: we tried.
Speaker 3: I said, hell no, very boy, let me get up
Speaker 3: one out of here.
Speaker 4: It's the California Crime Bloat, all right, Randy.
Speaker 1: This one takes us back to the jewelry shop.
Speaker 6: Where a bizarre kind of distraction robbery took place, but
Speaker 6: the woman who was going to be the victim wasn't
Speaker 6: taken any of it because she wasn't gonna get her
Speaker 6: necklace stolen. Check this out this report from Fox forty
Speaker 6: in Sacramento.
Speaker 11: They're calling jewelry distraction thefts happening throughout Sacramento County and
Speaker 11: the surrounding areas. Deputy say suspects often appear friendly and
Speaker 11: non threatening so they can distract victims while removing their jewelry.
Speaker 11: Fox Forty's arena shotot showing us now live from the
Speaker 11: Sheriff's office.
Speaker 6: After there's a word I want to use for this
Speaker 6: that starts with a G that I don't think you're
Speaker 6: allowed to say anymore.
Speaker 11: Picking with one victim who is sharing her harrowing experience, row.
Speaker 2: Well, Nikki, the young woman you're about to meet, is
Speaker 2: just twenty two years old. She said that she didn't
Speaker 2: think twice about helping a woman who she believed was
Speaker 2: disabled outside of the family restaurant. Fortunately, she kept her
Speaker 2: wits about her when things started to go terribly wrong.
Speaker 2: Back on the seventeenth of this month, this man came
Speaker 2: into b Dow's family restaurant FA bac wa Vie said his.
Speaker 6: Time, Oh that sounds great. Usually it's a play on words. Yeah,
Speaker 6: there's some pretty funny ones in k Town.
Speaker 2: Disabled.
Speaker 6: What there's a place at Encino I went out a
Speaker 6: business but it was called fabulous.
Speaker 5: Yeah, there used to be unforgettable. And then on sunset
Speaker 5: there was one called Beverly Hills nine O two one foe.
Speaker 6: The thing is, as a big fan of Vietnamese food,
Speaker 6: any place that has a pun isn't going to be
Speaker 6: nearly as legit as just fae. If it just has
Speaker 6: some random number, it's probably the best Vietnamese food you've
Speaker 6: ever had.
Speaker 5: Remember when we did that remote in Upland and it
Speaker 5: had the word king after it so we couldn't say.
Speaker 1: It on the radio.
Speaker 6: Why yes, I do remember that. Everything about that remote
Speaker 6: was very interesting, why we were there, the venue that
Speaker 6: we were doing it at. I mean, we've had some
Speaker 6: unique remotes. Right now, we're in a good spot. We're
Speaker 6: a few weeks away from announcing a new Pineapple Hill
Speaker 6: remote and a new Gladstone's remote. But remember a couple
Speaker 6: of years ago and like, hey John and Randy, we're
Speaker 6: going to send you to a gas station in South Pasadena.
Speaker 3: We did that.
Speaker 5: That was like an empty office though, wasn't it. Yeah,
Speaker 5: this was an Upland. It was like in an empty
Speaker 5: office in a strip mall. Thanks Randy Economy. We were
Speaker 5: there to promote the idea of San Bernardino County seceding
Speaker 5: from the state. I mean, obviously, we'll say yes to anything,
Speaker 5: So if you got a remote idea, email us and
Speaker 5: get us a sponsor.
Speaker 2: Side. And they wanted to order food.
Speaker 12: It was on this side, and I'm with her, so
Speaker 12: I told her, how are you.
Speaker 2: Doing sitting on the passenger side. She asked me what
Speaker 2: was good on the menu?
Speaker 12: And then she looked at me like this, and I said, hey,
Speaker 12: you so preedy. You look so cute, and I said, oh,
Speaker 12: thank you.
Speaker 6: Yeah, she knows right away. Oh this doesn't look right.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah.
Speaker 12: I am always like a person who don't want nobody
Speaker 12: to touch me.
Speaker 2: I think she just distrapped me as the same.
Speaker 10: Something.
Speaker 12: And then she started to put a chain, the big
Speaker 12: chain on me. With the big chain, but in front
Speaker 12: of my face. She keeps looking at me, and then
Speaker 12: she started to pull my neck. And then the guy
Speaker 12: already I drove, he's driving and she's still holding my
Speaker 12: neck and my chain.
Speaker 6: So they're trying to drive off while holding her necklace
Speaker 6: while it's still on her. Trying to use the force
Speaker 6: to rip it off.
Speaker 5: So it's not at a traditional jewelry store, it's just
Speaker 5: a de facto one in the parking lot.
Speaker 6: Yeah, but this story is from last week, and I
Speaker 6: forgot for a second what it was about, and then
Speaker 6: I remembered, Oh, we never did this one. This is
Speaker 6: a great one.
Speaker 2: At that point, she says, her foot started to drag
Speaker 2: on the ground as the vehicle began to move away.
Speaker 2: As the woman refuted used to release B and her.
Speaker 3: She goes flying.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, m her chaine.
Speaker 2: B says she also grabbed onto the woman, who then
Speaker 2: tried to put a towel or paper in her mouth.
Speaker 2: Today I tried to put on me, but I keep.
Speaker 3: I love this woman.
Speaker 5: She starts throwing punches as she's hanging off the side
Speaker 5: of a moving car.
Speaker 3: I wouldn't mess.
Speaker 12: With Bee tries to like, you know, at that moment,
Speaker 12: only my only thing in my mind was just I'm done.
Speaker 2: I'm done by mom. By that, I'm done, I'm dead.
Speaker 2: But thankfully B is a lot.
Speaker 6: She thought she was going to get murdered over this necklace.
Speaker 1: It's rough out there.
Speaker 2: If to share her story and warn others to be aware,
Speaker 2: the couple took off when they heard a random ambulance siren.
Speaker 12: He paniced a little bit.
Speaker 2: Be suffered lots of bruises and cuts, but she's okay.
Speaker 2: So was her neck the necklace she won.
Speaker 5: She might have some scars, but she still has that necklace.
Speaker 12: Oh, half of the necklace she taught us she has it?
Speaker 2: Was she not? Because I have han't it?
Speaker 3: I used that to.
Speaker 2: Jump Deputies haven't found the couple yet.
Speaker 6: We've got the license played on camera and it's a
Speaker 6: beat up minivan.
Speaker 3: How hard could this be?
Speaker 1: You think it was Katie Porter?
Speaker 3: Let's not even make that. Well, let me just ask her.
Speaker 6: She's in the room, Katie, Are you stealing necklaces in Sacramento?
Speaker 3: No, it wasn't Katie.
Speaker 1: Okay, we could rule her out doing prop comedy over here.
Speaker 13: Seeing the uptick that we've had recently, we really wanted
Speaker 13: to get the information out to the public to just
Speaker 13: make them aware. Unfortunately, had instances of them following people home.
Speaker 13: A lot of them have turned violet when people realize
Speaker 13: that one's trying to steal from them and they violently
Speaker 13: remove that jewelry from them.
Speaker 2: Sergeant Edward I Go says recent incidents have also been
Speaker 2: reported at and near costcos and walmarts, along with other
Speaker 2: high traffic businesses.
Speaker 12: Maybe don't talk to the strangers, don't open your mouth
Speaker 12: with nobody, don't trust nobody.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I got to tell you right now. She knows
Speaker 6: better now. But it sure seems suspicious that somebody claims,
Speaker 6: I need you to come out to the car and
Speaker 6: take my order at the faw shop because we're going
Speaker 6: to eat it in the car. You can't eat soup
Speaker 6: in the car.
Speaker 1: It's not in and out. I wonder if they ordered
Speaker 1: that fall animal style.
Speaker 13: Now.
Speaker 2: Seargeant Igo says they do believe that this is an
Speaker 2: organized ring of thieves working together. They do have warrants
Speaker 2: a rest warrants out for those that they've been able
Speaker 2: to identify through surveillance, although they believe that those people
Speaker 2: are out of the area at least for now. Reporting
Speaker 2: life in Sack County tonight, covering local news that matters
Speaker 2: where we were Shadduck's Fox forty News.
Speaker 3: So there you go.
Speaker 6: Wild story out of Sacramento County where a woman working
Speaker 6: at a Vietnamese restaurant gets called out. Hey, we've got
Speaker 6: a disabled woman here. Can you show her the menu?
Speaker 6: She all of a sudden is like, oh, you're so pretty,
Speaker 6: can I see your face? And then yank's the necklace.
Speaker 6: But this girl wasn't taking it, so she fights back
Speaker 6: and she still has that necklace today.
Speaker 5: Can you imagine, given the fact that the come online
Speaker 5: was you're so pretty, come closer, the next time some
Speaker 5: old pervert hits on her in the restaurant, they're gonna
Speaker 5: get kicked right in the crotch, because you know, sometimes
Speaker 5: the older guys are like that. They see a pretty
Speaker 5: girl in the restaurant and they decide they're gonna flirt,
Speaker 5: and usually they mean nothing by it, and they certainly
Speaker 5: don't anticipate violence as a response to it. But my
Speaker 5: guess is she's going to be a little punchy the
Speaker 5: next time someone tells her she's pretty.
Speaker 6: She is ready to go on the offence. Ain't nobody
Speaker 6: taking her necklace. So here's what I'm picturing. She's a
Speaker 6: young Asian woman with short, blonde hair and lots of tattoos. Right, yes, Okay,
Speaker 6: the next guy that's going to come on her and
Speaker 6: tell her that she's pretty is going to look like
Speaker 6: Christopher Lloyd from Back to the Future, and he's going
Speaker 6: to expect that, at a minimum, she's going to giggle,
Speaker 6: and maybe she'll say oh stop it or oh thank you.
Speaker 6: And the last thing that he's going to expect is
Speaker 6: to have a piping hot bowl of foe dumped right
Speaker 6: on that bald head of his.
Speaker 3: M hmmmm mm hmmm.
Speaker 6: That was a good crime, Bladder. We've got one more
Speaker 6: hour coming up.
Speaker 1: Don't you go anywhere.