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UPPER WEST SIDE , NY — About 20 pounds of heroin and fentanyl were seized after federal, state and city law enforcement agencies raided an Central Park West apartment doubling as a drug mill, the New York City Special Narcotics Prosecutor announced Monday . Four men are facing charges for operating a heroin and fentanyl packaging operation out of the apartment following the sting led by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration ’s, NYPD, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the New York State Police . On Friday law enforcement officers were conducting surveillance on 448 Central Park west — located across from Central Park near West 105th Street — when they observed a man exit the building carrying two boxes and enter an Uber car, officials told Patch . Federal agents followed the vehicle and stopped it near 121st Street and Amsterdam Avenue in Harlem, officials said. During the stop, agents saw that one of the boxes was open and detected a tan powdery substance , officials to...

Short-term rentals of private residences would be sharply curbed under a proposed ordinance drafted by San Diego City Councilwoman Barbara Bry , whose district includes the La Jolla area. Her proposal, released Monday, arrives a few months before the full council is expected to take up yet again the contentious question of how to regulate vacation rentals , which have mushroomed in popularity with the growth of the online home-sharing platform, Airbnb. The city planning department already is at work drafting alternative measures based on three options it released earlier this year, which at the time ranged from the most permissive to one that would effectively ban such rentals. The city is hoping to hear the matter Oct. 23, said Planning Director Jeff Murphy . It will mark the sixth hearing at City Hall in two years to consider the issue of short-term rentals. Under Bry’s suggested regulations, homeowners would be allowed to rent out only their primary residences on a short-term bas...

Code Enforcement Looks Into Peppertree Living Conditions" class="vi2" /> New information on a local I- team investigation into the problem plagued Peppertree Apartments in Whitehaven. Transcript: Code Enforcement Looks Into Peppertree Living Conditions new information on a local i- team investigation ... into the problem plagued ... peppertree apartments in whitehaven. city code enforcement inspectors ... went door to door at the complex this afternoon ... assessing living conditions . the inspection sweep ... is part of a number of big changes the city made ... after our local -i team exposed ethics concerns surrounding the code enforcement manager in charge of the property. the city shut down that manager's ministry ... which was operating out of peppertree ... and removed him from overseeing today's inspection to avoid any conflicts of interest. here's investigative reporter maria hallas ... who broke the story ... reports from the inspection...

Santa Maria murder suspect dead... Related Content SANTA MARIA, Calif. - An officer- involved shooting in Los Angeles County has left a murder suspect connected to an Amber Alert out of Santa Maria dead Tuesday night .  48-year-old Konstantin Morozov was taken to the hospital in critical condition but police confirmed he died from his injuries during a press briefing. The shooting occurred in Tarzana, California just before 7 p.m. The Santa Maria Police Department said it received a tip Tuesday morning that Morozov was in an apartment located in the 5500 block of Lindley Avenue in Tarzana/Encino. "We had a variety of tips whether they were due to the Amber Alert of from folks just seeing cars or people looking that seem similar and talking to everyone involved--family members or otherwise. Because we were in Santa Maria, we couldn't get here [Tarzana/Encino] right away--so we passed it to the FBI," said Detective Andrew Brice with the Santa Maria Police Department...

A saga spanning the last year and a half over whether Lafayette's Circle Motel — a collection of ramshackle buildings with an even grainier past — should remain preserved as a part of the city's history was decided earlier this week, and it looks like the venerable motel will be allowed to redevelop. The news came to the delight of the owner, Mike Macinko, whose disdain for the dilapidated buildings has led to the spectacle of an owner actively, and publicly, campaigning to demolish his own property. The City Council tabled the discussion in December after being unable to find whether or not the structures on the property were of " overwhelming historical significance to the community," as required under the city's Historical Preservation Board . Plans for how the property could be redeveloped are still up in the air, Macinko says. Any development plans will have to sift through the city's planning process. Plans for high- density urban apartments were disc...

CLOSE The Americana Lodge in downtown Redding , California, closed in January after hundreds of alleged code and safety violations , and now The Hignell Companies hopes to repurpose the building. Wochit Architectural renderings of the proposed remodeling project to turn the closed Americana Lodge into The Lofts. (Photo: Russell Studio) Plans to convert the shuttered Americana Lodge in downtown Redding to apartments come before the city Wednesday afternoon . The project has been hailed as a catalyst for the area since The Hignell Companies of Chico announced it was purchasing the former motel late last year. Hignell would transform the property between Pine and Market streets into 24 one-bedroom and 20 studio apartment units that would average between 400 and 500 square feet of floor space. At least four of the apartments would be set aside for very-low and low-income renters. The Redding Board of Administrative Review will consider Hignell’s site development permit application ...

Share This Story Property Deals Prompt Questions About AZ Firm Rodney Ernhart of Bigfork, Montana has had enough. “We’re done. We just want to wash our hands of the whole situation and just walk away. Take our licks. Learn from our mistakes and go on.” As mistakes go, Ernhart’s was an expensive one, costing him roughly $60,000. “It’s my own stupid fault.” In the spring of 2016 at a real estate conference in Las Vegas, Ernhart and his wife were approached about an opportunity in Niagara Falls, New York. The pitch came from a representative of Return On Rentals. The Arizona-based company says on its website that it “( helps) its clients create long -term wealth, using turnkey, residential rental property as the vehicle. We provide rehabbed, rented, professionally managed, cash flowing real estate for investors. ” Available for sale was a four- unit apartment building in Niagara Falls. Price tag was $100,250.  Ernhart was being asked to purchase, on the spot, without ever seeing the p...

A “person of interest” in the recent shooting of a woman at a Benton City apartment was arrested Thursday in Pasco. Christian M. Hernandez, 24, was picked up at 6:30 p.m. by the Benton County sheriff ’s gang enforcement team . Hernandez, who’s also known as “Lil Criminal” and “Phat Boy,” is being held on investigation of illegal gun possession and a hold from the state Department of Corrections. Mariah Coronado, 22, was shot in the back Aug. 18 at an apartment at Eighth Street and Della Avenue. Several other people were in the apartment at the time. Investigators have said it wasn’t clear if the shooting was an accident. Coronado was picked up by an acquaintance and driven to Kadlec Regional Medical Center in Richland. Deputies responded to the hospital after being alerted by medical staff about a gunshot victim. Hernandez is a convicted felon who is not allowed to own or be in control of a gun. He pleaded guilty in January to methamphetamine possession, residential burglary and ba...

Smoking either tobacco or electronic cigarettes will be prohibited inside apartments , condominiums and townhomes in unincorporated areas of San Mateo County under a ban approved 4-1 Tuesday by the Board of Supervisors. Supervisors Carole Groom and Adrienne Tissier pushed the ordinance, which outlaws smoking inside and around multiple-unit buildings with one or more shared ceilings, floors, walls or ventilation systems. The ordinance also applies to any such buildings owned or leased by the county, regardless of where they are located. Second-hand smoke that wafts between rooms poses a danger to other occupants in the same building, according to county health officials . “We have a responsibility as a county to protect the health of our residents,” Tissier said. Supervisor Don Horsley cast the dissenting vote, echoing the objection expressed by the San Mateo County Association of Realtors that condominiums shouldn’t fall under the ordinance because they are individually owned, n...

Letters to the editor (Photo: Record Searchlight) We moved to Redding to get away from crime in Milpitas. As a result of my fear of rising crime in Redding, I'm a block captain at an apartment neighborhood watch . I signed recall petition, worked a recall table and spoke three minutes at the public forum in the City Council meeting in June. My very favorite solutions from Take Back Redding members shared at the public forum are: 1. Utilize existing technology (apps) to track illegal encampments . 2. Bike registration as a deterrent to the bike theft epidemic . 3. Lease city property to private groups to speed up removal of illegal trespassers and encampments on private property. 4. Increase youth on-the- job training programs .  5. Create a youth Junior City Council . 6. Parcel tax to fund public safety and jail space.  7. Target enforcement of repeat offenders on the street. 8. Split Stillwater Business parcels into smaller lots to increase sales and income to the general f...

NEW YORK -- Federal agents say they seized 20 pounds of fentanyl and heroin in an Aug. 4 raid of an apartment building in New York City's Upper West Side neighborhood , across the street from Central Park, reports CBS New York. The drugs are valued at more than $3 million, according to investigators.   Drug Enforcement Administration Special -Agent-in- Charge James Hunt said that much fentanyl could prove deadly to a large population if handled improperly. "Twenty pounds of fentanyl in its purest form is potent enough to kill half the population of New York City," Hunt said. "So it's not good to have in a residential building, obviously. You know, if somebody spills it coming out of the building, it could pose a danger to the public." Hunt said breathing in or ingesting fentanyl through pores can be fatal. He also noted that the location of the bust, in New York City's relatively low crime Upper West Side , is not necessarily a surprise. "They of...

ROSEVILLE, Calif. (KCRA) — The deadline for some renters at the Shadowbrook Apartments in Roseville to vacate their units for renovations is Monday. Some residents told KCRA 3 they were recently visited by a law enforcement officer and the property manager, and told they could face charges and be arrested if they didn't leave by Monday.  Advertisement Watch report: Roseville renters given deadline to move out "We think that is horrible," said Darlene Reid, a resident of the complex, who said she felt intimidated. "Everybody here is paralyzed because this is our home. It's not just an apartment. We need more time."  City officials said the apartment complex has so many problems that it's a health and safety hazard to the residents. The city was alerted to the problems after a balcony recently collapsed .  Reid said she was given less than a month to find a new apartment and move out. Reid and other residents have gone to an attorney for help. " ...

MANILA, Philippines - A retired police official and his son were killed in an ambush in Mandaluyong City yesterday . Former Chief Inspector Hoover Pascual , 54, used to head the drug enforcement units (DEUs) of Mandaluyong and San Juan. He and his son Bryan Henrick , 33, died on their way to a hospital from gunshot wounds in their heads and bodies. “We are initially eyeing his former jobs as DEU chief in two cities,” said Chief Superintendent Romulo Sapitula , Eastern Police District director , adding that Pascual accomplished a lot in the war against illegal drugs. Pascual availed of optional retirement in October last year while he was San Juan’s DEU chief, according to Mandaluyong police chief Senior Superintendent Joaquin Alva . He was overseeing a chain of apartments he inherited from his parents. Nation ( Article MRec ), pagematch: 1, sectionmatch: 1 The Pascuals and Bryan’s girlfriend, Marigold Remo, left the victims’ house along Coronado street in a Mercedes Benz (PJW-733) wh...

IN THE COMMONWEALTH COURT OF PENNSYLVANIA FP Willow Ridge Associates , L.P., : : Appellant : : v. : No. 1846 C.D. 2016 : Argued: June 5, 2017 Allen Township and Northampton : Borough : BEFORE: HONORABLE P. KEVIN BROBSON, Judge HONORABLE MICHAEL H. WOJCIK, Judge HONORABLE JOSEPH M. COSGROVE, Judge OPINION BY JUDGE WOJCIK FILED : July 6, 2017 FP Willow Ridge Associates , L.P., (Willow Ridge) appeals from an order of the Court of Common Pleas of Northampton County (trial court) that granted Allen Township ’s (Township) motion for summary judgment against Willow Ridge and dismissed as moot Northampton Bor...