Lexis-Olivier Ray
Staff Writer at L.A. TACO
I'm an artist + award-winning Investigative Reporter @LATACO | [email protected] | 347-644-0191
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1 week ago |
lataco.com | Lexis-Olivier Ray
On a late afternoon in early March, Hector Alaniz’s mother called 911 desperately pleading for help. Her schizophrenic, autistic, and bipolar 23-year-old son was expressing suicidal ideations while he sat in a brown Chevy Malibu on the border of Filipinotown and Silver Lake. A day earlier, Alaniz’s mother had called a county-run 1-800 mental health line asking for assistance, but they told her that they couldn’t do anything because her son was reportedly armed with a BB gun.
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2 weeks ago |
lataco.com | Lexis-Olivier Ray
An upscale grocery chain known for selling $20 smoothies was ordered to close one of its westside locations due to a “major” vermin infestation, according to an L.A. County Public Health report reviewed by L.A. TACO.
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2 weeks ago |
lataco.com | Lexis-Olivier Ray
More than a year ago, the city of Los Angeles cleared a large homeless encampment for a “beautification project” at Alameda Triangle, a triangular-shaped median directly across from Philippe The Original. A fence was quickly erected, native plants, including white sage, yarrow, and deer grass, were planted in the ground, and the mostly bare median was transformed into a much-needed green space in a neighborhood that hardly has any.
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2 weeks ago |
lataco.com | Lexis-Olivier Ray
There’s one neighborhood in Los Angeles where you’re more likely to be arrested by the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) for possession of cannabis than anywhere else in the city:Westchester. Roughly a third of the people who were arrested by LAPD in the city of Los Angeles for cannabis-related offenses since 2020 were arrested in Westchester—the majority-white, upper-middle-class, suburban community on the city’s westside—according to LAPD data.
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1 month ago |
lataco.com | Lexis-Olivier Ray
Lefty Gunplay was arrested in Inglewood on Sunday, just minutes before he was set to perform at Rolling Loud. The Baldwin Park rapper was scheduled to hit the D’ussé Stage at Hollywood Park at around 5:45 PM, according to a tentative list of set times. He was arrested at around 5:05 PM on March 16 and formally booked just after 2 AM the following day, according to jail records. His bail was listed at $500,000.
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