Glenoaks Boulevard

Amber Willard GRANDVIEW -- A Glendale man was arrested early Thursday on suspicion of felony drunken driving and first-degree murder in a crash that killed a man who was riding in his car. Armen Aharonian, 27, was speeding on West Alameda Avenue shortly after 12:30 a.m. when he failed to stop at a stoplight at Glenoaks Boulevard and hit another car, Glendale Police said. The crash occurred at the Glendale-Burbank border and police from both cities responded.

Gretchen Hoffman NORTHEAST GLENDALE -- Glendale Police are looking for a hit-and-run driver who struck an 8-year-old girl when she ran out from between two parked cars during her lunch recess. The girl was walking on Glenoaks Boulevard near Waltonia Drive at about 12:15 p.m. Tuesday -- lunchtime at nearby Glenoaks Elementary School, Officer David Gillispie said. She darted out into the street from between two parked cars into the path of a white sewer pump truck, police said.

Amber Willard SOUTHEAST GLENDALE -- Two women had their purses snatched in separate incidents. On Saturday, two men stole a woman's purse as she walked home from a grocery store, police said. The woman was the intersection of Rockglen Avenue and Lincoln Street when a passing car stopped and the men got out, police said. They ran toward the woman and one of them grabbed her purse about 5:40 p.m., the woman told police. The men ran back to the car, where a third man was waiting to drive them away.

Ryan Carter BURBANK -- A 42-year-old Glendale man was arrested in the alleged stabbing of a man outside a cafe on Glenoaks Boulevard on Sunday, officials said. Masis Grigoryan, 42, allegedly crashed his white Geo into the back of a parked Toyota Solora, got out clutching a steak knife and began to stab and chase a man who was sitting having a cup of coffee outside Caravan Restaurant on the 1100 block Glenoaks Boulevard, Glendale Police Sgt. Bruce Fox said.

Amber Willard The following incidents were taken from police reports. 800 block of Calle Canta: A man told police that two men tried to break into his home Tuesday. 1900 block of Caminito Del Pilar: A woman told police someone stole a camera, jewelry and money from her home Tuesday. Chevy Chase Drive and Glenoaks Boulevard: A 41-year-old Glendale woman was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of driving under the influence. 700 block of South Chevy Chase Drive: A 25-year-old Glendale man was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of threatening another man with a gun. Glendale Galleria: A worker at Zales told police a man stole a watch from the store Tuesday.

The following were taken from daily booking reports from the Glendale Police Department. AREA 1 1200 block of California Avenue Tisa Hernandez, 24, was arrested June 21 on suspicion of spousal assault. 300 block of West Colorado Street Rene Encizo, 21, was arrested June 22 on suspicion of robbery, burglary, possessing burglary tools and contributing to the delinquency of a minor. 400 block of West Broadway Rodolfo Coria, 29, was arrested June 22 on suspicion of resisting arrest.

Jackson Bell Luis Aranda is fed up with risking his life just to walk to work. Aranda, a clerk at the 7-Eleven at 843 W. Glenoaks Blvd., said he has been nearly hit several times while crossing Glenoaks Boulevard by speeding drivers running red lights. And even one of his regular customers has been hit twice in six months when pulling out of the convenience store's parking lot. "All these people trying to beat the red light or kids speeding really make me feel unsafe," he said.

Kudos to M. Bernard Williams for his commentary in the Jan. 22 edition of the Glendale News-Press. He is absolutely right about more enforcement of the speed limit on our city streets. I am going to add some items he left out. Drivers are changing lanes on surface streets without signaling before they change lanes or do so when they are halfway into the lane they've chosen. This is bad enough, but worse on freeways where the speed limit is higher, and the risk goes up!

Buck Wargo CITY HALL -- Glendale has awarded a $548,259 contract to install a fiber optic line linking traffic operation centers in the city and Burbank. Pro Tech Engineering Corp. of Anaheim is expected to start the installation on Jan. 2. The line will run from the third floor of the city's Municipal Services Building to the intersection of San Fernando Road and Spazier Avenue. The system will allow both cities to monitor traffic operations along the San Fernando Road Corridor, Glenoaks Boulevard, Flower Street and Riverside Drive.

Claudia Peschiutta DOWNTOWN -- A 15-year-old Glendale boy suffered a leg injury when hit by a slow-moving sport-utility vehicle Sunday afternoon at the intersection of Glendale Avenue and Glenoaks Boulevard, officials said. The teen was in the crosswalk on the south side of the avenue shortly after 5:30 p.m. when a 20-year-old Burbank man in a 1998 Toyota Land Cruiser turned left from Glenoaks onto Glendale and hit him, Glendale Police Sgt. Rick Young said.