Glenoaks Boulevard

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.

Genevieve Cowden Sultenfuss is well-known in Glendale for her “firsts.” She was the first female president of the Glendale Chamber of Commerce, first female president of the Glendale Board of Realtors and the first female member of the Verdugo Club. Sultenfuss has spent most of her adult life living and working in Glendale. Born Aug. 12, 1910, in Colorado, she grew up in Burbank. “I took the streetcar to Sawyer Business School in Los Angeles after graduating from Burbank High,” she said in a recent interview.

NORTHWEST GLENDALE — Some residents call Glenoaks Boulevard “The Raceway” due to the number of speeding motorists it attracts. But on Thursday, two teens took the street’s nickname literally — and suffered harsh results. Two 17-year-old boys, whom authorities did not identify, decided to engage in a street race on the long stretch of road traveling at a high rate of speed between lights, Glendale Police Sgt. Peter Pressnall said. When they approached Kenilworth Avenue about 5:27 p.m., one of the boys blew through a red light and crashed with a red Volkswagen Beetle that was headed north on Kenilworth, he said.

NORTHWEST GLENDALE — When a woman drove her car through the front of Movses Golden Pastry five years ago, owner Armen Nazarian thought he could protect his store by installing steel barriers in front of the property. He was wrong. Early Tuesday, police said, a Burbank woman in the parking lot slammed on the gas pedal of her white Toyota 4Runner and barreled through the Glenoaks Boulevard corner bakery. She evaded a steel barrier and smashed through a storefront window, refrigerators, tables and chairs.

A brush fire that broke out at about 2:15 p.m. today near the Ventura (134) and Glendale (2) freeways that grew to more than 40 acres is now 70% contained, officials reported. Water-dropping helicopters continued to buzz back and forth from Silver Lake in Los Angeles as fire crews from Burbank, Glendale, Los Angeles city and county and Pasadena battled the blaze that had crested over the hillside and threatened homes in the Glenoaks Canyon area. Glendale police have blocked access to the area, and had called for a voluntary evacuation of homes in the 2100 to 2300 blocks of Glenoaks Boulevard.

PASADENA ? Two North Hollywood men convicted of four counts of attempted murder for shooting a Glendale man and his friends on Halloween four years ago were handed lengthy prison sentences Thursday. Mkrtich Melkonian and Hrant Barsegyan, both 21, were sentenced to 57 years and 16 years in prison, respectively, after a jury in June found the pair guilty. Each of the total seven counts represented the number of victims who were reportedly inside the van that was shot at on Oct. 31, 2005.

Steve Fristad grew up on Ethel Street with his grandparents. ?My grandmother, Viola Wheatley, played the piano for Jane Denham?s dance studio on Glendale Avenue. I think about those times every time I drive by that location. I used to go with her on occasion. You may have seen Bob Mitchell?s obituary in the paper. There were a few of us Glendalians that sang in the Mitchell Boys Choir. Doug Hopkins, Jerry McCaskill and Harry Clewley come to mind, but there may have been others.

Two boys and two men were sentenced Monday to spend time in prison for engaging in a three-day crime spree that spanned from Glendale to Tujunga. Christian Rubio, 15, Kevin Ruano, 15, Nicolas Ventura, 18, and Sergio Rodriguez, 20, were arrested Sept. 1 and pleaded not guilty Dec. 10 to charges of robbery and carjacking. They changed their pleas to no contest Monday in Pasadena Superior Court, paving the way for the sentencing. Rubio and Ruano both received two strikes and were sentenced to serve three years each in state prison.