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Payroll records appear to contradict how much money a Los Angeles police officer who brought down the "bling ring," a group of San Fernando Valley youths who burglarized the homes of Hollywood celebrities, said he was paid to work as technical advisor on a movie about the case. Officer Brett Goodkin, who is under investigation by the LAPD for consulting on Sofia Coppola's docudrama while assigned to the case, was paid between $5,000 and $6,000 for advising on the production, authorities said.

Four current and a former Glendale Armenian American police officers can move forward with their federal discrimination and harassment lawsuit against the city after a judge last week refused to throw out the claims. U.S. District Court Judge Josephine Tucker denied most of the city's motion to throw out the claims, although some that were filed against certain police commanders were dropped. “We were confident that the ruling would occur as it has,” the officers' attorney Carney Shegerian said in an email.

Las Candelas recently presented a check for $10,000 to the Didi Hirsch Mental Health Services (formerly Verdugo Mental Health) for the launch of its Birth to Five Program at its Glendale facility. The funds will be applied to a new treatment room, to purchase play therapy tools, and other needs. This program, when fully launched, will serve about 50 to 60 children, infants to 5-year-olds, of low-income families living mostly in the Glendale area. Las Candelas also has installed its new officers.

A man who allegedly tried to elbow two Glendale police officers during a massive brawl at a banquet hall this weekend could face battery and vandalism charges. The man, Karpis Termendzyan, was arrested Saturday after police responded to a fight at a wedding celebration Saturday that broke out among more than 100 people. Police received calls from numerous witnesses at 11:52 p.m. about the brawl at Dream Palace banquet hall in the 500 block of East Broadway. Termendzyan, 36, of Van Nuys, was arrested on suspicion of vandalism and battery after he allegedly spit on one officer and attempted to elbow two others, and later kicked in a rear window of a patrol car, said police Sgt. Tom Lorenz.

Burbank and Glendale police officials on Wednesday carried the Special Olympics torch on behalf of thousands of athletes participating in the 2012 Summer Games this weekend. The annual jog is part of a law enforcement tradition known as the Torch Run, which kicks off the start of the games on Saturday at Cal State University Long Beach. Officers escorted the athletes, who have intellectual disabilities, along Glendale and Burbank streets before connecting with their Los Angeles counterparts.

A Glendale police officer was taken to the hospital Wednesday morning for minor injuries after his motorcycle crashed into a truck that was pulling into an angled parking spot on Brand Boulevard, officials said. Officer Bill Frommling was taken to Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center, where he was treated for a sore jaw, knee and hip, Glendale Police Lt. Steve Robertson said. Frommling was conducting speed enforcement on Brand Boulevard and was going after a violator at about 30 mph just before 8:30 a.m. when the Toyota truck traveling in Brand's left lane just ahead of him made a sharp right turn across the right lane, which Frommling was in, to pull into a parking spot, Robertson said.

Members of the Women's Civic League know how to install a new slate of officers quickly and efficiently. At the Elks Lodge on Thursday, speaker Dawn Lindsay, superintendent/president of Glendale Community College, filled her audience in on her upcoming departure from Glendale for a college president position in Maryland. Her move “is about family,” she said. Lindsay also gave members and guests some business advice she learned from her mother - “I learned to take jobs that weren't very glamorous.” The league's new officers are Karin Jonke, president; Joylene Wagner, vice president; Lyn Foster, treasurer; Ann Chadney, recording secretary; Mary Margaret Smith, corresponding secretary; and Lynda Burns, immediate past president.

More than six months ago, 25-year-old Artin Melik-Kasumyan was treating and transporting patients in an ambulance as an emergency medical technician. But after months of hard work and training to become a police officer, Melik-Kasumyan was sworn in Tuesday with the Glendale Police Department. As an officer, he said he hopes to “make it a safe and better place for kids to be raised.” Melik-Kasumyan is one of three of the department's newest officers, along with Eric Voskanian and Travis Bateman.

A former Glendale police officer will receive a $450,000 settlement from the city after claiming in a lawsuit that he faced retaliation for raising concerns over officials allegedly auctioning rides in the department's helicopter to charity groups. Officer David Gillispie's lawsuit was dismissed this week in Los Angeles County Superior Court after both parties agreed to the deal, which also requires the city to destroy and seal flight training logs, complaint information, internal memos, two performance evaluations and information regarding his transfer to other duties.

Andrew Lazzaretto still has a voice recording from his son - slain Glendale Police Officer Charles “Chuck” Lazzaretto - that was left 15 years ago on an answering machine. He originally saved the recording to listen to his son's voice, but he hasn't played it in years. Still, the recording, along with his son's uniforms and U.S. Marine Reserve memorabilia, are just some of the items he holds onto to keep Chuck Lazzaretto's memory alive. “I think it's impossible to get closure or completely move on,” Andrew Lazzaretto said.