Sting

Alex Coolman SOUTHWEST GLENDALE -- With a flick of a switch, Joshua Gould started a large fan humming, and a current of warm air began to move through a Gardena Avenue warehouse. The fan, along with a nylon tarp used to block off a doorway, is a tool that Gould's company, Xenergy, uses to perform "energy audits." "It drops the pressure inside the house," by sucking out the air, explained Gould, a project coordinator for the company. When the fan is running, inspectors can walk through a home looking for energy-wasting drafts.

Costa Mesa Police arrested more than 20 people in a prostitution sting this month on Harbor Boulevard near the San Diego Freeway (405). In the second sting in three months, undercover officers posing as prostitutes on Sept. 9 were solicited by men who offered money, and in one case, drugs, for various sex acts, police said. Since the beginning of summer, detectives have made more than 120 arrests for prostitution-related violations along Harbor Boulevard, said Sgt. Bob Ciszek.

SOUTHEAST GLENDALE ? Glendale Police arrested three women and three men Friday during two stings targeting online prostitution. In both operations, officers responded to Internet advertisements that were apparently from women who were soliciting money in exchange for sexual favors, Sgt. Tom Lorenz said. ?The sites advertise that [the women] specifically serve the Glendale, Pasadena, Burbank, La Crescenta area,? he said. Undercover officers arranged meetings with the women and their bodyguards at two local hotels on East Colorado Street, he said.

LA CRESCENTA - Not all losses are created equal or at least that was the outlook Crescenta Valley High boys' basketball Coach Shawn Zargarian took after his team fell to Westlake, 86-78, in the third-place game of the Falcon Classic on Friday. Even though the Falcons suffered their second loss in a row, their resilience and energy in battling back from a huge early deficit to get withing four points late was a bit of a victory in itself. “Flat out energy and effort,” Zargarian said when asked about the difference between Friday's loss and Thursday night's 58-55 loss to Kennedy in which the Falcons squandered a 10-point lead in the fourth quarter.

GLENDALE — An officer in plainclothes walked across an unmarked crosswalk at Hawthorne Street and Pacific Avenue numerous times Wednesday to see if drivers yielded to him, and those who didn’t stop received a citation. Many motorists sped by the officer, who wore a white T-shirt and blue jeans, as he walked the unmarked crosswalk, but other drivers stopped for him. Uniformed motorcycle officers quickly followed motorists who made no attempts to stop for the officer, cited them for failing to yield to a pedestrian at an unmarked crosswalk and informed them of the rules for those walkways.

LA CRESCENTA — A 42-year-old woman was arrested on Monday on suspicion of prostitution at a La Crescenta business — the sixth arrest for similar activity along Honolulu Avenue since December, police said. A Glendale Police Department vice/narcotics officer arrested Xiaoyan Zhao in an undercover sting operation, Glendale Police Officer John Balian said. An anonymous caller tipped off police, saying a massage parlor was being operated in the 2900 block of Honolulu Avenue, Balian said.

Alecia Foster GLENDALE -- Police are calling a recent undercover prostitution sting a success. Undercover narcotics/vice officers arrested fifteen people during the Wednesday afternoon operation. "They ran the full gamut," said Det. Tim Feeley. Fourteen men and one woman ranging in age from 18 to 73 years old were arrested on various charges including solicitation of prostitution, possession of drugs and lewd conduct. "They were interested immediately," Feeley said of the solicitors.

SOUTH GLENDALE — Glendale police officers went forward with another pedestrian enforcement operation Thursday, a day after Councilman John Drayman took them to task for an earlier sting in which an officer dressed in a rabbit costume. Glendale Police Officer Tom Broadway dressed in a pair of shorts and T-shirt, a far cry from the furry Easter costume that he sported a day earlier. On Thursday, he walked back and forth at two crosswalks, one lighted and marked, the other not. All the while officers cited drivers who failed to yield, while giving them a rundown of pedestrian safety rules.

GLENDALE ? Three Glendale residents were among seven men arrested Thursday for allegedly trying to solicit prostitution services from undercover police officers conducting a sting operation, police said. Fritzgerald De Rojas, 21, of Glendale; Suren Vardanyan, 19, of Glendale; Gagik Mkhitaryan, 18, of Glendale; Dennis Jaurigue, 26, of Los Angeles; Nate Silberstien, 29, of Los Angeles; Krikor Keshishian, 36, of Sun Valley; and Francisco Perez, 43, of Downey, were arrested on suspicion of solicitation of prostitution, Glendale Police Officer John Balian said.