Sting

Glendale Police officers conducted a sting operation at 8:30 p.m. Dec. 20 at a medical clinic in the 2400 block of Honolulu Avenue and arrested Jun Lu for solicitation for prostitution. Lu, 48, is from El Monte. This was her first arrest, said Officer John Balian of GPD. Lu allegedly offered the undercover officers different forms of sexual acts in return for money. This is not the first arrest along Honolulu Avenue. In September another woman, Xiaoyan Zhao, 42, was arrested on the same charges.

MONTROSE — A 48-year-old El Monte woman was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of prostitution — the seventh such arrest in the past year in the Montrose area, police said. Jun Lu, 48, was arrested after allegedly offering sex acts to undercover officers in exchange for money at a medical clinic on 2490 Honolulu Avenue, Glendale Police Officer John Balian said, adding that there was not a more specific name for the establishment. "We sent in a male, he goes in for a massage and the next thing you know there's offerings for different forms of sex acts," Balian said.

MONTROSE — Sheriff's deputies and state officials arrested 19 people on Wednesday on suspicion of being unlicensed contractors during an undercover sting operation, officials said. Members of the Contractors State License Board and the Crescenta Valley Sheriff's Station posed as homeowners who invited the suspected unlicensed contractors to bid on doing various work around the house, said the board's spokeswoman Pamela Mares. The work included landscaping, installing sprinklers, concrete and cabinet work and flooring, Mares said.

On Wednesday, a normally quiet neighborhood in Montrose became the backdrop for a sting operation conducted by the Contractors State License Board's[CSLB]Statewide Investigative Fraud Team[SWIFT] with the support of the Crescenta Valley Sheriff's Station. The sting's target was suspected unlicensed contractors. SWIFT members and sheriff's deputies posed as homeowners who were interested in various home improvements that included landscaping, concrete and sprinkler installation to painting, tile, cabinet work and flooring.

NORTHWEST GLENDALE — One driver called it a trap. But bystanders and police officers involved in a crosswalk sting operation Thursday had a very different view of the morning's events. "They're doing a good job," Glendale resident Vagan Ovalyan said. He lives just feet from the intersection of Pacific Avenue and Myrtle Street, where two Glendale policemen dressed in plain clothes paced the intersection, which has no marked crosswalks, Thursday in an effort to see if drivers would yield for them.

GLENDALE ? Police arrested a 40-year-old Eagle Rock man on Wednesday night who they believe intended to meet and have sex with a 13-year-old Glendale girl he met on the Internet. But that girl was an officer posing as a teen. Police arrested him on similar charges seven years ago, Glendale Police Sgt. Tim Feeley said. Teddy Moreno was arrested on suspicion of sending harmful matter to a child, distribution of lewd material to a minor, attempted oral copulation with a minor, attempted lewd acts with a minor and attempted sex with a minor, Feeley said.

Hiring should be the criminal offense As the saying goes, if you don't feed the pigeons in the park, they will not come. The word is illegal not emigrant. When we break the law, we pay a fine, or do jail time. The people who hire these illegals immigrants are the criminals. The idea of building fences around our borders is a waste of money. First off, with our love for cheap labor, we would get illegals to build them, and they would build them with zippers at every 50 feet. ROBERT TARALLO La Crescenta Why this soliciting sting anyway?

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.