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A 26-year-old Monrovia man accused of threatening to shoot up local schools, hospitals and a mall was sentenced to three years in prison, officials said Wednesday. Sarah Ardalani, spokeswoman for the District Attorney’s Office, said Gerardo Cortez pleaded no contest on Monday to one felony count of making a criminal threat. A Pomona Superior Court commissioner sentenced him the same day. He was originally charged with six counts of making criminal threats and five counts of falsely reporting an ...

A Monrovia middle school was on lockdown Monday afternoon after a man called police and said he was on campus with a firearm, authorities said. Parents wait for word of their children outside Santa Fe Middle School on Monday. (credit: Mariam Yaralyan) A male caller phoned the Monrovia Police Department at about 2 p.m., saying he was on the campus of Santa Fe Middle School with an AK-47 assault rifle, Lt. Michael Lee said. The school, at Duarte and Peck roads, was placed on lockdow...

Monrovia Police Department 140 E. Lime Avenue, Monrovia, CA91016 Phone (626) 256-8000 Fax (626) 256-8011 Jim Hunt, Chief of Police PRESS RELEASE For Immediate Release – July 24, 2013 LOST WORLD WAR I MEDALS REUNITED WITH RECIPIENT’S FAMILY While working in the Monrovia Police Department Property and Evidence Room, Property Officer Tom Carroll came across a box of unclaimed property from years past, containing amongst other personal possessions, military medals from the U...

BATTLE OF THE BADGES BASKETBALL COMPETITION On June 14, 2013 the Monrovia Police Officer’s Association took on the Monrovia Fire Association in the 2nd annual “Battle of the Badges” charity basketball game. The competition was held at the Monrovia High School Gym and tickets were sold to raise funds to support the American Cancer Society. The event was a success and raised over $3000. The American Cancer Society is a nationwide, voluntary health organization dedicated to elimi...

The funeral service for San Bernardino County sheriff's Detective Jeremiah MacKay, slain last week in a final confrontation with fugitive multimurder suspect and ex-LAPD officer Christopher Dorner, is today in northwest San Bernardino. The service is planned to begin at 11 a.m. Thursday Feb. 21 at the San Manuel Amphitheatre, 2575 Glen Helen Parkway. The procession beforehand, which will include hundreds of law enforcement, fire, and other public safety vehicles, is expected to take more than on...

Since Chris Dorner posted his manifesto of grievances and murdered four people in his quest to “clear his name”, some in the public, including the media have given him an undeserved folk hero status. The thought process seems to be that since the LAPD has a history of racism, the actions he took to make the department “pay” are justified, including the murders of people with no ability to influence or control anything that happened to Dorner. It is a very disturbing look into the mindset and lac...

The Monrovia Police Officers' Association expresses its deepest condolences to the family of Officer Michael Crain of the Riverside Police Department. God Speed Officer Crain.Officer Michael Crain BiographyBorn: April 9, 1978Hire Date: August 24, 2001 - End of Watch: February 7, 2013 Officer Michael Crain was born in Anaheim, California to Stephen and Cindy Crain on April 9, 1978. He was the oldest of three children and had a brother, Jason, and sister, Leslie. He was raised in the Ri...