PUBLISHED: August 3, 2009 at 12:00 am | UPDATED: September 11, 2018 at 12:00 am
Decapitated body found; man arrested
Police say they have found the partially decapitated body of a 69-year-old man on a sidewalk.
Santa Maria Police Lt. Dan Ast says authorities were responding to a possible hit-and-run Saturday morning when officers "realized it was actually a homicide instead."
KSBY-TV says investigators found Frederick Holgate"s body, as well as an axe several feet away.
Ast says police have arrested a suspect, whom KSBY identified as 20-year-old Nicholas Bendle.
Uncle arrested
in abduction case
A 13-year-old Southern California girl who police say was abducted by her uncle has been returned safely to her family and her uncle is under arrest.
Officer Jason Zuhlke of the Whittier Police Department says Cynthia Hernandez was found Saturday about 9p.m. about 25 miles from where she went missing Friday.
An Amber Alert had been issued for Hernandez, who police said was taken by 45-year-old Juan Hernandez after an argument with the girl"s mother Friday.
— Herald wire services
Officer fatally shoots man armed with hatchet
Authorities say an Oakland police officer shot and killed a man armed with a hatchet.
Oakland police spokesman Jeff Thomason said Sunday the incident happened Saturday evening at an East Oakland liquor store.
Police say 46-year-old Brownie Polk was shot when he confronted the officer with a hatchet. Polk was taken to an Oakland hospital where he was pronounced dead.
Thomason says moments before the shooting the officer had been flagged down by a store employee. The employee said Polk had been harassing him and customers.
The officer, whose name was not released, was placed on administrative leave, which is standard procedure.
This was the third fatal officer-involved shooting in Oakland this year.
Man with meat cleavers shot to death by deputies
Authorities say sheriff"s deputies shot a burglary suspect to death after he confronted them with meat cleavers in Rosemead.
Los Angeles County Sheriff"s Deputy Keith Ho says a woman called authorities Saturday after she discovered the man in her apartment. She recognized him as a resident in the complex.
Ho says when deputies arrived, the man first refused to open the door. He then approached them, swinging the cleavers and asking to be killed.
Ho says when the man refused to drop the weapons, each of the two deputies fired one shot, killing him.
The suspect"s name has not been released.