{"id":259115,"date":"2010-02-01T09:26:29","date_gmt":"2010-02-01T14:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c5fcf53ef0120a83b51da970b"},"modified":"2010-02-01T09:26:29","modified_gmt":"2010-02-01T14:26:29","slug":"burglar-who-targeted-homes-near-melrose-and-fairfax-avenues-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/259115","title":{"rendered":"Burglar Who Targeted Homes near Melrose and Fairfax Avenues Arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Los Angeles:<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 Yesterday morning, Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) Wilshire Area officers caught a suspect who is believed to be responsible for multiple residential burglaries.<\/p>\n<p>On January 30, 2010, at around 7:00 a.m., officers from Wilshire Division responded to a radio call of a burglary that had just occurred in the 800 block of North Laurel Avenue.\u00a0 Comments of the call stated that the resident was detaining the suspect.\u00a0 Prior to the officers arrival however, the suspect ran from the scene.\u00a0 In his haste to escape, the suspect left behind evidence that identified him as the named serial burglar, Dante Hoskins.\u00a0 <br \/><\/br><\/p>\n<p>Familiar with crime trends and wanted suspects in their area, the responding officers recognized Hoskins as the same suspect who was arrested in December 2009, for numerous residential burglaries.\u00a0 Part of Hoskins method of operation was that he targeted houses located north of Melrose Avenue near Fairfax Avenue and that he used the same tactics to commit his crimes.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation led officers to Hoskins&#8217; home in LAPD&#8217;s Southwest Division.\u00a0 When they arrived, Hoskins was walking out of his house and when he saw the officers approaching, he quickly ran away.\u00a0 During an extensive search for Hoskins, personnel from the Metropolitan K-9 Unit found Hoskins hiding nearby.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>Dante Hoskins, a 39-year-old resident of Los Angeles was arrested and charged for residential burglary.\u00a0 His bail was set at $75,000.00.<\/p>\n<p>The Los Angeles Police Department, Wilshire Burglary Detectives are requesting that anyone with information about these crimes contact them at 213-473-0557.\u00a0 During non-business hours or on weekends, calls should be directed to 1-877-LAPD-24-7.\u00a0\u00a0 Anyone wishing to remain anonymous should call Crimestoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (800-222-8477).\u00a0 Tipsters may also contact Crimestoppers by texting to phone number 274637 (C-R-I-M-E-S on most keypads) with a cell phone. All text messages should begin with the letters &quot;LAPD.&quot; Tipsters may also go to LAPDOnline.org, click on &quot;webtips&quot; and follow the prompts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles:\u00a0 Yesterday morning, Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) Wilshire Area officers caught a suspect who is believed to be responsible for multiple residential burglaries. On January 30, 2010, at around 7:00 a.m., officers from Wilshire Division responded to a radio call of a burglary that had just occurred in the 800 block of North [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-259115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}