{"id":422815,"date":"2010-03-12T14:14:56","date_gmt":"2010-03-12T19:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef01310f941487970c"},"modified":"2010-03-12T15:51:43","modified_gmt":"2010-03-12T20:51:43","slug":"alarcon-says-d-a-s-office-failed-to-tell-him-that-alleged-intruder-had-been-released-from-mental-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/422815","title":{"rendered":"Alarcon says D.A.’s office failed to tell him that alleged intruder had been released from mental hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Los<\/img><\/a> Los Angeles City Councilman Richard Alarcon claimed Friday that the district attorney’s office should have notified him that the case against an intruder at his home had been dismissed and that he had been released from a state mental hospital.<\/p>\n

The allegations came one day after a mentally ill man broke into Alarcon’s Panorama City home for a second time in six months. <\/p>\n

\nAlarcon, who represents the northeast San Fernando Valley, said prosecutors in L.A. County District Atty. Steve Cooley\u2019s office should have told him about what happened to suspect Lawrence Lydell Payton.<\/p>\n

Payton was arrested on suspicion of burglary about 6:45 p.m. Thursday at Alarcon’s home on Nordhoff Street, the same house he was arrested for breaking into in October. He was being held Friday on $50,000 bail. <\/p>\n

\u201cI would like to have an explanation as to why he was released and nobody in the D.A.\u2019s office bothered to tell us,\u201d the councilman said.
\n\u201cI\u2019m a little ticked off right now.\u201d<\/p>\n

Alarcon is under investigation by Cooley\u2019s office, which is trying to determine whether the councilman illegally claimed the home as his residence. A politician who registers to vote at a place that is not his residence can be charged with a felony.
\nNeighbors have told The Times that they did not see Alarcon in the home for long stretches of time last year.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Alarcon\u2019s wife, who owns the house on Nordhoff Street, also owns a home in nearby Sun Valley — a district represented by Councilman Paul Krekorian.
\nAlarcon said he lives in the Nordhoff Street house and urged Cooley to drop the investigation, which he called \u201cbogus.\u201d<\/p>\n

A spokeswoman for Cooley did not immediately have a comment.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Payton, 42, was first discovered inside Alarcon\u2019s home in October. He had changed the locks on the doors and damaged many of Alarcon\u2019s belongings. At the time, Alarcon said no one had been in the house for two days.<\/p>\n

\nIn Thursday night’s break-in, Alarcon said he and his family had been away from the house for an hour and 45 minutes. Alarcon described the intruder as 6-feet-3 and 280 pounds. He voiced alarm that Payton had been just a few feet away from two of his daughters.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

In January, Alarcon said that he stopped living in the Nordhoff Street home temporarily out of fear for his family\u2019s safety. He made those comments days after investigators served search warrants on the two homes owned by his wife.
<\/br><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>A spokesman for the Los Angeles Police Department said Friday that there had been an arrest about 6:45 p.m. Thursday but would not provide more details.<\/p>\n

\nAlarcon said prosecutors in Cooley\u2019s office were in frequent contact with his sisters after an intruder broke into his mother\u2019s home in Sun Valley last September. That type of contact did not occur in the case of his own home, he said.<\/p>\n

He said he probably would install an alarm system in the house and possibly get a dog. He said he did not know why the man had entered his home a second time.<\/p>\n

\n\u201cI know he was declared incompetent to stand trial, but that doesn\u2019t mean he\u2019s competent to be in society,\u201d Alarcon said.<\/p>\n

— David Zahniser <\/p>\n

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