Email Author Celeste Fremon

2006 Stories by Celeste Fremon

• Prime-Time Crime Fighter

  published April 20, 2006

  Boston-bred William Bratton was appointed L.A.’s 54th police chief in October 2002 and — for the most part — has shaken up... More >>

• Streets of Intervention

  published April 20, 2006

  BLINKY RODRIGUEZ IS A FORMER WORLD-CHAMPION kickboxer turned gang-intervention specialist. His main area of specialty is the San... More >>

• Running Man

  published April 20, 2006

  Luis J. RodriGuez is a celebrateDPOET, novelist, nonfiction writer and children’s book author. But it’s his classic memoir... More >>

• Healing Wounds

  published April 20, 2006

  AQEELA SHERRILLS IS AN ACTIVE PROPONENT of forgiveness. The charismatic head of the Watts-based Community Self-Determination Institute... More >>

• The Real Thing

  published April 20, 2006

  DEPUTY CHIEF EARL PAYSINGER is the commanding officer of the Los Angeles Police Department’s South Bureau — which makes him... More >>

• The Withering Spotlight

  published March 16, 2006

  LAST MONTH, L.A. County sheriff’s deputies — plus a dog — raided the Boyle Heights home of Frances and Luis... More >>

• Jailhouse Hope

  published February 16, 2006

  AT 6 O’CLOCK LAST FRIDAY NIGHT, around 200 people, most of them African-American, gathered at the Hope for Life Foundation at... More >>

• Supermax Explodes

  published February 9, 2006

  IN RETROSPECT, JENNY OLMEDA says she knew something was wrong last Saturday when she went to visit her husband, Augustin Velasquez, at... More >>