Email Author Dennis Romero

Awards

• 2011 - Southern California Journalism Awards/LA Press Club, published December 30, 2010

  "Death, Money and Megaraves"

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2013 Stories by Dennis Romero

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  Voters Favor Strict Limits on Marijuana Dispensaries

  published May 19, 2013

  Most of you want to limit the number of marijuana dispensaries in town to 135 or less. So says a USC Sol Price School of Public Policy/Los Angeles Times poll of 500 likely voters conducted last week ... More >>

• DUI Checkpoints Tonight in Lincoln Heights, Van Nuys

  published May 17, 2013

  After a flurry of anti-drunk-driving operations this spring, culminating with a massive Cinco de Mayo crackdown, the cops around here seem to be mellowing out. Maybe just a little. Our weekend DUI... More >>

• Los Angeles Times Could Be Yours: Crowdfunding Campaign Launches

  published May 17, 2013

  Some folks are really scared that billionaire conservatives are going to run the "free press." News flash: Billionaire conservatives already run the free press. Anyway, there's a crowdfunding campaig... More >>

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  Upskirt Perv Victimized More Than 100 Women in Antelope Valley, Cops Say

  published May 17, 2013

  It's upskirt season is Southern California. The sun comes out, and so do the pervs. Our latest suspect is Mylyn Corniche Johnson (yes, he shares his middle name with a Rolls- Royce model), a 29-year-... More >>

• Ex-Clipper Nick Young Says West Hollywood GHB Rape Allegation Bogus

  published May 17, 2013

  Former NBA Clipper Nick Young is accused in a lawsuit of drugging and raping a woman after a 2011 encounter at Crown Bar in West Hollywood. Young, now a Philadelphia 76er, says it wasn't me. He took ... More >>

• Man Who Allegedly Took Upskirt Photos of Model Brittanie Weaver Charged

  published May 17, 2013

  Model Brittanie Weaver says a perv "picked the wrong girl" when he used an iPad to take upskirt photos of her at a Sherman Oaks pet store in March. The L.A. City Attorney's office this week might jus... More >>

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  Robert Colt Wilson Had Bombs, Meth & Gun In Westside Case, Prosecutors Say

  published May 17, 2013

  You know what we really need more than a man with 16 or so pipe bombs in his Westside apartmentr A man with 16 bombs, an explosive device in his car, a gun and meth. Because we want people with destr... More >>

• Man Gives Abercrombie Clothes to Skid Row Homeless to Defy Douchey Brand (VIDEO)

  published May 16, 2013

  We've been hating on Abercrombie & Fitch for more than a decade now, ever since T-shirts depicting stereotypical Asian characters hit the shelves in 2002. The company appeared to reprise that misstep... More >>

• LAPD's Rampart-Era Consent Decree Finally Over

  published May 16, 2013

  The final black cloud over the Los Angeles Police Department has lifted. A 2001 consent decree that put LAPD under federal oversight following allegations of false arrests, excessive force and unrea... More >>

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  Latino Vote Crucial for L.A. City Hall Candidates

  published May 16, 2013

  With nearly one in three people in the L.A. electorate claiming Latino heritage, the city election Tuesday could be decided by the brown vote. So says the National Association of Latino Elected and A... More >>

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  Smog, Freeway Emissions Can Be Stroke, Heart Attack Risks

  published May 16, 2013

  You've heard of good and bad cholesterol before, rightr Fish oil good, Big breakfast with hotcakes bad. Simple enough. Maybe not. UCLA researchers this week announced that merely breathing some of th... More >>

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  Party People, Prepare for a .05 DUI Alcohol Limit

  published May 16, 2013

  If you thought .08 was a tough blood alcohol limit for driving under the influence, just wait. There's a movement afoot to lower the threshold to .05, which some of the lighter weights among us could... More >>

• Overland Avenue Explosives Stash Prompts Evacuations, Westside Traffic Tie-Ups

  published May 16, 2013

  Updated at the bottom with the suspect's ID and the end of evacuations. First posted at 1:45 p.m. A traffic stop in Marina del Rey led police to a stash of explosive devices at a suspect's apartment ... More >>

• L.A. Is Dog-Bite Capital for Postal Workers

  published May 15, 2013

  Among our many fine distinctions -- smog capital, traffic capital, douche capital -- is a new one: The U.S. Postal Service this week ranked Los Angeles No. 1 among big cities where carriers are attac... More >>

• Breaking: White People Tend to Live Closer to The Beach

  published May 15, 2013

  No big surprise here. As we bid adieu to our May heat wave, new research has "discovered" that minorities tend to live in hotter communities throughout the nation. Why is this no big surprise to usrI... More >>

• Cross-Dresser Secretly Videotaped Women In SoCal Macy's Restroom, Cops Say

  published May 15, 2013

  In the annals of bizarre and desperate attempts to videotape women in the most private of moments, this one is a winner. A man dressed as a woman went into a Macy's restroom with a camera concealed i... More >>

• 5 Hottest Rental Neighborhoods in Los Angeles

  published May 15, 2013

  Competition for apartments and rental homes in this town is fierce. At least according to the online rental marketplace Lovely, which crunched the numbers for L.A. recently. It found that a mix of up... More >>

• Dr. Dre, Jimmy Iovine Donate $70 Million To USC For Arts Academy

  published May 15, 2013

  See also: Dr. Dre speaks to LA Weekly about the contribution. Must be nice to have so much cash that you can pair up with a buddy and donate $70 million to a private, rich kids' school like USC. Of ... More >>

• Armando Gonzalez: The Skate Shopkeeper

  published May 15, 2013

  One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2013 issue. Check out our entire People 2013 issue here. In Latino neighborhoods in the early 1980s, skateboarders were rare. The one... More >>

• Tyrese Gibson: One-Man Band

  published May 15, 2013

  One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2013 issue. Check out our entire People 2013 issue here. Tyrese Gibson is checking out new office space for his expanding record labe... More >>

• Drunk Guy Gets Stuck In Sylmar Chimney, Calls 911

  published May 14, 2013

  Drunk and stuck in a chimney is not where you want be when the LAPD comes rolling around. But that was the story for 27-year-old Cuauhtli Castillo Lujano overnight, who told cops he was jumping from ... More >>

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  Eric Garcetti Woos Hipster Vote With Steve Aoki Fundraiser

  published May 14, 2013

  When a 15-year-old girl died from a drug overdose after she attended Electric Daisy Carnival at the Los Angeles Coliseum in 2010, L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa was quick to question whether raves sh... More >>

• Sex Offenders, Narcotics Convicts Working As California Drug Counselorsr

  published May 14, 2013

  A look at California's substance abuse counselors found that at least 23 of them were convicted sex offenders, with many having rape or child molestation on their records. That's according to a Calif... More >>

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  Watch L.A. Grow With This Time-Lapse Map

  published May 14, 2013

  In 1984 Los Angeles hosted the Olympics, Ronald Reagan was president and crack and AIDS were just starting to do damage. So much has changed since then, from the gentrification of Echo Park and downt... More >>

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  Bike Week L.A. Is Here; Free Bus, Metro Train Rides Thursday

  published May 14, 2013

  It's officially Bike Week L.A., so try not to mow down bicyclists as usual, Angeleno drivers. What is Bike Week L.A., you askr Mostly it's just a way to encourage you to step away from the gas guzzle... More >>