Maywood RFD California Attorney General Jerry Brown is seeking a court order to impose and monitor reforms on Maywood's troubled police department. L.A. TimesGetting the Lead Out The Department of Toxic Substances Control has discovered San Fernando warehouses containing jewelry that has higher than safe levels of lead -- even though boxes claimed their contents were lead free. L.A. Daily NewsMother Charged Stacey Barker, the young Lancaster mother who had claimed she was slugged unconscio
For a town looking to repair its police department's reputation as corrupt and brutal, Maywood took the unusual step Friday of holding an emergency session to hire as its interim police chief Al Hutchings, a former Maywood and LAPD officer convicted of bilking LAPD for fraudulent overtime.
Mayor Felipe Aguirre led the Maywood City Council in a 3-2 vote to hire Hutchings, just 24 hours after the city issued a public notice that the session would be held. The short notice didn't stop anti-Hutc
