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Fire officials, police respond
to report of Malibu landslide
Lauren Coughlin, Editor
A passerby called Los Angeles
County Fire officials at
3:46 p.m. on Jan. 17 to report
a landslide at a three-story
Malibu home in the 2800
block of Hume Road.
LA County Fire Public
Information Officer Randall
Wright said the home
was red-tagged — meaning
“no one can go in and no
one can go out” — and left
in the care of Malibu/Lost
Hills Sheriff’s Station deputies
as of roughly 8 p.m.
“There’s lines of tape
that say it’s not safe to enter
that area,” Wright said.
The homeowners were
out of town at the time of
the incident, Wright confirmed.
News footage depicts a
damaged retaining wall to
the rear of the home.
Wright said the cause of
the landslide has not yet
been identified. The determination
of whether or not
the home is permanently
uninhabitable remains in
the hands of the county’s
Building and Safety Division,
as well as the homeowner,
Wright said.
Police investigating sexual
battery allegation against Seal
Lauren Coughlin, Editor
Malibu Canyon Road incident lands one in hospital
Lauren Coughlin, Editor
An individual reportedly
was extricated from their
car and flown to UCLA
after plunging roughly 250
feet over the side of Malibu
Canyon Road around 3:30
From Jan. 16
A Malibu woman reportedly
told police that she
was sexually battered by
54-year-old Malibu resident
Samuel Henry Olusegun,
who is better known as the
musician Seal, in November
2016, according to a Jan. 16
press release issued by the
Los Angeles County Sheriff’s
Department.
Malibu/Lost Hills sheriff’s
deputies were informed
of the alleged
sexual battery case while
responding to a Jan. 13 disturbance
call in the 28900
block of Verde Mesa Lane.
No disturbance was discovered
by police Jan. 13, but
the police are now investigating
the sexual battery
allegation.
No further information is
available at this time, police
said.
Anyone with information
about this incident is en-
p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 18.
Malibu Search and Rescue,
the Los Angeles County
Fire Department and
California Highway Patrol
responded.
According to a City of
couraged to contact police
at (818) 878-1808. Those
who prefer to provide information
anonymously
may call “Crime Stoppers”
at (800) 222-8477, use their
smartphones by downloading
the “P3 MOBILE
APP” on Google Play or
the App store, or by using
lacrimestoppers.org.
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other Breaking News, visit
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Malibu alert, all lanes of
Malibu Canyon Road were
open as of 5:16 p.m.
LA County Fire officials
were not immediately
available for further comment.
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Police Reports
Scooters allegedly stolen out of garage
DUI checkpoint planned for Friday
Submitted by Los
Angeles County Sheriff’s
Department
The Los Angeles County
Sheriff’s Department Traffic
Services Detail, in conjunction
with the Malibu/
Lost Hills Station, is to
conduct a DUI/Drivers License
Checkpoint Friday,
Jan. 26, at an undisclosed
location within Malibu city
limits from 8 p.m.-3 a.m.
In recent years, California
has seen an increase
in drug-impaired driving
crashes. The Office
of Traffic Safety aims to
CITY OF MALIBU
Certified O.W.T.S.
and N.A.W.T.
Septic inspectors
for all single family,
multi-family and
commercial properties.
A garage door opener and
two Razor electric scooters
reportedly were stolen from
a residence on Shoreheights
Drive in Malibu, according
to a Jan. 14 police report.
The alleged victim said
person(s) unknown entered
his unlocked vehicle in the
driveway and used the garage
door opener to gain access
to the garage and steal
the scooters. The alleged
victim said he shut the garage
door at night, but upon
waking in the morning discovered
the garage as well
as the door to his car open.
EDITOR’S NOTE: The
educate all drivers that
“DUI Doesn’t Just Mean
Booze.” Those who take
prescription drugs, particularly
those with a driving or
operating machinery warning
on the label, might be
impaired enough to get a
DUI. Marijuana can also
be impairing, especially in
combination with alcohol
or other drugs, and can result
in a DUI.
In California, alcoholinvolved
collisions led to
1,155 deaths and nearly
24,000 serious injuries in
2014. Over the course of
the past three years LA
McDermott
Malibu Surfside News police
reports are compiled from official
records on file at the Los
Angeles County Lost Hills/
Malibu Sheriff’s Department
headquarters. Anyone listed
in these reports is considered
to be innocent of all charges
until proven guilty in a court
of law.
County Sheriff’s Department
deputies have investigated
3,374 DUI collisions
which have claimed 72
lives and resulted in another
2,609 injuries.
Officers will be looking
for signs of alcohol and/or
drug impairment, with officers
checking drivers for
proper licensing, delaying
motorists only momentarily.
When possible, specially
trained officers will be available
to evaluate those suspected
of drug-impaired
driving, which now accounts
for a growing number of impaired
driving crashes.
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