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Thursday, May 9, 2019 Vol. 18 No. 5 HOMELESS FEATURES PHOTOS PAGING DR. FRISCHER Checking on Rotary honors Pathfinders Handling dirty Jennifer & Julie young readers retreat money SEE PAGE 12 SEE PAGE 12 SEE PAGE 17 SEE PAGE 3 Store clerk Downey Terrorist who lived in restaurant killed in grades Porto’s Cafe robbery Downey faces deportation 8233 Firestone Blvd. Date Inspected: 5/7/19 Friday 70˚ Vallmoe Shqaire Grade: A Weekend attempt at a DOWNEY – A 44-year-old was admitted to the A-1 Food Store Glance Cerritos man was found shot dead 10821 Studebaker Rd. behind the counter of a Downey U.S. despite prior Date Inspected: 5/7/19 SaturdayFriday 6873˚⁰ liquor store Tuesday night. Grade: A Police responded to ASL Liquor, convictions in Israel Bluewave Fish Grill located at 8500 Paramount Blvd., Sunday at about 10:15 p.m. and discovered on terror-related 8262 Firestone Blvd. 73˚70⁰ the man deceased behind the store Date Inspected: 5/7/19 Saturday counter. He had been shot several Grade: A times. charges. The victim was identified as Downey Courthouse Snack Bar THINGS TO DO Gurpreet Singh, the liquor store’s DOWNEY – A Jordanian 7500 Imperial Hwy. co-owner. national who was sentenced to Date Inspected: 5/7/19 prison in Israel after admitting Police are investigating the Grade: A he acted at the direction of a shooting as an attempted robbery. IMAGE COURTESY CNN terrorist organization to detonate Rancho Works Cafe and Gift a roadside bomb in an attempt to “At this time it appears to Shop blow up a civilian bus in Israel was with the Israeli authorities. and attacked the immigration have been an attempted robbery 7601 Imperial Hwy. but detectives are not ruling out ordered last week to serve a nine- safeguards that are in place to When he pleaded guilty earlier other possible motives,” said Lt. month prison sentence for lying to protect persons like the defendant Date Inspected: 5/7/19 this year, Shqaire admitted that Kathleen Mendoza. immigration authorities to obtain from entering our country,” Grade: A U.S. citizenship and, as a result of he lied to U.S. Citizenship and prosecutors wrote in a sentencing Immigration Services (USCIS) in Coffee with your Councilman No description of the shooter his conviction, will be deported to memo that noted Shqaire’s SSA Kitchen has been released. order to become a citizen. On his Saturday - Vazza Cafe, 10 am Jordan. criminal conduct continued after 7601 Imperial Hwy citizenship application and during he fraudulently obtained U.S. Join Councilman Sean Ashton as he Vallmoe Shqaire, 51, of Date Inspected: 5/7/19 Anyone with information is the interview, Shqaire falsely citizenship. speaks about the Clean Power Alliance asked to call Detective Richard Downey, an admitted member denied under oath that he had Grade: A and your options. Garcia at (562) 904-2330. of the Palestinian Liberation never been arrested, convicted or After being granted citizenship, Organization, pleaded guilty Jan. sentenced for any crime, and that Shqaire was prosecuted in a credit Lucky Guy Tipsters can remain 14 to unlawfully procuring U.S. he was never a member of any card fraud scheme that led to a anonymous by calling Crime citizenship. organization or association. state prison sentence, and he 12801 Bellflower Blvd. Stoppers at (800) 222-8477. made additional false statements Date Inspected: 5/7/19 As a consequence of Certified Israeli court records Eric Pierce, editor to law enforcement officers Grade: his conviction, Shqaire was A show that Shqaire was, in fact, in an attempt to minimize his denaturalized, and he agreed to arrested on two occasions in the significant criminal history. be removed to Jordan upon the late 1980s and early 1990s; was Mimi’s Cafe completion of his prison sentence. convicted of multiple, violent Shqaire was sentenced April 8455 Firestone Blvd. felonies; and served a prison 26 by United States District Judge Date Inspected: 5/7/19 Lockdown Shqaire was convicted in Israel sentence in Israel. John F. Walter, who issued the STEAM Festival of numerous violent felonies, Grade: A order that Shqaire be removed including charges related to his Saturday - Downey Federal Credit “By repeatedly lying to USCIS to Jordan once he completes his role in the failed plot to bomb Carl’s Jr. Union, 9 am to 1 pm deemed a Officers, defendant sought prison sentence. an Israeli bus and for assaulting to conceal his extensive and 9110 Imperial Hwy. A celebration of science, technology, persons suspected of cooperating violent criminal history in Israel Date Inspected: 5/7/19 engineering, arts and math. Free for false alarm Grade: A kids and families. DOWNEY – An incident with a suspected armed person on the Embassy Suites campus of Columbus High School 8425 Firestone Blvd. was deemed a false alarm and Plan would remove pepper Date Inspected: 5/7/19 “no threat” by Downey Police Grade: A Wednesday morning. Reports of a person on campus Fonda Maria began coming in sometime spray from juvenile halls 7840 Firestone Blvd. Unit 104 between the hours of 9 and 10 am. Date Inspected: 5/2/19 Founders Day According to Downey Unified Grade: A Saturday - Central Park in Whittier, Public Relations Coordinator 10 am to 1 pm Ashley Greaney, Columbus and Gloria’s Cocina Mexicana within 1 year Fresh quaker bread, live entertainment, the surrounding campuses were 7401 E Florence Ave. moustache and beard contest, antique quickly placed on lockdown, and Date Inspected: 5/2/19 cars, and communit picnic. DPD responded “within seconds.” The plan comes after a Grade: A According to district staff, report criticizing excessive the suspected gun was actually a use of pepper spray against Fatima Grill FROM OUR FaceBOOK training weapon used in one of incarcerated youth. 7840 Firestone Blvd. Ste. A101 the Downey Adult School security Date Inspected: 5/2/19 DOWNEY teachers classes. Grade: A SET TO RETIRE DUSD released a statement DOWNEY – A report released shortly after the lockdown was Monday laid out a roadmap for KEN cooK: Mrs. Georgianna providing humane treatment and Pina’s Pizzeria lifted, saying, “As this was 11102 Paramount Blvd. was my 3rd grade teacher, improving safety in Los Angeles at Price Elementary. I still thankfully a false alarm, all Date Inspected: 5/2/19 Columbus High School students County’s juvenile halls and remember how she would and staff are safe.” probation camps that, for the first Grade: A have multiple voices, for each time, includes recommendations character, as she read to us. Alex Dominguez, staff writer for phasing out the use of pepper It was always after lunch, and spray. Norm’s Restaurant it was the only time that I can 7955 E Firestone Blvd. recall being engaged. She The report emerged from Investigators from L.A. County’s Office of Inspector General testify about the use Date Inspected: 5/2/19 actually announced that she of pepper spray at juvenile detention facilities. was getting married during Fire erupts the Probation Reform and Grade: A Implementation Team, a taskforce that year created after the L.A. County Board The taskforce’s proposed Eventually, the pepper spray Flame Broiler of Supervisors voted in February to timeline begins with enhancing will be placed in a lock box and heather SCHARFF: Lots at Pieloon 9206 Lakewood Blvd. eliminate pepper spray in juvenile training for all staff who work taken out only under very limited of amazing teachers on this halls. with youth, particularly on de- circumstances. By the end of Date Inspected: 5/1/19 list and many of my mom’s coworkers! escalation techniques and non- the year, all pepper spray will be Grade: A restaurant Last month, six detention use of force options. Such training removed from juvenile halls and officers at Los Padrinos Juvenile DOWNEY – A fire broke out is to start as soon as possible, and probation camps. MONICA MARTINEZ: Congrats Hall were arrested on charges that Burger King in the attic of Pieloon restaurant be ongoing. to all!!! Some of you had an Wednesday night but a quick they abused teenage girls with “Having gone through the 10014 Paramount Blvd. amazing impact on my life! As response from firefighters saved pepper spray. Soon after, only supervisors – experience of being pepper Date Inspected: 5/1/19 a teacher now, I hope to make the building. not line staff – will have access to an impact like you all had on After the arrests, L.A. County Grade: A pepper spray, though only as a last Continued on page 2 me! God bless! leaders decided to close Los Firefighters responded to resort. the restaurant at 9:41 p.m. after Padrinos, effective this summer. Movita Juice Bar DONNA SIEMANN: Yes, it is an several 911 calls reporting visible 9202 Lakewood Blvd. amazing district and I pray flames. Date Inspected: 5/1/19 that you continue to find equaly amazing teachers and Upon arrival, firefighters Grade: A faculty to take the place of reported heavy smoke coming Newsom supports eliminating tax these wonderful retirees. May from the front of the building. Cafe N Stuff all the retirees have a happy 9306 E Firestone Blvd. retirement. Twenty-two firefighters Date Inspected: 5/1/19 and four emergency medical on tampons Grade: A Reach us on Facebook at: technicians contained the fire “to Facebook.com/DowneyPatriot the area of origin,” saving the building and its contents from Gov. Gavin Newsom announced The repeal would go into effect actions today in finally sending El Sushi Loco Express being a total loss, officials said. his support for a repeal of sales upon his signature of the budget, a message that our bodies are 102 Stonewood St.