As the recent triple-murder returns to the role of Southern California’s medical marijuana “ground zero,” officials responded LA County Sheriff Lee Baca’s charges that criminal elements have hijacked the medical marijuana movement.

In remarks made to the LA Times Wednesday, Sheriff Baca asserted that the triple killing over a pot deal showed how “the medicinal marijuana program… has been hijacked by underground drug dealing criminals.”

One West Hollywood official pushed back, saying that the only way to solve the problems caused by the illicit pot trade is to regulate it.... [full story]

A judge found the woman who allegedly stabbed four West Hollywood Target shoppers incompetent to stand trial yesterday.

Layla Rosette Trawick, 34, went through two psychiatric examinations after which doctors agreed she could not understand the legal proceedings she faced, according to LA County DA spokesperson Jane Robison.

Ms. Traywick stands accused of four counts of attempted murder and five counts of assault with a deadly weapon in the May 3 incident.... [full story]

Lomita Station Sheriff’s deputies arrested the alleged killer of three men in West Hollywood last night – with a “significant” amount of marijuana in his possession.

The suspect, Harold Yong Park, age 31, and a Korean-American residing in Hollywood, was arrested during a traffic stop at roughly 11 am on Monday, August 30.

WeHo News published an exclusive about the killings’ potential connection to medical marijuana last week.... [full story]

WeHo Daily is reporting several coyote sightings over the past week just south of West Hollywood in Hollywood.

Beginning last Tuesday, they track five sightings of coyotes – one unconfirmed report of a pack – in the flats below the Creative City.

They report no incidences of sightings in West Hollywood proper, but the city issued a warning in June and animal control agencies annually warn of coyote incursions into the urban hillsides during the spring... [full story]

Even for a town known for being “more Hollywood than Hollywood,” this weekend’s 62nd Primetime Emmy Awards parties in the Creative City of West Hollywood shined more brightly than most years.

The celebs began the weekend with a bash on Friday night at the Sunset Marquis Hotel.

A Saturday night party at SkyBar on the Sunset Strip bridged the weekend to Sunday’s mega-party at the Pacific Design Center (PDC).

This despite another street party shutting down the Sunset Strip – the Sunset Strip Music Festival.... [full story]

California’s 60-yr old code mandating (and funding) research into the “cases and cure of homosexuality” finally fell by the wayside this month.

Equality California reports the repeal a section of the California Welfare and Institutions code that instructs the State Department of Mental Health to conduct research into the “causes and cures of homosexuality.”

The code carried, they allege, the implication that lesbian, gay, and bisexual Californians are sexual deviants, potential sex offenders and a threat to children.

The bill, AB 2199, was passed last week by the Assembly in a unanimous 36-0 vote.... [full story]

The three men shot dead last night in West Hollywood were identified by the Coroner’s Office this afternoon.

The trio was identified as Pirooz Moussazadeh, 27; his brother, Shahriar Moussazadeh, 38; and Bernard Khalili, 27, according to Craig Harvey, chief of investigations for the Los Angeles County Coroner’s office.

According to an anonymous source, the triple slaying could be related to medical marijuana.... [full story]

West Hollywood Sheriffs deputies found three adult males shot to death at 612 North Kings Road last night.

Responding to calls that several shots were fired at the Kings Arms Apartment Complex at 9:15 pm on Thursday, August 26, deputies reportedly discovered the trio face down on the floor.

Sheriff Sgt. Chris Berger told WeHo News on the scene that the incident involved three homicides.

“We’ve got a triple murder, at least, and it’s not a murder-suicide,” he said.

See Exclusive: WeHo triple slaying victims identified – may be connected to medical marijuana for an update.... [full story]