818 Roundup: Human remains identified, guilty verdict and Technicolor closes in Glendale
Good morning 818 readers. Today is Saturday, Dec. 21. National Weather Service forecasters predict the high will be 65 and the low will be 45 in the Glendale-area.
Find out what’s happening in your region:
- Los Angeles County Coroner’s investigators have identified the human remains found off Angeles Crest Highway in September as missing Burbank man Gevork Boyadzhyan, who was reported missing back in July. His family members last saw him leaving his home.
- Jorge Villalobos, a 41-year-old San Gabriel man, was found guilty in the February 26, 2008 stabbing death of Burbank resident Glen Giles, who was then 47-years-old. Giles suffered 32 stab wounds and left a trail of blood from his bedroom, across the street, up his neighbor’s driveway and on the doorbell. Prosecutors argued that Villalobos was driven by bitterness over a love triangle that included a woman named Christina Ingram.
The jobless rates in Burbank and Glendale remained at 7.6% and 8.2%, respectively, according to statistics released Friday by the California Employment Development Department. In the La Crescenta-Montrose area, the unemployment rate held steady at 4.6% and it didn’t budge from 3.6% in La Canada Flintridge.
Technicolor on Flower Street in Glendale has closed. The film lab sat in a 40,000-square-foot-facility adjacent to DreamWorks Animation and shut down Thursday, an employee at the lab told the Los Angeles Times.
-- Nicole Charky, nicole.charky@latimes.com
Follow on Twitter: @Nicosharki.