A Los Angeles man was arrested three times in the span of 16 hours by Glendale police on Feb. 13 and eventually booked on charges of burglary and felony vandalism.
47-year-old James Langdon was able to avoid booking at first because of the Los Angeles County emergency "Zero-Dollar" bail law that went into effect in October 2020. The law resets bonds to $0 for most minor crimes and even some felonies.
He was first arrested at 3 a.m. on Feb 13 after police officers saw him pacing through a parking lot and then running across a crosswalk against a solid "Don’t Walk" sign, according to a Glendale Police Department news release. Police tried to stop him, but Langdon ran away before he was eventually caught on foot.
He was then detained and arrested for obstruction. Langdon requested medical attention and was taken to a hospital for treatment. He was released from the hospital and issued a notice to appear in court at a later date.
At about 9:30 a.m. on Feb. 13, officers responded to a call about a man trespassing at a business. They arrived to find that Langdon had tried to access a closed part of the business with a screwdriver before he was stopped by an employee.
Langdon was arrested again and booked for trespassing, but because of the emergency "Zero-Dollar" bail order, he was granted release after three hours of his booking and was issued another notice to appear in court at a later date.
Only a few hours after Langdon was released, Glendale police responded to a call around 7 p.m. from an apartment building regarding a burglary that had just happened. Residents noticed their door was ajar when they got home, several items were displaced around the apartment, and told officers that they heard a man's voice yelling in the apartment.
Officers arrived and noticed a man, later identified as Langdon, walking through the building's hallway. He ran back to the apartment, which was unoccupied, and locked himself inside. After Langdon refused to exit the barricaded room, officers made entry into the apartment and began to negotiate with him.
Police said they determined after investigation that Langdon caused an estimated $6,000 in damages to the apartment and the apartment complex. He was arrested a third time and booked for burglary and felony vandalism.
Langdon's three crimes puts him over the bail threshold, as he remains in custody on $150,000 bail.
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