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Erick Mendoza

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Man found with zip ties and duct tape charged with assaulting 5 women at UCLA

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By Tim Stelloh , Erick Mendoza 
| KNBC-TV (Los Angeles, CA)
A man was charged Wednesday with assaulting five women in less than an hour at the University of California Los Angeles last month, officials said. Olumuyiwa Akindahunsi, 29, is accused of sexually assaulting two women and trying to sexually assault a third woman at UCLA’s Westwood campus, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office. Two other women were physically assaulted. Stream Los Angeles News for free, 24/7, wherever you are.
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Chemical tank ‘on the edge’ of exploding in California as crews try to avert potential disaster Original

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By Steve Patterson , Dennis Romero , Erick Mendoza 
| NBC News
May 23, 2026, 10:04 PM EDT Firefighters on Saturday were trying to cool a chemical tank “literally on the edge” of exploding in Southern California as they worked to avert a disastrous “worst-case” scenario, the incident’s commander said.
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Declaran emergencia en el condado de Orange ante la posibilidad de una explosión de sustancias tóxicas

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By Erick Mendoza , Dennis Romero
| Telemundo
May. 23, 2026, 3:59 PM EDT Por Erick Mendoza y Dennis Romero — NBC News Las autoridades del sur de California se preparan para la posibilidad de que un tanque de sustancias químicas volátiles pueda romperse o explotar, mientras los equipos de emergencia trabajaron durante toda la noche para hacer frente a lo que los funcionarios describieron como una crisis sin precedentes relacionada con materiales peligrosos, que ha obligado a unas 40,000 personas a abandonar sus hogares.
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