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A Burbank man accused of being a “peeping Tom” was arrested Tuesday morning after engaging two police officers in a brief foot chase, during which he allegedly struck one of them in the face. Police spotted the man, Artur Babayan, 21, after responding to an apartment complex in the 700 block of South Fifth Street near Elmwood Avenue, where a woman reported seeing a peeping Tom staring at her through a bedroom window as she showered, Sgt. Darin Ryburn said. Babayan matched the description given by the 32-year-old woman, but police say he fled as officers approached.

Youths enrolled in the city's Summer Daze day camp learned how airport police and fire departments handle emergencies and fight crime during a tour of Bob Hope Airport on Wednesday. Police officers demonstrated the T3 electric stand-up vehicle's siren and flashing lights. Its three-wheel design boasts a tiny turning circle, which makes it easy to maneuver small spaces. “We can use it inside and outside the airport terminal and on sidewalks,” said Sgt. Tom Davenport, of the airport police department.

A 26-year-old Yorba Linda man hired to work on the renovation of the Burbank police-fire building was arrested Wednesday after being Tasered and chased on foot by officers who discovered he had an outstanding warrant during a workplace security check. Evan Miles Housley, who works for the construction contractor on site, was confronted about the warrant during a routine background check before entering a secure area of the station, Sgt. Darin Ryburn said. Burbank officers discovered Housley had an outstanding $30,000-warrant out for his arrest for evading police in Orange County, Ryburn said.

A 20-year-old transient was arrested Monday after police said he tried to grab the gun off an officer during a struggle inside a McDonald?s on the 1100 block of San Fernando Boulevard. The gun fired during the struggle, but no injuries were reported, police said. Jerriel Sanders is being held in Los Angeles County Jail on $1-million bail and is scheduled to appear in Burbank Superior Court today to be arraigned on attempted murder charges, Burbank Police Sgt. Robert Quesada said.

The following were taken from daily booking reports from the Burbank Police Department.   AREA 1  North San Fernando Road and North Ontario Street Officers took a 28-year-old man into custody after finding him bleeding profusely from self-inflicted wounds to his wrists and neck. The man was naked and jumping in front of moving cars when he refused to surrender to officers. He began to masturbate, and then barked, hissed and spit at officers until he was hit with the prongs from an officer’s Taser.

The man accused of using a Burbank officer's gun against him and his partner during a scuffle at a Kmart last year was double-handcuffed because of his size and to allow for greater range of motion, according to testimony Tuesday in Los Angeles County Superior Court. Jamie Willard - the man accused of shooting at two Burbank police officers after he was able to wrangle one of the guns while under arrest at Kmart for an alleged shoplifting - required two connected handcuffs because his 6-foot-tall, 220-pound frame was too large for a single cuff, one of the officers testified during the preliminary hearing.

A woman enters unlocked homes, looking in mirrors combing what she thinks are silk worms coming from her head. A man is holed up in a room full of guns as he fights voices in his head that are telling him to kill himself. Prior to the establishment of a new mental health team at the Burbank Police Department, these sorts of calls would elicit a purely police-centric response that would do nothing to address the root of the problem, officials say. Now, the team is funneling these people away from the law enforcement grind and into a system where they can be connected to services that have a more long-term effect.

The following incidents were taken from police reports. MEDIA DISTRICT WEST 4400 block of West Olive Avenue: A 27-year-old Woodland Hills man reported Tuesday that co-workers threatened and battered him in two incidents at at 8 p.m. Dec. 7 and at 3 p.m. Dec. 8 while he was working, police said. The man told police that a co-worker punched him following an argument Dec. 7. On Dec. 8, the man reported a different co-worker began an argument with him and shoved him into a wall.