In January 2008, the sci-fi blog io9 was launched.
In 2005, geek lifestyle blog Lifehacker and the sports news blog Deadspin were launched. In 2004, Denton launched the left-leaning political blog Wonkette, the celebrity gossip blog Defamer, the news aggregator blog Kinja, the car culture blog Jalopnik and the videogame blog Kotaku. In November 2003, the sex-oriented blog Fleshbot was launched. In late 2002, Gawker's first sister site Gizmodo was launched as a technology news blog under the editorship of Engadget cofounder Peter Rojas. On October 3rd, 2008, the Gawker rumor blog Valleywag published a memo from Denton announcing the layoff of 19 of the 133 editorial positions at Gawker Media. In 2008, an office space was set up for Gawker employees in the Nolita neighborhood of New York City. In mid-2006, Coen left Gawker to work for Vanity Fair and was replaced by Emily Gould. In August 2004, Denton promoted Sicha to the newly created position of editorial director for Gawker Media and hired Jessica Coen, a film studio assistant, to replace Sicha.
In August 2003, Spiers left Gawker to write for New York magazine and her position was replaced by art dealer Choire Sicha. The company was first incorporated in Budapest, Hungary, where it maintains a small office with several programmers. Anonymous tipsters may call Crime Stoppers at 80.The original Gawker gossip blog was launched in December 2002 by former British journalist Nick Denton, who ran the website from his apartment in the Soho neighborhood of New York City. Investigators were being assisted by the LAPD Detective Bureau’s gun detail to determine the origin and legality of the firearms.Īnyone with information was asked to call Robbery-Homicide Division at 21. He said he had no comment on the situation. “They really hid quite effectively the fact that they had armaments in the house.”ĭefense attorney Harland Braun - known in part for his celebrity clients and for successfully defending the LAPD officers from criminal charges in the 1991 Rodney King beating - confirmed he was representing a woman who lived at the home. “The fact that they were so secretive naturally aroused the interests and suspicions of those of use who observed what was going on,” said neighbor Ed Grastorf. Neighbors in the Palisades Highlands condominium development said a male and female couple lived in the home. An LAPD bomb squad was sent to the home to determine that the search was safe to proceed.Įvacuation for surrounding homes were ordered for nearly 12 hours Saturday, when the search was conducted. Inside, they found more than 1,200 firearms - including handguns, rifles and shotguns - as well as more than 2 tons of ammunition. The elite Robbery-Homicide Division took over the case, getting a search warrant for the victim’s home. They were able to identify the man, who lived on the street, according to a news release about the case sent out by the Los Angeles Police Department on Monday.Ī county coroner’s official said the man had not been identified as of early Monday evening. July 17, when they found an adult man dead inside a parked vehicle.
Police were first called to the home in the 1700 block of Palisades Drive at 5 p.m. (Credit: Scott Wadenseller/Palisades News) After a dead body was found outside a home on Palisades Drive, more than 1,200 firearms and 2 tons of ammunition were discovered inside, police said. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated.ĭetectives found more than 1,200 firearms inside a Pacific Palisades home after responding to a report of a dead body inside a vehicle parked outside the house, LAPD announced Monday. This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.
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