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In 1981, he married Margaret Ann York, the first woman to attain the rank of Deputy Chief in the Los Angeles Police Department and that department's highest ranking woman officer when she retired in 2002. The two met while at an Eagle Rock murder scene.
Despite an unlikely beginning and bumps along the road — Ito's marriage to York, who rose to become the top woman in the LAPD, was seen by prosecutors as a possible conflict of interest in the...
Nov 3, 2021 · Margaret York, a homicide detective who helped inspire the 1980s Emmy-winning police drama “Cagney & Lacey,” and who rose to become the highest-ranking woman in the Los Angeles Police...
- Lauren Weigle
- Her Denial of Involvement With Detective Mark Fuhrman Nearly Caused a Mistrial in the OJ Simpson Trial. When Judge Lance Ito was approached about taking on the OJ Simpson trial, his wife Peggy initially denied knowing Mark Fuhrman.
- She Was the First Female Chief of Police for the LAPD. York had a 35-year career with the LAPD and eventually became the Chief of Los Angeles County Police.
- Ito and His Wife Met at a Murder Scene. Judge Ito and his wife York actually met “over a dead body,” according to Newsweek. In 1981, Ito was part of the Los Angeles district attorney’s elite gang unit and York was a detective on a murder case.
- Today York Is a Writer. According York’s LinkedIn profile, for over the past 7 years, she has worked as a writer and is working on a story of murder on the streets of Los Angeles.
Aug 19, 2023 · Margaret “Peggy” York died on Oct. 17, 2021, at 80, after an illness. A knee-high U.S. flag is planted at the corner of York’s gravestone, which features raised etchings of her likeness and...
- steve.lopez@latimes.com
- Columnist
Oct 17, 2021 · Margaret Ann York. August 4, 1941 — October 17, 2021. Margaret "Peggy" York, whose law enforcement career spanned 44 years and made her once the highest ranking woman in the Los Angeles Police Department, was born in August 1941 to Ralph and Hazel Mandley of Minerva, Ohio, where she enjoyed the benefits of living in farm country.
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Sep 12, 2023 · Margaret “Peggy” York died on Oct. 17, 2021, at 80, after an illness. A knee-high U.S. flag is planted at the corner of York’s gravestone, which features raised etchings of her likeness and...
