Posts Tagged gang
Visalia gang members arrested as part of prison gang crackdown
By Elizabeth Warmerdam | 9/1/2010VISALIA – More than 30 key members of the Nuestra Familia gang were arrested on Tuesday in and around Visalia as part of a multijurisdictional operation aimed at crippling the powerful prison gang. Teams of federal, state and local law enforcement — including office [...]
READ MORE...Girlfriend held captive and tortured because of Facebook message
By Elizabeth Warmerdam | 9/1/2010HANFORD — A Hanford resident was arrested late last week on suspicions that he held his live-in girlfriend captive for several days, while torturing and threatening to kill her. Deputies from the Kings County Sheriff’s Office arrested Anthony Lozano, 36, in the even [...]
READ MORE...SoCal teens lead authorities on high-speed chase
By Lee Brown | 8/30/2010POMONA — Three teenagers were in custody early Monday morning after leading authorities on a high speed chase for nearly an hour. News of the pursuit reached Southern California airwaves when the teens — ages 17, 16 and 15 — reportedly stole a car at Yucaipa Community Park on the 34000 block of Oak [...]
READ MORE...Driver’s sentence closes shooting death case of 12-year-old Mexican national
By Lee Brown | 8/30/2010SAN BERNARDINO — Nearly four years after a failed immigrant hand-off resulted in the shooting death of 12-year-old Gabriel Garcia, a superior court judge handed down a nine-year prison sentence to the man prosecutors said was responsible. San Bernardino Superior Court [...]
READ MORE...Flask found in SUV that triggered deadly Fresno wreck
By Lorenzo Reyna | 8/30/2010FRESNO — The toppled SUV that sparked a deadly Greyhound bus crash on July 22, killing six people in central Fresno, contained a crushed metal flask still smelling of alcohol. The flask was among new details that emerged in a California Highway Patrol’s affidavit that became public on Thursday. The [...]
READ MORE...Morning results in traffic mayhem throughout Santa Barbara
By R.L. McCullough | 8/28/2010SANTA BARBARA — Three widely disparate Santa Barbara neighborhoods were the scenes of separate and remarkably bizarre traffic accidents on busy city streets Wednesday morning. At 6:53 a.m., a fully-loaded double-trailer gravel truck driven by Joaquin Garcia Morales, 5 [...]
READ MORE...Cities must decide between police or sheriff coverage
By Lee Brown | 8/26/2010The question has been asked across several financially challenged municipalities in recent months: To shutter the local police department or not? Two communities in particular, Colton and Rialto, have both dodged attempts to cut city police forces and contract support enforcement from the San Bernardino [...]
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