'PREDATOR' SWEEP NABS 12 SEX OFFENDERS.Byline: Staff and Wire Reports A federal task force targeting foreign and domestic sex offenders arrested a dozen people this week in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. - including a Canadian living Canadian Living is a monthly Canadian lifestyle magazine, which publishes articles relating to food, fashion, crafts, and health and family advice. The magazine, along with its French language counterpart Coup de Pouce, was launched in 1975 by Telemedia. in Canoga Park who served six years for kidnapping and sexually assaulting a 17-year-old girl. Donald Maich, 56, was taken into custody Oct. 3 at his Remmet Street home because his visa had expired. He was being held without bail at the Federal Corrections Institution at Terminal Island, where he is awaiting deportation hearings. Officials said he was a registered sex offender who had been convicted of rape and kidnapping in Los Angeles in 1980. He was swept up as part of ``Operation Predator Operation Predator is an initiative started in July 9, 2003 by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), a division of the Department of Homeland Security, to protect children from sexual predators. ,'' led by agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is the largest investigative arm of the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and is responsible for identifying and dismantling vulnerabilities regarding the nation's border, economic, transportation and infrastructure , which was formed to protect children from pornographers, prostitution rings, Internet predators, alien smugglers and other criminals, said Loraine Brown, special agent-in-charge of ICE investigations in Los Angeles. Many of those taken into custody by ICE are noncitizen, child sex offenders, like Maich, whose crimes qualify them for deportation. ``Our agents will continue to seek out those who victimize our nation's children,'' Brown said. ``Since July, we have made more than 250 arrests in connection with Operation Predator in the Los Angeles area alone. We are committed to using every enforcement tool at our disposal to combat this threat, and the message should be clear: Sexual predators are not welcome here.'' Jose Luis Melchor-Aparicio of La Habra La Habra (lə hăb`rə), city (1990 pop. 51,266), Orange co., S Calif.; inc. 1925. A suburb of Los Angeles, La Habra was settled in the 1860s by Basque sheepherders. was arrested for allegedly impregnating his daughter, then demanding that she have an abortion, officials said. An 85-year-old Garden Grove man was arrested at Los Angeles International Airport “LAX” redirects here. For other uses, see LAX (disambiguation). “KLAX” redirects here. For other uses, see KLAX (disambiguation). Los Angeles International Airport (IATA: LAX, ICAO: KLAX, FAA LID: LAX while boarding a flight to the Philippines, where he allegedly planned to engage in sex with two preteen pre·teen adj. 1. Relating to or designed for children especially between the ages of 10 and 12. 2. Being a child especially between the ages of 10 and 12; preadolescent. n. A preteen boy or girl. girls. In the man's luggage, ICE agents discovered pornographic materials and sexual aids. As part of the Southern California operation, which began in July, agents made arrests in Los Angeles, La Habra, Santa Monica, Canoga Park, Alhambra, Industry and Ontario. Nationwide, there have been more than 1,000 such arrests, Brown said. |
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