100-POUND STASH; POT, GUNS SEIZED AT UPSCALE HOME.Byline: Greg Gittrich Daily News Staff Writer 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. police seized rifles, more than 100 pounds of marijuana and $300,000 at a Woodland Hills home Monday after FBI agents found the cache while serving an arrest warrant, officials said. Federal agents entered the home of David L. Dickens, 45, about 4:30 a.m. to serve him with an arrest warrant for mail fraud, officials said. After noticing a small amount of marijuana, the agents notified Los Angeles Police Department "LAPD" and "L.A.P.D." redirect here. For other uses, see LAPD (disambiguation).  This article or section is written like an . narcotics narcotics n. 1) techinically, drugs which dull the senses. 2) a popular generic term for drugs which cannot be legally possessed, sold, or transported except for medicinal uses for which a physician or dentist's prescription is required. detectives, who obtained a warrant to search the sprawling ranch house, officials said. ``The agents found the guns and the drugs while they were executing the mail fraud arrest warrant,'' said Ramiro Escudero, a spokesman for the Federal Bureau of Investigation Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), division of the U.S. Dept. of Justice charged with investigating all violations of federal laws except those assigned to some other federal agency. . Escudero declined to provide more information on the mail fraud charges. Throughout the day, Los Angeles police narcotics detectives searched the residence on the 4800 block of Adele Court, which property records listed as worth $510,000 in 1997. The detectives lined up five rifles and at least one handgun inside the garage, but refused to comment on the investigation. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. federal officials, the drugs and cash were found neatly packed inside eight to 10 military-style duffel bags. Neighbors in the rolling, landscaped neighborhood described Dickens as ``quiet'' and ``a good dresser'' who moved with his wife and daughter from Calabasas into the upper-middle-class neighborhood in 1997. According to residents, Dickens bought a black Porsche Boxster convertible last month. The luxury roadster was parked outside the home Monday afternoon. ``They are sort of mysterious people,'' said Judie Wolf, Dickens' next-door neighbor. ``Cars would come in and out all the time, but I figured they were just friends of the family's daughter.'' Detective Norm Lee, who monitors narcotics sales and distribution in the Valley for the LAPD 1. LAPD - Link Access Procedure on the D channel. 2. LAPD - Los Angeles Police Department. , said police rarely make large marijuana arrests in the San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. . ``We usually just get small things in terms of production, and some people buying in certain areas of the Valley,'' Lee said. ``We get people cultivating now and then but we haven't seen any gigantic jump in our statistics.'' Police arrested 1,749 people in the San Fernando Valley on marijuana-related charges in 1998, up from 1,594 arrests the previous year. CAPTION(S): 2 photos PHOTO (1 -- 2) FBI agents and LAPD officers, above, leave the Woodland Hills home where more than 100 pounds of marijuana and several guns were seized Monday. At left, an LAPD officer carries confiscated con·fis·cate tr.v. con·fis·cat·ed, con·fis·cat·ing, con·fis·cates 1. To seize (private property) for the public treasury. 2. To seize by or as if by authority. See Synonyms at appropriate. adj. firearms. John Lazar/Daily News |
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