150 DRUG ARRESTS AT HIGH SCHOOLS.Byline: Jaxon Van Derbeken 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 have arrested nearly 150 suspected drug dealers who were identified by undercover officers posing as high school students in the department's annual school enforcement program, authorities said Wednesday. The undercover operation ran from Aug. 29 to Dec. 17, targeting 11 schools citywide including Cleveland in Reseda, Grant in Van Nuys and Sylmar and Van Nuys high schools Van Nuys High School (VNHS) established in 1914, is a high school in the Van Nuys area of Los Angeles, California, belonging to the Los Angeles Unified School District: District 2. . Police said Wednesday they continue to search for the others for suspected dealers. During the same period last year, the undercover operation led to 158 arrests. In the latest operation, marijuana sales accounted for 135 arrests, with four arrests were for the sale of methamphetamines, five for cocaine dealing and the remainder for probation violations and other offenses, police said. ``For some reason, I'm starting to see marijuana use around the schools to be about what it was in the 60s,'' Los Angeles police Detective William Baxter William Baxter may refer to:
the seven decades of Eleanor Pargiter’s life. [Br. Lit.: Benét, 1109] See : Time marijuana use is starting to increase.'' The 150 dealers identified were involved in 169 purchases, police said. Of those targeted, 116 were students and 111 of those arrested were juveniles, and 39 were adults. Lt. Bud Harper of the juvenile 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. division said that 42 of those suspected dealers were admitted gang members. Police conducted five searches and recovered nine guns. Officers seized $6,666 in cash and narcotics worth $158,000, Harper said. The weapons were seized in raids in Pico Rivera Pico Rivera (pē`kō rĭvĕr`ə), city (1990 pop. 59,177), Los Angeles co., SW Calif., SE of Los Angeles on the San Gabriel and Rio Hondo rivers; inc. 1958 with the union of Pico and Rivera into one community. and Carson. ``Our whole goal is to keep them thinking about us, so we can keep the schools drug free,'' Baxter said. Other high schools targeted by officers Hamilton, Franklin, Hollywood, Narbonne, Westchester, Venice and Wilson. |
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