16 ARRESTED IN PROBATION SWEEP IN A.V.Byline: Daily News PALMDALE -- Twelve teenagers and four adults were arrested Friday as law enforcement officers checked homes of people on probation for graffiti vandalism to see whether they are violating the terms of their probation. Three dozen sheriff's deputies and 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. County probation officers probation officer n. 1. An official usually attached to a juvenile court and charged with the care of juvenile delinquents. 2. An official charged with supervising convicts at large on suspended sentence or probation. visited 36 homes around Palmdale starting at 7 a.m. Friday to look for violations. ``It was a large-scale operation,'' sheriff's Sgt. Kyle Bistline said. Five teenagers were arrested for violating their probation terms and seven were arrested on other charges including possession of a shotgun, Bistline said. Four adults were arrested on charges that included possession of methamphetamine methamphetamine (mĕth'ămfĕt`əmēn): see amphetamine; methedrine. , falsifying fal·si·fy v. fal·si·fied, fal·si·fy·ing, fal·si·fies v.tr. 1. To state untruthfully; misrepresent. 2. a. a DMV DMV abbr. Department of Motor Vehicles form and battery on a probation officer, Bistline said. The man arrested on suspicion of battery spit on a probation officer who came to his home during Friday's operation, Bistline said. The adults' names were not immediately released. The five teens accused of violating probation were found with spray-paint cans or marking pens, were linked to fresh graffiti in their neighborhoods, or had done other things judges ordered them not to do, Bistline said. One, for example, was found with alcohol in his bedroom and one had shaved his hair -- a common hairstyle among street-gang members -- despite the judge's order against it. |
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