2 ARRESTS IN PARKING-LOT BREAK-INS.Byline: Carol Rock Staff Writer VALENCIA - A stakeout stake·out n. Surveillance of an area, building, or person, especially by the police. stakeout Noun Slang, chiefly US & Canad a police surveillance of an area or house Verb Thursday netted the arrests of two teenagers believed responsible for a series of burglaries from cars parked outside a Valencia health club, a sheriff's sergeant said. Deputies from the Community Interaction Team, burglary detail and patrol were watching the parking lot at LA Fitness of Rye Canyon Road when they saw the two teens trying to break into a white Infiniti sport utility vehicle, sheriff's Sgt. Jim Anderson Jim Anderson can refer to:
``We had some bad guys that noticed women leaving their purses in the cars and trunks when they went in to work out, so they would wait for women to go inside,'' Anderson said. ``We caught two of the them today.'' The suspects got into a maroon Ford Ranger The Ford Ranger name is used on two distinct and unrelated pickup truck lines by the Ford Motor Company
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