7 HELD IN DRUG LAB RAID; 8 KIDS TAKEN BY COUNTY.Byline: Bhavna Mistry Daily News Staff Writer Seven men and women were arrested and eight children taken into protective custody An arrangement whereby a person is safeguarded by law enforcement authorities in a location other than the person's home because his or her safety is seriously threatened. after sheriff's deputies uncovered a methamphetamine lab Thursday night at an isolated desert compound, sheriff's officials said. Tipped by an anonymous telephone call, deputies said they found a lab capable of producing batches of up to 60 pounds of methamphetamine in a shed about 20 feet from two trailers where the adults and children lived in the sparsely populated area about six miles from Lake 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. . ``The smell was so great,'' said Deputy Enrique Velasquez. ``It was dangerous for them to be around that stuff. If you smell the wrong fumes fumes odorous gases and other volatile materials; inhalation of irritating fumes causes coughing and, if sufficiently severe, irreversible pulmonary edema. it could kill you.'' Arrested on suspicion of manufacturing and possession of 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. were Hortencia Aguilar, 46; Margarita Margarita (märgärē`tä), island, 444 sq mi (1,150 sq km), in the Caribbean Sea off the coast of Venezuela. With many smaller islands it constitutes the Venezuelan state of Nueva Esparta (1990 pop. 263,748). Aguilar-Gurrola, 46; Primitivo Aguilar, 20; Fernando Aguilar, 18; Miguel Aguilar, 26; Alejandro Salazar Alejandro Salazar (born February 18, 1984 in Eugene, Oregon) is an American Footballer. Salazar played college soccer at the University of Portland from 2002 to 2004, where he was named WCC Freshman of the Year as a freshman, and was the Conference Player of the Year as a , 19; and a seventh person whose name was not immediately available. Deputies said all seven are related. The children - ages 2 to 16 - were taken by the Los Angeles County Department of Children's Services for their safety. Officials say their parents could face additional charges of child endangerment. Two of the suspects were stopped after they drove away in a van while deputies were watching the property in the 24000 block of East Avenue P, and the other five were arrested at the property. ``We got the phone call around 5 p.m. and we sent out two scouts to check it out while we got ready,'' said Velasquez. ``The majority of the (reports of) labs don't pan out.'' As the van drove away, deputies followed, finally stopping it and detaining its two occupants at 170th Street East and Avenue O. |
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