ARREST WARRANT ISSUED FOR RODNEY KING.Byline: Rod Leveque Staff Writer FONTANA - A San Bernardino San Bernardino, city, United States San Bernardino (săn bûr'nədē`nō), city (1990 pop. 164,164), seat of San Bernardino co., S Calif., at the foot of the San Bernardino Mts.; inc. 1854. County judge signed an arrest warrant Thursday for Rodney King Rodney Glen King (born April 9, 1965 in Fort Worth, Texas) is an African-American taxicab driver who was beaten by Los Angeles Police Department officers (Laurence Powell, Timothy Wind, Theodore Briseno and Sargent Stacey Koon) after being chased for speeding. , the latest in a series of legal challenges for the victim of a 1991 videotaped police beating that sparked the 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. Riots. Fontana Superior Court Judge Douglas Fettel signed the $25,000 warrant at the request of San Bernardino County prosecutors, who said King's three recent drug-related arrests indicate he has violated the terms of his probation in the county. The terms of his probation, which extends through June 2004 and stems from a guilty plea on a misdemeanor charge in 1999, include that he violate no laws. Prosecutors had planned to send King a letter requesting that he appear in court for a probation revocation The recall of some power or authority that has been granted. Revocation by the act of a party is intentional and voluntary, such as when a person cancels a Power of Attorney that he has given or a will that he has written. hearing following a Sept. 29 arrest. But they took the more aggressive step of requesting the warrant after King's third arrest, last weekend, said Deputy District Attorney Briye McCann. |
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