ARSON SURGED LAST YEAR.Byline: Lisa Van Proyen Daily News Staff Writer Arson arson, at common law, the malicious and willful burning of the house of another. Originally, it was an offense against the security of habitation rather than against property rights. was the only one of the 10 most serious crimes that increased in the Santa Clarita Valley The Santa Clarita Valley is the valley of the Santa Clara River in Southern California. It stretches through Los Angeles County and Ventura County. Its main population center is the city of Santa Clarita. The valley was part of the 48,612-acre (19,672. in 1996 - up by 21 incidents from the previous year, sheriff's crime statistics show. In 1995, there were 37 arson reports, compared to 58 last year, authorities said. Lt. Tim Peters Tim Peters may refer to:
``We've had a lot of juveniles getting the information from the Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the ,'' Peters said Wednesday. ``This has caused them to experiment with a lot of things.'' He said youths are making more bottle bombs, which cause explosions that are classified as arson. Peters said arson can include anything from a device that torches a building or mailbox A simulated mailbox in the computer that holds e-mail messages. Mailboxes are stored on disk as a file of messages, a database of messages or as an individual file for each message. The standard mailboxes are usually In, Out, Trash and Junk (Spam). to something as simple as a trash fire. ``The information is very much available,'' he said. ``It's incredible what they can get.'' Peters said that in many cases arsonists are not found, so arrests are few. |
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