BRIEFLY : $16.6 MILLION GOING TOWARD HOUSING.A national organization that provides funds to build affordable housing announced Monday that $16.6 million is being made available for seven 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. projects, including two in North Hollywood. The California Equity Fund, an affiliate of the Local Initiatives Support Corp., said the projects are part of a nationwide effort to develop housing through nonprofit corporations. The money includes $2.2 million for projects in North Hollywood that will provide 29 housing units. Other projects to be funded are in the Hollywood and Chinatown areas of the city. ?13Daily News `Godfather' gets 19-year sentence The man dubbed the ``godfather'' of Los Angeles street Los Angeles Street is a historic avenue in Downtown Los Angeles, California. Traffic on the street travels northbound only, from the I-10 Freeway in the south of downtown, through the Fashion District, and on through Little Tokyo, where it ends after passing between LAPD gangs was sentenced to nearly 20 years in prison for running a 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. network that included the widespread distribution of crack cocaine. U.S. District Judge George H. King on Monday sentenced 40-year-old Wayne Alfred ``Honcho'' Day to 19 years, five months in federal prison, and five years on supervised release upon termination of incarceration Confinement in a jail or prison; imprisonment. Police officers and other law enforcement officers are authorized by federal, state, and local lawmakers to arrest and confine persons suspected of crimes. The judicial system is authorized to confine persons convicted of crimes. . Prosecutors contend that Day ran a criminal network that grew from a small Watts street gang into a distribution system that imported cocaine from Mexico to Los Angeles and then distributed it to cities in the South and Midwest. ?13Associated Press 17 `crime ring' suspects indicted INDICTED, practice. When a man is accused by a bill of indictment preferred by a grand jury, he is said to be indicted. Seventeen people were indicted in connection with holdups at two Orange County computer businesses that netted more than $10 million in loot, authorities said Monday. The indictment, handed up by a federal grand jury Thursday and unsealed Monday, blames the 1995 thefts on an ``ad hoc For this purpose. Meaning "to this" in Latin, it refers to dealing with special situations as they occur rather than functions that are repeated on a regular basis. See ad hoc query and ad hoc mode. crime ring'' of people linked to Asian organized crime syndicates and street gangs, said Thom Mrozek, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's Office. ?13Associated Press |
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