BRIEFLY : 22 INMATES HURT IN PITCHESS BRAWL.

SAUGUS - A fight involving 100 inmates in a dorm at the Pitchess Detention Center's East Facility left 22 of them injured, including nine who were taken to a hospital, a Sheriff's Department spokesman said Tuesday.

African-American and Latino inmates squared off at 6:17 p.m. Monday and fought with their fists, feet and jail-made knives, said Deputy Isaac Gonzalez.

A sheriff's Emergency Response Team quelled the two-minute fight by ordering the inmates to stop, he said.

Gonzalez said 13 inmates were treated for minor injuries in the jail clinic. Nine others were taken to the jail ward at Los Angeles County/USC Medical Center, where they were being treated for minor stab wounds and cuts that needed sutures, the deputy said.

The cause of the melee was being investigated.

- City News Service

4 teens arrested in break-in case

CANYON COUNTRY - Sheriff's deputies responding to a burglary-in-progress call arrested four teen-agers in a Canyon Country home Tuesday.

Deputy Tony Miano said the four teens apparently knew the owners of the house in the 27000 block of Lansbrook Drive and that they entered the residence through a door or window about noon.

Deputies in patrol cars and helicopters circled the area almost immediately after receiving the call and the four were arrested, Miano said. Nothing was stolen.

Joshua and Justice Shomber, 18-year-old brothers, were held in lieu of $30,000 bail, Miano said. One of the teens was taken to Juvenile Hall in Sylmar, on suspicion of violating his parole in an unrelated case, officials said.

A second teen was released to his parents, Miano said. The four are scheduled to be arraigned Thursday.

- Daily News