BRIEFLY : DUI ARREST FOLLOWS FOUR-FREEWAY CHASE.A drunk-driving suspect led authorities on a 30-minute chase from Sun Valley to Hawthorne on Thursday. Los Angeles Police Department "LAPD" and "L.A.P.D." redirect here. For other uses, see LAPD (disambiguation).  This article or section is written like an . officers first attempted to stop the
Ford Thunderbird driven by Alfonso Castellanos, 20, at 2:17 a.m. near
Lankershim Boulevard and Saticoy Street.
But Castellanos sped away on surface streets before getting on the Golden State Freeway The Golden State Freeway is a north-south freeway running through Kern County and Los Angeles County, California. Originally built as U.S. Highway 99, it was re-signed as Interstate 5 in 1964. , the Foothill Freeway and the San Diego Freeway The San Diego Freeway (Interstate 405, and the part of Interstate 5 south of the El Toro Y[1]) is one of the principal north-south highways in Southern California, and the major beltway of I-5 running through Southern California. until he finally stopped on the Glenn M. Anderson Glenn Malcolm Anderson (February 21, 1913-December 13, 1994) was a Democratic congressman from California. Anderson was born 1913 in Hawthorne, California. He received a BA from University of California, Los Angeles in 1936. Freeway near Prairie Avenue, said California Highway Patrol Officer Dean Bogios. Castellanos was arrested on suspicion of evading police officers and driving under the influence, Bogios said. ?13Daily News Driver convicted in officer's death VAN NUYS - A San Francisco man who was drunk when he ran down a California Highway Patrol officer on the Ventura Freeway in 1995 was convicted Thursday of second-degree murder. Ramiro Palma Palma or Palma de Mallorca (päl`mä thā mälyôr`kä), city (1990 pop. 325,120), capital of Majorca island and of Baleares prov., Spain, on the Bay of Palma. Rodriguez, 43, faces 18 years to life in prison when he is sentenced June 6 for the death of Officer Bruce Thomas Hinman. Hinman, a 34-year-old husband and father of twin boys, had stopped on the side of the freeway Sept. 26, 1995, to help a stranded motorist. The CHP officer remained on life support for a week before he was declared brain dead. ?13City News Service 4 Valley men jailed on cocaine charges ARLETA - A three-week narcotics investigation by sheriff's detectives ended in Arleta on Thursday with the arrests of four San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. men. Arrested for alleged conspiracy to buy cocaine were Richard Uriarte, 20, of Panorama City; Jose Martinez, 24, of Van Nuys; Avihay Atais, 23, of North Hollywood; and Mario Beltran, 20, of Sherman Oaks. They were booked at the Men's Central Jail and held in lieu of $5 million bail each, said Sheriff's Department spokesman Mark Bailey. ``Approximately three weeks ago, detectives received information that the suspects wanted to purchase a large quantity of cocaine,'' Bailey said. The detectives set up a meeting with the suspects, who allegedly agreed to pay for the drugs Thursday at a shopping center in the 9700 block of Woodman Avenue. At about 10:50 a.m., the suspects showed up with ``a large quantity of U.S. currency'' and were arrested, Bailey said. ?13City News Service Weather hampers plane search work SAN ISABEL, Colo. - About 50 search-and-rescue members fought snow, rain and poor visibility as they worked Thursday to remove the bodies of three San Fernando Valley men killed when their plane crashed into a 12,000-foot mountain. ``All three victims were deceased,'' said Custer County sheriff's spokeswoman Paulette Gagnon. ``The evidence indicates that they were killed instantly.'' Giora Chalamish, 45, of Encino; Jacob Rahamin, 50, of Granada Hills; and Joseph Rosen, 66, of North Hollywood had flown to Denver on Saturday morning aboard a commercial airliner to pick up a Piper airplane Rosen and Rahamin had just bought. The plane took off Saturday from Jefferson County Airport Jefferson County Airport may refer to:
All three men were pilots. Chalamish was a pilot for American Eagle Airlines American Eagle Airlines is a regional airline based in Fort Worth, Texas[1]. It is a airline partner of American Airlines[2] (both wholly owned by the AMR Corporation holding company), operating over 1,800 flights a day, serving 159 cities across the USA, and a member of the California Civil Air Patrol  The U.S. Civil Air Patrol (CAP) is the civilian auxiliary of the United States Air Force (USAF). It was created on 1 December, 1941 by Administrative Order 9, with Maj. Gen. John F. , and authorities said he may have been flying the plane. An Israeli Consulate official in Los Angeles told the Associated Press that Chalamish's father, Michael, was a pilot in the Israeli air force at the time of its independence, and ``could be described as a founder of the Israeli air force.'' |
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