BRIEFLY : JAIL INMATE'S DEATH UNDER INVESTIGATION.Sheriff's detectives continued Saturday to investigate the beating and stabbing death of a 33-year-old inmate whose body was left in a shower at the Men's Central Jail. Robert Tiernan's body was found about 11:30 a.m. Friday, deputies said. The inmate was last seen returning from a Long Beach Municipal Court hearing about 9 p.m. Thursday, Deputy Michael Irving said Saturday. Authorities believe Tiernan was killed in a cell in a section of the jail reserved for gang members like himself and his corpse placed in the shower, Irving said. Tiernan was arrested on drug charges May 11. - Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. Arrest in North Hills ends two-hour chase A man suspected of driving a stolen car led police on a two-hour chase through 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. County on Saturday, letting out a passenger in Carson before being arrested in North Hills, authorities said. The chase began about 9:30 a.m. near Hill Street and Adams Boulevard in downtown Los Angeles Downtown Los Angeles is the central business district of Los Angeles, California, located close to the geographic center of the metropolitan area. The sprawling, multi-centered megacity is such that its downtown core is often considered just another district like Hollywood or , and continued onto the Harbor Freeway, said California Highway Patrol highway patrol n. A state law enforcement organization whose police officers patrol the public highways. Officer Robert Granieri. Officers then pursued the car down to Carson, said Los Angeles police Sgt. Ted Amstone of the Newton Division. At the Carson Street off-ramp, the car slowed down to let out passenger Juan Zarate The subject of this article may not satisfy the notability guideline for Biographies. If you are familiar with the subject matter, please expand or rewrite the article to establish its notability. , a 31-year-old parolee pa·rol·ee n. One who is released on parole. Noun 1. parolee - someone released on probation or on parole probationer who was booked on suspicion of joy riding, said Sgt. Mark Day, also of the Newton station. The driver proceeded north and pulled over on 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. between Nordhoff and Devonshire streets, where he got out of the car and jumped over the divider, Day said. He was about to run into southbound traffic, when police leapt the divider and took him into custody, Day said. James Oswaldo, 29, was arrested on suspicion of grand theft auto, said Los Angeles police spokesman Don Cox. He was driving a 1993 Toyota stolen Aug. 22, Day said. - City News Service |
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