BRIEFLY : MINI-MART GETAWAY FOILED BY PATROLMAN.LANCASTER - A patrolling sheriff's deputy captured a man who went into a convenience store Sunday, then grabbed about $50 from the cash register when the clerk rang up his purchase, a sergeant said. Ricky Anderson Ricky Anderson is a retired boxer from Canada. Born in historic Africville, Nova Scotia.. Ricky made the 1980 Olympic boxing team that would represent Canada at the Moscow Olympics Games. Making Canada's Olympic team was the biggest highlight of the young light-welterweights' life. , 39, reportedly took the cash after paying for cigarettes about 5 p.m. at an AM/PM AM/PM Amplitude Modulation/Phase Modulation AM/PM Ante Meridian/Post Meridian market in the 900 block of West Lancaster Boulevard, said 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 sheriff's Sgt. Gus Risinger. Anderson allegedly overpowered o·ver·pow·er tr.v. o·ver·pow·ered, o·ver·pow·er·ing, o·ver·pow·ers 1. To overcome or vanquish by superior force; subdue. 2. To affect so strongly as to make helpless or ineffective; overwhelm. 3. the clerk and ran out of the store, but was seen running away by a sheriff's deputy who was passing by. The deputy caught Anderson and his alleged accomplice, Howard Weaver, 45, who was driving a getaway car getaway car n the thieves' getaway car → el coche en que huyeron los ladrones getaway car n → voiture prévue pour prendre la fuite , Risinger said. The money was recovered, Risinger added. - City News Service Officials try to learn stray bones' origin PALMDALE - Investigators tried to determine if bones found across the street from Palmdale Cemetery on Saturday and Sunday are human, a sheriff's deputy said. A Palmdale woman walking her dog Saturday evening found the bones in a field near 20th Street and Avenue S, said sheriff's Deputy Dave Miklos. The woman gathered up several bones and brought them to the Antelope Valley sheriff's station, Miklos said. ``We don't even know if they are human,'' he said, adding that more bones were found Sunday. - City News Service |
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