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BRIEFLY : OWNER SEES 2 IN STOLEN CAR.


LANCASTER - A 15-year-old girl and a 13-year-old boy were arrested Wednesday on suspicion of auto theft after a man spotted them driving his car in a shopping center shopping center, a concentration of retail, service, and entertainment enterprises designed to serve the surrounding region. The modern shopping center differs from its antecedents—bazaars and marketplaces—in that the shops are usually amalgamated into  parking lot.

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 deputies arrested the two in the shopping center in the 43500 block of 20th Street West as they were running away from the car's owner, who had tried to stop them.

Officials said the car's owner had called them Wednesday morning to report he saw his car, a 1984 Honda Accord The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject.
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 stolen Dec. 9, being driven by a boy near 23rd Street West and Avenue J.

The owner lost sight of the car but saw it again about 15 minutes later, this time being driven by a girl in the shopping center parking lot. The man tried to detain de·tain  
tr.v. de·tained, de·tain·ing, de·tains
1. To keep from proceeding; delay or retard.

2. To keep in custody or temporary confinement:
 the girl and the boy, but they fled on foot in separate directions.

The two juveniles were later released to their parents. The car was returned to its owner.

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Police investigating holdup

LANCASTER - Sheriff's deputies are investigating a robbery in which a masked A state of being disabled or cut off.  man held up the Challenger Liquor store in the 1000 block of East Avenue K.

Shortly after 10 p.m. Monday, a man wearing a ski mask walked into the store, jumped over the counter and pointed a revolver revolver: see small arms.
revolver

Pistol with a revolving cylinder that provides multishot action. Some early versions, known as pepperboxes, had several barrels, but as early as the 17th century pistols were being made with a revolving chamber to
 at the clerk, demanding money from the cash register, deputies said.

After the clerk gave him an undetermined amount of money, he jumped back over the counter and ran toward Avenue K.
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Date:Dec 24, 1997
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