BRIEFLY : OXNARD WILL SETTLE IN DEATH OF OFFICER.The city of Oxnard has agreed to pay $3.5 million to settle a lawsuit filed by the widow of a police officer who was killed by a fellow SWAT team member during a 1996 drug raid, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the woman's attorney. Officer James Jensen James Jensen is a character in The Sadhu from Virgin Comics created by Gotham Chopra died after being shot three times by Sgt. Daniel Christian during a raid on a condominium where suspected methamphetamine dealers were believed to be living. Christian later told investigators he mistook Jensen for a suspect pointing a weapon in a hallway, which was filled with smoke from a police explosive charge Noun 1. explosive charge - a quantity of explosive to be set off at one time; "this cartridge has a powder charge of 50 grains" burster, bursting charge, charge . His widow, Jennifer Jensen, later filed a $15 million federal lawsuit against the city and police, claiming excessive force and challenging police tactics and training. Her attorney, Edward Steinbrecher, said Monday that the city has agreed to settle the suit. - Daily News Man gets 36 years to life for murder SAN FERNANDO San Fernando, city, Argentina San Fernando (săn fərnăn`dō), city (1991 pop. 144,761), Buenos Aires prov., E Argentina. It is a district administrative center in the Greater Buenos Aires area. - A judge sentenced Ernesto Perez Torres to 36 years to life in prison on Monday after the 25-year-old man was convicted in a fatal shooting nearly two years ago, authorities said. A jury found Torres guilty of first-degree murder on July 13 in the shooting of 34-year-old Robert Rodriguez Torres, who is not related to the man sentenced, said Deputy District Attorney Ron Goudy. Robert Torres was shot Oct. 9, 1997, in front of a market in the 500 block of Kalisher Street in San Fernando. Goudy said Ernesto Ernesto Torres had just attended a funeral for his friend shot in a drive-by and mistakenly thought the other Torres was with a rival gang that killed his friend. - Daily News Blaze in high-rise injures firefighters LONG BEACH - A high-rise fire downtown forced about 100 residents to flee Monday and sent nine firefighters to the hospital for treatment, authorities said. The fire in the 14-floor apartment complex broke out about noon and took firefighters 31 minutes to extinguish, said fire Battalion Chief Rick Pillsbury. Nine firefighters suffered either heat exhaustion heat exhaustion, condition caused by overexposure to sunlight or another heat source and resulting in dehydration and salt depletion, also known as heat prostration. The symptoms are severe headaches, weakness, dizziness, blurred vision, and sometimes unconsciousness. or smoke inhalation Smoke Inhalation Definition Smoke inhalation is breathing in the harmful gases, vapors, and particulate matter contained in smoke. Description Smoke inhalation typically occurs in victims or firefighters caught in structural fires. while battling the blaze, Pillsbury said. - 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. Armed man tries to enter courthouse A man was arrested Monday on suspicion of trying to walk into the downtown county courthouse with a concealed weapon concealed weapon n. a weapon, particularly a handgun, which is kept hidden on one's person, or under one's control (in a glove compartment or under a car seat). in a briefcase. Security personnel noticed the image of a handgun when the briefcase was passed through a metal detector at the courthouse at 110 N. Grand Ave., said Deputy Cruz Solis. Ira J. Boren, 48, was arrested shortly after 9 a.m. by Los Angeles police and booked on suspicion of the felony charge of trying to bring a firearm into a courthouse, Solis said. - City News Service Attorney is jailed awaiting sentencing VAN NUYS - An attorney who pleaded no contest to a pandering charge after he was accused of running a brothel out of his Van Nuys law office was jailed Monday pending sentencing. Bobby Abrams, 51, entered his no contest plea in April as his trial was about to get under way in Van Nuys, after cutting a deal with prosecutors to drop eight other pimping pimping Academia See Pimp. Cf Pumping. and pandering charges. Superior Court Judge Michael Hoff allowed Abrams to remain free until his sentencing if he moved out of the Ventura Boulevard office where he ran Fantasy Affairs. - City News Service |
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