BRIEFLY 2 MEN IN CUSTODY AFTER SHOOTING.VENTURA - Two Newbury Park gang members remained in custody Friday, each being held on $500,000 bail after their arrests on suspicion of attempted murder following a recent shooting in a Thousand Oaks park. Franklin Ramos, 22, and Mario Diaz, 21, were among a group of five or six gang members who got into a scuffle with an unidentified man who was watching a soccer game at Thousand Oaks Community Park Nov. 18. ``Everybody fled as soon as the shots were fired,'' said Ventura County Sheriff's Sgt. Mike De Los Santos De Los Santos is a common surname in the Spanish language meaning of the saints.
"Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. who fired the shots. (But) the two we arrested were obviously involved in the confrontation.'' The intended victim is not a member of a gang, authorities said. - Daily News Holiday death toll 2 in L.A. County Two people died in traffic crashes and 127 motorists were arrested for driving under the influence on Los Angeles County highways in the first 36 hours of the Thanksgiving holiday, the CHP CHP Chapter CHP Combined Heat and Power CHP California Highway Patrol CHP Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi (Turkish: Republican People's Party) CHP Chemical Hygiene Plan (OSHA) CHP Community Health Plan reported Friday. Over the same period last year, one motorist died in Los Angeles County and 131 were arrested for driving under the influence. The CHP report covers the period from 6 p.m. Wednesday through 6 a.m. Friday. - City News Service Bird unrelated to freeway crash A white flamingo spotted outside the Los Angeles Zoo The Los Angeles Zoo founded in 1966, is a large zoo located in Los Angeles, California, USA. The Zoo, located in Los Angeles' Griffith Park, is home to 1,200 animals from around the world. Friday afternoon probably had nothing to do with a fender bender collision in the same area at about the same time, a CHP officer said. A California Highway Patrol officer was sent to investigate a report of a white flamingo at Zoo Drive off the southbound 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. at about 5 p.m., Officer Karen Faciane said. But a short time later the officer was called away from the big bird to deal with a two-car collision on the southbound Golden State Freeway at the Ventura Freeway. It took the officer 30 minutes to get to the scene because of heavy traffic, she said. - City News Service Girl's condition classified critical A 2-year-old girl was in critical condition Friday night after a family's Rottweiler Rottweiler (rŏt`wīlər), breed of sturdy working dog developed from a Roman cattle dog introduced into S Germany more than 1,900 years ago. It stands from 21 3-4 to 27 in. (55.3–68. bit three children during a gathering in a Mid-City home, authorities said. The critically mauled toddler was at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Cedars-Sinai Medical Center is a world-renowned hospital located in Los Angeles, California. History Cedars-Sinai is the result of a merger in 1961 between two major Los Angeles hospitals, Cedars of Lebanon and Mount Sinai Home for the Incurables, with Steve Broidy as , said Brian Humphrey, of the city fire department. Also injured were a 10-year-old boy, hospitalized at Cedars-Sinai in fair condition with bites to his right forearm, and an 8-year-old boy, who was treated at the scene for scratches to an arm, Humphrey said. The incident occurred shortly after noon. ``The dog is a family pet and . . . suddenly and without reason it attacked several children,'' Humphrey said. The dog was removed by animal control workers. The circumstances of the incident were under investigation. - City News Service Man hospitalized after traffic pileup A 37-year-old man was hospitalized Friday night after being extricated from one of five cars involved in a pileup on the southbound 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. , authorities said. The crash happened at 7:57 p.m. near the Ventura Freeway, Brian Humphrey of the city fire department said. The man was taken to UCLA Medical Center UCLA Medical Center is a hospital located on the campus of the University of California, Los Angeles in Los Angeles, California. It is rated as one of the top three hospitals in the United States and is the top hospital on the West Coast according to US News & World Report. in fair condition. A 35- year-old woman was taken to Sherman Oaks Community Hospital with injuries not thought to be life-threatening, he said. - City News Service |
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