BRIEFLY DOG FINDS SUSPECT IN CARJACKING.SIMI VALLEY Simi Valley (sē`mē, sĭm`ē), city (1990 pop. 100,217), Ventura co., SW Calif. in an oil, fruit, and farm region; laid out 1887, inc. 1969. - Police arrested a carjacking The criminal taking of a motor vehicle from its driver by force, violence, or intimidation. The u.s. justice department categorizes the crime of carjacking as a "completed or attempted Robbery of a motor vehicle by a stranger suspect Thursday night wshortly after the truck he commandeered ran out of gas. The suspect also suffered a fractured right wrist in a fall while trying to elude police and bites from a police dog during his capture, officials said. Michael Anthony
Michael Anthony Sobolewski (born June 20 1954) is an American musician. Reyes, 26, of Simi Valley was being held on suspicion of armed carjacking in connection with the episode, said Lt. Mike King, a spokesman for the Simi Valley Police. About 9:20 p.m. Thursday, King said, a gunman ordered a 34-year-old woman, her two children and a dog out of their truck in the Target store parking lot in Simi Valley. He demanded the family sit on the ground while he drove off in their 2003 Chevrolet pickup. But the pickup ran out of gas just four miles away, near Rocky Peak Fire Road, along the Santa Susana Mountains The Santa Susana Mountains are a transverse range of mountains in southern California, north of the city of Los Angeles, in the United States. The range runs east-west separating the San Fernando Valley and Simi Valley on its south from Santa Clara River Valley to the north and , King said. - Daily News Hahn implements local oversight Los Angeles Mayor Jim Hahn announced a reorganization of his office Friday to help implement his plan for a more neighborhood-based city government. Hahn appointed Deputy Mayor Doane Liu to head his Office of Operations, which will oversee creation of neighborhood city halls and geographically based department cabinets. He also announced that Deputy Mayor Felipe Fuentes will manage the Office of Neighborhood Advocate, which acts as liaison to the Department of Neighborhood Empowerment. Fuentes also will handle constituent services, the mayor's Volunteer Corps, the Neighborhood Enforcement Action Team and administer the neighborhood block grant programs. - City News Service Ovrom closer to leading CRA See Community Reinvestment Act. Burbank City Manager Robert ``Bud'' Ovrom won approval Friday from two key City Council committees for his nomination to head the Los Angeles Community Redevelopment Agency. A salary has not been negotiated yet, but it is expected to be around $200,000. The Housing and Community Development, and Economic Development and Employment committees recommended approval of his nomination and he is expected to win approval from the full City Council later this month. - Daily News Greuel to meet constituents STUDIO CITY - Los Angeles City Councilwoman Wendy Greuel will attend the Studio City Farmers Market from 9 to 11 a.m. Sunday to meet constituents and hear their problems and suggestions. The Studio City Farmers Market is at Ventura Place at the intersection of Laurel Canyon Boulevard Laurel Canyon Boulevard is a major street in the city of Los Angeles, California. It starts off at Polk Street in Sylmar in the northern San Fernando Valley near the junction of the San Diego (Interstate 405) and the Golden State Freeways (Interstate 5). and Ventura Boulevard. - Daily News Person hit, killed in freeway lanes LANCASTER - An unidentified person was run over and killed Friday night on the southbound Antelope Valley Freeway The Antelope Valley Freeway is a freeway in Los Angeles and Kern counties in southern California. It is signed as California State Highway 14 along its length. It connects Greater Los Angeles to the rapidly developing Antelope Valley. , the California Highway Patrol reported. A vehicle slammed into the person at Avenue A shortly before 10 p.m., said 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 Officer Bruce Gaines. Several other vehicles then drove over the body, Gaines said, and officers found body parts strewn strew tr.v. strewed, strewn or strewed, strew·ing, strews 1. To spread here and there; scatter: strewing flowers down the aisle. 2. across the road. - City News Service |
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