BRIEFLY GUNMEN AMBUSH FAST-FOOD WORKERS.LANCASTER - Two masked gunmen ambushed and robbed the employees of Primo Burger as they closed up the fast-food restaurant late Sunday, officials said Monday. The unidentified employees had just locked the door and were walking toward the parking lot when they were accosted ac·cost tr.v. ac·cost·ed, ac·cost·ing, ac·costs 1. To approach and speak to boldly or aggressively, as with a demand or request. 2. To solicit for sex. by the gunmen, officials said. One employee ran back into the restaurant and locked the door behind him, and the other was robbed of an undetermined amount of cash. The robbers fled north in a red Geo compact. The two robbers were described as African-American men, each about 6 feet tall and 160 pounds. One was in his early 20s, the other about 19, officials said. Anyone with information is asked to call the Lancaster sheriff's station at (661) 948-8466. - Daily News Invading gunman gets 23-year term LANCASTER - A 19-year-old Fontana man was sentenced Monday to 23 years in prison for a home-invasion robbery in which the victim was accosted as she left her home in the 700 block of East Avenue J-4. The sentence for Sonny Martin, convicted in May of robbery and burglary, includes 10 years for using a gun and another 10 years for committing the offense for the benefit of a gang, prosecutors said. Martin was among four young men arrested in a crime spree that included the Aug. 31, 2000, home-invasion robbery and a police pursuit the next day in which a California Highway Patrol highway patrol n. A state law enforcement organization whose police officers patrol the public highways. officer was shot at with an Uzi assault rifle assault rifle Military firearm that is chambered for ammunition of reduced size or propellant charge and has the capacity to switch between semiautomatic and fully automatic fire. . Martin was charged only in the home invasion home invasion n. Burglary of a dwelling while the residents are at home. Noun 1. home invasion - burglary of a dwelling while the residents are at home . Delshawn Jermaine Bodney, 24, of Tehachapi was sentenced to 13 years in prison after pleading no contest to robbery. Derrick derrick: see crane. Derrick famous hangman; eponym of modern hoisting apparatus. [Br. Hist.: Espy, 170] See : Execution Owens, 19, of Fontana received a 15-year sentence after entering a no-contest plea to assault on a peace officer. A third defendant, Mark Anthony Powell Anthony Dymoke Powell, CH (December 21, 1905 - March 28, 2000) was a British novelist best known for his A Dance to the Music of Time duodecalogy published between 1951 and 1975. According to his memoirs, Powell rhymes with pole (not towel). , 18, is awaiting sentencing in Juvenile Court juvenile court Special court handling problems of delinquent, neglected, or abused children. Two types of cases are processed by a juvenile court: civil matters, often concerning care of an abandoned or impoverished child, and criminal matters, arising from antisocial in San Bernardino San Bernardino, city, United States San Bernardino (săn bûr'nədē`nō), city (1990 pop. 164,164), seat of San Bernardino co., S Calif., at the foot of the San Bernardino Mts.; inc. 1854. . - Daily News Auditions booked for singers 5 to 18 LANCASTER - Break-A-Leg Productions will hold auditions Saturday for singers 5 to 18 years old to perform in ``A Tribute to the Music of Broadway,'' to be staged Oct. 13 and 14 at the Palmdale Fall Festival. Auditions will be from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at 333 E. Ave. K. Performers should bring sheet music in the appropriate key, and an accompanist will be provided. For more information call (661) 726-9355 or (661) 400-4785 or visit the Web site at www.brkalg.com. - Daily News |
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