BRIEFLY POLICE SEEK MAN WHO CHASED GIRL.SYLMAR - Police said they were increasing patrols near Hubbard Street Hubbard Street is a road in Chicago, Illinois named for early settler Gurdon Saltonstall Hubbard. Where Hubbard Street passes over the Kennedy Expressway, the Expressway enters a tunnel made up of surface streets known as colloquially as "Hubbard's Cave. Elementary School elementary school: see school. on Thursday after an 8-year-old student told officers a man tried to abduct abduct /ab·duct/ (ab-dukt´) to draw away from the median plane, or (the digits) from the axial line of a limb.abdu´cent ab·duct v. her in front of the school. The girl was walking home from the school at 13325 Hubbard St. about 3:40 Wednesday when a man walking a dog chased and tried to grab her, said Los Angeles police Detective Corinne Malinka. Described as an African-American between ages 15 and 25, weighing 160-180 pounds and wearing a white tank top and blue jeans, the man fled after the girl ran back onto campus, police said. - Daily News SALON ASSAULTS TO LEAD TO TRIAL VAN NUYS - A 28-year-old man was ordered Thursday to stand trial on murder, attempted murder and other charges in connection with a string of beauty salon robberies and rapes in the San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. . Superior Court Judge Lloyd Nash ruled that prosecutors had enough evidence for Walter Antonio Centeno to be tried on charges that include one count each of murder and attempted murder. Centeno, scheduled to be arraigned Feb. 24 in Van Nuys Superior Court, was arrested Sept. 15, 1998. Three weeks earlier, a warrant was issued for his arrest in a March 18 shooting at a North Hollywood salon and the sexual assault of an employee. Police said Centeno was suspected in 28 robberies, including five involving sexual assaults at Valley beauty salons. - Daily News SPEAKER NAMES BOARD MEMBER Wendy F. Brogin of Sherman Oaks has been appointed to the state New Motor Vehicle Board by Assembly Speaker Antonio Villaraigosa, D-Los Angeles. Villaraigosa announced Brogin's appointment Thursday. The nine-member panel establishes regulations for licensing new cars, motor homes and off-highway motorcycles. Brogin, whose background is in regional planning, now serves on the county Commission on Local Government Services. - Daily News ACLU ACLU: see American Civil Liberties Union. FILES SUIT AGAINST LAPD 1. LAPD - Link Access Procedure on the D channel. 2. LAPD - Los Angeles Police Department. The American Civil Liberties Union American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), nonpartisan organization devoted to the preservation and extension of the basic rights set forth in the U.S. Constitution. is accusing the Los Angeles Police Department "LAPD" and "L.A.P.D." redirect here. For other uses, see LAPD (disambiguation).  This article or section is written like an . of engaging in ``racial profiling The consideration of race, ethnicity, or national origin by an officer of the law in deciding when and how to intervene in an enforcement capacity.Police officers often profile certain types of individuals who are more likely to perpetrate crimes. ,'' in which officers stop motorists based on their ethnicity or appearance. The ACLU filed a lawsuit Thursday in U.S. District Court on behalf of three African-American and two Latino men who were pulled over by police within the past year. ``The stated grounds for the stops were trumped up and phony,'' said Ramona Ripston, executive director of the ACLU's Southern California chapter. ``There is no way in the world what happened to them would have occurred if they were white,'' she said. A police spokesman declined to discuss the suit. - Associated Press PADILLA'S STAFF TO HELP CLEANUP PANORAMA CITY - City Councilman Alex Padilla's office will join the nonprofit group Casa Esperanza-Blythe Street Project in cleaning up the Blythe Street neighborhood this Saturday from 8 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Volunteers will be treated to a free continental breakfast at the Casa Esperanza office at 14612 Blythe St. near Van Nuys Boulevard. For information, call (818) 786-1076. - Daily News MAN TO BE TRIED FOR SHOOTINGS SAN FERNANDO - A Lake Isabella man accused in the shooting deaths of a 468-pound Hells Angel and his girlfriend in an alleged money dispute must stand trial for murder, a judge ruled Thursday. Superior Court Judge John C. Gunn found sufficient evidence to require Daniel Ray Waring to stand trial on two counts of murder and a weapons charge for the December 1998 deaths of ``Large Larry'' Lajeunesse and Tami Ann Brannigan bran·ni·gan n. 1. A noisy or confused quarrel. 2. A drinking spree; a binge. [Probably from the name Brannigan.] . Two fellow Hells Angels who had not heard from Lajeunesse found the couple dead in their ransacked ran·sack tr.v. ran·sacked, ran·sack·ing, ran·sacks 1. To search or examine thoroughly. 2. To search carefully for plunder; pillage. home in the 9300 block of Oso Avenue in Chatsworth. Family members reported several items missing from the home, including gems, knives and swords. Police arrested Waring about two weeks later. - City News Service |
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