BRIEFLY RAMPART-ARRESTED MAN FREED BY INS.U.S. authorities freed a Salvadoran national and ex-gang member Friday who had been arrested by a member of the anti-gang unit at the heart of the LAPD's corruption scandal. Family members cheered as Alex Sanchez, 28, walked out of an Immigration and Naturalization Service Noun 1. Immigration and Naturalization Service - an agency in the Department of Justice that enforces laws and regulations for the admission of foreign-born persons to the United States INS lockup where he had been in custody since Jan. 21, when Officer Jesus Amezcua of the Los Angeles Police Department's Rampart Division arrested him on an INS INS abbr. 1. Immigration and Naturalization Service 2. International News Service Noun 1. INS warrant. The division is at the center of an ongoing corruption probe in which officers are said to have beat, shot and framed innocent people. - Associated Press Marijuana plants seized in forest LOS PADRES NATIONAL FOREST Los Padres National Forest is a forest located in southern and central California, which includes most of the mountainous land along the California coast from Ventura to Monterey, extending inland. Elevations range from sea level to 8,831 feet. - Authorities said Friday they seized 5,000 marijuana plants with a possible street value of $5 million to $10 million from three separate sites this week. Ventura County sheriff's and Ventura Police Department personnel eradicated a site in the Tule tu·le n. 1. Any of several bulrushes of the genus Scirpus, growing in marshy lowlands of the southwest United States. 2. tu·les Northern California Marshy or swampy land. Creek area and another in the Ladybug ladybug or ladybird beetle Any of the approximately 5,000 widely distributed beetles of the family Coccinellidae. The name originated in the Middle Ages, when the beetle was dedicated to the Virgin Mary and called “beetle of Our Lady. Creek area on Wednesday, and one in the Pine Mountain area on Thursday. They said the plants ranged from 1 foot to 8 feet tall. No suspects were arrested. - Daily News |
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