BRIEFLY.Drive-by shooting drive-by shooting Public health A phenomenon in which one or more persons–commonly members of street gangs, open fire à la Al Capone from moving vehicles, often in retaliation for an alleged wrong-doing by a rival gang wounds man, 20 CANOGA PARK -- A 20-year-old man was shot multiple times in the leg during a drive-by shooting Friday night, authorities said. The man is expected to survive the shooting, which happened around 9:25 p.m. in the 8800 block of Columbus Avenue near Gresham Street Gresham Street, in the City of London, is named after Thomas Gresham and runs from St. Martin's Le Grand near St Paul's Cathedral in the west, past Guildhall, to Lothbury in the east. , said Officer Jason Lee, 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 . spokesman. Lee said the four suspects drove off in a burgundy-colored, four-door car after the shooting, which appears gang related. -- Daily News Murder suspect found in Mexico A 24-year-old Oxnard man suspected in the 2004 execution-style slayings of a pregnant woman and two men in Ventura County was arrested Friday in Acapulco, Mexico, authorities said. Rudolfo Negrete, who had been featured on TV's ``America's Most Wanted For the professional wrestling tag team, see . For the United States FBI list of fugitives, see . America's Most Wanted is a long-running TV show produced by 20th Century Fox. ,'' was apprehended by Mexican agents acting in cooperation with U.S. law enforcement agencies A law enforcement agency (LEA) is a term used to describe any agency which enforces the law. This may be a local or state police, federal agencies such as the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) or the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). , officials said. He is expected to be extradited to Ventura County to face homicide charges. Negrete is suspected in the slaying of Daniel Campos, 21, who was found near a strawberry field Strawberry Field was a Salvation Army children's home in Woolton, a suburb of Liverpool, England. The earliest reference to 'Strawberry Field' dates to 1870. In 1912 it was transferred to a wealthy merchant whose widow sold the estate to The Salvation Army in 1934. with a gunshot wound to the head. He also is suspected of killing Alex Jordan, 24, and his pregnant wife, Cynthia, 22, in a nearby field. Cynthia Jordan is reported to have begged for the lives of her family and unborn child. -- Daily News Ex-pastor pleads guilty in molest mo·lest tr.v. mo·lest·ed, mo·lest·ing, mo·lests 1. To disturb, interfere with, or annoy. 2. To subject to unwanted or improper sexual activity. VENTURA -- A former Thousand Oaks pastor has pleaded guilty to molesting a student at Thousand Oaks Baptist Church School over a seven-year period in the 1980s. William Alan Malgren, 52, was arrested in Idaho earlier this month and pleaded guilty Wednesday to sexually assaulting the girl from 1983 to 1989. At the time, Malgren was a pastor at the church-run school where the girl, now a woman in her 30s, was a student. He was asked to leave the Ventura County church in 1989 after someone reported him acting inappropriately with the girl, detectives said. The woman, who now lives in another state, came forward with her story within the past month, authorities said. Detectives believe there may have been other victims, based on several phone calls received by the Sheriff's Department after Malgren's arrest. -- Associated Press Northridge man dies in I-5 crash ARLETA -- A 21-year-old Northridge man was killed about 10:30 p.m. Thursday when the Chevrolet Corvette corvette, small warship, classed between a frigate and a sloop-of-war. Corvettes usually were flush-decked and carried fewer than 28 guns. They were widely employed in escorting convoys and attacking merchant ships during the great naval wars of the late 18th and in which he was riding overturned on the 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. , the California Highway Patrol said. Nicholas Granholm, 21, of Sun Valley, was speeding in the Corvette when he lost control of the sports car and drove down a dirt embankment near Van Nuys Boulevard, officials said. The car overturned, ejecting an unidentified passenger, who was not wearing a seat belt. He was pronounced dead at the scene; his name was not immediately released. Granholm suffered minor injuries, officials said. -- Daily News Bail sharply cut in fraud case Bail was reduced Friday from $6.5 million to $100,000 for each of three defendants charged in a massive workers' compensation workers' compensation, payment by employers for some part of the cost of injuries, or in some cases of occupational diseases, received by employees in the course of their work. fraud case. Gad ``Gadi'' Leshem, president of Cover-All Inc., a Chatsworth-based flooring company, his wife Irit, and company vice president Zeev Golan were all expected to post bond before the end of the day, officials said. The three were arrested Wednesday at their Northridge homes on suspicion of bilking the state's workers' compensation fund out of nearly $11 million in premiums. Cover-All Inc., which has corporate offices in Chatsworth, installs carpeting and flooring as a subcontractor for businesses such as Home Depot. It has 50 offices in 17 states. -- City News Service |
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