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Burglary suspect tries victim role

LOST HILLS -- Sheriff's deputies arrested a suspected car burglar Saturday after he showed up at the station seeking the wallet he left in a stolen car.

A pair of Los Angeles sheriff's deputies on patrol spotted a car on Park Sevilla and Park Sienna in Calabasas Park at 5 a.m.

"The city of Calabasas has had problems with burglaries lately," said sheriff's Lt. Pat Davoren.

"Our deputies had been asked to keep an eye out for suspicious individuals. They did that and they caught some bad guys."

The man inside the car was wearing gloves and was surrounded by cell phones and wallets with personal identification and credit cards that looked to be stolen. After arresting him on suspicion of burglary around 6 a.m., deputies found a wallet among the stolen goods they believe belonged to one of his partners in crime.

Three hours later, the partner walked into the Malibu-Lost Hills station, slyly asking for the return of his dough.

"Thank God they're not smart," chuckled sheriff's Lt. Scott Chew.

The investigation is currently under way, but Chew said several people throughout the San Fernando Valley reported their cars had been ransacked overnight. Detectives identified the suspects only as two young male adults from the Valley.

Investigators are trying to track down the victims and return their property.

-- Daily News

Panel's staff opposes project

LONG BEACH -- A controversial plan to build a high-end Home Depot on the shores of the Los Cerritos Wetlands has been panned by the California Coastal Commission staff, it was reported today.

The Atlanta-based chain store wants to build a design center on 16 acres of land currently occupied by obsolete oil storage tanks for a nearby electrical generating station, which has been converted to natural gas use.

But coastal planners said Friday that Home Depot would eliminate a small wetland, pave over dirt used by burrowing owls, and increase traffic and human activity in a wild area.

-- City News Service

New trial set in girl's killing

SAN BERNARDINO -- Four reputed gang members accused of killing an 11-year-old girl will face a new trial next month.

A Superior Court judge on Friday set an Oct. 1 trial date for Harold Lee Phillips, Michael Barnett Jr., Sinque Beiama Morrison and Sidikiba Greenwood.

Their first trial ended with a hung jury last year. The men are charged with murder, attempted murder, conspiracy and with shooting at an inhabited dwelling.

Prosecutors said they were among four carloads of gang members who went to a San Bernardino apartment complex in 2005 to hunt rivals they believed had killed an associate.

Gunmen fired at least 30 shots into an apartment, police said. A stray bullet hit Mynisha Crenshaw, who was in the kitchen. Her teenage sister was wounded in the arm.

The family had no gang ties, authorities said.

In June, Marquis Deshawn Taylor, who told gang members that rivals were in the apartment, was sentenced to 10 years in state prison for assault with a firearm and other crimes.

-- Associated Press

Child molester gets 141 years

RIVERSIDE -- A former Riverside County church volunteer who molested three boys was sentenced to 141 years to life in prison.

Jeffrey Randolph Wright, 47, of Hemet was sentenced Friday in a French Valley courtroom.

"This is an individual who took advantage of being in a position of trust," Judge Judith Clark said.

Prosecutors said Wright was working with a youth group at Shepherd's House Church of the Nazarene in San Jacinto in 2005 when he abused the boys, who were 12 and 13 years old.

At the sentencing, one boy said he contemplated suicide because of the abuse.

"I put a gun to my head. I was so close to pulling the trigger," the boy said.

Wright was convicted in August of nine counts of sexually abusing the boys and distributing child pornography.

He was acquitted of child sexual abuse charges in San Diego County in 1994.

-- Associated Press