BRIEFLY.Teen tagger tag·ger n. 1. One that tags, especially the pursuer in the game of tag. 2. taggers Very thin sheet iron, usually plated with tin. Noun 1. killed in gang shooting ARLETA - A teenager killed in a street shooting was identified by police Saturday as Jose Enrique Arana, 15, of Arleta. Police described Arana as a member of a tagging crew, and said the attack was gang-related. Police said Arana was walking in the 14300 block of Tupper Street about 6:45 p.m. Friday when an attacker approached and fired multiple shots. The gunman got into a car that was driven by a second man, police said. Paramedics pronounced the teenager dead at the scene. Police asked anyone with information about the shooting to call the Mission community police station at (818) 838-9800. - Daily News Woman murdered in dry-cleaners ECHO PARK - A customer found an employee dead on the floor of a dry-cleaning shop Saturday, police said. The employee, described as a woman about 25 to 30 years old, had been shot several times at L.A.'s Best Cleaners, 240 N. Virgil Ave. She had been shot shortly before the customer found her about 10 a.m. Saturday, police said. No information was available on possible suspects. - Daily News Police arrest 20 in DUI crackdown SAN FERNANDO San Fernando, city, Argentina San Fernando (săn fərnăn`dō), city (1991 pop. 144,761), Buenos Aires prov., E Argentina. It is a district administrative center in the Greater Buenos Aires area. - Police arrested 20 people as part of a crackdown on suspected drunk drivers, officials said Saturday. Thirteen of the arrests were on suspicion of driving under the influence, and seven were for outstanding warrants or other violations, police said. San Fernando Police Department officers made the arrests between 6 p.m. Friday and 3 a.m. Saturday. - Daily News Deputies arrest kidnap suspect VENTURA - Sheriff's deputies arrested a man suspected of kidnapping kidnapping, in law, the taking away of a person by force, threat, or deceit, with intent to cause him to be detained against his will. Kidnapping may be done for ransom or for political or other purposes. two girls in Saticoy, officials said Saturday. James Apodaca, 37, of Port Hueneme Port Hueneme (wī'nē`mē), city (1990 pop. 20,319), Ventura co., S Calif., on the Pacific coast; founded 1870, inc. 1948. It has an artificial deep-sea harbor and is the site of a huge naval construction-battalion (Seabee) center. was accused of taking the children, ages 5 and 7, from their home Friday afternoon. Deputies found the girls at Plaza Park in Ventura about 8 p.m. Friday, and arrested Apodaca about two hours later as he walked on Main Street a few blocks from the park. The suspect, described as a friend of the girls' family, was being held in county jail. - Daily News Motorcycle crash fatally injures one OJAI - One person died in a motorcycle crash about 9:30 a.m. Saturday, the California Highway Patrol highway patrol n. A state law enforcement organization whose police officers patrol the public highways. said. Information about the victim was not immediately available. No other vehicles were involved, the CHP CHP Chapter CHP Combined Heat and Power CHP California Highway Patrol CHP Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi (Turkish: Republican People's Party) CHP Chemical Hygiene Plan (OSHA) CHP Community Health Plan said. The crash occurred in the 200 block of Fairview Road near the Ojai city limits. - Daily News Valley woman was victim in collision CALABASAS - A 31-year-old woman killed in a three-vehicle crash on the Ventura Freeway The Ventura Freeway is a freeway in southern California running from Ventura to Pasadena. It is the principal east-west route through Ventura County and in the southern San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles County. in Calabasas was identified Saturday as Norma Rivera of Canoga Park. Rivera, a passenger in a 1988 Toyota, was fatally injured in the collision just east of Lost Hills Road, said Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County coroner's Lt. Richard Hanna. The crash occurred early Friday morning when a 2005 Toyota Scion sci·on n. 1. A descendant or heir. 2. also ci·on A detached shoot or twig containing buds from a woody plant, used in grafting. went out of control, struck a Greyhound greyhound, breed of tall, swift, sight hound developed nearly 5,000 years ago in Egypt. It stands about 26 in. (66 cm) high at the shoulder and weighs about 65 lb (29.5 kg). bus and then hit the 1988 Toyota, which also crashed into the bus and then hit a guardrail. Jose Mancia, 49, driver of the 1988 Toyota, suffered a back injury and was hospitalized. One of the 23 passengers aboard the Greyhound suffered a minor injury; no one was hurt in the Scion - City News Service |
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