BRIEFLY.Valley man jailed in burglary probe A 30-year-old Van Nuys man remained in custody Monday on burglary charges in connection with what police said may be a professional ring of thieves posing as repairmen and targeting the elderly. Steve Mendez was arrested last Wednesday and charged with the burglary of an elderly Eagle Rock couple, said 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 . Detective Gil Garcia of the Northeast Division. Mendez was being held on $1 million bail, Garcia said. Garcia said that police are continuing to investigate. - Daily News PPL PPL - Polymorphic Programming Language. An interactive, extensible language, based on APL, from Harvard University. ["Some Features of PPL - A Polymorphic Programming Language", T.A. Standish, SIGPLAN Notices 4(8) (Aug 1969)]. fundraising brings accusation The city Ethics Commission on Monday accused the Los Angeles Police Protective League and several of its board members of violating campaign laws in the 2001 primary election. Ethics Director LeeAnn Pelham Noun 1. Pelham - a bit with a bar mouthpiece that is designed to combine a curb and snaffle bit - piece of metal held in horse's mouth by reins and used to control the horse while riding; "the horse was not accustomed to a bit" said PPL directors Ted Hunt, Don Lint and Mitzi Grasso improperly solicited contributions from 1,200 PPL members for City Council candidates Dennis Zine and Ken Hillman Hillman was a famous British automobile marque, manufactured by the Rootes Group. It was based in Ryton-on-Dunsmore, near Coventry, England, from 1907 to 1976. Before 1907 the company had built bicycles. and for city attorney candidate Lea Purwin D'Agostino. City ethics law prohibits such solicitations, considering it undue pressure on city workers. Union officials said they were aware of the inquiry and wanted to study the accusation before responding. - Daily News ATF ATF Molecular virology Activating transcription factor A cellular protein that stimulates transcription of adenovirus E4 transcription unit, which acts early in infection at any of several 'enhancer' binding sites to probe loss of LAPD 1. LAPD - Link Access Procedure on the D channel. 2. LAPD - Los Angeles Police Department. 'bombs' The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (abbreviated ATF, sometimes BATF or BATFE) is a United States federal agency; more specifically a specialized law enforcement and regulatory organization within the United States Department of Justice. said Monday it would investigate how the LAPD lost track of two potentially dangerous decoy DECOY. A pond used for the breeding and maintenance of water-fowl. 11 Mod. 74, 130; S. C. 3 Salk. 9; Holt, 14 11 East, 571. explosives used to train bomb-sniffing dogs. The Los Angeles Police Department discovered that two one-pound containers of ammonium nitrate-based blasting agents were missing during an audit Thursday of its explosives magazines, said John Torres, special agent in charge of the ATF's Los Angeles office. There were no indications of a break-in or obvious signs of theft, Torres said, and the items remain unaccounted for. Anyone with more information is asked to call (800) 283-8477 (ATF-TIPS). - City News Service Big cats get home; owners face court MOORPARK - More than a dozen lynxes and bobcats removed from a Ventura County ranch have been relocated to a sanctuary in Nevada, state wildlife officials said Monday. The 17 cats belong to Gert and Roena Hedengran, who are scheduled to appear in court April 18 on federal charges of lying to authorities when they denied owning an escaped 350-pound Siberian tiger shot and killed in February as it wandered the hills between Simi Valley and Camarillo. - Daily News |
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