COACH, MOM, GANG MEMBERS ARRESTED IN COCAINE STING.Byline: Lisa Van Proyen Staff Writer Targeting a neighborhood known as the 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. Valley's drug supermarket, detectives arrested 91 people on suspicion of attempting to buy crack cocaine, police said Wednesday. Among those arrested was a high school football coach, gang members and a pregnant mother accused of leaving her 3-year-old and 5-year-old in the car as she tried to buy cocaine, said Lt. James Razukas of the 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. Police Department's Valley narcotics narcotics n. 1) techinically, drugs which dull the senses. 2) a popular generic term for drugs which cannot be legally possessed, sold, or transported except for medicinal uses for which a physician or dentist's prescription is required. unit. ``The street activity is rampant,'' Razukas said. Razukas said the area bounded by Plummer Street to the north, Tobias Avenue to the east, Roscoe Boulevard to the south and the San Diego Freeway The San Diego Freeway (Interstate 405, and the part of Interstate 5 south of the El Toro Y[1]) is one of the principal north-south highways in Southern California, and the major beltway of I-5 running through Southern California. to the west is ``well-known as an open-air drug market.'' A court injunction bars named gang members in the area from gathering in public, blocking passing cars and using signals such as whistles or flashlights to warn that police are approaching. During the three-day sting from June 9 to Friday, undercover officers sold fake rock cocaine to the 91 suspected buyers, said Detective Glenn McConnell of the LAPD's Valley Narcotics Division. Officers worked a different location each night, McConnell said. One of the suspected buyers was Alan Sinclair, 41, of Simi Valley Simi Valley (sē`mē, sĭm`ē), city (1990 pop. 100,217), Ventura co., SW Calif. in an oil, fruit, and farm region; laid out 1887, inc. 1969. , who identified himself as a high school football coach, police said. Detectives declined to provide additional information about Sinclair. Police said the arrests will slow drug activity in the area for a while. ``It attacks it from both sides - the buyers and the sellers. We're making everybody accountable here . . . We're never going to get rid of narcotics - Prohibition prohibition, legal prevention of the manufacture, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages, the extreme of the regulatory liquor laws. The modern movement for prohibition had its main growth in the United States and developed largely as a result of the showed us that. But we're trying to reduce the fear.'' CAPTION(S): Map Map: 91 drug arrests North Hills |
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