DEPUTIES ARREST SUSPECT IN DEATH OF LA CANADA MAN; LOS ANGELES COUNTY AUTHORITIES PLANNING TO SEEK EXTRADITION.Byline: Donna Huffaker Daily News Staff Writer 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 sheriff's deputies have arrested a man found in Nevada with the car and driver's license of a dead La Canada Flintridge man on suspicion of murder, officials said Friday. Martin Higgins, 59, was taken into custody by Laughlin police outside a casino Wednesday. He was trying to get into the Ford Thunderbird owned by James Cummings of La Canada Flintridge. Higgins handed officers the 68-year-old's driver's license, authorities said. Police, who had been responding to a report of a person drunk in public Drunk in Public is the first CD released by comedian Ron White. It features many of his act from the Blue Collar Comedy Tour with the addition of profanity. It was released on 2003-11-03 on the Hip-O Records label. Track listing All tracks written by White. , held Higgins on a fraud warrant out of San Luis Obispo San Luis Obispo (săn l  `ĭs ōbĭs`pō), city (1990 pop. 41,958), seat of San Luis Obispo co., S Calif., near San Luis Obispo Bay; inc. 1856. . Then, on Thursday, deputies from the Crescenta Valley sheriff's station went to Cummings' secluded hillside home and found his badly beaten body on the floor, said Deputy Cruz Solis of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department This article is about the Los Angeles County Sherriff's Department, not to be confused with the smaller Los Angeles County Police The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department (LASD) is a local law enforcement agency that serves Los Angeles County, California. . Sheriff's investigators went to Laughlin to interview Higgins, who had worked for Cummings and knew him for many years. They arrested Higgins on Thursday night, sheriff's officials said. Higgins used to tend bar at Up th' Hill, a La Crescenta pub Cummings owned for 22 years, said bartender Rich Myers. Higgins and Myers frequented the bar and were acquaintances. Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies were in Laughlin on Friday, said Sgt. Richard Siefert, a spokesman for the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (also known as the LVMPD or Metro) is the joint city-county police force for Clark County, Nevada. It is run by the sheriff, who is the Police Chief of the City of Las Vegas and the Sheriff of Clark County, elected every in Laughlin. Clark County (Nevada) Detention Center authorities said Higgins was being held because of a parole violation that stemmed from a forgery case and the outstanding warrant from San Luis Obispo County. In San Luis Obispo, Higgins was alleged to have stolen from a longtime friend and his wife earlier this year. The couple, John and Marla Bassford, told police Higgins duped them out of $1,000 cash and credit card charges and stole a family heirloom - a $8,000 mandolin mandolin (măn'dəlĭn`, măn`dəlĭn'), musical instrument of the lute family, with a half-pear-shaped body, a fretted neck, and a variable number of strings, plucked with the fingers or with a plectrum. , Las Vegas police said. John Bassford and Myers described Higgins as a man who was down on his luck. Myers called him a ``drifter and a loner loner Psychiatry A single young man estranged from society and family, who suffers from psychogenic pain, and tends to live 'on the edge', vacillating between aggression and depression; loners often have unrealistic goals, but are unable to work towards those goals .'' Extradition of Higgins will be sought, but it is unclear when he will be brought back to California, Solis said. Scott Carrier, spokesman for the Los Angeles County Coroner's Office, said Friday that Cummings' body had not yet been examined. It is due to be autopsied over the weekend, he said. |
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