DEPUTIES CRACK DOWN AT LANCASTER PARK.Byline: Bhavna Mistry Staff Writer Sheriff's deputies arrested 14 people, cited 74 others and identified 25 gang members in a ``zero tolerance'' campaign over the past two weekends at Lancaster City Park, sheriff's officials said Friday. The effort was prompted by numerous residents' complaints about illegal and bothersome activity at the park, which inexplicably has attracted 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. gang members over the past month, officials said. ``People were calling saying that there was drug dealing, people playing loud music from the cars and people drinking alcohol,'' said Deputy Jeff Adams Jeff Adams (born November 15, 1970 in Mississauga, Ontario) is a four-time Canadian Paralympian and a six-time world champion in wheelchair sports. At the 2000 Summer Paralympics he won five medals, a gold in the 800 m and 1500 m, a silver in the 400 m and a bronze . ``They're not only criminal activity but nuisance problems.'' Adams added, ``Apparently, the word has has filtered out even as far away as Los Angeles that Lancaster City Park is the place to come party. Why they chose Lancaster City Park is a mystery, but they have.'' Deputies converged June 20 and Sunday on the park, the city's largest, which each day contained about 1,000 people. ``The vast majority of the people there were enjoying the park and law-abiding,'' said Adams. ``The city of Lancaster The City of Lancaster (2002 population: 133,914) is a local government district with city status in Lancashire, England. Its main town is Lancaster, from which it obtained its city status. Other towns in the district include Morecambe, Heysham, Slyne, and Carnforth. prides itself in being a city of parks This article or section contains information about planned or expected future infrastructure. It may contain speculative information and may change upon or during construction. .'' Over the two days, deputies arrested three people on felony charges: one on suspicion of selling 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. , one for resisting arrest resisting arrest n. the crime of using physical force (no matter how slight in the eyes of most law enforcement officers) to prevent arrest, handcuffing and/or taking the accused to jail. and one for an outstanding warrant. They made 11 arrests on misdemeanors, including two people on suspicion of possession of loaded guns. The 74 citations were issued for violation of the state vehicle code and of other state and city codes, such as prohibitions against drinking alcoholic beverages in parks or playing loud music. |
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