INJUNCTION MAY CURTAIL GANG ACTIVITY.Byline: Staff and Wire Services A Superior Court judge granted a preliminary injunction A temporary order made by a court at the request of one party that prevents the other party from pursuing a particular course of conduct until the conclusion of a trial on the merits. A preliminary injunction is regarded as extraordinary relief. Monday against one of 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 oldest street gangs, barring the gang members from associating in public and other activities. Members of the Canoga Park Alabama Street gang will now face a 10 p.m. curfew and increased penalties for harassment, trespassing or weapon- or drug-related charges, City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo Rockard John "Rocky" Delgadillo (born July 15 1960) is the current City Attorney of Los Angeles, California. Career
The injunction establishes a 4.65-square-mile safety zone - bounded by Nordhoff Street, Winnetka Avenue, Vanowen Street and Topanga Canyon Boulevard - in which gang members' activities are restricted. ``This definitely gives us another tool in our bag of tricks,'' said Ronald Bergmann, 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 deputy chief in the San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. . ``It gives us a few more things we can hang our hat on when fighting gang crime,'' Bergmann said. Canoga Park's Alabama Street gang traces its roots to around Alabama Street in the 1930s. It now numbers more than 500 members - two dozen of whom are named in the injunction, Delgadillo said. ``The Canoga Park Alabama gang The Alabama Gang was the nickname for a group of NASCAR drivers who set up shop and operated out of Hueytown, Alabama, near Birmingham, Alabama.[1] In the late 1950s, young auto racer Bobby Allison left Miami, Florida, looking for an area that had more has preyed upon and terrorized the Canoga Park community for generations,'' he said. ``This preliminary injunction is an important first step in the battle to take back our neighborhoods from these urban terrorists,'' Delgadillo said. The injunction is the 11th granted in the city against a street gang. |
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