LONG RELAY RUN HONORS COUNTY'S FALLEN OFFICERS.Byline: Daily News PALMDALE - Slain sheriff's deputy Stephen Sorensen and seven other officers killed in the line of duty In the Line of Duty may refer to:
Begun Friday morning at the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department's headquarters in Monterey Park, the run was expected to reach Acton today around midnight, the Lancaster sheriff's station at 3:30 a.m. Sunday and the Palmdale sheriff's station at 5 a.m. The torch was taken up at the relay's start by Lancaster Deputy Greg Kelly, a friend of Sorensen, who was shot to death last August while investigating a routine trespassing case outside Lake Los Angeles. Patrol cars will accompany the torchbearers as the relay visits every Los Angeles County sheriff's station, except for the one on Catalina Island. After passing Sunday morning over the San Gabriel Mountains San Gabriel Mountains, S Calif., E and NE of Los Angeles, running c.50 mi (80 km) westward from Cajon Pass. San Antonio Peak (10,080 ft/3,072 m) is the highest of the range. Citrus fruits are raised on the southern foothills. along Angeles Forest Highway The Angeles Forest Highway traverses the Angeles National Forest and connects the Los Angeles basin to the Antelope Valley by going up and over the San Gabriel Mountains. The highway is variously known as County Road N-3 or FH-59 or the Palmdale cutoff. It is about 25 miles long. , the relay is scheduled to end at 1 p.m. Sunday at the Altadena sheriff's station. Honored this year in addition to Sorensen are Officer John Small of the Inglewood Police Department; Detective Abe Barron and Officer Ricardo Lizarraga of the 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 . ; Officer Robert
Melton of the Gardena Police Department; Officer Matthew Pavelka of the
Burbank Police Department The Burbank Police Department is the police department serving Burbank, California.Tim Stehr became the Police Chief of the department on August 1, 2007. The previous chiefs were Thomas Hoefel, David Newsham and Glen Bell. ; Officer Thomas Steiner of the California Highway Patrol; and Officer Nathan Longfellow of the San Fernando Police Department. Longfellow died in 1923 and his name was added to the memorial due to a review of his case. The others died between June 2003 and last month. |
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