MAN TAKES FLIGHT, CAPTURED IN STORE.Byline: Daily News SANTA CLARITA Santa Clarita, city (1990 pop. 110,642), Los Angeles co., S Calif., suburb 30 mi (48 km) NW of downtown Los Angeles, on the Santa Clara River; inc. 1987. Situated in the Santa Clara valley and nearby canyons, Santa Clarita includes the former towns of Canyon Country, - A Valencia man who was being questioned by police Wednesday escaped from the Santa Clarita sheriff's station but was captured when a drugstore employee tackled the suspect as he was being chased by deputies, authorities said. Santa Clarita sheriff's deputies caught up with Steve Gardner, 18, about 12:30 p.m. at Longs Drugs Longs Drugs (NYSE: LDG) is a pharmacy chain store located in the West Coast of the United States. It was founded in 1938 by brothers Thomas and Joseph Long (son-in-law of Marion Barton Skaggs, co-founder of Safeway Inc.), with their first store in Oakland, California. , 25880 McBean Parkway, deputies said. A store employee tackled the man who was seen running through the drugstore as deputies chased him. ``It's happens infrequently,'' Lt. Scott Young For other uses, see Scott Young (disambiguation). Scott Young (April 14, 1918 – June 12, 2005) was a Canadian journalist, sportswriter, novelist and the father of musician Neil Young. said of the escape. ``It's human error, usually.'' Gardner was being questioned after he had been arrested on a warrant for petty theft and had been left alone in an unlocked interview room for two minutes when he escaped, police said. A short time later, he was spotted at the Granary Square shopping center shopping center, a concentration of retail, service, and entertainment enterprises designed to serve the surrounding region. The modern shopping center differs from its antecedents—bazaars and marketplaces—in that the shops are usually amalgamated into . Gardner also was arrested on suspicion of escape. He is being held in lieu of Instead of; in place of; in substitution of. It does not mean in addition to. a $100,000 bond. |
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