POLICE MAKE GANG CHECK COURT PROBATION VIOLATORS SOUGHT.Byline: GIDEON RUBIN Staff Writer LANCASTER -- Los Angeles County Probation Department The Los Angeles County Probation Department provides services for those placed on probation within Los Angeles County, California, USA. Robert Taylor is the current Chief Probation Officer. The department is the largest probation department in the world[1]. officers were joined by sheriff's deputies Monday in a sweep to check whether dozens of gang members on probation in the Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley were complying with court-ordered terms. Teams hit about 40 locations searching suspected gang members on probation for weapons and illegal drugs, of which possession constitutes a violation of probationary terms, authorities said. No results were available late Monday afternoon. The sweep was led by the Probation Department's Developing Increased Safety through Arms Reduction Management or DISARM program. Law enforcement officials were joined by 5th District Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich Michael Dennis Antonovich (born 1939 in Los Angeles, California) is a member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors representing the Fifth District, which covers northern Los Angeles County, the Antelope, Santa Clarita, Pasadena, and parts of the San Fernando and San for part of the sweep. Antonovich initiated the DISARM program in the aftermath of a 1999 incident in which a white supremacist white supremacist n. One who believes that white people are racially superior to others and should therefore dominate society. white supremacy n. Noun 1. on probation went on a shooting rampage at a North Valley Jewish Community Center in Granada Hills and later shot a postal worker A postal worker is one who works for a post office, such as a mail carrier. In the U.S., postal workers are represented by the National Postal Mail Handlers Union - NPMHU and the American Postal Workers Union, part of the AFL-CIO. to death in nearby Chatsworth. Law enforcement officials targeted locations based on information that a probation violation existed, said Jack Sims, the Probation Department's special enforcement operations director. A DISARM sweep earlier this month in Lynwood resulted in 36 arrests and the confiscation confiscation In law, the act of seizing property without compensation and submitting it to the public treasury. Illegal items such as narcotics or firearms, or profits from the sale of illegal items, may be confiscated by the police. Additionally, government action (e.g. of $5.9 million in illegal drugs, an Antonovich aide said. "The objective is to keep (probationers) in the community, but if they're not going to stay in compliance with the terms of their probation, then our whole focus through DISARM is to bring them back to court and hold them accountable," Sims said. Antonovich said the program was borne out of the realization that probationers left to their own devices posed a significant threat to public safety. He said 40 percent of probationers have been found to be in possession of weapons or drugs since the program's inception. "It's a crackdown crack·down n. An act or example of forceful regulation, repression, or restraint: a crackdown on crime. Noun 1. on the gangs," Antonovich said in front of a home authorities searched in the 1400 block of Jackman Street West. "We have an epidemic of gang activity... a warfare taking place. The ones we're going after are those who are on probation and armed and are continuing their active membership in these gangs." At the Jackman Street home, authorities arrested three men suspected of being gang members -- two on parole violations and one on a probation violation -- and seized a loaded firearm firearm, device consisting essentially of a straight tube to propel shot, shell, or bullets by the explosion of gunpowder. Although the Chinese discovered gunpowder as early as the 9th cent., they did not develop firearms until the mid-14th cent. found in a room to which two young children had access, authorities said. The two children -- ages 3 1/2 and 2 -- were draped drape v. draped, drap·ing, drapes v.tr. 1. To cover, dress, or hang with or as if with cloth in loose folds: draped the coffin with a flag; a robe that draped her figure. in blankets as sheriff's deputies carried them into an unmarked car. The relationship between the adults and the children was not immediately known. "Being a parent myself, it's very upsetting," sheriff's Lt. Randall Dickey said. "All you can do is try to calm them down, but seeing auntie, mom or dad being taken away is very difficult." gideon.rubin@dailynews.com (661) 267-7802 |
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