POLICE SAY KIDS RAN HEIST RING : TIP LEADS TO ARRESTS OF FIVE TEEN-AGERS.Byline: Paul O'Donoghue Daily News Staff Writer Five Moorpark High School Moorpark High School, located in Moorpark, California, is a public high school in the Moorpark Unified School District and currently has an enrollment of 2,478 students.[1] students have been arrested as suspects in a monthlong burglary spree after police received a tip that several of the suspects were doling out $100 bills on campus, officials said Friday. One 15-year-old freshman was taken to Juvenile Hall after being arrested on suspicion of burglary in five lunchtime break-ins in Moorpark, Police Department spokeswoman Julie Smith said. The youth already was facing arraignment A criminal proceeding at which the defendant is officially called before a court of competent jurisdiction, informed of the offense charged in the complaint, information, indictment, or other charging document, and asked to enter a plea of guilty, not guilty, or as otherwise permitted for 15 residential burglaries in Thousand Oaks Thousand Oaks, residential city (1990 pop. 104,352), Ventura co., S Calif., in a farm area; inc. 1964. Avocados, citrus, vegetables, strawberries, and nursery products are grown. . Another 15-year-old was arrested for the burglaries in Moorpark's upscale Mountain Meadows Mountain Meadows, small valley in extreme SW Utah, where in 1857 a party of some 140 emigrants bound for California were massacred. It was a period when friction between Mormons and non-Mormons was acute, with Mormons bitterly resenting the coming of U.S. neighborhood while three friends - ages 15-17 - were taken into custody on suspicion of receiving stolen property. The four boys were released to their parents. Smith said police had been investigating the rash of burglaries but got a break when they received an anonymous tip that three boys were handing out $100 bills on the Moorpark High campus, which recently gained national attention by winning the U.S. Academic Decathlon decathlon (dĭkăth`lŏn), in modern Olympic games, a contest for men held over two days and composed of 10 track-and-field events. . ``Friends received most of the money, but it was very random,'' Smith said. ``We went, hmm, $100 bills. . . .'' Principal Max Friedman could not be reached for comment. The money giveaway occurred Thursday, just two days after $10,200 in cash and about $18,000 in jewelry jewelry, personal adornments worn for ornament or utility, to show rank or wealth, or to follow superstitious custom or fashion. The most universal forms of jewelry are the necklace, bracelet, ring, pin, and earring. was stolen from a home on Alderbrook Street, police said. Investigators interviewed the trio and determined that two of the 15-year-old friends were responsible for that break-in and at at least four other noon-time burglaries in the area, Smith said. Officers searched the homes of the two burglary suspects and recovered $4,000 in cash, some stolen jewelry and merchandise, plus $2,000 in property, such as paintball paintball Sports medicine A sport in which marble-sized gelatin capsules filled with a nontoxic dye are shot at speeds of 300 kph/200 mph Warning: guns, that police say was purchased with the stolen money. However, she said that about $4,000 distributed by the students at the campus has yet to be recovered. She appealed to students to bring the money into the Moorpark police station, promising that they will not be charged. |
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