REWARD OFFERED FOR SUV VANDALS.Byline: Troy Anderson Staff Writer The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors is the five member governing board of Los Angeles County, California. Members of the board of supervisors are elected by district, the current members as of April 2006 are:
A car dealership or vehicle local distribution is a business that sells new cars and/or used cars at the retail level, based on a dealership contract with an automaker or and vandalism at dozens of other cars at dealerships and on streets of the San Gabriel Valley The San Gabriel Valley is one of the principal valleys of southern California. It lies to the east of the city of Los Angeles, to the north of the Puente Hills, to the south of the San Gabriel Mountains, and to the west of the Inland Empire. . In a hand-delivered letter, District Attorney Steve Cooley asked 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 , whose district encompasses the area of the arson and vandalism, to ask his fellow supervisors to offer a reward as an emergency measure. Cooley said he would ask Los Angeles County auto dealers to match the reward. ``The recent fires at a Hummer dealership in West Covina placed firefighters and citizens in great peril,'' Cooley wrote. ``Those taking credit for the acts of arson in West Covina and vandalism in other parts of your district early Friday say they haven't hurt anyone with this continuing campaign of destruction. It's only a matter of time until they do so.'' Cooley said this ``form of domestic terrorism takes us back'' to the 1960s and 1970s when the Weather Underground, the Symbionese Liberation Army Symbionese Liberation Army small terrorist group that kid-napped Patty Hearst (1974–1975). [Am. Hist.: Facts (1974), 105] See : Terrorism and other terror groups were of great concern to law enforcement. The Earth Liberation Front The Earth Liberation Front (ELF) is the collective name for anonymous and autonomous individuals or groups that, according to the now defunct Earth Liberation Front Press Office, use "economic sabotage and guerrilla warfare to stop the exploitation and destruction of the claimed responsibility for the estimated $2.5 million in damages to car dealerships in West Covina, Arcadia and Duarte and in a Monrovia neighborhood. Slogans such as ``Fat, Lazy Americans'' and ``I (heart) pollution'' were painted on vehicles. FBI spokeswoman Laura Bosley said investigators are scrutinizing a Duarte car dealership video of two men running around the dealership that was vandalized and are following up on leads, but no arrests have been made. ``It's sensitive at this point and we really can't get into specifics of the investigation, other than to say we are aggressively pursuing the perpetrators and working on some information we've received,'' Bosley said. Anyone with information regarding the case is urged to call the FBI at (310) 477-6565 or their local law enforcement agency Noun 1. law enforcement agency - an agency responsible for insuring obedience to the laws FBI, Federal Bureau of Investigation - a federal law enforcement agency that is the principal investigative arm of the Department of Justice . The ELF claimed responsibility this month for burning a San Diego area apartment building under construction. The damage was estimated at $50 million. Earlier, the FBI estimated that the ELF and a second group, the Animal Liberation Front The Animal Liberation Front (ALF) is a name used internationally by those who, through the means of direct action, oppose the use of animals as property or resources through capitalizing on the destruction and experimentation of animals. , have committed more than 600 criminal acts in the United States since 1996, resulting in damages exceeding $100 million. Troy Anderson, (213) 974-8985 troy.anderson(at)dailynews.com |
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