SUSPECT ARRESTED IN 2005 STABBING MAN ONE OF FIVE CHARGED IN ATTACK.Byline: KAREN MAESHIRO Staff Writer LANCASTER -- A man wanted for a March 2005 attack on five high school students who were beaten and stabbed as they left a birthday party was arrested Wednesday night at his mother's house in Lancaster. Dravell Black, 20, was being investigated for another attack that occurred last month when sheriff's deputies tracked him down. ``He was under investigation for another stabbing stab v. stabbed, stab·bing, stabs v.tr. 1. To pierce or wound with or as if with a pointed weapon. 2. To plunge (a pointed weapon or instrument) into something. 3. when detectives located him at his mother's residence,'' sheriff's Detective Jim Murren said. ``It was a matter of time before we caught him.'' Black was one of five young men charged in the 2005 case that involved five victims, all Highland High School Highland High School or Highlands High School may refer to: In the United States:
mistaken identity mistake n → Verwechslung f mistaken identity n , investigators have said. Also charged were Black's twin brother, Travell; Christopher Maurer and Mark Nemback, now both 20; and a 17-year-old boy whose case was handled in Juvenile Court juvenile court Special court handling problems of delinquent, neglected, or abused children. Two types of cases are processed by a juvenile court: civil matters, often concerning care of an abandoned or impoverished child, and criminal matters, arising from antisocial . The March 26 attack occurred when one group of teens from Paraclete High was looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. another group from Paraclete about a dispute involving the sister of someone in the suspects' group, officials said. Authorities think the assailants picked the wrong party and the wrong victims. Nemback and Maurer were described by investigators as being the instigators who recruited the other assailants. An 18-year-old Highland High student was stabbed nine times, and a 17-year-old was stabbed twice. At the time of the incident, Maurer, Nemback and the 17-year-old were students at Paraclete High School Paraclete High School is a Catholic High School in Lancaster, CA operated independently of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles. 186 seniors graduated in the 2006-2007 school year. . Authorities said Dravell Black used the knife. Travell Black, Maurer and Nemback pleaded no contest last year to an assault charge with the understanding they could have the charge reduced to a misdemeanor if they performed 90 days of community service and stayed out of trouble. Maurer and Nemback are due back in court for formal sentencing later this month. Travell Black was subsequently charged in another case last year and received a jail sentence jail sentence jail n → peine f de prison , officials said. Dravell Black is a suspect in a Dec. 2 assault at a house in Lancaster where two people were stabbed by two men, sheriff's detective David Gunner said. ``It was some kind of argument over money being given for the purchase of alcohol and people not getting alcohol, and it just escalated from there,'' Gunner said. After Dravell Black was arrested, one of the victims and a witness identified him from a lineup of six photographs as being one of the two stabbers, Gunner said. A second man arrested in the December attack, Steve Lewis Steve Lewis may refer to:
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