SUSPECT ESCAPES DIRT-ROAD CHASE NETS COCAINE.Byline: Greg Botonis Staff Writer AGUA DULCE Agua Dulce is Spanish for "sweet water". It also refers to various locations: In Mexico:
n. A state law enforcement organization whose police officers patrol the public highways. officer on a 90 mph chase up the Antelope Valley Freeway The Antelope Valley Freeway is a freeway in Los Angeles and Kern counties in southern California. It is signed as California State Highway 14 along its length. It connects Greater Los Angeles to the rapidly developing Antelope Valley. . After shaking the CHP CHP Chapter CHP Combined Heat and Power CHP California Highway Patrol CHP Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi (Turkish: Republican People's Party) CHP Chemical Hygiene Plan (OSHA) CHP Community Health Plan cruiser by driving up a dirt road dirt road n (US) → camino sin firme dirt road n → chemin non macadamisé or non revêtu dirt road dirt n , then over a 12-foot drop and taking off cross-country, the man apparently tossed out at least four kilograms of cocaine - 8.8 pounds, worth $82,000 to $96,000 on the street - before abandoning his van and fleeing into the brush. ``The officer stopped the van for a registration violation but then the van took off again before the officer made contact,'' said CHP Officer Doug Sweeney. About 20 minutes after the van lost its pursuer, a Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department This article is about the Los Angeles County Sherriff's Department, not to be confused with the smaller Los Angeles County Police The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department (LASD) is a local law enforcement agency that serves Los Angeles County, California. helicopter spotted it abandoned next to a house off dirt Lagos Road, about four miles away. Deputies following the van's tracks found four bags of cocaine. Deputies hunted without success for the man for more than five hours through a hilly, brushy one-square-mile area dotted with mostly expensive, ranch-style homes, about halfway between 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, and Palmdale, Deputies knocked on doors and checked vacant homes and a police dog followed the van driver's scent, which at one point went up a road and doubled back again, as if he had spotted a law officer waiting for him. The CHP officer tried to stop the van about 10 a.m. on the Antelope Valley Freeway near Sand Canyon Road. After pulling over on the shoulder, the van sped off and the CHP officer pursued it. The van topped 90 mph before getting off the freeway on Escondido Canyon Road, then up dirt Shallow Creek Road, the CHP said. Turning into a lot containing a mobile home, the van circled the mobile home three or four times before crashing into an outdoor spa and then racing off over a 12-foot drop, Sweeney said. The CHP cruiser couldn't follow, he said. The suspect was described only as a Latino male with a mustache, wearing dark blue sweat clothes. Anyone with information on the man's whereabouts is asked to call the Palmdale sheriff's station at (661) 267-4300. CAPTION(S): 2 photos, map Photo: (1 -- color in Verb 1. color in - add color to; "The child colored the drawings"; "Fall colored the trees"; "colorize black and white film" color, colorise, colorize, colour in, colourise, colourize, colour SAC and AV edition only) A K-9 unit joins the search for a drug suspect who fled authorities Wednesday in the Agua Dulce area. (2 -- color -- ran in SAC and AV edition only) Several kilos of cocaine lie off Shallow Creek Road in Agua Dulce, where they were tossed by a suspect fleeing police. David R. Crane/Staff Photographer Map: (ran in AV and SAC edition only) Agua Dulce |
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