SWEEP NETS GUNS, DRUGS.Byline: Greg Botonis Staff Writer LANCASTER - Eighteen people were arrested, five children were taken into custody and eight firearms were seized in a sweep targeting 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 white-power gang members, officials said. Authorities made the arrests after finding drugs or firearms while searching the homes of 28 people on probation who are also suspected members of white-power gangs. ``We have had very good luck with these sweeps,'' sheriff's Sgt. Steve Sylvies said of the searches, which occurred Thursday around the Antelope Valley. ``We do them (searches of probationers' and parolees' homes) about once a week, but a couple times a month we go after 30 or 40 locations.'' The sweep was part of a cooperative effort between the 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. and a 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]. team called DISARM - Developing Increased Safety through Arms Recovery and Management - created by the county Board of Supervisors The examples and perspective in this article or section may represent an unduly geographically limited view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. The Board of Supervisors is the body governing counties in the U.S. to get guns out of the hands of probationers and parolees. Sheriff's deputies from the anti-gang Operation Safe Streets and Gang Enforcement Teams joined up with the Lancaster Community Appreciation Project, which targets crime in apartment buildings and neighborhoods with high proportions of rental housing. Five children were taken into protective custody An arrangement whereby a person is safeguarded by law enforcement authorities in a location other than the person's home because his or her safety is seriously threatened. after the officers concluded they were in danger from living in squalor squal·or n. A filthy and wretched condition or quality. [Latin squ  lor, from squ and around drugs and firearms. The LAN-CAP team, created last year, will begin working more closely with Palmdale sheriff's station deputies to combat crime throughout the Antelope Valley. ``We're going to start strengthening the ties between Palmdale and Lancaster and being more proactive in our crime-fighting efforts,'' Sylvies said. |
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