For the next half-hour the Florence and Normandie intersection remained eerily quiet. Jim Galipeau, a member of a gang unit at the county probation department who probably knows the Eight Trays better than any white man in L.A., stopped his car a few minutes after 5 p.m. to banter wit...
thrusts, directions, and so on”. After Dederich moved to Marin County, he started wearing overalls. The trend spread until the attire was all but mandatory. When Dederich quit his three-pack-a-day habit in ’70, he decreed that everybody else would quit...
Over the years he has worked for a number of Southern California stations providing traffic reports. A California native, Ed was born in Glendale and now lives in Orange County with his wife Pamela. They have 4 kids who have all left home. When Ed left KNX, he began working on a game...
Ex-probation officer arrested on suspicion of sexual contact with juvenile inmate New recovery center to open in Altadena to aid Eaton fire victims L.A. fires upend fragile child-care industry, sending providers, families scrambling UC, a top recipient of federal research funding, is concerned...
When Carson was hired in the Santa Monica office of the Los Angeles County Probation Department in 1987, he joined an organization in upheaval. Cuts in the department’s budget in the early 1980s, dictated by the tax cap measure Proposition 13, devasted the work force. Caseloads doubled from...
Orange County Superior Court Judge Lewis Clapp rejected motions from Strange’s attorney, Sara Ross of the Orange County public defender’s office, to reduce the conviction to voluntary manslaughter and to place her on probation due to her health issues and age. ...
Summer was over so we moved out of the apartment in Highland. Me & Sylvia had gotten to the point to where we really couldn’t stand each other so she went somewhere. Our court date had finally come and for all of our offenses, we were both sentenced to two years probation – no mo...
In an interview with a Santa Barbara County probation officer, Voorhees said Weber sold grams of cocaine at a nightclub where Weber was employed as a bouncer. Soon, the housemates were in business. Using the money Voorhees made from selling steroids, he and Weber bought cocaine by the ounce ...
Most of the merchandise fell from the shelves at the mercantile store. Among those arriving to help Sensibaugh restore order was the manager of a supermarket in Mammoth Lakes, who drove 55 miles to offer his assistance, and 16 boys from a Probation Department camp in neighboring Mono County....
It was becoming increasingly clear that Kevin Poulsen was the government’s best chance to send a message. Currently being held without bail at Alameda County’s Santa Rita Jail, he has already spent more than two years in custody, longer than the prison sentences of the Justice Department’s...