LA Police Launch Hammer Operation Against Gangs
Los Angeles police deployed the Operation Hammer task force over the weekend responding to a 9.2 percent crime rise. 286 arrests were made including 216 suspected gang members, with 37 felonies and 31 vehicles seized. The sweep covered Central, Hollenbeck, Newton, Northeast and Rampart divisions.
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Daryl Gates
John Fletcher
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Hollenbeck
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California Highway Patrol
Mike Pattee
Steve Twohy
Gates
Fred Nixon
Lincoln Heights
Inmates Burn Tower in Banning Prison Uprising
Rioting inmates at the Riverside County Banning Rehabilitation Center set fire to a watch tower and a communications bunker, plus a barracks, injuring at least 12 as flames destroyed multiple structures at the 400-inmate facility. Prisoners were moved to other county jails after the riot was quelled between 1 and 2 a.m. Local and state officers contained the blaze and evacuated inmates to facilities in Banning Indio Riverside and San Bernardino.
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Jaime Ibarra
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Indio
Riverside
San Bernardino
Riverside County Sheriff’s
Christopher Blondon
Chris Hays
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Mercy killing claim in hammer attack death
In Hallandale Florida a man 80 told a judge he mercy killed his wife 78 saying she was in pain after a hammer blow and chest stabbings. Motchan jailed on first degree murder charges after admitting to three hammer blows and multiple stab wounds at their seaside condo.
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Scott Lakin
Joseph Motchan
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Gertrude Levine Motchan
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