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Local leaders cavalier about public safety?

June 28, 2011
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Local leaders cavalier about public safety?

TWENTYNINE PALMS | COMMENTARY | OPINION “When the San Andreas ruptures it won’t be triggered by the smaller faults, but “full tectonic stress….”  “A 7.5 quake is 1,000 times stronger than a 7.2 quake.” Can anyone argue that survival isn’t the first need of human beings.  A Megaquake will ‘wreck’ So Cal and our area at any given moment. The lowest priority in 29 should be the highest priority. Given the unusual disasters around the world, at the edge of the earth sits isolated and idyllic Twentynine Palms. We...

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Chopper crew risked lives to rescue lost hikers

January 3, 2011
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Chopper crew risked lives to rescue lost hikers

Wednesday, December 29, 2010 The LA County Sheriff’s Dept. issued a press release on last night’s rescue of the teenage hikers in Eaton Canyon, and it was more of an adventure than the initial reports suggested — but with no flashlights, no hiking supplies, and risking the lives of the chopper crew who had to fly below power lines to save them, just dumb: Nine teenage hikers were assisted out of Eaton Canyon by deputies and firefighters Tuesday, after one hiker was lost and another one was injured. The...

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High profile sex offender brings out the big guns

September 29, 2010
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High profile sex offender brings out the big guns

On September 24, 2010 at 4:15 a.m., Deputy Mike New from the Victor Valley Sheriff Station gathered information about 44 year old Mario Petoskey possibly living in the community of Phelan. Petoskey, who was convicted of lewd or lascivious acts with a child under 14, is required to register his residence with the local law enforcement agency. Petoskey failed to do so, and it is believed Petoskey had been living in the 5000 block of Rancho Road since sometime in 2009. Deputies responded to a residence on Rancho Road...

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Cabazon Snatch and Grab Solved

March 14, 2010
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Cabazon Snatch and Grab Solved

On Saturday, March 06, 2010, deputies from the Cabazon Sheriff’s Station responded to the Outlet Malls located at 48650 Seminole in the unincorporated area of Riverside County known as Cabazon reference a strong arm robbery. Upon arrival deputies learned one suspect approached two female shoppers and asked for some change. As one of the shoppers went to retrieve change from her purse the suspect grabbed her purse and fled to an awaiting vehicle. A second suspect acted as a getaway driver during the incident and both suspects fled the...

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California’s death row grows as death sentences decline nationwide

December 27, 2009
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California’s death row grows as death sentences decline nationwide

Los Angeles County sent more people to death row this year than Texas, Florida or any other state in the nation. Death sentences issued across the country this year will reach its lowest level since capital punishment was as reinstated in 1976. Richard Dieter, head of the Death Penalty Information Center, a nonprofit database maintained by capital punishment opponents, attributed California’s continued pursuit of death sentences to a lack of public debate about the economics of the policy, which he said costs the state $137 million a year more...

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L.A. County sheriff backs database on sales of cold medicine

November 28, 2009
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L.A. County sheriff backs database on sales of cold medicine

Baca and other California sheriffs say the records would reduce the illicit production of methamphetamine. But civil rights activists fear invasion of residents’ privacy. When you buy cold medicine, Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca wants to know about it. Bookmark on DeliciousDigg this postRecommend on FacebookBuzz it upShare on LinkedinShare via MySpaceShare with StumblersShare on technoratiTumblr itTweet about itShare on xingSubscribe to the comments on this post

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