What the hell's going on at the Long Beach Police Department. Reports Nancy "Ride, Nancy" Wride, in today's LA "By God" Times, the LBC fuzz is missing more than a quarter of its shotguns and Lord knows how many revolvers. It just brings to mind a drab, cluttered squad room ala Barney Miller, only instead of piles of old newspapers, Styrofoam cups of Nick's undrinkable coffee and Fish's teeth, there were piles and piles various models of unattended firearms just lying all around. They probably ev
A federal grand jury in Los Angeles indicted an Upland IT contractor for allegedly sabotaging the offshore oil rig computer systems that he helped install for a Long Beach-based company. Mario Azar, 28, was charged Tuesday with a single count of unauthorized impairment of a protected computer, an allegation that could fetch him 10 years in the federal pen.Azar was an information technology consultant under contract with Pacific Energy Resources, where he helped set up a computer system used to
The FBI announced
it made 11 additional arrests this morning tied to a Hawaiian Gardens
gang, upping the number of defendants to 24 in the final phase of the
nation's largest-ever gang investigation and prosecution that included the participation of Orange County law enforcement agencies and is credited with taking more than 300 gang-bangers off Southern California streets.
Dubbed
"Operation Knock Out" and involving agencies in four
Southern California counties, the sweep
The other day, while getting the website that mirrors your favorite OC alt.-weekly pub ready for ya'all, Clockworken noticed something interesting upon opening Gustavo Arellano's popular column !Ask a Mexican! (Special Cesar Chavez Edition). Along the top of the virtual page was a Google advertisement inside a rectangular box, but upon opening El Mex the copy inside changed. Gone were the previous product-hawking sites, which we can't recall at this moment due to a weekend spent swimming with a
