Probation searches net weapons and drugs
From City News Service:
LOS ANGELES (CNS) - Unannounced searches of Los Angeles County probationers and their homes netted about 100 weapons and $245,000 in illegal drugs and resulted in 132 arrests in the month of December, Supervisor Michael Antonovich announced today.
The DISARM Program -- Developing Increased Safety through Arms Reduction Management -- is aimed at keeping probationers from committing new crimes by subjecting them to spot checks.
Since its inception in February 2000, the program has resulted in 10,446 arrests and the seizure of 4,856 weapons and more than $306 million in illegal drugs.
Ten percent of probationers in the program have been found in violation of the terms of their probation, Antonovich said.
The supervisor pushed for the program's creation in the wake of an attack carried out by white supremacist parolee Buford Furrow, who shot and wounded five people at a Jewish daycare center in Granada Hills before killing a Filipino-American mail carrier on Aug. 10, 1999
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Now that these crimminals have been re-arrested for gun possession, throw away the key when the Judges give them their sentences! It is against the law for a convicted felon to have a gun. Californa needs to set an example with these crimminals. Look at Texas and Florida, the max time a person is on "death row" is one year. Richard Ramirez is still on "death row" in Califonia. Put him in the gas chamber today!!!
Big Mo
East Side Torrance