John Sweeney, Glynn Johnson's defense attorney, confirmed in a phone interview today that a preliminary hearing will go forward as scheduled Tuesday morning in Johnson's animal-abuse case.

Johnson, a Los Angeles County fire chief who supervised stations in Pomona and other cities in the San Gabriel Valley, is accused of beating his neighbor's puppy with a rock. The puppy was euthanized.

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Edward Lamar Scott, 20, was among 15 people charged with murder following the February 2006 shooting deaths of two men in Banning.

A Riverside Superior Court jury acquitted Scott of murder on Jan. 16, 2009, but found him guilty of a felony street-gang charge.

Scott was jailed awaiting trial after his arrest on suspicion of murder in February 2006, and was released from custody when he was acquitted of murder. His sentencing in the case is pending.

About three months after his release, Scott and five other people were arrested in connection with a recent string of residential burglaries in Rancho Cucamonga and other affluent communities along the 210 Freeway.

Scott and 16-year-old Anthony Hicks were arrested April 14 in the area of Candlewood Street and Lockhaven Avenue after a neighbor called sheriff's deputies to report suspicious activity.

When deputies arrived, they saw three men loading a TV into a parked car. Deputies arrested Scott and Hicks at the scene.

The third man -- 20-year-old Craisean Ryan Evans -- allegedly ran from the scene and was arrested April 17.

Prosecutors have accused the men of burglarizing a home earlier in the day on April 14 in the 7500 block of Center Avenue in Rancho Cucamonga.

A deputy stopped Aron Gennaro Conley about 8 a.m. while he was riding on Jonathan Street near Holly Road and asked him to turn the off-road vehicle off. Conley instead hit the gas and sped off, starting a pursuit.

After the deputy caught up to him, she discovered the vehicle had been stolen from Las Vegas, Nv.

Conley was booked at the Victor Valley jail on suspicion of possessing stolen property. Bail was set at $50,000.

More than 1,400 students passed through metal detectors and had their backpacks and purses searched at the Citrus Avenue campus before school started.

The arrested students were not named, but school police chief Robert Ratcliffe said one had a knife and the other four had drugs on them. Ten students are expected to be disciplined for bringing "tobacco products" onto campus, according to a Fontana school police news release.

Officials also seized nearly 100 marking pens that they say are often used to tag school property.

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The woman spotted the boy Thursday in her backyard in the 7600 block of Newhall Avenue taking her lawnmower. When she confronted him, he struck her but deputies said she hit back, giving him a bloody nose.

He is described as a Latino boy, about 5'8 and 140 pounds with brown hair. He was wearing a white muscle shirt, khaki shorts and black shoes.

Anyone with information is asked to call deputies at (760) 947-1500.

Christina Ines Gale, 21, was booked at the Larry D. Smith Correctional Facility on suspicion of embezzlement, six counts of burglary and crimes against elders. Police said they found several of the stolen items at a local pawn shop and inside Gale's Moreno Valley home.

Gale is accused of breaking into six rooms while she was working at The Lakes Independent & Assisted Living in the 5800 block of Sun Lakes Boulevard.

The 18-year-old victim told nurses at Redlands Community Hospital that he was walking near Oxford and Brockton avenues about 6:30 p.m. when a black four-door compact car pulled over and 10 men in their 20s got out.

"They circled him and made gang references and beat him up," said Redlands spokesman Carl Baker.

Anyone with information is asked to call Redlands Police Dispatch at (909) 798-7681.

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On Monday, a sheriff's Specialized Enforcement Division arrested seven members - including the leader - of a white racist street gang named Inland Empire Skinhead. Lead investigator Deputy Eric Ogaz said he chose to serve the search warrants on that day because it was Adolf Hitler's birthday.

Charged are brothers Thomas Mason Jr., 24, and Joseph Mason, 20, both of Hesperia; Mark Goslyn, 33, of Hesperia; Carrie Goodwin, 24, of Hesperia; Jeremy Brower, 32, of Winchester; leader Raymond Williams, 33, and his wife, Megan Williams, 24, of Perris; and Joshua Butler, 27.

Authorities said there about 30 members in the gang, which uses MySpace in an attempt to recruit high school students.

The women arrested, Williams and Goodwin, were taken into custody at hospitals because they induced labor so they could give birth on Hitler's birthday.

A criminal complaint filed in Victorville Superior Court provides details on two of the skinheads' crimes.

Goslyn apparently sold a gun to a man, who had not yet paid him in full by early March. He allegedly paid the Mason brothers to help him assault the man, who was later seen with lacerations to his forehead and two black eyes.

Butler and Goslyn were recently stopped after sheriff's deputies found a shotgun and a handgun in their truck. After discussing why they were not arrested, Goslyn told a friend "he would get more guns and shoot police officers if they entered his house to arrest him on a warrant," according to the complaint.

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