CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
October 8, 1989 | MICHAEL CONNELLY, Times Staff Writer
So much cocaine was found in a Sylmar warehouse raided 10 days ago that each Angeleno could have had a three-month supply. But what the world's biggest drug bust could not provide is enough credit to go around to all the law enforcement agencies that took part in it.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
September 12, 1990 | RICHARD SIMON, TIMES STAFF WRITER
Mandatory drug testing for all 8,000 sworn peace officers in the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department was approved Tuesday by the Board of Supervisors. Sheriff Sherman Block supported the move, saying, "Drug abuse has now become so pervasive in our society that it is essential that we send a message to the community that those men and women they have entrusted with their safety are absolutely drug free." The sheriff said there is no drug abuse problem within the department.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
March 16, 1990 | RICHARD BEENE, TIMES STAFF WRITER
Sgt. Jim Hannon is from the old school. His life has been one of values, of duty, patriotism and honor. He's actually proud of the uniform he wears bearing the green and gold seal of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. And so it was Thursday that he found himself filled with anger and sadness, hurt to the core by reports about the widening money-skimming scandal involving the department's elite narcotics squads.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
August 22, 1990 | DENISE HAMILTON, TIMES STAFF WRITER
Invoking the 1964 Civil Rights Act, the U.S. Justice Department has sued the city of Alhambra and its Police and Fire departments, charging employment discrimination against minorities. The suit was filed after the city declined a Justice Department recommendation to revamp its personnel practices, City Manager Kevin Murphy said. The changes would have expanded city recruitment, hiring and promotion of blacks, Latinos and Asians.
NEWS
February 23, 1990 | DARYL KELLEY and VICTOR MERINA, TIMES STAFF WRITERS
All but one of the sheriff's officers indicted Thursday had worked under a hard-charging narcotics sergeant who has been identified as both a principal suspect and an important prosecution witness. Sgt. Robert R. Sobel, who dubbed himself "El Diablo," or "the Devil," was indicted along with the other eight members of his drug squad on charges of stealing a total of $1.4 million in drug money. Before its members were suspended last Sept.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
April 3, 1993 | KENNETH REICH, TIMES STAFF WRITER
Three major police agencies and the city Fire Department have asked that aircraft be banned from flying under 2,000 feet over all of Los Angeles County without prior approval when the verdicts in the Rodney G. King case are made public, the Federal Aviation Administration said Friday.