CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
June 15, 1997 | JULIE TAMAKI, TIMES STAFF WRITER
A para-glider pilot attempting to break a distance record instead was set upon by sheriff's deputies when he made an emergency landing at the Pitchess Detention Center after his non-motorized aircraft began losing altitude, authorities said Saturday. "It makes a good story: Pilot lands in jail or whatever," the pilot, Thomas Truax of Carpinteria, joked Saturday night. "I didn't realize the jail was there," Truax said. "I thought it was a business center."
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
April 8, 1988 | ANDREA FORD, Times Staff Writer
The training of law enforcement officers in the county will move into the realm of high technology this year if the Orange County Sheriff's Department gets its way. Department officials want officers to learn to stay alive in dangerous situations by engaging in laser gunfights on a fake city street designed like a movie set. The Sheriff's Department is seeking authorization from the County Board of Supervisors to build what would be called Laser Village near a department firing range in Orange.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
December 6, 1987 | DAVID SMOLLAR, Times Staff Writer
A San Diego County deputy sheriff was killed and two others were wounded by a heavily armed gunman who was slain at the end of a bloody, 12-hour siege at an Escondido apartment complex Saturday. Officers killed the gunman at sunset as he ran from his apartment on Mission Avenue, firing an AK-47 automatic assault rifle. The apartment had been set ablaze by a bombardment of tear gas grenades and concussion bombs.
BUSINESS
February 27, 1987 | WILLIAM K. KNOEDELSEDER Jr., Times Staff Writer
Backed by a Sheriff's Department special weapons team and local police, investigators for the Los Angeles District Attorney's major frauds unit Thursday searched the Whittier home of a record company president and seized financial documents of his troubled company. The pre-dawn raid at the home of Kimball D. Richards, 30-year-old president and owner of Consolidated Allied Cos., was part of a coordinated operation that searched seven other locations in Los Angeles and Orange counties Thursday.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
October 31, 1986
A pharmacist and at least two members of his family apparently were being held hostage in an Echo Park drugstore by an armed robber Thursday afternoon, after police officers surrounded the building. By late afternoon, no shots had been fired and no one was known to be injured, officers said. Because of logistics in the building containing the Taylor Pharmacy, eight people were trapped for a time in a small medical clinic on the second floor, Los Angeles police said.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
July 14, 1985 | DENISE HAMILTON, Times Staff Writer
A Sheriff's Department special weapons team, alerted that an 18-year-old murder suspect might be barricaded inside his Calabasas home early Saturday morning, sealed off the neighborhood and lobbed tear gas in the house but found it empty, authorities said. The suspect, Robert Rosenkrantz, is charged with the June 28 shooting death of Steven Redman, a 17-year-old Calabasas High School student. Deputies said they received two calls at 1 a.m.