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A judge sentences two men to die by lethal injection for murdering two children and three adults in a 1995 attack that prosecutors said was ordered by the Mexican Mafia prison gang. One of the defendants was Jimmy Palma, 23, of Arcadia.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 12, 1997
Pages
p. A-1 w/photo
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Pasadena Star News
Date
June 12, 1997
Pages
p. A-1 w/photo
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Palma, Jimmy
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9883AN
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Two men, including 22 year old Arcadian Jimmy Palma, were convicted of five counts of first-degree murder for shooting three adults and two children last year in El Monte.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
December 5, 1996
Pages
p. A5
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Pasadena Star News
Date
December 5, 1996
Pages
p. A5
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Palma, Jimmy
Item ID
7977AN
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Jimmy Palma, 22, of Arcadia received a death-penalty recommendation for the April 22, 1995 massacre of five people in El Monte. A final decision on the matter will be announced by the presiding judge on February 19, 1997.

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Pasadena Star News
Date
December 14, 1996
Pages
p. A 3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
December 14, 1996
Pages
p. A 3
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Palma, Jimmy
Item ID
8087AN
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Arcadia, E. O. Rodeffer, and Public Storage won a round in their legal dispute with the city of El Monte. On March 12, Superior Court Judge Norman Douds ordered El Monte to allow San Gabriel Valley Water Company to dig up El Monte streets to install water lines to a Public Storage building partially located in Arcadia.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
March 22, 1987
Pages
p. 1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
March 22, 1987
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
Lawsuits see Actions and Defenses
Actions and Defenses
Item ID
330AN
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Birth. To Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy Whiting.

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Arcadia Tribune
Date
November 22, 1945
Pages
p. 7
Announcement Type
Birth
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
November 22, 1945
Pages
p. 7
Announcement Type
Birth
Subjects
Whiting, son
Item ID
7702AN
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In the lawsuit filed by El Monte against Arcadia, a Los Angeles Superior Court Judge ruled that Arcadia acted properly in its decision to permit a storage facility in the southeast portion of the City.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
June 1, 1968
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p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
June 1, 1968
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p. A-1
Subjects
Actions and Defenses
Item ID
8AN
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In 1934, William F. Gettle was kidnapped from his Arcadia home and held for ransom. Larry Kerrigan, Jimmy Kirk and Roy Williams received life sentences for the crime.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
December 18, 1941
Pages
p. 2
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
December 18, 1941
Pages
p. 2
Subjects
Gettle, William F.
Kerrigan, Larry
Kirk, Jimmy
Williams, Roy
Crime and Criminals
Item ID
6519AN
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A 24-year-old Arcadia man, Brian Lawrence Snoke, was found guilty of three murders, including that of Arcadian Scott Hutson.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
March 9, 1988
Pages
p. A1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
March 9, 1988
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Snoke, Brian Lawrence
Crime and Criminals
Hutson, Scott
Item ID
28400AN
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Convicted rapist Steven Wu, the Arcadia deacon who drugged his two sisters-in-law and videotaped himself sexually assaulting them, was sentenced to 79 years in prison Friday.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
December 12, 1991
Pages
p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
December 12, 1991
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Wu, Steven
Item ID
1398AN
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After serving 17 years as a crossing guard, 83-year-old Harry Christianson is retiring. The children at Highland Oaks honored him with a special Mr. Chris Day.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
June 18, 1989
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p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
June 18, 1989
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Christianson, Harry
Item ID
942AN
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Arcadia police arrested two Arcadia High School students 16, and 15, in connection with a December 11 racial incident in which a cross was burned and anti-Asian epithets were scrawled on the front yard of a home in the 200 block of Arbolada Drive. The two boys were booked for damaging property based on ethnic origin and were released to the custody of their parents.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
January 10, 1990
Pages
p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
January 10, 1990
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Item ID
1395AN
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A 58-year-old woman was raped and her house robbed by two males in their 20's.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
February 21, 1988
Pages
p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
February 21, 1988
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Item ID
1382AN
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A rugged, two-tier rock drinking fountain, family-built and designed, now sits in a palm-shaded grove at the Arboretum. It is a tribute to retired Pasadena Superior Court Judge Joseph A. Sprankle.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 27, 1995 p. A-3 photo
July 13, 1995 Hometown p. 1 photo
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Pasadena Star News
Date
June 27, 1995 p. A-3 photo
July 13, 1995 Hometown p. 1 photo
Subjects
Arboretum
Item ID
4466AN
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The State Supreme Court ended a three-year battle between El Monte and Arcadia, dismissing a lawsuit filed against Arcadia for approving a proposed landfill along El Monte's border. Rodeffer Industries, Inc. must still get approval from several state and regional agencies before proceeding.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 26, 1997
Pages
p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
June 26, 1997
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Actions and Defenses
Rodeffer Landfill
Item ID
10031AN
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Bail was set at $1 million for Arcadian Hua Jiang, charged with enslaving a 20-year old woman from China. Her husband and co-defendant, Dianyi Zhai, will remain in custody without bail for several additional charges.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
May 6, 1997
Pages
p. A1 w/photo
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Pasadena Star News
Date
May 6, 1997
Pages
p. A1 w/photo
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Item ID
9519AN
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California Superior Judge Glenn M. Pfau, a 30-year resident of Arcadia, died December 13 at age 67. He is probably best known for being the first California trial judge to rule the state's death penalty law unconstitutional.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
December 18, 1988
Pages
p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
December 18, 1988
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Pfau, Glenn, M.
Item ID
2174AN
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Birth. To Diane Stoval, born on Mother's Day, May 13.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
July 1, 1984
Pages
p. A8
Announcement Type
Birth
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
July 1, 1984
Pages
p. A8
Announcement Type
Birth
Subjects
Stoval, Cherie
Item ID
27610AN
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Retired Superior Court Judge Augie Goebel Dies.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
March 3, 1983
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p. A1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
March 3, 1983
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Goebel, August ("Augie")
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27311AN
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Obituary/death notice. Two Arcadia men die in truck crash.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
January 30, 1992
Pages
p. A1
Announcement Type
Obituary or death notice
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
January 30, 1992
Pages
p. A1
Announcement Type
Obituary or death notice
Subjects
Wicker, Ricky Dean
Brown, David Joseph
Item ID
29190AN
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Arcadia police, working with other law enforcement agencies, uncovered a major auto theft ring operating in the San Gabriel and San Fernando Valleys. Two men were arrested and four cars were recovered from a warehouse in Arcadia.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
January 18, 1989
Pages
p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
January 18, 1989
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Item ID
1389AN
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