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Haitham Khalid Al-Nasseri, 33, was extradited from London to Arcadia after being arrested for kidnapping his 2-year old son in September and fleeing to his native Iraq.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper4468
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Pasadena Star News
Date
December 16, 1994
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p. A-1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
December 16, 1994
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p. A-1
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Kidnapping
Item ID
4344AN
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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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Pasadena Star News
Date
June 12, 1997
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p. A-1 w/photo
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Pasadena Star News
Date
June 12, 1997
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p. A-1 w/photo
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Crime and Criminals
Palma, Jimmy
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9883AN
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A 20-year-old Arcadia resident charged with murdering his father remained in custody. The son is charged with the strangulation death of 48-year-old Wenda Peter Liu in their Longden Avenue home.

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Pasadena Star News
Date
September 7, 1995
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p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
September 7, 1995
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p. A3
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Liu, Wenda Peter
Item ID
4784AN
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James Jason Stathum was sentenced to life in prison without parole for the videotaped fatal shooting of Arcadia resident Munther Farah Gharib. At the time of the shooting, Gharib was working in a La Puente convenience store.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper6703
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Pasadena Star News
Date
August 2, 1996
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p. A-5
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Pasadena Star News
Date
August 2, 1996
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p. A-5
Subjects
Gahrib, Munther Farah
Crime and Criminals
Stathum, James Jason
Item ID
6512AN
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Michael Goldstein, a 40-year old former stockbroker, and his wife Bridgethave opened Goldstein's Bagel Bakery at 221 N. Santa Anita Ave. after opening the original Goldstein's in Old Pasadena 5 years ago. It is the nation's first drive through bakery.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper4465
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Pasadena Star News
Date
November 10, 1994
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p. J-3 photo
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Pasadena Star News
Date
November 10, 1994
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p. J-3 photo
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Business & Industry - Goldstein's Bagel Bakery
Item ID
4341AN
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Without a bone marrow transplant soon, the future looks bleak for 37-year old Santa Anita Park waitress Anita Capitumini.

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Pasadena Star News
Date
May 18, 1995
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p. 1 photo Hometown Section
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Pasadena Star News
Date
May 18, 1995
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p. 1 photo Hometown Section
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Capitumini, Anita
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4423AN
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Jockey Corey Nakatani is interviewed about his sister's recent murder.

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Pasadena Star News
Date
February 11, 1997
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p. C1 photos
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Pasadena Star News
Date
February 11, 1997
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p. C1 photos
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Nakatani, Corey
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9120AN
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A judge on Wednesday sentenced a 20-year-old Arcadia resident to 3 years probation for the strangulation killing of his father, Wenda Peter Liu.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper5634
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Pasadena Star News
Date
November 16, 1995
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p. 1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
November 16, 1995
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p. 1
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Liu, Wenda Peter
Murder
Item ID
5485AN
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Fordyce Johnson, a former Arcadia resident, died late last month at his home in San Diego from the complications of old age. The 93 year old was former chief of staff at Methodist Hospital.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper13407
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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 28, 1998
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p. A3 w/photo
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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 28, 1998
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p. A3 w/photo
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Johnson, Fordyce
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13603AN
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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.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper8017
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Pasadena Star News
Date
December 5, 1996
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p. A5
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Pasadena Star News
Date
December 5, 1996
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p. A5
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Palma, Jimmy
Item ID
7977AN
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Without a bone marrow transplant soon, the future looks bleak for 37 year old Santa Anita Park waitress Anita Capitumini. Her friends and co-workers have raised money to fund a search for a donor.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper4520
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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 30, 1995
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p. A-1 photo
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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 30, 1995
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p. A-1 photo
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Capitumini, Anita
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4396AN
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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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Pasadena Star News
Date
May 6, 1997
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p. A1 w/photo
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Pasadena Star News
Date
May 6, 1997
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p. A1 w/photo
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Item ID
9519AN
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Dale Paul Raine, 30, received the Mayor's Certificate of Commendation for helping to stop the attempted kidnapping of two 16-year-old girls near his home on Golden West Avenue.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper4094
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Pasadena Star News
Date
August 3, 1994
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p. A-3 photo
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Pasadena Star News
Date
August 3, 1994
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p. A-3 photo
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Item ID
3970AN
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23 year old Arcadian Jimmy Palma was ambushed and stabbed to death October 13 in the exercise yard of San Quentin State Prison. A Superior Court judge sentenced him to die for killing two children and their mother in El Monte in 1995.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
December 7, 1997
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p. A1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
December 7, 1997
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p. A1
Subjects
Palma, Jimmy
Crime and Criminals
Item ID
11720AN
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More than 200 friends, teachers, family members and schoolmates attended Jesse Wang's funeral service. The 8-year old died after falling and hitting his head near the Arcadia High School swimming pool.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper10089
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Pasadena Star News
Date
July 24, 1997
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p. A3 w/photo
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Pasadena Star News
Date
July 24, 1997
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p. A3 w/photo
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Wang, Jesse
Item ID
10043AN
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The husband and wife suspected of enslaving and torturing a 20-year old woman from mainland China allegedly kept a second slave and may have imported as many as a half dozen people into the United States. Dianji Zhai and Hua Jiang of Arcadia have been arrested.

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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 19, 1997
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p. A1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 19, 1997
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p. A1
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Item ID
9513AN
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Neighbors of 16 year old Russell Simon, killed in August while riding his bicycle home from football practice, are banding together to have a memorial plaque installed at the corner where the high school sophomore was struck by a truck.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
October 15, 1996
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p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
October 15, 1996
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p. A3
Subjects
Simon, Russell
Item ID
7992AN
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To celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary, Brad Hansen took his wife Yolanda to where he first fell in love with her - Room 6 at First Avenue Jr. High School.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper4521
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
May 6, 1995
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p. D-1 photos
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Pasadena Star News
Date
May 6, 1995
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p. D-1 photos
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Hansen, Brad
Hansen, Yolanda
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4397AN
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The body of Wenda Peter Liu was found lying in a hallway after police responded to a 911 call by one of his sons. The son, age 20, was arrested on suspicion of murder.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper4580
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
July 8, 1995
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p. A1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
July 8, 1995
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Liu, Wenda Peter
Item ID
4456AN
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About 40 Arcadia High School students showed up outside City Hall at 3:15 to demonstrate against the city's 50 year old curfew, which subjects those under 18 to a misdemeanor citation if they loiter in public after 10 PM.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper9726
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Pasadena Star News
Date
May 23, 1997
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p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
May 23, 1997
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p. A3
Subjects
Arcadia High School students
Item ID
9680AN
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