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Arcadia police are investigating a claim by Ken Wright, an Altadena man, that a plainclothes Arcadia officer followed him to Pasadena and, without identifying himself, shot at him at least 5 times. Wright will file a claim for damages against the officer and the Arcadia police department.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: February 12, 1981

Pages: p. C-3

Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: February 12, 1981

Pages: p. C-3

Subjects: Police

Item ID: 2196AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

Arcadia now has two patrol wagons that will be used to transport prisoners from the scene of the arrest to the station. The wagons can pick up several prisoners and book them all at once, allowing officers to spend more time in the field.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: November 9, 1980

Pages: p. A-1 photo

Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: November 9, 1980

Pages: p. A-1 photo

Subjects: Police

Item ID: 2193AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

A summary of police reserve work that is done on a volunteer basis for the Arcadia Police Department. In 1976 they did 8000 hours of patrol time.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: March 24, 1977

Pages: p. A-1

Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: March 24, 1977

Pages: p. A-1

Subjects: Police

Item ID: 2186AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

For the first time in 15 years, the Arcadia Police Department has a motorcycle patrol. The department recently purchased 2 Kawasaki 1000 motorcycles for traffic enforcement.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: November 15, 1987

Pages: p. A-1

Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: November 15, 1987

Pages: p. A-1

Subjects: Police

Item ID: 2201AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

The Arcadia Police Department has decided against a strike at this time, but vowed to fight City Hall over a contract dispute. A 5% salary increase was approved, but not the extensive retirement benefits which were sought.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: July 14, 1977

Pages: p. A-1

Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: July 14, 1977

Pages: p. A-1

Subjects: Police

Item ID: 2188AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

A new regional federally funded program, called NERBIT (Northeast Regional Burglary Investigative Team) went into operation July 1, 1975. While Arcadia is not a participant due to a man-power shortage, Police Chief Martin expects spin-off benefits to accrue to the city.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: July 27, 1975

Pages: p. A-1

Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: July 27, 1975

Pages: p. A-1

Subjects: Police

Item ID: 2183AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

City Council members objected to the time it will take to complete plans for a new police station (7 months), but nevertheless approved a design agreement with the architect, Wendell Mounce and Associates.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: August 22, 1985

Pages: p. A-1

Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: August 22, 1985

Pages: p. A-1

Subjects: Police Station

Item ID: 2274AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

Arcadia housewife and author, Sandie Chandler has written two books and is now working on her third. Her husband is the religious editor of the Los Angeles Times.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: April 1, 1976

Pages: p. C-1

Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: April 1, 1976

Pages: p. C-1

Subjects: Arcadia authors - Chandler, Sandie

Item ID: 565AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

Arcadia Police Department has received a grant of $142,286 to set up a trial traffic safety program. It is enough to purchase one extra car and pay the salaries of three policemen who have indicated an interest. The goal is to reduce personal injury and fatal traffic collisions by 3% each year.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: December 18, 1977

Pages: p. A-1

Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: December 18, 1977

Pages: p. A-1

Subjects: Police

Item ID: 2190AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

Emmanuel Chan has been named Police Liaison Officer to Arcadia's Asian community. He is on-call all the time in order to help with language problems when members of the Asian community run into trouble with the police.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: April 10, 1988

Pages: p. A-1 photo

Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: April 10, 1988

Pages: p. A-1 photo

Subjects: Police - Chan, Emmanuel

Item ID: 2213AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

Services were held Wednesday for George Robert Secrest, a retired police sergeant of the Arcadia Police Department, who died June 9. Secrest had been a law enforcement officer for 26 years. Recently he had been employed by Huntington Bank.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: June 17, 1982

Pages: p. A-1

Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: June 17, 1982

Pages: p. A-1

Subjects: Police - Secrest, George Robert

Item ID: 2223AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

Police officer Don Wilsterman is the photographic lab technician and latent fingerprint examiner for the police department. Article describes his work and personal interests.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: April 25, 1982

Pages: p. A-1 photo

Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: April 25, 1982

Pages: p. A-1 photo

Subjects: Police - Wilsterman, Don

Item ID: 2226AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

A new office building is being constructed on the corner of Huntington and Indiana. It will occupy the site of the old service station run for man years by William Stockman, but which has been closed for some time.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: May 22, 1975

Pages: p. 1

Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: May 22, 1975

Pages: p. 1

Subjects: Buildings

Item ID: 687AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

Hundreds of Arcadians attended the reception held at historic Anoakia where they toured the house and grounds and picked up their copies of the new history book ARCADIA: WHERE RANCH AND CITY MEET.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: November 22, 1981

Pages: p. A-6 photos

Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: November 22, 1981

Pages: p. A-6 photos

Subjects: Arcadia (City) - History

Item ID: 1720AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

The pharmacy located at 34 East Huntington is closing due to the deterioration of the Huntington Drive business area. It is a business which dates back almost to the city's beginnings.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: April 28, 1974

Pages: p. A-4

Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: April 28, 1974

Pages: p. A-4

Subjects: Arcadia Drugs

Item ID: 747AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

Up to 1000 mentally ill people in Arcadia and surrounding cities will be left with nowhere to turn for treatment if the Arcadia Mental Health Clinic closes on September 1.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: August 3, 1988

Pages: p. A-2 photos

Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: August 3, 1988

Pages: p. A-2 photos

Subjects: Arcadia Mental Health Service

Item ID: 500AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

Los Angeles Superior Court has stopped the closure of 3 mental health clinics scheduled to close until a hearing on the legality of the cutbacks can be heard.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: August 14, 1988

Pages: p. A-2

Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: August 14, 1988

Pages: p. A-2

Subjects: Arcadia Mental Health Service

Item ID: 501AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

The 134 - employee Dowty Avionics has been purchased by West Los Angeles based Whittaker Electronics and will close up shop this month when it is consolidated with Whittaker's Simi Valley division. It was formerly known as Resdel Engineering from 1958 - 1989.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: May 3, 1992

Pages: p. A-2

Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: May 3, 1992

Pages: p. A-2

Subjects: Dowty Avionics - Resdel Engineering

Item ID: 66AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

Arcadia city officials voiced support for a proposed commuter rail service that would run from Santa Barbara County to Los Angeles four times daily each way.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: March 22, 1988

Pages: p. A-1

Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: March 22, 1988

Pages: p. A-1

Subjects: Transportation

Item ID: 3424AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

An Arcadia man who didn't like a group of church Christmas carolers singing on his front lawn, brandished a gun at the group and threatened to kill them unless they got off his property. Police surrounded his house for an hour before he surrendered.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: December 24, 1986

Pages: p. A-1

Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: December 24, 1986

Pages: p. A-1

Subjects: Crime and Criminals

Item ID: 1369AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

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Arcadia police are investigating a claim by Ken Wright, an Altadena man, that a plainclothes Arcadia officer followed him to Pasadena and, without identifying himself, shot at him at least 5 times. Wright will file a claim for damages against the officer and the Arcadia police department.

Arcadia now has two patrol wagons that will be used to transport prisoners from the scene of the arrest to the station. The wagons can pick up several prisoners and book them all at once, allowing officers to spend more time in the field.

A summary of police reserve work that is done on a volunteer basis for the Arcadia Police Department. In 1976 they did 8000 hours of patrol time.

For the first time in 15 years, the Arcadia Police Department has a motorcycle patrol. The department recently purchased 2 Kawasaki 1000 motorcycles for traffic enforcement.

The Arcadia Police Department has decided against a strike at this time, but vowed to fight City Hall over a contract dispute. A 5% salary increase was approved, but not the extensive retirement benefits which were sought.

A new regional federally funded program, called NERBIT (Northeast Regional Burglary Investigative Team) went into operation July 1, 1975. While Arcadia is not a participant due to a man-power shortage, Police Chief Martin expects spin-off benefits to accrue to the city.

City Council members objected to the time it will take to complete plans for a new police station (7 months), but nevertheless approved a design agreement with the architect, Wendell Mounce and Associates.

Arcadia housewife and author, Sandie Chandler has written two books and is now working on her third. Her husband is the religious editor of the Los Angeles Times.

Arcadia Police Department has received a grant of $142,286 to set up a trial traffic safety program. It is enough to purchase one extra car and pay the salaries of three policemen who have indicated an interest. The goal is to reduce personal injury and fatal traffic collisions by 3% each year.

Emmanuel Chan has been named Police Liaison Officer to Arcadia's Asian community. He is on-call all the time in order to help with language problems when members of the Asian community run into trouble with the police.

Services were held Wednesday for George Robert Secrest, a retired police sergeant of the Arcadia Police Department, who died June 9. Secrest had been a law enforcement officer for 26 years. Recently he had been employed by Huntington Bank.

Police officer Don Wilsterman is the photographic lab technician and latent fingerprint examiner for the police department. Article describes his work and personal interests.

A new office building is being constructed on the corner of Huntington and Indiana. It will occupy the site of the old service station run for man years by William Stockman, but which has been closed for some time.

Hundreds of Arcadians attended the reception held at historic Anoakia where they toured the house and grounds and picked up their copies of the new history book ARCADIA: WHERE RANCH AND CITY MEET.

The pharmacy located at 34 East Huntington is closing due to the deterioration of the Huntington Drive business area. It is a business which dates back almost to the city's beginnings.

Up to 1000 mentally ill people in Arcadia and surrounding cities will be left with nowhere to turn for treatment if the Arcadia Mental Health Clinic closes on September 1.

Los Angeles Superior Court has stopped the closure of 3 mental health clinics scheduled to close until a hearing on the legality of the cutbacks can be heard.

The 134 - employee Dowty Avionics has been purchased by West Los Angeles based Whittaker Electronics and will close up shop this month when it is consolidated with Whittaker's Simi Valley division. It was formerly known as Resdel Engineering from 1958 - 1989.

Arcadia city officials voiced support for a proposed commuter rail service that would run from Santa Barbara County to Los Angeles four times daily each way.

An Arcadia man who didn't like a group of church Christmas carolers singing on his front lawn, brandished a gun at the group and threatened to kill them unless they got off his property. Police surrounded his house for an hour before he surrendered.