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Police arrested eleven Asian-American high school students, nine of whom were Arcadia High School students, after a 2-month investigation of extortion and terrorist threats by suspected gang members against junior high school students.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper277
Newspaper
Star Tribune
Date
February 4, 1993
Pages
p. A-1
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Star Tribune
Date
February 4, 1993
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Gang activity
Item ID
277AN
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Gang-related violence has jumped significantly in the past four months.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper55
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
March 29, 1992
Pages
p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
March 29, 1992
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Gang activity
Item ID
55AN
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A federal investigation of a San Gabriel Valley-based Asian crime syndicate led to the arrests of 18 suspected Red Door gang members in several San Gabriel Valley cities, including Arcadia. The effort was dubbed "Operation Paint it Black." Authorities seized seven guns, 12,500 ecstasy pills, 2,230 marijuana plants and a Lamborghini. The 18 were indicted on drug trafficking and international marriage fraud charges.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32185
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
September 23, 2010
Pages
p. A3
Announcement Type
Marriage
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Pasadena Star News
Date
September 23, 2010
Pages
p. A3
Announcement Type
Marriage
Subjects
Asian Gangs
Crime and Criminals
Item ID
32384AN
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A 22 year old Monterey Park man was shot and killed after leaving the Sportsrock Cafe about 1:30am and getting involved in an argument with 10-15 men in a nearby parking lot. He was shot with an illegal pen gun.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper253
Newspaper
Star-Tribune
Date
February 18, 1993
Pages
p. A-2
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Star-Tribune
Date
February 18, 1993
Pages
p. A-2
Subjects
Crime and Criminals see also murder
Murder
Crime and Criminals
Item ID
253AN
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The Mexican Mafia, also known as La Eme, has a stronghold on illegal drug trafficking in the San Gabriel Valley. Fighting within the gang is causing violence, even as some key members are in prison.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper30918
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
February 11, 2008
Pages
p. News 1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
February 11, 2008
Pages
p. News 1
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Gangs
La Eme
Mexican Mafia
San Gabriel Valley
Item ID
31113AN
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Two people were shot at Newcastle Park in a possible gang-related incident on Tuesday, July 12, 2005.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
July 13, 2005
Pages
p. A2
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Pasadena Star News
Date
July 13, 2005
Pages
p. A2
Subjects
Shootings
Gangs
Crime and Criminals
Item ID
29767AN
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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.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper1390
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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Kianji Zhai and Hua Kiang of Arcadia were arrested and booked on charges of kidnapping, extortion, slavery and assault with a deadly weapon. They are accused of enslaving and torturing their 20 year old babysitter.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper9557
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 18, 1997
Pages
p. A1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 18, 1997
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Item ID
9512AN
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15-year-old Richard Ung was arrested at his parents' home in Arcadia, where sheriffs recovered nine guns, including an AK-47 assault rifle and an assault pistol. Ung is being investigated for alleged involvement in the stabbing death of Boo K. Lee.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper30707
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
September 5, 2007
Pages
p. Local 1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
September 5, 2007
Pages
p. Local 1
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Guns
Lee, Boo K.
Murders - stabbings
Ung, Richard
Weapons
Item ID
30895AN
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An international businessman was abducted from his Arcadia home and later released the same evening after his abductors demanded he pay them $1 million. He was told that he would be contacted the next day with instructions about where to put the money, but no money has been paid. This is the first kidnapping of this type in Arcadia, although there have been four other kidnappings in the San Gabriel Valley since last October.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper1395
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
July 5, 1989
Pages
p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
July 5, 1989
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Item ID
1394AN
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Three Chinese males arrested in Arcadia for attempted burglary are suspected of belonging to an Asian gang.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper1394
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
June 14, 1989
Pages
p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
June 14, 1989
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Item ID
1393AN
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A joint raid by more than 200 deputies and officers, targeting parolees with connections to the Pasadena Denver Lanes Blood gang, resulted in 15 arrests on charges ranging from possession of narcotics to weapons. The 6:00 AM raid occurred simultaneously at 71 residences in Altadena, Pasadena, Los Angeles, Monrovia, Arcadia and Temple City.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32173
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
September 10, 2010
Pages
p. A1, A4
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Pasadena Star News
Date
September 10, 2010
Pages
p. A1, A4
Subjects
Arrests
Crime and Criminals
Denver Lanes Bloods
Gangs
Los Angeles County Sheriffs
Item ID
32371AN
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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.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper1399
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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The fatal shooting of two Asian men last week in Arcadia was probably gang-related. These are unsolved murders.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper30538
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
September 12, 2002
Pages
p. 1
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
September 12, 2002
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Lam, Wing Wong
Murder
Shootings
Tsui, Kenneth
Item ID
30726AN
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Monrovia man Gerardo Cortez, 26, was arrested for allegedly making telephone threats to shoot adults and children with an assault rifle at schools (including Arcadia High School), the Westfield Santa Anita mall, and a hospital in the San Gabriel Valley last week. He was booked at Monrovia Police Department for five counts of felony Making Criminal Threats and five counts of False Report of an Emergency. He is to be arraigned today. See also Mountain Views News, September 14, 2013, p. 1.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper33617
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
September 19, 2013
Pages
p. 1, 4
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
September 19, 2013
Pages
p. 1, 4
Subjects
Arcadia High School
Arcadia Police Department
Cortez, Gerardo
Crime and Criminals
Guthrie, Robert (Chief of Arcadia Police Department)
Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department
Monrovia Police Department
Item ID
33812AN
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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.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper1396
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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Peter Phoenix, 27, of Rosemead, was found guilty of four of seven counts of "distraction burglaries" targeting seniors in the San Gabriel Valley. His sentence is 144 years in prison.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper30130
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
July 12, 2006
Pages
p. A1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
July 12, 2006
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Phoenix, Peter
Burglaries
Crime and Criminals
Item ID
30317AN
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Four Chinese nationals were arrested on federal and state charges for their alleged involvement in brothels in Monterey Park and San Gabriel. Jian "David" Guo, 42, of Arcadia, Huagui "Candy" Lotto, 53, of Rowland Heights, Lotto's husband Phillip Fu, 47, of Rowland Heights, and Yibin Zhang, 45, of Monterey Park, were arrested. If convicted of the state charges, the maximum sentence would be 7 years and 4 months.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32136
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
August 10, 2010
Pages
p. A4
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Pasadena Star News
Date
August 10, 2010
Pages
p. A4
Subjects
Arrests
Brothels
Crime and Criminals
Guo, Jian "David"
Prostitution
Item ID
32333AN
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The 2001 murder of grocer Adel Karas, a 48-year old Egyptian man from Arcadia, a few days after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, was initially thought to have been a hate crime. He was shot at his store International Market at 1381 E. Last Tunas in San Gabriel. Now police suspect Adel Karas was the victim of extortion. The suspects are two Latinos in their mid-20s.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32176
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
September 12, 2010
Pages
p. A1, A7
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Pasadena Star News
Date
September 12, 2010
Pages
p. A1, A7
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Karas, Adel
Murder
Item ID
32375AN
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Five Arcadia High School students face criminal charges after allegedly beating a 16-year old classmate, stripping her naked and taking photographs, then threatening to distribute the pictures if she told police. The alleged assault took place on January 24, 2005.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper29397
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
February 5, 2005
Pages
p. A1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
February 5, 2005
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Arcadia High School students
Beatings
Assaults
Chung, Evelina Annie
Liu, Diana Fangyin
Shih, Yu Hsien
Item ID
29581AN
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