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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.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper9558
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 19, 1997
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p. A1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 19, 1997
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Item ID
9513AN
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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
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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Police have arrested nine people who are believed to be members of a San Gabriel Valley Asian gang that has been under investigation in recent months for terrorizing local Asian youths. Four adults and five juveniles were taken into custody after police linked them with a February 15 kidnapping, attempted extortion and assault.

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Arcadia Tribune
Date
March 4, 1990
Pages
p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
March 4, 1990
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Gangs see also Gang Activity
Item ID
1396AN
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A 20-year old baby sitter from mainland China testified about the events she said led to her enslavement by Arcadia couple Dianyi Zhia and Hua Jiang. See also Pasadena Star News, July 23, 1997, p. A1.

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Pasadena Star News
Date
July 22, 1997
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P. A1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
July 22, 1997
Pages
P. A1
Subjects
Zhai, Dianyi
Jiang, Hua
Item ID
10042AN
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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.

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Star Tribune
Date
February 4, 1993
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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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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.

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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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A 21-year-old woman was the third person raped at gunpoint this year, and police suspect that they may be by the same person. All three women were accosted by an African American man in his 20's or 30's wearing a black cap. They were accosted in the early morning with a gun while alone in their cars.

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Pasadena Star News
Date
March 21, 1995
Pages
p. A-1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
March 21, 1995
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Crime and Criminals - Rape
Item ID
4384AN
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A man with a stun gun shot and tried to kidnap two 16-year old girls walking down Golden West Avenue, but resident Dale Raine's yells scared the man away.

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Pasadena Star News
Date
July 8, 1994
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P. 3 photo
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Pasadena Star News
Date
July 8, 1994
Pages
P. 3 photo
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Item ID
3609AN
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A gunman driving an off-white pick-up truck attempted to kidnap two 12 year old Arcadia girls as they walked through the parking lot of Camino Grove Elementary School on Sunday afternoon.

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Arcadia Tribune
Date
June 25, 1992
Pages
p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
June 25, 1992
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Item ID
86AN
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A police Special Weapons and Tactics team stormed a house early Saturday after residents were robbed by six gunmen who invaded the South Third Avenue home.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper4524
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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 16, 1995
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p. A-1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 16, 1995
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Item ID
4400AN
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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 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
Pages
p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
September 7, 1995
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Liu, Wenda Peter
Item ID
4784AN
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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
Pages
p. A-1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
December 16, 1994
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Kidnapping
Item ID
4344AN
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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
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Liu, Wenda Peter
Murder
Item ID
5485AN
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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
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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The Arcadia Unified School District is taking a "zero tolerance" position against violence and drugs in the schools. Anyone caught assaulting another student, bringing a weapon to school, or using or selling drugs on campus will be expelled.

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Pasadena Star News
Date
March 23, 1995
Pages
p. A-3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
March 23, 1995
Pages
p. A-3
Subjects
Schools
Item ID
4383AN
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Jason Bingham, a 16-year-old Arcadia High School student, is facing expulsion after he used a pipe as a weapon during an on-campus fight with a fellow student.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 30, 1998
Pages
p. A3 w/photo
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Pasadena Star News
Date
January 30, 1998
Pages
p. A3 w/photo
Subjects
Arcadia High School students
Bingham, Jason
Item ID
12340AN
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The Police Department has had a Special Weapons and Tactics Team (S.W.A.T.) for the last 20 years.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
September 12, 1996
Pages
p. 1
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
September 12, 1996
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
Police Department
S.W.A.T.
Item ID
25947AN
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Arcadia Police Department's Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) team responded to a Home Invasion Robbery in progress at a residence on South Third Ave.

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Sierra Madre News
Date
April 20, 1995
Pages
p. 15
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Sierra Madre News
Date
April 20, 1995
Pages
p. 15
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Item ID
4399AN
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Haitham Khalid Al-Nasseri, 33, is accused of kidnapping his son under the pretext of taking him on a 3-day camping trip to Santa Barbara.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper4230
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
September 4, 1994
Pages
p. A-1 photos
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Pasadena Star News
Date
September 4, 1994
Pages
p. A-1 photos
Subjects
Kidnapping
Item ID
4106AN
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