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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
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p. A1 w/photo
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Item ID
9519AN
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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.

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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 18, 1997
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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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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
Pages
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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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
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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 suspected bank robber, a 46-year old man from Nevada, was killed and a 14-year old Temple City girl was injured in a shootout with police in a strip mall in the 600 block of W. Duarte Road.

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Star Tribune
Date
February 6, 1993
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p. A-1 photo
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Star Tribune
Date
February 6, 1993
Pages
p. A-1 photo
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Item ID
280AN
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City Council approved the annual Redevelopment Agency report, which outlines half a dozen projects planned for the coming year.

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Pasadena Star News
Date
December 22, 1995
Pages
p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
December 22, 1995
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Community Redevelopment
Item ID
5519AN
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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
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Liu, Wenda Peter
Item ID
4784AN
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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.

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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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In the past 10 weeks, there have been three reports of rape in the Arcadia city limits.

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Sierra Madre News
Date
March 23,1995
Pages
p. 13
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Sierra Madre News
Date
March 23,1995
Pages
p. 13
Subjects
Crime and Criminals - Rape
Item ID
4387AN
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An Arcadia woman has been charged with federal tax violations for her alleged role in a Monterey Park insurance scam that is the largest ever uncovered. Catherine Huang is accused of conspiracy and filing a false tax return.

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Pasadena Star News
Date
June 18, 1998
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p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
June 18, 1998
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p. A3
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Huang, Catherine
Item ID
14796AN
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Patsy Chang Kote, a live-in housekeeper, was arrested Monday at the Arcadia home of Ruth LeBerthon on suspicion of elder abuse and grand theft after she admitted tricking the 92 year old woman in her care into cashing pension checks and then taking the money.

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Pasadena Star News
Date
November 12, 1997
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p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
November 12, 1997
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Kote, Patsy Chang
Item ID
11197AN
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Police have arrested a 16 year old Arcadia High School student on suspicion of firing a gun Monday afternoon at two teenagers involved in an on-campus brawl several hours earlier.

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Arcadia Tribune
Date
January 19, 1992
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p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
January 19, 1992
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Schools - Arcadia High School
Crime and Criminals
Item ID
16AN
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20-year Arcadia Unified School District teacher Gary Southworth pleaded guilty to felony vehicular manslaughter and 2 counts of felony drunken driving in a crash that killed a 21-year-old La Verne woman on December 12, 1992.

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Star Tribune
Date
March 6, 1993
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p. A-1 photo
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Star Tribune
Date
March 6, 1993
Pages
p. A-1 photo
Subjects
Schools - Employees - Southworth, Gary
Item ID
285AN
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Coastal Superior Credit Bureau is a victim of an unusual form of harassment in which it has been receiving a minimum of 300 calls a day from people who have been paged by someone suspected of generating the pages through a computer.

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Pasadena Star News
Date
June 6, 1998
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p. A1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
June 6, 1998
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Business & Industry - Coastal Superior Credit Bureau
Item ID
14645AN
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The City Council agreed that private karaoke rooms, which have been associated with criminal activity in the area, should be barred from the city. The proposed ordinance, which will be considered August 3rd, would allow alcohol in restaurants with karaoke.

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Pasadena Star News
Date
July 21, 1993
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p. A-1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
July 21, 1993
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Karaoke clubs
Item ID
183AN
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Police detained four teenagers Tuesday for questioning about a lunch time melee Monday involving a dozen youths at Arcadia High School in which a teenager was hit on the head with a lead pipe.

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Arcadia Tribune
Date
January 16, 1992
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p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
January 16, 1992
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Schools - Arcadia High School
Crime and Criminals
Item ID
15AN
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Two men suspected of robbing the California State Bank on Huntington Drive on February 5th have been arrested. Roosevelt Davis of Duarte and Steven Wesley Berry of Ontario are being held in the Arcadia City Jail.

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Arcadia Weekly
Date
February 12, 1998
Pages
p. 1
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
February 12, 1998
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
Robbery
California State Bank
Berry, Steven Wesley
Davis, Roosevelt
Item ID
26146AN
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Arcadia police continue to heavily ticket cars that frequent the area around the Burger Palace on Thursday nights in an attempt to curb drag racing and curtail other potential problems. Since July 8, 202 tickets have been issued.

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Pasadena Star News
Date
July 17, 1993
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p. A-1 photo
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Pasadena Star News
Date
July 17, 1993
Pages
p. A-1 photo
Subjects
Restaurants, Bars, etc - Burger Palace
Crime and Criminals
Item ID
248AN
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Reuben Vizcarra was among just 18 people nationwide to receive a bronze medal from the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission. Vizcarra rushed to the aid of a woman as she was being stabbed by her estranged husband.

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Pasadena Star News
Date
Deeember 21, 1997
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p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
Deeember 21, 1997
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Vizcarra, Reuben
Item ID
11872AN
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Two men suspected of robbing a Downey Savings branch at 1101 West Huntington Drive were arrested minutes later by Arcadia police.

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Pasadena Star News
Date
October 28, 1998
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p. A1 w/photo
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Pasadena Star News
Date
October 28, 1998
Pages
p. A1 w/photo
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Item ID
16605AN
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