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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
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p. A-1 photo
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Crime and Criminals
Item ID
280AN
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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
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Crime and Criminals
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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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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
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Palma, Jimmy
Crime and Criminals
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11720AN
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Someone broke the bottom part of the glass doors of the Radio Shack store at 1435 Baldwin Avenue and took $2500 worth of merchandise at 5:40 AM Sunday.. 11/3/2008

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Pasadena Star News
Date
June 27, 1995
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p. A4
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Pasadena Star News
Date
June 27, 1995
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p. A4
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Item ID
4502AN
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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
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P. 3 photo
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Item ID
3609AN
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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.

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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
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Gahrib, Munther Farah
Crime and Criminals
Stathum, James Jason
Item ID
6512AN
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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
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p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
June 25, 1992
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p. A-1
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Crime and Criminals
Item ID
86AN
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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
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p. A-1
Subjects
Crime and Criminals - Rape
Item ID
4384AN
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Violent crime in most west San Gabriel Valley cities was down in 1991. Arcadia crime figures are included in the article.

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Arcadia Tribune
Date
February 6, 1992
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p. B-10
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
February 6, 1992
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p. B-10
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Crime and Criminals
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23AN
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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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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.

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Arcadia Tribune
Date
December 12, 1991
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p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
December 12, 1991
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p. A-1
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Wu, Steven
Item ID
1398AN
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For $35 a week, developmentally disabled children can enjoy cooking, crafts, nature walks and free tennis lessons every afternoon from 2:30 PM to 6 PM Monday through Friday at the Arcadia County Park as part of the new Special Time After-School Recreation (STAR) program.

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Arcadia Tribune
Date
October 17, 1990
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p. A-1 photos
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
October 17, 1990
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p. A-1 photos
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Special Time After-School Recreation (STAR)
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3255AN
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Rebecca Switzer, a math instructor at Arcadia High School, was one of 10 Los Angeles County teachers selected as a finalist in the Jaime Escalante Mathematics Teacher Awards program.

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Arcadia Tribune
Date
March 21, 1990
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p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
March 21, 1990
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p. A-1
Subjects
Schools - Employees - Switzer, Rebecca
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2882AN
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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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The 30 year old Post Office will be seismically retrofitted. Postal operations will move to temporary quarters at 20 E. Foothill Blvd.

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Star Tribune
Date
August 12, 1992
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p. 1 photo
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Star Tribune
Date
August 12, 1992
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p. 1 photo
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Postal Service
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114AN
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Lightning, the Division 5 girls team from the Arcadia-Sierra Madre area, won the TriSection State Championship by beating Paso Robles 5 to 2. The team, composed of 8 and 9 year olds, had a record of 31-0-1 and is the 4th team from the area to win the state championship in 27 years.

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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 7, 1994
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p. H-3 photo
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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 7, 1994
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p. H-3 photo
Subjects
Sports
Item ID
3517AN
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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.

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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
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7977AN
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Investigators expect to conclude that the death last week of 8-year old Jessie Wang at the Arcadia High School swimming pool was accidental.

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Pasadena Star News
Date
July 15, 1997
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p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
July 15, 1997
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p. A3
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Wang, Jessie
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10039AN
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5 year old Arcadian Jeff Kettle got his wish to tour the Arcadia Police Department. Jeff, who is suffering from lymphoma, has only a 5-20 percent chance of living a year.

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Newspaper
Star Tribune
Date
October 13, 1992
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p. 3
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Star Tribune
Date
October 13, 1992
Pages
p. 3
Subjects
Kettle, Jeff
Item ID
139AN
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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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