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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
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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 19, 1997
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p. A1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 19, 1997
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p. A1
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Item ID
9513AN
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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.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper10088
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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
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P. A1
Subjects
Zhai, Dianyi
Jiang, Hua
Item ID
10042AN
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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.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper4908
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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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Without a bone marrow transplant soon, the future looks bleak for 37 year old Santa Anita Park waitress Anita Capitumini. Her friends and co-workers have raised money to fund a search for a donor.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper4520
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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 30, 1995
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p. A-1 photo
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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 30, 1995
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p. A-1 photo
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Capitumini, Anita
Item ID
4396AN
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An assistant manager of a Blockbuster Video on South Baldwin was in custody Monday on suspicion of trying to engineer the robbery of his own store.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper16204
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Pasadena Star News
Date
December 22, 1998
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p. A1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
December 22, 1998
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p. A1
Subjects
Crime & criminals
Item ID
16950AN
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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.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper14220
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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
Pages
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.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper10852
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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
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p. A3
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Kote, Patsy Chang
Item ID
11197AN
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A federal judge set bail at $100,000 Friday for Arcadia resident Po Chieng Ma, accused in a scheme to funnel graduate-school test answers from coast to coast and provide them to test-takers on coded pencils.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper8018
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Pasadena Star News
Date
November 2, 1996
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p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
November 2, 1996
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p. A3
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Ma, Po Chieng
Item ID
7978AN
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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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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.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper11661
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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, 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
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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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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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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.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper11522
Newspaper
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
Subjects
Palma, Jimmy
Crime and Criminals
Item ID
11720AN
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Rung "RC" Tang, 44, settled her lawsuit against Southern California Edison Co. on the eve of a retrial for charges of causing her cancer from radiation exposure. Tang dropped all claims in exchange for an undisclosed amount of money.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper3407
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Pasadena Star News
Date
March 15, 1994
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p. A-1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
March 15, 1994
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p. A-1
Subjects
Tang, Rung
Item ID
3296AN
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Cal Poly Pomona student Melissa Cripe, 20, will work with junior high students to solve personal problems without resorting to violence as part of the AmeriCorps program, a $360 million national program launched by President Clinton to act as a domestic version of the Peace Corps.

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Pasadena Star News
Date
January 26, 1995
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p. H-2
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Pasadena Star News
Date
January 26, 1995
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p. H-2
Subjects
Cripe, Melissa
Item ID
4354AN
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Michelle Al-Nasseri, 23, now has custody of her son, Laith Adam Al-Nasseri, 2, after receiving help from the FBI and Arcadia police to retrieve him from the father, Khalid Al-Nasseri, 33, who had fled to Iraq.

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Pasadena Star News
Date
September 3, 1994
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p. A-1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
September 3, 1994
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Kidnapping
Item ID
4107AN
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Nordstrom's Department Store is scheduled to open in August 1994, while 20 specialty shops and a 292-seat food court will open in October, 1993. The $34.3 million expansion is expected to generate about $1 million in sales tax revenue each year, as well a create 250 retail jobs.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 27, 1993
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p. A-6 photo
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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 27, 1993
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p. A-6 photo
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Fashion Park
Nordstrom's Department Store
Item ID
241AN
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Arcadian John Howell led police on a chase Friday from Arcadia to the desert community of Banning.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper10785
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Pasadena Star News
Date
November 15, 1997
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p. A1 w/photo
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Pasadena Star News
Date
November 15, 1997
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p. A1 w/photo
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Howell, John
Item ID
11189AN
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Without a bone marrow transplant soon, the future looks bleak for 37-year old Santa Anita Park waitress Anita Capitumini.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper4547
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
May 18, 1995
Pages
p. 1 photo Hometown Section
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Pasadena Star News
Date
May 18, 1995
Pages
p. 1 photo Hometown Section
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Capitumini, Anita
Item ID
4423AN
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