The Arcadia City Council has offered a $5000 reward for the arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible for the murders of 2 Arcadia women who were slain at their homes in the past weeks.
Brian Lawrence Snoke, a 24-year-old Arcadia man, was found guilty of three murders in an attempt to assume control of a lucrative cocaine sales network.
According to the Arcadia Police Department's monthly activity report for the month of December, which reports statistics for the entire year, daytime burglaries increased while night burglaries decreased. Also, there were no murders, 3 rapes, 2 attempted rapes, 36 assaults with a gun and 13 arrests for indecent exposure in 1987.
In the largest local cocaine raid in a year, Glendale police crossed into Arcadia and arrested 2 residents of a condominium on Fairview Avenue where they found 15.5 pounds of cocaine.
Full account of the murder of Oakwood housewife Mrs. Rene Kane, wife of attorney Robert Kane. Two accounts of murder have been filed; one for Mrs. Kane and one for her unborn child.
The Arcadia Beautiful Commission selected its winners for 1987. The awards went to homes, businesses, a church, a condominium, and a whole street, with 2 special awards given to code enforcement officers.
The battle continues over the annexation of county island 80-2. Some residents favor annexation by Arcadia, while others wish to become a part of Temple City. The Arcadia City Council has approved annexation of the Shelter Isle Village condominium as a separate unit. Costs involved in the annexation of the rest of the area are discussed.