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.
Arcadia police seized more than 154 lbs. of cocaine worth an estimated $70 million and arrested 4 Colombian nationals in the largest drug haul in the city's history. Homes on Fairview Avenue, Arcadia Avenue and Huntington Drive were raided.
Police arrested five Arcadia High School students on campus for selling cocaine, marijuana and LSD. The arrests followed and investigation that began last fall.
Two Colombian nationals arrested for having 23 kilos of cocaine in their Arcadia home have pleaded not guilty to the charge of possession and sale of cocaine.
Arcadia police arrested 4 men in 4 separate rooms of the Embassy Suites motel, confiscating more than 2 ounces of cocaine and $5,600 in what police called "drug money."
Arcadia police believe they put a dent in the local distribution of cocaine and marijuana with the arrest last week of an Arcadian, his son and daughter.
Arcadia Police, alerted that a home was being burglarized, wound up confiscating 23 kilos of cocaine valued at $500.000 and arresting two men on suspicion of drug trafficking.
Two Arcadia High School students were served with warrants and arrested at their homes early Wednesday morning on suspicion of selling drugs on the high school campus.
An Arcadia undercover police officer, 28, helped a Drug Enforcement Administration team and the LAPD in Sylmar for the biggest drug bust in history, a cache of 20 tons of cocaine valued at $20 billion. Federal agents also confiscated $10 million in cash.
Article reports on action taken by the Board of Education against the students arrested for selling drugs on the high school campus. In addition to the school penalties, the students face criminal charges.
Mark Douglas Pryor, 19, arrested after an undercover investigation at Arcadia High School, has been placed on three years formal probation and ordered to perform 200 hours of community service work. He was convicted of selling less than an ounce of marijuana to a woman who turned out to be an undercover officer. He was the first of eight defendants arrested to raise an entrapment defense.
Twenty-eight persons, most of them students at Arcadia High School, were arrested as suspected drug dealers. The arrests were the culmination of a secret investigation by undercover agents.
Tere Akune, the undercover police officer whose work led to the arrests for drug dealing at the high school, was on loan to Arcadia from another city in Los Angeles County. Her background and her work with this assignment are discussed.
Articles discuss the progress of the proceedings involving the 28 persons arrested over drug dealing on the high school campus. Citizen reaction is also discussed.
The Board of Education has completed the hearings for 22 of the 23 students arrested and charged with the sale of drugs. Fourteen were expelled, four of them outright. Ten will have the record of the expulsion removed if they meet certain conditions.
Article discusses the sentencing of one of the eight adults arrested in December's drug bust at the high school. Regarding the other adults involved: charges against one have been dropped; three have pleaded guilty and are awaiting sentencing; three are awaiting trial.
Two Arcadia men have been sentenced to serve 90 days in the Los Angeles County Jail after pleading guilty to drug charges arising from the undercover investigation at the high school.
In the wake of the Wednesday morning arrest of two Arcadia High School students for dealing in drugs, police Chief Charles Mitchell said action was part of a three-pronged program. Further explained in article.