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An L.A. 'most-wanted' gang suspect caught in Guatemala
LA Times ^ | 2.28.07 | Richard Winton and Patrick McGreevy, Times Staff Writers
Posted on 02/28/2007 11:32:36 PM PST by BurbankKarl
An alleged 18th Street gang member named three weeks ago as one of the Los Angeles Police Department's 10 most wanted gang members has been captured in Guatemala and deported back to Texas, officials said today.
Angel Zevallos, an alleged 18th Street Westside member who goes by the name "Spanky," was captured last week and deported by Guatemalan authorities, said Chief Inspector John Clark of the U.S. Marshals Service in Los Angeles.
Zevallos will appear before a judge in Texas and then face extradition back to California to face an attempted murder charge, Clark said.
Police Chief William J. Bratton confirmed the arrest as the first success of a new program in which the department released a list of its 10 most wanted gang members.
The listing of gang fugitives and of the 11 worst gangs is part of a new campaign to reduce gang violence, which increased more than 15% citywide last year. Bratton has redeployed more than 200 officers to the crackdown on gangs.
Zevallos allegedly wounded a man in a bar fight in Los Angeles.
"He was captured in Guatemala," Bratton said. "This is part of what we discussed at a recent conference about improving relationships with those countries. He is an attempted murder suspect, so they don't have problems about giving him back to us because there is no death penalty involved."
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House Bill OKs Foreign Investment Review
AP via BREITBART.COM ^ | February 28, 2007 | JIM ABRAMS
Posted on 03/01/2007 12:08:10 AM PST by gpapa
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The House agreed Wednesday to give the government broader powers to review foreign investments in U.S. power plants, ports and other facilities that could be vulnerable to terror attacks.
The legislation, passed 423-0, would give legal muscle to a once- obscure federal office that gained attention a year ago with the uproar over plans by a Dubai-owned company to manage six of the nation's largest ports.
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