Arrests Made, Weapons/Drugs Seized

 

 

SUPERVISOR MICHAEL D. ANTONOVICH     Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, 5th District     869 Hahn Hall of Administration ~ 500 West Temple Street ~ Room 869     Los Angeles, CA 90012                                          www.antonovich.com

       

 

PRESS RELEASE

Contact:  Tony Bell, Communications Deputy    Office:  (213) 974-5555   Cell: (213) 215-5176    E-mail:  tbell@bos.lacounty.gov

 

 

   July 23, 2008                                                                                                            For Immediate Release

 

206 ARRESTS, 103 WEAPONS AND $1.5 MILLION IN ILLEGAL DRUGS CONFISCATED IN JUNE D.I.S.A.R.M SEARCHES

 

LOS ANGELES COUNTY — During the month of June, D.I.S.A.R.M officers confiscated 103 weapons -- including 31 handguns and 15 rifles/shotguns, over $1.5 million in illegal drugs, and arrested 206 probationers during 2,189 unannounced searches of residences, persons, vehicles, and businesses, announced Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich. 

 

The searches were conducted through the Probation Department’s D.I.S.A.R.M (Developing Increased Safety through Arms Reduction Management) program, initiated by Supervisor Antonovich following the tragic August 1999 shootings at the North Valley Jewish Community Center and the murder of a postal worker by Buford Furrow, an armed felon on probation from Washington State.

 

The D.I.S.A.R.M program entails pairing Deputy Probation Officers with local law enforcement personnel to perform unannounced searches of probationers and their homes, as a condition of probation, and targets the confiscation of guns, drugs, and other contraband.

 

Since its implementation in February of 2000, the D.I.S.A.R.M program has seized 4,275 weapons and more than 298 million dollars in illegal drugs and drug money, and resulted in 9,545 arrests.  20% of probationers in this program have been out of compliance with their terms of probation. 

 

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