The Region - News from March 17, 1985
Police and sheriff’s deputies arrested more than 120 people and seized narcotics valued at more than $200,000 in sweeps and raids in Los Angeles and suburbs Thursday and Friday, authorities said. More than 100 Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies raided nine locations in Compton, Lynwood and South Los Angeles, said Deputy Mason Kenney. In Pasadena, 56 people were arrested, and Los Angeles police arrested 63 people on drug charges during raids on eight drug “hot spots” in South-Central Los Angeles.
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