Local News in Brief : Three Protesters Arrested
The district attorney’s office filed misdemeanor charges Wednesday against Jewish Defense League leader Irv Rubin, a deputy public defender and a college teacher, stemming from their participation last November in a tumultuous rally in Glendale.
The three men were among more than 250 people protesting an appearance of avowed racist J. B. Stoner. Some of the demonstrators ran down and beat two neo-Nazi “Skinhead” youths who showed up to support Stoner.
Rubin, 42, of Arcadia was charged with one count each of riot, unlawful assembly, failure to disperse and resisting and obstructing peace officers, Deputy Dist. Atty. John Bernardi said. Pasadena City College instructor Roger Marheine, 40, of Pasadena faces the same four charges and two battery counts.
John Michael Lee, 42, a deputy Los Angeles County public defender from Sherman Oaks who was the only one of the three arrested the day of the rally, was charged with unlawful assembly, failure to disperse and resisting and obstructing peace officers.
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