Indicted Drug Suspect Seized Again at Same Place
A 20-year-old Los Angeles gang member, charged in a federal indictment with selling drugs near a schoolyard, was arrested again Friday afternoon about the same time the indictment was announced near the same elementary school police said.
Anthony W. Fagan was arrested with William Jones, 26, also of Los Angeles. Both were allegedly selling rock cocaine near the Hyde Park Boulevard School in Southwest Los Angeles, said Sgt. James May of the Police Department’s anti-gang task force.
“About the same time we heard that he had been indicted by the federal grand jury, we found him out selling cocaine in the same place directly across from the elementary school and next door to a nursery school,” May said.
May said he believed Fagan was one of the first people in the United States to be arrested under a 1986 federal statute that created stiff penalties for selling drugs within 1,000 feet of a school. If convicted, Fagan--already on probation for previous drug violations and facing a charge of an ex-felon carrying a gun--faces a minimum of 10 years in jail and up to life in prison.
Fagan was first arrested near the school on March 8.
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