California IN BRIEF : HUNTINGTON BEACH : 20 Cocaine Buyers Ignore the Obvious

Large orange signs proclaiming the neighborhood a “Drug Enforcement Area” and handcuffed arrestees lying on the ground did not deter some would-be drug buyers from patronizing a weekend police sting operation. By early Saturday, undercover police officers posing as drug dealers had arrested 20 men and women who bought plastic bags filled with a white substance they thought was cocaine. “We actually had people coming up and getting in line when we had people (under arrest and handcuffed lying) on the ground,” said Police Lt. Patrick Gildea.