Cancellation of Dance Club Prompts Extra Police Patrols
The cancellation of a dance in Westlake Village for Thousand Oaks teen-agers tonight has prompted authorities to beef up police patrols in case would-be dancers cause trouble at the location.
Westlake Sport House in Westlake Village was to have been the site at 8:30 tonight of a makeshift dance club called Typhoon’s, arranged by Johan Milligan, a Thousand Oaks promoter.
But when Westlake Village officials learned that Milligan’s Conejo Youth Marketing Group had passed out flyers advertising the dance without obtaining the proper permits, they canceled it Wednesday evening, said Berniece Bennett, a Westlake Village council member.
Flyers had been distributed to teen-agers as far away as Oxnard and the San Fernando Valley, Bennett said, adding: “I’m concerned that probably none of them know it has been canceled.”
Bennett said the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Lost Hills Station has pledged that two extra two-officer cars will be available in case youths show up and cause trouble when they learn the dance is called off.
Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Sgt. David Gates said officers will probably turn people away before a crowd has any chance to build, and said, “I don’t expect us to have any problem handling it.”
Milligan said he will also have private security on hand to make sure the area remains peaceful.
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