Who is WARREN WALKER — and Why is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Us?
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FRIDAY • DECEMBER 16, 2016
TELLING THE TRUTH FOR 12 YEARS!
VOLUME 12 • NUMBER 26
Honey Oil Explosion, Fire Homeboy Tries Rocks Glencrest Dr. Garage To Make It Home! It may not have seemed like much of a fire, but the explosion that rocked a Glencrest garage set fire to a car parked in the driveway. The small blaze, which kept re-igniting, ultimately made big news during the local 6 o’clock broadcasts. Two civilians were discovered across the street from the burning structure along the 8300 block of Glencrest Drive. Both men were in critical condition with secondand third-degree burns. One was a 38-year-old male with 46% burns and the other was a 20-year-old male with 56% burns. Police said the two residents were cooking honey oil (a marijuana process using
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Firefighters don hazmat gear to extinguish chemical fire in garage. butane gas) when the explosion occured. Investigators said that the detonation blew off the garage door as well as knocked the garage off its foundation, making it hazardous for the firefighters to enter. The walls of the structure were visibly
compromised too. The structure was red-tagged by the Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety, an action which has made the collection of evidence difficult. The victims were taken to a burn center. Police said that they will be arrested.
Sidewalk John Doe is “Jose”
The white GMC 2500 HD truck blocked suspects’ escape. inset: Local hero Narek Nadzharyan. In a high speed pursuit that started in Pacoima last Tuesday night around 10 p.m. with a known gang member who was now a suspect
DUI. Refusing to stop, he was chased from one part of the valley to Tujunga in an nearly three-hour chase that see Pursuit, page ?
Photos with Santa And Residents’ Pets
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DEPARTMENTS Foothills Happenings............. 2 View from the Rock.............. 3 Letters to the Editor.............. 3 Legion Post Calendar............. 4 Chef Randy........................... 5 Artfully Speaking.................. 5 Crime Stats......................... 10 Take My Card..................... 11
Two plastic bags and a walker are all that’s left of “Jose.” Nobody even knew he was there until after he died. He was one of the “invisible ones” that we choose to see through — as though they had no substance. The homeless communities ranging from the Floralita to Scoville were stunned to hear that “Jose” had died behind the bus stop on Foothill Blvd. A person that kept to himself, who never ranged more than four blocks on his walker and his two plastic bags of belongings, was now gone.
Ordinary people were Facebooking back and forth that they had seen the body when they drove by or when they got on the bus. But no one stopped to see if he was dying or dead. Who was “Jose”? The members of his Sunland Park Community just knew that he was there, quiet and never in trouble. Just another “camper” that lived on the street. Even I while driving up and down Foothill Blvd. making my see “Jose” page 9
Two really large St. Bernard Dogs sit for their photo. by
David DeMullé
Every Christmas for the past 10 years, 21st Century Crest (Now Berkshire-Hathaway) has been holding an an-
nual “photos with Santa” day at their Sunland offices. This year was a little bit different with the invitation extended to having their pets see Santa, page 12
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