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Santa Monica Daily Press
April 3/4, 2004 L O T T O
A newspaper with issues
Clean sweep for embattled Santa Monica motel owner
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SM COURTHOUSE — After a nearly two-year investigation into alleged drug use and prostitution at two Santa Monica motels, the owner of the establishments on Friday escaped 88 of the 99 criminal charges levied against him. Maurice Farzam pleaded no contest to the remaining 11 misdemeanor counts, including committing a public nuisance at the Holiday and American motels, attempting to receive a stolen credit card and violating a variety of health and safety codes. If Farzam adheres to a nine-page list of conditions imposed by City
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■ A suspected prostitute be-came the latest police detainee to commandeer a patrol car and drive it away after twisting her body to move her cuffed hands from behind her to the front of her (all in a briefer time than it took officers to walk around the outside the car) (Kensington, Pa., February). ■ A Harrods Estates broker announced that he had sold a private, one-car parking space in the tony Knightsbridge section of London for the equivalent of US $187,500.
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Hall, he will remain a free man. The motel owner spent three days in custody last summer. “My goal was to stop the public nuisance portion of it ... and I believe we’ve done that,” said Deputy City Attorney Betty Haviland, who prosecuted the case. “It’s my hope that this will solve the problem for both the city of Santa Monica and residents in the area.” According to the terms of the settlement, Farzam must serve three years of probation. He was also ordered to immediately sign a form authorizing police to arrest loiterers, evict any tenants engaged in drug use or prostitution, remove pay phones, rent See MOTEL, page 6
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Ring in the year 2547 at this weekend’s “Water Festival” in Thai Town. Sections of Hollywood Boulevard will be closed to traffic Sunday to make room for a parade, games and ceremonies.
By Daily Press staff
SM BEACH — Local lifeguards and the United States Coast Guard staged an
emergency drill off of Santa Monica beach this week. While the routine drill is staged about twice a month, it seldom fails to
Time-honored tradition: Longer days on horizon By Daily Press staff
It’s that time of year again. Most Americans will return to daylight savings time this weekend, resetting their clocks ahead by one hour at 2 a.m. Sunday. The reward is an additional hour of daylight in the evening for warm-weather outdoor activities. Standard time returns Oct. 26.
Federal law does not require any area to observe daylight savings time, and a few parts of the country like Arizona, Hawaii, the section of Indiana in the Eastern time zone, Puerto Rico and Guam have opted not to do so. It’s also a good time to check the Michael Tittinger/Daily Press batteries in home smoke detectors, Kelly McCool of Santa Monica safety experts contend. takes in the sunset on Friday.
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garner the attention of local residents. The Daily Press fielded e-mails from concerned residents who saw the Coast Guard helicopter hovering above the Baywatch boat Wednesday, lifting bodies up from the deck of the boat while riding into the wind. Los Angeles County Fire Department Lifeguard Garth Canning said the emergency workers may have attracted additional attention this time because of the use of flares during their three-hour exercise. Canning assured residents, however, that nobody was injured and the drill went off without a hitch.
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