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Volume 12 Issue 134
Santa Monica Daily Press
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Three caught in Montana Ave jewelry heist BY ASHLEY ARCHIBALD Daily Press Staff Writer
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MONTANA AVE Police have arrested three men suspected of robbing a jewelry store on Montana Avenue at gunpoint. Darveyon Terrell Davis and Delina Frank Banks, both 24 from Reno, Nev., were arrested within an hour of each other in the same residential garage on the 2000 block of Centinela Avenue on Sunday night, police said. The third, Donya Shannon Conner, 22, also of Reno, Nev., was taken into custody Monday morning in the bathroom of a McDonald’s restaurant on the 2900 block of Pico Boulevard after police found a bicycle reported stolen at 6:25 a.m. abandoned in the parking lot. Santa Monica police received an emergency call from a witness at 4:52 p.m. SEE ARRESTS PAGE 7
Suspect in shooting arrested at home BY KEVIN HERRERA Editor-in-Chief
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TRAGIC: Medical responders run an injured man past the finish line of the 2013 Boston Marathon following an explosion in Boston on Monday.
Boston bombings: What it means for L.A. Marathon BY KEVIN HERRERA Editor-in-Chief
PUBLIC SAFETY FACILITY Police have arrested a Santa Monica man in connection with an alleged gang-related shooting in which a woman was hit in the arm as she sat in a car parked at a red light. GONZALEZ SEE SUSPECT PAGE 9
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PUBLIC SAFETY FACILITY Santa Monica officials in charge of security for the Los Angeles Marathon, which ends on Ocean Avenue, said procedures are in place to protect the public from an attack like the fatal one that took place Monday near the finish line of the Boston Marathon. In that attack, three people were killed and at least 100 injured following two bomb blasts, race organizers and police said. During the L.A. Marathon, which
attracted roughly 23,000 runners last month, Santa Monica police officers are stationed at key points along the marathon route and restrict access, said Sgt. Richard Lewis, spokesman for the SMPD. Officers also use bomb-detecting dogs throughout the course when it enters the city by the sea. Movement at the finish line, where thousands of spectators gather, is also highly restricted, suspicious people are searched and pods where runners’ clothing are stored are searched and under the watchful eye of police to ensure they are not tampered with, Lewis added.
But even with those and other precautions, “there’s nothing to say [an attack] couldn’t happen anywhere,” Lewis said. The Boston blasts had public safety officials in Los Angeles and across California reconsidering their plans for large-scale events. Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck said his department will increase officer deployments at sporting events, according to the L.A. Times, as did L.A. County Sheriff Lee Baca. SEE SAFETY PAGE 7
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