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LONG BEACH - Long Beach police had a record drug bust Tuesday, with three arrests, after a yearlong investigation into distribution of narcotics in Long Beach.
Detectives were led to two locations, one in Long Beach and one in Compton. A search of both locations yielded drugs with more than $10 million in street value, police said.
According to police reports, 126 pounds of methamphetamine were found at the Long Beach location, near Magnolia and Pacific Coast Highway, and 13 pounds of cocaine were found at the Compton location, near Santa Fe Avenue and Rosecrans Boulevard.
Because the investigation is ongoing, the suspects are being identified only as two Long Beach residents, a 40-year-old man and a 37-year-old woman, and a 46-year-old male resident of Compton.
The Long Beach Police Department encourages the community to call and report drug activity to its Narcotics Hotline, at 562-570-7125. Callers may remain anonymous or leave their contact information if they would like a detective to call them back.LONG BEACH - Long Beach police had a record drug bust Tuesday, with three arrests,... more
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JACKSONS SON PRINCE HELPS COPS COLLAR DEATH DOC MURRAY
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When the investigation into Michael Jackson’s death stalled a few months ago, the King of Pop’s oldest son Prince made an emotional plea to detectives to get justice for his late father, The ENQUIRER has learned exclusively.
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And in what could be a major breakthrough for prosecutors, the brave 13-year-old has offered to testify against his dad’s personal physician, Dr. Conrad Murray, who was formally charged with involuntary manslaughter on Feb. 8.JACKSONS SON PRINCE HELPS COPS COLLAR DEATH DOC MURRAY
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AN APPRECIATION
Robert B. Parker left a mark on the detective novel
The writer, who died Monday, wrote more than 60 books in a variety of styles. But Spenser, his Korean War veteran detective, influenced the genre.
Robert B. Parker, who died Monday in his Cambridge, Mass., home at age 77, spent his final moments doing exactly what he'd done for almost four decades: sitting at his desk, working on his next novel. He didn't concern himself with looking back. Instead, he wrote, and in the process irrevocably altered American detective fiction, forging a link between classic depictions and more contemporary approaches to the form.
Parker produced more than five dozen books in a variety of styles, including westerns, historical fiction, a marriage memoir and a nonfiction account of horse racing. But the bulk of his writing revolves around Spenser, the one-named, Korean War vet detective first introduced in "The Godwulf Manuscript" (1973).
That novel, which Parker wrote two years after publishing his Boston University doctoral thesis on the violent heroes of Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler and Ross Macdonald, is a clear pastiche of those authors' works. Parker's biggest debt, though, was to Chandler, whose detective, Philip Marlowe, inspired Spenser's poet-inflected surname, his noble quest for justice and his desire to save women from miscreants.
The Chandler connection ran so deep that Parker completed the unfinished Marlowe manuscript "Poodle Springs" in 1989 and a year later published "Perchance to Dream," a sequel to "The Big Sleep."
Still, by the early 1980s, Parker had moved away from imitation and into the realm of imitated. "Looking for Rachel Wallace" (1980) and "Early Autumn" (1981) hold up as among his very best novels, featuring kidnapping-centered plots that move at an express-train clip and dialogue served up sharp and crisp.
Here's Spenser in action, from "Rachel Wallace": "I'm looking for one of your people. Young guy, twenty-five, twenty-six. Five ten, hundred eighty pounds, very cocky, wears military decorations on his uniform blouse. Probably eats raw wolverine for breakfast."
The taciturn detective was in top form, by turns accepting and arguing with the calming, psychoanalytic observations of his longtime love Susan Silverman (an idealized stand-in for Joan, Parker's wife of 52 years), as well as the violence-prone impulses of his partner, Hawk.
This tripartite emotional construction was hardly new in crime fiction, but Parker took it in unexpected directions as Spenser struggled to reconcile his domesticated, gourmet-cooking self with the instinctive brutality of a character such as Hawk.
As Spenser's adventures continued to appear at an annual clip, writers such as Robert Crais, Harlan Coben and Dennis Lehane refashioned Parker's hero-sidekick dynamic as they saw fit.
"When it comes to detective novels, 90 percent of us admit he's an influence, and the rest of us lie about it," Coben told the Atlantic in 2007. The numbers can be debated, but the sentiment is indisputable.
Coincidentally, Spenser's peak period ended roughly around the time he migrated to network television, first on the weekly series "Spenser: For Hire" (1985-1988), and later in four TV movies.
Though Parker carried on writing about the character, he turned increasingly toward new protagonists who drove long-running series of their own: the small-town police chief Jesse Stone, portrayed on television by Tom Selleck, or the female detective Sunny Randall, originally envisioned as a vehicle for Helen Hunt.
He also wrote a trilogy of novels about the Old West, the first of which, "Appaloosa," was turned into the 2008 film directed by Ed Harris.
By the end of his life, Parker was less known for his content than for his prolific output; he produced up to three publis,0,3618372.story
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The detectives have solved the case, but just like in every Saw film there is a twist. And another one. And another one....The detectives have solved the case, but just like in every Saw film there is a twist.... more
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When a neighborhood dog goes missing, three guys open a detective agency. Elsewhere, a grisly murder.When a neighborhood dog goes missing, three guys open a detective agency. Elsewhere, a... more
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