[Clips] Ferrari Case Takes New Twist With Possible Tie to Bus Agency

coderman coderman at gmail.com
Sat Mar 4 00:54:29 PST 2006


these small "police agencies" are a nice way to get equipment and toys
otherwise unaccessible to the general public.  a common loophole if
you can afford it.  of course, with all the deep black going around
(*cough cough*) who knows? :P

this entity looks a little odd, to put it mildly... (and who is Connie Wong?)

San Gabriel Valley Transit Authority
Listing Type:	Business
Listing Date:	02/09/2006 - 02/23/2006
Address:	4115 E Live Oak Ave
Arcadia, CA 91006-5865
Phone:	(626) 254-0471

San Gabriel Valley Transit Authority
Listing Type:	Business
Listing Date:	01/31/2006 - 02/23/2006
Address:	4115 E Live Oak Ave
Arcadia, CA 91006-5865
Phone:	(626) 446-1753

San Gabriel Valley Transit Authority
Listing Type:	Business
Listing Date:	12/22/2005 - Current
Address:	Address not listed
Phone:	(626) 303-3505

San Gabriel Valley Transit Authority
Listing Type:	Business
Listing Date:	05/19/2005 - 12/21/2005
Address:	148 E Lemon Ave
Monrovia, CA 91016-2808
Phone:	(626) 303-3505

Monrovia Transit Authority
Listing Type:	Business
Listing Date:	12/22/2005 - Current
Address:	Address not listed
Phone:	(626) 303-3505

Monrovia Transit Authority
Listing Type:	Business
Listing Date:	12/01/2004 - 04/05/2005
Address:	148 E Lemon Ave
Monrovia, CA 91016-2808
Phone:	(626) 303-3505

Monrovia Transit Authority
Listing Type:	Business
Listing Date:	04/25/2005 - 12/21/2005
Address:	148 E Lemon Ave
Monrovia, CA 91016-2808
Phone:	(626) 303-3505

S G V T P D
Listing Type:	Business
Listing Date:	02/22/2006 - Current
Address:	4115 E Live Oak Ave
Arcadia, CA 91006-5865
Phone:	(626) 446-1753

S G V T P D
Listing Type:	Business
Listing Date:	02/22/2006 - Current
Address:	4115 E Live Oak Ave
Arcadia, CA 91006-5865
Phone:	(626) 254-0471

San Gabriel Valley Transit Police
Listing Type:	Business
Listing Date:	12/22/2005 - Current
Address:	Address not listed
Phone:	(626) 303-3505

San Gabriel Valley Transit Police
Listing Type:	Business
Listing Date:	05/19/2005 - 12/21/2005
Address:	148 E Lemon Ave
Monrovia, CA 91016-2808
Phone:	(626) 303-3505

additional pointers welcome...


On 3/3/06, R. A. Hettinga <rah at shipwright.com> wrote:
> http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-ferrari3mar03,1,3377111,print.story?coll=la-headlines-california&ctrack=1&cset=true
>
> ...
> Ferrari Case Takes New Twist With Possible Tie to Bus Agency
>
> The trail leads to a nonprofit operating out of a Monrovia repair shop.
> More puzzling is its police force and 'anti-terrorism' unit.
> ...
> The car's owner, a former video game executive from Sweden, told Los
> Angeles County sheriff's deputies at the scene of the Feb. 21 accident in
> Malibu that he was deputy commissioner of the San Gabriel Valley Transit
> Authority's police anti-terrorism unit, detectives said Thursday.
> ...
> They are also looking into the transit organization to see what connection,
> if any, it has to the case. Brooks said detectives believe the two men from
> "homeland security" received their badges from the transit authority.
> ...
> Just as murky is Eriksson's connection to the San Gabriel Valley Transit
> Authority.
>
> The organization is a privately run nonprofit that has agreements with
> Monrovia and Sierra Madre to provide bus rides for disabled residents.
>
> On its website, the San Gabriel Valley Transit Authority lists its address
> as 148 E. Lemon Ave. in Monrovia. The location is Homer's Auto Service, an
> auto repair shop.
>
> A transit authority bus was parked in one of its driveways, but nothing on
> the storefront indicated it was a headquarters for the agency. Inside, a
> young woman, who declined to give her name, said she was a dispatcher for
> the transit authority. She telephoned someone she said was an agency
> official, who declined to be interviewed.
>
> According to the website, the organization also has its own police
> department with a chief, detectives and marked police cruisers. Sheriff's
> investigators said Eriksson told deputies that he was deputy commissioner
> of the department's anti-terrorism unit.
> ...
> Officials in cities where the agency does business said they didn't know
> why a small transit authority needs a police department.
> ...
> But Deal said some specialized departments are not members, and there are
> provisions in state public utilities law that allow for transit police
> agencies to be run by private transit providers.





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