LANCASTER – A search of 32 parolee homes in Lancaster Thursday morning netted six arrests, and two children were removed by the Department of Children and Family Services, according to authorities.
The multi-agency operation was conducted to ensure that persons released from state prison under AB 109, also known as Post Supervised Persons (PSPs), were complying with the terms of their early release, according to Lt. Larry Grigg of the Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS).
“Part of the job of law enforcement is to ensure that anybody released early from prison or jail, whether it be a parole program or a probation program, is complying with the conditions of that early release program,” said Grigg. “So we often times do compliance checks.”
The department had been planning the operation for several weeks, he said.
“We had to do a work up on each one of the locations to determine where the person lives, if there are any guns, gangs, anything like that,” said Grigg.
Grigg said Thursday’s operation was part of several compliance checks and address verifications law enforcement had conducted across the county since AB 109, or the public safety realignment plan, took effect in October 2011. He estimated about 200 inmates have been released into the area under AB 109 so far.
“Out of the number that have been released in the Lancaster area, we’ve actually contacted somewhere in the neighborhood of 90 about percent,” Grigg said.
Thursday’s early morning operation involved about 90 officers and was run from a mobile command post on Sierra Highway, across the street from the Lancaster Station.
Officers began fanning out to locations across Lancaster around 6 a.m., and by 10:15 a.m., the operation was winding down and all 32 target locations had been checked, according to Grigg.
“We made six arrests but some of those arrests were not the PSP or the AB109 releases, they were other persons in the house that possessed narcotics,” said Grigg.
Grigg said six arrests from 32 locations — a roughly 20 percent arrest rate — is typical for the type of operation conducted.
“It looks like many of them are trying to assimilate back into society which is a portion of the program,” said Grigg. “We’re willing to help anybody who is willing to assimilate back into society, but if they’re not, we’re here to ensure that they either return to prison or that we take steps to make sure that they comply with the program.”
Grigg said the probation department, and in some cases the courts, will determine whether any of the parolees arrested Thursday will have to return to prison. The names of those arrested were not immediately available Thursday.
jason says
I hope Scott brooks was one of them!
Abdul Majeed Askia says
There will always be people who commit crime, that is agiven. However,whether we know it or not,we have gotten away from any
sense of right and wrong beyond man made laws.In otherwords the
general society use to think interms of morality this is good,
thats bad, this is right and thats wrong. There was this sense
of a higher power, a creator to answer to, to be held accountable
for your actions even beyond the grave !These days anything goes,
just don’t speed!I am sure we’ve all had a momemt when our conscience
would say ‘I shouldn’t have said or did that!’Our conscience would
convict us because we had a yard stick to measure and judge our
behavior.Now days even the most gross behavior is acceptable
and its legal! I call it legalized transgression!There is dice and theres crooked dice! Theres card games and theres when the deck
is stacked !Theres lottery,and theres riged lottery! Like clothing,
theres name brand and theres artificial brand,copies,fake,phony,
not real !Theres crime and theres criminals!The ultimate criminals
is who designs the trap!Its a trap!Its a booby trap! Crime has been
riged!We are inviting the public to a round table discussion on April
the 28th from 1:pm to 6:pm to discuss community development and
prison recidivism!Crime is sort’ve like slavery, it was riged!Sort’ve
like in Saudia Arabia deneying women the right to vote and drive cars!!!
That is a crime against a whole class of peopl! It is a crime!Ooops,
I shouldn’t have said that,the ‘thought’control will admonish me!I love
America,I love freedom,I believe in our system of rule,the republic.I
also believe in order for us to get to the root of our problems and
to keep it safe and free for us all, we have to live by the principle
of ‘justice for all!’The idea of having this discuss among many of our
professinals and community leaders is ideal,a noble act, to have them
share their insight beyond jails and prisons!Jails and prisons and law
enforcement is going to forever be with us, but most of this stuff
is riged!!!There are solutions,there are preventive measures beyond
jails and prisons!!!Why on earth we don’t want to discuss these matters?
Ace contact me to find the location or call public speaker Abdul Majeed Askia at 323-945-9589 or pastor Gerry Mitchel 661-212-5464 or email
abdulaskia@yahoo.com….A discussion designed to provide solutions.A discussion presented by doctors,activist,pastros,ministers,Imams,school
board memebers! Believe it or not some are trying to put in motion a phony
discussion to side track the real discussion ! Carbon copies!
Facts says
Huh????
Wpayo says
just another charlatan trying to sell snake oil.
Palmdale_Steve says
Abdul Majeed Askia does not seem to like rounding up criminals too much…too damn bad.
Facts says
THANK YOU!