By Richard Winton | LA Times
Searches of homes of gang members charged with murder in the shooting death of actor Johnny Wactor uncovered evidence tying them to thefts in L.A., Beverly Hills and the Inland Empire, the interim Los Angeles Police Department chief said.
While serving search warrants in the arrest of four men connected to the May 25 slaying of Wactor, the LAPD’s organized retail task force and Central Bureau Homicide Division found evidence related to a series of pharmacy and retail store thefts, Interim Police Chief Dominic Choi told the Police Commission on Tuesday.
The evidence is linked to thefts in Los Angeles, the unincorporated Lennox area, Beverly Hills, Rialto and Ontario, Choi said. The chief said more than 50 search warrants were conducted in Wactor’s case, culminating in the arrests of four men with known associations to a notorious South Los Angeles street gang.
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