Every year (see last year) the Wilmington police carry out "Operation Overkill" with Swat teams, FBI, assault weapons, helicopters, etc. You'd expect they were going after Osama or something! What a waste of money!
08/29/2012
By Christina Villacorte
With a helicopter gunship overhead and drug-sniffing dogs on the ground, about 100 law enforcement officers swarmed a Wilmington neighborhood late Tuesday and arrested 14 registered sex offenders for various parole violations.
Joe Martinez, a parole administrator with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, said a search of the sex offenders' motel rooms and apartments turned up pornography, cocaine, marijuana and an unauthorized knife.
"What'll happen is that the sex offenders will be placed in custody, and on a parole hold," he said. "So even if they had a million dollars, they cannot bail out of jail for a while."
Dubbed Operation
About 40 of the sex offenders gave their address as Harbor Inn.
"Prior to 2006, you didn't have this clustering of sex offenders," Martinez said. "When Jessica's Law was passed, it prohibited any sex offenders from residing within 2,000 feet of any K-12 school or park, and there's not a lot of areas that comply with those law requirements."
- Yes, thanks for pointing that out. The very laws being passed by the legislature is what is causing this clustering and wasting of money!
Around 11 p.m. Tuesday, teams of parole agents, probation officers, federal marshals, police officers, immigration officers, social workers from the county Department of Children and Family Services, and several K-9 teams entered the sex offenders' motel rooms and apartments.
"Zero tolerance," a parole agent told one of the teams searching for banned items at the motel.
DCFS's multi-agency response team was summoned after boys, ages 3 and 4, were found living in one of the apartments with their mother and her boyfriend, who was convicted decades ago of attempting to rape an adult woman.
The social workers found no signs the children were being mistreated and decided to let them continue living in the apartment with their mother while an investigation is ongoing. The boyfriend was found in possession of pornography and taken into custody.
Operation
According to the California Megan's Law website, there are 179 sex offenders in the Wilmington ZIP code.
Martinez said the community became alarmed after a man exposed himself to two girls walking to school in July. The man remains at large.
Aside from the CDCR, other agencies that participated in the raid were the US Marshalls Office; Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives; Bureau of Immigration and Customs; SWAT teams from the state prisons in Lancaster and Chino; and police, parole and probation officers from different cities in Los Angeles County.
So in a state that is billions of dollars in debt they choose to spend money on an attack helicopter and 100 over paid people to "check" on 60 people...40 of which live at the SAME address. Here's your sign
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