Live from Southern California where it is a continual challenge to be proud of your elected officials
1 search warrant+3 guns+900 rounds+3 teens+1 boyfriend w/19 handguns=1 arrest of 2-time former mayor for alleged cocaine possession and child endangerment+$100,000 bail
Burbank councilwoman Stacey Jo Murphy, 47, arrested
Also arrested was Murphy's longtime companion Scott Schaffer, 51, for investigation of federal firearms and narcotic violations. Robert Polloreno, 54, who lives with Schaffer, was arrested for alleged grand theft of a firearm. Schaffer was being held at a federal custody facility and Polloreno was being held on $50,000 bail.
The warrant served at Murphy's home was based on information gathered by a task force that last month arrested 36 people, including 23 members of a San Fernando Valley gang. Police have accused some gang members of participating in the slayings of Los Angeles police Officer James Beyea in 1988 and Burbank Officer Matthew Pavelka in 2003.
Many of those arrested were wanted for trafficking in cocaine, methamphetamine and marijuana.
The organization allegedly forged a treaty with the Mexican Mafia prison gang under which it agreed to pay taxes on its drug profits. Its drug trafficking operation allegedly stretched from Hawaii to Indiana.
Authorities have arrested more than 200 of the gang's documented members over the last 18 months, seizing cars, firearms, at least $500,000 in cash and more than 300 pounds of narcotics.
Murphy, who has been on the Burbank City Council since 1997, served as mayor in 1999-2000 and in 2003-04. The mother of three children was re-elected earlier this year to a four-year term.
Hmmm. I wonder what the favorite special interest groups are of this...
Update 7.31.05: f/u at Answer this...
This... is Stacey Jo Murphy
This... is Scott Schaffer
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