Crime & Safety

Major SGV News: Dead Bodies Identified & More Reaction to bin Laden Death

Here's a roundup of big news stories in the San Gabriel Valley from the last few days.

Lanes of the westbound 210 at the La Crescenta Avenue off-ramp and the southbound 2 Freeway at Mountain Street were closed indefinitely Friday afternoon after a woman's body was discovered near the freeway offramp. Montrose Patch was one of the first media outlets to identify the body of 33-year-old Adrine Arzumanyan.

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, authorities found the 53-year-old Huntington Beach man dead from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound Monday. Lt. Angela Shepherd said authorities found Pochter in Chantry Flats, the same campground in the Angeles National Forest where Pochter allegedly shot to death Dean Albert of Arcadia, a man whom sheriff's deputies referred to as a lifelong friend of Pochter.

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Robert Parry, a Monrovia resident and Army veteran who served in Afghanistan until last August, called the killing of bin Laden a "miraculous achievement." The full ramifications of the killing for the United States remain to be determined, but Parry said he expects that retaliation from extremist groups could come in the next few months.


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