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In response to a citizen complaint last March, a San Diego Police vice-squad officer persuaded the owner of DeRay’s, a sexy-costume shop that had male mannequins in swimsuits in its window, to remove some of the stuffing in the mannequins’ crotches.
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Damon Washington, 25, was arrested in November in San Francisco and charged with shoplifting cassette tapes at a record store. After an investigation police said that Washington had just escaped from a prison medical facility and wanted some tapes to play in the car while riding to his home near Los Angeles.
In October a Los Angeles jury convicted James Ambrose McGrath of 18 armed-robbery and weapons violations in nine area bank robberies, which had netted him almost $1 million. McGrath said his primary motive was “to warn the United States that Japan is planning a sneak thermonuclear attack against us.” In January McGrath was sentenced to 30 years in prison.
