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Parolee Charged In Arson Fire At Catholic Church
LATimes ^ | May 16, 2012

Posted on 05/16/2012 10:27:45 PM PDT by Steelfish

Parolee Charged In Arson Fire At Catholic Church [Pic in URL] May 16, 2012

A 34-year-old parolee was charged Wednesday with torching a Hacienda Heights Catholic church, authorities said.

Gregory Yusuke Shiga allegedly broke into John Vianney Catholic Church after midnight April 16, 2011, and ignited a blaze with a flammable material, according to the Los Angeles County district attorney's office.

The fire caused more than $6.5 million in damage.

Shiga is on parole and was arrested Monday at his home in Los Angeles, the Sheriff's Department said in a statement.

The department did not say why Shiga was on parole, but online booking records show that he served time at a state prison in Delano.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: California
KEYWORDS: arson; gregoryshiga
Doesn't say if Shiga is gay
1 posted on 05/16/2012 10:27:50 PM PDT by Steelfish
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To: Steelfish

That church is at the end of Turnbull Canyon Road, a famous road racing spot through the hills north of Whittier. A lot of make-out spots up there, too.


2 posted on 05/16/2012 11:15:27 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (The best diplomat I know is a fully-activated phaser bank. - Montgomery Scott)
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To: Jeff Chandler

That church is at the end of Turnbull Canyon Road, a famous road racing spot through the hills north of Whittier. A lot of make-out spots up there, too.


Any truth to the rumor that there was some kind of haunted gully up there on the west side of the Turnbull Canyon Road a couple of turns below Skyline drive?

We lived in Avocado Heights for a couple of years and went to St. John Vianney sometimes.


3 posted on 05/16/2012 11:28:04 PM PDT by AlexisHeavyMetal1981 (1974 was a good year.)
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To: AlexisHeavyMetal1981

Never heard the rumor. It was just a place we’d go when we got bored cruising Whittier Blvd or shooting pool at the Plush Cue.


4 posted on 05/16/2012 11:32:49 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (The best diplomat I know is a fully-activated phaser bank. - Montgomery Scott)
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To: Jeff Chandler
I learned to drive on Turnbull Canyon back in the middle fifties. Our Drivers Ed teacher loved scare us to death.

Makes me homesick,Memphis, Tn. has no winding roads or hills.

5 posted on 05/17/2012 3:41:02 AM PDT by Coldwater Creek (He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty Psalm 91:)
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Gregory Shiga (credit: Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department)

6 posted on 05/17/2012 5:11:34 AM PDT by A.A. Cunningham (Barry Soetoro is a Kenyan communist)
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