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  • 4-Hour Standoff Chokes Freeways (Illegal felon shuts down 710 freeway)

    03/09/2006 8:36:49 AM PST · by LNewman · 32 replies · 932+ views
    LA Times ^ | March 9, 2006 | Richard Winton and J. Michael Kennedy, Times Staff Writers
    Thousands of hapless travelers were trapped Wednesday on the Long Beach Freeway, and a possibly related accident resulted in the death of one man, as police waited out a kidnapping suspect whose getaway car had stalled on the highway. SNIP One hour turned to another, and the stretch of freeway that carries 215,000 vehicles a day remained gridlocked as morning turned to afternoon. More than four hours later, a man in a white T-shirt wanted in the reported kidnapping of a young woman late last year emerged from a maroon Ford minivan in South Gate and gave himself up. SNIP...