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The California Highway Patrol (CHP) is the principal state police agency for the U.S. state of California. The CHP has primary patrol jurisdiction over all California highways and roads and streets outside city limits, and can exercise law enforcement powers anywhere within the state. The California Highway Patrol can assist local and county ...
Scene of the crime. On the night of December 27, 1986, twenty-year-old Cara Knott was driving south on Interstate 15 from her boyfriend's home in Escondido, California, to her parents' home in El Cajon when Craig Peyer, who was on duty in a marked California Highway Patrol (CHP) vehicle, directed Knott to pull off the freeway on an isolated, unfinished offramp. [5]
All lanes of Interstate 15 between Los Angeles and Las Vegas that were closed for 48 hours due to a big rig accident that created a chemical hazard have reopened, the California Highway Patrol said.
t. e. In the United States, the state police is a police body unique to each U.S. state, having statewide authority to conduct law enforcement activities and criminal investigations. In general, state police officers or highway patrol officers, known as state troopers, perform functions that do not fall within the jurisdiction of a county’s ...
The truck caught fire around 3 a.m., around 70 miles northeast of Sacramento, stated a post on California Highway Patrol's Facebook page. The interstate was closed in both directions. The ...
Video recorded by a bystander appears to show a deadly encounter in which a California Highway Patrol officer repeatedly shoots a man after a struggle in the middle of the 105 Freeway in Watts on ...
Newhall incident. The Newhall incident, also called the Newhall massacre, was a shootout on April 5–6, 1970, in Valencia, California, [a] between two heavily armed criminals and four officers of the California Highway Patrol (CHP). In less than five minutes, the four CHP officers were killed and another man was pistol-whipped in what was at ...
Dominguez died at a hospital after the Nov. 1 9 encounter, according to a Los Angeles County Coroner’s report. The highway patrol has previously said Dominguez used a stun gun on the officer ...