Police Battering Ram Used in Dope Raid in South L.A.
Los Angeles Police used their mechanized battering ram Wednesday night to knock down the wall of a house in the South-Central area, where cocaine was allegedly being sold in solid or “rock” form.
It was the first time since April, 1986, that the controversial six-ton armored personnel carrier, equipped with a 14-foot steel nose for knocking down walls of rock houses, has been used in a drug raid.
Four people were arrested in the alleged rock house on West 62nd Street by narcotics officers working with police from the Metropolitan Division, Cmdr. William Booth said. No one was injured.
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