Compton gun heist: Why does a city without a police force have a weapons vault?
by Angel Jennings, Javier Panzar and Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times
Mar 28, 2018
3 minutes
COMPTON, Calif. - Compton officials are scrambling to explain the theft of 31 handguns from a municipal vault that contained nearly 200 weapons from the city's long-disbanded police department and a corps of formerly armed code enforcement officers.
"There's stuff a little too loosey-goosey around here," City Manager Cecil Rhambo Jr. told a Los Angeles Times reporter Tuesday evening.
Rhambo, who arrived at City Hall just over a year ago, said he ordered an inventory of the city's sensitive property not long afterward.
"I wanted to make sure we could
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