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Gunners Mate, Cop and DA Investigator
May 6, 2007 (San Dimas, CA) Hi Tech
Criminal Justice maintains three websites
involving
police officers and
military personnel who have written books.
LAPDAuthors.com lists
Los Angeles Police Department police officers;
Police-Writers.com lists American state and local
police officers who have written books; and,
Military-Writers.com lists Americans who have served in the
military and written books.
Garth Wean was added to all three websites.
During World War II
Gareth Gary Wean served as a Gunners Mate in
the
United States Navy. After the war, in February
1946,
Gary Wean joined the
Los Angeles Police Department. As a
LAPD police officer,
Gary Wean worked a variety of assignments,
including traffic enforcement, patrol and detectives.
According to Wade Frazier, In 1947,
Gary Wean was pursuing an armed robber through
the streets of Los Angeles on a high-speed chase. The suspect crashed his car
as it barreled along at ninety miles an hour through LAs streets. He tried
escaping on foot, and Gary cornered him in the dark. The suspect begged for his
life. As Gary approached, the man stuck his pistol (which had already killed
somebody during the robbery) into Garys abdomen and fired. He fired a second
shot that hit Gary in his hand. Gary then emptied his pistol into the man,
while his partner also fired, killing the robber instantly. Garys partner
rushed him to the hospital. Although Garys abdomen was in great pain, he did
not want to unbuckle his Sam Brown belt (a wide leather belt which held his
firearm and other police equipment) as they rushed to the hospital, because he
thought it might be all that was holding him together. When Gary finally took
off his belt, his partner saw that the bullet hit the belt and did not penetrate
Garys skin.
In 1952,
Gary Wean resigned from the
Los Angeles Police Department but continued his
career in law enforcement as a Detective Sergeant for the Ventura Police
Department (California); an investigator for the Los Angeles County District
Attorneys Office, Bureau of Investigation; and, finally, in 1966, as the Chief
Investigator for the Ventura County Public Defender. He retired from his
law enforcement career in 1970.
Gary Wean is also the author of There's a
Fish in the Courthouse. According to one reader/reviewer, Gary Weans
books is a very sad but true tale of corruption in Ventura County, California.
Based on sprawl growth from Los Angeles and the artificially created energy
crisis, petroleum rich Ventura County was a necessary plum for the picking by
corrupt interest. But, only if controlled by the "right" people and entities.
Billions of dollars have been made and are yet to be made as real estate
development continues to replace farmland and petroleum is extracted from the
Los Padres National Forest. The result has been necessary control by any means
for a minimum of 40 years. This control has resulted in corruption is all levels
of government, including elected local, state and national officials, government
staff,
law enforcement, the District Attorney and the
entire judicial system of the County and State.
Police-Writers.com now hosts 525
police officers (representing 217 police
departments) and their 1118 books; LAPDAuthors.com lists 54
Los Angeles Police Department police officers
and their 99 books; and, Military-Writers.com lists 19 former military personnel
and their 36 books.
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