Probation officer tips LAPD to Stow suspect; second suspect at large By Ken Gimblin and Joe Cronin May 22, 2011     SAN FRANCISCO--Sunday morning at 7:00 AM LAPD surrounded a East Los Angeles building with bull horns and guns drawn ordering the apartment occupants to come out with their hands up and surrender. As the early morning occupants slowly but surely came out of the building apartment hands up in the air surrendering to Police amongst one emerged with hands up that match a similar description of one of the two suspects who is at large in the March 31st Bryan Stow beating case at Dodgers Stadium. Based on a tip from the suspect's probation officer police were tipped off that the probation officer had strong suspicions that the suspect was one of the two involved in the Bryan Stow beatings. Sources tell Sportstalk that the suspect told his probation officer he was a baseball fan of the Dodgers and that he was there on opening night (March 31st) the night of the Stow beating, that he looked like the sketch or almost looked like the sketch in one of the suspects at large. Other hints and questions that the probation officer asked the suspect was not immediately available but some of the probation officer's questions and suspicions were kept under wraps until he could piece for sure that his suspect was indeed the right guy that police were looking for. According to sources within the LAPD the apartment manager Maritza Camacho was informed that the Sunday morning the raid was coming down. In the first of two raids by Police the first apartment that was raided several people came out with hands up in the air surrendering after police with bull horns and guns drawn demanded the apartment occupants come out and surrender with their hands up. One of the occupants in the first apartment raid was one of the two suspects in the Bryan Stow beating the bald man with tattoos all over his body. Police had raided a second location of the apartment building complex with Camacho's assistance and a woman with her husband and two kids and the woman's brother all came out with hands up in the air surrendering to police. Police sources have told the L.A. Times that the second suspect being sought was not in either of the two apartments. Based on descriptions given to police some of the witnesses at the beating of Bryan Stow are rumored to be attending a line up at LAPD station headquarters downtown. The suspects are to pick out the woman driver, the assailant in the beating, and the male kid who was seated in the front at the time of the get away. Also several sources said that the man that police arrested Sunday is one of the two men involved in the Stow beating. The Police emphasized that the second suspect is still at large with a $200,000 reward for the arrest and conviction of that suspect. Since the beating Police and security have beefed up Dodger Stadium at all home games. A certain base of Dodgers fan have made it clear that if any team colors other than the Dodgers blue showed up a the park those fans would be subject to taunts, threats and in some cases such as Stow's beatings. This had been the case for years at the park but it took the Stow beating to call attention to the violence that was playing out at Dodgers games. The Dodgers home attendance has dropped and for example during the Giants-Dodgers series last Wednesday and Thursday the crowd count was announced at 30 thousand plus but actual show ups looked like half that amount. Fans have been turned off by the poor Dodgers play, unsafe conditions at the park by other fans, Dodger owner Frank McCourt and his ex-wife's very public split of their marriage and of the way the team is being ran including not being able to make payroll in April and not being able to make the playoffs in October, and now being ran by Major League Baseball. Los Angeles Mayor Antionio Villaraigosa, Police Chief Charlie Beck, and Dodger officials met with the media at 4PM on Sunday to address the arrests made at the East Los Angeles apartments. Ken Gimblin and Joe Cronin are covering the Giants and the Bryan Stow case for Sportstalk radio

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