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LA Kings are inBrian Alexik, the 34-year-old New Jersey man arrested a month after he fled unit 701 of the Reserve Lofts in Downtown's South Park area just ahead of the law, faced some new charges today. He already had pleaded not guilty to three weapons charges, involving the AK-47 and sawed-off shotgun found in the unit he rented. Today the District Attorney's office added seven more charges for possession for sale of heroin, cocaine, cocaine base (or crack), methamphetamine and marijuana; possession of concentrated cannabis; and forgery of U.S. currency. Story at the Downtown News.
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