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TIMELY CAUSE Actor John Stamos of “Full House” fame, above center, served as master of ceremonies for a Dec. 1 event at The Canyon in Agoura Hills to raise funds for two dozen recruits in the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Academy Class No. 464 who were injured, some seriously, in a wrong-way driver incident
Slightly before 6:30 a.m. Wednesday morning, Nov.16, an SUV traveling southbound on Mills Avenue north of Telegraph Road in Whittier, veered into the wrong lane and plowed into a group of first year trainees of the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department who were, at the time, running northbound on Telegraph.
A motorist whose SUV slammed into a group of law enforcement recruits on a training run, injuring two dozen of them, was behind bars on suspicion of attempted murder on a peace officer, with the sheriff saying investigators believe he intentionally drove into the trainees.