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Title: Arsenal uncovered in fire, man surrenders
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Haering, Michael
Date Created and/or Issued: 1968
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Photograph was edited for publication purposes.
Pictured are some of the guns, ammunition, and re-loading equipment found in a Granada Hills apartment following a fire and explosion there. Firemen fighting a blaze in the two-story apartment house, which Robert Reign Romero rented, uncovered the arsenal. Romero, 25, accompanied by his lawyer, surrendered to Van Nuys police and was booked on suspicion of unlawful possession of a machine gun. Photograph dated June 14, 1968.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;22 x 20 cm. on sheet 26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00099416
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 41
CARL0005112197
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/30392
Subject: Police--California--Los Angeles
Debris--California--Los Angeles
Apartments--California--Granada Hills (Los Angeles)
Weapons--California--Los Angeles
Dwellings--California--Granada Hills (Los Angeles)
Granada Hills (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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