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- NATION, Page 33American NotesLOS ANGELES"Strawberry" Suspect
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- On L.A.'s mean streets they are known as "strawberries,"
- young women, usually prostitutes, who trade sex for drugs.
- Since August 1985 police have discovered the bodies of at least
- nine strawberries; each woman had been shot to death with a
- small-caliber handgun. Last week lawmen found a suspect in the
- serial killings. In a twist right out of a lurid TV movie, he
- turned out to be a sheriff's deputy.
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- Rickey Ross, 40, a Los Angeles narcotics investigator, was
- stopped by cops for driving erratically. Ross, an 18-year
- veteran, was accompanied by a prostitute, though he insisted
- that he did not know about her profession. The woman said they
- were smoking cocaine.
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- In the trunk of Ross's car, officers discovered a handgun
- that matched the weapon used in three of the strawberry murders.
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