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NATION, Page 33American NotesLOS ANGELES"Strawberry" Suspect
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.
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.
In the trunk of Ross's car, officers discovered a handgun that
matched the weapon used in three of the strawberry murders.