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documented that within the last twelve months a number of crime incidents, including but not limited to, felonious assaults, probation violations, and possession of illegal drugs have occurred at these cyber cafe business locations. On June 8, 2002, Edward Fernandez, age 14, was followed from a Garden Grove cyber cafe and shot to death. In the City of Garden Grove, on December 30, 2001, Phoung Huu Ly, age 20, died after he was stabbed in the head with a screwdriver in the parking lot of a cyber cafe. Gang related incidents have been occurring in association with cyber cafes. According to Officer Kovacs, a gang unit officer in the City of Garden Grove Police Department, a cyber cafe customer was stabbed after being rushed by a group of suspected gang members who traced him down from another cyber caf6. City of Costa Mesa Police Lt. Ron Smith has stated "The violence stems largely from the competitiveness of the computer games spilling over into the street" and "gang members have been known to travel from one cyber cafe to another to settle scores or avenge insults sent via the Internet." Lt. Smith summarized the problems encountered by other law enforcement agencies in Southern California by cyber cafes as "murder, drive-by shootings, assaults, organized-crime money laundering, identity theft, computer hacking, gambling, loitering, curfew violations and noise disturbances." In order to prevent the frustration of said studies and the implementation thereof, the public interest, health, safety and welfare require the immediate enactment of this ordinance. The absence of this ordinance would create a serious threat to the orderly and effective implementation of any code amendments, general plan amendments or specific plan amendments which may be adopted by the city as a result of the studies, in that the establishment or construction of cyber cafes may be in conflict with or frustrate the contemplated updates and revisions to the Code, general plans or specific plans. Moreover, permitting such cyber cafes to be established or expanded during said studies and implementation would create impacts on the public health, safety and welfare that the city council, in adopting this ordinance, has found to be unacceptable. The Request for Council Action for this ordinance dated July 15, 2002 and duly signed by the city manager shall, by this reference be incorporated herein, and together with this ordinance, any amendments or supplements Ordinance No. NS-2506 Page 2 of 9