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8/3112016 Print Article:Santa Ana police react to spate of gang-related shootings with a probation sweep <br /> Officers looked at the gang tattoos on his arms with a flashlight, and the man admitted to recently having eight <br /> tattoos removed from his face. <br /> As with each of the searches by Miller and Garcia's team, nothing illegal was found. <br /> But that wasn't the case everywhere. <br /> In one of the two gang-injunction zones checked Tuesday, officers found two firearms stored near the <br /> undercarriage of a white commercial van parked adjacent to a probationer's car on South Townsend Street.A <br /> .22 Long Rifle and a small-caliber revolver, likely a .22 or .25,were seized by police. <br /> "They usually stuff(guns) under wheel wells or the undercarriage to get them quickly or avoid prosecution," <br /> Hernandez said. <br /> Four arrests were made during the compliance checks Tuesday, including the arrest of man on probation for <br /> kidnapping and carjacking, as well as a hit-and-run suspect with an outstanding warrant. <br /> In the past month, Santa Ana police have seized 25 guns throughout the city through vehicle and probation <br /> checks, as well as patrol calls. <br /> Approximately 1,200 adults are on probation in Santa Ana and they are supervised by 17 deputy probation <br /> officers and two supervising probation officers, said Ed Harrison, the division director and public information <br /> officer for the Orange County Probation Department. <br /> "These checks are about holding people accountable," Hernandez said. "If people aren't checked, then they'll <br /> start thinking (the police) don't care and (they)will go about their old ways." <br /> Contact the writer: 714-796-7802 <br /> ©Copyright 2016 Freedom Communications.All Rights Reserved. <br /> Privacy Policy&Terms of Service I Copyright I Site Map <br /> httpJhwww.ocregister.comlcommonlprinterlview.php?db=ocregister&id=699616 2J2 <br /> REFERENCE #7 <br />