Contraband found in stolen car

By Sara Taverna, Forty-Niner Online
Sept. 12, 1995

Stolen checks, forged identification cards and drug paraphernalia were among the items found by the University Police at Cal State Long Beach Wednesday after impounding a stolen vehicle from two women.

One woman was arrested and the other got away on foot, according to police.

At 12:35 a.m. Wednesday, Office Walter Focht noticed a gray spraypainted truck parked at the Recycling Center in Lot B where two women were unloading recyclable materials into the bins, said police Detective Mike Wood.

"The vehicle had multiple shades of paint, primer and what looked like scrapes from a putty knife," Wood said. "It looked like it had been disguised, which raises our suspicions, so we ran the plates."

The license plate check showed the plates to belong to a Honda station wagon instead of the Toyota pick-up the women were driving, Wood said.

Wood said Focht approached the women and asked to see their identification. The driver said she had none, but verbally identified herself as Kimberly Green, who police later identified as Julia Lee Fedrick.

While Focht was bending into the vehicle, the driver took off running.

She has yet to be found, but the passenger, identified as Teresa Maria Green, was charged with grand theft auto and booked into Long Beach City Jail on a $20,000 bail.

Green told police she has known the driver for two years, but only by the name "Kim."

In searching the car, police found seven stolen checkbooks, three forged identification cards and drug paraphernalia used for methamphetamines.