ATDTDA (17): police blotter (477-78)

[Tim Strzechowski]

"Reporting officer C. Marin, responding to a report of firearms being discharged within town limits, found in the cantina Flor de Coahuila, a northamerican male about twenty-five years of age, identified as ... Sloat Eddie Fresno, dead of gunshot wounds inflicted according to witnesses by another northamerican male, no good description, who then left the premises and had not been seen since" (pp. 477 - 78).
 

Pynchon's nice slip into police blotter lingo ... Here are some random links that you may find informative, if not somewhat amusing.
 
http://www.mendocino.edu/tc/course/ADJ108/detail.html
 
http://forums.officer.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-25242.html
 
http://www.schwartzbooks.com/cgi-bin/item/0130981893