The Region - News from April 29, 1986

The chief backer of a controversial plan to make English the official language of the ethnically mixed city of Monterey Park was arrested after he struck a police officer during a City Council meeting. Witnesses said Mayor G. Monty Manibog ordered Frank J. Arcuri, 45, removed when he tried to raise the question of his English-only proposal. But when police Capt. Joseph Santoro tried to remove him, police said, Arcuri struck Santoro in the face with his elbow. Police Chief John Elder and another officer arrested Arcuri, who was booked on suspicion of disrupting a public meeting, assaulting an officer and resisting arrest. Bail was set at $1,000.