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They stopped people in their vehicles and on the street, sometimes loitering around schools.

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Today, people who live near the power lines complain of dust, litter and loitering, and worry about wires falling in high winds and storms.

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A small, wiry, pockmarked young man with curly hair and a hard-to-place accent, he loitered in the area for hours, asking kitchen workers if his target would be coming that way.

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You may find yourself loitering near the kitchen island, pretending to study a hanging pothos while calculating whether it’s worth another scoop.

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Burbank police officers were dispatched to a Nordstrom Rack on North Victory Place after a report of someone loitering in the women’s department.

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