Settle down boys

That traffic snarl on the southbound I-5 near Santa Clarita yesterday was caused by CHP officers and L.A. County Sheriff's deputies arguing on the freeway over which agency got custody of three jail escapees. At one point, several Sheriff's cars boxed in the CHP cruisers to block them from transporting the suspects, said Fox 11 News; on TV there looked to be 20-plus official cars on the scene. After a deal was struck to have the CHP take the bad guys to a Sheriff's station, a chagrined LASO supervisor told Channel 11 the embarrassment wouldn't happen again. Channel 5 also had the story; neither the Times story or the Daily News story on the arrests mention the jurisdictional squabble or the traffic impact.