Blog Posts in January, 2011
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Posted on Jan 31, 2011 By Editor
A Claremont man, Martin Calvin Yarbrough, was arrested on Jan. 28 on suspicion of sending threatening letters containing a powdery substance to the Department of Children and Family Services and the ...
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Posted on Jan 31, 2011 By Editor
A Thousand Oaks doctor, Barry Lefkovitch, was charged with new allegations of sexual assaulting a patient. Lefkovitch was arrested Dec. 13 on suspicion of sexually assaulting a patient during an ...
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Posted on Jan 28, 2011 By Editor
An 18-year-old man was arrested Wednesday night for three robberies in Fillmore. The first incident happened about 6:20 p.m. when two people with a handgun approached a boy walking on the street. One ...
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Posted on Jan 28, 2011 By Editor
A former employee of an adult day-care center Juan Fernando Flores, in El Monte was charged with sexually assaulting three severely disabled women with the mental capacity of children. He pleaded no ...
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Posted on Jan 27, 2011 By Editor
Two men were killed in Ventura County early Thursday morning. The first, Donald Barnes, was stabbed in a street fight near the border between Thousand Oaks and Oak Park, and pronounced dead at the ...
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Posted on Jan 27, 2011 By Editor
South L.A. serial killer Lonnie Frankin Jr., better known as the "Grim Sleeper," is thought to have killed more women said detectives on Thursday. Franklin is a suspect for two additional homicides. ...
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Posted on Jan 26, 2011 By Editor
A man, Guadalupe Guadian, was arrested for burglary of the Santa Paula Boys and Girls Club late Tuesday. Santa Paula police responded to a report of an alarm at the club. They were investigating near ...
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Posted on Jan 26, 2011 By Editor
Eleven alleged gang members were arrested for suspicion of murder and methamphetamine trafficking Wednesday morning. It is unclear if any of those arrested Wednesday will be charged with murder, but ...
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Posted on Jan 25, 2011 By Editor
A student from Shanghai, Tong Zhang, along with two other Chinese nationals have been arrested for using fraudulent credit cards to make purchases at stores in the San Gabriel Valley. Zhang dropped ...
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Posted on Jan 25, 2011 By Editor
A woman, Monica Garcia, tried to pass a fraudulent check Sunday in Simi Valley. Police arrived at The Home Depot to stop a black sport utility vehicle leaving the scene. A store employee identified ...
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Posted on Jan 24, 2011 By Editor
Sixty-seven year old Alfred Johnson was arrested Thursday for suspicion of drug possession for the purpose of sales. Johnson's apartment, located in a senior citizen complex in Fillmore, was searched ...
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Posted on Jan 24, 2011 By Editor
A liquor store clerk, Sor Phouam, was shot during a robbery of P&B Liquor Jr. in Long Beach Saturday. The police are searching for two robbery suspects in connection with the shooting. Phouam was ...
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Posted on Jan 21, 2011 By Editor
A 26-year-old man, Alan Reyes, and 24-year-old woman, Vanessa Cease, were killed by a wrong-way driver Wednesday on the 91 Freeway in Anaheim. The two were killed a little after 1 a.m. when Anthony ...
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Posted on Jan 20, 2011 By Editor
A German man, Sven Koppler, shipped hundreds of live tarantulas by mail all around the United States. Federal Agents in Los Angeles posed as buyers in a 10-month investigation of the animal smuggling. ...
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Posted on Jan 20, 2011 By Editor
A 17-year-old boy was stabbed allegedly by his mother, Mary Jean Guest, on Tuesday. The boy called the police and told authorities he was at home when he went to check on his mother after an earlier ...
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Posted on Jan 19, 2011 By Editor
On Tuesday there was a reported stolen vehicle, burglary and attempted burglary in the Santa Margarita Road and Swansea Avenue area in Ventura. First, the Ventura Police were called because of a ...
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Posted on Jan 19, 2011 By Editor
A former substitute teacher, Stephen Wesley, was charged with six felony counts of child abuse Tuesday. Wesley was a camp counselor at a Los Angeles County juvenile probation camp, Camp Karl Holton. ...
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Posted on Jan 18, 2011 By Editor
Two massive African tortoises, Africa and Dumpling, were reported stolen this week from the Ventura home of a biologist, Stephanie Pappas, involved in turtle rescue and rehabilitation. Pappas found ...
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Posted on Jan 18, 2011 By Editor
Two men, Vasile Babuschin and Sergei Souetov, were arrested for possession of narcotics on Monday. The police task force seized 47 kilos of cocaine and $2.3 million in cash from their Valencia ...
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Posted on Jan 14, 2011 By Editor
14-year-old black male, Taburi Watson, was shot to death in Gramercy Park Dec. 29. Watson was riding his bike near St. Andrews Place and 87th Street at about 7:25 p.m. when one or more assailants ...
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Posted on Jan 14, 2011 By Editor
A 19-year-old Oxnard man has been sentenced to prison for a Nyeland Acres kidnapping and robbery . On February 21, Jose Casillas saw a couple sleeping in their parked car, and decided to steal it. He ...
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Posted on Jan 13, 2011 By Editor
A suspect, Jonathan Zambrano, was arrested Thursday night for stabbing two people in Oxnard. One victim flagged down officers in the area of Channel Islands Boulevard and M Street. The victims were ...
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Posted on Jan 13, 2011 By Los Angeles Criminal Defense Attorney
Two Abergil brothers, reputedly at the head of one of Israel's most powerful organized crime families, face drug trafficking charges for their alleged roles in a massive Los Angeles-based Ecstasy ...
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Posted on Jan 12, 2011 By Editor
A former Ventura County deputy pleaded guilty Thursday to four counts of child sex crimes . Thomas Terry Triplett, 41, from Camarillo, also pleaded guilty to two counts of oral copulation with a child ...
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Posted on Jan 12, 2011 By Editor
An East L.A. gang member Nestor Torres, out of prison on parole, shot a Los Angeles deputy in the face Tuesday night. He was on parole with prior felony convictions for shooting into an inhabited ...
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