BRIEFLY : A.V. FREEWAY CRASH KILLS WOMAN, 51.

LANCASTER - A Lake Arrowhead woman sitting in a car parked beside the Antelope Valley Freeway was killed when it was hit by a vehicle driven by a 16-year-old boy, a California Highway Patrol spokesman said.

Killed in the 6:15 p.m. Sunday accident was Holly Berrett, 51, who had parked her 1993 Nissan Maxima on the freeway shoulder near Avenue D behind a motor home driven by her husband.

The 1991 Isuzu Trooper that hit the Maxima was driven by Justin Garner, 16, of Springville, Calif., who with his mother, Kathleen Garner, 42, was taken to Antelope Valley Hospital with moderate injuries, the spokesman said.

SOURCE: Daily News

Ex-prison guard sentenced in sting

An ex-jailer was sentenced Monday to 10 months behind bars for taking $2,800 in exchange for drugs and other items given an inmate who planned to set up a commodities firm in his Los Angeles federal jail cell.

Gary Jerome Moorehead, 41, of Palmdale, a 10-year U.S. Bureau of Prisons veteran, was arrested March 6 for agreeing to give a prisoner a cellular phone, a small computer and a fax machine. The inmate planned to set up a commodities trading company inside the Metropolitan Detention Center, authorities said.

Moorehead also agreed to give the man, who is awaiting sentencing for evading nearly $1.5 million in state taxes, drugs and money and Arabic newspapers supplied by the prisoner's ``wife.'' The ``wife'' turned out to be an FBI agent.

``I am very sorrowful for the act I've committed, but it happened at a time when I needed money. I was behind on my mortgage payment, and this crime was totally out of character for me,'' Moorehead told U.S. District Judge Stephen Wilson, who nonetheless gave Moorehead the maximum sentence.

SOURCE: City News Service