BRIEFLY : BACK-INJURY CLAIMANT FACING FRAUD CHARGES.VENTURA - A truck driver who received disability benefits for a work-related injury faces fraud charges after he was videotaped vigorously coaching a youth football team. Gary Mourett was arrested Friday after prosecutors reviewed that videotape and others of him engaged in physical activities. An arraignment A criminal proceeding at which the defendant is officially called before a court of competent jurisdiction, informed of the offense charged in the complaint, information, indictment, or other charging document, and asked to enter a plea of guilty, not guilty, or as otherwise permitted on two felony counts of workers' compensation workers' compensation, payment by employers for some part of the cost of injuries, or in some cases of occupational diseases, received by employees in the course of their work. fraud is pending, Deputy District Attorney Tom Johnson Tom Johnson may refer to:
A private investigator trying to prove Mourett was not suffering from the serious back injury he claimed videotaped the truck driver as he carried out his coaching duties. ``If my employer could see me now,'' a sweating Mourett allegedly said to a father on the sidelines On the sidelines An investor who decides not to invest due to market uncertainty. on the sidelines Of or relating to investors who, having assessed the market, have decided to avoid committing their funds. , unaware that the man worked for the insurance carrier covering Mourett's workers' compensation case. Mourett, who complained of severe back and leg pain several days after falling at work in August, has received $4,900 in compensation. If convicted, he faces up to 10 years in prison, a $50,000 fine and an order to repay the benefits he received. He drove for Gill's Onions, a major California food distributor. - Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. 2 boats sink; skipper rescued by copter cop·ter n. Informal A helicopter. EL SEGUNDO El Segundo (ĕl sēgŭn`dō), industrial city (1990 pop. 15,223), Los Angeles co., S Calif., on Santa Monica Bay; inc. 1917. Its products include navigation and computer systems, aircraft parts, office machines, telephone apparatus, and - A towboat captain was plucked from the water off El Segundo Beach after he was found floating on wood debris, authorities said. William Kulhanek, 55, of Oxnard was towing a sailboat from Marina del Rey to Redondo Beach on Tuesday when he lost radio contact with his company, Towboat U.S. of Oxnard, said U.S. Coast Guard Lt. Tyrone Jones. Dispatchers contacted the Coast Guard about 4:30 p.m., and a Coast Guard helicopter spotted Kulhanek and rescued him. He was taken to Torrance Memorial Hospital, where he was treated and released, authorities said. Kulhanek was the only one aboard the towboat, and there was no one on the sailboat, Jones said. Authorities later found the sailboat and towboat partially submerged, marked both vessels with lights and warned other boats to avoid the hazard. - Associated Press |
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