BRIEFLY : BILL COLLECTOR REELS IN $105,000 PAYDAY.A Sherman Oaks bill collector won $105,000 in this week's Big Spin game. Michael Potok of Sherman Oaks said he plans to pay off his own bills, help his family and invest his winnings. ``When I found out I was going to be on the show, I called my entire family,'' Potok said. Potok was among those who won a combined $265,500. - 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. Man gets 10 months for blood bank theft A Woodland Hills man has been sentenced to five months in a halfway house halfway house /half·way house/ (haf´wa hous) a residence for patients (e.g., mental patients, drug addicts, alcoholics) who do not require hospitalization but who need an intermediate degree of care until they can return to the community. and five months on house arrest for stealing more than $300,000 worth of plasma from three different blood banks. Eric Jarett, 52, of Woodland Hills pleaded guilty in July to mail fraud for the crimes related to his company, Carlin car·line or car·lin n. Scots A woman, especially an old one. [Middle English kerling, from Old Norse, from karl, man.] Biologics Inc., which bought and sold blood products. Using a fake name, Jarett told the blood banks that the plasma was needed for research. He set up a telephone answering service answering service n. A business service that answers its clients' telephone calls and conveys messages to the clients. in Las Vegas to handle inquiries from the blood banks. Jarett was able to obtain plasma from the Bonfils Blood Center in Denver, the Oklahoma Blood Institute in Oklahoma City, and the Life Blood/Mid-South Regional Blood Center in Memphis, Tenn. Jarett apologized for his actions and said they were out of character. U.S. District Judge Johnnie Rawlinson said the sentence she gave Friday should not be seen as an indication she doesn't take the crime seriously. ``The amount of money these companies lost is astronomical,'' Rawlinson said. - Associated Press Deportations on rise in busy L.A. district The number of people deported from the Los Angeles district of the INS INS abbr. 1. Immigration and Naturalization Service 2. International News Service Noun 1. INS rose to 11,500 in the fiscal year ended Sept. 30, up about 67 percent from fiscal 1996, according to a published report. The dramatic jump is being credited to more Immigration and Naturalization Service Noun 1. Immigration and Naturalization Service - an agency in the Department of Justice that enforces laws and regulations for the admission of foreign-born persons to the United States INS agents in the field and revamped immigration immigration, entrance of a person (an alien) into a new country for the purpose of establishing permanent residence. Motives for immigration, like those for migration generally, are often economic, although religious or political factors may be very important. regulations that all but eliminate appeals for most deportees, the Orange County Register reported, citing new INS figures. Altogether, 27,687 people have been formally deported from the Los Angeles district of the INS since Oct. 1, 1995, mostly to Mexico. - City News Service |
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