BRIEFLY : TAKEOVER BANDITS HIT TARZANA BANK.TARZANA - Three armed men held up a California Federal bank California Federal Bank, often abbreviated to "Cal Fed", was a savings and loan bank in California. It existed from 1926 until 2002, when its parent company Golden State Bancorp was acquired by Citigroup, resulting in the bank being merged into Citibank. at Tampa and Ventura boulevards shortly after 11 a.m. Friday and got away with an undisclosed amount of cash, police said. The three men, all in their early 20s, fled on foot after the holdup and were not apprehended, said Officer Vince Aguirre, a spokesman for the Los Angeles Police Department "LAPD" and "L.A.P.D." redirect here. For other uses, see LAPD (disambiguation).  This article or section is written like an . .
Geza Foster, a 37-year-old Tarzana man who witnessed the robbery, said the trio stormed into the bank with their guns drawn. One jumped over the counter and started pulling money from drawers. Another held a gun to a bank employee's head while the robbery went on. Foster said only one other customer was in the bank at the time of the holdup. SOURCE: - Daily News Life sentence given to teen for attack VAN NUYS - A teen-ager convicted of attempted first-degree murder and other felonies for stabbing a neighbor and handcuffing her to a sink was sentenced Friday to life plus six years in prison. Edith Aline Rose, now 75, of Reseda was afraid to testify against Eric Andrew Serin but did so anyway ``because she wanted to see him put behind bars Verb 1. put behind bars - lock up or confine, in or as in a jail; "The suspects were imprisoned without trial"; "the murderer was incarcerated for the rest of his life" gaol, immure, imprison, incarcerate, jail, jug, lag, remand, put away ,'' said Deputy District Attorney Patricia Doyle. The victim said Serin, now 19, also beat her before handcuffing her Dec. 29, 1993. A Van Nuys Superior Court jury deliberated less than two hours Feb. 23 before finding Serin guilty of attempted first-degree murder, residential burglary and residential robbery. After Serin was sentenced by Van Nuys Superior Court Judge Lloyd M. Nash, Rose ``appeared to be relieved somewhat that it was finally over,'' Doyle said. SOURCE: - City News Service Sentence imposed on fraud defendant A Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. man charged with running a widespread insurance fraud ring was sentenced to eight years in prison Friday and ordered to pay $10 million in restitution. Hossein Ali Motamedi, 33, pleaded guilty to 13 of the 28 charges filed against him. His cohort, Amir Zamyad, 35, of Calabasas pleaded guilty to seven of the 20 counts filed and will be sentenced to 10 years in prison in a few months. The guilty pleas and sentencing came just two days after prosecutors announced they were charging two men with running a $10 million auto insurance and workers compensations fraud ring that stretched across Los Angeles County and into several other states. ``I think that in this case, a speedy and very just resolution was had,'' said Deputy District Attorney Loren Naiman. Officials have called Motamedi and Zamyad the masterminds behind an operation that, in 1994 and 1995, staged auto accidents, faked 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. claims and laundered money. Numerous medical clinics and law firms This list of the world's largest law firms by revenue is taken from The Lawyer and The American Lawyer and is ordered by 2006 revenue:[1]
Zamyad's sentencing was delayed until September Until September is a 1984 romantic drama set in France. It stars Karen Allen as an American tourist in Paris who falls in love with a married Frenchman (Thierry Lhermitte). External links so that he can conclude a federal court case in Texas where he faces mail fraud and conspiracy charges linked to the allegations here. SOURCE: - Daily News Transient in surgery with stab wound NORTH HOLLYWOOD - A man police described as a transient was stabbed Friday during an altercation with other transients over beer, Los Angeles police said. The man, who was approximately 35 years old, was found at 12:45 p.m. in the 7200 block of Lankershim Boulevard with a stab wound to the stomach, said Los Angeles Police Department Sgt. Ray Davies Raymond Douglas Davies, CBE (born June 21, 1944 at Fortis Green, London) is an influential English rock musician, best known as lead singer-songwriter for The Kinks - one of the most influential, prolific and long-lived British Invasion bands - which he led with his younger . He was taken to Holy Cross Medical Center in Mission Hills, where he was undergoing surgery Friday, Davies said. SOURCE: - Daily News Trash truck driver charged in deaths Prosecutors have filed misdemeanor criminal charges against the driver of a city trash truck that malfunctioned and killed two school children in December. Kenneth Wayne Fox, 29, was charged by the District Attorney with failing to inspect the equipment before operating it, a violation of a state vehicle code. Brian Serrano and Javier ``Francisco'' Mata, both third-graders at Glen Alta Elementary School elementary school: see school. , died in the Dec. 6 accident. At the time of the accident the truck's hydraulic arm malfunctioned, raking the side of a school bus and killing the two boys. According to Deputy District Attorney John Morris, insufficient evidence insufficient evidence n. a finding (decision) by a trial judge or an appeals court that the prosecution in a criminal case or a plaintiff in a lawsuit has not proved the case because the attorney did not present enough convincing evidence. existed to charge Fox or any other city employee with additional charges. Fox is scheduled for 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 next month. In February Maria Serrano, the mother of one of the boys, filed a wrongful death The taking of the life of an individual resulting from the willful or negligent act of another person or persons. If a person is killed because of the wrongful conduct of a person or persons, the decedent's heirs and other beneficiaries may file a wrongful death action lawsuit contending that sanitation officials ignored warnings about the truck's compacting arm and cleared it for use that day. SOURCE: -Daily News |
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