BRIEFLY HEAD OF EXTORTION PLOT IS CONVICTED.The mastermind of an elaborate extortion plot involving a Woodland Hills family and a South Los Angeles South Los Angeles is the official name for a large geographic and cultural area lying to the southwest and southeast of downtown Los Angeles, California. The area was formerly called South Central Los Angeles, and is still sometimes called South Central. car dealership was convicted Tuesday, the District Attorney's Office announced. Kaveh Kamyab, 41, was convicted of conspiracy to commit a crime, three counts of kidnapping for ransom and one count of robbery. He was acquitted of one count of kidnapping for carjacking The criminal taking of a motor vehicle from its driver by force, violence, or intimidation. The u.s. justice department categorizes the crime of carjacking as a "completed or attempted Robbery of a motor vehicle by a stranger . Kamyab faces multiple life sentences. - Daily News Suspect in teen kidnap arrested A parolee pa·rol·ee n. One who is released on parole. Noun 1. parolee - someone released on probation or on parole probationer suspected of kidnapping a 17-year-old high school student at knife point was captured after a relative of the girl spotted his car, police said Tuesday. Damian Fernandez, 27, of North Hollywood is suspected of kidnapping the girl on May 6 from the 5200 block of Tujunga Avenue, where she was waiting for friends to pick her up, officials said. The girl fought her way out of the car, a Chrysler PT Cruiser The Chrysler PT Cruiser is a typically American "retro"-styled station wagon or hatchback built by Chrysler, launched in 2000 as the entry-level Chrysler. The PT Cruiser was on Car and Driver's , and the suspect drove away. - Daily News Man enters plea in taping of girl, 13 A 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 . photographer pleaded not guilty
Tuesday to secretly videotaping a 13-year-old model as she changed
clothes.
David Adkins, 56, is charged with a misdemeanor count of disorderly conduct disorderly conduct Conduct likely to lead to a disturbance of the public peace or that offends public decency. It has been held to include the use of obscene language in public, fighting in a public place, blocking public ways, and making threats. for the reported incident at his home on March 22, 2003. - City News Service Vector control increase sought VENTURA - Ventura County property owners will be asked to approve an assessment increase for the county's vector control program, which faces a $155,000 budget shortfall this year. Property owners will be asked in November to cast mail-in ballots on whether to increase the yearly assessment from $1.12 per parcel to $4, said Robert Gallagher, the county's director of environmental health. - Daily News Break-in suspect linked to others GLENDALE - A 17-year-old boy arrested Tuesday in a car break-in may be responsible for several other residential and vehicle burglaries in Glendale, police said. - City News Service 19 adult film stars deemed HIV-free Nineteen adult movie performers have been removed from a voluntary quarantine list almost a month earlier than expected following an HIV HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus), either of two closely related retroviruses that invade T-helper lymphocytes and are responsible for AIDS. There are two types of HIV: HIV-1 and HIV-2. HIV-1 is responsible for the vast majority of AIDS in the United States. outbreak that shook the multibillion-dollar porn industry and halted most film production, a nonprofit medical group announced Tuesday. Performers were initially told they would have to wait to resume work until at least June. Health care officials are now confident that the 19 performers are not HIV positive, said Sharon Mitchell, executive director of the Adult Industry Movie Healthcare Foundation, which provides testing for sexually transmitted diseases Sexually transmitted diseases Infections that are acquired and transmitted by sexual contact. Although virtually any infection may be transmitted during intimate contact, the term sexually transmitted disease is restricted to conditions that are largely for porn performers. - Associated Press |
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