BRIEFLY.Red Cross holding benefit run/walk PALMDALE - The American Red Cross-Antelope Valley Chapter will hold a 5K walk/run at 9 a.m. Saturday at Pelona Vista Park, 37700 Tierra Subida Road. Awards will be given for the top three male and female finishers in the age categories of: 12 and under, 13-15, 16-18, 19-29, 30-39, 40-49, 59-59, and 60 and up. Pre-registration is $15. Registration the day of the event is $18. There will be a prize drawing, T-shirts and goodie good·ie n. Variant of goody1. bags for all participants. All proceeds go to the emergency services emergency services Emergency care '…services …necessary to prevent death or serious impairment of health and, because of the danger to life or health, require the use of the most accessible hospital available and equipped to furnish those services' program. For more information, call (661) 267-0650. - Daily News Pair sentenced for identity theft LANCASTER - A Lancaster ex-convict was sentenced to more than 15 years in prison and his girlfriend to five years after they admitted to identity theft and other charges, officials said. Christopher Trout, 44, who lived at a Sierra Highway Sierra Highway is a road in Southern California, United States. It runs from Tunnel Station near the north limit of the City of Los Angeles, where it intersects with San Fernando Road and Foothill Boulevard, as well as Interstate 5, and continues north to Mojave, mostly paralleling motel, pleaded no contest Tuesday to identity theft and transporting methamphetamine for sale. Tina Vanveen, 32, pleaded no contest to four counts of identity theft and three counts of forgery, Deputy District Attorney John Evans John Evans may refer to:
Trout was arrested Jan. 18 after deputies stopped his vehicle and discovered that he was a wanted parolee pa·rol·ee n. One who is released on parole. Noun 1. parolee - someone released on probation or on parole probationer , sheriff's officials said. In his car, deputies said they found methamphetamine and paperwork associated with identity theft. At his motel room, they found Vanveen making counterfeit identification on her computer. Vanveen was already wanted on an arrest warrant on suspicion of forgery and was on probation for theft, deputies said. Deputies seized computers, forged checks, stolen mail and identification cards in the names of at least 10 different people, a sheriff's statement said. Trout must serve at least 80 percent of his 15-year, four-month sentence because of his prior record, Evans said. Vanveen is eligible for parole after half her sentence if she works and exhibits good behavior Orderly and lawful action; conduct that is deemed proper for a peaceful and law-abiding individual. The definition of good behavior depends upon how the phrase is used. in prison. - Daily News Ex-convict found with pirated discs LANCASTER - A Lancaster ex-convict arrested 14 months ago with more than 1,800 pirated DVDs and CDs was arrested again after deputies stopped his vehicle for speeding and found marijuana and more than 300 DVDs and CDs. The deputies, who recognized Cary Calvin, 42, from his December 2003 arrest, also arrested his female companion, then went to his home and arrested his landlord for being an ex-convict with a loaded firearm firearm, device consisting essentially of a straight tube to propel shot, shell, or bullets by the explosion of gunpowder. Although the Chinese discovered gunpowder as early as the 9th cent., they did not develop firearms until the mid-14th cent. . Deputies said they found nearly 200 pirated DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. movies and 156 pirated CDs in Calvin's vehicle, and about 300 more DVDs in the garage at the Lancaster home were he was living, plus rock cocaine in his bedroom. Deputies from the Target Oriented Policing/Special Investigation Detail pulled Calvin over at 20th Street West and Lancaster Boulevard about noon Wednesday, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. a statement from the Lancaster sheriff's station. Calvin is on parole for a 2003 conviction for possession of marijuana for sale, to which he pleaded no contest in January 2004 in exchange for dismissal of the the DVD piracy charges, records show. He served about seven months of a 16-month state prison sentence, deputies said. He had been on probation for an earlier DVD piracy conviction when he was arrested in December 2003. - Daily News |
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