BRIEFLY.Burial fund set up for crash victim LANCASTER - A fund has been established to help pay for the burial of Brian McWright, the 16-year-old Lancaster boy fatally injured Saturday when a suspect driving a stolen motor home fleeing sheriff's deputies after a fatal crash struck a car full of young people. Donations can be made to the Brian McWright Fund at any Washington Mutual “WaMu” redirects here. For the Washington, DC radio station, see WAMU. Washington Mutual (or WaMu; NYSE: WM) is the United States' largest savings and loan association. Bank branch, his family said. The account number is 1854887925. The executor executor n. the person appointed to administer the estate of a person who has died leaving a will which nominates that person. Unless there is a valid objection, the judge will appoint the person named in the will to be executor. of the account is Brian Wallace. McWright was injured in a crash that also injured his older brother, a cousin and his brother's girlfriend. He was taken off life support Tuesday. Christopher Hall, 40, of Palmdale has been charged in the case. A fundraiser carwash for the McWright family will be held from 9 to 5 p.m. Saturday at Countrywide Homes, 117 Countryside Way, Lancaster. -Daily News Seven-year term for sex offender sex offender n. generic term for all persons convicted of crimes involving sex, including rape, molestation, sexual harassment and pornography production or distribution. LANCASTER - A sex offender accepted a seven-year prison term after he and his wife were found living in Lancaster under assumed names with fraudulent California driver's licenses and Social Security numbers. Donald Menephee, 40, accepted a plea bargain plea bargain n. in criminal procedure, a negotiation between the defendant and his attorney on one side and the prosecutor on the other, in which the defendant agrees to plead "guilty" or "no contest" to some crimes, in return for reduction of the severity of the and admitted to five felony charges, including identity theft, possessing counterfeit licenses, forgery forgery, in art forgery, in art, the false claim to authenticity for a work of art. The Nature of Forgery Because the provenance of works of art is seldom clear and because their origin is often judged by means of subtle factors, art , and violating the sex-offender registration law, sheriff's deputies said. Alua Menephee, 40, his wife, was put on five years of felony probation and ordered to complete 60 days of community service. The arrests were made by the Lancaster sheriff's station's Target Oriented Policing unit acting on a tip that the couple was living at an apartment in the 2000 block of West Avenue J-13. -Daily News 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. seller to serve 11 years LANCASTER - An ex-convict was sentenced to 11 years in state prison for selling pirated movie DVDs in a parking lot, sheriff's officials said. Rickey rick·ey n. pl. rick·eys A drink of soda water, lime or lemon juice, sugar, and usually gin. [Probably from the name Rickey.] Noun 1. Orise, 49, of Lancaster, turned down a plea bargain that would have put him behind bars for three years and was convicted in a trial, deputies said. Because Orise already had two convictions counted under the state's ``three strikes, you're out'' law, he was liable for a longer sentence, sheriff's officials said. Orise was arrested with more than 150 pirated movies in November 2004 at a parking lot at Division Street and Avenue J, deputies said. -Daily News |
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