BRIEFLY.Crash on freeway kills truck driver WESTLAKE - A 48-year-old man was killed Wednesday afternoon when his Dodge pickup truck overturned on the northbound Ventura Freeway, the California Highway Patrol reported. Stuart Seidner was approaching Westlake Boulevard when the fatal accident took place at 3:35 p.m., a CHP CHP Chapter CHP Combined Heat and Power CHP California Highway Patrol CHP Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi (Turkish: Republican People's Party) CHP Chemical Hygiene Plan (OSHA) CHP Community Health Plan dispatcher Software that determines what pending tasks should be done next and assigns the available resources to accomplish it. It may execute other programs or generate a list for human operators to follow. See scheduler. said. Seidner's hometown was not available. Another motorist in a Mercedes was involved, but the CHP could not provide more details. - Daily News Premiums' theft linked to manA 33-year-old Simi Valley man was charged with grand theft and forgery after he allegedly stole more than $13,000 in insurance premium payments, officials said Wednesday. The charges filed by the Ventura County District Attorney's Office were announced Wednesday by the California Department of Insurance The California Department of Insurance (CDI), established in 1868, is the angency charged with overseeing the regulation of insurance regulations, enforcing statutes mandating consumer protections, educating consumers, and fostering the stability of insurance markets in the state . The charges follow an investigation by the department and the Simi Valley Police Department The Simi Valley Police Department (SVPD) is the police department of the city of Simi Valley, California. The department currently has over 120 sworn officers, and more than 65 support personnel[1]. The department has a patrol area that covers over 39 square miles. of Andrew John Hulit between January 1999 and August 2001 when he worked at an Agoura Hills insurance brokerage firm. ``It was determined that Hulit diverted $13,602.91 in fiduciary funds for his own personal use,'' Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi's office said in a statement released Wednesday. - Daily News Rapist sentenced to 25-year term THOUSAND OAKS _ A 29-year-old man was sentenced Wednesday to 25 years to life in prison for raping a 33-year-old Thousand Oaks woman he attacked as she was hiking alone in Triunfo Canyon Park in 1998. As she was walking along a hiking trail in the popular park in Thousand Oaks near the Westlake Village border, Cesar Antonio Gonzalez grabbed her from behind and put a knife to her throat, prosecutors said. The attacker dragged the victim down a steep embankment into some thick brush, where he he raped her at knifepoint knife·point n. The sharp end of a knife. Idiom: at knifepoint Under threat of being stabbed or cut with a knife: was mugged at knifepoint. . Although Gonzalez fled to Mexico, he returned to the United States and allegedly raped another woman at gunpoint in North Carolina in 2001, prosecutors said.He was linked to the Thousand Oaks case through DNA DNA: see nucleic acid. DNA or deoxyribonucleic acid One of two types of nucleic acid (the other is RNA); a complex organic compound found in all living cells and many viruses. It is the chemical substance of genes. samples and convicted by a Ventura County jury Jan. 31, officials said. He still faces charges in the North Carolina case. - Daily News Gangs blamed in teen's death A 16-year-old boy was killed in an apparent gang-related shooting while standing in front of his home in an unincorporated area near Watts, authorities said Wednesday. The shooting was reported about 11:30 p.m. Tuesday in the 1300 block of East 94th Street, near South Central Avenue, said Los Angeles County sheriff's Deputy Ban Nguyen. The boy was identified Wednesday as Travon Rippetoe of Los Angeles, said Capt. Ed Winter of the coroner's office. The teen, who was shot in the back, was pronounced dead at a hospital. The shooter remained at large on Wednesday. - City News Service Aunt sentenced in prostitution A Russian woman who brought her then-18-year-old niece into the United States and forced her into prostitution in Los Angeles and Las Vegas was sentenced Wednesday to 21 months in federal prison. Alena Okhotina, 35, who lived in West Los Angeles
- City News Service Surgeon charged in smuggling smuggling, illegal transport across state or national boundaries of goods or persons liable to customs or to prohibition. Smuggling has been carried on in nearly all nations and has occasionally been adopted as an instrument of national policy, as by Great Britain BEVERLY HILLS - A plastic surgeon has been charged with conspiring to smuggle illegal silicone breast implants into the country for use by his patients. Dr. Frederic H. Corbin, 62, was indicted INDICTED, practice. When a man is accused by a bill of indictment preferred by a grand jury, he is said to be indicted. by a federal grand jury in February and could face up to 10 years in prison if he is convicted of conspiracy and falsifying fal·si·fy v. fal·si·fied, fal·si·fy·ing, fal·si·fies v.tr. 1. To state untruthfully; misrepresent. 2. a. patients' records. Trial was set for May 2, but prosecutors on Wednesday filed a motion to continue the case to October, U.S. Attorney's Office spokesman Thom Mrozek said. Attorney Drew Cicconi denied that his client created false records and blamed the allegations on a disgruntled dis·grun·tle tr.v. dis·grun·tled, dis·grun·tling, dis·grun·tles To make discontented. [dis- + gruntle, to grumble (from Middle English gruntelen; see former employee. Court documents allege that Corbin began using banned implants as early as 1996. He allegedly imported some from Tijuana, Mexico. - Associated Press |
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