PARCEL DELIVERY DRIVER TO SERVE TIME IN THEFTS.Byline: Karen Maeshiro Staff Writer LANCASTER - A former Federal Express contract driver - a decorated Gulf War veteran - was sentenced Thursday to six months in jail and placed on five years' probation for taking $16,000 worth of packages he was supposed to deliver. Russell Carnes, 29, of Palmdale was accused of taking home packages he was supposed to deliver around the Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley and giving some to his own family. The goods, taken during October and November, ranged from office supplies Office supplies is the generic term that refers to all supplies regularly used in offices by businesses and other organizations, from private citizens to governments, who works with the collection, refinement, and output of information (colloquially referred to as "paper work"). to firefighting gear and Christmas presents. ``He was ordered to pay restitution. The exact amount is going to be determined by the probation officer probation officer n. 1. An official usually attached to a juvenile court and charged with the care of juvenile delinquents. 2. An official charged with supervising convicts at large on suspended sentence or probation. working with Federal Express,'' Deputy District Attorney Rouman Ebrahim said. Carnes is a U.S. Army veteran who earned a Bronze Star for heroism during the Gulf War, but was discharged from the Army after a theft conviction, his defense attorney said. Carnes said he took the packages home intending to deliver them later, Deputy Public Defender public defender, governmental official who represents indigent persons accused of crime. U.S. Supreme Court decisions expanding the right to counsel to pretrial proceedings and holding that a person cannot be sentenced to even one day in jail unless a lawyer was Manuel Martinez said. It looked good to Carnes' supervisors for him to finish his delivery route quickly, Martinez said. ``He stored things in boxes. He was not giving it away or selling it,'' Martinez said. ``He never intended to steal.'' Carnes, who pleaded no contest in December to grand theft embezzlement embezzlement, wrongful use, for one's own selfish ends, of the property of another when that property has been legally entrusted to one. Such an act was not larceny at common law because larceny was committed only when property was acquired by a "felonious taking," i. , also is subject to a search and seizure search and seizure In law enforcement, an exploratory investigation of a premises or a person and the taking into custody of property or an individual in the interest of gaining evidence of unlawful activity or guilt. condition, meaning he has to submit to searches by any law enforcement officer with or without a warrant, Ebrahim said. The defendant did not make a statement to the court during his sentencing, but submitted a letter saying he wants to get his life back together, Ebrahim said. Prompted by an internal FedEx investigation, sheriff's detectives arrested Carnes on Dec. 21 in his delivery van. He didn't stop when patrol cars turned on their lights, but drove into a warehouse where he bumped into a sheriff's patrol car that blocked him in, deputies said. Deputies said they recovered about $6,000 worth of stolen property at two Palmdale homes. Carnes was in the process of moving from one to the other. Among the recovered items were firefighting clothing belonging to the U.S. Forest Service, books bound for St. Andrew's Abbey St. Andrew's Abbey is a Benedictine monastery of men located in Valyermo, California. In 1929, St. Andrew's Abbey in Bruges, Belgium founded St. Andrew's Priory in China. Until 1953, the monks of St. Andrew's Priory conducted missionary work among the Chinese. in Valyermo, about 50 video and computer games, and an ultraviolet measuring meter that was supposed to be delivered to Edwards Air Force Base Edwards Air Force Base, U.S. military installation, 301,000 acres (121,805 hectares), S Calif., NE of Lancaster; est. 1933. It is one of the largest air force bases in the United States and has the world's longest runway. . Deputies said Federal Express officials got calls from Carnes' relatives wondering about Federal Express boxes he had given them. Federal Express security agents checked items loaded onto Carnes' truck and found that some disappeared without being delivered, deputies said. |
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