Monday, January 25, 2010

Relative of state insurance commissioner charged with embezzlement, insurance fraud, from Bail Bondsman in Los Angeles



Los Angeles County prosecutors have charged an auto insurance claims adjustor related to state Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner with 60 counts of embezzlement and auto insurance fraud.

Paul Daniel Poizner, an adjustor for California Casualty Management and the second cousin of the Republican gubernatorial candidate, pleaded not guilty today to charges in connection with a scheme in which he allegedly submitted checks for auto claims in excess of the amount required for repairs and pocketed the difference.

In all, prosecutors allege that Paul Poizner stole $300,000, said Jane Robison, a spokeswoman for the Los Angeles County district attorney's office.

Poizner, 45, was arrested without incident Thursday morning at his Ventura County home by investigators with the district attorney's Insurance Fraud Bureau of Investigation and was being held on more than $294,000 bail. Authorities said he is expected post bail later today.

The scheme was uncovered during a company audit of auto damage claims that were submitted between May 2008 and February 2009, according to the criminal complaint filed by L.A. County prosecutors.

Darrel Ng, a spokesman for the state insurance commissioner, said California Casualty Management informed prosecutors and his office about their findings in March. After being told the identity of the suspect, the insurance commissioner immediately recused himself from the investigation.

Paul Poizner is due back in court Feb. 5 for a preliminary hearing.

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$2,107,500 Dollar Bail for Driver arrested for Hit and Run and Felony DUI, from Bail Bondsman in La Verne


Two women were killed early this morning in La Verne after the driver of the car they were riding in fled the scene of a hit-and-run and crashed into a tree, authorities said.


Alan McConnell, 27, was with two women in a 2000 Pontiac when he struck a car near Foothill Boulevard and Damien Avenue about 12:45 a.m., La Verne Police Lt. Nick Paz said. McConnell then fled east on Foothill and hit a tree in the median of the road near Wheeler Avenue, less than a half-mile away.

Officers found McConnell inside the car, dazed but with no apparent injuries. He was arrested and charged with murder, felony DUI and hit-and-run, Paz said.

One of the female passengers was pronounced dead at the scene. The other passenger was taken to Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center where she later died. The names and ages of the victims are being withheld, pending family notification, an L.A. County coroner's official said.

The L.A. County coroner’s office has identified the women as Telassie Dague, 22, and Renee Hardy, 20, both of Alta Loma.

No other injuries were reported.

McConnell has multiple arrests within the last few months, we will update the story as it changes relating to bail.

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Thursday, January 21, 2010

Dan Weast, Montebello police chief steps down after law suit filed by felow officers, from Bail Bondsman in Montebello


The police chief in Montebello has stepped down amid a $30-million legal battle with officers over alleged discrimination and retaliation, officials said this week.

Dan Weast was placed on administrative leave in December after a legal complaint filed in late October accused the police chief of “promoting individuals who are ‘friends,’ as opposed to qualified minority candidates,” particularly from an alleged "all White Group" within the police force known as Mahan’s Marauders.

Interim City Manager Randy Narramore put Weast on administrative leave Dec. 14.

“I received a call from his attorney that said he would like to retire, and we honored the contract," Narramore said. "The city council has given me direction to bring in an interim chief. I am negotiating with one now.”

The Montebello Police Officers Assn. in August issued a 90% vote of no confidence in the police chief. Weast once headed the association.
Narramore said he is in talks with the plaintiffs’ attorney to reach a settlement. The police officers originally asked for $30 million in damages, but the figure has been reduced to less than a quarter of that amount, said Daniel Hitzke, an attorney for the officers.

“We’re very encouraged by the new city council and the new city administrator. We’re very excited to have this matter put behind us,” Hitzke said.

Attorney Rob Wexler, who is representing Weast in his retirement talks with the city, called the lawsuit "baseless."

Mayor Bill Molinari said he had criticized the chief’s qualifications and the lack of an open selection process. Unlike most police chiefs in the area, Molinari said, Weast did not have a college degree and held a high school general equivalency diploma.

Molinari said morale in the department had slowly worsened under Weast’s watch.

“You cannot have this kind of a disruptive environment in law enforcement,” Molinari said. “These are men and women who put their lives on the line on a daily basis.”

Councilwoman Kathy Salazar said Weast had done an admirable job as police chief and that his departure was not handled as she would have liked.

“I didn't think he had to be put on administrative leave before Christmas,” Salazar said. “I'm sorry to see him go.”

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Wednesday, January 20, 2010

No Bail Hold for Parolee "Stun Gun Bandit" arrested in Los Angeles, from Bail Bondsman in Los Angeles


A 68-year-old paroled bank robber dubbed the "stun gun bandit" has been arrested after allegedly robbing the bank where he had an account, Los Angeles police said today.

Lester Robert Evans, 68, was arrested after LAPD investigators said they found evidence in his skid row apartment that helped tie him to a December boutique robbery. In that crime, Evans was captured on video shocking the young clerk with a stun gun, said LAPD Lt. Paul Vernon.

“We had a feeling this guy would surface eventually,” Vernon said. “It just turns out he decided to rob a bank where he had his own account.”

Police were called Tuesday to the Bank of the West branch at 2nd and San Pedro streets in downtown L.A. after it was robbed by “a white man in his 60s,” authorities said. Within minutes, officers had come up with the name of Evans, a local man who was on parole for bank robbery.

Detectives verified Evans was on parole and went to his apartment in the 400 block of East 7th Street on skid row. Detectives searched the apartment and seized evidence that linked the parolee to the bank robbery, as well as the boutique robbery, police said. Evans was booked for the bank robbery and held without bail for a parole violation.

Evans shows a $70,000 Dolllar bail but because he's on Parole there is a mandatory hold placed on him.
We will update the story as it changes relating to bail.

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Monday, January 11, 2010

$100,000 Dollar Bail for suspected serial carjacker, from Bail Bondsman in Van Nuys


Los Angeles police on Sunday arrested a man who threatened several residents in the San Fernando Valley and stole two vehicles over the weekend.

Police arrested Tyreese Basey, 31, of Los Angeles at a laundromat in Van Nuys this afternoon. They found a Black Ford Explorer in the parking lot that had been taken in a carjacking Saturday.

Police believe that Basey attempted to steal a car in the 7000 block of Calhoun Avenue in Van Nuys about 5:15 a.m. Saturday. He was unsuccessful.

Thirty minutes later, the suspect allegedly carjacked a vehicle in the parking lot of a doughnut shop two miles away, near Victory Boulevard and Fulton Avenue.

The man crashed the vehicle into a tree about 6:20 a.m. near the Skirball Cultural Center, police said. The air bag was deployed and the vehicle rolled over, but the suspect was able to climb out through the sunroof. He is believed to have sustained injuries.

The suspect then entered the home of a couple in their 90s in the 3300 block of Red Rose Drive in Encino, police said. He demanded car keys, but the couple managed to push him outside and lock the door. About 6:45 a.m., he was chased out of a nearby backyard by a homeowner.

By 8:15 a.m., the suspect was in the 3600 block of Sapphire Drive, where he stole a black Ford Explorer with the license plate 4WVP668, police said.

Police believe the man was reacting to an earlier incident or in a state of personal crisis. “He was not just a criminal, but a desperate and reckless criminal,” LAPD Capt. John Egan of the West Valley station said in a statement.

Basey was booked into Van Nuys jail on various charges, including robbery and carjacking. Basey's current bail is $100,000 we will update the story as it changes relating to bail.

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Thursday, January 7, 2010

$100,000 Dollar Bail for O.C. Mechanic Hector Medina accused of setting fire to transient, from Bail Bondsman in Orange County


A Santa Ana auto mechanic was arrested on January 2 and arraigned on Tuesday on charges of setting a transient and his possessions on fire after dousing the victim's shopping cart with gasoline.

Hector Manuel Medina, 32, is charged with one felony count of arson causing great bodily injury, according to the Orange County district attorney's office.

Medina, a mechanic at Santa Ana Firestone Complete Auto Care, allegedly confronted 64-year-old transient Ruben Sandoval in the alley behind the auto shop on Sunday. Medina apparently was angered because he had previously found the transient sleeping in his car on a rainy day, said Farrah Emami, a spokeswoman for the district attorney's office.

After spotting Sandoval, Medina allegedly took a gas canister from the garage, approached the victim and his shopping cart, and doused the cart with gasoline, some of which splashed onto Sandoval, Emami said.

Medina then allegedly set the cart on fire with a match, but the flames jumped and set the victim's beard on fire. Sandoval attempted to put out the flames with his hands, Emami said.

Sandoval suffered second and third-degree burns to his body, face, and hands. The contents of his cart, which included clothing, blankets and food, were destroyed.

Medina allegedly fled the area but was arrested soon after near his home, Emami said. If convicted, he faces a maximum sentence of 14 years in state prison. Medina is being held on $100,000 bail.

At this time Medina is still being held in the Orange County Mens Jail in Santa Ana. We will update the story as it relates to bail as we receive information.

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$10,000 dollar Bail for Reagans grandson arrested in Van Nuys, from Bail Bondsman in Van Nuys


Former President Reagan’s grandson is in jail this morning after police arrested him at his parents’ house in Van Nuys, Los Angeles Police Department officials said.

Cameron Reagan, 31, was arrested on suspicion of resisting arrest, a misdemeanor, and is being held in lieu of $10,000 bail at Van Nuys Jail, said LAPD Officer Bruce Borihanh.

Officers responded to a panic button call on the 4700 block of Allot Avenue about 12:20 a.m. and found Reagan exiting a rear door. He was drinking and “very uncooperative,” Borihanh said. Police did not know who was home at the time or who pushed the panic button.

Reagan's father, Michael, said his son did not know that he had tripped an alarm when he arrived home with friends early this morning. When Cameron Reagan heard a commotion outside, he went outside and found the house surrounded by police, Michael Reagan said, according to the Associated Press.

Michael Reagan, who no longer lives in the home, said the alarm goes directly to the police station. “They surround the house with police cars because of who we are,” he told the AP, adding that his son did not understand what was happening and panicked. “There was a lot of misunderstanding at 1 a.m.”]

Cameron Reagan has had previous brushes with the law. In 2001, a judge ordered him to attend drug rehab and anger management after he was found with marijuana. In 1999, he was convicted of receiving stolen property. Earlier, he was convicted of vandalism.

Reagan has suffered from attention-deficit disorder since childhood, which attorneys in 2001 said caused him to drop out of college and made him unable to hold a job. At one point, according to court documents, Reagan was destitute and living on the streets.

Reagan is the son of Michael and Colleen Reagan. Michael Reagan, the adopted son of the former president and his first wife, Jane Wyman, is a nationally syndicated talk radio host and a Fox News contributor.

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