Showing posts with label bail bonds in los angeles. Show all posts
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Sunday, April 24, 2011

5 People arrested for attempting to smuggle narcotics into Los Angeles County Jail, By Bail Bondsman in Los Angeles

Here at All American Bail Bonds we always strive to report stories that matter, the following new story was reported Late Saturday the 23, 2011. 

Please read the following story for further details.

Saturday April 23, 2011 11:12 PM PDT

Five people charged with attempting to smuggle narcotics into the LA Co jail - brothers, mother, others 
While investigating the case involving a convicted Pico Rivera murderer who tattooed his crime on his chest, Sheriff’s Homicide Sergeant Kevin Lloyd discovered yet another serious crime. 

Five suspects face felony charges of trying to smuggle heroin and methamphetamines into the Los Angeles County jail.  Arrested and/or charged for the drug offenses include convicted murderer Anthony Garcia, 25, his mother, brother and two other people.

On April 11, 2011, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office in Bellflower filed the case.  The five suspects have been charged with felony crimes associated with conspiracy to bring drugs into the jail system. 

That day (April 11), Sheriff’s Major Crimes Bureau detectives arrested Suspect John Garcia, as he left his Norwalk residence.  Suspect John Garcia is a gang member on parole and the brother of Anthony Garcia.  He is being held without bail permitted.

Suspect Vivian Garcia, is the 46-year old mother of Anthony and John Garcia, and a resident of Norwalk.  She was also arrested on April 11 when she went to Pico Rivera Sheriff’s Station to visit her newly arrested son.  She was released on April 12 on bond.

Suspect Manuel Bermudez, 32, a gang member and former resident of Downey is currently in state prison.  He has multiple felony convictions for narcotics and firearms offenses.

Suspect Cynthia Bermudez, the 29-year old girlfriend of Manuel Bermudez, was also arrested on April 11, at her residence in Huntington Park.  She was released on April 13 on $110,000.00 bond.

While awaiting trial in the unrelated Pico Rivera homicide case that was tattooed on his chest, Suspect Anthony Garcia allegedly conspired with the four other suspects to smuggle drugs into the county jail. 

Sheriff’s Homicide Detective Sergeant Lloyd discovered the alleged plot and worked with Sheriff’s Major Crimes Bureau Detective John Clark and other sheriff’s detectives to gather evidence in this case. 

Suspect Manuel Bermudez had been sentenced to four years in prison in an unrelated case.  He was due to turn himself in to court but his sentence had been delayed.  On June 10, 2010, he turned himself in at Norwalk Court, with four golf ball sized balloons of heroin and methamphetamine in his rectum.  Deputies had anticipated this and prevented the drugs from being brought into the jail system. Suspect Manuel was additionally charged with possession for sale of a controlled substance.  

Sheriff’s investigators delayed seeking a filing of this case with the District Attorney’s office, pending conclusion on the priority homicide case involving Anthony Garcia.

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Saturday, June 12, 2010

Arrested, Fired L.A. County worker arrested in tax fraud case, From Bail Bondsman in Los Angeles

Trang Van Dinh of Glendale was detained after returning from Vietnam. Accused of using welfare applicants' information to seek $2 million in bogus returns, he had been indicted on multiple counts.

Federal authorities this week arrested a former Los Angeles County worker who allegedly used the personal information of more than 150 welfare applicants to file nearly $2 million in fraudulent claims for tax refunds.

Trang Van Dinh, a 62-year-old resident of Glendale, worked for the county for a decade and filed the returns in a desperate attempt to pay gambling debts, county auditors said.

Dinh was arrested Monday as he returned from a trip to Vietnam, two months after a federal grand jury indicted him on 11 counts of making false claims to the Internal Revenue Service and 11 counts of identity theft. If convicted of all charges, Dinh could face a maximum of 220 years in federal prison.

His arrest comes months after Dinh was fired from his county job after acknowledging wrongdoing in an interview with county investigators, said Guy Zelenski, chief investigator for the county auditor-controller. County officials spoke to Dinh after IRS investigators notified them of their suspicions.

"He thought he could pay the IRS back and he would have no problems," Zelenski said.

The IRS investigation found that Dinh used the names, Social Security numbers and other identifying information of more than 150 people in his caseload to prepare the fraudulent tax returns.

Dinh filed his returns electronically and sought to have tax refunds sent directly to bank accounts he controlled, according to federal prosecutors.

The returns sought about $1.9 million in refunds from the IRS, which had paid about $1 million of the fraudulent claims before discovering something was amiss. Although bank officials were able to freeze some of the funds, IRS officials estimate that Dinh got about $650,000 in fraudulent refunds.

Despite Dinh's apparent admission to county officials last year, it took time before the U.S. attorney's office was able to win an indictment against him. In the interim he was able to leave the country to travel to Vietnam.

It was unclear when investigators gave the case to the U.S. attorney's office. Once filed, it required approval from officials in Washington before an indictment could be sought from the grand jury.

"The bottom line is that he left the country before he was charged, and we really don't have the ability to stop a person from leaving the country simply because they are suspected of fraudulent activity," Assistant U.S. Atty. Angela J. Davis said. "The government absolutely prioritized the case."

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Thursday, May 20, 2010

$65,000 Dollar Bail for Marion 'Suge' Knight being held on alleged assault, from Bail Bondsman in Los Angeles

Former rap impresario Marion "Suge” Knight was being held Thursday on $65,000 bail after the LAPD arrested him on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon, police officials said.

Knight, 45, was driving a white Cadillac Escalade when he was pulled over at 12:30 a.m. at 147th Street and Crenshaw Boulevard in Gardena.

Investigators said they began looking for Knight after another man accused him of robbery Wednesday night. The alleged altercation occurred in South Los Angeles
Gardena police detained him and handed him over to the LAPD for arrest.

In the course of their investigation, authorities learned he was driving with a suspended license and also arrested him on that charge.

The arrest was the latest in a long string of run-ins with police for the former head of Death Row records, the famed West Coast rap label.


In 1997, a judge sentenced Knight to nine years in prison for violating terms of probation from an earlier assault case.
He was released from prison in 2001 after serving less than five years but was sent back to jail in 2003 for violating parole when he hit a parking lot attendant.


Knight filed for bankruptcy in 2006, citing civil litigation against him. The following year, his Malibu mansion was put up for sale.

He was arrested in August 2008 in Las Vegas on charges of drug possession and aggravated assault. In February 2009, he pleaded guilty to misdemeanor battery. His plea allowed the dismissal of two felony drug charges and one felony coercion charge stemming from the 2008 incident.

Last year, he was implicated in the robbery of a producer for R&B singer and rapper Akon.

At this time it appears Knight has been released on bail, we will update the story as it relates to bail or the bail bonding industry.

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$120,000 Dollar Bail for LAPD detective accused of embezzling witness protection funds, From Bail Bondsman in Los Angeles

A veteran Los Angeles police detective has been charged with embezzling more than $30,000 in city funds that were supposed to be used to protect and relocate three witnesses to crimes in South Los Angeles.

Det. Leonard Avalos, 44, is expected to be arraigned next week on one charge of embezzlement by an officer and six felony counts of grand theft, authorities said Friday.

Avalos was taken into custody without incident Thursday by Los Angeles Police Department detectives while he was off duty in Placentia, LAPD Det. Gus Villanueva said.

LAPD investigators discovered the alleged theft in the fall of 2008 when they questioned some of the detective's accounts of the witness protection funds he had requested from the department, officials said.

At the time, Avalos was investigating assaults, including shootings, police said. In such cases, victims often fear for their safety and are willing to testify only if they are given money to move away from the location of the crime.

Avalos, a 17-year department veteran, could not produce receipts to verify that he had given the money to the witnesses, according to prosecutors.

Authorities said police questioned the three witnesses and learned that one had received $100, another had received $500 and the third received no city funds.

Police suspect that Avalos began pilfering the witness funds dispersed to him by the LAPD Fiscal Operations Division in February 2008.

The amounts he allegedly stole each month escalated, according to prosecutors. He is accused of stealing $6,000 in March 2008. Two months later, the amount increased to nearly $7,000; in June 2008 it topped out at more than $13,000, according to court documents.

Avalos was placed on home leave by the LAPD about a year ago, once the investigation revealed the extent of the missing funds.

If convicted, Avalos could face up to six years and four months in prison. On Friday, Avalos was in Men's Central Jail in lieu of $120,000 bail.

We will update the story as it relates to bail as we receive the bail information.

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Sunday, April 25, 2010

No Bail for man arrested in Little Armenia slaying, from Bail Bondsman in Los Angeles

Detectives are investigating whether a man suspected in the slaying of a family in Little Armenia stalked one of the victims, according to law enforcement sources.

Alberd Tersargyan of Los Angeles has been charged with killing one member of the family, but police said they believe he's responsible for all three slayings, which occurred over two years in the Hollywood area.

LAPD Capt. Kevin McClure said detectives recovered a weapon when they arrested Tersargyan on Thursday but declined to provide further details about the case. Tersargyan was charged with the special circumstance of lying in wait, which makes him subject to the death penalty.

The slayings stunned Little Armenia, in part because the family's teenage daughter discovered the bodies of her parents and younger sister.

On Dec. 11, 2008, a gunman burst into the family's Hollywood apartment and shot father Khachik Safaryan and his 8-year-old daughter. Safaryan's 12-year-old daughter came home from school that afternoon and found the bodies.

Eighteen months later, Safaryan's widow, Karine Hakobyan, 38, was found slumped in her car with a gunshot wound to the back of the head outside her apartment. The daughter, once again, discovered the body when she became worried that her mother had not returned home from work.

Tersargyan has been charged in Hakobyan's death, but it's unclear exactly what connected him to the case.

Sources told The Times that detectives are investigating reports that he was "obsessed" with Hakobyan and had spent some time stalking her. But the sources would not say whether the family knew the man or had earlier altercations with him.

Detectives have found no evidence that the family was involved in crime in either the United States or Armenia, from which they emigrated in 2003.

Safaryan worked as a butcher in Hollywood, and his wife was a patient-care service aide at Childrens Hospital Los Angeles.

After the father and daughter were killed, detectives struggled to identify a motive or suspects.

Several months after those slayings, the daughter who discovered the bodies drafted a letter to President Obama and other leaders, including Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, asking for help in solving the case. In the letter, which she had not yet sent, she recounted how the loss changed her family.

"I am hoping that you, Mr. President, will find time to put pressure ... to solve the hideous murder of my beloved sister and father." she wrote. "I still see the bloody bodies of my sister and my father as I found them that day."

She said that Dec. 11 "was an ordinary day for a lot of people; but for us this day was special" because her younger sister was set to present a poetry reading. "My whole family was excited. Unfortunately, this day was tragic."

She also wrote about the grim toll of the killings. "Our family is falling apart now," she wrote. "My grandparents are sick and depressed. My mother cannot cope with the loss of her husband and daughter. I am not in any better shape."

At this time the Defendant has no bail, as more information comes in, we will update the story as it relates to bail.

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