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Tuesday, July 20, 2010

No Bail for Lindsay Lohan, she has been sentenced to 14 days in Los Angeles County Jail in Lynwood, From Bail Bondsman in Los Angeles and Lynwood

                                                        Lindsay Lohan is expected to be released from a Lynwood jail on Aug. 2, serving only 14 days of her 90-day sentence, according to a Sheriff's Department booking document.

The information listed on the public website is based on a an approximate time based on the severity of her charges and previous criminal history.Some news agencies have reported the normal amount of time is approximately 25%, but in our experience the norm is about 10%.
The booking document lists Aug. 2 as the "projected release date." A Sheriff's Department spokesman could not immediately reached for comment. It's possible Lohan could serve more time because judge ruled out work release or electronic monitoring in the probation-violation case.

[Updated, 3:10 p.m.: Sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore said Lohan could possibly serve only 13 days in jail instead of 14.

"Her projected release date is Aug. 1 or Aug. 2," he said, explaining that information initially posted on the sheriff's inmate information website was based on one 30-day sentence because a clerk missed Lohan's other two 30-day sentences.

The website was changed to reflect Lohan serving 51 days after factoring in time for good behavior. As a nonviolent female inmate, Lohan is eligible to serve only about 25% of the 51 days because of overcrowding, which brings the final figure to 13 or 14 days, Whitmore said.]

Officials said Lohan was completely cooperative when she was looked into the Century Regional Detention Facility on Tuesday morning.

After the booking, Lohan entered the jail's triage, where she was to receive a standard medical and psychological evaluation, Sheriff's Department spokesman Steve Whitmore told media members gathered outside the jail.


State guidelines for handling prisoners would apply to the actress, although "people with notoriety are kept away" from the general jail population for security purposes, he said.

At the Beverly Hills courthouse where Lohan surrendered shortly after 8:30 a.m. to begin serving her time, her attorney, Shawn Chapman Holley, said the actress had completed court-ordered alcohol education classes and accepted her jail term.

"She is scared, as anyone would be, but she is resolute," Holley said. "She asks for prayers and support. ... She has accepted responsibility."

Although earlier there had been confusion over which attorney would represent Lohan in court, Holley said Robert Shapiro, who at one point had said he was Lohan's new attorney, was only a consultant to the actress.

Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Judge Marsha Revel last month sentenced Lohan to 90 days in jail for violating probation on a drunk-driving conviction.

Deputy Dist. Atty, Danette Meyers, who prosecuted Lohan, said the sentence was "was appropriate in this case."

"The message to the public is don't drink and drive," she said. "If you do drink and drive, and you're punished for it, complete the programs."

-- Richard Winon

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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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$100,000 Dollar Bail for Lindsay Lohan but she won't be arrested when she returns to Los Angeles, from Bail Bondsman in Los Angeles

Actress Lindsay Lohan won't be arrested when she returns to the United States, despite an arrest warrant issued Thursday by a Beverly Hills judge.

Steve Whitmore, a Sheriff's Department spokesman, said Lohan's representatives have posted 10% of the $100,000 bond, and so the arrest warrant was recalled.

"She will not be arrested when she comes back into United States," Whitmore said.

On Thursday, Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Marsha Revel slammed Lohan for failing to appear in court.

"Actions speak louder than words. I’ve heard the best words in the world, but the actions are far more important," Revel said. "She has a history of not keeping scheduled appointments.... I couldn’t have been more clear about the priority of this case and getting things done."

Revel issued the warrant for Lohan after she failed to appear because she is still in France. Lohan, through her attorney, claimed to be stuck in Cannes after her passport was stolen and skipped the mandatory appearance for a probation hearing for a 2007 intoxication conviction.

Revel said Lohan should have either skipped the Cannes trip or made sure she was back in L.A. two days before the hearing.

Bail has been posted on Lindsays warrant, we will update the information on her case as we receive it.

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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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Wednesday, May 12, 2010

LAPD officer pleads guilty to misdemeanor assault in Texas, From Bail Bondsman in Los Angeles

A Los Angeles police officer charged in Texas for allegedly forcing himself on a motel employee while she was retrieving a crib for his infant was placed on two years' probation after pleading guilty to misdemeanor assault, authorities said Wednesday.

As a condition of the plea deal, Silvio Sam Filipovich, 44, quit the LAPD and agreed not to reapply as a police officer in California or anywhere else.

"He had a history of hiding behind his uniform," said Mark Pryor, who prosecuted the case for the Travis County district attorney's office. "It was important to us, as the prosecuting authority, and the victim, that he [Filipovich] never be allowed to be a police officer again

Filipovich was on extended leave from the LAPD at the time of the April 2009 incident at the Mountain Star Lodge just outside Austin.

Authorities said the 22-year LAPD veteran, who was staying at the motel with his wife and child, asked the woman to retrieve a crib for the baby. He then allegedly pushed her into a closet and tried to fondle her before she fought him off. Prosecutors originally charged Filipovich with attempted sexual assault.

Filipovich had a history of misconduct allegations at the time of his arrest, according to records obtained by The Times.

The records dating to 1995 indicated LAPD officials had recommended discipline of more than 100 days for Filipovich's alleged offenses, including trying to improperly convert an on-duty contact into a social relationship, making a discourteous remark and being discourteous during traffic stops.

Department officials also alleged that while Filipovich was off duty, he inappropriately exposed himself in a public place. It was unclear from the records what, if any, discipline he received.

Filipovich could not be reached for comment.

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Tuesday, May 11, 2010

L.A. County Sheriff's Department looks into misconduct allegations, Reviewed by Bail Bondsman in Los Angeles

The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department is investigating allegations of misconduct by deputies involved in a drug case that was dismissed last week after records appeared to contradict their account of a drug possession arrest.

Prosecutors said the inconsistencies prompted them to drop a felony charge Wednesday against Tatiana Anjuli Lopez, 26. Lopez's attorney filed court records accusing the deputies of lying about her arrest and seeking to have her prosecuted in retaliation for her filing a complaint against them.

Lopez and her fiancé were arrested in Downey on Oct. 7 on suspicion of being under the influence of drugs.

In an arrest report, Deputy Francisco Enriquez said he drove Lopez in his patrol car to the department's Century Station in Lynwood. When she got out of his car, Enriquez wrote, he noticed a plastic bag containing nine bags of methamphetamine on the floor near where Lopez had been sitting.

But radio communications show that a different deputy told dispatchers that he was transporting Lopez to the station, according to court documents filed by Lopez's attorney, Thomas E. Beck.

"The crime report was deliberately falsified," Beck said. "The whole case was fabricated against my client."

The district attorney's office initially declined to file charges against Lopez, concluding that there was not enough evidence. But prosecutors later charged her with possession for sale of a controlled substance after deputies wrote new reports that provided more details about the night of the arrest.

Those reports were written Nov. 17, a day after Beck said he and Lopez met with a sheriff's lieutenant to discuss a misconduct complaint she had filed against the deputies.

"It was blatant retaliation," Beck said. "They circled the wagons to cover up the behavior."

Sheriff's Chief William McSweeney, who heads the detective division, said a preliminary review conducted several months ago found no dishonesty by the deputies.

McSweeney said the deputy who contacted dispatchers about transporting Lopez did so on behalf of Enriquez as they drove in patrol cars to the station. The chief also disputed the allegation that deputies retaliated against Lopez, saying the additional reports were written after a prosecutor told sheriff's officials he needed more details about the drug arrest before he could file charges.

Nonetheless, he said the department would investigate the details of the arrest but warned against jumping to conclusions.

"From what we currently know, our deputies acted honorably," McSweeney said. "Accusations from defense attorneys are part of the law enforcement environment."

Michael Gennaco, chief attorney in the sheriff's Office of Independent Review, which oversees discipline of deputies, said the department was opening an internal affairs investigation.

"We'll move forward in an aggressive way to get to the bottom of it," he said.

Mark Ashen, the deputy in charge of the district attorney's Downey area office, said he plans to review the case to determine whether it should be referred to the district attorney's division that handles criminal prosecutions of police officers.

"There seems to be an inconsistency there," he said, "but as to whether it was intentional or not or what the circumstances are, we don't know at this point."

Lopez was a student at Cerritos College and had no criminal record when she was arrested.

Her fiancé, Miguel Amarillas, 27, who said he once associated with a gang, was twice incarcerated, the first time for robbery in 2000 and the second for assault in 2007, according to prison records. He worked checking cables on oil rigs for a company in Long Beach.

On the evening of their arrest, Lopez and Amarillas were driving to her parents' house in South Gate to pick up her 5-year-old son when they stopped for gas near their home in Downey. Lopez said deputies suddenly appeared in two patrol cars and ordered them out.

Enriquez, who was assigned to a narcotics strike team, wrote in his report that he stopped the pair after seeing Amarillas' gold 1993 Lexus driving dangerously on Imperial Highway.

Enriquez said he spoke to the couple and noticed that Lopez was speaking rapidly and sweating, even though the night was cool. He suspected that she and Amarillas were on drugs, and the couple were taken to the sheriff's station in separate patrol cars.

After he dropped Lopez off, Enriquez wrote, he and other deputies searched the couple's home, where he found another bag with drugs in a bedroom dresser. The bag, he wrote, contained the same distinctive insignia as the bags found in the patrol car.

Enriquez said he gave Lopez and Amarillas a chance to provide a urine sample for a drug test, but they refused.

Lopez and Amarillas tell a very different story.

The couple said they were never asked to take a urine test and that they had not used drugs and did not possess any. Lopez accused the deputies of trying to pressure her into saying that the drugs belonged to her fiancé and said a deputy threatened to have her son removed.

Lopez was jailed for two days before she was released without charges, according to court records. Amarillas was also eventually released without charges.

Lopez said the episode left her traumatized and that she has had trouble sleeping since then.

"I'd seen it in the movies, but never in a million years did I think it would happen to me," Lopez said.

After Lopez was charged, her attorney sought radio communications and other records of deputies involved in the arrest. A sheriff's detective said in a report that he twice inquired about the records and was told there were none.

But Beck sent a subpoena directly to the Sheriff's Department, which provided the radio recordings and other records that he said confirmed his client's account.

On Wednesday, Lopez stood in a Downey courtroom next to her attorney as a prosecutor told Superior Court Commissioner Burt Barnett that the district attorney's office was dropping the case.

"Good idea," Barnett replied.

richard.winton@latimes.com

jack.leonard@latimes.com
Copyright © 2010, The Los Angeles Times

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Monday, February 8, 2010

Bailed Out-Conrad Robert Murray, from Bail Bondsman in Los Angeles

Michael Jackson’s personal physician entered a plea of not guilty Monday afternoon at a standing-room-only arraignment attended by Jackson’s parents and several siblings.

Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Keith L. Schwartz set bail for Conrad Murray at $75,000 – three times the standard for involuntary manslaughter cases. The judge also forbade Murray from prescribing heavy sedatives, including propofol, to his patients.

“I don’t want you sedating people,” the judge told Murray.

Murray, dressed in a light gray suit, remained silent throughout the hearing, other than to answer "yes" in a soft voice several times when the judge asked if he understood the terms of his bail and the rights he waived. At the conclusion of the hearing, Murray was taken into custody by sheriff’s deputies and escorted from the courtroom.

Earlier Monday, prosecutors charged Murray with involuntary manslaughter in connection with administering a combination of surgical anesthetic and sedatives blamed in the music legend’s death last summer.

In the last hours of his life, Jackson was given a powerful anesthetic -- propofol -- at a level equivalent to what would be used in “major surgery” and in a manner that did not live up to medical standards, according to the singer’s autopsy report released by the L.A County coroner’s office today.

The complaint filed by the county district attorney’s office alleges that Murray “did unlawfully and without malice kill Michael Joseph Jackson, a human being, in the commission of an unlawful act not amounting to a felony; and in the commission of a lawful act which might have produced death, in an unlawful manner, and without due caution and circumspection.”

Jackson’s parents, Kathryn and Joe, as well as some of his brothers arrived at the courthouse shortly after the charge was filed.

In a news release, the district attorney’s office said Deputy Dist. Atty. David Walgren, a prosecutor in the major crimes division, would try the case. Walgren is also handling the attempt to extradite movie director Roman Polanski to face sentencing in a 3-decade-old child-sex case.

The release credited the LAPD and the county coroner’s office for building the case against Murray. "Both agencies worked diligently and exhaustively to collect the evidence leading to the filing of the case,” the statement said.

Murray walked into the courthouse at 12:55 p.m. to shouts of “murderer” from a handful of Jackson fans whose presence was dwarfed by an international contingent of media that began camping out at the courthouse last week.

Brian Oxman, Joe Jackson’s attorney, said some family members were disappointed that the physician was charged only with involuntary manslaughter.

The criminal case comes after a seven-month investigation that stretched from the master bedroom of Jackson’s rented Holmby Hills mansion to the heart clinic that Murray ran in a poor neighborhood of Houston. The focus, however, rarely left Murray.

Within weeks of Jackson’s death, detectives described the doctor as a manslaughter suspect in court papers that said he admitted leaving the singer alone and under the influence of propofol -- used to render surgical patients unconscious -- in a bedroom of the sprawling home.

The coroner’s office ruled Jackson’s death a homicide and said the cause was “acute propofol intoxication” in conjunction with the effect of other sedatives Murray acknowledged providing.

Despite the almost immediate focus on Murray -- authorities first questioned him in the hospital where doctors were working in vain to revive Jackson -- the multiagency probe that included federal and local investigators progressed slowly, and the doctor was not formally accused of wrongdoing until the district attorney’s office filed its complaint.

Involuntary manslaughter is the least serious homicide charge available to prosecutors, its maximum punishment of four years in prison far less than the life sentence for murder or the 11 years for voluntary manslaughter. The charge, which applies to an unlawful killing committed without malice or intent to kill, turns on Murray’s possible negligence in allegedly giving Jackson propofol for an unapproved purpose -- the treatment of insomnia -- and outside of the normal operating-room setting.

The drug, one of the most widely used general anesthetics in the nation, is so dangerous that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration says only those trained in anesthesia should administer it.

Murray told police that he had been giving Jackson nightly intravenous doses of propofol for six weeks, about the time he began working for the performer, according to police affidavits filed in court. Murray, who was in debt and behind on child support payments, earned $150,000 a month treating Jackson and closed practices he operated in Las Vegas, where he lived, and Houston to join the performer in Los Angeles for rehearsals.

According to the affidavits, Jackson told the physician that for years other doctors had treated his chronic insomnia with doses of propofol, a white liquid the singer called “milk.”

Murray eventually became concerned that the singer was addicted and tried to wean him off the anesthetic, according to the affidavits. The day Jackson died, Murray had tried to get the performer to sleep using Valium and, later, two other sedatives, according to the affidavits. But Jackson remained awake for 10 hours, demanding propofol.

According to the affidavits, Murray said he relented and sat next to Jackson’s bed as the propofol took effect. He told police he left for two minutes to use the restroom, and cellphone records indicate he also talked on the phone for 45 minutes, according to the affidavits. When he returned, Jackson was not breathing.

Through his attorney, Murray has maintained his innocence and said he did nothing that should have caused Jackson’s death. In his only public comment -- a one-minute video released in August through his lawyer -- a somber-looking Murray expressed confidence that he would be exonerated.

“I told the truth, and I have faith the truth will prevail,” he said.

-- Harriet Ryan and Victoria Kim in Los Angeles; Jack Leonard and Richard Winton at the Airport Courthouse

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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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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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Friday, December 11, 2009

No Bail for LAPD Detective Accused of Murdering Ex-Boyfriends Wife nearly 24 Years Ago, by Bail Bondsman in Los Angeles


Los Angeles - A veteran Los Angeles police detective was ordered today to stand trial for murder in the shooting death of her ex-boyfriend's wife more than 23 years ago in Van Nuys.

Stephanie Ilene Lazarus, 49, is accused in the Feb. 24, 1986, slaying of 29-year-old Sherri Rasmussen, a Glendale Adventist Medical Center nursing supervisor who was shot three times in the chest at her Balboa Boulevard townhouse.

Police initially thought the death may have been related to some nearby burglaries, although Rasmussen's husband, John Ruetten, told police at the time they should talk to his ex-girlfriend -- Lazarus -- who had been a police officer for two years.

But the case went cold until 2004, when the coroner was asked to retest DNA from a bite mark on the victim, and when the test was finally conducted, it was determined the DNA belonged to a female.

Lazarus remained on the force for 25 years -- assigned to the LAPD's art theft unit -- until she was arrested and charged in June, and ordered the following month to provide a dental impression that could be compared to the bite mark on the victim's arm.

An LAPD criminalist who examined a DNA sample from Lazarus and DNA from the bite mark on the victim's arm testified Wednesday that they matched.

The combination of those genetic markers is found in one in 402 quadrillion people, criminalist Jennifer Butterworth told the judge.

Under cross-examination, she acknowledged the tube containing the genetic material was inside an envelope that was torn and later re-packaged inside a larger envelope and that the tube didn't contain a security seal.

The hearing -- which lasted just over three days -- also included testimony from a Los Angeles police detective who said the victim's husband had made it "very clear" to police that he thought they should talk to Lazarus.

Nuttall testified that Ruetten said he became "very good friends" with Lazarus when they lived in the same dorm at UCLA, and that "the relationship had become fully intimate" after college.

According to the detective, Ruetten said that after Lazarus found out in June 1985 that he had gotten engaged to Rasmussen, she went to see him, declared her love for him and they had sex.

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Robert J. Perry ruled that prosecutors presented "ample" evidence to support the murder charge, along with sufficient evidence that she personally used a firearm in the commission of the crime.

But the judge determined that there was insufficient evidence to support two special circumstance allegations -- murder while lying in wait and murder during the commission of a burglary, that would have made Lazarus eligible for the death sentence if convicted.

Prosecutors have not yet decided if they will re-file those allegations. Without the, the murder charge and gun use allegation carry a maximum 27-year- to-life term, according to Deputy District Attorney Shelly Baron Torrealba.

In arguing there was enough evidence on the lying in wait allegation, the prosecutor told the judge that Lazarus must have "watched and waited" for a time when Rasmussen's husband would be away from home. He noted that Lazarus wrote in a 1985 journal entry that she had watched John Ruetten's car for at least a half-hour on one occasion.

The prosecutor also contended that Lazarus tried to bind the victim and that Rasmussen resisted, and that Lazarus realized she might be suspected in the woman's death so she pulled out a drawer in an effort to mislead investigators into believing the crime involved a burglary that went wrong.

Lazarus' attorney, Mark Overland, countered that the prosecution had not proven the special circumstance allegations, saying he did not think there was any evidence to support lying in wait.

Lazarus has been jailed without bail since her arrest, but Overland told the judge that he plans to ask that bail be set at a Dec. 18 hearing at which Lazarus is to be arraigned.

Outside court, he said he hadn't decide what bail amount to request for Lazarus, but told reporters that the bail schedule is $1 million for a murder charge.


(Above) Lazarus in uniform prior to arrest (Right)
Lazarus in court in Los Angeles

As stated above Lazarus has no bail and remains in custody in the L.A. County Jail facility in Lynwood. We will update the story as it changes relating to the bail process.

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UPDATE 12-18-09 Los Angeles Superior Court

The judge in the Lazarus' case has set the bail to $10-million for the LAPD detective who is accused of murdering ex-boyfriends wife.

The unusually high amount, which Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Robert J. Perry compounded, Lazarus' attorney said, by requiring it to be presented in cash, sent a wave of gasps through the courtroom. Lazarus showed a rare sign of emotion as her head fell in disappointment.

Her attorney, Mark Overland, said his client had no way to amass the money – meaning she will remain in detention until her trial, which is not likely to open for several months.

As they have throughout the trial proceedings, the parents of the victim, Sherri Rae Rasmussen, sat stoically in the courtroom.

The amount was double what prosecutors had requested and far greater than the $300,000 to $500,000 Overland had sought.

In leading up to his decision, Perry summarized the reasoning behind his decision. Calling it “an admittedly unusual case,” he said prosecutors had presented “compelling evidence” at a preliminary hearing that spoke to Lazarus’ “motive, means, opportunity and identity.”

He acknowledged that Lazarus, if freed on bail, would have access to weapons through her husband, who is also an LAPD detective, and could be a risk to herself and others. The most pressing issue for Perry, however, was the “strong incentive,” he concluded, that Lazarus has to flee and the likelihood she would in fact do so.

The usually even-keeled Overland reacted with dismay afterward, saying he interpreted Perry’s decision as a de facto denial of bail and plans to appeal the amount.

“It’s ridiculous. Phil Spector gets $1 million bail? Robert Blake get’s $1 million bail? They’ve got the money to go anywhere,” he said, referring to the celebrity music producer and actor recently tried on murder charges. “Who has $10 million cash? It is basically preventative detention.”

Perry “does not know the case,” Overland said, reacting to the judge’s forceful comments about Lazarus and the evidence against her. “He’s only seen bits of it.”

Sherri Rae Rasmussen, 29, was killed in her Van Nuys condominium Feb. 24, 1986. The original investigators on the case were convinced that Rasmussen had been killed by a pair of men who were burglarizing the home. Detectives concluded that was wrong when they reopened the case early this year and DNA tests on the saliva showed that it belonged to a woman.

They retraced the investigation, once again interviewing Rasmussen's parents and her husband, John Ruetten. As they had at the time of the killing, the family and Ruetten told investigators about Lazarus, whom Ruetten had dated for several years before meeting Rasmussen.

Bail is normally set by a bail schedule created by the county courts system, the judge does have the authority
to raise or lower the bail. The judge brings several factors into their decision on whether bail should be raised, lowered, or even denied; the defense attorney also does have the ability to appeal at a later time.

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Thursday, December 10, 2009

Cold Case Solved. No Bail for Suspect who Allegedly Raped and Murdered an 80 year old woman at age 16, from Bail Bondsman in Los Angeles


More than 30 years had passed and the feelings of shock were still fresh in the quiet Mar Vista neighborhood where Alice Lewis, 80, was raped and murdered in her home.

"It was always something in the back of your mind," said Cicely Overman, 67, who still lives two doors down. "Who did this? Who did such an awful thing? How could you rape and kill an old woman like that, a helpless person like that?"

For decades, police had no suspect in the 1975 slaying. But in August, DNA evidence left at the scene was matched with that of Dennis Vasquez, a 50-year-old convenience store clerk living in Historic South-Central. Police were able to swab his DNA after a routine traffic stop because he had several outstanding arrest warrants.

For longtime residents, Vasquez's arrest brought some degree of closure to a chilling neighborhood murder mystery. But it also brought more questions, given that the suspect would have been just 16 at the time of the crime.

Safe area

The Mar Vista neighborhood where Lewis lived in 1975 was a quiet one. Residents felt safe and few locked their doors.

Children played on the tidy lawns outside a row of upper-middle-class homes occupied mostly by families and newlyweds. Locals strolled in the cool ocean breeze, greeting neighbors by name.

"Just your basic 'Leave It to Beaver' kind of neighborhood," said Det. Tim Marcia of the Los Angeles Police Department's cold-case unit.

Despite how close-knit the neighborhood was, very few residents on Meier Street knew Lewis, who lived alone in a one-story home. Her husband was friendly and congenial with local kids, but after he died, the woman they called "Ms. Lewis" became a homebody.

One neighbor would stop by from time to time to deliver fresh baked cookies. Lewis' son and two grandchildren visited too. A home-care nurse came by weekly to read her stories and help her bathe.

But on her last visit, she found broken glass blanketing the floor, police said. The window of the back door had been smashed in. The nurse called out to Lewis. She found Lewis' body in the hallway outside her bedroom. There were signs that she had been raped and suffocated.

Authorities suspected a local, someone who would have known that she lived alone and knew she would be home: Nighttime attackers usually expect to be confronted, police said. The attack shook neighbors, some of whom still live there. Overman lived just two houses down from Lewis. On her way to a poker game with friends in Gardena, she thought she saw the killer leave. She told police.

As one of the few singles in the neighborhood, Overman was worried that the man she thought she witnessed leaving Lewis' home would come back for her. She spent at least one night after the slaying at a friend's place.

"I was young. I didn't know Ms. Lewis," Overman said. "I didn't think about this woman being murdered. I was just scared. I think everybody was."

For years, the case weighed on detectives in the LAPD's cold-case unit, which is responsible for unsolved murders.

But in August, Marcia got an e-mail from the state's DNA database with news of the match.

"When the e-mail comes in, and it's an old report number, I get a little excited because I know it's one of our murders," Marcia said. "You go 'OK, we got one.' "


The man whom police now suspect killed Lewis was a local teen who attended nearby Venice High School. In an old yearbook, Vasquez is pictured with a wide smile, his curls parted down the middle, flowing almost shoulder-length to both sides.

After high school, Vasquez seems to have had trouble setting his life on track. He had a number of wives and girlfriends and frequent run-ins with the law, police said. They said that he had held a job as a night manager at Domino's Pizza for a period, but that Vasquez was basically a career criminal, with arrests for muggings in the '70s, a narcotics arrest in the '80s and a reduced kidnapping charge in the '90s.

But none of Vasquez's convictions approached the viciousness of the rape-murder police allege he committed as a teenager.

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Sunday, December 6, 2009

$30,000 Bail for Fmr. Assemblyman Arrested after Woman Run Over, from Bail Bondsman in Los Angeles


Los Angeles - Former Democratic Assemblyman Walter Karabian was arrested Saturday for allegedly running over a parking attendant before the USC football game at the Coliseum, police said.

The incident occurred around 12:30 p.m. in Exposition Park, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department Inmate Information Center.

The parking attendant was taken to an area hospital. Her condition is not known.

Karabian, a 71-year-old Los Angeles attorney who is active in the Armenian-American community, was booked on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon and was being held on $30,000 bail.  Karabian was born in Fresno in 1938 and graduated from USC with a degree in law.

He became a deputy district attorney for Los Angeles County until 1966, when at age 28 he was elected to the Assembly and served for four terms. At age 33, he became the youngest majority leader in the state's history.

In 1975, he and a USC classmate, John Karns, created Karns & Karabian Law Firm.

At this time it appears that Karabian has been released from LAPD Southwest Station, we do not know if
he was bailed out or released on a promise to appear. We will update the story, as it relates to Bail, as we receive information

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