| | | | Afternoon headlines for Monday, February 8, 2021
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‘Good-Hearted People’ Ripped Off As $316,000 AIDS Research Donation Stolen To Pay Credit Cards, Buy Firearms: Two Years In Jail!  A former executive with a defunct Los Angeles County-based nonprofit focused on AIDS research was handed a two-year jail sentence Monday for stealing $316,000 from a donor’s estate. Donnelly Montenegro pleaded guilty in December to grand theft by fraudulent pretenses after being charged with 22 separate felony counts, including six counts of grand theft, three […]
  
Gay Sex `Bait Ads’ Forced $150,000 From Victims Terrified Of Exposure: Five Years In Prison For Extortion  A 29-year-old extortionist was sentenced Monday to five years behind bars for using the internet to force at least $150,000 from men terrified of being outed as gay in Los Angeles, Santa Monica and elsewhere. The victims had responded to online “bait ads” offering gay sex services. Over a period of six years, Tyler Buchanan […]
Homeless Trapped In Kafka-like Punish-The-Poor Scheme: ACLU Blames Lancaster, LA Sheriff  The ACLU of Southern California and the UC Irvine Consumer Law Clinic Monday filed a legal action against the city of Lancaster and the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, alleging an administrative citation system exists that is unconstitutionally designed to punish the poor. “In the City of Lancaster, people who are homeless are treated as […]
Victims Of ‘Financial Predator’ Invested $1.5 Million In Fake Downtown LA High-Rise: Six Years Behind Bars A previously convicted real estate developer who induced victims to invest more than $1.5 million in a high-rise condominium complex in downtown Los Angeles that he falsely claimed to be developing was sentenced Monday to six years in federal prison. Mark John Chandler, 57, was also ordered to pay $1.7 million in restitution and serve […]
LA DA Gascon Can’t Ignore Three-Strike And Tough Sentencing Laws: Judge Tosses Reforms A judge ruled mostly in favor of the Association of Deputy District Attorneys for Los Angeles County in a petition brought against District Attorney George Gascon, saying he cannot order his prosecutors to ignore laws that the union says protect the public, including three-strike allegations and sentencing enhancements. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge James C. […]
`Mank’ Tops Critics Choice Award Nominees With ‘Da 5 Bloods,’ ‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,’ ‘Trial of the Chicago 7’ The Netflix film “Mank,” a black-and-white vintage Hollywood tale focused on “Citizen Kane” screenwriter Herman Mankiewicz, collected a leading 12 nominations Monday for the 26th annual Critics Choice Awards, including a nod for best picture. Netflix earned four of the 10 best-picture nominations, with “Da 5 Bloods,” “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” and “The Trial of […]
Undercover Sting Bad News For Santa Ana Ghost Gun, Drug Dealer: Ten Years In Federal Prison A Santa Ana man was sentenced Monday to 10 years in federal prison for drug dealing and illegal sales of weapons, including “ghost guns,” which are untraceable. Pedro Javier Villalobos, 24, pleaded guilty in October to one count each of distributing methamphetamine and dealing firearms without a license. Villalobos, who was caught as a result […]
Maybe Artificial Intelligence Robots Can Battle Coronavirus Mutations: USC Has Hopes USC researchers announced Monday they’ve developed a new method to counter emergent mutations of the coronavirus and hasten vaccine development. Using artificial intelligence — AI — the research team at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering developed a method to speed the analysis of vaccines and zero in on the best potential preventive medical therapy. […]
New U.K. Strain of COVID-19 Detected in Orange County A 21-year-old San Clemente man tested positive for the more contagious U.K. strain of COVID-19, marking the first known case in Orange County, local health officials announced Monday. The man tested positive on Jan. 26 and “his symptoms have now resolved,” according to a memo sent Monday to the Board of Supervisors from Dr. Clayton […]
Disneyland Officials Tease New California Adventure Food Festival Next Month – With 1,000 Workers Rehired  As part of Disneyland’s California Adventure Park’s 20th anniversary Monday, officials announced plans to expand dining outdoors at the theme park in Anaheim. In a letter to employees, Disneyland Resort President Ken Potrock said that by mid-March the company will debut a new ticketed dining event – a type of food fair featuring dishes from […]
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