Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
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A "Shark Tank" winner has been charged for threatening a man with a firearm. Michael Philip Barzman, 38, who convinced the judges on the TV show to fund his "Invisiplug" surge protector, pled not guilty to one felony count of assault with a firearm and another count of making criminal threats. The incident occurred outside Barzman's apartment building in Burbank. Barzman became incensed with a man smoking a cigarette outside the building and allegedly pulled a gun and threatened to kill the...
Two Los Angeles men were convicted Tuesday of carrying out a string of mostly small-scale robberies across Los Angeles in 2013. Dominic Dorsey, 48, of Hollywood, and Reginald Bailey, 71, of Jefferson Park, were convicted by a downtown federal jury of conspiracy to interfere with interstate commerce in violation of the federal Hobbs Act, and five specific Hobbs Act robberies and five counts of using a firearm during the robberies. They were nicknamed the "Cowboy Bandits" because one of the men br...
A conviction was obtained for a Victorville woman who swindled $200,000 from an elderly man in 2013. Shirley Chrissy Urick, 34, met the victim, a 78-year-old man, in a grocery store parking lot in the summer of 2013. She befriended him and told him her name was Gina Lee. With a series of clever lies, she convinced him she was in urgent need of money and would pay him back. This led to 16 months of "loans" from the victim to Urick. The victim even paid some of her living expenses. Urick was...
Nearly four years following his brutal death, some measure of justice has been found for murdered Hector Jauregui Campos, 24. On September 7, 2012, Campos was shot twice, beaten, strangled, and yet survived a trip to the hospital and did not succumb to his injuries until the next day. On July 25, 2016, four men were convicted of kidnapping and murdering Campos. The incident began in the Mira Loma home belonging to the mother and stepfather of defendant Rafael Bravo, 25. There the victi...
