By City News Service
May 14, 2021
LOS ANGELES (CNS) - A grand jury indictment unsealed today charges two Los Angeles County sheriff s detectives with lying about their roles involving a search warrant that was served at an East Los Angeles home in September 2018.
Pedro Guerrero-Gonzalez, 34, was indicted Thursday on one count of filing a false report, and Noel Lopez, 41, was indicted on one count ofperjury, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney s Office.
The two are set to be arraigned June 14 in a downtown Los Angeles courtroom.
Guerrero-Gonzalez is accused of falsifying another detective s statement in a report, while Lopez allegedly lied in a declaration that deputies saw one of the men arrested throw a case containing a rifle onto the floor, according to the District Attorney s Office.
Orange County continued its promising COVID-19 trends today as the Orange County Grand Jury issued a report critical of the county's response to the pandemic.
By City News Service
May 13, 2021
LOS ANGELES (CNS) - A Beverlywood man is set to be arraigned today for allegedly operating a $230 million Ponzi scheme based on false claims that investor money would be used to acquire licensing rights to films that HBO and Netflix had agreed to distribute overseas.
Zachary Horwitz, 34, who used the screen name “Zach Avery” when acting in usually obscure films, was charged by a federal grand jury with multiple counts of securities fraud, wire fraud and aggravated identity theft, according to the U.S. Attorney s Office.
Horwitz was arrested April 6 and initially held on a $1 million bond before his release.
Kyiv to attract EUR30 mln loan from EIB for modernization of street lighting 1 min read
Kyiv City Council on Thursday approved a decision to attract a EUR 30 million loan from the European Investment Bank (EIB) to finance a project for overhaul of the capital s outdoor lighting networks until 2024.
According to the press service of the City Council, the project involves replacing the current lighting systems with energy-efficient LED lamps with high luminous efficiency and color rendering index on about 2,000 streets and adjacent territories of Kyiv. Also, about 3,000 street lighting poles will be installed and 525 km of cable networks will be replaced.
Los Angeles County officials today will conduct the second full-volume test of a new emergency warning system at Torrance Beach, meaning people in the area could hear amplified alerts about tsunamis, shark sightings or earthquakes.