SACRAMENTO – Governor Gavin Newsom today announced the following appointments: Jamie L. Crook, 44, of Berkeley, has been appointed Chief Counsel at the Civil…
Imperial County man gets 18 months for mail theft
A 33-year-old Imperial County resident was sentenced Monday in federal court to 18 months in prison for mail theft and possession of stolen mail.
Theodore Bennett pleaded guilty in December 2020, admitting that on four different occasions in the summer of 2020, he pried open at least 94 post office boxes with a flathead screwdriver and pry bar at post offices in San Diego and Imperial counties.
According to his plea agreement, Bennett stole dozens of pieces of mail containing credit cards plus $6,500 in checks that belonged to individuals, businesses and non-profit organizations. They included stimulus checks issued by the U.S. Department of Treasury.
Groundbreaking Flow Battery Project Helping To Advance Clean Energy Microgrids
Project is the result of an international public-private partnership
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SAN DIEGO, Jan. 22, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Two years after becoming the first battery of its kind to be connected to the California grid to help support reliability and maximize the use of clean energy, the vanadium redox flow (VRF) battery based at a San Diego Gas & Electric substation is again breaking new ground. This time, the emerging battery technology is being tested as a means to help achieve zero-emission microgrids – a tool to keep communities and critical facilities powered with clean energy during adverse weather conditions and Public Safety Power Shutoffs.