Laura Zellerback, Long Beach, to be arraigned today for embezzlement from youth soccer club

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Rancho Santa Margarita, CA - Laura Alicia Zellerbach! a former treasurer for a youth soccer club organization is scheduled to be arraigned today for embezzling and laundering over $174,000 from the organization. 

According to the Orange County DA, Laura Alicia Zellerbach, 41, Long Beach, is charged with one felony count of embezzlement by fiduciary of trust, one felony count of attempting to falsify records, one felony count of money laundering, and 23 felony counts of attempted computer access and fraud. If convicted, Zellerbach faces a maximum sentence of 20 years and eight months in state prison. She is out of custody on her own recognizance and is scheduled to be arraigned today, Friday, Feb. 5, 2016, at 8:30 a.m. in Department N-3, North Justice Center, Fullerton.

Between April 2013 and January 2015, Zellerbach served as treasurer for the Fullerton Rangers Youth Soccer Club (FRYSC). She is accused of having access to all of the individual team accounts and club organization accounts. At the time of the crime, she is accused of handling the finances for a business she and her husband owned, Zellcorp Inc. dba Restaurant Packaging Group.

Zellerbach is accused of embezzling over $174,000 from FRYSC by transferring money from the various team accounts into her own personal account, withdrawing FRYSC's money at a bank or ATM, and through debit card transactions.

She is accused of laundering the embezzled money by transferring the funds into her personal accounts and using the money as capital loans from her personal account to fund Zellcorp Inc. She is accused of withdrawing over $20,000 for a cashier's check to partially pay for a European vacation for her children. Zellerbach is accused of resigning as treasurer after FRYSC board members began questioning her about the organization's finances.

The Fullerton Police Department investigated this case and arrested Zellerbach yesterday, Feb. 3, 2016.

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21 year old John Booker, Topeka Kansas pleads guilty to attempted bomb detonation at Fort Riley

Why you don't see Muslim children playing marbles on TV

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Rancho Santa Margarita, CA - John T. Booker Jr., 21, of Topeka, Kansas, pleaded guilty today to attempting to detonate a vehicle bomb on the Fort Riley military base in Manhattan, Kansas, according to Assistant Attorney General for National Security John P. Carlin and U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom of the District of Kansas.

Booker pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Carlos Murguia of the District of Kansas to one count of attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction and one count of attempted destruction of government property by fire or explosion.  Sentencing will be scheduled at a later date.  The parties have stipulated to a sentence of 30 years in federal prison.

“John Booker admitted that he intended to kill U.S. military personnel on American soil in the name of ISIS,” said Assistant Attorney General Carlin.  “Thankfully, law enforcement was able to safely identify and disrupt this threat to the country.   “If this defendant  succeeded, American soldiers
would have died,” said U.S. Attorney Grissom.

In his guilty plea, he intended to kill American soldiers and to  ISIS’s fight against the United States.  His plan called for constructing a bomb containing 1,000 pounds of ammonium nitrate.  Booker intended to trigger the bomb himself and die in the process, and filmed a video he intended Americans to see after his death.

“You sit in your homes and think this war is just over in Iraq,” he said in the video.  “Today we will bring the Islamic State straight to your doorstep.”

Unbeknownst to Booker, the bomb that he constructed was made with inert materials, and the two men working with him were undercover informants for the FBI.

The FBI began investigating Booker in March 2014 after he posted on his Facebook page that he wanted to commit jihad.  Booker admitted that he tried to enlist in the U.S. Army in order to commit an insider attack against American soldiers like the one at Fort Hood in Texas, but his deadly plans were thwarted when he was denied entry into the Army.  In October 2014, Booker began communicating with an undercover FBI informant.  He told the undercover FBI informant that he dreamed of being a fighter in the Middle East, and proposed capturing and killing an American soldier.

In March 2015, Booker was introduced to another FBI informant who he believed would help him plan an attack.  Booker said he wanted to detonate a suicide bomb because he couldn’t be captured, all the evidence would be destroyed, and he would be guaranteed to hit his target.  On March 10, 2015, Booker made a video filmed at Freedom Park near Marshall Army Airfield at Fort Riley in which he pledged allegiance to Abu Bakr al Baghdadi, the leader of ISIL.  That month, he rented a storage unit in Topeka where the bomb would be assembled.

On April 10, 2015, Booker and the informants drove to an area near Fort Riley that Booker believed to be a little-used utility gate where they could enter Fort Riley undetected.  He was arrested when he made the final connections on the device that he believed would arm the bomb.

The investigation was conducted by the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force. 

The case is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Tony Mattivi and David Smith of the District of Kansas, and Trial Attorneys Josh Parecki and Rebecca Magnone of the National Security Division’s Counterterrorism Section.

Free Sculpture and Printmaking by Barbara Holmes at Saddleback College

Free Sculpture and Printmaking by Barbara Holmes at Saddleback College

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Rancho Santa Margarita, CA – The Saddleback College Art Gallery is scheduled to present Reclamation—Sculpture and Printmaking by Barbara Holmes on February 22^nd through March 10^th in the Saddleback College Art Gallery. 

Barbara Holmes is a sculptor and furniture maker whose work focuses on the reclamation and creative reuse of discarded construction materials. This exhibition features a unique 3D installation piece and her “Stump” prints. 

Holmes also has extensive teaching experience, having taught at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, San Diego State University, Southwestern College, and Mira Costa College. She currently lives in Oakland and teaches at the California College of the Arts, San Francisco.

The exhibition is free and open to the public. Gallery hours are Monday-Wednesday-Thursday noon to 4:00 p.m. and Tuesdays, noon to 8:00 p.m. (closed Fridays). There will be a two hour artist presentation, slide lecture and printmaking demonstration on Friday, February 19^thstarting at 10:00 a.m. in the  printmaking studio, FA206. The Gallery will also be open Saturday, February 20^th from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. An Artists’ Reception will be held on Thursday, February 18^th from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m.

Saddleback College is located at 28000 Marguerite Pkwy in Mission Viejo, just east of Interstate 5 at the Avery Parkway exit.  Free parking is available in Lot 12 only the night of the artists’ reception on September 13th.  Take Avery Parkway to Marguerite Parkway turn left to the third traffic light, which is Saddleback’s Marguerite entrance. Turn right into the campus and take the third left to “Theatre Circle,” turning right into Lot 12.

Located in Mission Viejo, Saddleback College provides quality higher education and training to the greater south Orange County community.  Having served more than 500,000 students since 1968, Saddleback College offers over 300 degree and certificate programs to help students reach their personal, career, and educational goals.  For more information, please visit www.saddleback.edu and for Fine Arts information, please visit www.saddleback.edu/arts.  

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Insurance Fraud is All in the Agdayan and Guyumjyan Family

Insurance Fraud is All in the Agdayan and Guyumjyan Family

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Rancho Santa Margarita, CA - Four defendants are scheduled to be arraigned tomorrow for filing false insurance claims and collecting over $50,000 in insurance payments. The defendants are scheduled for a continued arraignment tomorrow, Feb. 3, 2016, at 8:30 a.m. in Department C-55, Central Justice Center, Santa Ana

Ashot A Agdayan, 55, Newport Beach is charged with one felony count of conspiracy to commit a fraudulent insurance claim, three felony counts of insurance fraud, and one felony count of recording a false or forged instrument

Mariam Boghosyan, 35, Tustin is charged with one felony count of conspiracy to commit a fraudulent insurance claim and one felony count of insurance fraud

Gina Geganush Guyumjyan, 50, Newport Beach is charged with one felony count of conspiracy to commit a fraudulent insurance claim and three felony counts of insurance fraud.

Yervand Srapyan, 46, Tustin is charged with one felony count of conspiracy to commit a fraudulent insurance claim and three felony counts of insurance fraud

Co-defendant Vera Lusararyan, 74, Costa Mesa, is charged with one felony count of conspiracy to commit a fraudulent insurance claim and one felony count of insurance fraud.

According to the Orange County District Attorney's (OCDA) office:
Between December 2012 and June 2015, Adgayan was the owner and manager of the Newport Cab Company and a separate luxury car service.
Agdayan and his wife Guyumjyan are accused of recruiting family members to be passengers in the taxi cabs owned by the company. Agdayan and Guyumjyan are accused of providing these family members with a script of circumstances to repeat to insurance companies in order to file claims for medical treatment sustained while they were passengers in the taxi.
On Dec. 14, 2012, Srapyan is accused of driving a taxi on the Balboa Peninsula in Newport Beach. Srapyan is accused of getting into a minor traffic collision with the victim. An officer from the Newport Beach Police Department responded to the scene to assist with the accident. Srapyan is accused of being alone in the vehicle at the time of the collision Guyumjyan, Boghosyan and Lusararyan are accused of claiming to be passengers in Srapyan's vehicle. Agdayan, Srapyan, Guyumjyan, Boghosyan and Lusararyan are accused of subsequently filing an auto insurance claim with Travelers Insurance seeking $55,500 in damages in the claim. Travelers Insurance issued a settlement to the defendants for over $22,200.
On May 14, 2013, Srapyan is accused of driving a taxi involved in an eight vehicle collision in Tustin. Agdayan is accused of claiming that he was the driver of the taxi and that Guyumjyan and Srapyan were passengers in the taxi at the time of the collision. Agdayan, Guyumjyan and Srapyan are accused of knowingly filing false insurance claims with State Farm Insurance Company for $58,000 for injuries and damages to the taxi. State Farm Insurance issued a settlement to the defendants for over $29,000.
On June 15, 2015, Agdayan is accused of filing a claim against the victim in the 2012 accident to collect money for damage done to the taxi prior to the accident.
"Southern California is ground zero for staged auto collisions, leading to tens of millions in annual losses for insurers," said Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones. "Every consumer pays for these crimes when insurers pass the losses along through higher insurance premiums."
This case was investigated by the Orange County District Attorney's Office and California Department of Insurance.
Deputy District Attorney Eya Garcia of the Insurance Fraud Unit is prosecuting the case

Blue Chickens Come Home to Roost in San Fran: DOJ launches investigation of SFPD

Blue Chickens Come Home to Roost in San Fran:  DOJ launches investigation of SFPD

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Rancho Santa Margarita, CA - The Department of Justice (DOJ) is launching an independent and comprehensive review of the San Francisco Police Department to be conducted by the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office) through its Collaborative Reform Initiative, according to a DOJ announcement.

The review is in response to requests made by city officials and community members asking that the Justice Department conduct an in-depth look into the use of force policies and practices of the San Francisco Police Department. 

According to Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch.  “In the days and months ahead, we will examine the San Francisco Police Department’s current operational policies, training practices and accountability systems, and help identify key areas for improvement going forward. 

Director Ronald Davis of the COPS Office, the Justice Department agency responsible for collaborative review, and Acting U.S. Attorney Brian J. Stretch of the Northern District of California, were joined by San Francisco city and law enforcement leaders to announce the launch of the collaborative reform process.

Following the assessment, the Justice Department will issue a public report detailing the findings of the assessment, along with specific recommendations for improvement.  The COPS Office will assess progress made in implementing those recommendations over an 18-month period following the initial assessment.  Two progress reports will be released tracking implementation of those recommendations.

The COPS Office is currently providing collaborative reform in Spokane, Washington; Philadelphia; St. Louis County, Missouri; Salinas, California; Fayetteville, North Carolina; Calexico, California; and Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and has completed the process in Las Vegas.

Orange County's Jeremy Nelson, pleads guilty to fed charges of credit card debt relief scam.

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Rancho Santa Margarita, CA - Jeremy Nelson, an Orange County, California, man pleaded guilty today for his role in operating fraudulent debt relief firms that offered to settle credit card debts but instead took victims’ payments as undisclosed up-front fees, according to announcement by the Justice Department and U.S. Postal Inspection Service..

Jeremy Nelson, 30, pleaded guilty to one count of an indictment alleging conspiracy to commit mail fraud and wire fraud in connection with companies known as Nelson Gamble & Associates (Nelson Gamble) and Jackson Hunter Morris & Knight LLP (Jackson Hunter).  

According to the indictment, Nelson and his employees portrayed the debt relief companies as law firms and attorney-based companies that would negotiate favorable settlements with creditors.  Clients made monthly payments expecting the money to go toward settlements.  Nelson and his co-conspirators instead took at least 15 percent of the total debt as company fees, with the first six months of payments going almost entirely toward undisclosed up-front fees. 

Jeremy Nelson’s scheme ran from February 2010 to September 2012.  Nelson admitted he changed the name of his company from Nelson Gamble to Jackson Hunter in 2011.  Nelson and his co-conspirators told victims that Nelson Gamble had gone bankrupt and that Jackson Hunter was an unrelated company that had taken over some of the accounts.  Nelson and his co-conspirators blamed past problems on Nelson Gamble and denied requests for refunds of money paid to Nelson Gamble.  Some victims who previously demanded refunds accepted the explanation that Nelson Gamble was bankrupt and did not pursue complaints against Jackson Hunter.

Nelson faces a statutory maximum penalty of 20 years in prison.  

One of Nelson’s co-defendants, Elias Ponce, previously pleaded guilty in October 2015.  Two other defendants, Athena Maldonado and Christopher Harati, pleaded guilty in June 2015 in a related case.  

Trial against the remaining defendant charged in the scheme, John Vartanian, is set for Sept. 13 in Los Angeles.

In September 2012, the Federal Trade Commission brought a civil case against Nelson and his companies, alleging that the defendants misrepresented debt relief services offered to consumers.  The case was settled by entry of a consent decree in August 2013.

Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Mizer commended the U.S. Postal Inspection Service team assigned to the Civil Division’s Consumer Protection Branch for its investigative efforts and thanked the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Central District of California for its contributions to the case.  

The case is being prosecuted by trial attorneys Alan Phelps and James Harlow of the Consumer Protection Branch.  

OCDA, OCSD and OCDA in full prevent defense mode related to the three escaped & recaptured inmates from the OC jail

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Rancho Santa Margarita, CA - According to a press release from the Orange County District Attorney's (OCDA), arraignment for the three escaped, and recaptured, inmates,  Bac Tien Duong, 43, Hossein Nayeri, 37, Newport Beach, and Jonathan Tieu, 20, Fountain Valley, from the Orange County jail will likely be February, 1, 2016.

According to the OCDA office, more than 50 Orange County District Attorney Office (OCDA) personnel were involved in the assistance of the investigation and the preparation for the cases relating to the jail escape

Graciously, OCDA Tony Rackauckas offers "kudos to Sheriff Sandra Hutchens and all law enforcement, the media, and the public for working together to bring these three escaped inmates to justice with no civilian or police getting hurt or killed. By all of us working together, these escapees ran out of rocks to hide under."  However, Sheriff Hutchens has yet to answer for the troubling signs of a deteriorating culture within the department.

According to the OCDA,  it had  been working on the escape of the three inmates in four different aspects: a. writing and approving search warrants b. entering international warrants with Interpol, c.  providing legal expertise throughout the investigation, and d. providing dozens of OCDA Investigators to the Orange County Sheriff's Department (OCSD) in assisting in its investigation and surveillance.
Roughly at the same time of the OCDA press release, Sheriff Hutchens issued a response to a letter hand-delivered  on Friday, January 29, 2016 by the Association of Orange County Deputy Sheriff’s (AOCD)

Following is the response to the AOCD letter from Sheriff Hutchens:

I have been very clear from the onset of the jail escape investigation that I am deeply concerned about the length of time it took to recognize that three maximum security inmates were unaccounted for.  I have initiated an internal administrative investigation to determine the facts of what occurred, contributing factors to the escape and inmate count procedures.  Until the investigation is complete, I am unable to discuss further.  Please know that we have taken immediate action to ensure that this situation will not happen again, and that the safety of our community is my highest priority.

There have been no personnel changes as of this time.

The problem with the Sheriff's letter is that she emphatically states that "Please know that we have taken immediate action to ensure that this situation will not happen again, and that the safety of our community is my highest priority."  But she does not know what happened, and what happened put the community at large in danger. 

Coto de Caza Peter Panian Drivers Strike Again

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Coto de Caza, CA - Just yesterday, we wrote about how the Coto de Caza HOA, The CZ Master Association manages dangerous curves in the community and today Coto de Caza Peter Panian Drivers trying to support our argument struck again!  But wait. there is more, Lazy or Tight Fist Golfers almost cause an accident in the same place.  This could not have happened, even if I had staged it.

Yesterday I described how a driver damaged a big chunk of the white fence just feet from the moronic "Caution Golfer" sign, and earlier today, a driver struck another chunk of the white fence, right at the corner of San Miguel and Coto de Caza Drive, on the east-bound side of San Miguel, justa few feet from the previous damage!

4-way sign clearly marked on the asphalt and with stop signs at the four corners

 Keep in mind that the corner is clearly marked as a four-way stop and a 40 MPHspeed limit some 50 feet from the corner.

The only explanation for the damage at a 4-way stop is that a driver was speeding taking the corner and did not stop

The only explanation for this damage at the corner of a 4-way stop, is that the driver, not unlike Coto's HOA legal counsel,  according to case:   SHMV0038019, On 12/09/2015, Harkins was approved for Traffic School, for " Unsafe speed for prevailing conditions"

Also keep  mind that we previously identified this intersection and this road as one of Coto's most dangerous.  The sad part is that as of today, there are no signs that the $1.5 Million/year glorified meter maid UPS has done anything and the HOA of course has done nothing.   Worse, I have established a correlation between CHP patrol hours and traffic accidents in the community.  I have been battling with the HOA for months, without success,  trying to ascertain the level of CHP patrol hours, which we think are not sufficient.  Below is the text of a letter sent to Keystone Pacific representative  Sandra Hidalgo on December 6, 2015,  on the subject:

I am in receipt of your letter dated November 3, 2015.  It is such a good illustration of the LIDDD approach, now apparently perfected by the dynamic duo of James Harkins and Keystone, that I am going to suggest Mr. Joseph Miner uses it as Exhibit A in his lawsuit. LIDDD stands for Lie, Ignore, Deflect, Deny, Dis-inform.    I do not quite understand if this is done out of gross incompetence or sheer evil.
 I do not know what they teach in HOA communications class, but seems to be a mixture of leegaleze and a foreign language – I will provide examples below
 For starters, you continue to conflate two separate requests:  1.  One request is to inspect Lawyer Expenses and 2.  The second one is to inspect CHP patrol hours. I will continue to address the two issues separately
 In item 5 of your aforementioned letter, you state that “….there would be a $10 staff fee for time to create a pdf file……  We did not receive a response.”  My letter dated September 28, 2015 states:  “Since you are having difficulty sending me the requested information via email as you state in your letter dated September 17, 2015, please feel free to send it via post” – how do you translate that sentence into HOA lingo?
 Again, to be clear, you have FAILED to supply the requested information and the CZ Master Association has not been responsive to my request to inspect records, and it is clearly using the LIDDD strategy to cover itself
 As you know, the CZ Master Association is the most litigious HOA in Southern California.  Further, James Harkins has charged an HOA $30,000 for a simple Small Claims Court case, and a resident lost his condo due to an improperly parked RV.  In your case, a simple request for records is taking months, and God knows what Keystone is charging the CZ Master association, but in the end, it is us the residents who pay, regardless of the quality of response

To make matters worse, the CHP which we previously characterized as the most professional law enforcement organization, is not being cooperative ever since Captain J. Fonseca took over at the San Juan Capistrano Office.

But to make matters worse, just as I took the pictures of the newly damaged fence, some six lazy, tight wads, stupid, or all of the above,  golfers cross the dangerous San Miguel street, right where the fences have been damaged.

Lazy, Stingy, Stupid, or all of the Above Golfers cross a dangerous street - car barely avoids the

All the signs pint to another traffic fatality waiting to happen.  We forecasted the previous three and only traffic fatalities,  days before they happened, and we are concerned we may be right again!

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Central Men’s Jail Saga in OC Comes to End: All three Escaped Inmates in Custody!

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Rancho Santa Margarita, CA - The last two inmates who escaped the Central Men’s Jail in Santa Ana , Hossein Nayeri and Jonathan Tieu were captured this morning by the San Francisco Police Department, according to OCSD spokesperson Carie Braun..

Escaped inmate Bac Duong was the first to return to custody when he turned himself in on Friday January 29, 2016 at 11:30 a.m. in Santa Ana.  

This morning, at approximately 8:50 a.m. escaped inmates Tieu and Nayeri were captured by the San Francisco Police Department. 

A citizen recognized the white van that the escapees were believed to be using and approached San Francisco Police officers who were in the area on an unrelated call.  Officers approached the van and Nayeri fled on foot. He was captured after a short foot pursuit. Officers then returned to the van to find escapee Tieu attempting to hide inside.  Both Nayeri and Tieu were taken into custody without incident or injury.

Sheriff Sandra Hutchens would like to thank both the public and the media for their assistance in apprehending these fugitives..

How the Coto de Caza HOA manages Dangerous Curves in the community

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Coto de Caza, CA - For years I have argued that the idea of posting "Caution Golfers" signs in Coto's most dangerous curves, is moronic.: If golfers are too lazy to use proper sidewalks, then they should rent a golf cart, or not play golf, after all, golf is supposed to be a sport is it not?  Likewise, if golfers want to play golf in Coto de Caza, but are too stingy and do not want to pay for a cart rental, then they should not play golf!

Past HOA board president, Robert Varo did not listen then, and current president Xochitl  Yocham has yet to act.  In fact, Varo refused to install “Caution Children Playing” signs but fully supported the moronic ones.

A few weeks ago I posted pictures of two cars blocking San Miguel, one of the most dangerous curves in Coto,  in both directions, east/west, at around midnight. 

Accident at San Miguel right at the "Caution Golfers" sign, blocking both directions:  November 19, 2015 at 11:30 pm

 Earlier this week in the same place, a car run over a  white fence.  After a week of the fence being down, there are no signs that Coto's $1.5 million/year glorified meter maid UPS has stopped by.

The only explanation for this damage is that the driver, not unlike Coto's HOA legal counsel,  according to case:   SHMV0038019, On 12/09/2015, Harkins was approved for Traffic School, for " Unsafe speed for prevailing conditions"

The wrecked fence is just 50 feet from the " Caution, golfers" sign and the latter is just about 60 feet from a 30 MPH sign.  The problem is that drivers here do an average of 60 MPH on any given hour.

The wrecked fence is just 50 feet from the " Caution, golfers" sign, which is 60 ft from the 30 MPH sign that everybody ignores and instead drive at 60 MPH

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