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Monday, may 26, 2014 - june 1, 2014 - Volume 3, No. 21

Christopher Lee Brown gets 8 months sentence

Three men convicted in Colby Fire face 6.5 years in prison

By SHEL SEGAL A 37-year-old homeless man received an eightmonth sentence on May 14 after escaping from Los Angeles County jail in March, according to a published report. And in an unrelated development, a 19-yearold man and a boy were arrested recently for allegedly burglarizing a home in Alhambra, according to another published report. In regards to the transient, Christopher Lee Brown was sentenced after stealing computers from AHMC Healthcare Inc. in Alhambra, according to that report. The eight-month sentence is in addition to the four years and eight months he originally received for the mid-October 2013 hospital burglary, according to that report. Please see page 4

Allen Shay, 55, of Pasadena, and 44-year-old Eddie Turner of Altadena have been charged with multiple felony counts of Grand Theft, Recording False Documents and Perjury. The Los Angeles County Superior Court case number is BA424226. Allen Shay is a licensed real estate broker, a former candidate for the Pasadena City Council, and Please see page 5

Monterey Park hopes to upgrade and repair aging sewer system By SHEL SEGAL

Jonathan Carl Jarrell

By SHEL SEGAL As two men have been convicted for inadvertently starting the Jan. 16 Colby Fire in the mountains north of Glendora that charred 1,952 acres, injured six people and destroyed five homes, the trial of a third man in the case started this week in Los Angeles, according to a published report. The third man was convicted Friday.

Steven Robert Aguirre

Jonathan Jarrell, 23, and a transient is accused of starting “two illegal campfires while camping overnight along the Colby Trail. Embers and burning paper from the second campfire set nearby dry grass and brush on fire,” according to that report. Five firefighters and one civilian suffered “minor injuries” in the fire as five homes and 10 outbuildings

Northwest Sun Kailiang and other Pasadena Commissioner Chinese nationals wanted by FBI for cyber-crime arrested $2.3 Million in mortgage fraud alleged

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On the first day of May, a grand jury in the Western District of Pennsylvania indicted five members of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) for 31 criminal counts, including: conspiring to commit computer fraud; accessing a computer without authorization for the purpose of commercial advantage and private financial gain; damaging computers through the transmission of code and commands; aggravated identity theft; economic espionage; and theft of trade secrets. The subjects, including Sun Kailiang, were officers

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of the PRC’s Third Department of the General Staff Please see page 4

the forest without a permit; and causing and failing to maintain control a fire that damaged the national forest system,” according to that report. Convicted on those four counts were Clifford Eugene Henry, 22, of Glendora and 21-year-old transient Steven Robert Aguirre. Sentencing is set to take place on Aug.

As the Monterey Park sewer system was built in the 1920s, a Monterey Park official said on Tuesday that millions of dollars are needed to upgrade and repair the system. Speaking at a Monterey Park Chamber of Commerce meeting, Chu Thai, management services director for the city of Monterey Park, said the city is hoping to have residents approve raising $26.3 million during the next five years and $100 million over the next 20 years. If voters approve this capital improvement project – or do not protest it – both residential and business water customers in the city can expect to see their monthly water bills to double during the next two decades, Thai said. But with a rapidly aging system of hundreds of miles of sewer and water pipes,

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Clifford Eugene Henry Jr.

were destroyed, while seven homes and one other structure were damaged, according to that report. Jarrell has been charged with “setting fire to timber, grass and underbrush in the Angeles National Forest by building a campfire; violating a fire restriction order by using a fire outside a recreation site in the forest; causing timber, trees, brush and grass to burn in

Adam Schiff appointed to Benghazi select committee Rep. Adam Schiff (DCA), a senior Member of the Intelligence Committee, released the following statement after being appointed to the Select Committee on Benghazi: “I‘ve been involved in the investigation into Benghazi from day one as a Member of the Intelligence Committee because like every other American I want to know what happened, why it happened, how we can keep it from happening again, and I want to bring to justice those that perpetrated this horrible attack. But almost 18 months later, and after 8 reports from House and Senate committees and the Accountability Review Board, the questions that this

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select committee purports to investigate have been asked and answered time and time and time again. “This morning, Leader Pelosi asked if I would serve on the select committee on

Benghazi. While I do not believe that yet another committee to investigate Benghazi is either needed or warranted, I said that if it Please see page 5


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