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VOLUME 10, NO. 28
THIEF ADMITS TO STEALING ISAAC, AMERICA’S OLDEST LEMUR FROM ORANGE COUNTY ZOO
Former Nurse’s Assistant Sentenced for Sexually Abusing Patients at Los Angeles County Hospital A former nurse’s assistant was sentenced to seven years in state prison and ordered to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life for sexually abusing female patients at a Tarzana hospital 14 years ago, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office announced. Deputy District Attorney Kelly Kraetsch said Ramón Eduardo Rodas Gaspar, 50, pleaded no contest on June 7 to five felony counts: four counts of sexual battery by fraud and one count of
sexual penetration of a victim unconscious of the nature of the act. Gaspar sexually assaulted eight patients under his care at Tarzana Medical Center between 2005 and 2006. He was charged in 2006 but soon after fled the country. Gaspar was arrested in Guatemala on Feb. 13, 2017, and extradited back to Los Angeles that summer. Case LA052625 was investigated by the Los Angeles Police Department, West Valley Station.
Riverside Counthy Sheriff’s Retires K9 The Riverside County Sheriff’s Department would like to thank K-9 “Windy” for her dedication to serving the communities of Riverside County over the last five years. Effective July 10, 2019, K-9 Windy retired due to an unforeseen medical illness. K-9 Windy began her service with the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department in May of 2014, at the young age of seven weeks old. K-9 Windy and her partner, Deputy Robert Ochoa, worked together as Isaac, the 32-year-old lemur, was returned to the zoo. - Courtesy photo / US Attorney’s Office
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man Kasbar pleaded guilty to a federal criminal charge for breaking into the Santa Ana Zoo after hours and stealing North America’s oldest-living ring-tailed lemur in captivity in order to keep the endangered animal as a pet. Aquinas Kasbar, 19, pleaded guilty to one misdemeanor count of unlawfully taking an endangered species. United States District Judge Andrew J. Guilford has scheduled an October 28 sentencing hearing, where Kasbar will face a statutory maximum sentence of one year in federal prison and a $100,000 fine. Kasbar admitted in his plea agreement that he broke into the Santa Ana Zoo on July 27, 2018 after it had closed for the day. Kasbar used bolt cutters to cut a hole in the zoo’s enclosures for lemurs and capuchin monkeys, which enabled several of the animals to escape, though
they were later recovered, court documents state. Kasbar then stole Isaac, a 32-year-old, ring-tailed lemur (lemur catta), and North America’s oldest ringtailed lemur in captivity. (A lemur’s life span typically is 20 to 25 years.) The ring-tailed lemur is on a list of the 25 most endangered primates, and ring-tailed lemurs are endangered, in part, because of the illegal pet trade, the plea agreement states. Kasbar then placed Isaac in a plastic drawer that lacked ventilation holes, court papers state. The next day, Kasbar abandoned the animal in front of a Newport Beach hotel, leaving him in the same plastic drawer with two notes placed on it, which read, “Lemur (with tracker)” and “This belongs to the Santa Ana Zoo it was
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she became a hardworking and successful law enforcement trailing dog. Over the course of her short, five-year career, she has trailed countless miles from the mountains of Los Angeles County to the desert of Riverside County, to the swamps of South Carolina, and everywhere in between! Windy has located numerous suspects, has helped solve violent crimes and reunite families with their lost loved
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San Bernardino County Man Sentenced to 15 Years in Federal Prison For Posession of Methamphetamine A San Bernardino County man was sentenced to 180 months in federal prison for narcotics and firearms offenses after police pulled him over near downtown Los Angeles and found 14 pounds of methamphetamine contained in 14 foil-wrapped, burrito-shaped packages in his SUV, and a fully loaded handgun hidden
in a secret compartment in the driver’s side door. Ricardo Renteria, 48, of Colton, was sentenced at a hearing today by United States District Judge Virginia A. Phillips. After a one-day bench trial
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