Duarte Dispatch - 01/20/2020

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Delta Flight Emergency Fuel Release Over Los Angeles County Schools

San Bernardino County Homeless Point-In-Time Count and Survey

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Go to DuarteDispatch.com for Duarte Specific News MONDAY, JANUARY 20 - JANUARY 26, 2020

VOLUME 9, NO. 3

FORMER L.A. COUNTY SHERIFF LEE BACA ORDERED TO SERVE 3-YEAR PRISON SENTENCE STARTING FEB. 5

According to the New York Times, former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca, 77, was ordered to surrender to authorities to serve his three-year prison sentence for obstructing a federal investigation. The U.S. Attorney’s Office said on Jan 16. A federal judge ordered Baca begin serving his prison term by Feb. 5, authorities said. Baca was sentenced in 2017, when a jury found he orchestrated a 2011 plan to interfere with an FBI probe into abuses at the Los Angeles County jail system and then lied to cover up. The Supreme Court denied a petition to open his case for review, clearing the way for Judge Percy Anderson of United States District Court to set the deadline for Mr. Baca’s surrender.

Lee Baca, the former LA County Sheriff will have to report to Prison February 5 – Photo by Terry Miller

Corona Woman Gets Over 6 Years in Prison for Bribery Scheme A former Fannie Mae employee was sentenced to 76 months in federal prison for a multimillion-dollar scheme to take bribes and to discount sales of Fannie Mae-owned properties to herself and to real estate brokers in exchange for cash kickbacks. Shirene Hernandez, 47, of Corona, was sentenced by United States District Judge Andrew J. Guilford, who also

ordered her to pay $982,516 in restitution to Fannie Mae. After a five-day trial in February 2019, a jury found Hernandez guilty of two wire fraud counts involving deprivation of honest services in furtherance of her scheme, which resulted in more than $120 million in sales and more than $3

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SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY’S WALK TO RAISE AWARENESS ABOUT HUMAN TRAFFICKING The San Bernardino County Coalition Against Sexual Exploitation (CASE) will draw attention to the crime of commercial sexual exploitation and trafficking one step at a time. The coalition will host its 2020 Human Trafficking Awareness Walk on Jan. 25 in San Bernardino. Registration for the annual event, now in its tenth year, will begin at 8 a.m. at the Children’s

Network office at 825 E. Hospitality Ln. in San Bernardino. There will be speakers at the event at 9 a.m. Walkers will leave the Children’s Network office at 10 a.m. and head east towards Tippecanoe and back around to the starting point. Participants can preregister for the free event

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Employment Agreement Reached With Riverside Sheriffs’ Association Five-year agreement brings salaries and benefits in line with market The Riverside County Board of Supervisors ratified an employment agreement with the Riverside Sheriffs’ Association (RSA) to bring deputies’ salaries and benefits in line with other law enforcement agencies in Southern California. Deputies and other RSA members have worked without a contract since

June 30, 2016, under terms and conditions previously imposed by the Board of Supervisors. The five-year agreement passed on a 4-1 vote. “With neighboring counties increasing salaries and benefits for deputies,

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