Suspected ‘Khaki Bandit’ arrested after tip
A citizen’s tip led to the arrest of a man whom police suspect has robbed banks in Orange and Los Angeles counties since May.
Authorities arrested Gerald Fedorka, 60, Thursday in Los Angeles after someone recognized him and called police, Irvine Lt. Rick Handfield said.
FBI officials said they were tracking two different sets of bank robberies they now attribute solely to Fedorka — three robberies in Los Angeles as the “Over the Hill Bandit” and seven in Orange County as the “Khaki Bandit.”
Target agrees to $1.7 million civil penalty
SONOMA – Target stores has agreed to pay a $1.7 million civil penalty for overcharging California customers through electronic cash register scanners that rang up too-high prices, the Sonoma County district attorney’s office said today. The stores, without admitting guilt, also agreed to improve their pricing procedures for the next four years.
UCLA Chief of Cadavers Pleads Guilty to Selling Stolen Body Parts
Henry Reid, former chief of the cadaver program at University of California, Los Angeles, pleaded guilty Friday to conspiring to sell more than $1 million of donated body parts to medical, drug and research companies, the Associated Press reports.
Reid, 58, pleaded guilty in Los Angeles County Superior Court to one count of conspiracy to commit grand theft. Under the agreement, Reid will cooperate in the trial of co-defendant Ernest Nelson and repay $100,000 to $1 million to the university program for the damage or destruction of school property. Reid could also face four years and four months in prison, the AP reported.
Relatives Sue Over Inmate’s Slaying by Prison Guard
Relatives of an inmate killed by a guard at a prison near Bakersfield sued the state Tuesday, alleging that the officer was ill-trained in the use of his weapon and that corrections officials failed to provide adequate medical care.
The lawsuit, which seeks unspecified damages, was filed on behalf of the young son and mother of Daniel Provencio, an Oxnard man who died last year after he was shot in the head with a rubber projectile.
California Man Charged in Murder for Hire Plot in St. Louis County
KSDK — A California man is accused of trying to hire someone to commit murder.
The St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney’s Officer charged 47-year-old Daniel Clayton of Garden Grove, California with Conspiracy to Commit Murder in the First Degree. Clayton is being held in the St. Louis Justice Center under $50,000 bond.
Man arrested on DUI after pursuit on Panoramic Highway
Neal Banks, 42, of Brookline, Mass. was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence and evading police at 2:12 a.m. after officers maneuvered around his white Mazda Protege and forced it to a stop by bumping it near the southbound Highway 101 onramp at Highway 1 in Mill Valley, said Officer Patrick Roth of the Marin CHP. No injuries were reported.
Khloe Kardashian Granted DUI Sentence Extension
LOS ANGELES, Calif. – A judge has granted a request by upcoming “Celebrity Apprentice” star Khloe Kardashian to postpone the due date for the alcohol program she was sentenced to in July 2008.
As previously reported on AccessHollywood.com, Kardashian was sentenced to 30 days in county jail in July after she violated her probation on a DUI charge, for which she served just a few hours. She was also sentenced to six months of probation, CalTrans work and completion of an alcohol program.
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