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An Arcadia man, David Frederick Thornton, pleaded guilty to two counts of mail fraud, two counts of wire fraud and one count of impersonating a federal officer. Charges included his defrauding donors to his Thornton Kidney Research Foundation.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper25304
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 18, 2003
Pages
p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
March 18, 2003
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Thornton, David Frederick
Fraud
Scams
Thornton Kidney Research Foundation
Item ID
25502AN
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Newspaper Index
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Arcadia resident David Frederick Thornton was arrested for embezzling charitable funds and impersonating federal officers.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper23809
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 15, 2002
Pages
p. A8
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Pasadena Star News
Date
June 15, 2002
Pages
p. A8
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Thornton, David Frederick
Item ID
24013AN
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Newspaper Index
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Amy Liang, her brother Alan Liang, and Benson Ip were indicted on five counts of mail fraud and eight counts of wire fraud.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper21456
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
August 1, 2001
Pages
p. A2
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Pasadena Star News
Date
August 1, 2001
Pages
p. A2
Subjects
Crime
Amy Liang
Alan Liang
Benson Ip
Item ID
21678AN
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Dr. Sheng Chang, Mayor of Arcadia, has sued two doctors for libel. Chang was accused of embezzlement of money from the Access IPA account.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper25544
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
May 16, 2003
Pages
p. A1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
May 16, 2003
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Mayors - Dr. Sheng Chang
Access IPA
Embezzlement
Item ID
25743AN
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George Torres, of Arcadia, was convicted of 55 felony counts, including racketeering, "honest services" mail fraud, and wire fraud, conspiring to harbor illegal immigrants and tax charges. The jury also found that Torres solicited the 1994 murder of a gang member who demanded a "tax" from a Numero Uno Market. George Torres owned eleven Numero Uno grocery stores in some of the region's poorest neighborhoods.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31440
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 21, 2009
Pages
p. A8
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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 21, 2009
Pages
p. A8
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Numero Uno Markets
Racketeering
Torres, George
Item ID
31633AN
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Dr. Sheng Chang, mayor of Arcadia, has been accused of using his position as president of a Monterey Park medical group to embezzle $420,000.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper25430
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 23, 2003
Pages
p. A1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 23, 2003
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Mayors - Dr. Sheng Chang
Embezzlement
Item ID
25629AN
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A U.S. District judge overturned convictions for bribery, mail, wire and tax fraud and harboring illegal immigrants, against George Torres, 52, of Arcadia, the former owner of Numero Uno supermarket chain. The judge threw out the more serious convictions for racketeering, conspiracy and solicitation of murder, back in June. Torres has been set free after 2 years in custody.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31722
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
September 22, 2009
Pages
p. A5
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Pasadena Star News
Date
September 22, 2009
Pages
p. A5
Subjects
Business owners
Crime and Criminals
Grocery Stores
Supermarkets
Torres, George
Trials
Item ID
31919AN
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Former Arcadia High School teacher Phillip Morgan Sutliff pleaded guilty to multiple sex crimes against a former student, accepting a plea bargain of 12 years and eight months in state prison.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper30646
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Pasadena Star News
Date
August 4, 2007
Pages
p. News 1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
August 4, 2007
Pages
p. News 1
Subjects
Arcadia High School - teachers
Crime and Criminals
Sex crimes
Sutliff, Phillip Morgan
Item ID
30835AN
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15-year-old junior Allen Cheng conducts research on swarm engineering at Jisan Research Institute.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper28146
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
May 3, 2004
Pages
p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
May 3, 2004
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Jisan Research Institute -- Pasadena, CA
Arcadia High School students
Cheng, Allen
Kazadi, Sanza
Item ID
28339AN
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According to survey conducted by Goodwin Simon Strategic Research, voter support is not strong for a school auditorium.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper30207
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
February 28, 2002
Pages
p. 8
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
February 28, 2002
Pages
p. 8
Subjects
Arcadia High School
Auditoriums
Performing arts
Research
Surveys
Item ID
30394AN
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Juan Martin Aponte pleads no contest to five felony charges in the secret-videotaping case. He will be sentenced to five years in prison.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper28762
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News A1,6
Date
July 13, 2004
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Pasadena Star News A1,6
Date
July 13, 2004
Subjects
Aponte, Juan Martin
Hooters Restaurant - West Covina
Sex crimes
Item ID
28950AN
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70-year-old Mulji Patel of Arcadia was sentenced to 12 years in prison for hitting a workers' compensation attorney in the head with a hammer. The assault happened on January 31, 2006. Erwin A. Nepomuceno was the victim.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31469
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
May 13, 2009
Pages
p. A8
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Pasadena Star News
Date
May 13, 2009
Pages
p. A8
Subjects
Assault
Crime and Criminals
Nepomuceno, Erwin
Patel, Mulji
Item ID
31662AN
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Former Arcadia High School English teacher Phillip Morgan Sutliff was sentenced, under a plea bargain, to 12 years and 8 months in state prison for sex crimes against a female student. See also 30835AN.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper30764
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
October 27, 2007
Pages
p. News 1, 8
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Pasadena Star News
Date
October 27, 2007
Pages
p. News 1, 8
Subjects
Arcadia High School - teachers
Crime and Criminals
Sex crimes
Sutliff, Phillip Morgan
Item ID
30952AN
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Arcadia police arrested a suspected carjacker named David Barragan, 24, of Los Angeles, after he crashed a stolen car into a utility pole during a 100 mph police chase.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper30608
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
July 7, 2007
Pages
p. News 6
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Pasadena Star News
Date
July 7, 2007
Pages
p. News 6
Subjects
Barragan, David
Carjackings
Crime and Criminals
Item ID
30796AN
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Marco Antonio Irigoyen of West Covina has been sentenced to seven years in state prison for lewd conduct with a minor. He was a fourth grade teacher at Rio Hondo Elementary School in Arcadia. He pleaded no contest.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper30597
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 26, 2007
Pages
p. News 1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
June 26, 2007
Pages
p. News 1
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Irigoyen, Marco Antonio
Lewd conduct
Rio Hondo Elementary School
Item ID
30785AN
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Former Caltech graduate student William "Billy" Cottrell was re-sentenced to serve at least 18 more months in prison for participating in a vandalism spree in the San Gabriel Valley in 2003.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31822
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
November 17, 2009
Pages
p. A1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
November 17, 2009
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Arson
Automobile Dealerships
Cottrell, William Jensen (aka Cottrell, Billy)
Crime and Criminals
Earth Liberation Front (ELF)
Ecoterrorism and ecoterrorists
Sport Utility Vehicles (SUV)
Trials
Vandalism
Item ID
32019AN
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Arcadia elementary school music teacher David Howell returns from Japan on a Fulbright Memorial Fund, with lessons learned from his experiences.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper33446
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
March 7, 2002
Pages
p. 8
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
March 7, 2002
Pages
p. 8
Subjects
Howell, David
Teachers
Item ID
33641AN
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Michael Lieber of Arcadia has been awarded the 2005 MERIT Award, a total of $3.25 million, to fund his cancer research involving "human V(D)J recombinase in neoplastic and primary cells."

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
July 22, 2005
Pages
p. A2
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Pasadena Star News
Date
July 22, 2005
Pages
p. A2
Subjects
Awards-honors-recognitions
Grants
Lieber, Michael
Medical research
MERIT Award
National Cancer Institute
Professors
Scientists
Item ID
29781AN
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A profile of Judge David Thomas of Arcadia who will receive the 2003 Trustee of the Year award from the American Home and Services for the Aging.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper26740
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
November 1, 2003
Pages
p. A4
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Pasadena Star News
Date
November 1, 2003
Pages
p. A4
Subjects
Thomas, David
Item ID
26942AN
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Arcadia Police Department is warning senior citizens to avoid giving out personal information and credit card information to scam artists pretending to represent official agencies over the telephone. The scammers use intimidation as a tactic.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper30065
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 5, 2006
Pages
p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
June 5, 2006
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Scams
Senior Citizens
Fraud
Crime and Criminals
Item ID
30252AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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