Pasadena City College board candidate David Ma faces criminal charges for sign ordinance violation. His election signs were found on public property. The arraignment will be held November 25 at Santa Anita Municipal Courthouse in Monrovia.
Nine people face federal charges for allegedly smuggling blue jeans from China by way of a Foreign Trade Zone in Industry. The alleged smugglers avoided import duties and taxes that would have amounted to between $2 million and $2 million in tax revenues for the government since 2009, according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Two of the alleged are Taylor "David" Wong, 49, of Arcadia and Tsu "Nick" Wei Lin, 41, of Arcadia. The others are Joel Elder of Long Beach, Jianying "Jonathan" Huang, a Chinese national, Xiaoqiong "Joan" Hou of Diamond Bar, Rebecca Ho of Alhambra, Yuling Wang of Walnut, Keen "Alven" Wai Choo of Rowland Heights and Wei "Julia" Lai, the key figure in the indictment.
Incumbents Yvonne Bullock, David Hall, Melinda Taylor, and a challenger John J. Nicoloro were announced winners of the Monrovia-Arcadia-Duarte- Town Council election.
The Monrovia-Arcadia-Duarte Town Council will swear in the newly elected Town Council members. Incumbents Yvonne Bullock, David Hall and Melinda Taylor retained their seats and newcomer John J. Nicoloro was elected.
A juvenile tried to log on to the computer that contains city data bases but was discovered by police before breaking the password. No charges were filed and the youth's name was not released.
David Ma pleads guilty to charges of violating an ordinance prohibiting the placement of election signs on private property when he was running for the Pasadena City College Board of Trustees.
Arcadia resident Juan Martin Aponte faces eight counts of using a minor for sex acts, along with forty-nine other felony and misdemeanor charges. Pictured are Gloria Allred and Scheana Jancan.
Four Chinese nationals were arrested on federal and state charges for their alleged involvement in brothels in Monterey Park and San Gabriel. Jian "David" Guo, 42, of Arcadia, Huagui "Candy" Lotto, 53, of Rowland Heights, Lotto's husband Phillip Fu, 47, of Rowland Heights, and Yibin Zhang, 45, of Monterey Park, were arrested. If convicted of the state charges, the maximum sentence would be 7 years and 4 months.
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.