Three arrested for alleged check fraud
DOWNTOWN GLENDALE -- Three Los Angeles people face charges of
check fraud and burglary today after allegedly using a bogus check at
Mervyn's and trying to pass another one at Old Navy.
Felisha Pleasant, 21, Nitra Andrews, 22, and Daymond Jackson, 25,
were arrested Monday after Mervyn's security guards reported the
suspect checks to Glendale Police officers, according to police
reports. The three were seen shopping at Old Navy, at 106 S. Brand
Blvd., where they were waiting for a check to clear for a stack of
clothes, police said.
The three are scheduled to be arraigned Wednesday and are each
being held on $20,000 bail at Glendale City Jail.
Darleene Barrientos
Glendale family, LCF resident to have preliminary hearing
GLENDALE -- A preliminary hearing was set Tuesday for a Glendale
family accused of abusing mentally ill adults by housing them in
squalid care facilities and siphoning money from their bank accounts.
Abraham DeGuzman, 52, Alicia DeGuzman, 48, and Abraham's mother,
Natalie Buendia, 73, will appear in court Jan. 29 for their
preliminary hearing. Devere McGuffin, 59, of La Canada Flintridge and
then-chief executive officer of Glendale-based California Adventist
Federal Credit Union was also arrested in the case on suspicion of
conspiracy to commit grand theft.
After the preliminary hearing, a judge will decide if enough
evidence exists to bring the case to trial.
Darleene Barrientos
Court cases delayed for local men
GLENDALE -- A preliminary hearing in one Glendale case was
rescheduled for Monday to allow one of the defendant's attorneys
continue trial in an unrelated case, while a La Canada Flintridge man
was ordered to return in February to set a date for his hearing.
Edgar Hatamian, 21, Gagik Galoyan, 53, Gayk Tadevosyan, 38,
Andranik Safaryan, 24, all of Glendale, and Edvard Gyulnazaryan, 40,
of Burbank are charged with conspiring to murder as many as eight
people in an alleged murder-for-hire ring. The preliminary hearing
will take place Monday and a judge will ultimately decide if enough
evidence exists to send the case to a trial. Each man was being held
Tuesday for bail amounts ranging from $2 million to $10 million.
Timothy Whelan, 35, of La Canada Flintridge was also being held
Monday without bail for allegedly killing three people, including two
children, after crashing into the car in which they were riding on
Nov. 5. Whelan is scheduled to set a date for his preliminary hearing
on Feb. 20.
Darleene Barrientos
