NEWS
By Jason Wells | December 25, 2008
GLENDALE — Salvation Army’s last-minute decision to introduce credit card machines at its iconic red kettle stations this season got a lukewarm response from the public, but plans to expand the program will continue, officials said. Glendale was one of only seven cities in the Southland to participate in the three-week trial after the Salvation Army Southern California Division took notice of the early success a corps in Colorado Springs was having with a similar program.
LOCAL
By Veronica Rocha | August 8, 2008
GLENDALE — Detectives continue to investigate an identify-theft case that led to the arrests of two men and a woman, who reportedly placed a detachable credit card skimmer on a bank’s ATM access door. Glendale police Financial Crimes Unit detectives on July 24 arrested Meher Abolian, 21, Tiffany Conant, 20, and Rane Melkom, 22. Police observed them attaching the credit-card skimmer and later detaching it. Identity thieves often use credit-card skimmers that are small hand-held devices that read a card’s magnetic strip and store information, such as names, account numbers and expiration dates.
NEWS
By Veronica Rocha, veronica.rocha@latimes.com | August 6, 2010
LA CRESCENTA — Sheriff's detectives are investigating a security breach at a local Chase bank where alleged thieves placed a credit card skimmer on an ATM that may have allowed them to steal customer information. Detectives are waiting to receive critical evidence, including surveillance tapes and a list of potential victims, from the Chase bank on the 2900 block of Foothill Boulevard to determine the scope of the July 24 breach, said Los Angeles County Sheriff's Sgt. Ray Harley, who's based in La Crescenta.
NEWS
By Veronica Rocha, veronica.rocha@latimes.com | February 7, 2012
Two Hollywood men face multiple charges of theft after they allegedly bought $100 gift cards at the Target in Glendale using stolen credit card information, officials said. Arthur Darbinyan, 21, and Alik Dzhanoyan, 20, were charged with five counts of theft of access card information, three counts of identity theft and two counts of second-degree commercial burglary, according to a Los Angeles County Superior Court criminal complaint. Their bail was reduced from $290,000 to $100,000 Tuesday in Superior Court.
NEWS
March 31, 2003
School-vending initiative unveiled GLENDALE -- Nestle USA has introduced an initiative that would have its vending machines in schools nationwide. Nestle USA is based in Glendale. The Nesquick Milk Vending Initiative would provide campuses with machines that would carry Nesquick's flavored milks. The program would provide a beverage alternative to regular school-vending choices such as water, milk and other beverages, officials said. New travel software program touted MONTROSE -- A new software program designed to provide more detailed travel data on corporate credit-card purchases for travel has been created by Montrose Travel.
NEWS
By Veronica Rocha, veronica.rocha@latimes.com | October 6, 2010
GLENDALE — Evidence of a fraudulent credit card operation led to the arrests Tuesday of three Tarzana men suspected of stealing tens of thousands of account numbers. Michael Castro, 24, William Johnson, 32, and Benjamin Granados, 31, were arrested Sept. 23 on suspicion of identity theft after detectives found re-encoded credit cards and equipment used to create those cards inside their Tarzana apartment, Glendale Police Det. Patrick Magtoto said. Police also found two guns.
NEWS
October 26, 2002
Ben Godar A Pizza Hut delivery driver asking for a credit card Thursday was shown a gun instead, police say. The incident occurred about 2:40 p.m. at an apartment in the 400 block of West Colorado Street, police reports said. A man inside the apartment had placed an order using a credit card. When the driver asked the man to produce the card, the man became irate and displayed what the driver believed to be a revolver. The driver left the scene and called police.
NEWS
By Veronica Rocha, veronica.rocha@latimes.com | February 21, 2012
A man was arrested Monday night after he allegedly drove his vehicle into a fire hydrant, police said. Officers responding to the crash allegedly found several fraudulent gift cards in the driver's pockets. Police found Edmound Nasiri, 26, of Glendale at about 6 p.m. in the driver's seat of a white utility truck, which was atop a broken fire hydrant that was leaking water onto San Fernando Road and Sonora Avenue, according to Glendale police reports. Nasiri, who had allegedly smoked a narcotic and was feeling sick, was unable to get out of his truck, police said.
LOCAL
By Veronica Rocha | May 19, 2010
SOUTH GLENDALE — Four people, including a Glendale man, were arrested Monday night after police allegedly discovered 24 re-encoded credit cards, methamphetamine and heroin in their motel room, officials said. Artur Kazaryan, 23, of Glendale, Brady Leatherman, 29, of Palm Springs, Jennifer Velasco, 23, of West Hollywood and Jessica Holtz, 32, of Arcadia were taken into custody after police searched their room at Motel Sakura on the 1500 block of East Colorado and found the alleged evidence of an identity theft operation, Glendale Police Det. Jason Ross said.
NEWS
By Veronica Rocha, veronica.rocha@latimes.com | June 29, 2011
A 25-year-old Los Angeles man was arrested today after he allegedly tried to rob a gas station customer of his credit card, sheriff’s deputies said. Jose Hernandez was taken into custody about 1:40 a.m. in the 3000 block of Community Avenue, where he allegedly fled after the robbery attempt, according to Sgt. Ray Harley of the Crescenta Valley Sheriff’s Station. Hernandez, who was allegedly holding an empty beer can, approached the customer at the Shell gas station on the 3000 block of Foothill Boulevard and demanded his credit card, Harley said.