By SDCN Staff A California couple who fled to Montenegro to avoid serving lengthy prison sentences has been returned to the United States after approximately one year and two months as fugitives, prosecutors said. Richard Ayvazyan, 44, and his wife, Marietta Terabelian, 38, were extradited by Montenegro and arrived in Los Angeles Thursday night. They […]

By SDCN Staff San Francisco, CA–The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) Thursday continued its work to help ensure California meets its ambitious climate and electric vehicle (EV) goals by adopting a five-year, statewide, $1 billion transportation electrification program, a groundbreaking investment. The decision provides a unified policy-driven funding structure for utility transportation electrification efforts through […]

By SDCN Staff Atlanta, GA–A slow, slimy, and highly invasive Giant African Snail was intercepted by an alert beagle and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agriculture specialists at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport.  On November 8, “Mox,” a member of CBP’s “Beagle Brigade” alerted to a traveler’s luggage after arriving on a flight from Nigeria. During […]

By SDCN Staff Two New York men pleaded guilty Wednesday to conspiracy to commit money laundering for using New York-area pharmacies to submit false and fraudulent claims to Medicare and then laundering the criminal proceeds, federal prosecutors said. Arkadiy Khaimov, 39, of Forest Hills, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering. […]

By SDCN Editor A construction company owner became the third person to plead guilty for his role in a bid-rigging and bribery scheme involving the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) improvement and repair contracts. According to a plea agreement filed Monday in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California in Sacramento, Bill […]

San Francisco, CA–The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) Friday issued a proposal to modernize the Net Energy Metering (NEM) solar tariff to promote solar and battery storage, grid reliability, and control electricity costs for all Californians. The update launches the solar industry into the future so that it can support the modern grid by incentivizing […]

By Gina Yarbrough Englewood Cliffs, NJ–A voluntary product recall for dry shampoo was issued following concerns of potentially elevated levels of benzene, a classified human carcinogen, the US Food and Drug Administration said in a published report. Unilever recalled select lot codes of dry shampoo aerosol products produced prior to October 2021 from Dove, Nexxus, […]

By SDCN Staff Calexico, CA–U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at the Calexico Port of Entry discovered 486.06 pounds of methamphetamine concealed in the beams of three railcars in two different events during routine inspections at the Calexico rail yard. “Using natural compartments on railcars is only one of the methods used by transnational criminal […]

An indictment was unsealed Friday in Miami charging two Florida men for their roles in a scheme to defraud investors of Helios and Matheson Analytics Incorporated, a publicly traded Florida- and New York-based company that was the parent of MoviePass Incorporated.         According to court documents, Theodore Farnsworth, 60, of Miami, and J. Mitchell Lowe, […]

By SDCN Staff A federal grand jury in the Eastern District of California Wednesday returned a 40-count indictment charging nine people with conspiracy to transport stolen catalytic converters, conspiracy to commit money laundering, and other related charges. According to court documents, brothers Tou Sue Vang, 31, Andrew Vang, 27, and Monica Moua, 51, all of […]