Tipster on Antelope Valley dogfights rewarded
LOS ANGELES—An Antelope Valley man will go to jail Friday for 365 days for pleading no contest to 31 counts of felony dog fighting, willful animal cruelty and neglect.Los Angeles District Attorney Steve Cooley on Thursday announced a $5,000 reward for the anonymous tipster who reported 44-year-old Jesse Jimenez and his wife, who has served her sentence.
At a news conference, Cooley introduced an 11-month-old pit bull that survived the dogfights at the couple's Lake Los Angeles home and has since been adopted. The dog is one of 14 taken from Jimenez.
Before California shifted lower-level inmates from state prisons to county jails, Jimenez would have faced up to five years in custody. Cooley says people need to urge lawmakers to add animal cruelty to the list of prison-eligible crimes.
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Prosecutors Says D.A. Has Union Grudge - Courthouse News Service
LOS ANGELES (CN) - A Los Angeles County prosecutor accused District Attorney Steve Cooley and his senior officials of "a pattern of harassment and selective discrimination" - including spying on him and putting a forged document in his personnel file - because he belongs to a union, the Association of Deputy Attorneys.
Deputy District Attorney James Bozajian claims Cooley and Los Angeles County discriminated against him because of their "already admitted anti-union policies."
Also named as defendants are prosecutors Curtis Hazell, John Spillane, John Zajec, Jaquelyn Lacey, Janet Moore and Sharon Matsumoto.
"Defendants have admitted in sworn testimony that they have and continued to retaliate against plaintiff and all such prosecutors who are active members and participants of ADDA," according to the federal complaint. "Defendants' discriminatory practices including transferring plaintiff, (a senior union member) to juvenile courts, consistently transfer, harass and cajole him to attempt to force him out of both the ADDA Union and the District Attorneys' Office.
"Defendants use District Attorney investigators, (ie. law enforcement officers working directly for defendants), to harass, intimidate and spy on the plaintiff, and others associated in a board capacity for ADDA.
"Each of these acts constitutes an adverse employment action substantially motivated by protected association and/or speech, including speech touching on public policy as is more fully set forth herein."
Bozajian says he has served on the ADDA board since 1993, is the union's longest-serving director and one of its most active participants. He was mayor of Calabasas City four times.
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