Page 6 April 21, 2016 EL SEGUNDO HERALD Phone Scams Follow Police Reports April Tax Deadlines Monday, April 11, 2016 An online petty theft report was taken at 1643 hours on 04/10/16 from the 900 block of Main Street. Taken was a bicycle. A burglary (vehicle) report was taken at 0649 hours from the 300 block of Loma Vista Street. Unknown suspect(s) gained entry into the victim’s vehicle through unknown means. Vehicle was ransacked but no property was taken. A petty theft report was taken at 1848 hours from the 100 block of South Sepulveda Boulevard. Miscellaneous tools were taken from an unlocked vehicle. Tuesday, April 12, 2016 A found property report was taken at 1928 hours from the 900 block of East Imperial Avenue. A wallet was found in front of the location. Two female adults were arrested at 0209 hours from Main Street and Imperial Avenue for possession of stolen property, possession of a controlled substance and vehicle theft. Property Report-An online lost property report was taken at 0519 hours from the 200 block of North Sepulveda Boulevard. A Japanese residency card was lost at the location. A traffic accident (with injuries) occurred at 0557 hours at Rosecrans Avenue and Sepulveda Boulevard, vehicle versus bicycle. A burglary (commercial) report was taken at 0914 hours from the 200 block of California Street. Unknown suspect entered an office from an unlocked door. Taken was a laptop computer. An attempt burglary (residential) report was taken at 0911 hours from the 400 block of Virginia Street. Unknown suspect(s) attempted to gain entry into the victim’s residence by prying a screen from a window. A traffic accident (without injuries) occurred at 0931 hours at Continental Boulevard and Grand Avenue, vehicle versus vehicle. Wednesday, April 13, 2016 A robbery report was taken at 0037 hours from the 2200 block of East Maple Avenue. Two unknown suspects forced the victim into a trash storage area of a business complex at gunpoint. Taken was a cell phone and sixty dollars in cash. A found property report was taken at 0135 hours from Douglas Street and El Segundo Boulevard. A black wallet was found at the location. Burglary (commercial) report was taken at 0937 hours from the 100 block of Sierra Street. Unknown suspect(s) gained entry and stole the victim’s property. One male adult and one female adult was arrested at 1229 hours from the 200 block of Kansas Street for corporal injury to cohabitant. One male adult was arrested at 1604 hours from the 700 block of Sepulveda Boulevard for plain drunk in public. A found property report was taken at 2030 hours from the 500 block of North Sepulveda Boulevard. A black and blue was found at the location. Battery report was taken at 2025 hours from the 200 block of Richmond Street. The victim was grabbed, forced to the ground and kicked on the side of his head by the suspect. One female adult was arrested at 2317 hours from Inglewood Police Department for one outstanding ESPD misdemeanor warrant. Thursday, April 14, 2016 One male adult was arrested at 1238 hours from the 500 block of North Sepulveda Boulevard for uttering a fictitious bill and shoplifting. One male adult was detained at 1944 hours from the 500 block of North Nash Street and transported to Harbor General Hospital for a 72- hour psychiatric evaluation. Friday, April 15, 2016 Dead Body Report was taken at 1233 hours from the 2100 block of East El Segundo Boulevard. A male adult was found deceased. • By Rob McCarthy There’s nothing new under the sun when it comes to scam artists, who use the April tax deadlines and a little Internet research to make their schemes sound believable. Seniors are most vulnerable to scams about the Internal Revenue Service or unpaid property taxes, according to the Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office. A fraud alert issued before the April 18 income-tax filing deadline warned seniors about the latest tax scam. “Seniors should be on guard for thieves posing as investigators from the Internal Revenue Service,” the DA fraud alert said “The crooks typically make unsolicited calls, claiming the person owes taxes to the IRS. They then threaten victims with criminal prosecution, arrest or deportation unless payment is made – usually via prepaid debit cards.” Elder financial abuse often goes unreported. Many victims are too embarrassed or afraid to report the crime. A study reported by Consumers Digest estimated that there are at least 5 million cases of this financial abuse in the United States each year, but law enforcement or government officials learn about only 1 in 25 cases. The District Attorney asks South Bay residents who receive suspicious phone calls demanding payment of back taxes to call their local police departments or the DA’s office. Calls from tax collectors about “late” property taxes made the rounds last year in El Segundo. Authorities advise residents, especially seniors, to tell a relative or a friend when they receive a suspicious phone call supposedly alerting them to unpaid taxes or an overdue bill. Financial crimes against seniors is a serious crime, as serious as physical abuse to local prosecutors. Phone scams can happen to anyone’s elderly parent or grandparent, including the Los Angeles district attorney herself. Jackie Lacey’s 77-year-old mother was bilked out of money by someone using the “grandma scam.” “My mother received a call from a person identifying himself as a police officer. He told her to wire money overseas to bail her grandson out of jail. He also told her not to tell anyone,” Lacey said. “The problem was her grandson wasn’t in jail and the caller wasn’t a police officer but a crook.” The tax-season alert advises Los Angeles County residents that IRS agents don’t make phone calls. The IRS corresponds with taxpayers by mail, according to Lacey’s office. Do not send money or give your bank account information to anyone claiming to be from a governmental agency, the alert says. The callers can find a victim’s name, address and other personal information on the Internet, then repeat the information over the phone to make the call sound official, authorities say. If something doesn’t seem right, seniors are advised to hang up the phone or call the police. Anyone concerned that a senior is being scammed should local a law enforcement agency or the Los Angeles County Elder Abuse Hotline at 877-477-3646.) The commissioner of the IRS issued his own scam alert April 13, ahead of the filing deadline and indicated that his department is aware of phone and email scams circulating across the country. They include: - Call asking for W-2 information from payroll and human resource departments; - “Verifying” tax return information over the phone - Someone pretending to work for a tax preparer. “After the tax deadline, watch out for these scammers promising a refund or threatening you with an unexpected tax bill,” IRS Commissioner John Koskinen said. A tip-off would be an “urgent” callback request left on a voicemail. Even if the caller ID number looks like the IRS or a local government tax office, it might be faked. Scammers can alter caller ID numbers, to appear legitimate, according to the head of the IRS. There has been a spike in email scams in 2016, which also appear to come from a tax agency or a tax software company. Do not reply or download any attachments, Koskinen advises. Forward suspicious emails about federal income taxes to the IRS at phishing@irs.gov. • L.A. County District Attorney Jackie Lacey says her mother was bilked by the “grandma scam.” Film Review from page 4 songs make the cut here, (Murray’s splashy rendition of “The Bare Necessities” feels like it was performed by Disneyland’s very own New Orleans Square jazz band) but in good restraint. The movie weaves the songs naturally into the story that’s in place, meaning no show-stopping musical numbers here, but that serves the feeling of being a movie all the same. This extends to the other Jungle Book hit “I Wanna Be Like You,” sung by the legendary Christopher Walken, as King Louie gets a massive wide-eyed character redesign akin to a slightly more friendly King Kong – slightly. The Jungle Book is the latest Disney movie from their animated masterpiece canon to get a “live-action” remake (after Cinderella, and look for the recently announced Emily Blunt-starring Mary Poppins). It’s a through and through adaptation, almost exact copy and paste of the hand-drawn version, and yet it still feels plumb new, every moment of it captivating and eliciting childlike wonder from all. Director Jon Favreau (Iron Man) whips up a new animated experience for a new generation of kids. Your kids’ kids adaptation will most likely be the Virtual-Reality experience, but for now, the film impresses with its use of digital animation, along with the magic that made it so great – those simple, bare necessities. 105 minutes. Rated PG for some sequences of scary action and peril. Now playing everywhere. • Mamba from page 5 too is a career that showed us all incredible shots, a knack for artistic like creativity on the basketball court, and an amount of passion and will from one player that was enough to carry an entire team to victory. Kobe truly was great. There will never be another player quite like him. Last Wednesday night at Staples Center, he proved that even while at the end of his rope, he could still muster enough strength to do what brought himself and the Lakers franchise five championships. It may not be the prettiest kind of ball. It may not be the most unselfish form either. But Kobe Bryant put together a lasting legacy on the basketball court that will be remembered by all who watch and play the game for an eternity to come. • Eagles from page 5 but fell in the night cap 5-3. Julie Roach’s towering home run sparked the comeback in game one. In the second game the Eagle’s comeback fell short. In the Ocean League opener the Eagle bats exploded for a 16-0 victory. Roach hammered another homerun while Melissa Euyoque had two doubles to pace El Segundo. Against Culver City the Centaurs outplayed the Eagles and took advantage of El Segundo errors to win 6-1. The Eagles played host to Hawthorne on Tuesday and travel to Lawndale today. On Saturday the Lady Eagles host the El Segundo Tournament this Saturday. The tournament that spans both this weekend and concludes next weekend has some of the area’s top teams. The Eagles, who are the two time defending champions and lost in the finals three years ago, play their first game on Saturday at 3pm. A win would propel them into the winner’s bracket and play at 7:30pm. There are game all day long taking place at Rec. Park, Richmond Street School and at the El Segundo Middle School. Boys’ Volleyball The top ranked Eagles have played a tough schedule so far and were looking to defend their Ocean League title. The thought before league play started that Santa Monica would be a formidable opponent. Through their first four matches in league play the Eagles had won each set. In fact the Eagles, who had not lost a league match in two years, faced Santa Monica who was riding a five game winning streak. The Vikings tenacious play stymied the Eagles and the match went five games and the Eagles suffered their league loss 20-25, 25-23, 26-24, 20-25, 13-15. That loss should fuel their fire when they face the Vikings in the season finale on the road on May 3, before that the Eagles play home games against Hawthorne on Tuesday and Lawndale next Thursday. Lacrosse The Eagles, ranked 20th in the latest MaxLax polls defeated number 18 Culver City 18-7. The win over the Centaurs was El Segundo’s sixth straight after starting the season 1-4. It marked the fifth consecutive game the Eagles have scored 15 points. Preston Quaschnick, Cory Lund and freshman Lukas Roscoe led the Eagles by scoring 14 of the 18 points against Culver City. Eagle head coach Brooks Roscoe has been pleased by his team’s latest surge. “The attack line is running on all cylinders, the middle has really stepped up and the defense has been special.” Coach Roscoe was speaking of the middle line of Daniel Ball and Rory Cochrane and the defensive line of Drew Bonny, Kai Bucher and Cayman Barber as well as goalie Alex Nolan. News and Notes Around Town The El Segundo In-Line Hockey League is taking registration for their summer league schedule. Visit and register on-line at www. esiha.org. The different divisions include Instructional, Mites, Squirts, Pee Wee and Bantam. The 25th Anniversary of the El Segundo Run for Education 5K/10K is this Saturday and there is still time to sign up. Both courses are USATF certified with award medals going to the top three finishers in each age group for both the 5K and 10K. The Run for Education is a major fundraiser for El Segundo schools. There will be pre and post race activities as well as an Expo. The free Expo offers race enthusiasts, along with their friends and families, the opportunity to meet local health & fitness professionals, retailers and service providers offering the latest in running and fitness products available today. Exhibitors will be providing free samples, giving demonstrations, plus showcasing sports apparel, health & nutritional products, and fitness services. With the race route entirely on the streets of El Segundo there will be plenty of street closures for the 8am starting time. •
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