Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Securities Department Seeks Greenbrier Insurance Agent

Arkansas Business - Arkansas Business Staff

The Arkansas Securities Department is looking for Terry Mitchell, a Greenbrier insurance agent who allegedly lured investors into a Malaysian Ponzi scheme and other fraudulent investments.

On Tuesday, Securities Commissioner Heath Abshure amended the lawsuit he filed against Mitchell in June to reflect that the total amount of fraudulent securities he had sold in Arkansas had increased to $92,000 and the number of alleged victims had increased to 10.

Assistant Commissioner Theodore Holder, lead counsel in Mitchell's case, filed an affidavit saying that process servers had been unable to find Mitchell, who did business in Greenbrier as Advantage Financial Services although there was no such business entity.

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Friday, August 15, 2008

Possible meth lab discovered in Burton, MI

The Flint Journal - Bryn Mickle

The Flint Journal John W. AdkissonBurton police officers investigate the scene of a possible meth lab Friday afternoon on LaSalle Avenue in Burton. Burton police and fire were notified after a process server discovered a chemistry set and ingredients while working at the house.

BURTON, Michigan -- Police and firefighters were trying to determine Friday evening if a home in a quiet suburban neighborhood was being used to make potentially explosive methamphetamine.

Firefighters were called to the house on Lasalle Avenue near Belsay and Lapeer Roads about 4:30 p.m. after a process server, who was evicting someone at the home, called 911 to report hazardous materials in the basement and in a white cube truck parked in the driveway.

Among the chemicals were anhydrous ammonia and ether, chemicals used in the production of methamphetamine.

"If something were to ignite, we'd have a big explosion," said Deputy Burton Fire Chief Ken Gould.

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Monday, August 11, 2008

Man says he was severely beaten by a Denver process server

Denver Post - Carlos Illescas

CENTENNIAL — A civil trial gets underway today in Arapahoe County District Court in which a man says he was severely beaten by a Denver process server who was not charged in the assault.

Ken Bernstein is suing the Denver process-server company, Checkmate Inc., for hiring Anthony Davis, a convicted felon.

According to the lawsuit, on Sept. 30, 2005, Davis was serving Bernstein with a civil subpoena and after serving it, Davis, now 39, refused to leave.

Bernstein then tried to call police, the lawsuit said, when Davis punched him in the side of his head. Bernstein's 8 year-old son was at the home and tried to revive his father. Bernstein suffered permanent brain damage, the lawsuit says.

Criminal charges were not filed. Bernstein's attorney, Chad Hemmat, said no charges were filed because prosecutors did not have enough evidence.

But Checkmate attorney Kathy Chaney said the district attorney's office decided Davis acted in self-defense. She said Bernstein came out of his house like a "raving madman reeking of alcohol," was aggressive and yelled racial epithets at Davis...

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Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Process server is beaten, stabbed to death

Rocky Mountain News - Bill Scanlon

A 45-year-old man used a baseball bat and a knife to kill the process server who had just handed him divorce papers, and then used his hands to choke his two children into unconsciousness, Larimer County sheriff's deputies said Thursday.

The process server who was bludgeoned and stabbed to death Wednesday night was identified as Stephen D. Allen, 57, of Fort Collins.

James Scott Whitler, 45, is being held without bail in Larimer County Jail on charges of murder, attempted murder and child abuse.

Larimer County deputies said they saw Whitler strangling his own children as they entered Whitler's home near Loveland.

Allen, the process server, had just given Whitler divorce papers and a restraining order at the house in the 4900 block of Glade Drive when the attacks occurred, sheriff's officials say.

Witnesses said Whitler left the room before the attacks, supposedly to gather his personal property. When he returned, he attacked the process server with a baseball bat.

It took two Taser shots to subdue Whitler, deputies said.

The 10- and 12-year- old children were taken to Medical Center of the Rockies. Their conditions have not been released. Whitler's wife, Lisa, also was injured in the incident, deputies said.

Two weeks ago, Lisa Whitler had called the sheriff about disturbing text messages sent to her phone by her husband, sheriff's spokeswoman Eloise Campanella said.

Four days ago, James Whitler told deputies that his wife was out of control and that the children did not want to go with her.

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Monday, April 21, 2008

Kenya: Ruling - Poll Petitioners Must Do Homework

All Africa - Nyakundi Nyamboga

Nairobi — The petitioner lost to the first respondent in the December 27 parliamentary elections.

He petitioned against the results on January 24, complaining of the conduct of the Electoral Commission of Kenya (ECK) and its official, Mr Andrew Rianga.

The first respondent, the Assistant minister, Dr Wilfred Machage, then filed this application on February 28 for orders that the petition be struck off. He said the petition was defective and invalid.

Through lawyers, Mr Tom Kajwang' and Mr Ochillo Ayacko, the petitioner's application was on the ground that he was not served with the petition within the period prescribed by law.

Mr Mwita Maroa opposed the application on the grounds that Machage had accepted service of the petition "personally" through his personal secretary.

He argued that the documents presented to court showed the assistant minister was served as provided for in law on January 25 at his office at Co-operative House, Nairobi.

Machage's personal secretary allegedly made it clear that she was authorised to receive the document on his behalf, but in an affidavit, Maroa claims that she refused to sign a copy of the petition.

The petitioner further claimed that as a precautionary measure, he still had to serve Machage by way of publication in the Kenya Gazette after the assistant minister "perfected the art of evading service"...

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Friday, April 18, 2008

RIAA sued homeless man

The Inquirer - Egan Orion

Left summons at old address

RIAA LAWYERS narrowly avoided a court sanction in a case where they sued a homeless man.

In Warner v. Berry, the RIAA sued a man who was then staying in a homeless shelter. Apparently undeterred in the least by the defendant's impecunious circumstances, big music's legal furies unleashed a minion to track the man down and serve him with a summons and complaint. The sequence of events that ensued went thusly:

On April 9, 2007, the mafiaa's process server posted a copy of the summons and complaint on the door of the defendant's former apartment, even though the plaintiffs knew that it was not his then current address.

On April 17, 2007, the recording industry plaintiffs asked for a postponement of a scheduled conference because their "attempts at service at Defendant's last-known address were unsuccessful." They requested a 60 day adjournment for "conducting a thorough address investigation to locate a current address."

On April 25, 2007, the plaintiffs' process server executed an affidavit of service, declaring that on April 9, 2007, at 3:50 p.m., she had "served" the summons by affixing one copy "in a conspicuous place on the property known as: 1713 Adee Ave Apt. 1 Bronx, N.Y. 10469" -- an address where they knew at the time that the defendant was no longer in residence...

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Thursday, February 28, 2008

False claim lands process server in hot water

Jamaica Gleaner - February 28, 2008

A process server who made a false declaration that he had served a wife with a divorce petition could face criminal charges.

Supreme Court Judge Carol Beswick has directed the registrar of the Supreme Court to report the matter to the director of public prosecutions (DPP) so that action can be taken against the process server.

The judge issued the directive when she set aside a decree absolute, which had ended the marriage between Winchester Simpson and Erline Simpson.

It was reported that the wife did not know that she was divorced until someone asked her how she was enjoying divorced life.

The matter was investigated and it turned out that the husband had filed a divorce petition in the Supreme Court on May 10, 2006. The decrees nisi and absolute were obtained by October 2007, ending the seven-year marriage.

Simpson applied to the Supreme Court to have the decree absolute set aside on the grounds of irregularity, and produced evidence to support her claim.

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Monday, February 25, 2008

Jamaica - Serving a divorce petition

Jamaica Gleaner - Mcgregor

One reader, who has been married for four years and separated from her husband for two years, wants to get a divorce. She is a British citizen, who has been living in Jamaica for 22 years. Her husband lives in the United States, but she has no knowledge of his actual whereabouts. She has an address for her husband's sister. What can she do?

The reader is entitled to file a petition in the Jamaican court to obtain a decree nisi, although she is a British citizen. The fact that she has been residing in Jamaica for 22 years means that the Jamaican court has jurisdiction to hear her petition as she is someone who has been ordinarily resident in Jamaica for at least 12 months immediately preceding the date on which the petition was filed.

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Friday, February 15, 2008

Process Server Finds Man Stabbed Inside Court Bathroom

Denver Channel 7 - Feb. 15, 2008

Police Clear Englewood Civic Center But Find No One Suspicious

ENGLEWOOD, Colo. -- Police are searching for someone who stabbed a man in the bathroom at Englewood Civic Center and then took off.

The 64-year-old victim was taken to Swedish Medical Center with non-life-threatening injuries.

"The victim was coherent and alert when he was found," said Englewood police Officer Brad Johnson.

The victim told detectives that while he was standing near a stall, someone reached from behind him and stabbed him in the abdomen. He didn't see who it was.

A process server walking into the bathroom found the victim bleeding and leaning against the bathroom wall. He called 911 at about 1:27 p.m...

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Tuesday, February 5, 2008

KARACHI: Karsaz tribunal orders arrest of PPP leader

Pakistan Dawn - Azfar-ul-Ashfaque

KARACHI, Feb 4: An inquiry tribunal investigating the Oct 18 Karsaz blasts issued a non-bailable warrant for the arrest of Pakistan People’s Party leader Dr Zulfiqar Mirza on Monday after he refused to appear before the tribunal to record his testimony.

A three-member PPP team responsible for the overall security of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto upon her homecoming on Oct 18, comprising Dr Zulfiqar Mirza, Agha Siraj Durrani and Maj-Gen (retd) Ahsan Ahmed, were summoned for Jan 28 but only Mr Ahmed appeared before the tribunal. The tribunal had repeated summons for Dr Mirza and Mr Durrani for Feb 4 and warned them of adopting a ‘coercive process’ if they failed to appear before the tribunal.

However, when the proceeding began, process server sub-inspector Muhammad Ayub Bhutta of Kario Ghawar police station, Badin district, submitted his report before the tribunal head, retired Justice Dr Ghous Mohammad, that he had served a summon on Dr Mirza but he refused to comply with it.

Special prosecutor Arshad Lodhi submitted a copy of the process server’s report containing a handwritten note by Dr Mirza. “I am receiving this summon under protest because our leader Shaheed Benazir Bhutto did not recognise this tribunal as free and fair. Therefore, we have decided not to appear before such a forum. We do our utmost efforts to stop that unfair treatment to the largest party of Pakistan,” wrote Dr Mirza, who was the security chief of Ms Bhutto and is working now in the same capacity with PPP Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari.

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