Category: Transient

Transient Sentenced to Over 11 Years for Robbing Mail Carriers

July 14, 2022
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LOS ANGELES—A transient who lived in various locations in the San Fernando Valley has been sentenced to 135 months in federal prison for a two-week crime spree in which he robbed five U.S. Postal Service (USPS) employees—and fired a handgun so close to one victim that it caused him to suffer a ruptured eardrum, the…

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Man Pleads Guilty to Thanksgiving Stabbings of Two Transients

November 1, 2021
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SAN DIEGO—A man who stabbed a pair of homeless people—one fatally—in two separate Midway District attacks on the same day pleaded guilty Nov. 1 to murder and attempted murder charges. Forrest Robert Brantley, 40, is expected to receive a 33 years-to-life state prison term when he is sentenced for the attacks, which occurred on Thanksgiving…

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Fed’s Harker Says He Worries Inflation Won’t Be as Transient as Expected

October 2, 2021
Business & EconomyEconomieseconomyinflationPatrick HarkerTransientUSUS News
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NEW YORK—While he does not expect inflation to spiral out of control, Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank President Patrick Harker said he is worried inflationary pressures may not be as transient as expected. “I am in the camp of being more worried that inflation isn’t as transient as we think,” Harker said during a virtual event…

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