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Peninsula High School dance teacher charged with sex crimes www.privateofficer.com
ROLLING HILLS ESTATES, Calif. Nov 30 2011 — A dance teacher at Peninsula High School has been arrested for allegedly having a sexual relationship with a female student.
36-year-old Anthony Angellano, of Wilmington, was arrested on Monday.
He faces five counts of oral copulation with a minor and one count of digital penetration with a minor.
The alleged sexual relationship happened in 2006 and 2007, when the girl was 16 and 17 years old, and Angellano was 31.
Police say the girl was a student at Peninsula High at the time, but the alleged sexual encounters occurred at Angellano’s Wilmington home.
The case is being handled by the Los Angeles Police Department, because Wilmington falls within its jurisdiction.
Angellano is also suspected of having sex with another female student 11 years ago, but charges were not filed in that case, because the statute of limitations has expired.
The Palos Verdes Unified School District was notified about the investigation back in October, and it immediately removed Angellano form his job.
He is currently on paid administrative leave, but his pay will be suspended once he is arraigned, according to district president Bill Franchini.
Angellano has worked for the school district for more than a decade as a contract employee.
According to the Peninsula High School website, Angellano helped establish a class called “Co-ed Choreo” in 1997, which teaches hip-hop, funk and jazz dancing.
He was hired as an “intern teacher” this year, while concurrently enrolled in a program at Cal State University, Dominguez Hills to work on his teaching credential.
Angellano has also taught dance at the Torrance Cultural Arts Center and the San Pedro Ballet Company.
Police suspect there may be additional victims, and are asking anyone with information to come forward.
Angellano is being held on $350,000 bail.
Source:KTLA.com
Maryland helicopter crash kills four www.privateofficer.com
The aircraft was engulfed when firefighters arrived at the scene minutes after receiving a call at 10:30 p.m. Thursday, said Washington County emergency services director Kevin Lewis. No vehicles on the highway were hit when the helicopter smashed into the eastbound lanes of Interstate 70. All four aboard the helicopter were killed, though there were no injuries on the ground.
Three people who worked for Advanced Helicopter Concepts in Frederick and a passenger were killed in the crash, one of its instructors, Gary Smith, said Friday morning. He said the company had suffered a “huge loss.”
“We thank everyone for their support and understanding during this difficult time,” he said, declining to release further details. Smith said the company was cooperating with National Transportation Safety Board investigators. The company trains pilots, takes photographers on aerial tours and fixes and sells helicopters, according to its Web site.
Advanced Helicopter Concepts’ office sits at the end of a hangar at Frederick Municipal Airport, where small planes could be seen taking off and landing Friday morning. Several cars were parked outside the office.
Visibility was somewhat limited by fog at the time of the crash, but it wasn’t clear if weather played a role, Lewis said. Storms had passed through the area earlier in the night.
Lewis said a witness saw the craft flying low when a bright arc of electricity flashed in the air, apparently caused by the helicopter striking a power line. It wasn’t clear if the craft was already on its way down when it hit the lines.
“The witness basically saw a large arc at which point the helicopter crashed onto the interstate,” Lewis said. Before seeing the arc, the witness thought the helicopter might have been trying to land along the roadway.
Troopers temporarily shut down lanes in both directions at the crash site near Smithsburg, which is about 10 miles east of Hagerstown, and Lewis said there were downed power lines in the interstate. The highway was reopened early Friday.
Wreckage could be seen just off the shoulder of the three eastbound lanes. A blade jutted out from twisted metal. The wreckage is almost directly beneath a set of power lines.
Federal Aviation Administration records list the owner of the four-seat Robinson R44 helicopter as Marsan Aviation Inc., of Wilmington, Del. Telephone messages weren’t immediately returned early Friday by an attorney for Marsan listed in FAA records.
Maryland State police, who are in charge of the investigation, declined to release the victims’ names until family members were notified. Investigators from the NTSB and the FAA were also at the scene west of the Washington County-Frederick County line, on the western slope of a ridge known as South Mountain.
Maryland State police spokesman Greg Shipley said the bodies were being taken to the state medical examiner in Baltimore. Any information about the owner of the aircraft and the cause of the crash will come from NTSB, which will conduct a briefing Friday morning at the Hagerstown Regional Airport.
Frederick Municipal Airport Manager Kevin Daugherty said Friday morning he was shocked by news of the accident. He said Advanced Helicopter Concepts had been at the airport for well over 10 years and was a “top-notch operation.”
“They run a very safe, efficient operation. They’re great tenants,” Daugherty said. “We are obviously very distraught over this. We are all still in shock that this happened.” He said he had spoken to employees of the company and that “they’re grieving very much.” Daugherty said operations at the airport continue as normal as possible.
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