{"id":639800,"date":"2010-01-23T00:18:14","date_gmt":"2010-01-23T05:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef012877033ace970c"},"modified":"2010-01-23T00:18:14","modified_gmt":"2010-01-23T05:18:14","slug":"glendale-attorney-convicted-of-possessing-child-pornography-and-an-assault-rifle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/639800","title":{"rendered":"Glendale attorney convicted of possessing child pornography and an assault rifle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An attorney under investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement was convicted today of possessing child pornography and an assault rifle.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>Walter Loustari, who remains free on bail, entered a no contest plea before Los Angeles Superior Court Judge William Ryan, according to Deputy Dist. Atty. Susan Schwartz of the Justice System Integrity Division.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>Schwartz said the 58-year-old defendant entered an \u201copen\u201d plea, meaning it was not part of a negotiated settlement.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>He could face up to three years and eight months in state prison.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>Loustari, who had a law office in La Ca\u00f1ada Flintridge and lived in Glendale, was charged in October after an investigation by ICE and the Glendale Police Department.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>The investigation began in October 2006 as part of ICE\u2019s Operation Predator, in which the agency works\u00a0 with local authorities to investigate child pornography.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>&#8212; Richard Winton<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br><input id=\"gwProxy\" type=\"hidden\"><\/input><input id=\"jsProxy\" onclick=\"jsCall();\" type=\"hidden\"><\/input><\/p>\n<div id=\"refHTML\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An attorney under investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement was convicted today of possessing child pornography and an assault rifle.Walter Loustari, who remains free on bail, entered a no contest plea before Los Angeles Superior Court Judge William Ryan, according to Deputy Dist. Atty. Susan Schwartz of the Justice System Integrity Division.Schwartz said the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-639800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Grm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=639800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}