February 27, 2026 • 31 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 1 (02/27) - Mark Thompson fills in for John! Alex Stone comes on the show with the latest on the Nancy Guthrie search. Neil Sedaka died. Mark talks about the Paramount/Warner Bros merger. A jewelry store in Simi Valley was broken into by tunnel and the crew who did it was just sentenced. LAUSD Superintendent Alberto Carvalho has been placed on paid administrative leave.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Caf I am six forty. You're listening to the John
Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio apps.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
I don't know where he went. I don't know what
he does. You're honor.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
I was told nothing. I find that's the deniability that
makes my life easier. Got the whole crew though. Eric's here,
Debrah's here, and we will rock it. I think Angel
watching traffic. There are all kinds of things happening. We'll
get to all of it today. One of the things
that has seized center stage in the news for the
(00:31):
last few weeks is the Guthrie story, and it is
beyond complex because it's hard to believe that a kidnapping
of someone so high profile could be followed by such
silence and also followed by what is widely alleged to
(00:52):
be almost misconduct on the part of detectives and law
enforcement authorities and investigative brand that we're all dealing with this,
So Alex Stone is standing by and can bring us
the very latest on this to one would hope bring
some light to this and maybe some signs of optimism.
(01:14):
Although it just seems to be a grimmer and grimmer story,
but there is more detail and some new development so high.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Alex heay there.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Mark, Yeah, so today and I wish it was better news,
but they really don't have a lot. So the Pima
County Sheriff's Department said today they are quote refocusing the
resources and it's going to be detectives who are specifically
assigned to the case who are going to work it
because until now it's been all hands on deck, everybody
try to figure this out. But they've got to run
(01:42):
a department as well, and they've got regular calls coming
in that have nothing to do with Guthrie. They've got
other cases that were going on before Guthrie that they've
got to get back to. And so now they've got
to figure out how they're going to deal with this
for the long term and what they're going to do
to make sure that they can investigate it, keep it active,
(02:03):
keep it open, but get back to you know, we're
going into the fifth week now of this, get back
to somewhat regular life. The FBI is moving their command
post up to Phoenix. They're moving their agents, some of
them out of Tucson going back to Phoenix. They've got families,
they've got other caseloads as well. So they got to
work that. The FBI is saying their numbers will remain
the same, but they can come that they're going to
(02:25):
do it from Phoenix. They can go back to Tucson
the ninety minute drive if they've got to go back down.
But they've got to figure out at the bureau, at
the FBI, and at the Peba County Sheriff's Department how
they're going to do it long term.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Let me ask you a question, just because you've covered
so many of these, this seems I mean, I understand
completely the logic behind it.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
You've explained it.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
I even understand sadly how you do sort of need
to redeploy resources along the way while still sort of
keeping you know, things on simmer. What I don't understand,
but I'm sure you can explain to me, is what
is the upside in announcing that. It just seems to
me as though it's a it's a bad look to announce. Well,
we're all going to kind of get back to normal activities,
(03:05):
but we'll still keep you know, Joe and Bob here
on this one. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
I mean, I think a lot of it is because
we've been asking them what the planning is. But also
if you are a victim of a crime in Pima County,
you're probably like, hey, what about me? You know, like
we got to what's the long term plan? And the
county wants to know, the county supervisors or whatever their
their makeup is in Pema County, where money is going
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and how it's being used, and just the overall question
about the allocation of resources.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Okay, so there's a local politics to it, is what you're.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Just how as we have been following every step of
their investigation of how are they going to keep handling
this in long term? I mean just like we as
a media I was in Tucson for a while and
then eventually you got to come back and you know,
working remotely, everybody's trying to figure out five weeks into it,
coming up into the fifth week, what the long term
plan is going to be. The other thing is, so
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there's been a lot of focused in the last twenty
four hours on ring camera footage from a home two
and a half miles away, and it shows a white
vehicle driving by the house around the time that the
Guthrie went missing, just driving by the front of it.
Our law enforcement sources are telling US today mark that
they don't give this a lot of value because one,
they don't think that this vehicle was involved. But also
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even if it were, it's a white vehicle driving by
in the dark, you can't see a plate, you can't
even figure out really what kind of vehicle it is.
They might be able to generally have an idea of
what kind it is if they really work it, But
they said, you know, other than it's a white vehicle
driving by at two thirty three o'clock in the morning,
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two and a half miles away, that could have been
somebody going to work, going to CBS to grab medicine,
coming home from the bar. It could be anybody two
and a half miles away from this. That's not a
smoking gun that they don't see it that way at all,
and why it took so long to find this video
for you know, somebody go back in the ring camera
and be like, oh, there was a car they went by.
They've got so much this stuff that they are going
(05:01):
through right now that their tips, the number of tips
have gone up since the reward went up to one
point two million with the family putting in that money,
but they still don't know where Guthrie is and they
don't know who took her, and they've got a lot
of tips to go through, but they haven't figured it
out yet.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
I mean it streak.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
It speaks to how desperate we are for something to
happen in this case that they are talking about that
ring camera stuff that you're speaking.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Well, it's really a media thing. And then they had
to respond to it and kind of you know, damping
it down and say, look, we know about this video,
but it doesn't mean anything because they don't think there's
any evidentiary value to it and it doesn't help them
investigative lead to that. It's not going to move them
toward whoever did this. And oh, by the way, that
the family is getting the home back as well. The
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initially the Pima County Sheriff's Department had moved in, they
secured the scene, they handed the home over to the family,
and then the FBI at some point in the last
couple of weeks took the home back, even though it
had already gone to the family, and because it didn't
seem like Pima County gave them the home back very
quickly to the family where you could go in and
you could do whatever you wanted. The FBI took control
(06:08):
of the home again as they came in and they
were investigating. Now they are done with it, as they
are moving resources out. They are giving the home back
to the family and the family can do, you know,
whatever they want to do.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
That was one of the criticisms was that, you know,
the chain of custody on the crime scene, if you will,
was pretty weird in that they turned it over too
quickly to those that had nothing to do with the investigation.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Well, and the sheriff said that they were done with it.
That he said he will fall on the sword for
that if if somebody thought that they did it too quickly.
He says that their forensic teams had come in, that
they had analyzed everything. But if you remember after they
moved back and they gave up the home, that there
was blood on the front porch that had not been
cleaned up, that was quite visible. Domino's pizza guy delivered
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a pizza there to somebody who had ordered. For a while,
it seemed like that people were finding it funny to
have pizzas delivered to the home, just you know, people
who were not connected to the case whatsoever. In the
media may have also been using that as an address
to get something delivered to them if they were hungry
and couldn't leave. But delivery people were walking up to
the home not finding whoever they were supposed to be
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delivering it to, and there was just a lot of access,
so they eventually secured the home. They've had a deputy
parked out front ever since then. Now that it's going
back to the family, the FBI and Pema County had
put up no trespassing signs on the family's behalf or
the family asked them to put them in, so it's
going to be their home again, and the investigative part
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of it is done at the home. They may come
back from time to time to look at something, but
they're moving on from the home without any answers of
what happened to the homeowner.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
It's all pretty grim.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
And I saw that Savannah Guthrie is I mean again
it might be a response to being questioned about this.
I'm sure she's not like screaming this in the rooftops,
but indicating at some point she's going to come back
to the Today Show. And it's such a sad code
of you know, at.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
What point does she leave Tucson and decide it's time
to go home back to New York. That's going to
be a tough move to make. And you heard in
the Instagram post that she put out this week where
she now says, you know her mom might be dancing
in heaven is the way that she put it, and
that they are admitting that maybe mom isn't alive any longer.
(08:22):
And just today she reposted something focused on that. Because
the reason why and part of the reason why putting
out the reward money is to beef up the tips
coming in again, so this doesn't go cold, it becomes
a cold case and the tips aren't coming in. And
the video had done that, but they didn't get what
they needed out of it. So once they did this,
we now know that the reward amount has increased those
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tips coming in. But the point that the family keeps
trying to make is that you can be totally anonymous
and come and make a deal at a third party,
neutral location with like a pin code essentially to pick
up and it would be in cash if you could
provide where the the you know where she is and
who took her. I mean, it's hard to believe it
would be completely anonymous and no questions asked if you
(09:06):
said you knew about the case. But they are claiming,
the family is claiming that at least their portion of
the money, that if you can prove to them that
you know where she is and who took her, and
if they can confirm that and know that it's real,
that you could say I want to meet at this
post office or on the street corner and there will
be somebody disconnected from the case there to hand you
cold hard cash.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
Certainly I hope for that Hail Mary pass to be caught.
It just seems like a pretty grim scene all in all. Alex,
thank you. Always enjoyed talking to your right week with this.
Yeah you too, my friend. Uh yeah, I mean that's just,
as I say, just the bare reality of the Guthree case.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Thanks to Alex Stone.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
When we come back, it is the prison couple that
may be going away for a while. What a ride
they had before Federal prison showed up. KFI AM six
forty Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
You're listening to John Cobelt demand from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
This is KFI AM six forty. We're live everywhere on
the iHeartRadio app John cobelts off today, Mark Thompson sitting
in and we just got the word that Neil Sedaka
passed away apparently pretty suddenly.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
But that was his huge song.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
It was a number one song for him, and he
was the same generation of artists and writers, songwriters like
Neil Diamond, Carol King and grew up in Brooklyn and
apparently he was a prodigy of sorts. In second grade,
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his teacher recommended piano lessons, and within a couple of
years he'd successfully auditioned for a scholarship at Juilliard and
he was into classical music. He initially pursued classical music
as a piano player, but then as a teenager he
got into this sound of pop music. And at thirteen,
(11:02):
a neighbor heard him playing piano and introduced him to
her son, a guy named Howard Greenfield. He was three
years older than Neil Sadaka. So they began a songwriting
partnership that was absolutely scorching the charts. Multiple times they
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hit in the year's following. They were together for two
and a half decades. And again, I'm you know, you
learn so much of this when you when somebody passes away.
I I one of the reasons I look at the
ovits is because you learn about people's lives who a
were famous and you kind of didn't know a bunch
of details about their life until they passed away, and
(11:44):
you look at the oh bit. And also there are
a bunch of people who in a way should have
been famous for all the stuff that they did and
all the details in their life. So anyway, this falls
into the former category. You know, this is somebody famous
and I'm just learning all these details about Neil Sadaka's life.
So he graduated high school, formed a duop group called
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the link Tones, named after the school. They released several
singles that were local hits, and then one of their
songs scored a global, huge hit in nineteen sixty one,
The Lion Sleeps Tonight. You know that song, most of you.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
I think I love that song. Sure.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
But by the time Sedaka and Greenfield, his partner, were
you know, in the Brill Building there in New York
where they cranked out all those hits.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Carol King wrote.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
There and Neil Diamond, as I say, he and Greenfield
scored their first hit with a song called Stupid Cupid
and then another song called where the Boys Are Again.
Sorry I don't know these songs, but these were really
big songs at the time, and then parlayed that success
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into a solo deal. So Neil Sadaka made this deal
with RCA Victor and he had a bunch of hits,
and the Beatles and the British Invasion, they kind of
began this major change in music, right It changed pop
culture and so all that dou wop stuff that Neil
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Sadaka was basically getting rich off of, it got bumped
out of the side. It got bumped off to the
side where it sort of languished, and you ended up
with pop music being dominated by the Beatles, the British Invasion,
the Stones, the Who, all of that stuff. So he
and his writing partner, this guy Greenfield, wrote hits for
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Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, Tom Jones, the Monkeys, the Fifth Dimension.
I mean, this guy was cranking and in the late sixties,
with his career kind of ebbing, he found success in
a song called Star Crossed Lovers became a major hit there,
(14:07):
and then through the seventies he continued to percolate, worked
in the UK, in Australia, and then Love Will Keep
It Together was a big song here, and that was
a song like the Captain and To Neil did, and
(14:29):
all of a sudden, you know, Neil Sedaka was quickly
re christened as a hit maker. There were other hits
in Europe. He wrote for Abba. He met his I
don't want to say his idol, but he was a
fan of Elton John and he met him at a
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party in London and then signed with his record label,
and that was one of the things that allowed for
or The Captain to Neil's version of Love Will Keep
Us Together to explode, and he did a song called
bad Blood, which was also a number one single. So
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he even did a reboot of Breaking Up Is Hard
to Do. He moved over to Electra Records, continued performing,
releasing music. Apparently he was pretty prolific, to the point
that he was active even in his later years. He
did a concert at Lincoln Center in two thousand and
seven for the fiftieth anniversaries of his debut in show business,
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and Captain and to Neil were there. Natalie Cole Connie Francis. Anyway,
he has a wife who survived him, who he married
in nineteen sixty two. That's pretty impressive for a guy
who's rocking and working in the rock and roll world
and pop music. Two children, and again he passes away
(15:57):
at eighty six. I met him once a party and
he played piano at a party. You know what, you
know whose party it was? It was that Jeweler to
the Stars. People are on the red carpet when they
go unto the oscars.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
You know who are you wearing? Ah, this is Martin Katz.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
This is the rings from Martin Katz and the earrings
and matching necklace from Martin Katz. So I knew Martin
Katz when he was Marty Katz. He was just this
guy who I knew and he wasn't Jeweler to the Stars.
And he had a party and at the party and
this is in La. He moved to LA from Northern California.
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And he's really, you know, super high end jeweler now
and for the last thirty years. But Neil Sedaka was
there and Sadaka he asked Sadaka to sit down and
play the piano and he did. It was really kind
of a cool thing. Seemed like a cool guy. Neil Sedaka,
legendary singer and songwriter, and of course Eric didn't know
who he was, which makes this segment more delicious than ever.
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Thank you Eric for not knowing who knows the doctor is? Yes,
it is the co Belt Show. Thompson sitting in. We're
KFI AM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 4 (17:09):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
Mark Thompson here for John co Belt on this Friday.
It's wild because the weather is so warm and it's Friday.
There is nothing on the road. I mean I got
here in like, you know, nine minutes. It's crazy. And
then you pull into the parking lot here at the
great iHeart Mothership, and there are no cars in the
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parking lot. I mean, I didn't realize we lacked the
work ethic to this point. It's wonderful. Yeah, Eric explained
it to me. He said, no, it's Friday, weather's good.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
No one shows up on Friday, no matter if the
weather's good or bad. Mark this place. Come on.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
Now, what's amazing to me about La is I think
it's expensive. I think it's expensive to live in la
and still it seems like nobody works. I don't understand, like,
is everybody on their way to an audition or is
everybody I mean, it used to be this town was
a showbized town. You could understand why, you know, writers
or grips or lighting people or makeup artists, how they
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were on an alternate schedule than the nine to fivers.
But I feel like what we're left with are you know,
sort of crafts people, contractors. These are the people that
are really working, you know, construction crews. I don't know.
The business is definitely changing too. The show business industry rocked,
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as you're aware, by this Netflix deal and the Warner
Brothers takeover. This is likely a paramount Warner Brothers merger.
There's a lot associated whether we're gonna talk to Michael
Schnyder from Variety about this. It's a seismic change in media.
It is a growth in media that seems to be
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flying in the face of like everything you'd be concerned
with when it comes to monopolies. You know, when it
comes to these mergers, we've really just let stuff go.
I'll tell you what happened that you might have noticed.
And I think this is owing to these mergers. Also,
is there was a blood letting at Channel five that
KTLA Morning News. Mark Chrisky was laid off. They got
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rid of this guy's been there since the beginning. He's
responsible for them being part of this meteoric rise that
they had at the beginning of that show when it
first went on the Iron Area. It was probably Sam
Rubin and Mark Chrisky who were most responsible for it.
I would say there was also, I think at the
very beginning, Barbara Beck, Carlos E. Meskua. I mean, don't
(19:44):
get me wrong, that whole combination works so beautifully.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
They were.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
They did numbers in the beginning that were, I don't know,
five times the Today's Show, five times Good Morning America.
Many more people watched the KTLA Morning News than watch
any of those network shows, particularly on the West Coast,
because you know, we're three hours behind her. Who wants
to see a warmed over morning show. So the last
(20:11):
of those people was Mark Chrisky, and he was there
still there doing the weather, still funny, still engaged, very dynamic,
and they dumped him. They dumped him, They dumped Lou Parker,
they dumped a few others. I don't have the names
in front of me. Deborah but you know many of
these people.
Speaker 5 (20:30):
Lena Gobians is a reporter and a blonde. She's an
animal lover.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
Oh, yes, guess yeah, I can't stretch of the d. Sorry,
I'm going to look the layoffs. There's so many of
them it's hard to keep track. But yeah, so I
mentioned it, and we'll get her name in a second.
And there were others too, I mean in the newsroom.
But the downsizing they're doing because they're choking on debt.
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Next Dour has all of these stations. They did the
same thing in New York. They got rid of anchors
and these are high priced talent, and this is what's
happening across the board. So in the case of the KTLA,
in the case of the New York stations, and the
crazy really when this crazy case Montoya, case Montoya, that's it. Yeah,
the d is silent Casey Montoya. Yeah, these are really
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talented people and they got rid of them because they're
just too expensive.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Now.
Speaker 5 (21:26):
But I have a question, and I because I don't
know these people, maybe you do. I wonder if they
were offered instead of being laid off because they made
so much money, if they said, look, we want to
keep you but you guys make way too much money,
so we're gonna cut your salary in half? Are you
okay with that? If you're okay with that, you can stay.
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If you're not well, then sorry, we have to let
you go.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
You know, it's interesting. I don't know the answer in
this case, but I know that local talent already across
the board, all of them, all the high paid local talent,
has already taken that haircut. So I don't know if
there's much more to go. They may be in a
place where they go, you know what. It's sad, but
just got to get rid of them, you know what
I mean. I don't know the answer, though. My guess
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is they didn't go to them and say, you know,
will you take less money? But I'll find out. I'll
find out, and I will report back to you.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
And the kfis for real curious at that.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
But I think I'm here next Friday so I can
actually literally report back to you. But I I think
it's a sign of what's happening in the industry, which
is why I mention it, because these are these are
companies that have been allowed to grow to the point
that they're choking on debt, and also they're dealing with
something else, and what is that? The complete change in
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media and the landscape of media now takes the audience
and it attenuates it across all of these different platforms.
So they're gamers, there are streamers or up against and
so the available audience just is smaller. So that means
anything adds supported that on television is going to bring
in less money. Less money means we don't have the
money to pay Mark Krisky and all the rest of
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these yews. That's how they say across the board New York, Chicago, LA.
Everybody's going who's making over a certain amount of money
and that's where you end up with. Now, the Paramount
deal is going to face the same thing because even
when Netflix was talking about its acquisition, they were talking
about having to shed sixteen billion dollars worth of staff
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and other commitments in order to make the numbers work.
So this is stuff we kind of already have a
window on. Those are real people. You've got two studios,
Paramount and Warner Brothers. They do the same thing. Why
would you possibly have them operating as independent entities? They
say they're going to operate as independent entities. But I
think you say a lot of things before you actually
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get in there. So all of that's happening. We'll talk
more to Michael Schneider about this, but I think it's
a sign, you know, it's really a sign of the
times in media and in Los Angeles generally.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
That's why I mention it. In southern California, I.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
Mean all of the other industries, all the dry cleaners,
the restaurants, et cetera. They depend on a robust entertainment
industry and it is changing dramatically. Mark Thompson here for
John Coblt where KFI AM six forty live everywhere on
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John Coblts Show. Mark Thompson sitting in with the co
Belt Kids, Deborah, Eric Angels here, Ray Lopez Rock and
Roll Ray. So we will get into a little bit
of the Epstein stuff top of the hour.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
I promised you i'd update you on.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
That heist crew that ended up eloping in the middle
of their their string of heists, but I thought it
update you quickly on that. Do you remember the rate
of that jewelry store they tunneled into the jewelry store.
It was a pretty sophisticated Berkeley, right, did see me Valley.
(25:12):
I don't know if anybody remembers. It wasn't that long ago,
but I mean three members of this sophisticated burglary crew.
They you know, as I say, they tunneled in in
this jewelry heigh made away with I think it was
over two million dollars worth of jewelry. They were just sentenced. Yeah,
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they broke through a rooftop and they we repelled down
with ladders. They disabled the surveillance cameras. They spent hours,
you know, drilling into this jewelry store safe and they
just got four years in Ventura County jail. Heidi Truhio,
(25:54):
she's twenty six, and Manuel David Ibara thirty eight, and
Camillo Antonio Aguilar Lara. You always know when they're using
all four names in a story about you, that you
got nailed on something. You've been arrested, somehow, rested, convicted
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thirty two years old. So twenty six, thirty eight, and
thirty two each got four years and four months. There
was a fourth defendant and his sentencing hearing is still
to come. So they were charged in connection with this
elaborate heist. They broke into a candy and coffee shop
and Seemi Valley through the roof, and then they used
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ladders and ropes to repel down, blacked out the surveillance cameras,
and stole cash from a safe. They then spent hours
boring a hole through a wall into the adjacent jewelry
and watch repair store. And that's where they broke into
another safe and they made off of jewelry, bullioned cash
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and heirlooms. And I remember two in here. It is yeah,
two and a half million dollars in cash and inventory.
And I mean this is more than just cash and inventory.
This is a guy whose life was tied up in
the store. The jewelry store owner was this guy who's
been opened since the seventies. You know, his whole world
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is this business. The contents of the safe not insured.
He estimated the store loss between two million and two
and a half million in cash and inventory. So they're
sentenced these four.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
Right, Hey, we.
Speaker 5 (27:34):
Have some breaking news. This is just happening right now.
The superintendent of the La School District, Alberto Carvallo, has
just been placed on administrative leave following that FBI raid
earlier this week at his home in the LA School
District headquarters. So this is just breaking right now. The
(27:54):
school board, they had a meeting yesterday, they had no decision,
They had another meeting to day, and he was put
on administrative leave this afternoon.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
Yeah, this is an ongoing story. In fact, we're going
to get into it next hour. But they obviously seized
a bunch of materials associated with hard drives and other
things in which there might have been communications of one
sort or another. There has yet to be any kind
of real coherence to this, but it is a it's
(28:27):
a big story, and being put on administrative leave is
different than being charged. In fact, I thought you were
going to come on and say they've charged him. But
when you say he's been put on administrative leave, I
think that speaks to the predicament more than it speaks
to the situation. From a legal perspective. Again, I think
(28:48):
it's you know, Carvalla is in trouble, don't get me right. Administratively, yeah,
and don't get me wrong. I mean this is a
this is that whole chat bought Ai story in which
in essence as superintendent he was championing this technology, and
then it suggested or questioned, was there a sort of
collusion to force this technology onto LA schools. So this
(29:13):
is where this story gets more complicated. And again, guy
hasn't been charged. It's paid administrative leafs, so you know,
it might smell bad right now, but it hasn't yet
taken on a coherence that we can really speak to.
And for that reason, how dare you introduce? Interrupt me?
Speaker 5 (29:33):
I'm so sorry. I mean, this literally was happening, you know,
I was. I was writing it up. Ray wanted me
to break in.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
How dare you Ray? I? Ray was behind this.
Speaker 5 (29:45):
That was a good call, but I was busy, actually right.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
I don't know that it was a good call.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
It was.
Speaker 5 (29:49):
This is the biggest, biggest life.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
No, it's a pretty big story.
Speaker 5 (29:53):
It's a big and we've been I've been doing the
story all morning that the school board was meeting still,
so it's it's an importance story.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Absolutely.
Speaker 5 (30:00):
We still don't know all the details, but we know
he's on paid administrative leave.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
I mean, it's the second largest school district in the country,
so you know, and this is again, this is all
sort of being suggested that if this was a collusive
deal that was designed to force a hugely expensive, multimillion
dollar project down down the throat of taxpayers, it's a
(30:30):
It's a serious breach of ethics and a breach of
the law. So again, Superintendent Alberto Covlla on paid administrative leave.
I'll update the rest of the crime blodder later when
we come back. We'll update that story as it continues
this afternoon and still to come another day with Epstein testimony,
(30:53):
we'll get to some of that as well. It is
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
I don't know where he went. I don't know what
he does. You're honor.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
I was told nothing. I find that's the deniability that
makes my life easier. Got the whole crew though. Eric's here,
Debrah's here, and we will rock it. I think Angel
watching traffic. There are all kinds of things happening. We'll
get to all of it today. One of the things
that has seized center stage in the news for the
(00:31):
last few weeks is the Guthrie story, and it is
beyond complex because it's hard to believe that a kidnapping
of someone so high profile could be followed by such
silence and also followed by what is widely alleged to
(00:52):
be almost misconduct on the part of detectives and law
enforcement authorities and investigative brand that we're all dealing with this,
So Alex Stone is standing by and can bring us
the very latest on this to one would hope bring
some light to this and maybe some signs of optimism.
(01:14):
Although it just seems to be a grimmer and grimmer story,
but there is more detail and some new development so high.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Alex heay there.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Mark, Yeah, so today and I wish it was better news,
but they really don't have a lot. So the Pima
County Sheriff's Department said today they are quote refocusing the
resources and it's going to be detectives who are specifically
assigned to the case who are going to work it
because until now it's been all hands on deck, everybody
try to figure this out. But they've got to run
(01:42):
a department as well, and they've got regular calls coming
in that have nothing to do with Guthrie. They've got
other cases that were going on before Guthrie that they've
got to get back to. And so now they've got
to figure out how they're going to deal with this
for the long term and what they're going to do
to make sure that they can investigate it, keep it active,
(02:03):
keep it open, but get back to you know, we're
going into the fifth week now of this, get back
to somewhat regular life. The FBI is moving their command
post up to Phoenix. They're moving their agents, some of
them out of Tucson going back to Phoenix. They've got families,
they've got other caseloads as well. So they got to
work that. The FBI is saying their numbers will remain
the same, but they can come that they're going to
(02:25):
do it from Phoenix. They can go back to Tucson
the ninety minute drive if they've got to go back down.
But they've got to figure out at the bureau, at
the FBI, and at the Peba County Sheriff's Department how
they're going to do it long term.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Let me ask you a question, just because you've covered
so many of these, this seems I mean, I understand
completely the logic behind it.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
You've explained it.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
I even understand sadly how you do sort of need
to redeploy resources along the way while still sort of
keeping you know, things on simmer. What I don't understand,
but I'm sure you can explain to me, is what
is the upside in announcing that. It just seems to
me as though it's a it's a bad look to announce. Well,
we're all going to kind of get back to normal activities,
(03:05):
but we'll still keep you know, Joe and Bob here
on this one. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
I mean, I think a lot of it is because
we've been asking them what the planning is. But also
if you are a victim of a crime in Pima County,
you're probably like, hey, what about me? You know, like
we got to what's the long term plan? And the
county wants to know, the county supervisors or whatever their
their makeup is in Pema County, where money is going
(03:29):
and how it's being used, and just the overall question
about the allocation of resources.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Okay, so there's a local politics to it, is what you're.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Just how as we have been following every step of
their investigation of how are they going to keep handling
this in long term? I mean just like we as
a media I was in Tucson for a while and
then eventually you got to come back and you know,
working remotely, everybody's trying to figure out five weeks into it,
coming up into the fifth week, what the long term
plan is going to be. The other thing is, so
(03:57):
there's been a lot of focused in the last twenty
four hours on ring camera footage from a home two
and a half miles away, and it shows a white
vehicle driving by the house around the time that the
Guthrie went missing, just driving by the front of it.
Our law enforcement sources are telling US today mark that
they don't give this a lot of value because one,
they don't think that this vehicle was involved. But also
(04:19):
even if it were, it's a white vehicle driving by
in the dark, you can't see a plate, you can't
even figure out really what kind of vehicle it is.
They might be able to generally have an idea of
what kind it is if they really work it, But
they said, you know, other than it's a white vehicle
driving by at two thirty three o'clock in the morning,
(04:40):
two and a half miles away, that could have been
somebody going to work, going to CBS to grab medicine,
coming home from the bar. It could be anybody two
and a half miles away from this. That's not a
smoking gun that they don't see it that way at all,
and why it took so long to find this video
for you know, somebody go back in the ring camera
and be like, oh, there was a car they went by.
They've got so much this stuff that they are going
(05:01):
through right now that their tips, the number of tips
have gone up since the reward went up to one
point two million with the family putting in that money,
but they still don't know where Guthrie is and they
don't know who took her, and they've got a lot
of tips to go through, but they haven't figured it
out yet.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
I mean it streak.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
It speaks to how desperate we are for something to
happen in this case that they are talking about that
ring camera stuff that you're speaking.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Well, it's really a media thing. And then they had
to respond to it and kind of you know, damping
it down and say, look, we know about this video,
but it doesn't mean anything because they don't think there's
any evidentiary value to it and it doesn't help them
investigative lead to that. It's not going to move them
toward whoever did this. And oh, by the way, that
the family is getting the home back as well. The
(05:46):
initially the Pima County Sheriff's Department had moved in, they
secured the scene, they handed the home over to the family,
and then the FBI at some point in the last
couple of weeks took the home back, even though it
had already gone to the family, and because it didn't
seem like Pima County gave them the home back very
quickly to the family where you could go in and
you could do whatever you wanted. The FBI took control
(06:08):
of the home again as they came in and they
were investigating. Now they are done with it, as they
are moving resources out. They are giving the home back
to the family and the family can do, you know,
whatever they want to do.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
That was one of the criticisms was that, you know,
the chain of custody on the crime scene, if you will,
was pretty weird in that they turned it over too
quickly to those that had nothing to do with the investigation.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Well, and the sheriff said that they were done with it.
That he said he will fall on the sword for
that if if somebody thought that they did it too quickly.
He says that their forensic teams had come in, that
they had analyzed everything. But if you remember after they
moved back and they gave up the home, that there
was blood on the front porch that had not been
cleaned up, that was quite visible. Domino's pizza guy delivered
(06:51):
a pizza there to somebody who had ordered. For a while,
it seemed like that people were finding it funny to
have pizzas delivered to the home, just you know, people
who were not connected to the case whatsoever. In the
media may have also been using that as an address
to get something delivered to them if they were hungry
and couldn't leave. But delivery people were walking up to
the home not finding whoever they were supposed to be
(07:12):
delivering it to, and there was just a lot of access,
so they eventually secured the home. They've had a deputy
parked out front ever since then. Now that it's going
back to the family, the FBI and Pema County had
put up no trespassing signs on the family's behalf or
the family asked them to put them in, so it's
going to be their home again, and the investigative part
(07:33):
of it is done at the home. They may come
back from time to time to look at something, but
they're moving on from the home without any answers of
what happened to the homeowner.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
It's all pretty grim.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
And I saw that Savannah Guthrie is I mean again
it might be a response to being questioned about this.
I'm sure she's not like screaming this in the rooftops,
but indicating at some point she's going to come back
to the Today Show. And it's such a sad code
of you know, at.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
What point does she leave Tucson and decide it's time
to go home back to New York. That's going to
be a tough move to make. And you heard in
the Instagram post that she put out this week where
she now says, you know her mom might be dancing
in heaven is the way that she put it, and
that they are admitting that maybe mom isn't alive any longer.
(08:22):
And just today she reposted something focused on that. Because
the reason why and part of the reason why putting
out the reward money is to beef up the tips
coming in again, so this doesn't go cold, it becomes
a cold case and the tips aren't coming in. And
the video had done that, but they didn't get what
they needed out of it. So once they did this,
we now know that the reward amount has increased those
(08:44):
tips coming in. But the point that the family keeps
trying to make is that you can be totally anonymous
and come and make a deal at a third party,
neutral location with like a pin code essentially to pick
up and it would be in cash if you could
provide where the the you know where she is and
who took her. I mean, it's hard to believe it
would be completely anonymous and no questions asked if you
(09:06):
said you knew about the case. But they are claiming,
the family is claiming that at least their portion of
the money, that if you can prove to them that
you know where she is and who took her, and
if they can confirm that and know that it's real,
that you could say I want to meet at this
post office or on the street corner and there will
be somebody disconnected from the case there to hand you
cold hard cash.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
Certainly I hope for that Hail Mary pass to be caught.
It just seems like a pretty grim scene all in all. Alex,
thank you. Always enjoyed talking to your right week with this.
Yeah you too, my friend. Uh yeah, I mean that's just,
as I say, just the bare reality of the Guthree case.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Thanks to Alex Stone.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
When we come back, it is the prison couple that
may be going away for a while. What a ride
they had before Federal prison showed up. KFI AM six
forty Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
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You're listening to John Cobelt demand from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
This is KFI AM six forty. We're live everywhere on
the iHeartRadio app John cobelts off today, Mark Thompson sitting
in and we just got the word that Neil Sedaka
passed away apparently pretty suddenly.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
But that was his huge song.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
It was a number one song for him, and he
was the same generation of artists and writers, songwriters like
Neil Diamond, Carol King and grew up in Brooklyn and
apparently he was a prodigy of sorts. In second grade,
(10:41):
his teacher recommended piano lessons, and within a couple of
years he'd successfully auditioned for a scholarship at Juilliard and
he was into classical music. He initially pursued classical music
as a piano player, but then as a teenager he
got into this sound of pop music. And at thirteen,
(11:02):
a neighbor heard him playing piano and introduced him to
her son, a guy named Howard Greenfield. He was three
years older than Neil Sadaka. So they began a songwriting
partnership that was absolutely scorching the charts. Multiple times they
(11:22):
hit in the year's following. They were together for two
and a half decades. And again, I'm you know, you
learn so much of this when you when somebody passes away.
I I one of the reasons I look at the
ovits is because you learn about people's lives who a
were famous and you kind of didn't know a bunch
of details about their life until they passed away, and
(11:44):
you look at the oh bit. And also there are
a bunch of people who in a way should have
been famous for all the stuff that they did and
all the details in their life. So anyway, this falls
into the former category. You know, this is somebody famous
and I'm just learning all these details about Neil Sadaka's life.
So he graduated high school, formed a duop group called
(12:06):
the link Tones, named after the school. They released several
singles that were local hits, and then one of their
songs scored a global, huge hit in nineteen sixty one,
The Lion Sleeps Tonight. You know that song, most of you.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
I think I love that song. Sure.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
But by the time Sedaka and Greenfield, his partner, were
you know, in the Brill Building there in New York
where they cranked out all those hits.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Carol King wrote.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
There and Neil Diamond, as I say, he and Greenfield
scored their first hit with a song called Stupid Cupid
and then another song called where the Boys Are Again.
Sorry I don't know these songs, but these were really
big songs at the time, and then parlayed that success
(12:59):
into a solo deal. So Neil Sadaka made this deal
with RCA Victor and he had a bunch of hits,
and the Beatles and the British Invasion, they kind of
began this major change in music, right It changed pop
culture and so all that dou wop stuff that Neil
(13:21):
Sadaka was basically getting rich off of, it got bumped
out of the side. It got bumped off to the
side where it sort of languished, and you ended up
with pop music being dominated by the Beatles, the British Invasion,
the Stones, the Who, all of that stuff. So he
and his writing partner, this guy Greenfield, wrote hits for
(13:42):
Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, Tom Jones, the Monkeys, the Fifth Dimension.
I mean, this guy was cranking and in the late sixties,
with his career kind of ebbing, he found success in
a song called Star Crossed Lovers became a major hit there,
(14:07):
and then through the seventies he continued to percolate, worked
in the UK, in Australia, and then Love Will Keep
It Together was a big song here, and that was
a song like the Captain and To Neil did, and
(14:29):
all of a sudden, you know, Neil Sedaka was quickly
re christened as a hit maker. There were other hits
in Europe. He wrote for Abba. He met his I
don't want to say his idol, but he was a
fan of Elton John and he met him at a
(14:51):
party in London and then signed with his record label,
and that was one of the things that allowed for
or The Captain to Neil's version of Love Will Keep
Us Together to explode, and he did a song called
bad Blood, which was also a number one single. So
(15:13):
he even did a reboot of Breaking Up Is Hard
to Do. He moved over to Electra Records, continued performing,
releasing music. Apparently he was pretty prolific, to the point
that he was active even in his later years. He
did a concert at Lincoln Center in two thousand and
seven for the fiftieth anniversaries of his debut in show business,
(15:34):
and Captain and to Neil were there. Natalie Cole Connie Francis. Anyway,
he has a wife who survived him, who he married
in nineteen sixty two. That's pretty impressive for a guy
who's rocking and working in the rock and roll world
and pop music. Two children, and again he passes away
(15:57):
at eighty six. I met him once a party and
he played piano at a party. You know what, you
know whose party it was? It was that Jeweler to
the Stars. People are on the red carpet when they
go unto the oscars.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
You know who are you wearing? Ah, this is Martin Katz.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
This is the rings from Martin Katz and the earrings
and matching necklace from Martin Katz. So I knew Martin
Katz when he was Marty Katz. He was just this
guy who I knew and he wasn't Jeweler to the Stars.
And he had a party and at the party and
this is in La. He moved to LA from Northern California.
(16:37):
And he's really, you know, super high end jeweler now
and for the last thirty years. But Neil Sedaka was
there and Sadaka he asked Sadaka to sit down and
play the piano and he did. It was really kind
of a cool thing. Seemed like a cool guy. Neil Sedaka,
legendary singer and songwriter, and of course Eric didn't know
who he was, which makes this segment more delicious than ever.
(16:59):
Thank you Eric for not knowing who knows the doctor is? Yes,
it is the co Belt Show. Thompson sitting in. We're
KFI AM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 4 (17:09):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
Mark Thompson here for John co Belt on this Friday.
It's wild because the weather is so warm and it's Friday.
There is nothing on the road. I mean I got
here in like, you know, nine minutes. It's crazy. And
then you pull into the parking lot here at the
great iHeart Mothership, and there are no cars in the
(17:35):
parking lot. I mean, I didn't realize we lacked the
work ethic to this point. It's wonderful. Yeah, Eric explained
it to me. He said, no, it's Friday, weather's good.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
No one shows up on Friday, no matter if the
weather's good or bad. Mark this place. Come on.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
Now, what's amazing to me about La is I think
it's expensive. I think it's expensive to live in la
and still it seems like nobody works. I don't understand, like,
is everybody on their way to an audition or is
everybody I mean, it used to be this town was
a showbized town. You could understand why, you know, writers
or grips or lighting people or makeup artists, how they
(18:16):
were on an alternate schedule than the nine to fivers.
But I feel like what we're left with are you know,
sort of crafts people, contractors. These are the people that
are really working, you know, construction crews. I don't know.
The business is definitely changing too. The show business industry rocked,
(18:38):
as you're aware, by this Netflix deal and the Warner
Brothers takeover. This is likely a paramount Warner Brothers merger.
There's a lot associated whether we're gonna talk to Michael
Schnyder from Variety about this. It's a seismic change in media.
It is a growth in media that seems to be
(19:00):
flying in the face of like everything you'd be concerned
with when it comes to monopolies. You know, when it
comes to these mergers, we've really just let stuff go.
I'll tell you what happened that you might have noticed.
And I think this is owing to these mergers. Also,
is there was a blood letting at Channel five that
KTLA Morning News. Mark Chrisky was laid off. They got
(19:23):
rid of this guy's been there since the beginning. He's
responsible for them being part of this meteoric rise that
they had at the beginning of that show when it
first went on the Iron Area. It was probably Sam
Rubin and Mark Chrisky who were most responsible for it.
I would say there was also, I think at the
very beginning, Barbara Beck, Carlos E. Meskua. I mean, don't
(19:44):
get me wrong, that whole combination works so beautifully.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
They were.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
They did numbers in the beginning that were, I don't know,
five times the Today's Show, five times Good Morning America.
Many more people watched the KTLA Morning News than watch
any of those network shows, particularly on the West Coast,
because you know, we're three hours behind her. Who wants
to see a warmed over morning show. So the last
(20:11):
of those people was Mark Chrisky, and he was there
still there doing the weather, still funny, still engaged, very dynamic,
and they dumped him. They dumped him, They dumped Lou Parker,
they dumped a few others. I don't have the names
in front of me. Deborah but you know many of
these people.
Speaker 5 (20:30):
Lena Gobians is a reporter and a blonde. She's an
animal lover.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
Oh, yes, guess yeah, I can't stretch of the d. Sorry,
I'm going to look the layoffs. There's so many of
them it's hard to keep track. But yeah, so I
mentioned it, and we'll get her name in a second.
And there were others too, I mean in the newsroom.
But the downsizing they're doing because they're choking on debt.
(20:59):
Next Dour has all of these stations. They did the
same thing in New York. They got rid of anchors
and these are high priced talent, and this is what's
happening across the board. So in the case of the KTLA,
in the case of the New York stations, and the
crazy really when this crazy case Montoya, case Montoya, that's it. Yeah,
the d is silent Casey Montoya. Yeah, these are really
(21:22):
talented people and they got rid of them because they're
just too expensive.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Now.
Speaker 5 (21:26):
But I have a question, and I because I don't
know these people, maybe you do. I wonder if they
were offered instead of being laid off because they made
so much money, if they said, look, we want to
keep you but you guys make way too much money,
so we're gonna cut your salary in half? Are you
okay with that? If you're okay with that, you can stay.
(21:46):
If you're not well, then sorry, we have to let
you go.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
You know, it's interesting. I don't know the answer in
this case, but I know that local talent already across
the board, all of them, all the high paid local talent,
has already taken that haircut. So I don't know if
there's much more to go. They may be in a
place where they go, you know what. It's sad, but
just got to get rid of them, you know what
I mean. I don't know the answer, though. My guess
(22:10):
is they didn't go to them and say, you know,
will you take less money? But I'll find out. I'll
find out, and I will report back to you.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
And the kfis for real curious at that.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
But I think I'm here next Friday so I can
actually literally report back to you. But I I think
it's a sign of what's happening in the industry, which
is why I mention it, because these are these are
companies that have been allowed to grow to the point
that they're choking on debt, and also they're dealing with
something else, and what is that? The complete change in
(22:45):
media and the landscape of media now takes the audience
and it attenuates it across all of these different platforms.
So they're gamers, there are streamers or up against and
so the available audience just is smaller. So that means
anything adds supported that on television is going to bring
in less money. Less money means we don't have the
money to pay Mark Krisky and all the rest of
(23:07):
these yews. That's how they say across the board New York, Chicago, LA.
Everybody's going who's making over a certain amount of money
and that's where you end up with. Now, the Paramount
deal is going to face the same thing because even
when Netflix was talking about its acquisition, they were talking
about having to shed sixteen billion dollars worth of staff
(23:30):
and other commitments in order to make the numbers work.
So this is stuff we kind of already have a
window on. Those are real people. You've got two studios,
Paramount and Warner Brothers. They do the same thing. Why
would you possibly have them operating as independent entities? They
say they're going to operate as independent entities. But I
think you say a lot of things before you actually
(23:52):
get in there. So all of that's happening. We'll talk
more to Michael Schneider about this, but I think it's
a sign, you know, it's really a sign of the
times in media and in Los Angeles generally.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
That's why I mention it. In southern California, I.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
Mean all of the other industries, all the dry cleaners,
the restaurants, et cetera. They depend on a robust entertainment
industry and it is changing dramatically. Mark Thompson here for
John Coblt where KFI AM six forty live everywhere on
the iHeartRadio app.
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You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM sixty.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
John Coblts Show. Mark Thompson sitting in with the co
Belt Kids, Deborah, Eric Angels here, Ray Lopez Rock and
Roll Ray. So we will get into a little bit
of the Epstein stuff top of the hour.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
I promised you i'd update you on.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
That heist crew that ended up eloping in the middle
of their their string of heists, but I thought it
update you quickly on that. Do you remember the rate
of that jewelry store they tunneled into the jewelry store.
It was a pretty sophisticated Berkeley, right, did see me Valley.
(25:12):
I don't know if anybody remembers. It wasn't that long ago,
but I mean three members of this sophisticated burglary crew.
They you know, as I say, they tunneled in in
this jewelry heigh made away with I think it was
over two million dollars worth of jewelry. They were just sentenced. Yeah,
(25:34):
they broke through a rooftop and they we repelled down
with ladders. They disabled the surveillance cameras. They spent hours,
you know, drilling into this jewelry store safe and they
just got four years in Ventura County jail. Heidi Truhio,
(25:54):
she's twenty six, and Manuel David Ibara thirty eight, and
Camillo Antonio Aguilar Lara. You always know when they're using
all four names in a story about you, that you
got nailed on something. You've been arrested, somehow, rested, convicted
(26:15):
thirty two years old. So twenty six, thirty eight, and
thirty two each got four years and four months. There
was a fourth defendant and his sentencing hearing is still
to come. So they were charged in connection with this
elaborate heist. They broke into a candy and coffee shop
and Seemi Valley through the roof, and then they used
(26:37):
ladders and ropes to repel down, blacked out the surveillance cameras,
and stole cash from a safe. They then spent hours
boring a hole through a wall into the adjacent jewelry
and watch repair store. And that's where they broke into
another safe and they made off of jewelry, bullioned cash
(26:57):
and heirlooms. And I remember two in here. It is yeah,
two and a half million dollars in cash and inventory.
And I mean this is more than just cash and inventory.
This is a guy whose life was tied up in
the store. The jewelry store owner was this guy who's
been opened since the seventies. You know, his whole world
(27:18):
is this business. The contents of the safe not insured.
He estimated the store loss between two million and two
and a half million in cash and inventory. So they're
sentenced these four.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
Right, Hey, we.
Speaker 5 (27:34):
Have some breaking news. This is just happening right now.
The superintendent of the La School District, Alberto Carvallo, has
just been placed on administrative leave following that FBI raid
earlier this week at his home in the LA School
District headquarters. So this is just breaking right now. The
(27:54):
school board, they had a meeting yesterday, they had no decision,
They had another meeting to day, and he was put
on administrative leave this afternoon.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
Yeah, this is an ongoing story. In fact, we're going
to get into it next hour. But they obviously seized
a bunch of materials associated with hard drives and other
things in which there might have been communications of one
sort or another. There has yet to be any kind
of real coherence to this, but it is a it's
(28:27):
a big story, and being put on administrative leave is
different than being charged. In fact, I thought you were
going to come on and say they've charged him. But
when you say he's been put on administrative leave, I
think that speaks to the predicament more than it speaks
to the situation. From a legal perspective. Again, I think
(28:48):
it's you know, Carvalla is in trouble, don't get me right. Administratively, yeah,
and don't get me wrong. I mean this is a
this is that whole chat bought Ai story in which
in essence as superintendent he was championing this technology, and
then it suggested or questioned, was there a sort of
collusion to force this technology onto LA schools. So this
(29:13):
is where this story gets more complicated. And again, guy
hasn't been charged. It's paid administrative leafs, so you know,
it might smell bad right now, but it hasn't yet
taken on a coherence that we can really speak to.
And for that reason, how dare you introduce? Interrupt me?
Speaker 5 (29:33):
I'm so sorry. I mean, this literally was happening, you know,
I was. I was writing it up. Ray wanted me
to break in.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
How dare you Ray? I? Ray was behind this.
Speaker 5 (29:45):
That was a good call, but I was busy, actually right.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
I don't know that it was a good call.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
It was.
Speaker 5 (29:49):
This is the biggest, biggest life.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
No, it's a pretty big story.
Speaker 5 (29:53):
It's a big and we've been I've been doing the
story all morning that the school board was meeting still,
so it's it's an importance story.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Absolutely.
Speaker 5 (30:00):
We still don't know all the details, but we know
he's on paid administrative leave.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
I mean, it's the second largest school district in the country,
so you know, and this is again, this is all
sort of being suggested that if this was a collusive
deal that was designed to force a hugely expensive, multimillion
dollar project down down the throat of taxpayers, it's a
(30:30):
It's a serious breach of ethics and a breach of
the law. So again, Superintendent Alberto Covlla on paid administrative leave.
I'll update the rest of the crime blodder later when
we come back. We'll update that story as it continues
this afternoon and still to come another day with Epstein testimony,
(30:53):
we'll get to some of that as well. It is
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