David Sosa, a former worker at the El Segundo aerospace giant, appeared in a San Bernardino courtroom today with a new lawyer. He was convicted a little more than a month ago for abusing two female family members and faces up to 24 years in prison.

Sosa will return June 5 for a status conference and then is scheduled for sentencing Sept. 11, prosecutors said today.

 

Each Wednesday, as long as the South Bay police departments keep me supplied with "wanted" fliers, we'll be publishing mugshots of suspects in a variety of crimes, along with surveillance shots and sketches of other baddies, in our print edition.

We'll put them up here as well. Let's call them "Wednesday's Wanted."

Here's today's pair:

Fraud Suspect

Manhattan Beach: Police say this man tried to open a fraudulent credit account on Sept. 7, 2008, at Fry's Electronics using a counterfeit California driver's license.

He was accompanied by a black woman in her 20s. She drove a four-door black mid-1990s Mercedes-Benz. The suspect is black, in his 60s, 6 feet 4 inches tall, 175 pounds, with gray hair and brown eyes.

If you know him, call Detective Michael Rosenberger at 310-802-5127.

Masked Bandit

El Segundo: On Aug. 26, 2008, this man in a painter's mask approached an employee at the Chevron gas station at 601 S. Vista del Mar, racked the slide of a black semiautomatic handgun as if to load it and demanded money. He fled with the cash register tray.

The robber is Latino, 23 to 25 years old, 5 feet 5 inches to 5 feet 7 inches tall, and 160 to 200 pounds. He wore a gray hooded sweat shirt, black pants and cloth gloves

If you know him, contact Detective Vince Martinez at 310-524-2200.

We just learned that Gerald Mason, who killed two El Segundo police officers in 1957, was denied parole and will not be eligible again to go before the board for the maximum span of 15 years.

This just in:

That El Segundo woman charged with stalking Lakers forward Luke Walton pleaded nocontest today at the Torrance courthouse and was ordered to stay away from him for three years.

Stacy Elizabeth Beshear, 35 of El Segundo, entered the plea to one count of misdemeanor stalking. Judge Hector Guzman sentenced her to three years probation, ordered her to attend weekly counseling sessions for one year and ordered her to stay away from Walton's Manhattan Beach home, and the Lakers practice facility in El Segundo. She also can't go to any games.

Beshear was arrested Sept. 18 after she pulled up to his car and pretended to fire gunshots at Walton with her hand, officials said.

Deputy District Attorney Ann Ambrose handled the case.

Michael and Susan Crabtree used fake bids and bogus contracts to bilk the defense contractor out of about $2.7 million. On Monday, they were each sentenced to 57 months in prison. We'll have a full story up later.

A lawsuit that will seek class-action status was filed in Los Angeles Superior Court, claiming DirecTV hides contract term committments and wrongly charges a early termination fees of up to $480.

See the full Andrews Publications report here.

The El Segundo Police Department is once again cautioning residents and people who work in the city to lock away their valuables when they park their cars.