News Whip & Hoarding

The 505 News Whip – Weezer bassist Scott Shriner, wife shot and // A Giant Discount retail worker died after he confronted a group of shoplifters in South El Monte // Ryan Umina, CEO for SETC if you are business owner, 1099 contractors, or self-employed professionals—April 18th is the first critical deadline to secure your Sick and Family Leave tax credits from 2021. // Hoarding in Simi Valley returning packages. Tim takes shirts to dry cleaners 

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's KFI Am six and you're listening to The Conway
Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. We have an
update out of South Almonty. It's grim news. There was
a robbery. They're reporting it earlier at the Dollar Tree,
and we thought maybe it was a Dollar Tree. Maybe

(00:22):
it could have been Giant Discounter, right next door to
each other. They do similar things. They sell, you know,
discounted items, electronics, toys, that kind of stuff. You've been
to a Dollar Tree and so the guy goes in,
allegedly rips something off. The brother says to another brother.

(00:42):
Guy owns the place, says to his brother, hey, guy
ripped us off, runs out the parking lot and gets
run over and killed by the guy who allegedly ripped
something off the Giant discount store. Well, now we know
what he stole, and you're not going to believe this.

(01:03):
I lost his life over an item from Giant Discount.
It's crazy, all right, Let's get the latest here. It's
a story that it baffles your mind. It's going to
make you crazy. Let's play bark Giavanna.

Speaker 2 (01:21):
There is a lot of pain and sadness at this
scene here in South Almani. Customers have been driving by
and stopping us to tell us they knew that store owner.
He was beloved in this community and they can't believe
what happened. It started around noon here behind me at
the Giant discount store there, when at least one or
two men entered the store and tried to make off
with a ten dollars box of masks. The man working

(01:42):
behind the counter tried to stop them, followed them out
into the parking lot where there was a fight, and
the thieves backed their car into that employee, killing him.
We have video of some of that victim's family members
visibly distraught out in the parking lot fighting to get
to the victim's body, but they were stopped by sheriff's
deputies before they could get there. We just spoke with
one of the victim's brothers who says his brother, Steve,

(02:04):
was that victim who was working in the store at
the time. This man we spoke to says he came
over from Iran forty five years ago and one by
one brought over his six brothers and one sister.

Speaker 3 (02:15):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (02:15):
Another one of their brothers was killed four years ago
in Anaheim. Now a second brother is lost to violence.
He's afraid to have to tell their mother what happened
here today. Take a listen to just a little bit
of what we heard from that victim's brother today.

Speaker 4 (02:30):
I really don't know if life is worth it anymore.
I can't take it anymore. Two people died my family
in four years and died, just killed.

Speaker 3 (02:42):
Just not fair the judges.

Speaker 1 (02:44):
They were safer in Iran. This guy, if he stayed
in Iran with his whole family, everybody would probably still
be alive. He came the United States and two of
his brothers have been killed, wiped out.

Speaker 3 (02:56):
Just not fair.

Speaker 4 (02:57):
The judges should have let these people on this street.
Don't let them on this street.

Speaker 3 (03:01):
They're going to kill more people.

Speaker 2 (03:03):
Always is a senseless act of violence, and especially for
such a minor item, for someone to lose their life
is very senseless. Of course, authorities always say, if you're
in a situation like that, let them get away with
whatever they're trying to steal and just call the police.
It did not happen, and now someone lost their life
over a ten dollars box of masks. You can see
the tent still in this parking lot here.

Speaker 1 (03:24):
When they say masks, So they talk about the mask
that you know some people use during covides.

Speaker 5 (03:30):
Is that what they're talking about.

Speaker 1 (03:31):
So the guy he's stealing masks, I mean, he's health conscious,
I guess, or maybe wants to resell him and he
steals a ten dollars box of masks from the Giant
discount and then runs over the brother who tried to
stop him.

Speaker 2 (03:49):
And John told us that his brother, Steve, he would
have given anything to anyone in need, but it was
shoplifting that kind of set him off and is something
that had been a problem here in the past, and
so that's likely why he followed those people out of
the parking lot. We spoke with a couple of businesses here.
The Dollar Tree is right across the parking lot. They
said their cameras aren't working. We spoke with a gas

(04:11):
station over here. The Sheriff's department was already in there
trying to obtain video of what happened here, but the
store itself had no security cameras, and so that kind
of hampers this investigation of trying to find out who
did this. The description from the Sheriff's department right now
is just two or three men. Very little to go off,
but hopefully some of that video can clear things up.
The businesses here are closed. They've been told that they

(04:34):
cannot be opened as this parking lot is shut down.
They're just waiting to see what happens. But for now
they're basically locked inside or they can enter through the back.
But again, a very sad situation. Eight siblings from Iran,
two of them now killed within a four year span.
We're live in South Helmani jey Rand ABC seven Night
with the Sneers Spaw.

Speaker 1 (04:51):
That's a horrible story for people that want to know
exactly where this is. You know, we're all sort of
you want to make a connection to the area. If
you live in that area, you probably already know where
it is. But for people in southern California, you're not
familiar with South Elmonte and where this horrible incident happened today.

Speaker 5 (05:10):
This murder happened today.

Speaker 1 (05:12):
It's north of the sixty Freeway, west of the six
oh five, and south of the ten Freeway. It's very
close to the sixty and the six soh five with
the sixty and the six oh five meet, it's very close.
It's less than a mile maybe maybe about a mile
a mile and a half north of exactly where that

(05:34):
interchange is. And it's a great neighborhood. You know, there's
a lot of stores there that people frequent every single day.

Speaker 5 (05:43):
You know, Starbucks, CBS. It's the same with every community.

Speaker 4 (05:47):
You know.

Speaker 1 (05:47):
We got the Wabba Grill, the you know, Jack in
the Box, KFC, Little Caesars, it's all in that area,
Superior Grocer, Grocers, so yes, you know Subway, it's when
you live in South Elmonty. That's where you go to shop.
That's the main hub for all those people that live
around there, and you felt safe go in there at night,

(06:12):
during the day whatever. It's right off of Durfy Street
or Durfy Avenue, I think, and Rush Street and Rush
and Peck Road come into each other right before Durfy
Street or Durfy Avenue. And there's a school right there
as well. There's a school literally a block away from
where this happened. There's a middle school. I'm not sure

(06:34):
if it's if that school is one of the ones
they closed down. They were closing some South Elmonty schools
down because of the lower attendance and budgets. I'm not sure.
If that one remained open or not. I think that
was on the list of schools that were closed. But
everybody knows these shopping centers, you know, wherever you live,
whether you're in venturists, you know Orange County, San Diego,

(06:58):
Ocean Side Out and Antelo Valley. It's the shopping center
where we frequent. All these stores, you know, the CBS,
the Auto Parts store, and you know, Burbank has one,
Glendale has one.

Speaker 5 (07:12):
Tarzan. Everybody's that one, and this is.

Speaker 1 (07:14):
Where everybody goes and you run into people you know
in a tight knit community. South el Monty is a
very very tight knit community.

Speaker 5 (07:22):
So is el Monty.

Speaker 1 (07:23):
There are people there that have been living there for
generations and when you go to the CVS, you might
run into five, six, seven, eight nine people you know.
And now this has happened, a lot of people know
this guy, a lot of people know this family. Where
this happened at this store, at the Giant Discount and
it's right literally next door to Dollar Tree. So it's

(07:47):
a very sad day for South el Monte. Obviously they'll
get through it, but man, this guy now has to
tell his mom that yet another one of her sons
has been killed in the United States. They all came
over from Iran. If they had been if they stayed
in Iran, they probably all would have been alive. And

(08:08):
now they're here and two of them have been killed.
I don't know if the mom could take that.

Speaker 5 (08:13):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (08:14):
It's another black eye, another embarrassment for southern California over
a ten dollars box of masks. Three guys kill A
guy killed him.

Speaker 6 (08:27):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
Am six forty.

Speaker 1 (08:33):
We got an email, Hey, dummy, I guess they're talking
to me. That middle school at nol Monte is open.
Monte Vista Middle School is open. It's not closed, you idiot.
And I wrote back, I wasn't talking about that school,
you idiot. I was talking about that Charles Krans School.
Isn't that on the east side, the east side of
where that happened. That school is closed. Cran's Elementary I

(08:54):
think is or a middle school is closed. So interesting?

Speaker 3 (09:02):
All right.

Speaker 5 (09:02):
We got a great guest here.

Speaker 1 (09:04):
Ryan Umina is with us with chief executive with the
se TC pros dot Com.

Speaker 5 (09:11):
Ryan, How you.

Speaker 3 (09:12):
Bob, Hey, I'm fantastic, Tim.

Speaker 1 (09:14):
How you doing man, I'm doing great, man. Look this program.
You know, I went to the website, I went to
the se TC Pros website and filled out that questionnaire
to see if I was eligible. And I'm eligible, you know,
potentially eligible for some cash.

Speaker 3 (09:30):
That's fantastic. We love hearing that. That's for sure.

Speaker 5 (09:33):
It was the easiest thing to do. It took me
less than three minutes.

Speaker 3 (09:36):
Yeah, and you know, we really, we really tried to
make it as easy as possible. And you know, for
the folks who don't know what it is, so long
and short, the credits for sick and family leave for
self employed people, it's forty to eighty million Americans. Right,
So this was in the same legislation that created PPP
loads in the e r C and e I d

(09:57):
L and all of that, right, But all of those
were really for employers. Right. So for when I say
self employed people, it's not just you know, a traditional
small business owner or you know, certain other types of
business owners. It's anyone who receives ten ninety nine wages.
So a ten ninety nine contractor is considered to be

(10:18):
a sole proprietor or self employed. It's self employment income.
So anyone you know, I'll give you an example. Even
if someone has a typical, you know, w two day
job and let's say they're a DJ on the weekend
caterer or something like that, that is ten ninety nine
or self employment earnings if that was effected back in
twenty twenty one by COVID for for any reason, right,

(10:44):
and that could be for themselves, for a family member.
You have the sickly credit that's for themselves, right, and
that's anything under the sun. And then you have the
family leave credit. So all the schools that were closed down,
daycare shut down, all of that, and most people can
just you know that in for is generally available online
if they don't, you know, forget. But it's up to
thirty two thousand, two hundred and twenty dollars a person.

(11:08):
The first deadline is coming up really soon April eighteenth.
So anyone who did not file for an extension for
twenty twenty one in twenty two, the deadline once every
eighteen tids, they'll lose out on it forever. And then
for the folks of five extensions, they have until October.
But you know, we've helped self employed America get back.

(11:29):
It's over one hundred and forty million dollars now, which
we love. Yeah, it's it's the coolest thing I've ever done, Tim,
And you know, the coolest thing I've ever done.

Speaker 1 (11:40):
And if they if they don't go after this money,
it just goes back to the government. But is there
a big enough pool to pay everybody off if you
know the people who are eligible.

Speaker 3 (11:50):
That's the craziest thing, right, So for example, the employee
Extension Credit, there's been six hundred billion dollars claim. This
was all from the same legislation. Wow. This they have
tens of billions of dollars ear marked for it. Maybe
two to three billion has been claimed, maybe two to
three billion, wow, versus the employers, you know, getting six

(12:11):
hundred billion dollars. And you know, you have to think
these are like gig workers, sole proprietors, a lot of
ride share drivers, Uber Lift, all of them, they're all
ten ninety nine contractors. They were all adversely affected. And
you know, uh, the government passed the legislation, but they
don't go out and advertise and educate and claim it

(12:31):
for you. So that's the thing. You have to claim
it or you're going to lose it. And we created
the most streamlined way literally in the world to do that.
So folks just come to our site, answer the questions,
they have to do an ID verification, and then our
system is fraud proof, so unlike with you know, these
other government programs that people heard of fraud, that's because

(12:53):
they were submitting false documents, like false tax returns and
you know, things of that nature. We we have amazing
partnerships where we pull all the data we need directly
from the IRS, so we don't even they don't even
have to upload their old tax documents. They verify their identity.
We have this. Yeah, it's the same log in like

(13:14):
when they go to the IRS dot gov website that's
embedded in our customer portal, they click on it. They
just log in and we can instantly pull that data
calculate the refund in. For folks with over three thousand
dollars coming to them, which the average is about five
we can actually get the most of their money due
to some awesome banking partnerships in about seven days. Wow,

(13:37):
it typically takes yeah, yeah, yeah, they can come to
our website and get money in seven days of the
refunds over three thousand, which is less than the average.

Speaker 1 (13:45):
Okay, so but you've got to do this before next Friday,
which is the eighteen.

Speaker 3 (13:52):
Yes, and yeah, the great thing is we can. Yeah,
we can process it in twenty four hours, no problem.
But they just have to do it because everything everyone
who did not file an extension for twenty twenty one
in twenty two, right that did not file for an
extension April eighteenth, if it's not postmarked by that date,

(14:12):
and if they're eligible for the Advanced Funding program, it
needs to shoot up to our office outside Sacramento in Roseville.
We need to get that's where our processing center is.
We quality control those, so we need to get them
there and then get them out the door and postmarked
by the eighteenth. Now, everyone who filed extensions, which is
about half of self employed people, they'll be good until October.

Speaker 5 (14:36):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (14:37):
So bottom line, if you're if you're a business owner
ten ninety nine, contractor or self employed professional, you can
you might be eligible for this money up to a
little over thirty two thousand dollars. And you've got to
go to the website and filed before April eighteenth, but
don't wait till the eighteenth.

Speaker 5 (14:57):
Do it right now and it's a very simple website.
I went to it and I.

Speaker 1 (15:00):
Filled out all the the the the forum there to
see if I was eligible, and I was surprised I was.
And so you might be able to get some money
as well. S E t C Pros dot com S,
e TC as in tim comwin Pros dot com S,
e t C Pros dot com. And you've got to
do it before the eighteenth.

Speaker 5 (15:21):
I appreciate you.

Speaker 1 (15:22):
What you're coming on, Ryan, and I hope a lot
of people listening to KFI right now. Again, if you're
uber or lyft, this includes you, is that right?

Speaker 3 (15:31):
Yes, sir, okay, sir, And any of these solopreneurs, all
all of those folks the gig economy, and then again,
you know everyone who's any kind of entertainment industry, the
beauty industry, a lot of them are ten ninety nine. Yeah,
most people in the beauty industry are ten ninety nine
or solopreneurs. So all of them are eligible, and they
hit were some of the hardest hits. So I really

(15:51):
look forward to what everyone gets. Half of everyone who
goes through our application, because we asked preschool reading questions,
sure half are eligible for a refund.

Speaker 1 (16:00):
Oh, that's great, all right, and the maximum refund is
a little over thirty two thousand dollars.

Speaker 3 (16:06):
That's right, that's great, Right.

Speaker 5 (16:08):
That's great.

Speaker 3 (16:09):
A say, incredible.

Speaker 1 (16:10):
I hope you have a huge bandwidth and a lot
of computers.

Speaker 5 (16:13):
We're sending a lot of people to you right now.

Speaker 3 (16:15):
All right, we definitely do. We built it. We built
it for all of America to come so we can
handle hundreds of thousands of applications at a time.

Speaker 1 (16:23):
Excellent, Ryan, I appreciate you coming on. Thanks again, and
we'll check back with you.

Speaker 3 (16:27):
Thanks so much for having me. Tim.

Speaker 1 (16:28):
All Right, you got it, Ryan Umina. You've got to
go to the website right now. If you're self employed,
if you're a ten ninety nine, if you drove lyft uber,
you're in the you're an actor or an actress, whatever,
you are self employed.

Speaker 5 (16:41):
Maybe I don't know.

Speaker 1 (16:42):
You work at a restaurant and you're self employed. Whatever
you're doing, you're self employed or ten ninety nine contractor,
please go to the website right now. You could get
up to thirty two thousand dollars. Actually a little over
thirty two thousand. S E T C PROS, dot SS
and Sam E is an elephant. T isn't Tom C

(17:05):
isn't Charlie pros dot com s e t C pros
dot com.

Speaker 6 (17:09):
You're listening to Tim conwaytun you're on demand from kf
I am six forty Belly?

Speaker 5 (17:16):
Oh do you have your headphones on? Is she in there?

Speaker 7 (17:19):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (17:20):
What you need is there's a story coming out of Irvine. Yeah,
kind of VI might hit home here or might have
some connection. You're not hoarding again?

Speaker 5 (17:28):
Are you? You're not hoarding again? You get over there.
Belly has spent some time when she's to live in Burbank.
She got into it.

Speaker 1 (17:36):
I guess they called it mild hoarding. Oh you're back,
she's hoarding again? Oh no, I thought Johnny said no
to that. Remember you used to tell us they used
that package delivered package just delivered to your house, and
you'd try to get him before John saw them.

Speaker 8 (17:57):
I still do?

Speaker 5 (17:58):
Do you still do that?

Speaker 9 (17:59):
Well?

Speaker 8 (18:00):
Yeah? Wow, it doesn't always work.

Speaker 5 (18:03):
Does that bum you out though? When he intercepts?

Speaker 8 (18:06):
Oh? Yes, because then it's the big conversation.

Speaker 1 (18:09):
Right, Yeah, what are you buying most on Etsy or eBay?

Speaker 5 (18:13):
Amazon? What's your go to?

Speaker 8 (18:15):
Amazon?

Speaker 5 (18:16):
Amazon?

Speaker 3 (18:16):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (18:17):
You like that? Huh?

Speaker 1 (18:17):
I do do you return everything or anything I have?
Where do you take it back? You just throw it
the mail.

Speaker 9 (18:24):
My took it to Cole's had a Amazon return.

Speaker 5 (18:28):
Okay, I think did you buy anything at Coals? You
just return?

Speaker 9 (18:32):
I would buy things because Cole's was smart. They'd give
you like a discount Coals Bucks. So then I'd come
home with a new box or new bag.

Speaker 1 (18:44):
I went to my cleaners today because you know, I
have some shirts that get clean, laundered, and dry clean,
and I lost which one the one where the kid
in Target asked if I worked at Trader Joe's.

Speaker 8 (19:00):
You need that dry cleaned? Yes, yes, I think it
would fall apart.

Speaker 5 (19:04):
No it didn't.

Speaker 1 (19:05):
So the guy said, hey, we lost track of everything.
Our computer crashed. I'm just going to spin it here.
Will you stop it when you see your shirts? I said, yeah,
no problem. So I said, oh, that's them right there.
And he looked at and he goes, no, that's a
guy named David Davidson in Glendale.

Speaker 5 (19:20):
Like what those are my shirts?

Speaker 9 (19:22):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (19:23):
No, okay, okay, they're not. I have like three out
of eight of them. Her mind spins around again. Oh
I stop right there, I think those are mine. He goes, Now,
that's a guy, another guy in Burbank. I thought I
had the same shirts as like, that's happened.

Speaker 8 (19:39):
To you a few times. Yes, I are the same
shirt as someone.

Speaker 1 (19:43):
I get the same shirts at Costco and Cole's. At
every idiot gets in Burbank and Glendale, and they just
spin around a rack.

Speaker 8 (19:52):
Nothing original about you, No, not at all nothing. Did
you work at Dinah's Chicken?

Speaker 7 (19:58):
No?

Speaker 1 (19:58):
I worked at It wasn't Dinas.

Speaker 9 (20:02):
Because they're celebrating their fifty fifty eighth anniversary.

Speaker 5 (20:06):
No, Dinah's is in Glendale, isn't it.

Speaker 8 (20:08):
I believe so?

Speaker 1 (20:09):
Yes, Yeah, that's one that Steve Gregor used to go
to Dinah's Fried Chicken right off the one the five freeway?

Speaker 8 (20:17):
Or was it rustic?

Speaker 5 (20:20):
We can't say his name anymore? Was that the memo
that came out?

Speaker 8 (20:23):
Who's talking?

Speaker 5 (20:24):
We can't say?

Speaker 8 (20:25):
We can't because I thought we could?

Speaker 5 (20:27):
Could we say? Bill Carrol?

Speaker 3 (20:32):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (20:33):
That sucks?

Speaker 1 (20:34):
All right, let's see me, Valley. We got No, I
worked for Amber's Chicken. Oh that's right, yeah, and Dinas? Yeah,
same things by Ambers. Isn't there anymore?

Speaker 5 (20:45):
It was great? It was broasted chicken. You what that
is belly. You do what broasted chicken is?

Speaker 8 (20:50):
What is it?

Speaker 1 (20:50):
It's cooked in oil, deep fried in oil, but with
high pressure. Your mom ever have a pressure cookers? Yes,
with that little top that's spun around.

Speaker 10 (20:59):
It's it's not the way that the Kenny Rogers used
to cook them.

Speaker 5 (21:02):
Yeah, yeah, broasted chicken.

Speaker 1 (21:04):
Yeah, the Brosterers and that little top and then if
mom opened that up early, it exploded all over the place. Oh,
I remember that in our house. But that little thing
used to dance on top that and it cooked a
you know, Swiss steak was another great meal. Swiss steak
came out of that pressure cooker. All you could cut

(21:24):
it with a spoon. It was the best man Swiss steak.

Speaker 10 (21:29):
It was a Swiss steak, the one where it was
like to use the cut of meat that's so bad.
But you just punched it full of holes to make
it tender.

Speaker 1 (21:34):
Yeah, and you cooked it for nine hours to get
it to you know, edible or the pressure cooker for
four days. Got it horder and seem Valley, everybody, this
is not good. See me, Valley very conservative up there.
A lot of cops, a lot of firemen, a lot
of paramedics.

Speaker 5 (21:51):
And now they got a hoarder.

Speaker 7 (21:53):
Seventy three Apricot Road here in Simi Valley. Boy, the
residents are really fed up. They've been complaining about this
for some time, pack rat conditions. They say it's hazardous
to the neighborhood, and they complain to the city back
in July of twenty twenty four, so some nine months ago,
and nothing has been done. We reached out to the city.
They said they are aware of it, they're looking into it,

(22:14):
but the residents are frustrated. They want this cleaned up.
It could be hazardous to the area to the left
side of your screen as the Apricot apartments. It's right
next door to that here in Semi Valley, just south
of the one eighteen freeway. So residents are hoping they
get more information on this, we get this out into
the media, and hopefully the city of Semi Valley will
get something done about this before it really does become

(22:35):
more of an iceore and possibly a hazard to some
of the other residents.

Speaker 5 (22:40):
Yeah, those hoarders. People hate that.

Speaker 1 (22:43):
You know, you have a million dollar house, or you
spend eight hundred thousand dollars on a house and the
guy next to you has four hundred tons of trash.
It smells rats, rats everywhere. It sucks old fridges and cars.

Speaker 3 (22:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (22:57):
Yeah, and it starts to smell and you get a
lot of rodents.

Speaker 5 (23:02):
It sucks.

Speaker 1 (23:02):
It sucks, and the guy's mentally gone, so he's not
going to clean it up, so the city has to
come in and do it for him.

Speaker 5 (23:08):
City.

Speaker 1 (23:08):
It's great, right, guy has too much crap. And I
think it's an illness, I really do. I think they
don't want all that stuff, but they can't get rid
of anything.

Speaker 10 (23:17):
Yeah, they get It turns in just to a cycle
where where the trash makes you mental and then your
menta mentality makes more trash.

Speaker 5 (23:23):
That's right.

Speaker 1 (23:24):
Yeah, And you can't throw anything away. Nothing gets thrown
away nothing, all right. We're live on KFI AM six
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