[10 News] Somebody's been a bad, bad, boy
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - A high-ranking leader of an El Cajon church was arrested Thursday on suspicion of embezzling from his congregation.
Bishop Emmanuel Shaleta of St. Peter Chaldean Catholic Cathedral
…I’m not sure why it’s called Chaldean, as they’re ethnically Assyrian Iraqis with their headquarters in Baghdad…
was detained at San Diego International Airport while attempting to leave the country and booked on suspicion of eight counts each of embezzlement and money laundering, according to the San Diego County Sheriff's Office.
The regional law enforcement agency released no details on the circumstances that led to the allegations. The Chaldean Patriarchate, however, disclosed in a statement released last month that members of the Diocese of St. Peter in San Diego have filed complaints about Shaleta, 69, "in relation to the mishandling of certain diocesan funds and allegations of inappropriate relationships."
According to an article published last month in The Pillar, a news agency that covers issues related to the Catholic Church, Shaleta allegedly may have misappropriated rental payments for a property owned by the church -- potentially as much as $1 million -- and purportedly frequented a Tijuana brothel.
Shaleta has resigned from his post at the Jamacha Way church in the midst of a Vatican-ordered investigation into the allegations, according to The Pillar.
Shaleta is being held at San Diego Central Jail on $125,000 bail pending trial, the Sheriff's Office reported.
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[AccuWeather] The magnitude 4.9 earthquake on Thursday morning was the strongest to strike this part of the United States in nearly 14 years, according to the USGS.
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"Nearly 14 years" is not decades.
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[Regnum] Earth will continue to experience magnetic storms for at least the next two years, according to Sergei Bogachev, head of the Solar Astronomy Laboratory at the Space Research Institute (IKI) of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
"Over the next two years, activity will continue to decline, but there will still be many storms. They will be created by coronal holes. But this is still a temporary period. At the very minimum of the cycle, which we expect in 2028–2031, the storms will disappear completely," the scientist said in an interview with RIA Novosti.
According to the expert, it is coronal holes that cause magnetic storms on Earth during solar activity declines. For example, although there were no noticeable sunspots on the sun's surface from February 22 to 25, a moderate magnetic storm was recorded on our planet. We are currently in the 25th solar cycle observed by humanity, which lasts approximately 11 years. The current cycle has already entered its decline phase after reaching its peak in 2024.
On February 16, scientists detected a powerful plasma outburst on the left edge of the Sun. This region of activity had previously been asymptomatic. Experts have suggested that this may be a sign of the formation of a new sunspot group. Their type has not yet been determined. The source of the explosion is located on the far side of the star.
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