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P. v. Avetoom CA4/3

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Court of Appeal of CaliforniaMarch 8, 2013G044659California6,068 words

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FACTS

The statement of facts is taken from our prior nonpublished opinion, Avetoom I, supra, G022070. “Avetoom loved motorcycles. He received his first motorcycle from his older brother when he was only 14 [years old]. By the time Avetoom was 16 years old, he was running a motorcycle repair business out of his mother‟s backyard. “Later, Avetoom and [Robert] Yule, his one-time roommate, bought and sold motorcycles and motorcycle parts. They did considerable business with Bert‟s Motorcycles [(Bert‟s)]. At one point, Avetoom sold four motorcycles to the „outside buyer‟ for Bert‟s. Each motorcycle contained a stolen engine with an altered vehicle identification number (VIN). Yule sold two motorcycles to Bert‟s. One contained a stolen engine. The VIN on the other motorcycle was altered. All of these motorcycles had been registered in either Avetoom‟s or Yule‟s names. Nearly all of the registration documentation contained nonexistent addresses for the purported sellers. “The two men rented a storage unit together in Costa Mesa. They also rented storage units separately in Irvine. Police searches of the three storage units produced stolen motorcycle frames, stolen engines, stolen parts,…

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