{"id":104289,"date":"2021-09-30T20:05:55","date_gmt":"2021-10-01T03:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/?p=104289"},"modified":"2021-09-30T20:05:55","modified_gmt":"2021-10-01T03:05:55","slug":"worker-pleads-not-guilty-to-stealing-blank-covid-19-vaccination-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2021\/09\/30\/worker-pleads-not-guilty-to-stealing-blank-covid-19-vaccination-cards\/","title":{"rendered":"Worker pleads not guilty to stealing blank COVID-19 vaccination cards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/COVID-vaccine-card.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-102804\" src=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/COVID-vaccine-card.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/COVID-vaccine-card.jpg 768w, https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/COVID-vaccine-card-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a>A former Los Angeles County contract worker pleaded not guilty Thursday to stealing hundreds of blank vaccination cards from a COVID- 19 vaccination center.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Muhammad Rauf Ahmed<\/strong>, 46, of Las Vegas, was charged June 9 with a felony count of grand theft.<\/p>\n<p>Ahmed allegedly stole more than 500 vaccination cards, which have a value of at least $15 each if illegally sold, according to Los Angeles County prosecutors.<\/p>\n<p>Officials determined April 27 that blank vaccine cards had been stolen from the vaccination site where Ahmed was assigned to work, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, La Verne police said 528 blank COVID-19 vaccine cards were recovered in the suspect&#8217;s hotel room.<\/p>\n<p>Ahmed &#8212; described by police as a non-clinical, contracted employee &#8212; was arrested April 27. He was released the same day, according to jail records.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Selling fraudulent and stolen vaccine cards is illegal, immoral and puts the public at risk of exposure to a deadly virus,&#8221; District Attorney George Gasc\u00f3n said in a statement in June announcing the case.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former Los Angeles County contract worker pleaded not guilty Thursday to stealing hundreds of blank vaccination cards from a COVID- 19 vaccination center. Muhammad Rauf Ahmed, 46, of Las Vegas, was charged June 9 with a felony count of grand theft. Ahmed allegedly stole more than 500 vaccination cards, which have a value of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":102804,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[719,15,1499],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104289"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}