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2013 Stories by R. SCOTT MOXLEY

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  Thuy Vo Dang: The Studs Terkel of Little Saigon

  published March 7, 2013

  When Thuy Vo Dang's Vietnamese-refugee family arrived in Santa Ana in the 1980s—after stops in Malaysia, the Philippines and Buffalo, New... More >>

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  Man Punched, Slammed & Stomped Girlfriend's Face But Wants to Be Punished for Only One Act of Violence

  published Mar 05, 2013

  A January 2010 day began well for Orange County's 21-year-old Aaron Michael Laythorpe, who took his girlfriend and their baby on an enjoyable beer-drinking trip to a Fashion Island restaurant in Newpo... More >>

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  Orange County Killer, 14, Calls His 40-Year Punishment Cruel & Unusual

  published Mar 04, 2013

  In June 2010, Buena Park mobile-home resident Andrew Cervantes (a.k.a. "Tank") aged four years in an instant when--at the age of 14 and in the eighth grade--he paused a Santa Ana bicycle ride to buy c... More >>

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  Federal Judge Tosses Out Animal Cruelty-Related $25 Million Lawsuit After Settlement

  published Mar 01, 2013

  A complaint seeking at least $25 million from Orange County and numerous employees at the Orange County Heathcare Agency's Animal Care Services for illegally seizing hundreds of exotic animals from a ... More >>

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  OC Public Defender Frank Ospino To Be Honored On Saturday

  published Mar 01, 2013

  The Hispanic Bar Association of Orange County is scheduled this weekend to honor the Frank Ospino, the county's Public Defender, as "Attorney of the Year."During the March 2 event at the group's black... More >>

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  This Week, Mexican Human Smuggler Gets Nine Months More In Prison Than Caucasian Guilty of Same Crime

  published Mar 01, 2013

  While on routine patrol just after 4 a.m. on Oct. 19, 2011, the crew of the United States Coast Guard Cutter Petrel spotted an open-bow, panga boat operating without lights in rough waters near San Di... More >>

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  Newport Coast Chinese Furniture Importer Punished For Bilking Banks

  published Mar 01, 2013

  A Newport Coast importer of Chinese furniture for stores like Home Depot, Lowe's, Costco and TJMaxx has been punished by a federal judge for cheating in a scheme to defraud banks involving a $130 mill... More >>

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  Recidivist Human Smuggler Wants Mexican Resort Probation

  published Feb 28, 2013

  You've probably heard a lousy American economy has reduced illegal immigration passions from Mexico into the United States, but that story isn't the reality in ongoing human smuggling cases in Orange ... More >>

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  Armenian Hoodlum Involved In Massive LA-OC Identity Theft Ring Gets Prison

  published Feb 28, 2013

  A 26-year-old Armenian man living in Southern California and deemed an "illegal alien" by federal officials participated in a massive, Burbank-based, $7 million identity theft ring operating for six y... More >>

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  Should Child-Porn Collector Get No Prison Time Because He's Severely Handicappedr

  published Feb 27, 2013

  Should an Orange County father caught possessing child pornography receive a lighter punishment because he is handicappedr If you're Louis George Thibault Jr., a former machine tools and equipmen... More >>

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  Slidebar Rock-N-Roll Kitchen Is Innocent

  published February 28, 2013

  Last June, a 30-year-old security guard shocked Southern California by announcing he could prove a criminal conspiracy led to the fatal beating... More >>

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  Federal Prosecutors Are Winning Bribery Cases Against OC Businessmen Who Cheated Panasonic

  published Feb 27, 2013

  Federal prosecutors in Southern California have won a guilty plea from a New Jersey-based Panasonic employee who accepted bribes from Orange County businessmen seeking to cheat the Japanese conglomera... More >>

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  Violating Hello Kitty & Disney Mice Costs Anaheim Business Owners $80,000

  published Feb 19, 2013

  Two people tied to an Anaheim business must pay nearly $80,000 for violating copyright protections on Hello Kitty, Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse products, OC Weekly has learned.A federal judge inside ... More >>

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  Orange County Man, Who Suffered Brutal Chinese Prison, Can't Stay Out of Trouble

  published Feb 15, 2013

  Last year, U.S. District Court Judge Cormac J. Carney handed Chrisstian Pax Joseph Manshack a punishment lighter than that requested by federal prosecutors: eight months in prison plus three years of ... More >>

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  Mexican Boat Delivery of 1,200 Pounds of Marijuana to Laguna Beach Nets Charges

  published Feb 15, 2013

  Eighty-five miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border in the wee hours of Feb. 4, men wearing black clothes in a 30-foot panga boat delivered 1,200 pounds of marijuana to the shore at Crystal Cove in Lagu... More >>

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  Orange County Drug Dealers Win Lengthy Prison Trips in Federal Court

  published Feb 14, 2013

  Two Orange County heroin, methamphetamine, marijuana and cocaine drug dealers have been sentenced to lengthy prison terms this month inside the Ronald Reagan Federal Courthouse in Santa Ana.U.S. Distr... More >>

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  Dish Network Wins $6.4M Judgment Against Little Saigon Satellite Pirate

  published Feb 14, 2013

  A federal judge in Orange County has granted summary judgment to Dish Network and imposed a massive fine on a Little Saigon man who operated a satellite piracy business.U.S. District Court Judge James... More >>

• Christopher Dorner Ditched Cops' Favorite Tool

  published February 14, 2013

  Hold the Phone! Ex-LAPD cop and suspected serial killer Christopher Dorner denied his pursuers their favorite tracking tool More >>

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  Costa Mesa Counterfeiter Who Sold $100 Notes For $30 Learns Fate

  published Feb 13, 2013

  For counterfeiting U.S. Federal Reserve notes, an Orange County con artist and convicted drug addict faced as much as 20 years in prison.  Costa Mesa's James Peter Perraie, a past part-time Ranch... More >>

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  Huntington Beach-Based, Nationwide, High-Grade Marijuana Business Lands Man In Federal Custody

  published Feb 13, 2013

  A federal grand jury in Michigan has charged an Orange County man tied to Huntington Beach with money laundering and trying to illegally sell more than 100 kilograms of high-quality marijuana.Accordin... More >>

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  Orly Taitz Defends Her Honesty, Blasts Huffington Post for Defaming Her Character

  published Feb 11, 2013

  If Orly Taitz could speak now to U.S. District Court Judge Andrew J. Guilford, she'd say in her Zsa Zsa Gabor voice, "I did not lie, darling!"I can be sure of this assertion because on Feb. 4, Taitz--... More >>

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  Orange County Home Mortgage Con Artist (Barely) Gets Punished

  published Feb 11, 2013

  Kenny Rojas never attended college, but he operated what appeared to be an honest mortgage-brokerage company in Orange and Los Angeles counties, First Liberty Wholesale Lending Inc.But Rojas' superfic... More >>

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  Christopher Dorner Manhunt Makes Southern California Police Pilots Behave

  published Feb 08, 2013

  Numerous Southern California airborne law-enforcement pilots routinely fly low and loud over residential communities in asinine displays of power on par in maturity with uneducated punks who roll down... More >>

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  Federal Prosecutors Win Telemarketing Ban Against Orange County Businessman

  published Feb 08, 2013

  Orange County businessman Roy M. Cox apparently did not know that no means no.The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has won a stipulated judgment and permanent injunction against Cox, a Santa Ana resid... More >>

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  Christopher Dorner, Ex-Cop & Irvine Murder Suspect, Allegedly Declares War on LAPD in Manifesto Outing Department Corruption

  published Feb 06, 2013

  Southern California law enforcement is on high alert tonight as one of its own has turned the tables on police and declared in a chilling manifesto, "You will now live the life of the prey . . . You h... More >>