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2013 Stories by R. SCOTT MOXLEY

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  LA-OC Unemployment Fraudster Thought He'd Get Sweetheart Punishment Until Judge Said Otherwise

  published Mar 13, 2013

  In 2009, convicted felon Robert Langley (a.k.a "Bobby") and Navesia Samuels thought they'd concocted a foolproof criminal plan in Los Angeles and Orange counties.The pair invented imaginary businesses... More >>

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  Southern California Swindler, An Ex-South African Special Forces Soldier, Gets Prison

  published Mar 12, 2013

  A federal judge in Orange County has punished an ex-South African special-forces soldier for possessing an illegal cache of firearms and operating a $2.6 fraud scheme involving an ice-making business ... More >>

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  Rage Over Seeing Lesbian Lick Caused California Man To Commit Double Murderr

  published Mar 11, 2013

  While having dinner and drinks at Tortilla Flats in Mission Viejo with his girlfriend and another couple late on April 5, 2005, the unimaginable happened that shocked and angered Jon David Tafoya's se... More >>

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  Todd Spitzer Calls For "Thorough" OC Judicial Sex Probe Investigation

  published Mar 08, 2013

  Newly-elected Orange County Supervisor Todd Spitzer has requested that the county's Office of Independent Review (OIR) monitor a probe into whether a superior court judge committed any crimes involvin... More >>

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  FBI Arrests Another Alleged Pimp In Southern California Sex Slave Ring

  published Mar 08, 2013

  If FBI agents are right, 38-year-old Roshaun Nakia Porter of Long Beach falsely advertised himself on various Southern California dating websites as an ultra-wealthy, mansion-living businessman anxiou... More >>

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  Should An Orange County Drug Dealer Get Punishment Break Because of Lousy Childhoodr

  published Mar 07, 2013

  In May 2011, La Habra police officers attempted to stop a Brea man driving a Toyota Solaro, but the suspect led cops on a wild chase, running lights and speeding while dumping the white, powdery conte... More >>

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  California Attorney General, Sheriff's Department Are Investigating Orange County Judge For Alleged Quid Pro Quo Sexual Affair

  published Mar 06, 2013

  With the assistance of the Orange County Sheriff's Department, the California Attorney General's office is investigating allegations that a married Superior Court judge may have enjoyed a quid pro quo... More >>

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  Meet the Chronically Deported Mexican Determined to Live in the USA

  published Mar 06, 2013

  The U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency has an annual budget of nearly $12 billion, nine divisions, planes, helicopters, night-vision and audio spy equipment, fences, dogs, boats, guns, checkpoi... More >>

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  Ex-Huntington Beach Cop Admits Domestic Violence In Plea Bargain

  published Mar 05, 2013

  [***UPDATE with court correction at end of article] After more than a week of his criminal trial involving alarming allegations of domestic violence while he was a Huntington Beach Police Departm... More >>

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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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  COVER STORY

  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 >>