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Gabrielle Jane Nestande, Killer of Nanny Out for a Walk, the "Great White Defendant?"

Is Gabrielle Jane Nestande, a politically connected former Newport Beach debutante, the "Great White Defendant?"That's how a conservative online magazine is characterizing the 25-year-old convicted of criminally negligent homicide and recently sentenced to six months in jail for the hit-and-run slay ... More >>

FBI Agents Don't Fall For Fake Compartment Trick In Narcotics Loaded BMW

Late one December night in 2009, three individuals riding in a black 1997 BMW 528i on I-15 in San Bernardino County believed a CHP officer stopped them merely for weaving out of a lane, but in truth they'd been under surveillance for hours by a team of undercover FBI agents.Driver Lindberg Villalobo ... More >>

Gabrielle Jane Nestande Slapped with Lawsuit for Hit-and-Run Death of Nanny After Boozing

The mother of the woman killed criminally by Gabrielle Jane Nestande is suing the former Newport Beach debutante and the Austin, Texas, bar that served her beers, vodka and, just before her BMW plowed into the pedestrian, a shot.Court documents indicate Laurie Griffin is seeking more than $1 million ... More >>

Tustin Cop at DUI Crash Scene Injured in Second Suspected DUI Collision

A Tustin police officer on the scene for the arrest of a suspected drunk driver who smashed into a pole was injured while sitting in his marked patrol car, which was rammed into by a car driven by a second suspected drunk early today.The officer's agency has not yet released his name, specified his ... More >>

Bart Griffin Waits in Vain for an Apology from the Family of His Daughter's Killer, Gabrielle Jane Nestande

On what would have been the late Courtney Griffin's 32nd birthday, her father in Austin was hoping to receive this gift from someone in the Nestande family of Newport Beach.An apology.It had not arrived despite Gabrielle Jane Nestande being found guilty a week before of criminally negligent homicide ... More >>

[UPDATED with Dead Woman's Family Reacts to No Jail Time:] Gabrielle Jane Nestande Guilty of Criminally Negligent Homicide

See Update No. 3 at the bottom of page 2 on the deceased woman's family reacting to no jail time being given.She Update No. 1 on the next page about Gabby being found guilty of criminally negligent homicide and Update No. 2 on page 2 on the sentence including probation, a fine but no jail time..ORIG ... More >>

[UPDATED with Student-Receptionist-Stripper?] 4 Dead in A.M. Shooting Spree

Updates throughout. The latest is Update No. 8 at the bottom of page 4 with conflicting reports about the female victim's employment.ORIGINAL POST, FEB. 19, 8:22 A.M.: Three people were killed and two others were wounded in a 25-minute spree of shootings that began in an upscale Ladera Ranch neighbo ... More >>

Why Do Mexican Men Like Classic Cars?

[¡Ask a Mexican!] And why do Mexicans still bother with the United States?

Farhad Ebadat, Bellagio Motors Owner, Accused of Embezzling $3 Million from Customers

The owner of a Costa Mesa dealership specializing in Audi Spyder, BMW, Ferrari, Lamborghini, Lexus, Lotus, Maserati, Porsche, Rolls Royce and other high-end luxury cars is accused of embezzling $3 million from those buying and selling vehicles at his business.Farhad Ebadat, the 37-year-old operator ... More >>

Product Placement in Music Videos = Tacky

We'll be honest: product placement in music videos used to not irritate us--we giggled when the Foo Fighters parodied a Mentos commercial in their "Big Me" video back in the 90s--but that was when music videos premiered on MTV--not Vevo--and artists weren't cashing in on aggressive product placement ... More >>

Cypress Trips the Car Electric

If the 75 or so cars that pulled into a massive Cypress parking lot Sunday seemed unusually quiet, that was by design. Electric car drivers, makers and enthusiasts gathered at the Mitsubishi Motors North America headquarters for Orange County's National Plug In Day celebration.

Igor Olenicoff, Billionaire Tax Felon, Has UBS Influence Excuse Confirmed by Whisteblower

Bradley Birkenfeld helped the wealthy dodge taxes, went to prison and is now reportedly getting $104 million from the IRS for whistleblowing on some clients. Among them: billionaire Igor Olenicoff, who lives in Laguna Beach and oversees Olen Properties real estate in Newport Beach. Interestingly, Ol ... More >>

LA Deputies On Beating Johnnie Franklin Jones

[Moxley Confidential] It isn't just the Kelly Thomas killing in which cops believe they have the right to execute a citizen during a scuffle

Why Do Mexicans Pick Through Trash to Look for Recyclables?

[¡Ask a Mexican!!] And why are Mexicans so funny?

3 of 10 Most Wanted Robbers Hit OC Banks

​In announcing that the 287 Southern California bank robberies in 2011 maintained a downward trend in such crimes--there were 2,600 reported in the same region in 1992--the FBI also listed its 10 most wanted serial robbers of SoCal banks.Three of the 10 who have struck multiple times included Oran ... More >>

Michael Kamrava, Octomom Nadya Suleman's Fertility Doctor, Files for Bankruptcy

​Michael Kamrava, the Beverly Hills fertility doctor who lost his medical license last year partly due to his controversial treatment of Octomom Nadya Suleman of La Habra, has reportedly filed for bankruptcy.TMZ cites Chapter 7 papers Kamrava filed that claim "he has only $17,628 in assets . . . a ... More >>

This Week In Food: Shit Vegans Say, New Girl Scout Cookie, Starbucks & Molotov Cocktails

So the first week of January was pretty good to us, food-wise; Star Wars burgers, the best sushi in OC, and famous lesbian movie scenes as depicted by hot dogs. Read all about this amazing week on the blog!

Talking Yelp App Now Available on Some BMWs

​Over the past few years, car navigation systems featuring Zagat has been made available on some luxury car models like Mercedez-Benz and Lexus. Meanwhile, Toyota's new Entune system partnered up with OpenTable.com to offer restaurant ratings and reservations on the go.

Gabrielle Nestande, OC GOP Heavyweight's Daughter, Has Powerful Legal Foe in Death Case

KXAN​As Gabrielle Jane Nestande left her second court appearance in Texas related to charges she failed to stop and help a nanny mowed down by the 24-year-old's car, the scion of a powerful Orange County Republican was met today by family members and supporters of the deceased woman. More troublin ... More >>

Chris Myers, GOP Mayor Said to Have Hooked Up with Male Hooker in Newport Hotel, Resigns

​Remember that New Jersey mayor Moxley wrote about a couple months ago, the one who was married, with children and a rising GOP star before a male hooker claimed the politician hired him for an illicit, $500 rendezvous inside a Newport Beach hotel? Come now, surely you recall Medford's Chris Myer ... More >>

James Ernest Bledsoe, Sex Offender Who Tried to Beat Rape Rap by Fleeing to Mexico, Gets His Day in Court

​A 2007 date-rape investigation in Huntington Beach is culminating in the trial this week of a registered sex offender who is accused of videotaping himself raping multiple women in his Surf City apartment.And 30-year-old James Ernest Bledsoe may have gotten away with it, too, if it weren't for th ... More >>

Introducing Orange County Barbie! Available With or Without Tummy Tuck

​Orange County has its very own set of Barbie dolls--and for once, we're not talking about the Real Housewives. An e-mail showed up in our inbox that was too chuckle-worthy not to share. Gotta admire the attention to detail in these figurines: Anaheim/Buena Park Barbie comes complete with a meth-l ... More >>

3hree Things: On Audio Warfare And Exacting Revenge On Noisy Neighbors

Watch out for 3hree Things every Tuesday, where Riley Breckenridge, drummer of Orange County's favorite local alt-rock band Thrice, gives his take on life in Southern California as an OC native.A few nights ago, while enjoying the extra hour of sleep afforded to us by daylight losings time ... More >>

Dr. George Steven Kooshian Gets Prison, Restitution for AIDS Dosing, Billing Scam

Kooshian on the move.​Nine and a half years after the Weekly's R. Scott Moxley broke the story about well-known AIDS doctor George Steven Kooshian having injected patients with saline and vitamins instead of the expensive drugs they were billed for, the 59-year-old was sentenced Monday to 15 month ... More >>

More Details Emerge About Invasion at Ex-Subprime King Sadek's Newport Coast Home

imdb.comDaniel Sadek and Jackie Chan at the March 2007 premiere of the Sadek-produced "Redline."​The last Crime Time ended with sketchy details about Monday's armed invasion of the Newport Coast home of Daniel Sadek, the Redline movie producer-writer and former sub-prime mortgage king Septemb ... More >>

Neighbor Recalls Seeing Blonde at Duvall's Sacramento Home, Says She's Woman in Photo of Lobbyist: TV News Report

California Secretary of State's OfficeHeidi De Jong Barsuglia​A neighbor who lives two doors down from the Sacramento-area home owned by disgraced, now ex-Assemblyman Mike Duvall says on a local television station's website today that he saw a younger, blonde woman there at least six times and, wh ... More >>

Just Another Orange County Murder: Jasmine Fiore Car Found

UPDATED THROUGHOUT! The final piece in the puzzle explaining how swimsuit model Jasmine Fiore was brutally murdered and mutilated, as well as whether anyone helped now dead murder suspect Ryan Alexander Jenkins kill and/or dispose of the body in a Buena Park dumpster, could have b ... More >>

Crime Time: Methed Mom, Nitrous Oxide, a Full Moon, a Gutted Black Cat and a Skateboarding Giant Ax Carrier

It's our weekly Weekly roundup of Orange County police calls--with suspect mugs!TUESDAY, JULY 7Courtesy of Cypress Police DepartmentAlison Le Anne EbertAt Least She Left the TV On Officers responding to an anonymous, 4:45 a.m. report of child abuse in a home in the 8500 block of La Homa Street in Cy ... More >>

Miracle on the 73: TBN Personality Turns Wine into a Double DUI

It's telling about the sad state of religion reporting in Orange County, one of the founts of American Christianity, that no one has yet to report this: a major Trinity Broadcasting Company personality has pleaded guilty to two felony DUIs that put a 70-year-old man in the hospital with serious inju ... More >>

Is Real Housewives a Real Guide to OC-Style Parenting?

Ginia Bellafante writes in today's New York Times that The Real Housewives of Orange County reveals much about Orange County-style parenting.Parenthood supplies a strange and fascinating dimension of The Real Housewives of Orange County, which increasingly feels like Mildred Pierce: the habit of ind ... More >>

[Best of OC 2008 Post Cards] Diversions: Greetings From Alex Knost

[Moxley Confidential] Notes on Lifeguard Sex, Loretta Sanchez, the Rohrabachers and DNA

The Chilly Specter of an Accused Pervert

UPDATED! Nielsen defense attacks alleged molestation victim's credibility

Imaginary Teen Sex?

WEB EXCLUSIVE! Boy dreamed up three sex romps, Nielsen claims

in the Mouth of a Desert

Where the Henry Clay People exude orange-ness

Everything Must Go

Mike Lohrman puts Underdog to sleep

Sometimes the Lion

Band manager John Reese fought his way to the top

New Film Reviews

Bluffmaster, Wolf Creek, Cheaper by the Dozen 2, Fun With Dick and Jane, Mrs. Henderson Presents, The Ringer, Rumor Has It, The White Countess

Aliso Viejo

All Up In Your Grill

Strut stakes claim to the last word in high-priced grills and car accessories

Magically Delicious!

Kiss me! Im an Irish English Scottish Russian Polish Jew!

Get Yourself Arrested

The cartoon world of Gomez

Goodbye, Nude Bowling

The last days of Kona Lanes

Political Theater

The best of the anti-Bush demonstration at St. Regis Monarch Beach Resort & Spa in Dana Point, Aug. 23, 2002

Stealing Cars With the Pros

Keep Your Trap Shut

Traveling through the new Vietnam

See Owen Run

Another top gun goes Behind Enemy Lines

Tax day: A Diary of My Pain

We Are Five!

A Brief History of the Orange County (Calif.) Weekly Tribune and Times-Dispatch

Guilty Pleasures

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