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Brad Gates

  • Blogs

    December 6, 2011

    Robert Duston Strong and David Michael Knick, Presumed Killers of Sheriff's Sgt. Ira Essoe Jr., Must Be Freed

    ​Orange County Superior Court Judge Craig Robison has ruled that the presumed killers of an Orange County sheriff's sergeant must be released immediately. Compelling legal twists led to Robison's ruling for Robert Duston Strong and David Michael Knick, the strongest being the lack of judicial supp ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 28, 2011

    Profiles in OC Pioneers Who Were Klan Members: Sam Jernigan and Jesse Elliott, Orange County Sheriffs

    Baby Klan will do for an image until we get a logo for this series...​Orange County has never exactly excelled in electing the best sheriffs. There was Theo Lacy, who most likely participated in the lynching of Francisco Torres, and James Musick, who paraded around Mexicans during court hearings s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 19, 2010

    [UPDATED:] Ira Gabor Essoe, OC Homicide No. 58: Deputy Was Shot in 1980, Succumbs to Injuries in 2010

    ​Update, November 19, 12:35 p.m.: Orange County Sheriff Sandra Hutchens has issued a statement about the charges filed against two men Thursday for the murder of Sgt. Ira Gabor Essoe, Jr. in 1980."The criminal justice system will not let the passage of time protect the men who brutally shot and ki ... More >>

  • News

    September 2, 2010

    Killer Quince

    Happy Quinceañera to us! A look back at 15 years of telling the other side (that is, the real side) of OC's story

  • News

    April 22, 2010

    Brad Gates, Space Cowboy

    The ex-sheriff's open-space dealmaking has some in San Juan Capistrano crying foul

  • Blogs

    April 15, 2010

    Ira Gabor Essoe Jr., Fallen Officer Remembered 30 Years After He Was Shot

    Photo by John GilhooleyThe memorial service for Sgt. Ira Essoe fills the Saddleback Church worship sanctuary.​Sadly, memorial services for officers killed in the line of duty are not unusual, but yesterday's at Saddleback Church in Lake Forest for Orange County Sheriff's Sgt. Ira Gabor Essoe Jr. d ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 7, 2010

    UPDATED: Did the Brown Act Put San Juan Capistrano in Hot Water with the DA?

    Taken at the 1935 Swallows Day paradeOriginally published at 1:10 p.m. Updated 2:44 with comment from OCDA.​As is fashionable nowadays, last night's city council meeting in San Juan Capistrano saw members of the public comparing elected officials to mid-century fascist monsters. The tyra ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 8, 2008

    What’s the Best Orange County History Book?

    Taken at the 1935 Swallows Day paradeOriginally published at 1:10 p.m. Updated 2:44 with comment from OCDA.​As is fashionable nowadays, last night's city council meeting in San Juan Capistrano saw members of the public comparing elected officials to mid-century fascist monsters. The tyra ... More >>

  • Features

    November 22, 2007

    Just a Random Female

    Robbin Brandley’s confessed killer sits on death row. So why don’t her parents consider the case closed?

  • Web

    October 27, 2005

    A Clockwork Orange

    Robbin Brandley’s confessed killer sits on death row. So why don’t her parents consider the case closed?

  • News

    August 8, 2002

    Iron Mike

    Is Sheriff Carona ready for the White House?

  • News

    May 3, 2001

    Ready to Inhale

    Alan Bock says the medical-marijuana war is over, and the good guys won

  • Features

    November 9, 2000

    Behind the Smoke

    Measure G to the countys poor: Go to the end of the line, and wait there for 20 yearsagain

  • News

    May 11, 2000

    A Second Chance

    Now free, OC cannabis crusader Marvin Chavez is ready to open a new front in the war on the War on Drugs

  • News

    April 13, 2000

    Mitterfired?

    Controversial county CEO down to just one defender: The Times

  • News

    December 9, 1999

    Bankruptcy? What Bankruptcy?!

    OCs financial meltdown, five years later

  • News

    December 2, 1999

    Poo Fighters

    Once a friend of land developers, Garry Brown has joined the battle to keep OCs beaches free of the brown stuff

  • News

    June 3, 1999

    Carona Lite

    Once a friend of land developers, Garry Brown has joined the battle to keep OCs beaches free of the brown stuff

  • News

    June 3, 1999

    A Gray Area

    OC judge is wild card in Citizens Drug Inquiry

  • Columns

    March 25, 1999

    Letters

    OC judge is wild card in Citizens Drug Inquiry

  • News

    January 21, 1999

    Saddle Sores

    OC judge is wild card in Citizens Drug Inquiry

  • Features

    January 7, 1999

    Man of the Year: Marvin Chavez

    OC judge is wild card in Citizens Drug Inquiry

  • Columns

    November 12, 1998

    Teach Your Children Hell

    OC judge is wild card in Citizens Drug Inquiry

  • Columns

    November 5, 1998

    Things That Really, Really Scare Me

    Rescinded invitations

  • Features

    September 10, 1998

    Give It the Old College Guide*

    The finer (and lesser) points of local institutions

  • Features

    December 25, 1997

    Silent Coup

    Secret meetings, shady deals: Life before & after the Orange County bankruptcy

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