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Ouch. A high school senior from Coto de Caza accused of being dumb enough to think that he could get away with an elaborate test-stealing, computer-hacking, grade-altering scheme now faces 38 years in prison. Shit. Our advice: You should have just studied for the test, bonehead. The Tesoro Hig ... More >>
Ouch. A high school senior from Coto de Caza accused of being dumb enough to think that he could get away with an elaborate test-stealing, computer-hacking, grade-altering scheme now faces 38 years in prison. Shit. Our advice: You should have just studied for the test, bonehead. The Tesoro Hig ... More >>
Is Taco Bell truly God??? From northern New York state:Jesus has left the manger. A Watertown Department of Public Works employee noticed that the iconic statue of baby Jesus, and its manger, were missing from the display in Public Square on Friday morning. The thief did leave a clear plastic Taco B ... More >>
Steal from James Harman and youre stealing from everyone
Nixon's historian works his magic on incriminating tapes
An ex-drug dealer and burglar leads a wheelchair posse terrorizing Southern California businesses. Would you believe he has the law on his side?
An ex-drug dealer and burglar leads a wheelchair posse terrorizing Southern California businesses. Would you believe he has the law on his side?
Oh, and your cat's dead
Oh, and your cat's dead
John Dean, shown last year, is coming to the Nixon Library.Over the years, the Richard Nixon Library, Birthplace, Museum, Taqueria & Polo Grounds in Yorba Linda has hosted such speakers as Ann Coulter, Hugh Hewitt, Bill O'Reilly, William J. Bennett, Dick Cheney and probably even more repulsive f ... More >>
Feast your eyes on the hottest car in California, Speed Racer: the 1991 Honda Accord. Forget your Ferrarris, Lamborghinis, heck, even your grandparents' Buicks. According to the National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) Hot Wheels 2009 report, which crunched data reported to the National Crime Infor ... More >>
You're pretty stupid if you're Mexican and visiting Taco Bell, but if you're Mexican and visiting Taco Bell after having committed a crime...well, you're probably a Guatemalan! Near New Orleans Rapides Parish sheriff's deputies found the men that witnesses said burglarized a vehicle early Friday m ... More >>
Courtesy of U.S. Border and Customs ProtectionFound it!You never know what will turn up in a container at the Long Beach port. Sure, the vast majority are filled with legal products bound for store shelves all across this great land. But every so often inspectors will find smuggled guns, drugs, h ... More >>
It's the Weekly's weekly police blotter--now with more alleged rummy mommies, ex-cop robbers, sticky fingers, douches on bikes and really bad karaoke singers.MONDAY, NOV. 23 Insert car here.That Walled-In Feeling A man crashing his black Toyota Corolla into a wall at the Shell gas station at Lake ... More >>
Courtesy of Orange County District AttorneyJason Ara Erpinar, 20, of Yorba Linda, could get 45 years in prison if the rape charges against him stick.The Orange County District Attorney's office is reaching out to the public today to determine if there are other victims of a 20-year-old Yorba Lind ... More >>
This mentioned the Thanksgiving weekend burglary at the United Labor Agency of Orange County in Garden Grove, where 20,000 pounds of food, more than $25,000 worth of donated toys and other items for the benefit of underprivileged families were taken. Fortunately, local do-gooders helped save the ... More >>
Courtesy of Orange County Sheriff's DepartmentArrested were (clockwise from top right): Garzon Omar David Diaz; Louis Carlos Lopez and John Marlon Rodriguez.The three Los Angeles men above have been arrested in connection with more than 80 burglaries and car break-ins targeting customers they'd a ... More >>
Weston Scott KrugerThe man who had to have his print porn is going to prison. Can a guy trade cigarettes for pornography?
This one is worthy of The Smoking Gun. Simply put: if you're driving a stolen vehicle, DO NOT GO THROUGH DRIVE-THRU.
We've written here about Long Beach city officials promoting bicycling, a Long Beach festival promoting bicycling and a Long Beach filmmaker promoting bicycling.The hope was someone from Orange County would read one or all of those and think, "We can do it better than Long Beach."But, in the inte ... More >>
Guns don't kill people, only you can prevent forest fires and Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County causes crime to spike in Laguna Beach: the real Orange County city. The latter bit is wisdom comes from two Occidental College professors who crunched the crime data and now say rapes ... More >>
We told you last month that as Long Beach has become more bicycle friendly, bike thefts have risen. As Bicycling is Embraced, Bike Thefts Rise The Police Department announced it has arrested two suspected of ripping off two-wheelers.
Bikes are sooooo hot!In Long Beach, they are hot in the stolen property sense. More on that in a bit. First, we turn more positively to Orange County's LB.
A Long Beach man was convicted today of voluntary manslaughter in the 2007 slaying of a security guard at a Cypress church construction site.Sean Christopher Hodge, 29, of Long Beach, pleaded guilty to one felony count of voluntary manslaughter and was sentenced to 11 years in state prison.
An anxious public can breathe a sigh of relief.Westminster Police say the nude burglar is behind bars.
The chase ended just up ahead.A police chase that began with a residential burglary report out of the Peppertree Homes subdivision in Tustin seems to have just ended in the Sepulveda Avenue tunnel under the overpass that jetliners cross at the LAX south runway complex.Tustin Police Sgt. Jeff Blai ... More >>
It be interesting to know what goes through the head of someone about to have his/her police mug shot snapped. Do you think, "Should I go with the Magnum or the Innocent Until Proven Guilty pose?" Is it best to evoke fear? Sadness? Regret? Bad-assness? Crazy-sombitchness?Here's but a taste of Jua ... More >>
If you reside in Mission Viejo, congratulations, you sleep at night in the safest city in Orange County, according to rankings based on FBI crime data.Meanwhile, if you are a purse, stereo or other valuable item inside a car parked at the Shops at Mission Viejo--or a vehicle itself parked there-- ... More >>
To robbers: if you're going to rob Taco Bell, rob the cash register. Rob a customer. Rob the damn pay phone outside, if you must. But stealing a donation box for children with muscular distrophy? Low, low, low.
Lynette Rojas in scheduled to sashay into an arraignment hearing in about five minutes to answer to charges that she stole $134,000 from the Boys & Girls Club of La Habra. The Orange County District Attorney's Office (OCDA) will try to throw the book at the 34-year-old La Habra resident, who ... More >>
It was a most brazen crime: Around 9:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 7, two men wearing white Hazmat-type get-ups walked into Haven Gastropub in Old Towne Orange, placed the ATM unit on a dolly and wheeled it out.By the time employees realized what had happened--that the joint had been robbed in plain s ... More >>
1934 Ford CoupeIt was a difficult week for Garden Grove resident Robert Slovick. On Sunday morning he awoke to find that his 1934 Ford 3-window Coupe, one he had poured countless dollars and time into rebuilding and customizing, was gone. Saturday night it was sitting safely in front of h ... More >>
A fired security guard is being arraigned in Newport Beach this morning for allegedly stealing from what we assume must be a bejeweled donation box given the Caligula set holding it: The sparkly Trinity Broadcasting Network headquarters across the 405 from South Coast Plaza in Costa Mesa.Robert E ... More >>
A report of smoke coming from the Medical Arts building in Garden Grove Monday afternoon sent firefighters to the complex at 12601 Garden Grove Blvd.But one of the Garden Grove Fire Department trucks was not only lighter on water once the smoke was cleared but a portable generator with a halogen ... More >>
Costa Mesa killed its police helicopter program last month to save bucks, but that doesn't mean whirlybirds can't be called in for assistance when a heinous act has occurred.Like the theft of a bottle of tequila from Rite Aid.
Guidry: who is robbing who here?There's little doubt that Cal State Fullerton campus policeman John Brockie twice botched evidence from a photographic lineup in a case that convicted John Earl Guidry, a student, of stealing two textbooks from a school bookstore.Brockie asked a witness to identify ... More >>
UPDATE, APRIL 18, 12:24 P.M.: 34-year-old Lynette Rojas was sentenced today to three years in state prison for stealing $134,000 from the Boys & Girls Club of La Habra. The club's former executive assistant was also ordered to pay $165,000 in restitution and $270,000 in fines. Find ... More >>
A man broke into a Garden Grove home Friday night and the 59-year-old woman who lives there, despite having problems communicating due to a recent stroke, yelled at the stranger to leave.He responded by dropping his pants, whipping out his schlong and stroking it in front of the woman and her ... More >>
In the annals of nicotine-related crimes--Al Qaeda, Hezbollah and the Irish Republican Army smuggling cigarettes to raise money for terrorist attacks, or the U.S. government raising cigarette taxes to fund overspending--we may be soon be able to add the name of Nathan Sheridan*.*Not on the same ... More >>
UPDATE, JUNE 23, 10:47 A.M.: The parole board is two-for-two . . . . . . on denials, that is.Like they did with convicted killer Johnnie Earl Moore, the Board of Parole Hearings, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitations denied the parole yesterday of La Habra gang banger Marco A ... More >>
A Stanton man was being arraigned this afternoon for allegedly climbing through the bedroom window of a former neighbor and into the bed of a 10-year-old girl. Cesar Sotelo, 22, could get up to six years in state prison if convicted, and prosecutors were scheduled to ask a judge in Westminster t ... More >>
A 55-year-old man died in the custody of the Orange County Sheriff's Department on Wednesday, officials said.Costa Mesa Police arrested Stephen Douglas Mott Tuesday on suspicion of burglary and petty theft, according to the sheriff's department's news release about the death. Mott had severa ... More >>
UPDATE, NOV. 2, 11:40 A.M.: The Orange County District Attorney's office (OCDA) this morning announced the following charges against Christopher David Schwanke: one felony count each of sexual penetration by foreign object by force, sexual penetration by foreign object of an unconscious victim, ... More >>
In exchange for a two-year prison sentence, a Stanton man pleaded guilty today to climbing through the bedroom window of a former neighbor and into the bed of a 10-year-old girl. Cesar Sotelo, 22, was looking at up to six years in the big house without the plea deal.
Hey, remember that burglar who unwittingly posed for the surveillance camera at an Anaheim Wienerschnitzel restaurant last month?According to Anaheim Police, Charles Edward Blackmon, 40, of Los Angeles, is their man.Now cops hope to net the other guy.
ArroyoThe beginning of the end of an Orange County crime ring came with the late August 2009 arrest of a man, who was hiding near a shed in Oceanside, for being involved in a Laguna Beach jewelry store robbery. What authorities did not know at the time was he would be tied to another robbery earl ... More >>
Three more members of a San Diego street gang have been convicted for their roles in two Orange County jewelry store robberies, with two learning their fate from a jury today and the third having entered a guilty plea mid-trial. Aida Arroyo, 29, faces up to 15 years in state prison after pleading ... More >>
Miguel Vasconcellos/OC Weekly[UPDATE: 1/12/2010 2:50 PM] Sergent Phil Meyers, Costa Mesa Police Department's Public Information Officer, told the Weekly no burglaries have been reported at the LAB this month. Creme Tangerine, one of Orange County's quirkier (if not the quirkiest) record stor ... More >>
Four Hermes purses worth $126,000 were stolen from a Newport Coast home Saturday.Because there is usually (read: always) less money in my wallet than the actual cost of the billfold, I guess I can relate?
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