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June 18, 2013
John Paul Beckman, Third Striker Who Shivved an Inmate, Stirred Up Prison Riot, Wins Release
Orange County Superior Court Judge Robert Fitzgerald today re-sentenced and released career criminal John Paul Beckman over the objections of the district attorney's office.The hearing was prompted by Prop. 36, the initiative voters passed in November to reform California's Three Strikes Law so that ... More >>
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May 29, 2013
Jose Luis Capacete, Brinks Guard Accused of Serial Rapes, Confessed to Cop: Prosecutor
A Brinks Armored Car company guard spent Christmas Eve 2011 threatening a Harbor Boulevard prostitute in Santa Ana with a Taser, tying her up, raping her and later telling a detective, "I did tie her up. I want to man up. I've been carrying this around with me."That was revealed in Orange County Sup ... More >>
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May 24, 2013
Aspiring Hip-Hop Rapper Sentenced for Role In Massive Identity-Theft Ring
Aspiring Southern California hip-hop rapper Keley Bluez--crooner of the MySpace online wonder "(I Don't) Beg for Pussy"--has been sentenced to prison for his role in a multiyear, sophisticated, identity-theft and bank-fraud ring that stole millions of dollars from innocent victims. In court records ... More >>
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May 24, 2013
Richard Alan Nolan, Hospital Nurse, Faces Trial for Alleged Sexual Assaults on Male Patients
Trial was scheduled to begin today for Richard Alan Nolan, a nurse accused of sexually assaulting two male patients at Anaheim's Western Medical Center.Charged in 2010 with five felonies ranging from sexual battery on an institutionalized victim to oral copulation, the 47-year-old made bail and has ... More >>
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May 15, 2013
German Bravo DeJesus, Healthcare Creeper, Guilty of Fondling Little Girls at Work and Park
A 34-year-old Lake Forest man was convicted today of touching the vaginal areas of a 7-year-old visiting a family member at the Laguna Woods healthcare facility the creeper worked at and a 6-year-old attending movie night at an Aliso Viejo park. German Bravo DeJesus now faces a maximum sentence of 4 ... More >>
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May 14, 2013
Are The Feds Unfairly Targeting Muslim Students Who Oppose Israel?
In Washington D.C. today, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) opened a probe of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), following reports that the IRS was unfairly targeting conservative non-profit groups affiliated with the Tea Party movement. Closer to home, the California chapter of the Counc ... More >>
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May 9, 2013
SoCal Police's Blood Money
When the DA declines to prosecute bad cops, the only justice families can get is financial
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May 9, 2013
Jacob John Cunningham, John D. Silva, Justin Dennis Koelle and Dominic Adam Nolan Cop to Collecting Illegal Fees for Phony Loan Mods
Four men were convicted Wednesday for their roles in a real estate scam that stung hundreds of victims through the fraudulent collection of more than $130,000 in upfront fees for loan-modification services via fake letters with the CitiFinancial or CitiMortgage logos. Jacob John Cunningham, 26, of I ... More >>
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May 3, 2013
Kevin Michael Sianez, Cop-Turned-Illegal P.I., Cops to Defrauding and Intimidating But What About Getting Women to Screw His Dog?
Former police officer Kevin Michael Sianez pleaded guilty Thursday to 17 felony counts of grand theft by false pretense, 11 felony counts of fraudulently using an access card, two felony counts of identity theft, four felony counts of possession of a firearm by a felon stemming from a 1998 convictio ... More >>
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April 30, 2013
Dr. Sri J. Wijegunaratne of Anaheim Guilty of Role in $1.5 Medicare Billing Fraud Scheme
An Anaheim physician was recently convicted in federal court for his role in a $1.5 million Medicare fraud scheme, according to the U.S. Attorney's office.Dr. Sri J. Wijegunaratne, 58, was found guilty of one count of conspiracy to pay and receive kickbacks, another count of conspiracy to commit hea ... More >>
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April 26, 2013
Johnathan Allen Kincaid Gets Life Without Parole for Stabbing-Murder of Tayroh Stinson
An Anaheim man was sentenced today to life in state prison without the possibility of parole for stabbing a 31-year-old Garden Grove man to death over a drug-deal dispute.Johnathan Allen Kincaid, 23, who had fled to Las Vegas after the July 29, 2009, murder, was convicted in February of felony speci ... More >>
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April 26, 2013
Itzcoatl "Izzy" Ocampo, Alleged Serial Killer of 6, Has Death-Penalty Trial Pushed to May 2014
The trial of suspected serial killer Itzcoatl "Izzy" Ocampo likely will not begin until May 2014.While the 25-year-old Yorba Linda man accused of fatally stabbing a mother, her adult son and four homeless men has a Nov. 1 court date, his attorneys asked an Orange County Superior Court judge today fo ... More >>
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April 18, 2013
Kiddie-Porn Lovers at OC Libraries
[Moxley Confidential] Three men, including a brazen public-library abuser, get punished for kiddie porn
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April 18, 2013
How To Steal $1 Million in California & Avoid Prison
Before he became a wildly successful Verizon franchisee in Southern California, Michael Scott Grayson was a crook.We know this fact because in 2008 the FBI arrested Grayson for his role in a 2004-2005 conspiracy that used false statements and fake documents to steal enormous amounts of money in ... More >>
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April 8, 2013
Rene Antonio Lobos Pleads Guilty in Halloween 2009 Slaying of Joshua Steven Rodriguez
An 18-year-old--who at 15 was charged as an adult for the murder of a La Habra teen beaten and stabbed to death at a Halloween night 2009 house party--pleaded guilty last week to voluntary manslaughter with a sentencing enhancement for gang activity.Rene Antonio Lobos, also of La Habra, was immediat ... More >>
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April 5, 2013
Adam Harrison Hall Gets 17 Years for Murder of Pedestrian He Drove into Blazing on Meds
A driver found guilty in February of murder, DUI and forging prescriptions was sentenced today to 17 years to life in state prison.Asked in January if a murder count for the DUI-related slaying of a pedestrian was proper, Weekly readers engaged in a lively debate in our comments section.
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March 26, 2013
Hugo Godinez, Sex Offender Appealing County Pervs-in-Parks Ban, Jailed for Violating Parole
Hugo Godinez, the registered sex offender at the center of an appellate case that, depending on who tells it, freed only him from the restraints of a controversial county ordinance banning perverts from public parks or made that law null and void for all, has been sentenced to 197 days in jail for v ... More >>
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March 21, 2013
Anaheim Police Association President: We Told You Manuel Diaz Killing Was Justified
The president of the Anaheim Police Association (APA) has issued a statement in support of Wednesday's announcement by the Orange County District Attorney that there will be no criminal charges against an officer who shot and killed an unarmed gang member in July 2012."We are very pleased that our o ... More >>
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March 21, 2013
Ivan Von Staich, Murderer Who Has Menaced Society In and Out of Prison, Loses Parole Bid
Robert Topper received an early Christmas present in 1983: a toolbox for the wrenches, screwdrivers and other instruments he used in his spare time tinkering around in his Santa Ana garage. His pride and joy from his off-hours hobby was a Porsche he restored and would drive around, beaming. But Topp ... More >>
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March 14, 2013
Virginia's Anti-Sodomy Law Ruled Invalid--with an Assist from UC Irvine's Erwin Chemerinsky
Virginia's anti-sodomy law has been struck down, due in part to an assist from the dean of UC Irvine's School of Law, Erwin Chemerinsky.The decision came in a case involving sex between an adult male and a 17-year-old girl, which the Richmond, Va.-based 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals agreed shoul ... More >>
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March 8, 2013
Joseph Baez is Third to be Found Guilty in OC's First Murder of 2010; One Defendant to Go
When gang banger Joseph Baez's special circumstances murder trial began last month, he was looking at the possibility of life in state prison without the possibility of parole if convicted in Orange County's first murder of 2010. Thursday, a jury found him guilty instead of second degree murder and ... More >>
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March 7, 2013
Should An Orange County Drug Dealer Get Punishment Break Because of Lousy Childhood?
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 contents of two bags. Officers eventually managed to detain Joseph Matthew Dattilio and, despite him ... More >>
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March 5, 2013
Peter Herzog, Veteran Councilman in Pot Clinic-Busting Lake Forest, Slapped with DUI Charges
The Orange County district attorney's office on Monday filed DUI charges against Lake Forest City Councilman Peter Herzog, who is accused of driving with a blood-alcohol content more than twice the legal limit."Hey, Cokehead, doesn't Lake Forest close medical-marijuana clinics with gusto?"Indeed.
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March 4, 2013
Orange County Killer, 14, Calls His 40-Year Punishment Cruel & Unusual
In June 2010, Buena Park mobile home resident Andrew Cervantes (AKA "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 candy to ask another teenage hoodlum, Manual Orozco, a gang-world question: "Where you from?" Cerva ... More >>
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February 28, 2013
Erwin Chemerinsky and Rick Hasen of UCI Law Weigh in Far and Wide on Voting Rights Act
Something more supremely has overshadowed the news that UC Irvine School of Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky has been named a new endowed chair in First Amendment Law through a $1.5 million gift from Raymond Pryke, owner and publisher of the Valleywide Newspapers chain based in Hesperia. Chemerinsky and ... More >>
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February 19, 2013
Joseph Baez Faces Trial in Fatal Shooting of OC's First Murder Victim of 2010
A murder trial begins in Santa Ana this morning for the alleged partner in crime of a previously convicted fellow Orange resident who, while navigating the court process from Orange County Jail, was charged with carrying out Mexican Mafia orders. Joseph Baez, 28, faces a special circumstances murder ... More >>
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February 18, 2013
[UPDATED with 70 Victims:] Zachary Joshua Reeder, High School Coach-Teacher, Allegedly Posed as Girl Online to Get Dirty Pics of Boys
See the update at the end of this post about the suspect making bail as dozens and dozens of additional alleged victims come forward.ORIGINAL POST, FEB. 11, 4:13 P.M.: A 30-year-old teacher at Servite High School, the all-boys Catholic school in Anaheim, is accused of posing as a woman on Facebook t ... More >>
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February 15, 2013
Saul Jose Salazar Gets 16 Years to Life for Murder of Mother's House Guest in Santa Ana
A Santa Ana man with a history of crime and a restraining taken out by his mother for the violence directed at her received the maximum sentence today for the second degree murder of her house guest, who was stabbed in the chest with a pocket knife.Saul Jose Salazar, 29, was sentenced to 16 years t ... More >>
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February 14, 2013
Orange County Drug Dealers Win Lengthy Prison Trips in Federal Court
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. District Court Judge James V. Selna sentenced Michael Wayne Ward--a 36-year-old member of the Eastside cr ... More >>
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February 14, 2013
Cristina Talley, Anaheim's Former City Attorney, Not the Crusader Yaktivists Make Her Out to Be
The 'Rally for Talley' held outside the steps of Anaheim City Hall last week was the latest public display of support for former city attorney Cristina Talley. Since then, there's been a raging debate on the blogopshere as to the circumstances surrounding her sudden, forced resignation during the Ja ... More >>
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February 7, 2013
Counterfeiters, Short Film by Laguna Niguel's Bryce Hirschberg, Makes TV Debut Tonight
Counterfeiters, an innovative short film by Laguna Niguel's Bryce Hirschberg that was filmed in one continuous shot, makes its television debut tonight. Fine Cut: KCET's Annual Festival of Student Films, a five-week series that showcases documentaries, comedic, dramatic and animated shorts by stud ... More >>
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February 4, 2013
Adam Harrison Hall, Twice Convicted of DUI and Accused of Blazing on Meds in Fatal Crash, Faces Murder Count; Is That Right?
Trial began last week for a 29-year-old Placentia man facing a murder count for allegedly raging on methamphetamine, Diazepam, Nordiazepam, Alprazolam, Hydroxyalprazolam, Oxazepam, Temazepam, amphetamine, Morphine, and 11-nor-9-carboxy-delta-9-tetrahyrocannabinol (THCA) before causing a car crash ... More >>
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January 29, 2013
Larry Thomas Dominguez Likely Buried Dead Dad and Got $100k of His Social Security: Cops
I'm no Columbo, but an Orange County District Attorney's office statement I just received about Larry Thomas Dominguez being charged with illegally collecting more than $100,000 from his deceased father's Social Security benefits indicates to me the bones found in the homicide suspect's former backy ... More >>
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January 29, 2013
Calvin James Calvin, Parolee Who Lied He Was Kobe Bryant and LeBron James' Investor, Guilty of Stinging 7 Marks for $198,000
Calvin James Calvin--yes, that's not a typo--sold investors on a securities plan by claiming he was a financial investor for Kobe Bryant, LeBron James and other pro athletes.The Newport Beach 48-year-old was really a parolee barred from investment activities, but Calvin's worst phony role involved p ... More >>
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January 28, 2013
Kenneth Lance Hendrick Gets Jail and Loses Bail Bonds License for Recruiting Clients in Jail
A bail bonds agent pleaded guilty today to illegally soliciting clients from Orange County Jail.Kenneth Lance Hendrick, 50, of Mission Viejo, was promptly sentenced to a year in jail and three years probation, and the California Department of Insurance will revoke the James Morris Bail Bonds' empl ... More >>
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January 24, 2013
CorrectiveSolutions' Checkmate
Prosecutors nationwide team up with the San Clemente debt collector to terrorize consumers in ways both highly profitable and usually sketchy
Blogs
January 16, 2013
Rainer Klaus Reinscheid, UCI Professor and Grieving Father, Faces More Arson Charges
The Orange County District Attorney's Office announced today it will file an additional arson charge against Rainer Klaus Reinscheid, the UC Irvine professor accused of setting several fires and writing threatening emails against students and high school administrators in the wake of his possibly b ... More >>
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January 14, 2013
Dee Francis and Rosalinda Rodriguez Landon, Administrators in Unity Medical Fraud Scam, Expand Their Rap Sheets with Guilty Pleas
Two ex-administrators are the latest to be convicted in the massive medical insurance billing fraud case involving the since-closed Unity Surgical Outpatient Center of Buena Park. Dee Francis, 63, was sentenced to six years in state prison after pleading guilty the various counts Friday, while his f ... More >>
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January 9, 2013
Tribute Bands Unite For Sandy Hook Benefit Concert in OC
While it's true that even the best tribute bands will never grace the same stages as the icons they emulate, a hoard of talented pretenders are about to tune up for a very important gig next week. On January 20, eight bands will strap on their wigs, glittery axes and unitards for a concert benefitin ... More >>
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January 8, 2013
Miguel Lerma Jr., Former Border Officer, Gets 6 Years for Raping Two Women
Former U.S. Customs and Border Protection Officer Miguel Lerma Jr. pleaded guilty today to forcibly raping one woman and raping a second who passed out after too much alcohol.The 33-year-old Fountain Valley resident, who faced up to 32 years in state prison based on an April 2011 statement from pro ... More >>
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December 28, 2012
10 Really Bad Orange County Boyfriends eHarmonizers and Match.commers Must Avoid
Today's arraignment of Cheyene Fuimaono for allegedly murdering his girlfriend's toddler son reminded me that I wanted to slap together a list of 10 Orange Countians who proved to be really bad boyfriends in 2012. Match.comming eHarmonizers take note of the results after the jump . . .
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December 21, 2012
4 Get Prison Time (with More Likely to Come) in Massive Unity Medical Billing Fraud Scheme
An attorney, an accountant, and two medical center administrators walk into a bar . . . oops, that should be behind bars--for their roles in the nation's largest medical fraud prosecution. Four people who should have known better Thursday became the latest Unity Surgical Outpatient Center muckity-mu ... More >>
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December 21, 2012
Karen Elaine Hanover, Already Convicted for Posing as FBI Agent, Indicted for Mail Fraud
Remember Karen Elaine Hanover, the Seal Beach real estate saleslady who was looking at 40 years in prison but was sentenced to six months in jail for using "spoofing" technology to impersonate an FBI agent who threatened customers who'd complained about her shady deals? A federal grand jury in Santa ... More >>
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December 13, 2012
Mark Alan Jarosik Gets 31 Years for Raping, Trying to Kill Ex-G.F. and Recruiting Killer
Mark Alan Jarosik, who was awaiting a court hearing for attacking his ex-girlfriend in 2009 when he tried to break into her Ladera Ranch home and then later put her in a Mission Hospital bed with severe head trauma, was sentenced today to 31 years to life in state prison.A jury in October found the ... More >>
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December 12, 2012
Alleged Orange County Alley Boys Gangster: I'm Being Railroaded!
Orange County's Alain Cruz is immensely frustrated that nobody in California's judicial system is listening to cries that he's been railroaded.Cruz was involved in the January 2005 shooting death of a con artist who operated a stolen phone service operation.But Cruz didn't shoot Melvin Liufau (AKA " ... More >>
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December 12, 2012
Alex Bassinne, Ex-School Teacher, Gets Year in Jail After Copping to Molestin' & Kiddie Pornin'
Alex Bassinne has accepted a plea deal that has the 50-year-old former math teacher in Santa Ana schools pleading guilty to molesting two teen girls and possessing child porn in exchange for a one-year jail sentence, three years of probation and lifetime registration as a sex offender. If Bassinne h ... More >>
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December 12, 2012
Charles Anthony Murphy Jr. Found Guilty in Third Re-Trial in Burned Bodies Murder Case
Charles Anthony Murphy Jr. was found guilty today of murdering a father and daughter, trying to murder the man's wife and conspiring to murder the parents in a grisly 2007 case that included the bodies of the dead being set afire in an abandoned van. The Mission Hills 27-year-old could get life in s ... More >>
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December 12, 2012
Playing Stanton Gang Roulette as District Attorney Announces New Gang Injunction
The Orange County District Attorney's office (OCDA) is today heralding the 11th injunction brought against an unnamed "multi-generational gang" in Stanton that is "one of the oldest in Orange County, dating back to the early 1950s."The OCDA description fits Hispanic street gang Big Stanton, but righ ... More >>
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December 10, 2012
Stanley Kuo Jua Yang Gets 30 Months for Hawking Knock-Offs of Exercise Machines
An Irvine man was sentenced this morning to 30 months in federal prison for hawking counterfeit goods, including knock-offs of Bowflex, Ab Circle Pro and Malibu Pilates exercise machines.United States District Court Judge R. Gary Klausner in Los Angeles immediately remanded Stanley Kuo Jua Yang, 3 ... More >>
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December 6, 2012
Luis Alberto Pineda, Sicko Soccer and Karate Coach, Gets 285 Years to Life for Sex with Kids
When Luis Alberto Pineda was found guilty last month of sodomy, oral sex, sexual penetration and/or attempted sex acts with 10 boys and a girl he met through coaching soccer or teaching martial arts in North County, we noted he could get 255 years in state prison.We undershot. An incensed Orange Co ... More >>
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