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June 16, 2011
BREAKING: Woman Shot and Killed in Irvine's Turtle Rock Community
The shooting occurred in Irvine's Turtle Rock community. A woman was shot and killed this afternoon in front of a home in Irvine. The suspect is in custody, according to news reports. Just after 2 p.m. today, officers responded to reports of gunfire around Turtle Rock and Almalf ... More >>
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June 17, 2011
Phat Huy To, the Garlic & Onion Donut Rapist, Sentenced to 8 Years in Prison
On Friday afternoon, Phat Huy To was read his 8-year prison sentence for forcibly raping and sodomizing a 23-year-old woman in Garden Grove in July 2010. To had plead guilty and was charged with one felony count each for forcible rape, sodomy by force, forcible oral copulation, and kidnapping, ac ... More >>
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June 21, 2011
Michael Delgado, 300 Pounder, Accused of Raping Maid He Hired Off Craigslist
A Fullerton man answered a Craigslist ad from a maid he is alleged to have raped in his apartment, according to police.Michael Delgado, 27, was scheduled to be arraigned today on two felony counts of forcible rape, two felony counts of forcible oral copulation, one felony count of sexual penetr ... More >>
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June 23, 2011
Orange Gang-Injunction Case Headed to Federal Appellate Court
The saga has trudged on for more than two years now, but Yvonne Elizondo still speaks about the Orange Varrio Cypress' gang injunction with freshness and fervor.A tinge of redness takes to her cheeks as she recalls the day it all started: February 23, 2009. That's the day that ... More >>
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June 24, 2011
David Brian White Faces Federal Child Porn Rap, Too
UPDATE, JUNE 24, 12:23 P.M.: Huntington Beach resident David Brian White is already facing local charges of suspected child-pornography possession.Now the feds are piling on.Court documents filed June 15 show the federal grand jury indicted White on one count of distribution of child pornography ... More >>
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June 28, 2011
[UPDATED with Continuance to 2016:] Alfonso Gudino, La Habra Gang Banger Who Shot into Random Car, Faces Parole Opposition Today
Pelican walkUPDATE, JUNE 28, 11:14 A.M.: The possible parole of 32-year-old gang banger Alfonso Gudino from Pelican Bay State Prison has been continued until 2016.Gudin conceded before today's hearing that his parole would be denied, according to the Orange County District Attorney's office. He w ... More >>
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June 28, 2011
Kenneth Joseph Lucas II Gets 13 Years for Running International Phishing Scam and Indoor Pot Farm
UPDATE, JUNE 28, 2 P.M.: Sentences totaling 13 years for convictions in two cases have been given to Kenneth Joseph Lucas II, the "kingpin" of an international "phishing" operation that used spam e-mails and bogus websites to collect personal information used to defraud American banks. The 27- ... More >>
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July 21, 2011
[UPDATED With Conviction:] First-Ever Racist OC Register Reader Fustercluck Case Goes to Trial Today
Jaime Zamora Ramirez booking photo [UPDATE, JULY 21, 3:50 P.M.] Yesterday, a jury of his peers found Jaime Zamora Ramirez guilty of raping two men, including a teenage female employee of his dry cleaning business. According to this morning's press release issued by the Orange County District A ... More >>
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July 6, 2011
[UPDATED with Final Tallies:] Fourth of July Surprise! Stepped Up DUI Checkpoints and Patrols
UPDATE, JULY 6, 10:38 A.M.: The Avoid the 38 DUI Task Force just released the final numbers from the holiday weekend past's three sobriety checkpoints and multiple DUI saturation patrols countywide.From 12:01 a.m. Friday through midnight Monday, officers representing 38 county law enforcement age ... More >>
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July 7, 2011
Jose Gonzalez, Gang Member Who Helped Kill Man in La Habra Street, Seeks Parole Today
Jose Gonzalez and his fellow gang members beat Richard Holguin the night of Feb. 16. 1996. As Holguin lay on a La Habra street, the 47-year-old was repeatedly hit and kicked before being dragged to a corner where he was left to moan, unable to move. The gang members drove off but returned a few m ... More >>
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July 12, 2011
[UPDATED with Counts, Perry Farrellesque Mug:] Michael David Marano Charged as "Drifter Bandit"
UPDATE, JULY 12, 4:30 P.M.: The Orange County District Attorney's office (OCDA) announced the charges brought against alleged "Drifter Bandit" and Perry Farrell stand-in Michael David Marano at today's scheduled arraignment in Santa Ana: four felony counts each of second degree robbery and secon ... More >>
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July 14, 2011
[UPDATED with 17 More Swept Up:] 26 Charged with Carrying Out Mexican Mafia Orders in OC Jail
UPDATE, JULY 14, 5:01 P.M.: Besides the 26 Mexican Mafia members the District Attorney's office is prosecuting as a result of the Orange County Jail crimes uncovered through "Operation Black Flag," 17 Costa Mesa gang members were swept up by federal indictments related to the investigation.The in ... More >>
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August 3, 2011
Slew of Violence Against Gay Men In Long Beach, At Least Once Incident Classified As Hate Crime
From the "Long Beach Condemns Recent Hate Crimes" Facebook page...After a recent spree of attacks on gay men in Long Beach, people are taking action. The Long Beach Police Department amped security in the city's Broadway Corridor -- the section of downtown known for its thriving gay communit ... More >>
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August 11, 2011
[UPDATED with Sentence:] Kenneth Anthony Huskey Sexually Assaults Women and Children in 3 States, Pushes Pregnant Woman onto Surf City's Main St.
Huskey's Sin City booking photoWith a name like Huskey, he has to have spent time in Alaska.And with a name like Kenneth Anthony Huskey, he has to be a dick.He was convicted in 2003 of sexually abusing a minor in his hometown of Las Vegas, Nevada. That led to sex offender registration in Alaska a ... More >>
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September 1, 2011
[UPDATED with Judge's Affirmation:] Armando Macias: DEATH!
Courtesy of OCDAArmando MaciasUPDATE, SEPT. 1, 1:26 P.M.: Superior Court Judge Francisco Briseno today affirmed the death sentence for gang member Armando Macias, the triggerman in a bizarre family murder plot in 2002.A jury that convicted Macias in April for his role in the slaying followed up ... More >>
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September 6, 2011
[UPDATED with Conviction:] John Hines, Long Beach Fire Captain, Guilty of DUI Hit and Run of Cyclist
UPDATE, SEPT. 6, 2:59 P.M.: Long Beach Fire Department Capt. John Hines pleaded guilty today to severely injuring a cyclist in a mid-day hit-and-run crash while driving with a blood alcohol level of .24 percent, three times the legal limit. The 38-year-old Huntington Beach resident accepted a co ... More >>
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September 8, 2011
Anti-DUI Enforcers Say Boozy Driving Arrests Were Up This Summer
Orange County's "Avoid the 38" anti-DUI campaign, which involves policing agencies throughout the region, released preliminary figures on arrests made during routine patrols, special patrols of roads frequented by drunken drivers and sobriety checkpoints over 18 summer days.Cautioning that figure ... More >>
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September 9, 2011
[UPDATED with Arraignment:] Murder Counts for Alleged Would-Be Robber, 2 Lookouts and Getaway Driver in Blown Heist Where Jeweler Killed 2 Baddies
Monaco JewelersUPDATE, SEPT. 9, 3:09 P.M.: Well, we still haven't received our invite to Orange County Sheriff Sandra Hutchens' presumably rescheduled press conference on the murder arrests of four suspects in the June attempted robbery of a San Juan Capistrano jeweler that resulted in would-be ... More >>
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September 8, 2011
Free Jim Toledano and Michael Roberts Now
[Moxley Confidential] Looks like the government's star witness in a wild Newport Beach extortion case has a credibility problem to go along with his conflict of interest
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September 16, 2011
[UPDATED with New Charges Based on 4 More Victims:] Saeid Boustanabadi Maralan: Rug Store Manager, Registered Sex Offender and Alleged Rapist
UPDATE, SEPT. 16, 3:08 P.M.: As expected, prosecutors have filed new charges against registered sex offender Saeid Boustanabadi Maralan based on the allegations of four more women. In addition to the accusations by four other women, the Laguna Niguel 53-year-old allegedly: grabbed the breasts of ... More >>
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September 16, 2011
Gary Samuel Cochran, Child Porn Convict Swept Up in Peer-to-Peer Network Probe, Cuts Deal with Feds
Gary Samuel Cochran, a 53-year-old registered sex offender who was among 55 men nabbed after a multi-agency probe into child pornography exchanged via peer-to-peer networks like Limewire, agreed Thursday to plea guilty to making kiddie porn, federal prosecutors say.How kiddie? A search of Cochr ... More >>
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September 30, 2011
[UPDATED with 2 Freed:] Steven Rineberg's Taxicab Confession Leads to Bank Robbery Arrest
UPDATE, SEPT. 30, 2:24 P.M.: Man, Danny Bonaduce has really sunken to . . . er, check that. This is Steven Christopher Rineberg, the 53-year-old Mira Loma resident accused of robbing Saigon National Bank in Westminster, boasting about it to a cabbie who ratted him out and then getting arrested in ... More >>
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October 4, 2011
Andrew Urdiales, Serial Killer, Extradited to OC For Killing Saddleback College Student Robbin Brandley
Andrew UrdialesMore than 25 years after he allegedly stabbed Saddleback College drama student Robbin Brandley 41 times in an unlit campus parking lot, Andrew Urdiales is finally on his way to Orange County to face trial for her murder. Urdiales, 47, who was the subject of a Nov. 2007 OC Weekly fe ... More >>
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October 14, 2011
Gustavo Adrian Vega Gets 20 Years to Life for Murdering Aspiring Model in 2010 DUI Crash
Gustavo Adrian Vega, a 23-year-old Costa Mesa resident and two-time drunken driving convict found guilty by a jury in June of murder, hit-and-run resulting in death and possession of cocaine for the Valentine's Day 2010 crash that killed 20-year-old aspiring model Cara Alexandra Lee, was sentenc ... More >>
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October 20, 2011
Alexander Lucas Barnes Stands Trial for Murder of Girlfriend's 9-Month-Old Boy With Skull Fractures
Opening statements are scheduled this morning in the trial of a 20-year-old Santa Ana man accused of murdering his girlfriend's 9-month-old son by fracturing the child's skull to make him stop crying. Alexander Lucas Barnes could get 25 years to life in state prison if he is convicted in ... More >>
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October 28, 2011
[UPDATED with Suspect's Family Blackmailed?] Saeid Boustanabadi Maralan, Husband, Father, Rug Store Manager and Sex Offender, Now Has 11 Females Claiming He Flashed and/or Sexually Assaulted Them
UPDATE, OCT. 28, 12:03 P.M.: The publisher of an Irvine-based Persian magazine threatened to blackmail the family of Saeid Boustanabadi Maralan, the Laguna Beach rug store by manager and registered sex offender facing up to 60 years to life in state prison for allegedly sexually assaulting and/or ... More >>
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October 25, 2011
[UPDATED with Dead Man's I.D.:] Santa Ana Man Held in Stabbing Death of One and Wounding of Another Outside Fourth Street Dive Bar
UPDATE, OCT. 25, 12:42 P.M.: The 28-year-old man who was stabbed to death early Saturday outside Fern's Bar on Fourth Street in Long Beach has been identified as the incredibly named Tommy Buck Whitson IV of Long Beach. Police have yet to identify the other 28-year-old, who suffered non-life thre ... More >>
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October 25, 2011
Andrew Urdiales, Camp Pendleton Serial Killer, and Pasqual Raul Loera, Accused Double-Murderer of Westminster Couple, Both Face the Death Penalty
Andre UrdialesThe Orange County District Attorney's office announced today it will seek the death penalty for two men: Navy deserter Pasqual Raul Loera, who allegedly slayed a Westminster couple under the pretense of buying their car on Valentine's Day 2010, and Camp Pendleton serial killer Andre ... More >>
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October 27, 2011
Kevin Taylor: The Missing Defendant in the Chamberlain Murder
Five former inmates will likely spend the rest of their lives in prison for the jailhouse killing, while the man who many say instigated it wasn't even charged
Film
November 3, 2011
'Tower Heist' Is a High-Rise Robbery
Stealing from the rich to . . . oh, whatever. Funny is the message in this Ben Stiller flick
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November 3, 2011
[UPDATED with Jason Bitz was Unarmed, May Have Not Been Stealing Car:] Santa Ana Off-Duty Cop Shoots and Kills a Guy
UPDATE, NOV. 3, 3:09 A.M.: Los Angeles County sheriff's investigators say Jason Richard Bitz was not armed when a Santa Ana police officer fired four times and killed the Long Beach 23-year-old in Lakewood Monday morning. The unidentified officer, who has been placed on administrative leave, had ... More >>
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November 9, 2011
Oscar David Duenas, Accused of Raping 3 Prostitutes, Could Get Life After Trial Opening Today
A Santa Ana man accused of forcibly raping three prostitutes is scheduled to go on trial this morning--with a possible life sentence handing over his head.Oscar David Duenas, 29, is charged with three felony counts of forcible rape, two felony counts of forcible oral copulation, and one felony ... More >>
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November 14, 2011
[UPDATED with Conviction:] Prospero Guadarrama: Baby-Faced, Cold-Blooded Killer
UPDATE, NOV. 14, 5:42 P.M.: A jury today agreed Prospero Guadarrama's baby face is attached to a cold-blooded killer.Now 21, he was convicted of joining other Santa Ana street gang members as a 16-year-old in the execution-style murders of a 14- and 15-year-old while leaving a 16-year-old shot in ... More >>
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November 14, 2011
Martha M. Escutia, Retired Legislator-Turned-Newport Beach Lawyer, Targets Tax-Exempt Status of Abuser Nonprofits in Wake of Penn State Scandal
After East Los Angeles-born Martha M. Escutia served in both houses of the California Legislature from 1992 through 2006, she helped found the private law practice The Senators (Ret.) Firm in Newport Beach, where she specializes in representing abuse victims and their families.In the wake of th ... More >>
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November 29, 2011
[UPDATED with Scott Evans Dekraai Insanity Plea Predicted:] 6 Women and 2 Men, OC Homicides Nos. 45-52: Massacred at Beauty Salon
UPDATE, NOV. 29, 12:30 P.M.: During today's arraignment hearing, where Scott Evans Dekraai pleaded not guilty to murdering eight people and critically injuring a ninth, Deputy Public Defender Scott Sanders objected to press photographers being in the courtroom, saying this kind of media coverage ... More >>
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December 1, 2011
The Boy Scouts' Police Problem
Dozens of teenage Explorers have been sexually abused by cops. Should the Scouts share the blame?
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December 9, 2011
Catholic League Bashes Gustavo for Pedo-Priest Articles; Gustavo Responds!
Donohue: Lace-curtain IrishThe Catholic League always struck me as one of those antiquated organizations--like the Iowa clubs of Southern California that held those cool picnics in Long Beach decades ago, or the Grand Army of the Republic--that might've had a place and cause at some point in o ... More >>
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December 12, 2011
Ramon Diaz, a Killer at 16, Gets 50 Years in Prison for Murder of 13-Year-Old Rodrigo Valle
A mother told a judge she doesn't understand why her 13-year-old son was taken from her.The shooting death of Rodrigo Valle near Santa Ana High School was more than another case of a gang member getting off'd by a rival gang member. It was another case of babies killing babies in Santa Ana. Ramo ... More >>
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December 14, 2011
Aida Arroyo, Michael Burgin, Adam Weick: Final Defendants in Wild Gang Crime Spree
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 >>
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December 16, 2011
Ali Achekza, International Man of Serial Rape, Convicted
Ali Achekzai's New Year's resolution may involve ways to self improve over the next 80 years.That's how much prison time the so-called "international serial rapist" faces at his Jan. 27 sentencing in Santa Ana, following the 33-year-old's conviction Thursday of six felony counts including forcibl ... More >>
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December 16, 2011
Prospero Guadarrama, Baby-Faced Gang Banger, Gets Life for Executing Rivals
Baby-faced gang banger Prospero Guadarrama was sentenced today to life in state prison without the possibility of parole for murdering two rivals and leaving a third in a coma after an execution-style gang shooting eight days before Christmas 2006. Sixteen at the time of the shootings, Guadarr ... More >>
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January 25, 2012
[UPDATED with $5,000 Reward Paid:] Itzcoatl Ocampo, Troubled Former Marine, Accused Orange County Serial Killer
UPDATE, JAN. 25, 10:58 A.M.: Before the arrest of Itzcoatl Ocampo, the Association of Orange County Deputy Sheriffs offered a $5,000 reward for information leading to the capture and conviction of a serial killer preying on homeless men. Union president Tom Dominguez is scheduled to hand Donny ... More >>
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January 10, 2012
Gary Samuel Cochran, Who Filmed Video of 8-year-old Girl Having Sex, Gets 26 Years
Gary Samuel Cochran, a registered sex offender who was among 55 men nabbed after a multi-agency probe into child pornography exchanged via peer-to-peer networks like Limewire, was sentenced Monday to 26 years in federal prison. The 53-year-old had agreed in September to a plea deal after federal ... More >>
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January 10, 2012
Ahmad Siddiqi, Marine Afghanistan Interpreter Accused of Killing DoD Interpreter Soraya Faroqi and Her Unborn Child, to be Arraigned
Cpl. Ahmad SiddiqiAn Orange County District Attorney's office statement on Wednesday's scheduled arraignment of Ahmad Siddiqi fills in some holes about the murder of Soraya Faroqi and her unborn child.Currently, the Marine who spent several months in Afghanistan before the slaying faces a minimum ... More >>
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January 10, 2012
Aida Arroyo, Michael Burgin and Adam Weick, Gang Members Who Hit OC Jewelers, Convicted
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 >>
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January 12, 2012
Richard J. Patterson, Drunk Off-Duty Cop Hurt with Wife in Motorcycle Crash, Draws Jail Time
My former (sniff) colleague Marisa Gerber first reported on Richard J. Patterson, a Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy, being up on multiple charges related to his drunkenly ramming his motorcycle into a vehicle, injuring his wife and himself while off duty. Today, the 38-year-old Covina residen ... More >>
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January 16, 2012
James Ernest Bledsoe, Child Molester-Turned-Serial Rapist, Gets 129 Years
It was easy to lose amid all the serial killer coverage, but late last week serial rapist James Ernest Bledsoe, 30, of Huntington Beach, was sentenced to 129 years to life in state prison for sexually assaulting four women in his apartment and surreptitiously videotaping the rapes without the v ... More >>
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January 27, 2012
Ali Achekzai, International Serial Rapist, Gets 61 Years to Life
International serial rapist Ali Achekzai, who was convicted of six felony counts last month after Orange County authorities had the 34-year-old extradited from Austria, was sentenced today to 61 years to life in state prison. Before the former Ladera Ranch resident learned his fate, one of three ... More >>
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February 8, 2012
[UPDATED with Arraignment Now Thursday. Maybe:] Kyung Namgoong, OC Homicide No. 5: Ruben Gurrola, Wrong-Way Driver, Held for Murder
Courtesy of OCDARuben GurrolaUPDATE, FEB. 8, 2:12 P.M.: The Orange County Jail's Adult Correctional Health Services put another medical hold on Ruben Gurrola, so the Orange County District Attorney's office now estimates the 23-year-old will be arraigned Thursday at 10 a.m.UPDATE, FEB. 6, 4:41 P. ... More >>
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February 6, 2012
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 >>
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