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May 24, 2012
Tom Fuentes Is Burning in Hell
And other recent revelations from the world of pedophile-priest protectors in the Diocese of Orange
News
May 24, 2012
A Driver's Guide to DUI Stops
[Summer Guide 2012/Better Call Glew!] What will happen and what you should do
Blogs
May 24, 2012
Tom Fuentes' Funeral a Parade of Pedophile Protectors and Apologists
We at the Weekly had enough respect for former GOP chairman Tom Fuentes to not invade his funeral yesterday and cause a scene--but we're beholden to the truth, so damn straight we're going to blast his funeral for the parade of pedophile apologists and protectors that it was.The main attraction, of ... More >>
Blogs
May 21, 2012
Itzcoatl "Izzy" Ocampo, Accused Serial Killer of Orange Countians, to Face Death Penalty
The death penalty will be sought against Yorba Linda 24-year-old Itzcoatl "Izzy" Ocampo, the accused serial killer of four homeless men and a mother and grown son fatally stabbed etween October 25 and January 13, prosecutors announced today.Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas convened a ... More >>
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May 18, 2012
Manuel Levi "Manny" Loggins Jr.'s Family Sues County and Sheriff Over Marine's Slaying
With the County of Orange having rejected the claim filed by the family of the late Manuel Levi "Manny" Loggins Jr., the Camp Pendleton Marine sergeant gunned down by Deputy Darren Sandberg on Feb. 7, the family has now filed a federal lawsuit against the county, the sheriff's department and Sandber ... More >>
Blogs
May 18, 2012
Better Call Glew: A Driver's Guide to DUI Stops
What should I do if I get pulled over after one too many drinks?The first thing an officer looks for during a traffic stop, are objective signs of intoxication (OSI's), including bloodshot watery red eyes, the odor of alcohol, thick or slurred speech, flushed face, fumbling with a wallet to get the ... More >>
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May 14, 2012
Robert Luis Reil Gets 50 More Years to Engage in Mexican Mafia Mayhem Behind Bars
The good news for those clinging to truth, justice and the American way (brought to you by Mennen) is Robert Luis Reil was sentenced Friday to 50 years to life in state prison for his participation in the first Orange County murder of 2010. The bad news for those residing in the correctional facilit ... More >>
Blogs
May 11, 2012
Mother's Day Vigil Planned in Anaheim for People Killed in Officer-Involved Shootings
When Theresa Smith lost her son, Caesar Cruz to a fatal December 11, 2009 officer-involved shooting in Anaheim, she hoped her family would be the last to have to endure the pain of such a devastating loss. "As soon as he was killed," Smith, a resident of Fullerton, says, "I wanted awareness." Her 3 ... More >>
Blogs
May 2, 2012
[UPDATED with Victim I.D.:] Daniel Gonzalez Jr., OC Homicide No. 11: Shot Sitting in Car
UPDATE, MAY 2, 9:42 A.M.: The 21-year-old man shot to death Friday afternoon in what Santa Ana Police believe was a gang shooting has been identified as Daniel Gonzalez Jr. of Santa Ana.A description of his suspected killer has not been released, but police are investigating the murder of the Santa ... More >>
Blogs
April 20, 2012
Sarith Yin Gets Life Without Parole for Murder of 16-year-old Juan Carlos Rodriguez
When 16-year-old Juan Carlos Rodriguez was murdered outside a Tustin house party in January 2010, police employed something of a "round-up-the-usual-suspects" strategy, hauling off eight or so young men and women for the murder. The list was later cut to six suspects. A statement from prosecutors on ... More >>
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April 20, 2012
Sushama Devi Lohia and Aida Agusti Castro are Prison Bound for Family Home Loan Scams
It's Pot Day and Hitler's Birthday but definitely not Mother's Day, especially not for moms Sushama Devi Lohia, 74, of Newport Beach and 67-year-old Aida Agusti Castro of Cardiff. Lohia was sentenced today to eight years in prison for conspiring with her two daughters and a son-in-law to commit more ... More >>
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April 12, 2012
Igor Olenicoff, OC Billionaire, Has Suit Tossed Against Swiss Bank That Hid His Money
Billionaire Igor Olenicoff, who lives in Laguna Beach and oversees Newport Beach-based Olen Properties, lost his bid in federal court to blame Swiss bankers for his guilty plea to felony tax evasion. In a 28-page decision tossing Olenicoff's suit against Zurich-based UBS AG, Judge Andrew J. Guilford ... More >>
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April 6, 2012
Teen Member of Eastside Buena Park Gang Gets Life in Prison Term
California's uncompromising anti-gang laws reached inside an Orange County courtroom this morning, gave a Buena Park teenager severe punishment and left the defendant's family, who firmly believe the kid's innocent, terribly distraught.Superior Court Judge William R. Froeberg sentenced Jesus Art ... More >>
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March 23, 2012
Oscar Manuel Vaquera Accused of Touching Young Boys' Penises, Videotaping Crimes and Possessing Tons of Little Boy Porn
An Anaheim man is to be arraigned this morning on charges of sexually assaulting two boys, ages 9 to 11, and possessing graphic child pornography featuring young boys. Held on $1 million bail, Oscar Manuel Vaquera, 37, faces up to 45 years in state prison if he is convicted.
Blogs
March 20, 2012
[Castro No Longer With Sheriff's Department] Mario Manuel Castro, Sheriff's Deputy, Convicted of Second DUI
UPDATE: March 20, 11:20 A.M.: Jim Amormino, a spokesman for the Orange County Sheriff's Department, says Castro "separated" from the department on Feb. 22. He wouldn't say if Castro was fired or quit, citing employment privacy laws. Mario Manuel Castro apparently ditched class the day the Orang ... More >>
Blogs
March 16, 2012
Police Scoop Up 26 OC Teens in Curfew Sweep
Last night, in what's become an annual scavenger hunt of sorts, Orange County officers nabbed 26 unsuspecting minors who were out past curfew. The event is a curfew sweep, and its goal, according to the District Attorney's office, is "to prevent juveniles from being victims of or participants in ... More >>
Blogs
March 15, 2012
Nicholas James Needham: 6 Years for Touching Boy's Penis to Go with 9 Years for Kiddie Porn
As expected, registered sex offender Nicholas James Needham was sentenced today to six years in state prison for touching a 5-year-old boy's penis in an Orange mall restroom.The Laguna Beach 28-year-old's sentence will be served concurrent with a nine-year term he received in federal court chil ... More >>
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March 7, 2012
Michael Delgado craigslist Rape Case Tossed
Michael Delgado, who could have won Ugly Police Mugshot of the Week honors from the Weekly had the Fullerton 300-pounder not been smoked by first-ballot Ugly Police Mugshot of the Week Hall of Famer Marten Joseph Brandel, had his rape case tossed.On Monday, Orange County Superior Court Judge Stev ... More >>
Blogs
March 2, 2012
Robert Vincent Peace, Youth Soccer Coach Accused of Holding Child Porn, Faces New Charges
Remember Robert Vincent Peace, the local youth soccer coach who pleaded not guilty in January to possessing hordes of child pornography? You know, the one who was also looking at a sentencing enhancement allegation for substantial sexual conduct with a 13-year-old girl.He was charged additionally ... More >>
Blogs
March 1, 2012
Better Ask Glew: I Got Busted With Coke. Now What?
Hi Mr. Glew, This past weekend, my girlfriend and I were out at the bars for a bit of fun. We wanted to keep the fun going past 2 A.M., so we decided to pick up a white energy supplement...and by white energy supplement, I mean cocaine. Shortly after leaving my "friend's" house, I was ... More >>
Blogs
February 28, 2012
Rodney King Cuts Reckless Driving Plea Deal
Rodney King pleaded guilty Monday to misdemeanor reckless driving in connection with last year's DUI arrest in Moreno Valley that, fortunately, did not involve a videotaped beating by cops followed by intense inner-city rioting.Mr. Can't We All Just Get Along was not present for the plea and ... More >>
Blogs
February 15, 2012
Santa Ana River Trail Safer for Cyclists With Bike Robbery Busts
You're used to reading (and we're used to writing) about crimes on the mean streets of Santa Ana. Who knew baddies prey on unsuspecting cyclists plying the Santa Ana River Trail? Cyclists know, as does the Santa Ana Police Department, which posted some good news on various bicycling forums recent ... More >>
Blogs
February 13, 2012
Christopher Ryan Smith, Missing Man Said to be Murdered by Business Partner, Subject of Search That May Have Yielded Clues
Orange County authorities say items found during the search for the body of Christopher Ryan Smith in southern San Diego County over the weekend may be evidence tied to the Laguna Beach 31-year-old's murder in 2010.Edward Younghoon Shin, Smith's 32-year-old business partner, allegedly confessed t ... 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
UPDATE, 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.M.: It's difficult to fathom ... More >>
Blogs
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 >>
Blogs
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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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 >>
Blogs
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 >>
Blogs
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 >>
Blogs
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 >>
Blogs
January 10, 2012
Ahmad Siddiqi, Marine Afghanistan Interpreter Accused of Killing DoD Interpreter Soraya Faroqi and Her Unborn Child, to be Arraigned
An 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 sentence with a c ... More >>
Blogs
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 >>
Blogs
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 >>
Blogs
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 >>
Blogs
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 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 >>
Blogs
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 >>
News
December 1, 2011
The Boy Scouts' Police Problem
Dozens of teenage Explorers have been sexually abused by cops. Should the Scouts share the blame?
Blogs
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 >>
Blogs
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 >>
Blogs
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 >>
Blogs
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 >>
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
Blogs
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 >>
Blogs
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 >>
News
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
Blogs
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 >>
Blogs
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 >>
Blogs
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 >>
Blogs
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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