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Getting calls from my various Chicano yaktivist pals, and they're saying the kids are marching out of Westminster, Garden Grove, and Anacrime. Reports of police beating up kids on Bristol and Warner in SanTana, although the kids supposedly through rocks. Pendejos. Off to take pictures. . .
A good number of the people sitting on the Mission Viejo City Council got their political start back in the '90s by holding positions in the Saddleback Republican Assembly, a chartered unit of the California Republican Assembly that serves Mission Viejo, Lake Forest, Laguna Woods and Laguna Hills. I ... More >>
A good number of the people sitting on the Mission Viejo City Council got their political start back in the '90s by holding positions in the Saddleback Republican Assembly, a chartered unit of the California Republican Assembly that serves Mission Viejo, Lake Forest, Laguna Woods and Laguna Hills. I ... More >>
A good number of the people sitting on the Mission Viejo City Council got their political start back in the '90s by holding positions in the Saddleback Republican Assembly, a chartered unit of the California Republican Assembly that serves Mission Viejo, Lake Forest, Laguna Woods and Laguna Hills. I ... More >>
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It's the Weekly's weekly round-up of local police calls--now with more boozy moms, asshole cops, fast-acting pharmacists, apartments full of thieving aliens and loads of stabbings!Courtesy of Costa Mesa Police DepartmentCraig Anthony McVay, 48, of Garden Grove, was in the midst of three years probat ... More >>
The Mission Viejo Dispatch reports that the Saddleback Republican Assembly has voted to endorse the recall of Mission Viejo Mayor Pro Tem Lance MacLean. "But wait!" you, faithful Navel Gazing reader, pleads. "Didn't they already do this?"Yeah, back in Febuary, the SRA--a sanctioned branch of the ... 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 >>
Remember that "78-Year-Old Man Arrested for Kicking Cop in the Nuts (Twice)" in October?Two things: 1) He's 79. b. He claims to be the victim of "horrible injustice," that he "was treated like an animal" and that he will file seek "justice" via a federal civil rights complaint.
The Orange County District Attorney's office objected today to a judge striking the "strikes" for a third-striker gang member who was on parole when he and two other men assaulted a fourth man who told the trio to stop tagging a wall in Santa Ana with graffiti last summer.At least the judge was c ... More >>
I do believe this is the first time this column has addressed a crime in la naranja...from the Register! Police have arrested a Yorba Linda parolee in connection with a knifepoint mugging in a Taco Bell parking lot. Police found Corey Andrew Schoenkopf, 21, at 12:30 a.m. Thursday sleeping in his ... More >>
Casualties from a Facebook war between high school students could land a Laguna Beach 16-year-old in an adult state prison for 15 years.Michael Jason Wilson is being charged as an adult for allegedly stabbing a former classmate in the stomach and assaulting two of the victim's friends with a ca ... More >>
Courtesy of Orange County District Attorney's OfficeThe charges pile up on Gaylord Tootsie Daney. Gaylord Tootsie Daney--yes, Tootsie--is alleged to have broken two bedrock rules of polite society. That's not a reference to the marijuana possession and, now, felony assault charges against the 45- ... More >>
James Roberts III, the cop who is accused of raping and terrorizing his wife and girlfriend, has been fired by the Huntington Beach Police Department.Annie Burris has the scoop in the Orange County Register.Ironically, while looking at her online report, my eyes were drawn to Roberts' mugshot bei ... More >>
Courtesy of Orange County District Attorney's OfficeSean Paul DelacerdaA Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy was charged by the Orange County District Attorney's Office this week with assaulting his ex-girlfriend by pointing a gun at her--right after having put a bullet in the weapon, sticking th ... More >>
United States District Judge Andrew J. Guilford in Santa Ana sentenced 42-year-old former FBI special agent Vo Duong Tran to 30 years in federal prison for scheming to commit a home-invasion robbery at a Fountain Valley residence he mistakenly thought was a drug "stash house."
Weston Scott KrugerThe man who had to have his print porn is going to prison. Can a guy trade cigarettes for pornography?
CSULB Police Dept.Official sketch of the attacker.Cal State Long Beach's Daily 49er published an article Friday with the most detailed account to date of the fallout from the April 15 attack on Colle Carpeter. You might remember Carpenter as the student who was assaulted in a campus restroom by s ... More >>
Otis, the town drunk from The Andy Griffith Show, famously used to lock himself into a jail cell when he got too tipsy. Perhaps that's what 25-year-old dancer and former jailee Matthew Van McDaniel was trying to do just after 2 a.m. on Sunday, Jan. 10, at the James A. Musick Correctional Facility ... More >>
Chief Ken SmallOC Weekly previously praised Huntington Beach Police Chief Ken Small for opting out of using cameras at intersections to catch red light violators.He also did the right thing in firing Officer James Roberts III, who has been charged with battering, sexually assaulting and in ... More >>
As if Hispanics don't feel ganged up on already (see Arizona, every "Racist OC Register Fustercluck of the Day," every other Navel Gazing comment), now they apparently have to worry about Iranian-Americans.Or, at least the one from Irvine charged with a hate crime.
Notorious Anaheim cop Scott McManus resurfaces in yet another civil-rights lawsuit
R. Scott Moxley told you in January about the capture of Ali Achekzai, a onetime Ladera Ranch resident and alleged Southern California serial rapist who was found living in Salzburg, Austria, through a DNA match. Tonight, the 32-year-old on District Attorney Tony Rackauckas' Ten Most Wanted list ... More >>
MosleyWhen he was 18 years old Steven Lloyd Mosley of Anaheim did something with a 12-year-old girl that may have involved kisses near a residential pool or forceful intercourse in a garage or both, according to court records.After the June 2003 incident, an Orange County jury refused to find ... More >>
A female Orange County Sheriff's deputy spotted a man in bushes near a Laguna Niguel garden center Wednesday with his hands in his pockets and his pant undone. So, she confronted him. A foot chase followed and, when she caught up with him, he allegedly tried to take her firearm and physically str ... More >>
Have you seen the Internet dating site commercial where a love-struck woman and hunky man bonk heads, slip onto furniture and further batter one another accidentally when they try to get frisky with one another?That was a cakewalk compared to what happened to a Canadian woman, allegedly at the ha ... More >>
Former Huntington Beach police officer James Roberts III is scheduled to be arraigned this morning on rape, sodomy and 18 other felony charges.The alleged victims? Roberts' wife and mistress.Who says there are no great catches out there anymore?
UPDATE, JAN. 31, 4:47 P.M.: Don't know how we missed this one last week, but 47-year-old Brinda Sue McCoy pleaded not guilty in a Santa Ana courtroom Wednesday to firing one of her husband's guns at police officers who were trying to talk her out of suicide during a three-hour standoff in the cou ... More >>
Daniel Chomina had our ugly police mug judges with his smirk.However, what he did to warrant the booking photo--and ultimate conviction--was also ugly.After bringing his 3-year-old daughter to his ex-girlfriend's for a custody exchange in July 2009, the 29-year-old Garden Grove man became enra ... More >>
Talk about smoke monsters!A woman who became increasingly agitated while failing to obtain marijuana from several dispensaries in Lake Forest Tuesday evening was confronted by a security guard--who she promptly punched in the face, according to sheriff's deputies.And, after deputies responded to ... More >>
UPDATE, MARCH 25, 3:15 P.M.: The maximum penalty Gaylord Tootsie Daney faced for a misdemeanor possession of less than an ounce of marijuana was a $100 fine.No jail time is given for the pot rap, but the 46-year-old Santa Ana man is being sent to state prison for two years.That's what happens whe ... More >>
Bring your wallet, not your macheteA 19-year-old plumber with blond hair and blue eyes is sitting in Orange County Jail this morning after police say he used a 25-inch machete to attack a man Sunday night in the parking lot of Orange County's most internationally acclaimed shopping center: South ... More >>
UPDATE, APRIL 15, 2010, 10:43 A.M: 27-year-old Sean Paul Delacerda has been convicted of assaulting an ex-girlfriend with a firearm after accusing her of cheating and violently holding her against her will at gunpoint in her apartment.But the Fullerton resident, who is looking at up to 18 yea ... More >>
Murdoch: Aliens are living inside me.The proof that the witnesses against him were not human was obvious to Michael Craig Murdoch during his 2010 trial in Orange County Superior Court for felony assault with a deadly weapon (a beer bottle) and battery causing serious bodily injury.In court, Murdo ... More >>
UPDATE, JUNE 29, 1:33 P.M.: Riverside County prosecutors declined to file charges against Russell Elliott, the 28-year-old Santa Anan accused of stabbing his friend and soon-to-be groom at his bachelor party in a Palm Springs hotel room last week. The marrying man, who was not identified, suffere ... More >>
UPDATE, JULY 18, 7:12 P.M.: The Fullertonian's Alex Stouffer was at this afternoon's Fullerton Police Department protest with camera in hand, and some of the resulting shots have been graciously shared with the Weekly.Among those who turn up in Stouffer's lens is Ron Thomas, the father of 37-year ... More >>
It is officially knife day here at Navel Gazing HQ.Earlier we brought you the wifey-pooh who allegedly sliced off her estranged husband's dick with a knife before tossing it into the garbage disposal and flipping the on switch.Now comes word from the DA's office of a Laguna Beach teen's convictio ... More >>
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 >>
Authorities are seeking possible victims of a masseur who worked throughout Orange County and is facing charges of sexually assaulting three women while working at Massage Envy in Seal Beach. Jason Michael Elliott, 28, of Seal Beach, could get eight years and eight months in state prison if conv ... More >>
UPDATE, JULY 25, 7:56 A.M.: The Orange County District Attorney's office (OCDA) is seeking other possible victims of suspected serial rapist Travis Dewayne Batten, Jr. of Irvine.The 29-year-old is facing felony counts that could put him behind bars from 157 to 204 years with a conviction.The OCDA ... More >>
UPDATE, JULY 25, 8:26 A.M: Sitting on top of his ex-girlfriend so she could not escape and holding his hand over her mouth so she could not scream, Sean Paul Delacerda put the barrel of a gun he'd just placed a bullet in into his mouth and pulled the trigger.Click.The gun did not fire, but th ... More >>
Medina-PerezUPDATE, AUG. 5, 10:19 A.M.: As expected, amended charges have been filed against 24-year-old Oscar Raul Medina-Perez in the death of Leovardo Vera Bustos, who died from brain injuries two weeks after taking a single punch in front of La Barca Night Club in Stanton on July 5.However, ... More >>
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 >>
DA T-RackUPDATE 11:00 a.m.: Gustavo here. Before the press conference even began, veteran attorney John Barnett (whom you'll remember helped to represent the Haidl gang) announce to reporters that his client, Fullerton Officer Manuel Ramos, had surrendered himself to face charges on second-degree ... More >>
Matthew Bransetter & Nolan Wickham's Booking PhotosCourtesy Orange County Sheriff's DepartmentTwo Rancho Santa Margarita men were sentenced to three years in state prison Dec. 2 for an assault earlier this in a Coto de Caza park. On the evening of April 6, 2011, Matthew Gregory Bransetter, 19 ... More >>
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 >>
Courtesy of Palm Springs Police DepartmentVirginia ValdezLorena Bobbitt famously sliced off the pecker of then-husband John Wayne Bobbitt while he slept in 1993.The case got fresh, uh, legs when Catherine Kieu Becker was accused last year of slicing off the pecker of her husband as he was waking ... More >>
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