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May 3, 2012
Corrina Atuatasi Gets Year in Jail for Causing Baby Son's Halloween Suffocation Death
Over the objections of prosecutors, a mother who went on a drinking binge that ended with the suffocation death of her unattended 2-month-old baby was sentenced today at Westminster Justice Center to a year in jail. Senior Deputy District Attorney Susan Price argued that the seriousness 27-year-old ... More >>
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April 23, 2012
Steven A. Fletcher, Who Admits He Killed Pal Keith Dennis with Colt .45, Gets 3 Years
A Buena Park man who initially lied about the cause of a gunshot wound to the left side of his friend's head and was later charged with second-degree murder pleaded guilty last week to involuntary manslaughter.Steven A. Fletcher was sentenced to three years in jail April 16, according to a statement ... More >>
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April 20, 2012
Sid Landau, Pedophile Hounded into State Mental Hospital, Wants Out
Back in March 2008, Alex Brant-Zawadzki, a colleague whose name I forever misspelled, gazed navally at Sid Landau, who was convicted in 1982 and 1988 of molesting two boys under age 14 and became one of the first sex offenders targeted in California under Megan's Law. After Landau did his ... More >>
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April 13, 2012
Raul Villafana Sentenced to 15 Years to Life for John Chamberlain Murder
In a hearing this morning at the Orange County Superior Courthouse, Raul Villafana, 25, was sentenced to 15 years to life in prison, becoming the eighth former Theo Lacy Jail inmate to be sentenced in the murder of John Chamberlain, a fellow prisoner who was savagely assaulted on suspicions he was a ... More >>
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March 29, 2012
Curtis Michael Regulus Makes Curtain Call to Win ~~Ugly~~ Fabulous Police Mugshot of the Week
Like cops, soldiers and morticians, journalists use gallows humor to deal with the horrific human events they cover. So, when, say, there are a rash of newsworthy deaths, an ink-stained wretch will say of the no more, "They're dying to get into the paper." Homeless sex offender Curtis Michael Reg ... More >>
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March 26, 2012
[UPDATED with 2nd Mistrial:] Charles Anthony Murphy Jr. Accused in Grisly Family Murders
UPDATE, MARCH 26, 4:21 P.M.: Charles Anthony Murphy Jr. is now 2-for-2 in murder trials against him ending in mistrial. His first was declared in December, and today Orange County Superior Court Judge Thomas Goethals declared a second to give the defense more time to examine evidence the prosecut ... More >>
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March 22, 2012
What Has Brown Done for Paul Crowder Lately? Gov. Again Denies Parole for Murderer of High School Basketball Star on Her Prom Night
For the second time in four months, Governor Jerry Brown has determined that Paul Crowder should not be set free from the California prison holding the convicted killer of Berlyn Cosman, a Crescenta Valley High School basketball star who was shot to death in an Anaheim hotel room on her prom nig ... More >>
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March 20, 2012
John David Hines, Ex-Fire Captain Who Mowed Down Cyclist While Drunk, Gets Full 4-Year Prison Ride for Making Booze in Surf City Jail
Former Long Beach Fire Capt. John David Hines--who was looking at a suspended four-year prison sentence in exchange for paying fines and spending five years on probation and a year in a pay-to-stay jail cell for driving drunk and mowing down a cyclist--now has serve the full ride because he got m ... More >>
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March 2, 2012
Christian William Carney, Who Murdered Fellow Marine over Drug Money, Gets 28 Years
A Camp Pendleton Marine and drug dealer was sentenced today to 28 years and eight months to life in state prison for murdering a fellow Marine in a secluded area of San Clemente in 2008.Lance Cpl. Christian William Carney, 25, of Manorville, New York, was found guilty by a jury in December of ... More >>
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February 27, 2012
Stanton's 18th Street Gang Used SUV as Lethal Weapon in Turf Battle
Ruben Roa: Second time is a charmIn a narrow Stanton alley at about 8 a.m. on Nov. 2, 2006, Rito "Boxer" Guajardo pedaled his mountain bike as fast as he could because the angry occupants of a pursuing, white Mercury Mountaineer SUV--three rival Latino gang members, including one nicknamed "Sick ... More >>
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February 24, 2012
Ivan Von Staich: Killer Loses Parole Battle But Wins the Ugliest Mugshot of the Week War
The ugliest police mugshot of the week comes not from a cop shop or district attorney's office but the California Department of Corrections, which is charged with continuing the incarcerate Ivan Von Staich with the governor's reversal of the Lake Elsinore 56-year-old's parole.For reasons known on ... More >>
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February 17, 2012
Chad Martin Jurjaks, "Fucking Mexicans!" Beater, Gets Nearly 3 Years in Prison
One wonders if Chad Martin Jurjaks believes it was worth it: two years and eight months in state prison for yelling "Fucking Mexicans" at a 42-year-old Latino man and his 26-year-old nephew before punching them outside a 7-Eleven in Costa Mesa last March. The Caucasian brawler is just lucky he di ... More >>
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January 25, 2012
John David Hines, Boozing Fire Captain Who Mowed Down Cyclist, May Trade Jail for Prison After Allegedly Getting Hand Sanitizer Drink On
Here's another one I missed while out: Remember Long Beach Fire Captain John David Hines, whose 4 1/2 year prison sentence for boozing and mowing down a cyclist was stayed pending completion of a year in jail, five years of probation and $102,000 in restitution to his victim? He now faces the pos ... More >>
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January 24, 2012
Erwin Johnny Sanchez Gets 29 Years to Life for Murder of Man Who Died of Pneumonia
Nineteen-year-old Scott Sittler lived another 15 years paralyzed and on a respirator after Erwin Johnny Sanchez shot him in the head on a quiet Santa Ana street in 1994. But after Sittler died of pneumonia in February 2009, the district attorney's office filed murder charges. Sanchez had been sch ... More >>
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January 10, 2012
[UPDATED with Victim I.D., Arraignment:] Dolores "Arias" Fagan, OC Homicide No. 1: Parolee Ean Keith Brown Held for Her Murder
UPDATE, JAN. 10, 9:56 A.M.: Third-strike parolee Ean Keith Brown is scheduled to be arraigned in Santa Ana this morning for the strangulation murder of Dolores "Arias" Fagan, who was visiting relatives who live in the same Huntington Beach neighborhood as the defendant when she went missing and l ... 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 4, 2012
Charles Craig Clements, Bank Teller Kidnapper, Gets Life Due to Handcuff Keys Up His Ass
On his way to court Dec. 20 to be sentenced for kidnapping a pregnant bank teller from her home so she could open her Anaheim bank's vault, Charles Craig Clements fell down, injuring himself. That delayed the court hearing, but the 50-year-old's medical treatment ultimately informed the sentence ... More >>
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December 16, 2011
Curtis James Hill Gets Life in Prison for Death of World War II Vet Beaten on Veterans Day
Curtis James Hill was sentenced today to life in state prison without the possibility of parole for the Veterans Day 2003 beating-murder of a WWII veteran who was left in a coma and died more than three years later.A jury last month found the Huntington Beach 29-year-old guilty of one felony cou ... 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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December 16, 2011
Douglas Nissan Part Owner Frank Ignacio Urbano and 2 Desk Managers Get Jail and Probation in Huge Loan Fraud Case
Marwan Abdellatif, a former Douglas Nissan desk manager accused of stealing the identities of unsuspecting customers and defrauding banks in the sale of used cars, remains a fugitive from justice. But his whereabouts being unknown did not stop the Orange dealership's part owner and two other de ... 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 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 9, 2011
Luis Rosales Rivera, Looks Like Machete But Used Sledgehammer, Gets 26 Years for Killing
Gardener and potential Machete II stand-in Luis Rosales Rivera was sentenced today to 26 years to life in state prison for murdering his sleeping roommate not with a machete but a sledgehammer.A Santa Ana jury in October had found the Stanton 59-year-old guilty of one felony count of murder with ... More >>
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November 30, 2011
[UPDATED with Continuance:] Gregory Matthew Miley, Accomplice of "Freeway Killer" William Bonin, Seeks Parole
UPDATE, NOV. 30, 2:07 P.M.: Realizing that parole would be denied, "Freeway Killer" accomplice Gregory Matthew Miley agreed to a three-year continuance of his request until 2014.The 50-year-old is serving a 25 years to life prison sentence in Corcoran for the kidnappings, sexual assaults and murd ... More >>
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November 29, 2011
[UPDATED with Denials:] Luis Carlos Escobar, Fleeing Coke Parolee Who Killed Motorist, and Alberto Aguilera, Bar Fight Murderer, Seek Paroles Today
UPDATE, NOV. 29, 5:50 P.M.: The Board of Parole Hearings, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation meeting at California State Prison in Corcoran denied parole today for Luis Carlos Escobar, 51, who murdered a motorist in a crash while fleeing from agents busting him in an underc ... More >>
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November 29, 2011
John David Hines, Drunk-Ass Fire Capt. Who Mowed Down Cyclist, Gets Jail, Probation and $102k Restitution Bill
John David Hines, the 39-year-old Long Beach Fire captain convicted in September for 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), has essentially received a sentence of some jail, lots of probat ... More >>
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November 23, 2011
Pancha Keophimone, Recruiter of Patients in $154 Million Insurance Scam, Cuts a Deal
A woman who was a "capper"--one who illegally recruits healthy patients to undergo unnecessary and often dangerous surgeries so medical practices can earn health insurance payments--was sentenced today to a year in jail for her role in what prosecutors call "the largest medical fraud prosecution ... 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 7, 2011
Paul Crowder, Who Killed Star Student-Athlete on Her Prom Night, Has Parole OK Reversed by Gov. Brown
As his predecessor Arnold Schwarzenegger did last year, Gov. Jerry Brown has reversed a state parole board decision to release from prison Paul Crowder, who was convicted in 1991 of murdering a brilliant student-athlete from Anaheim's Crescenta Valley High School on her prom night.But Brown stil ... More >>
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November 3, 2011
Ernest Arthur Peralta, Who Murdered a Man in 1982 by Beating Him to a Pulp and Firing a Rifle into His Bloodied Body 13 Times, Loses Parole Bid
Perhaps the news is not that parole was denied this morning for Ernest Arthur Peralta, who is locked up at California State Prison in Corcoran for a 1982 Santa Ana murder.Perhaps the news is that the 51-year-old who beat a guy to a pulp while on parole then took a rifle and fired 13 times into th ... More >>
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November 2, 2011
[UPDATED with Denial:] Jose Luis Villanueva Tries to Accomplish What His Brother Couldn't: Get Paroled
UPDATE, NOV. 2, NOON: As happened to his brother Juan Manuel Villanueva on Tuesday, parole was denied this morning for Jose Luis Villanueva, who is imprisoned for the same 1994 stabbing-murder and attempted murdersThere was one difference: Juan, 35, will have a chance to go before the state parol ... More >>
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November 1, 2011
Curtis James Hill Convicted of Murdering World War II Vet Cecil "Lucky" Warren on Veterans Day
Courtesy of OCDACurstis James HillCurtis James Hill was convicted today for the beating-murder of a World War II veteran on Veterans Day 2003.The 81-year-old victim did not actually die until three years later.And Hill had been scheduled to be released from prison in August for the robbery and as ... More >>
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October 29, 2011
[UPDATED with Laguna Hills Council Connection:] Todd Sousa, Irvine Swim Coach, Backstroking to Prison for Unlawful Sex with 15-Year-Old Girl
LautenschleUPDATE, OCT. 29, 9:54 A.M.: Swim instructor Todd Robert Sousa, who was sentenced Friday to prison time and a sex offender tag for unlawful sex with a 15-year-old girl he taught, is the son-in-law of Laguna Hills City Councilman Joel Lautenschleger. Sousa has children with Lautenschlege ... More >>
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October 25, 2011
Curtis James Hill, in Prison for Veterans Day Robbery and Attack of WWII Vet, Faces Life for Victim's Death
Trial is scheduled to begin Wednesday afternoon in Santa Ana for one of two men who have already spent years in prison for robbing and assaulting a World War II veteran on Veterans Day 2003 but were later slapped with murder charges when the man died after three years in a coma brought on by the ... More >>
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October 21, 2011
[UPDATED with Borja Denial:] Odon Borja, Who Killed Strawberry Picker Over Family Blood Feud, and Robert Lee Carney Jr., Who Murdered Teacher for $30, Seek Paroles Today
UPDATE, OCT. 21, 1:16 P.M.: Parole was also denied today for Odon Borja, who is serving a 25 years to life sentence at Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility in San Diego for the 1986 murder of a strawberry picker in a Cypress field over a family blood feud.Borja, 56, is next eligible for a ... More >>
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October 20, 2011
Bryant Phillip Islas, Gang Banger on Parole, Walks Away from Prison Rehab and Tries to Kill a Guy: Cops
A parolee who was supposedly under the watch of a Garden Grove rehab center obviously wasn't on Aug. 31, according to Santa Ana police officials who have linked 28-year-old Bryant Phillip Islas to the attempted murder of a man heading to Taco Bell for lunch that day. Islas is accused of walking a ... More >>
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October 19, 2011
Paul Crowder, Murderer of Anaheim Basketball Star on Her Prom Night, Wins Parole Bid (Again)
After murderer Paul Crowder was granted parole last year, then-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger reversed it.Today, the Board of Parole Hearings, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation once again determined the killer of a 17-year-old Anaheim basketball star on her prom night should be ... More >>
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October 17, 2011
Nicholas James Needham, Guilty of Touching Boy's Penis, Still Faces Count for Child Porn on iPod
A registered sex offender pleaded guilty to molesting a then-5-year-old boy who was using a urinal at the Block of Orange in June 2010 while his mother waited outside the restroom. Nicholas James Needham, who'd recently moved to Orange from Laguna Beach at the time of his arrest, copped to one fe ... More >>
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October 14, 2011
Janeth Hernandez, Who Admitted Slicing Husband Carlos Humberto Vallejo to Death, Gets 7 Years
A Santa Ana woman, who pleaded guilty to a manslaughter count last month for slicing her husband to death after a 2010 Easter party fight, was sentenced today to seven years in state prison.A sentencing enhancement for the personal use of a deadly weapon had also previously been found true for 3 ... More >>
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October 13, 2011
[UPDATED with I.D.:] Joseph Hyungmin Son of Austin Powers Fame Accused of Killing Cellmate
Joseph Hyungmin SonUPDATE, OCT. 13, 8:36 A.M.: The cellmate who rapist and torturer Joseph Hyungmin Son is accused of killing has been identified as Michael Thomas Graham, 50, of San Luis Obispo County, according to Wasco State Prison officials.Graham was beaten to death, the Kern County coroner' ... More >>
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October 13, 2011
Ex-Assistant Sheriff George Jaramillo Spotted at Hooters?
George and Mike: Partners in crimeIt's safe to say that Orange County wasn't the same once George Jaramillo became second in command at the sheriff's department in 1999 and it certainly became more boring after Jaramillo was sent to federal prison a decade later for public corruption.The 51-year- ... More >>
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October 13, 2011
Jimmy Ernest Hutton and Dustin James Elwood Held For Sexual Assaults on Little Boys
Hamilton County SOJames Ernest HuttonA Tustin man and his pal who moved to Tennessee face charges of sexually assaulting boys ages 7 to 11 whose images of sexual acts with the suspects were found on a computer flash drive by one victim's mother, according to authorities.Jimmy Ernest Hutton, 24, w ... More >>
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October 11, 2011
Delecia Holt, 3-Time Candidate for Congress, Loses Appeal of Felony Fraud Conviction
UPDATE, AUG. 23, 5:18 P.M.: The state appeals court in Santa Ana rejected three-time congressional candidate Delecia Holt's appeal of seven of the nine fraud felonies that have her locked up at the state prison in Chowchilla (say hi to Omaima Nelson!). The 49-year-old Republican who has floated b ... More >>
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October 5, 2011
Omaima Aree Nelson Parole Condition Sought by PETA
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has written a letter to the warden of Central California Women's Facility in Chowchilla asking that a condition be part of Omaima Aree Nelson's parole, should the state board grant the model-turned-cannibal wife's request today. See if you ... More >>
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September 19, 2011
Two Sets of Santa Ana Teens Staring One Another Down, Two Murders
Dead: Rodrigo Valle, 13Killer: Ramon Diaz, then just shy of 17.Dead: Manuel Raul Orozco, 17.Killer: Andrew Cervantes, then 14.What do the two murders have in common other than they happened two years apart in Santa Ana and the teen killers were tried as adults?Stare downs.
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September 15, 2011
Ivan Von Staich, Convicted Murderer Who Scored Win in Parole Bid, Has Menaced Courts for Years
The state parole board Wednesday found suitable for parole a two-time jail escapee convicted of bludgeoning a former girlfriend with a claw hammer and fatally shooting her husband in 1983. District Attorney Tony Rackauckas opposed Ivan Von Staich's parole bid, but if the 55-year-old is ultimately ... More >>
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September 12, 2011
[UPDATED with Conviction:] Manuel Raul Orozco, 2010 OC Homicide No. 29: Gunned Down Near Friendship Park
UPDATE, SEPT. 12, 8:16 A.M.: Charged as an adult last year at the ripe young age of 14--the lowest age allowed under law--Andrew Cervantes was convicted last week of second degree murder and gang sentencing enhancements for gunning down Manuel Raul Orozco, 17, steps from his Santa Ana home and Fr ... More >>
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September 9, 2011
Joseph Hyungmin Son, Dr. Evil Henchman Random Task in Austin Powers, Gets Life for Torture
Hollywood actor and mixed-martial arts fighter Joseph Hyungmin Son, who played Dr. Evil's henchman Random Task in the 1997 comedy Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, has been sentenced to life in prison for torturing a Huntington Beach woman on Christmas Eve 1990. Orange County Superior ... 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 2, 2011
Janeth Hernandez, Who Sliced Husband Carlos Humberto Vallejo to Death After Easter Party, Guilty of Manslaughter
A Santa Ana woman who sliced her husband to death after an Easter party fight pleaded guilty today to manslaughter.Janeth Hernandez, 30, could be sentenced up to 12 years in state prison at a scheduled Oct. 14 hearing in Santa Ana after being convicted on one felony count of manslaughter and a ... More >>
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