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August 21, 2006
Toll Road Opposition for the Lazy
Just when you think the government's a complete and total failure, something happens to restore your faith. Why, just this afternoon I was perusing the Governor's website, filling out a webmail information request on Chuck DeVore's industrial hemp bill and bemoaning my lack of decent contacts up in ... More >>
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January 26, 2007
Has the DMV sent you a letter saying your registration has been suspended?
If so, contact the Tyra show, er, Oprah, um, I mean, Weekly intern Nardine Saad, who is pulling together a story on erroneous messages DMV drones mailed out to thousands of Californians. Here's where you can vent, early and often: nsaad@uci.edu
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March 5, 2009
It's a Quick Read 7
Orange County Register: Danger on Mexican streets will force captains and crews in the annual Newport Beach to Ensenada yacht race to remain on their ships. But who'll get ripped off by the Hussong's mariachis? . . . I went to a Laguna Woods Village board meeting and a UFC Smackdown broke ... More >>
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March 24, 2009
It's a Quick Read 19
Orange County Register: Yvonne Pampellonne--who it must be noted, based on her DMV mugshot, "That's a man, baby"--is wanted by Huntington Beach Police for grand theft fake boobies. Okay, technically the 30-year-old is accused in a $20,000 arrest warrant of stealing another woman's id ... More >>
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July 31, 2008
Letters From OC Weekly Readers
Orange County Register: Yvonne Pampellonne--who it must be noted, based on her DMV mugshot, "That's a man, baby"--is wanted by Huntington Beach Police for grand theft fake boobies. Okay, technically the 30-year-old is accused in a $20,000 arrest warrant of stealing another woman's id ... More >>
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May 29, 2008
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May 31, 2007
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June 8, 2006
The Ticket Wizard
Parking tickets are now handled by a mysterious OC company that makes justice and the law go . . . poof
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April 6, 2006
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October 20, 2005
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April 1, 2004
The Blame
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September 18, 2003
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June 13, 2002
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May 23, 2002
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March 14, 2002
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August 3, 2009
Easy Writer Part 3: Learning to Crawl
For anyone who is a newbie to motorcycle riding, take the Motorcycle Safety Foundation Basic RiderCourse. It's immeasurable, how beneficial the course is to new riders. The one I took at Saddleback College is an 8 a.m.-to-5 p.m. Saturday-and-Sunday class that teaches the fundament ... More >>
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August 5, 2009
Easy Writer Part 4: A Necessary Evil
As previously blogged, the Motorcycle Safety Foundation course counts as the riding portion of the tests required to attain a Class-M California driver's license. A trip to the DMV is still required for the written portion, however. For me, this translated into three soul-sucking hours at the Lag ... More >>
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October 15, 2009
Keith May Chronicles the OC Sightings of the Suddenly Not-Very-Reclusive Sasquatch
As previously blogged, the Motorcycle Safety Foundation course counts as the riding portion of the tests required to attain a Class-M California driver's license. A trip to the DMV is still required for the written portion, however. For me, this translated into three soul-sucking hours at the Lag ... More >>
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October 22, 2009
Letters From OC Weekly Readers
As previously blogged, the Motorcycle Safety Foundation course counts as the riding portion of the tests required to attain a Class-M California driver's license. A trip to the DMV is still required for the written portion, however. For me, this translated into three soul-sucking hours at the Lag ... More >>
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December 17, 2009
[UPDATED] Just Another Orange County Murder(s): Bonnie Hoult and Elizabeth, Catherine and Julia Fontaine
UPDATED WITH SHOOTER ID . . .DMVTriggerwoman grandma: Bonnie HoultOrange County sheriff's investigators now have a working theory in the ghastly murder-suicides that took the lives of a 67-year-old woman, her 38-year-old daughter and her granddaughters, 4 and 2, inside a five-bedroom, $1.7 millio ... More >>
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January 7, 2010
Cult Novel 'Youth In Revolt' Must Continue Its Search for a Worthy Adaptation
UPDATED WITH SHOOTER ID . . .DMVTriggerwoman grandma: Bonnie HoultOrange County sheriff's investigators now have a working theory in the ghastly murder-suicides that took the lives of a 67-year-old woman, her 38-year-old daughter and her granddaughters, 4 and 2, inside a five-bedroom, $1.7 millio ... More >>
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February 10, 2010
Car "Restorer" Gets Jail, Probation, Restitution Order for Ripping Off Charity
A 60-year-old Costa Mesa man pleaded guilty today to two felony counts of grand theft and was sentenced to 270 days in jail and three years probation in a bizarre cases involving a Ford Mustang collector's car he promised to restore for a drug and alcohol rehabilitation nonprofit for women, inclu ... More >>
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July 30, 2010
[UPDATED:] Stacey Tomekia Bryant, O.C. Homicide No. 35: Murder-Suicide Victim
UPDATE: Murder-suicide couple identified (updates throughout) . . . A neighbor in the quiet Robinson Ranch community in Rancho Santa Margarita called 9-1-1 after hearing gunshots Wednesday afternoon.
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August 31, 2010
[UPDATED:] Marcia Forsberg, OC Homicide No. 39: Deputies Say Her Hubby Did It
SEE UPDATED VERSION OF THIS POST. Richard Gustav Forsberg would bring his wife dinner every night, but their neighbors in Rancho Santa Margarita noticed 61-year-old Marcia Ann Forsberg was not around beginning in February. They asked the hubby, a computer manager who is also 61, what happened to ... More >>
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September 2, 2010
Marcia Ann Forsberg, OC Homicide No. 39: Authorities Say Hubby Did It
UPDATES THROUGHOUT . . . Richard and Marcia Forsberg were said by friends to be the perfect couple. They met in a Ventura College journalism class and were looking forward to their 40th wedding anniversary at the end of this month.The pair of 61-year-olds, who had no children, were often seen ho ... More >>
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September 21, 2010
3hree Things: Concert-Goers That I Could Happily Do Without
Watch out for 3hree Things every Tuesday, where Riley Breckenridge, drummer of Orange County's favorite local alt-rock band Thrice, gives his take on life in Southern California as an OC native.I love live music. I always have. In the 90's I'd go to every show I could afford to. Most w ... More >>
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October 14, 2010
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October 25, 2010
Have You Seen My Mummy? Costa Mesa Cops Try to Fill in the Gaps in Signe Margit's Life
It's still six more days until Halloween and anything can happen, but as it stands right now the case of the mummy found in a car blocking a Costa Mesa driveway is the leading contender for the spookiest of the season. And now the main missing piece of the mystery has been solved with police reve ... More >>
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December 20, 2010
[UPDATED:] Paul Lawrence Wadley, Retired Police Chief, Left Nude Photos and Exposed His Junk on Park Trails: Police
DMVUpdate, December 20, 5:40 p.m.: Retired Huntington Park Police Chief Paul Lawrence Wadley pleaded not guilty today to misdemeanor indecent exposure charges.The 56-year-old Anaheim resident had previously turned himself in to authorities after returning from an overseas trip. While Wadley ... More >>
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February 1, 2011
[UPDATED] Cheryl Rose Wynn, 2010 OC Homicide No. 4: Stabbed at Home
DMVUPDATE, FEB. 1, 4:04 P.M.: The family of Cheryl Rose Wynn, the 48-year-old mother found in a pool of blood in a bedroom of her Orange home last year, is offering $50,000 for information leading to her killer.Orange detectives report they have no leads, suspects or evidence in the murder ... More >>
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April 7, 2011
Lazy-Deputy Cases Keep Stalling
[Moxley Confidential] Two mistrials save a sheriff's deputy from charges she falsified official reports
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May 5, 2011
[UPDATED with Arraignment Details:] Emily and Father Russell Ford, OC Homicides Nos. 12 and 13: Her Ex-Husband Held
DMVEmily FordUPDATE, MAY 5, 11:28 A.M.: The Orange County District Attorney's office (OCDA) just announced that Robert Allan Lehmann will be arraigned today for the murders of his ex-wife Emily Ford and her father Russell Ford. The 36-year-old Costa Mesa resident has been charged with two felony ... More >>
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May 12, 2011
[UPDATED with Bigamy Charge:] Antonio Potenciano Gana, OC Homicide No. 15: Allegedly Shot By Wife Accused of Also Shooting Son on Mother's Day
UPDATE, MAY 12, 1:20 P.M.: A Filipino newspaper reports Antonio Potenciano Gana, the 72-year-old Mother's Day murder victim, is the former general manager of the Manila International Airport Authority, which oversees the airport in the country's capital. The Philippine Star also claims the slai ... More >>
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May 23, 2011
[UPDATED with Charges, Possible Motive:] Frederick Dwayne Martin, OC Homicide No. 18: Son Held in Killing
DMVThe deceasedUPDATE, MAY 23, 4:49 P.M.: Prosecutors today filled in the blank as to why 35-year-old Jeremy Dwayne Martin allegedly shot and killed his father, Frederick Dwayne Martin, 62, at the Huntington Beach home they shared.The younger Martin was supposedly upset that his father did not w ... More >>
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May 31, 2011
[UPDATED with ID's:] Vanessa Munoz, OC Homicide No. 21: 2nd Murder-Suicide Victim in 2 Days
DMVVanessa MunozUPDATE, MAY 31, 12:58 P.M.: The woman who was killed in Thursday night's presumed murder-suicide in the 6100 block of Navajo Road in Westminster has been identified as Vanessa Munoz, 23.The doctor's office employ and her unemployed 34-year-old brother, Frank Munoz, had been arguin ... More >>
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June 29, 2011
[UPDATED with Plea, Weapon, Purported Suspect Photo:] Elvis Kechechian, OC Homicide No. 24: Stabbed in Restaurant Melee
Tombleson?UPDATE, JUNE 29, 2:42 P.M.: 28-yearold Justin Alvin Masao Tombleson pleaded not guilty this week to the murders-by-stabbing of Santa Margarita Catholic High School ice hockey conditioning coach Elvis Kechechian and his friend Hossein Saidoian.Tombleson is due back in court July 15, but ... More >>
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July 5, 2011
[UPDATED with New Charges:] Antonio Potenciano Gana, OC Homicide No. 15: Wife Accused of Shooting Him and Son on Mother's Day
DMVAnnamaria Mango GanaUPDATE, JULY 5, 10:01 A.M.: Prosecutors filed additional charges today against Annamaria Magno Gana, the 41-year-old accused of killing her husband and trying to kill her sons on Mother's Day at their Tustin Ranch home.Besides a murder count and sentencing enhancements, Gan ... More >>
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July 15, 2011
[UPDATED with Unusual Defense:] Emily and Father Russell Ford, OC Homicides Nos. 12 and 13: Her Ex-Husband Held
UPDATED, JULY 15, 12:30 P.M.: 36-year-old Robert Allan Lehmann is due at Harbor Justice Center in Newport Beach today for a preliminary hearing tied to the murder counts he faces for allegedly executing his former wife and father-in-law in May.It will be lonely at the defense table as a judge las ... More >>
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July 19, 2011
John Arthur Walthall, Accused of Defrauding Elderly Couple Out of Nearly $5 Million, is a Wanted Man
The search is on for John Arthur Walthall, who failed to appear at a June 27 court hearing concerning the 55-year-old La Habra resident allegedly exaggerating a medical condition to avoid trial on charges of defrauding an elderly Laguna Niguel couple out of nearly $5 million.The FBI released ... More >>
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September 6, 2011
Playground Festival at Irvine Last Weekend
Kevin Lara/OC WeeklyThe Bravery--at least they showed up! Playground Festival Sept. 3rd-4th, 2011 Hidden Valley, Irvine What do you get when you mix together the leisurely spirit of the long weekend with about 300 high school kids, no-show performers and about 75 bajillion OC cops? You get th ... More >>
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September 19, 2011
Tennesee DMV: F-U to ILVTOFU Vanity Plate
A PETA employee called Whitney Calk moved from Virginia to Tennessee and tried registering her car in the new state with a custom tag that expressed her love of tofu, not her love to F-U. Either way, that state's DMV refused the application for a vanity plate that read ILVTOFU under the grounds o ... More >>
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November 8, 2011
Harriett "Hattie" Stretz, Sole Gunshot Survivor From Salon Meritage Rampage, Thanks Community
DMVHattie StretzHarriett "Hattie" Stretz was a familiar face in the Los Alamitos-Seal Beach area before Oct. 12 thanks to her volunteerism and community involvement. Tragically, the 73-year-old became known nationally after that date as the sole survivor among people who were shot inside Salon Me ... More >>
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December 7, 2011
[UPDATED with I.D.'s, More Details:] John Kristopher Altamirano, OC Homicide No. 60: Found Dead in Truck
DMVJohn Kristopher AltamiranoUPDATE, DEC. 7, 5:10 P.M.: When sheriff's deputies found a dead John Kristopher Altamirano in his white pickup parked in front of his Laguna Niguel residence Monday afternoon, the 34-year-old had cuts and bruises on his face as if he'd been in a fight.However, the inj ... More >>
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December 13, 2011
Drunken Driving Deaths Way Down in California
It will either bolster the argument that sobriety checkpoints are working or prop up the side that claims such enforcement operations are unnecessary, but in either event drunken-driving fatalities are down dramatically in California, according to state data. A record low 791 people were killed i ... More >>
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December 21, 2011
[UPDATED with Sex Clash Motive:] Ricardo Rios, OC Homicide No. 61: Lost Fight at Home
DMVRicardo RiosUPDATE, DEC. 21, 11:30 A.M.: 22-year-old Edgar Salvador Luciozamudio and Ricardo Rios fought over a sexual act the 47-year-old initiated before the older man was murdered, prosecutors say.The disclosure is contained in an Orange County District Attorney's office statement on Lucioz ... More >>
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January 6, 2012
[UPDATED with Killer Revealed:] Christine Lauren Bennett, 2011 OC Homicide No. 71: Found in Condo
DMVBennettUPDATE, JAN. 6, 8:47 A.M.: According to Christine Lauren Bennett's family, Alexei Ocana fatally shot his 27-year-old ex-girlfriend in an Anaheim Hills condo Dec. 30 before turning the gun on himself.The 31-year-old's motive? He was upset that Bennett was seeing someone else, according t ... More >>
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January 25, 2012
[UPDATED with I.D.:] Cop Fatally Shoots Man Wielding a Knife and Bible in Anaheim Police Parking Lot: Report
DMVUPDATE, JAN. 25, 8:50 A.M.: Apologies for catching up on some updates I missed due to being out sick the weekend through Monday and having no time to get to them until now, but the man shot and killed by a cop in the parking lot of the Anaheim Police east station last week has been identified ... More >>
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